The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-10
Fnrr0RIAL ITEMS.

bills.
OK the lat inst, Montgomery, Ala
elected o full Democratic city admins
t%rat;ou.
lfa. G. f. Eulh, one Of the editors Of
the Winora Free Press, died on the
27th nit.
Gry. FraLova says be cannot be a
canlid4to for any Office before the State
Convention.
CcLoRzo people in South Carolina
ore naming their babies after Wade
Hampton.
TEE Philadelphia Times wants to
Know what excuse the Republican party
has FOR living.
Tr7r NoDoSAr, Of Harrison eonn-
-, has been sentenced to the penlten-
tisry for seven years.
Ma. E7AE15 continues 20 practice law
IN certain cases, and it 10 the occasion
OF considerable criticism.
Cart. 7. VI. GoAE. Appointment Dem
ocrat, has been appointed postmaster at
Tupelo, in this State,
TATaEp RTAN, the priest, poet ana
patriot, viii deliver n memorial address
IL Columbus. Miss, to day.
Gus exchanges from the northern
part Of this State, contain encouraging
reports in regard to the wheat crops.
AR4Rz trio-Gens. George, Walthal!
and Furlong. Each declines to be a
candidate before the State Convention.
Ex-PREsDENr GRANT actually re-
fused the use of a government vessel to
transport him ana family to Philaael-
phia.
TEE Oxford Falcon says that J, F,
Eopgood, q Democrat, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Sardis, in this
State.
EoN. JOHN FoRsTrH, editor of the
Mobile Register, died on the Sd inst.
He was q great man, and a powerful
writer.
asa { ROBBINS, so.called druggists,
Of Brooklyn. N. Y, are frauds, and the
publisher that inserts their advertise
nents Will be swindlcd.
TIT elitors Of the Fayette Chronicle
and Staadard are growing md want
to scrotch ont each others eyes. Breth-
rem, that's wrong.
Tx-Oov. Dn1ons. Of A~rlzansaa, die
81 his residence in Little Rock, April
Both. His remains were taken to st.
Louis fer interment.
CRAzY BoRsE has surrendered 5000.
hostile indiana at Camp Robinson;
mu1y Of them have never Defoio b1en
"a the reservations.
Il obedience to a proclamation OF
Gov. Nichols, to-day has been set
apart III I louisiana as n day Of thanks
giving and prayer.
CAPT. j. S. HosxIss has withdrawn
from the Lexington Advertiser, leav-
ing the paper under the entire control
of his son W. W. Hoskins.
WE were mistaken last week when we
stated that the next meeting Of Presby> |
terry would be held in Hazlehurst. We
should have said Crystal Springs.
GEx. 3. G. HUMPHREYS has consent
ed to become a candidate for Governor.
There is no map in the State that
would more ably fill the Executive
chair.
IT ia said the affinity between the
Northern and Southern Democrat is
about the same as that between the
Northern Republican ard the carpet
Dagger.
THE Senate of South Carolina which
is Republican refuses to go into the
election Of Chief Justice until oil TIE
members of the Mackey House are ad-
United.
a SENATOR is to be elected this fall
from the counties of Copiah and Clai
borne. Col. Ben. King was suggested
for the position last year. How would
he 10 now?
TIE Quitman I0teNiqencer has sus-
reuded. The starvation season for
is upon us, and before the
summer passes the demise Of many 9th
ers will be noted.
AMrrE and Wilkinson counties are to
elect n Senator this year. The fera.d
thinks Amite is entitled to bring for
ward the candidate, and names for the
Office Col. Moses Jackson.
IT is asserted very confidently that
the President will in his message to
Congress at the extra session recon-
nend the Texas Pacific subsidv-that
he will do this as a part OF his South
ern policy.
THE Philadelphia Times assumes
that when the Republican members
went into the Nichols Legislative they
virtually admitted every previous state
ment made concerning tie campaign to
be- lie. re-
THE Seventh Annual Conclave of the
Grand Commandery of Knights Tenn
plar, viii be held in the Asylum Of Ro>
sale Commandery, No. 8, in the city of
Natehez, commencing on Thursday, the
10h of May.
VIZ learn that the Nelson House, of
Jackson, has reduced its fare to one
dollar per day during the session of the
United States Court, and especially for
those who have been compelled to at
tend that tribunal.
Gov. HAapToN has surprised many Of
his friends, and caused considerable