The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23

in Savannah, Tenn, on the Sd inst.
IT is rumored that the President
has offered the Governorship of Ida
no to Gen. Fitzgerald, ofVicksburg.
THERE is report that Don Car
los has abdicated his claims to the
Spanish throne in favor of his infant
son.
A BILL passed the Legislature pro
viding for the establishment of a
scool for Indians in East Missis-
sippi.
THE Legislature made no change
in the lien law. Farmers still have
the privilege of mortgaging all they
possess.
LYNCH will hardly run for Con-
gress next time. His district is
now principally composed of the
COW counties.
The antl-polygamy bill passed
the House Tuesday, and when sign
ed by the President will be the law
of the land.
THE Cincinnati packing season
shows decrease of one hundred and
thirty seven thousand head as COM
pared with last year.
Mr.. HOOKER has introduced bill
in Congress asking for an appropri-
alton of 100000 for the relief of
the overhowed sufferers.
The New York Garfield Club ex-
pect to secure 1000 names TO the
petition asking President Arthur to
pardon Sergeant Masen..
AT the special election sin Mont
gomery coqntyy. Q. Butt was cleo
ted Sheriff, receiving more votes
than both ofhis opponents
The Pascagouia Dem5crat-St
invites Mr.. Hooker to move to the
coast. 1t says the sea-coast coun-
ties are for him for Congress.
THE Robert Lowry brand of -four
is now being sold in jackson. If it
is as good as the man whose name
it bears, it is superior article.
SEVENTEEN millions in gold coin
have to be removed from the Phila-
delphia mint to the treasury at
Washington to relieve the crowded
vaults.
MERIDIAN shipped forty-two thou
sand bales of cotton from Septem-
Der LIST to March lst-thirteen thou
sand more than for the same time
lastyear.
THE ladies of jackson presented
Judge Terrall with a boquet imme-
diately after his confirmation by the
Senate. The Judge decided they
had jurisdiction.
A correspondent of the Comet
suggests Jno. Gaddls, of Morton, as
the next Congressman from the
Fifth District. He comes up to the
Jeffersonian STANDARD.
IT is said the indications are
strong that the Grant retirement bill
will be defeated in the House owing
to the refusal of several prominent
Republicans to support the meas
ure.
THE Brandon Republican wants
the press to pass around T, M.
Plantz, drummer for a Cincinnati
varnish house, who boasts that he
helped burn Southern homes during
the war,
THE Vicksburg Commercial says
it knows man who went to New
Orleans and back on a Railroad
pass borrowed from a member of
the Legislature, What does the
Road think of that?
THE salary and perquisites of the
Clerk of the United States Supreme
Court amount to about $4,000 a
year. The Judges get a salary of
$4,000 and the glory. Conkling
might accept clerkship.
The counsel of Sergeant Mason
has applied for writ Of habeas
corpus, alleging a want Of jurisdic-
tion OF the court-martial in time of
peace. Mason has been sent to the
albany penitentiary for eight years.
i
Mrs. SUSAN C. CREWS, Of Halle
hurst, desires to know the wherea-
bouts of her son Eddie, aged fifteen
years, who looks to be only twelve,
with fair skin, gray eyes AMI white
hair, large front teeth, and not Alto
gether of right mind. He calls him
self Eddie Pittman.
Mas. E. P. EWING has been lee
turing in Chicago upon the subject
Of cooking eggs. She asserts that
the national loss from improperly
cooked eggs amounts to $50, 900
dssly. We suppose she will next
TELL us how to economics III making
chicken stilled soap.