The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-08-17
FOR CONGRESS,
HON, C.. G. o
OF KINDS.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
CONGRESS- has adjourned,

mas ADJOURNED.
THRoUaH trains are now running
from Texarkana to Sherman, Texas.
THE Republicans of Arkansas have
nominated Joseph Brooks for Governor.
The first bale of new Alabama cotton
was received at Montgomery on the 18th
inst.
EVERY mnn that votes i'll this State
at the next election will be compelled to
register.
THE Republicans Of the Second Dis
trict have nominated Thos. Walton for
Congress.
ALABAMA gave Hayes and Wheeler
forty thousand majority-to remain as
private citizens.
THE cotton worm has appeared on
many farms in the Eastern and Western
parts of this State.
J. S. P. Francois, a colored man of
New Orleans, says he will support the
Democratic ticket.
Hon. @. E. Hooker is constantly
placing US under obligations to him for
public documents.
THE Vicksburg Herald copied an ad-
yertisement from the Aberdeen EGGmi-
aer as an item of news.
THE Democrats of the North Louisi>
ana District have nominated Hon. w.
w. Farmer for Congress.
C~oNGREss has appropriated $5,0o0,~
600 for river improvements. The South
gets about e, 600, 900 of the appropria>
ton.
HOMER BOYD, a young man born and
reared in Kosciusko, was killed by the
Indians on the Texas frontier. several
weeks ago.
THE Democracy of Tennessee have
and ex-Gov. Isham G. Harris and W
B. Bate electors at large.
An u hicoodSO w VIC oCudtS cIuut
says that Louisiana and Mississippi are
lawless States. AS that was not his
first one, it did not choke him.
THERE was q g%reenback demonstra-
tion at Tere Haute, Indiana, on the
18th inst. Greenback demonstrations
are rare things nowadays.
THE Pittsburg Dispatch claims that
there has been only about $3.50, 900 sto-
len under Grants administration. Only
$3.50, 900; a mere trifie not worth speak
ing of.
Mrs. J. A. SIGNAIGo, in q well-writ-
ten article to the public, her
self as proprietress of the Grenada Sen
tinel. MIR. j. w. Buchanan has as
sumed editorial control.
OLD registration papers WILDE worth
less. You must register before this
and election day if you would vote for
Tilden and Hendricks, and free the
country of thieving ofice>holders.
J. SELLA MARTIN, a leading colored
Republican of Louisiana, died on the
18th inst. His was a natural death,
and the Radical party will be deprived
the pleasure of crying murder"
The rumor published in the Jackson
Times from the New York Herald, that
MI. Hendricks would probably with
draw from the Democratic ticket, is as
false as the Radical party is dishonest.
AFTER the election the Radicals pros
pose that Gen. Sherman shall withdraw
from the army and that Grant shall be
appointed Commander-in-chief of the
army. Do they suppose that Tilden
would appoint such o brute as Grant to
any position?
AT q special election in Copiah coun-
", on the 9Th inst, Mr.. J.. FL. Thomp>
son was elected supervisor vice Hon.
Ben. King resigned. In that county
they put big men in very small offices.
Mr.. Frank Carpenter was elected JUS
tice of the Peace on the same day.
Two colored men of Oxford said if a
white man joined their party they want
ed it understood that he placed himself
on an equality with the colored man,
and that the colored man was his equal
in every respect. Of course, and in
many instances the negro is his superior:
AT indianapolis, Ind, on the 18th
inst, that loathsome object, Moxa Nor
ton, flung to the breeze the bloody shirt,
and harangued a few dozen Republi-
a n for three hours. His speech was
one of the most vindictive he ever made,
and the party that approves his Ian
euage will de defeated.
SENATORS ALooRN and Bruce left
Washington, report says, to avoid the
discussion of Boutwell's Mississippi
report. If our State had had true and
honorable Senators in Congress they
would have remained and refuted the
falsehoods manufactured against their
people.
The following is the estimated num-
Der OF Indians the Government will
have to subdue: Sioux, sixty thousand;
Grows, fifty thousand; Blackfeet, twen-
ty Thousand; Utes or Utahs. thirty-fve I
thousand. There are enough soldiers s
In the South to wipe them out" if the I
Government could spare them. II