The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-03-02
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

BUTLER will again be n candidate
for Congress.
WE have received the Satartia Sen
tineI. 1t is a neal sheet.
A LAW has passed. the Maine Legis-
lature abolishing capital punishment.
HEREAFTER the House of Represen-
tatives will hold and evening session.
LYNCH, of this State, has Joined
with Bruce in his warfare against
Grant.
Born Babcock and Luckey have
resigned. Their successors as yet are
unknown.
REV. Mr.. LONELY while engaged
in delivering a sermon in Brooklyn,
fell dead. c. oge er.
The L. NJ. S. of T. of Vicksburg
was a grand affair, and will be long
remembered.
SAM Boiler, a negro, shot and kill
cd Frank P. Reid, near Columbus, a
few days ago.
PROF. THos. S. CARTWRIGHT is likely
to succeed Cardozo as State Superin-
dent Of Education.
SrxAToR SAMBo BRUCE hasn't been
invited to dine at the White House,
and he is not happy.
GkN. SHERMAN hasn't written a let
ter for over a week, and everything
seems sad and dreary.
The corner stone for an elegant
PRESBYTERIAN Church was laid in NC
Comb City a few days ago. zr-. - ,
WE have received the Eagle, q new
paper published at Oxford, Miss.
"May it live long and prosper"
BABcoCK has been acquitted. Glad
to know that there is II guiltless
man in the Republican party.
WHY is the Republican party like
Sodom and Gemorah? Because il
has one innocent man in it-Babcock.
SPEAKER KERR is expected to re-
sign, on account Of i'll health. Mr..
Randall will probably be his success
sor.
PARsoN's minority report OF the
impeachment Of Ames, is as long as
one of Grants messages, and just
about as sensible.
TIE postmaster of Greenville,
Miss, a Radical named Bretlinger,
has been sentenced to two years i'm.
prisonment for dsfalcation.
Hon. JOHN YOUNG BRowN has de-
clined to become a candidate for re-
election to Congress in the Second
District Of Kentucky. .~,..- sf. -,.
THE publication of the Mississippi,
Central hsa been resumed at Water
Valley, as we learn, by r. W. Cad
well, late of the Senatobia Stgnet.
MI. w. C. Tucker, proprietor Of
the Washington Vineyard, of Colum.
bus, Miss, has been arrested, charged
with the illicit distilling Of brandy.
GEN. PILLOW has gone into bank.
ruptcy in consequence of All impcnd'
ing judgement in the U. S. Court fol
a large sum for coal belonging to &
firm in Pittsburgh, Pa, seized by his
orders in 1861.
NEWS comes from Honduras of the
death of Hon. Colin McRae, a broth.
er ofthe late Jno. j. McRae, who was
at one time Governor of and subse.
qucntly a Congressman from Missis'
sippi. ..-f 5,.. ..:.b. F... r...
IT seems that the Hon. Augustus
III. Garland will be chosen Senator
from Arkansas to succeed Powell
Clayton, whose term expires Marcel
Sd, 1877. Mr.. Garland is the present
Governor Of Arkansas.
IT is reported that James Gordon
Bennett is to be married to q Miss
MAY, of New York, in April. We
hope the report is true, for then the
public will be spared the misery o
reading notices that he's going te
take unto himself a better-haif. 9I
THE Courier-Journal, suggests tina
Cairo, Illinois, should have its name
changed to "Kiss," for two (river.
months meet there and Cairo is thu
result. Another reason that might
be given is that it is frequently over
lowed with water, and the hole baci
OF it often is filled with snags. a.Tsa
A YOUNG American lady who Ia
enjoyed the rare privilege Of taking
stroll with the poet Tennyson, incl
IDENTIFY mentions in a letter TO 3 frient
that sit seriously affected the romance
OF the situation when he paused dur
ing the walk TO scratch his back agains
gate post"