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

aplblitct W lhNcStiSatc DccC'lo' .
conduct.
THR Attorney General has notified
Tweed's counsel that the six million
suit will be pressed to a trial.
ONE negro was killed and II
white mau wounded in a riot which
occurred at Port Gibson on election
day.
Tuesday last Clinton gave a Rsdi-
cal majority of one hundred and six.
That don't look much like The negroes
were inundated.
Two YEARS ago this State went
Radical by twenly-one thousand,
four hundred and. three majority.
Now it is Democratic forty thousand.
A SALUTE of 10l guns, in honor of
the Democratic victory in Mississippi,
was fired in New Orleans, Thursday,
Nov. 4th.
Mrs. MoULToN and Miss Florence
Tilton have been dismissed from
membership to Plymouth church, on
account of non-attendance.
JOHN MoRRIssEY was elected TO the
State Senate of New York, on the
81 inst, over the regular Tammany
nominee. Morrissy is a strong Dem
ocraI.
The Radical papers put Oregon,
New York, California, Wisconsin
and North Carolina IN their pyra-
mid, knowing at the same time they
are all Democratic.
The N. O. Bulletin gives circula-
lion / o alumCr that tie N. o., 81.
L. G.. II. r. will change hands very
soon. The Illinois Central Railroad
Company will be the lew manage
ment.
The HeraM SAWS Jim Hill might
90 along with Colonel Hooker to
Washington as the C)ngrcs>maH's
body servant. IT Colonel Hooker
can stand it, we are sure Hill will
make a good one.
Ir is often urged that newspaper
men are unpopular with the puyic,
and cannot be elected to office. This
is a mistake. AS an evidence of this
fact we point to Col. II. S. Bonney.
editor Of the Summit Sentinel, who
has Just been elected Coroner and
Ranger Of Pike county.
IT is reported that j. 3. Raymond,
formerly Of the Jackson Pilot, is to
succeed Pease as postmaster at Nicks-
burg. The people of Vicksburg will
reap no benefit from the change, as
RAYMOND is meaner, if anything,
than Pease.
In our next issue we shall publish
the list of men elected to the Legisla-
ture. The latest information shows
that in the House there will be ninety
Democrats and twenty-five Republic
ans; in the Senate there will probl-
bly, be a tw o-thirds vote, and two
over, Democratic.
THE True RcpubAcan, a Radical
sheet of ABERDEEN, tries to start the
cry of intimidation again. 1t had as
well hush, for the game won't win.
Mississippi was fairly carried Oh the
% by a large Democratic majority,
and the howl OF Intimidation will do
no good. White men are going TO
rule this glorious old State hereafter.
WE do not expect more than forty
thousand and will not be satisfied
with less than twenty thousand ma
iority for our ticket on the Cd prox-
imo.-PU0t.
How does your pulse beat now?
Four millions six hundred thou
sand acres Of land have been forfeited
for non-payinent of taxes under the
grinding system of taxation and
wholesale plunder instituted by the
Radicals.-EI.
But as the State is now Democratic
this thing will have to change.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 3.-The State
militia, under Gen. Campbaai, fired
one hundred guns. by order of Gov.
kellogg, in honor of the Republican
victories.
How many ofthose guns were fiji ed
for Mississippi. Virginia, Maryland.
New York and Wisconsin?
WE learn that on last Tuesday a
negro, Abraham Kirkland, of Pela-
hatchie, killed a negro woman named
Love of that place by choking her.
lie was Immediately arrested, tried
before Justice j. S. Melvin, and con.
victed of murder. He was held in
bail in the sum of one thousand dol
lars.-Brandon argus.
In every section Of the United
States are people rejoicing over the
redemption of Mississippi. The Gin
%cinnati Enquirer says:
Mississippi has been redeemed and
rescued from Radical thrall. The
State, since the war, has been given
over.to the rule OF the carpet baggers
and. negroes. She nov takes her
place in the Dcmocratic column, and
will stand with the West imthe great
night next year.
THE State has been lost to the Re-
pullieahs through the intimidation
policy commenced by the Democrats
at tile very start. of the canvass.
Pilot.