The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-05-18

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Citizen will be collected by the pro-
prietor OF TIE LEDGER.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
GRANT has quit dreaming Of the third
term.
Blow OFF ths barkers, the Lion has
left the field.
EuBENsrErN, the condemned Jew,
died IN his cell "a few nights ago.
GEO. Null shot and killed Jno. Bar
nett, Mt Lauderdale on the 9Th inst.
THE United States Senate has voted
$40, 900 to pay the Louisiana investiga-
ton.
J. j. SPRLLMAN is . o to commence
the publication of the Free Press at
Jackson.
THE Knights Templar will make o
grand display at Philadelphia on the
29th inst.
The VicEsburg and Meridian Road
will 500 attach sleepers, OF their own
make, to their trains.
JoHN s. PAYNE, the new Governor Of
Liberia. is a full-blooded negro, and
was born in Richmond, Va.
PARTIES owing either the old Citizen
or Le6qer are again requested to call
ut this office and settle.
Nh. CHAs. A. PoPB has leased the
Varieties Theatre of New Orleans. He
is on experienced manager.
IN st. Louis, on the 18th inst, Miss
jennie Patterson was hurried to DR..
Ralph Walsh, Of Washington City.
On the 9th inst. a negro named Wade
Walker WAS killed at Edwards, bv
another negro named John Smith.
For the information of the public, we
publish the Game law in full on the
first page of this paper. Read it.
AUGU5T BoL1AN, of Summit, has en-
listed in Company "B," Third Infan-
try, now stationed ut McComb City.
TIE Mr.. Barnum nominated for the
United States Senate from Connecticut
is not the renowned Snowman, as some
papers have asserted.
The Grand C~ommanderv, in session
at Columbus last week, adjourned on
the 10Th inst, to meet in Natchez on
the 18th of next May.
IF you want to keep posted during
the Presidential election take THE
LEDGER. Six months for one dollar.
Send in your name and money.
THE election for county officers, in
the new county of Sharkey, passed off
peaceably and quietly, resulting in a
decided Democratic victory.
t. ALBEIT VAUDARAY. n Catholic
priest of Baton Rouge, recently violat-
ed the rules Of his church by marrying,
and will be expelled from church.
IT is given out that Col. Gates will,
at an early day, commence the publica-
ton of the Banner at Iuka, Miss. He
is reported to be an elegant writer.
A WASHINGTON dispatch announces
that the Railroad Committee has finally
sdoped E~icksburg as the Eastern termi-
nus Of the Texas Pacific Railroad.
TIE Presidential campaign will be a
warm one, and everybody should keep
posted. You can get The LEDGER,
which will contain all the newsof inter-
est, till after the election for one dollar.
HENRY JOHNSON killed Jack Williams
in Meridian on the 7th inst. All color
ed. The Court decided the killing done
in self-defense and the prisoner was re-
leased.
$4,000, 900 have been subscribed by
the stock holders of the Texas Pacific
Railroad to close the gap between Dallas
and Fort Worth, and from Sherman to
Paris.
The article that appeared in the
Handsboro Democrat last week, con-
corning Col. Chrisman and The LED
GER, is not worthy of notice at our
hands.
The Summit Sentinel office WAS pied
last Friday night by some malicious
wretch. Any person that would do
such an act is too mean TO live and not
good enough to die.
The Centennial show opened on the
10th inst. Grant and Dom Pedro start
ed the engine that runs the machinery.
Fifty thousand people were present at
the opening.
Col. POWER, State Com missioner for
the Centennial, denies the assertion that
Miss N. Perkins has been appointed to
take charge of the ladies department of
the Mississippi Headquarters.
AMID the crash of c~ontending polite
al parties, the nation pauses, and bows
in sweet thankfulness for an instant, at
reception of the news that Mrs. Sarto-
ris' baby has recovered from the scar
let fever.
What is the matter with our New Or
leans exchanges? The Times, Bulle-
tin and Democrat are received about
three times a week, instead of daily.
Friends, what is the matter?
SINCE the Democratic Congress as-
sembled it has kept most of the promi-
nent Republicans of the country busy
explaining their connections with the
various swindles of the day. They
hava NOT foichaI vaf |