The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-04-13
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

OF MISSISSIPPI pafltte III Tue CeHtfH-
NAL on the Both Of June.
JOSH BILLINGS is announced to lee
ture in jackson tonight. His sub
ject will be the "PenSive C~ockroach.'
Mr.. GEO. W. KooNTz, an old and
highly respected citizen of N:tchez,
died on the 4th inst, aged sixty years.
On the 9th inst. some negroes work
ing in a field of the late w. K.Nausc,
in Jefferson county, dug up five hun
dred dollars i'll gold.
CAPT. w. f. morton, aSformer cit
citizen of Brookhaven, was elected
City Marshall Of Dallas, Texas, OH the
4th inst.
JACK PINKsToN, of Lexington, fed
his fingers into a straw cutter and
parted company with three of those
useful members.
TIE Westville NeWS records the
death of Hon. James NJ. Dampcer,
one of the oldest and best citizens of
Simpson county.
DYER says if the point raised in the
Mckee case is sustained he will COM
mence proceedings against Babcock
OH the original Indictment.
New WORKERS are getting ready
for Don Pedro, Emperor of Brazil.
There is quite an amount of him to
receive as he is over six feet high.
CATO RED, of Durant, attempted to
shoot Il dog while carrying too much
benzine, but discharged the load in an
arm. The doctors had 4 job the next
day.
THE United States Senate has pass
ed a bill appropriating $4,000 to de-
fray the expenses of the special COM
nittee appointed to investigate the
election i'll Mississippi.
BARTON KENDRICK, formerly Secre-
tary to Governor Warmoth, of La,
was found dead in his room on the
4th. An empty chioroform bottle
was found in his room.
WE have been informed that Ames
has gone back home. We have not a
parting tear to shed. Let him stay
out of Mississippi and her citizens
will IKE him the better.
THEODORE STEVENS, the d%efaulting
Treasurer of Holmes county, has bid
farewell to Southern soil and gone
where he hopes the impeachment dis
ease won't reach him.
JEFF ID. BELL was arraigned before
o Justice Court on the 9th inst,
charged with the killing of Carey.
lie waived examination and was re-
manded to jail, to await the action OF
the Grand Jury of Kinds county.
E. P. JONES, formerly of Canton,
Miss, committed suicide in Jefferson
vile, Ind, a few days since by taking
a dose of l%audanun. lie fea red thai
he was going insane and did the act
to prevent it.
The Louisville Banner has sus,
pended. The publisher says he has
been starved out--that the paper has
not paid eXpenses--and that he i;
compelled to move or go to the poor
house.
The members of one ofthe Repub-
lican clubs in New Orleans disagreed
on the 9Th inst, and began an iuGis,
criminate shooting. Several were
badly wounded; II party, Lucien
Adams. Jr., has died from the effects
of a wound. GA house that is divid-
ed cannot stand"
The Goth inst. will be q big day in
Summit. AT that time will be cele-
DRAFTED the anniversary of the indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. A
reunion of the soldiers will take
place IN the same day. Major II. S.
Van Eaton will address the Odd Eel
lows and Gen. FeatlerstoI the SOL
diers.
THE Pilot is engaged in giving
sketches of the most prominent white
men who managed the Republican
Convention in Jackson, Oh the 30th
ult. 1t shows many Of them to have
been sore-heads and boilers. 1t does not
endorse the action of the convention,
and where the Pilot leads the negroes
generally follow.
Gov. STONE was born in Hender-
son county, Tenn. When the wal
broke out he was living at Iuka, Miss.
and went from that place as captain
of the Iuka Guards. lie distinguish.
ed himself at the first battle of Ma.
l,assas and became Colonel of the
sSecoed Mississippi regiment. lie has
slaggs mercantile interests i'll Cofinth
Miss, wh6re his family reside.
A SPECIAL Washington dispatch to
the New Orleans Picayune, dated
April Sth, says ta,e prevailing theme
in Washington is the discovery OF
Babcock's eomplieity in the safe bur-
,glary. 1T is said the proof is ever
whelming. lit also says that the
probable impeachment of the Presi-
dent on the ground of his knowledge
of Babcock's eomPliaity in the mat
ter is being freely discussed.
The New York Post says Elizabe I'll
TAYLOR Greenfield, who was widely
known as the "Blaek Swan" died
suddenly of paralysis last Friday
morning, at her home in Philadelphia.
She was born a slave at Natchez, Miss,
sixty-eight years ago. Having
good voice, she cultivated it under
many difficulties. aud won %recO0ni-