The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-07-20
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

THERE will he no State Fair this
year.
TnE RAIDS keep On manufacturing
them.
DIR. PALMER will preach IN McComb
City next Sabbath.
There is little prospect Of an adjourn
ment of Congress before August.
Ir is reported that schurz wrote
Hayes letter Of acceptance.
ZEB VANCE is the Democratic candi-
date for Governor in North Carolina.
THE grain crop of Texas il SO large
that there is no market for it ut home.
Mrs. MATTHEWS, of McComb City. is
- not dead, as reported by several pa
pers.
The Supreme Court OF this State has
adjourned until the Third Monday in
October.
HAYES and Wheeler were nominated
on Friday, and will be hung by the
peoples votes.
CARL LARSON, Il lad fifteen years old,
was drowned whilo bathing in n creek
near Water Valley Saturday last.
CoNGREss has passed a bill allowing
the widow, father and mother of Gen.
Caster q pension of $50 each per month.
TIE Morton Dcmocratpublishes the
Great Western Wen Anger Co, Of
Bloomfield, Iowa, as a swindling con-
Germ.
BRICK PoMERoY has not yet decided
to support Tilden, though he continues
TO pour birthstone into the Radical
ranks.
THE New York Ueraid proposes a
monument to Custer, and offers to O
tribute q thousand dollars tor that pur-
pose.
JIM MAeEE has been appointed Road
Overseer for the streets of Meadvllle.
Jim will have 10 time now to devote to
his paper.
JUDGING by the New Orleans papers,
Lient. Gov. Penn will be the Demo
cratic nominee for Governor Of Lou
isiana.
NATURALLY as d duck takes to water,
AL the dark~lantern lodges of the oun
try drift into the support of Hayes and
Wheeler.
THE President has signed the bill ie-
storing public lands in Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Flor
ida to market.
TIE Vicksburg District Conference
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, will meet at Port Gibson, Octo-
Der 18th. 1876.
The Vicksburg Tribune suggests
that the Government enter into a con-
tract with Gen. y, B. Forrest to keep
The Indians in order.
GEN. CUsTEn's widow is said to be a
laughter of Senator Christianny, OF
Michigan. She is a very beautiful wo-
nan, and was a great belle.
L1EUrs. HoDasoN and Mcintosh, kill
ed in the Gustav fight with the Indians,
we're both young and promising Geof-
gians, recent graduates of West Point,
au1 still beardless boys.
i SPECIAL from Fort Lincoln gives
.urther details of the Little Big Horn
fight, in which it says Sitting Bull was
killed, also a white man named Milburn,
Sitting Bull chief adviser.
JUDGE THOMAS STEELE was, on the
18th inst, nominated by the Republi-
can State Convention at Raleigh, n. c.,
for Governor, and Major VIM. A. Smith
Tor Lieutenant Governor.
As We expected, the Northern fanat-
les are making political capital out of
the South Carolina race disturbance.
,rbe,e are n class OF men in the North
who ere too mean for hell or heaven.
HEATH, Independent, wal elected
Mayor of Chicago last week over the
Democratic and Republican candidates.
That should encourage the indepen~
dents to nominate a candidate for Presi-
dent.
AIR. Wheeler, Republican candidate
for Vice President, voted against the
back-salary grab, and turned his pay
into the Treasury. He woulddo to vote
for. but for his connection. But the
reoplo daiaand a change, and he'll have
let 20 overheard with the rest.