The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-01


frost in early June, and Hazen is
letting him have his own way.
President Clarke, OF the c. st. L.
IL N. 0. r. r., will build seventy
five residences at McComb City.
Col. Ed. RICHARDSON is said to be
the largest cotton raiser in the world.
The Khedive of Egypt is the second.
THERE are rumors OF a compromise
between the Tilden democrats and
Kelly's Tammany crowd in New
York.
GOVERNMENT clerks at Washington
are notified that they will be as
sessed as usual for campaign pur-
poses.
THERE is one Matrimonial Asso-
citation in this State, which pays its
premium upon the birth of the first
baby.
Owing to the threats made by
the nihilists the coronation of the
Gar of Russia has been postponed
for one year.
Mr. BLAINE authorizes statement
by the Washington Post that he is
not candidate for Congress, or for
anything else.
OWING to the previous engage
ments, Mr.. Dorsey will not be able
to take hand in the Indiana cam
paign this fall.
IT is reported from Philadelphia
that Miss Clara Louise Kellogg's
engagement to gentleman of that
city is broken.
TIE fifth annual session of the
State Sunday School Convention
will be held at Water Valley, July
9TH, 9th, and It'll.
SENATOR Brown, of Georgia, has
recovered sufficiently to take his
seat in the senate, therefore, he is
not likly to resign.
The independents" endorsed AL
exander II. Stephens for governor of
Georgia, but he declines to run on
any such endorsement.
The Tennessee river at Chatta-
nooga has been stocked with 425,-
900 shad, two days old, by the
United States Fish Commission.
IT is estimated that if Mr.. Glad
stones arrears of rent bill passes 1t
will be equivalent to presenting the
Irish tenants with sum of $4,000
900.
Mrs. GARFIELD has sent a check
for $500 to the building fund of the
Memorial church at Washington,
and has pledged. an additional $500
if it is needed.
Ir is said that only lis out of 65s
members Of the British parliament
are lawyers, while over two thirds
Of the members of the U. S. congress
belong to the legal profession.
Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, is more than six feet tall,
light complexioned, and wears an
immense flowing beard and NOUS
tachc of tawny red color.
AN ark 200 feet long is being
built by an Iowa, man. who believes
that second flood will take place
in 1886. He intends, however, to
take passengers at $1,000 each, and
PARNELL has been warned by
anonymous letters that he is mark
ed man. He will pursue the even
tenor Of his way, regardless of all
such warning, and if he does his
duty he will hardly be harmed.
Judge Terral, in his charge to
the grand jury of Harrison county,
Instructed the grand jury not to
find bills against parties for selling
liquor by the pint, if the license SO
to'do had been procured prior to the
repeal of the pint law.
Ex-GovERSoR WAsHBURN, who
lately died at Eureka Springs, ielt
in his will $4,000 tor a library at
La Crosse, and POUNDS a memorial
orphan hospital at Minneapolis,
: with an endowment of 1876, 900, as
Tribute to his mother.
Senator. Logan was so much
benefited by his visit to Hot
Springs that he introduced in the
senate a resolution, which was
unanimously adopted, to appropri-
ate 100000 fos government hos
pitai tor soldiers and sailors at Hot
Springs.
- MR.. TREyELYAN, the new Score.
tary for Ireland. married rich wife
and besides, inherited a. considerable
sum under his uncle Lord Macaulay's
will His father married. again
within q year or two of the death
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