The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-10-04
EDITORIAL ITEMS

80 EDITORIAL ITEMS.
PRoF. TIcE predicts a frost for this
latitude about the 10Th inst.
The Jackson Times is the only Re-
publican paper in the State.
A NEW daily paper, the Leader, is
being published in Vicksburg.
TIE hog cholera is raging in the
neighborLood of Holly Springs.
EADs' Jetties, are officially acknow>
lodged by the Government to be q sue
cess. ..s
THE cotton crop has been cut short
all over the State by the rains of Sep
TENDER.
The jackson Pilot, like the Re
publican party in this State has sus-
pended.
THE ninth annual Jefferson county
Fair will commence at Fayette on the
10th inst. s-
Coon news comes from the Indian
famine region. There has been heavy
rain in every district in Madras.
THE Prentiss P1eader saysi it has re-
ceived q hen egg seven and one-half
inches in lcugth. That's Il tough one.
a. J. MATT1NGLY was shot and killed
by a negro in Warren county last week.
Warren is becoming notorious for hom-
cides. g
WE see it stated that Mr.. John Dimi-
ty has been employed to write q history
of Mississippi for the use of our public
schools.
SISTER MARY THOMAS, for twenty
years Sister Superior OF st. Mary's Or
phan Asylum in Natchez, died on last
Saturday.
Mr.. WM. THOMPSON, a farmer OF JET
ferson county, says the cotton worms
have been worse on his place this year
than he. has seen them since 1858.
~f
i SPECIAL term of the United States
Court will be held in Jackson on the
first Monday in November. Criminal
cases are set for the third Monday.
Mr.. w. A.. MONTGOMERY has been
nominated Senator from the counties of
Kinds and Rankin. He is o prominent
citizen of Kinds, aud has q good record.
GEN. J.. B. Hoop has been married
seven years and has nine children, the
proceeds of one marriage. On three oc>
casions twins have visited his house
hold. -'" '4'
The True Iatrtot is 500 to be pub
lished at Batesvilleiby Mr.. g. B. Vance.
There's millions in" the newspaper
business; at least some men seem to
think SO. ,.sl H., ..4ppt ...f
JAS BETHEA, who killed young Hirsch
at Port Gibson last week, was taken be-
fore Judge Smiley, at Meadyille, on a
writ of Aa6eas corpus, and admitted to
bail in the sum of $4,000.
a. MADE HAMPTON, Jr., son of South
Cardinals deliverer, is running for the
lower. house of our State Legislature
from one of the river counties.
.a"7 Grand Duke Nicholas has liver com
plant, caused, we presume by his be-
ing compelled to partake OF too much
Turkey. Nicholas is not fond of fowl,
and never INDUCES except when com
PEELED to do SO. ,.t
The Okolona Messenger is printing
the portraits of the State officers i'll its
columns. Some of u exchanges think
the candidates would be justified IN
bringing suit for SANDER against the
paper, as the pictures are not fattering.
5w WHAT has become of Vice-P President
Wheeler and the Grand Duke Alexis?
Their names seem to have faded from
[, history. On his visit to the United
States. the Grand Duke made conquests
over some of our silly girls, but we hear
of him making no conquests W the
Turks.
THE Vicksburg Commercial of Oc>
tober LIST contains twelve large pages
we'll filed with choice reading matter
aud handsomely displayed ADVERTISE
ments. The Commercial is the spici>
est and newsiest daily in Mississippi.
We are always glad 10 read its fresh,
clean pages. Terms Of subscription
only 800. 1,f y 't' la 8
In his speech in Nashville President
Hayes said: s'Mr. Greeley's advice,
Young man, go West ought to be
changed to Young man, go South Zap
plause] for here you have that salubrity
of climate, that fertility of soil, those
resources most conducive to immigra-
ton, and, T take it, That all the wise
men in the South desire immigration. !"
! THE Indian delegation have not yet
cot to the solid work of treaty-making.
Il would be as we'll, perhaps, if they
never got SO far. They look upon the
act Of the Government in making a
treaty with, them as q confession OF
fear. Their untutored minds see in ev-
ery concession made by the Govern
ment an invitation to ask for more and
an inducement to seize by force, u
is not granted by treaty.