The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-10-19
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

register and vote for Til6en.
GEN. TooMBs has professed religion,
and Joined the Methodist Church.
OLD men, young men, everybody
able to vote, should register and vote.
SAN FRANCIsco takes whisky straight,
and sometimes-now and then-water
straight.
THs Texas and Pacific road is to be
he extended at once from Shreveport to
Monroe.
W. W. C~cRCoRAN has donated $4,000
to enlarge the library of the University
of Virginia.
The greenback party Of Rhode Is
land have nominated a full ticket for
State officers.
Mr.. HENRY C. CApELb has retired
from the Liberty Herald. His sue
cessor is not named.
MARSHAL P1LKIN formally took pos
session Of his office rs Marshal of Lou
isiaua, vice Packard, resigned.
AZ T IT Pror-u- hoe ~nt;rnI from
the Calhoun Democrat, and Mr.. ". L,
Rogers has taken editorial charge.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT still lives.
Several reports have tried to kill the
old gentleman, but he declines to go.
W. NJ. WENTWORTH has been nomi-
mated by the Democracy of Franklin
county for the office of Chancery Clerk.
A LADY named Butler has been nom
mated for Congress, says London pa
per. The widow is making a powerful
sensation.
Mr.. ADAMS KELLOGG, of Madison
Point, Louisiana, r~ecelvedlthe Centsn>
NAL award for the best bale of cotton
produced in the world.
A KANSAS CRY, Mo-, dispatch res
ports that Frank James, II of
the Clay county desperadoes, was ar>
rested on the 18th inst.
JEFF D. BELL, charged with killing q
printer in Jackson several months ago,
has been convicted of murder and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
LIZ you would discnthrone Radicalism,
and make your country prosperous and
blooming as in the days of yore, don't
fail to register, and vote for 1ilden and
Hendricks.
CHAMBERLAIN, the Radical Governor
of South Carolina, has called for troops.
He has begun to see that unless some-
thing desperate is done the State will
go Democratic.
A VERY unusual sight was a process
sion of one thousand eight hundred
colored Hampton voters in South Caro-
lima lately. They were mounted, and
presented a fine appearance.
Remember if your don't register you
can't vote. Old certificates are worth
less, for q completely new registration
is being made this year, and all who
fail to register cannot vote.
WITH scarcely an exception, the New
York papers denounce the scheme that
Chamberlain has invented, and patient
submission on the part of Southern
Democrats will defeat Chamberlaln's
plan.
THE majority for Barnes in Ohio is
about six thousand. This would seem
to indicate that Mr.. Hayes is worth one
thousand more votes as a candidate for
President than as a candidate for Cows
ernor.
RANKIN RAILS was killed neal Rock
port, Miss, on the 7th inst, by Lu-
Their Guess. The difficulty is said to
have originated about the business of q
mill in which they were partners.
Guess is still at large.
SATURDAY was a big day for the De-
mocracy of northern Copiah. A grand
barbecue was given at Crystal Springs,
and an immense torch-light procession
at night. Speeches were made by Gen.
George, Judge Potter, Gen. Wharton,
r. N. Miller, Esq, and two colored
men. Copiah is moving up.
H. G. WARMoTH is again looking up
ward. He expects to- be elected to
the Louisiana Legislature. Then, the
Democrat says, he will expect to be
elected to the United States Senate.
If the Democrats of that State do their
duty their Legislature will be Demo-
cratic, and two Southern men will be
elected to the Senate.