The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-05-11
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

hanging OF Gulteau,
PLANTING has been resumed in
most of the overhowed sections.
IT is reported in Vienna that the
Prince OF Bulgaria is likely to abdi-
cate.
TIE people of North Carolina
have never elected a Governor who
was not native.
Our in Ohio they are suggesting
Mr.. Hayes as candidate for Con
gresham at large.
THE Texas editors to the number
of about seventy-five, left Houston
for California April Goth.
The remains of Abraham Lincoln,
it is said, have turned to stone.
That is q hard and Opaque story.
IT is reported that workmen on a
Railroad in Colorado discovered a
petrifed forest, while cutting through
hill.
II is reported in Washington that
assistant Postmaster General Ty-
ner is soon to have..a foreign ap
pointment.
john RICHARDS who killed Robt.
Ross in Canton last summer came
and delivered himself up to Sheriff
Weathersdy.
The Lord Mayor Of London has
given 5000 to the Wesleyan mis-
sions Sin loving remembrance of
DR.. Punshon.'
An election will be held in Law
renee county on Tuesday, the 3oth
day of this month, for Circuit and
Chanccry Clerk.
The various trade unions of the
North arc striking for higher wages,
and in many cases their demands
have been acceded to.
Mn. SrErHENs lets it be distinctly
understood that he will only run for
Governor of Georgia as the candi-
date Of the Democratic party.
THE President will issue procla-
nation that the New Mexico COW
boys disperse; and if outrages con
tinuc, the military will be used.
SECRETARY LINCOLN is reported as
one of the most uncompromising
opponents in the Cabinet of the
policy Of pardoning Fitz John Por-
ter.
The full amount needed, $40, 900,
has been contributed to endow a
professorship in the Syracuse Uni
versity IN memory of the late VIM.
Penn Abbott.
The boiler of the steamer Marion
exploded near Columbia, S. c., APP
ril 28th. An excursion party was
on board. Two persons were killed
and number wounded.
Chas. z. Watkins. one of the slate
writing mediums, being exposed at
Erie, Pa, admitted that his social
ed nediumlstic phenomena were ac-
complished by fraud.
Reports from the various points
in the Michigan fruit belt declare
that the recent heavy frosts have
destroyed two thirds of the peach
crop and ofother fruits.
THERE is a probability that the
present New York Legislature will
submit to the people constitutional
amendment providing for biennial
sessions of the Legislature.
DIR. LAMsoN, the somewhat cele-
brated criminal, was hung at Lon
don, Eng, on the 2Sth ult. He was
so terrified that jailors had to al
most carry him to the scaffold.
A St. John, N. B., telegram says
that advices from Labrador state
the people are on the verge of star
walton; and that at many points on
the coast there is no food in the
stores.
IDENTICALLY the same anti Chi
ne3e bill vetoed by the President, eN-
cept as to the period of time, has
again passed the Senate, and goes
to the President for his endorse
ment.
HORACE MAYNARD, late Postmas-
ter General and prominent Repub-
lican politician of Tennessee, died
at Knoxville, May Sd, of heart dis
ease. He dropped dead as he was
getting out of bed.
President Arthur's administration
being a swine bibbing" one, Mrs.
Hayes portrait, which the women
ofthe United States had painted and
hung in the East room of the White
House, has been removed.
Bishop Fl. D. Wingfeld, mission
AIRY bishop of California, who was re-
Gently elected assistant bishop of
the diocese of Mississippi, telegraph
ed Judge P. P. Bailey, secretary of
the council. declining to accept.
The jury on the case of the South
Carolina election managers, charged
with ballot box stuffing, were una
BILE to agree, and were discharged.
1t is said that they stood eight for
conviction and four for acquittal.
Vice President David Davis has
written letter to the Woman's