The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-30
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

BROOD mares are now exempt IRON
taxation in this State. h
Two colored mea in Tate county
recently killed four panthers.
Jurors will hereafter get 81 per
day. instead of $3.50 as heretofore.
President Arthur will, in all pro
liability, sign the anti-Chinese bill.
FUTURE speculation, in Tennessee,
has been decided by jury not
felony.
The Levant Herald, an English
daily at Constantinople, has been
suppressed.
D1EMAL BROTHERS and Miller's
furniture factory, in St. Louis, was
destroyed by fire.
SENATOR BEN HILL submitted to
another operation at Jefferson Hos
pltal, Philadelphia.
SECRETARY HUNT says he expects
to retire from the navy department
soon and go West.
The steamboat James Lee caught
fire at Memphis, and was damaged
to the extent of $4,000.
Hon. HI. d. MONEY has been oloet
cd yiue-rresidens Of the American
Agricultural Association.
The Massachusetts, House has
passed bill permitting women to
practice law in that State.
Crow Doc, who murdered Spotted
Tail, was convicted Of murder, at
Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
THE Gazette, published at Wash
ington, D. c., has been purchased
by J. B. Bell and Morris Taylor.
IT is predicted that the United
States will this year receive an i'm
migration Of one million persons.
The 1azoo Sentinel says that a
negro on the Sunfower river, was
attacked and torn to pieces by
wolves.
GAIL HAMILTON is writing letters
to Washington paper and vehe-
mently demanding the passage OF
the Chinese bill.
DANIEL WILSON, president Grevy's
son-in-law, has been elected presi-
dent Of the Budget Committee of
the French Assembly.
WE see that our Supreme Court
has decided that sureties on either
the Sheriff's bond or his bond as
TaX-collector are liable on both of
fees.
WASHINGTON kilograms say Sena-
tor Teller, of Colorado, has been Of
fered the Secretaryship of the Int
rior, and it is believed he will ac-
cept o..
NArcHEz charges each drummer
that works within her limits, $3.50,
and her income from that source
during the month of February was
$3.50.
The House Committee on Ways
and Means will report in favor of
reducing the tax on whisky to fifty
cents a gallon after the 1st of Au-
gust next
The enumeration Of educable
children in this State does not take
place until 1885. The form of tax
lists this year are, therefore, the
same as last.
TIE resignation of Gen. Stephen
A. ilurlbert as United States Min
lister to Peru has been received at
the State Department and accepted
by the President.
UNDER directions from the State
Department, Minister Lowell has
asked from the British Government
4 speedy trial for American citizens
imprisoned in Ireland.
Mn. JOSH HART, who was conspic-
uous in the publication OF the Mo
rey letter, is a member of the Re
publican Central Committee of New
York city, He is very Stalwart.
CoNKLING' policy is announced:
He will make money for three years
and then present himself to the
New York Legislature as a candi-
date to the United States Senate.
THOUSANDS of lives will have to
be sacrificed before canal or rail
road is built across the Isthmus of
Panama. The annual death rate
down there now is so per 1000 of
the population.
REV. G. X. MARSHALL, D. D., will
preach the Animal Commencement
Sermon at the University of Oxford,
Miss, on the 25th of June, next.
While in that city he will be the
guest of the distinguished Chancel-
lor of the University. 81
A CHECK for $4,000, being the
amount extra pension granted Mrs.
Lincoln by special act of Congress,
February 9, 1882, has been forward
ed to her in New York by the bank
making the collection from the pen
sion agent in Chicago. e5a
THE Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, will meet at Nashville Oh the
first Wednesday in May in general
Conference, and will continue in
session three or four weeks. Am
pie provision has been made for the
entertainment of the delegates.