The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-07-27
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EDITORIAL ITEMS

HE lGSI skLtl41 tel AA"e 'O
drawn.
GoyEsgoR TILDGN is q descendant Of
Oliver Cromwell.
GEN. BoIsRouD CANAL has been elect
ed President of Hayti.
NArcuEz and jackson are having a
game of chess by telegraph.
The Crystal Springs camp meeting
commences next Wednesday.
TnERE are more than one hundred
boarders at Cooper's Wells.
Ex.Gov. A. G. Brown will take the
stump for Tilden and Hendricks.
On the 18th inst VIM. Mccarthy shot
and killed John Campbell. of Morton.
The Convention of the First Con-
gressional District meets in Okolona
to-day.
HuRRAH for Villages aud Keller.
Their chances for election are growing
beautifully less.
CurNroN McDoUGAL, of New York,
succeeds Mr.. Pratt as Commissioner of
Internal Revenue.
TIE President has nominated Hon.
Luke Lea for United States District At
torney for this District.
WHEN TIE LEDGER thinks it needs
the advice Of the windy Crystal Springs
.Nonitor it will request it. .
REV. J. r. FARlsH has been appoint
Cd to work in South Mississippi for the
endowment of Mississippi College.
The Auditor decides that printing
Offices and newspapers are not taxable,
because they have no money to spare.
GRANT says he won't send troops to
Louisiana unless Packard IS withdrawn
from the State ticket. Pull HIM down.
THE District Conference of the
Summit District Mississippi Conference
South. will convene in Magnolia TO-
day.
SusFLowER county is without a Board
of Supervisors, the old board hsving
failed to give bonds, as required by a
late law.
THE President has signed the silver
and army appropriation bills; also the
resolution removing Gen. Beauregard's
disabilities.
GEORGE E. PUGH, of Cincinnati, for~
merly a distinguished member of the
United Stat2s Senate, died on Thurdsy,
the Goth inst.
Gov. STONE has commuted the sem
tence of Alexander Alsup, of Tippah
county, to Imprisonment in the peni-
Tertiary for life.
The New York Sun thinks that the
man whom the Democracy Of New
York should imperatively nominate for
Governor is Horatio Seymour.
IT is said that Col. D. D. Wright has
announced himself as IN independent
candidate for Congress in the district
containing Holly Springs.
Dir. JACK ALEXANDER, q resident OF
Holly Springs, disappeared recently
from q steamboat in the Illinois River
and it is supposed that he was drowned.
SOUTH Kinds has a Tilden and Hen
..l a1,h oR cpa al and
ffty members. This is an example
worthy of imitation by colored men in
the State.
AFEw nights ago thee negro prison
ers escaped from Meadville Jail by pick
ing through a wall. Their names are
Monroe Picket, John Jackson and
Leroy Scott.
We will send THE LEDGER from now
till the LIST of January for n dollar.
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Nh. ISAAC N. SToUTEMEYER. editor-in-
chief of the New Orleans Times, was
married at Mount Airy, Missouri, or
the 5th instant, to Miss Julia d.
Woodson of the that place.
Is is stated that the carpet-bag Sen
ator from the Copiah-C Claiborne District
has resigned. Mr.. J. s. Mason, of
Port Gibson, is suggested as a candidate
for the place. He is q true Democrat
and p bold and able defender of our
people.
A T telegram says the Admins
tration has abandoned all hope of car
rvine. n of the Southern States, ex-
cent the two Carolmas, with hopes OF
Louisiana, if a ticket composed of the
nest men in the party be selected by
the Radicals there.
,i,HE Hamburg, S. c., massacre is re-
ceiviag considerable attention IN hadl-
cal newspapers. Lamar says the whites
did wrong, though he knows no more
about it than any other man, ana the
Radical editors are loud in praise OF the
Senator elect.
TIE CouraeY-Jomrnas says one nun
dred and twenty-five Vice Presidents
were appointed for q Whayes n heel
err meeting in Now Yorkth other night
and when the meeting came OH every
of them was present, with the single
exception of one hundred and twenty.
'Rah for Wheeze and Haler.