The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-23
EDITORIAL ITEMS

EDITORIAL ITEMS.
The new constitution of Georgia
makes lobbying q crime.
The cotton worms are very bad in
many parishes of Louisiana.
Coz. JONES HAMILTON has baen mar
RED to Miss Fannie Buck. Long life
and happiness.
PAscAGou1A has sweet potatoes of this
years crops. They are selling at forty>
FIVE cents a sack.
SOME of the papers of the State are
demanding that the next Legislature
repeal the lien law.
THE colored Baptists have established
an Institute at Natchez for the educa-
ton Of their preachers.
LYDIA THOMPSON and her new troupe
Of radiant English blondes arrived in
New York city last week.
GLENDY BURKE, of New Orleans, has
been offered the position of first Aud
tor of the United States Treasury.
IT is said there is q negro woman Ev-
ing in the vicinity of Moss Point, il
Jackson county, who has given birth T.
seyenty-two children.
TIE Winona AdcdNce predicts that
the State Democratic ticket will be
elected by ninety thousand majority
We will go ten thousand better.
j. S. MAaEE, Esq, editor OF the
Franklin Banner, has been nominated
for the Legislature by the Democracy
of Franklin county.
InoT Will you like yourself dressed IN
the style of the empire, q Ia Josephine
short skirts, short waists, large poke
bonnet8 and big bags on your arms?
STANLEY GILBERT has been unanimous
w nominated Senator from the district
composed of the counties of Wayne,
Jones, Covington. Smith and Simpson.
PAPERS publishing the advertisement
headed "U. s. Mail-Dr. Townsend's
Oxvgenated Air." will be swindled.
The propriotors Of the medicine are
frauds.
THE Jackson Times learns the Demo
Gratis of Grenada county have nominated
full Bourbon ticket. Bourbon with
the Times is anything opposed to Rad
icalism.
WE have heard of Gideon's band and
several other bands, but the greatest
band that has ever been banded togeth-
er in this State will be banded in Jack
son on the 4th of September.
THE records in the Executive Depart
meut at Nashville show that Tennessee
has eighty criminals at large, and that
the sums offered for their apprehension
aggregate $40, 900. OF the eighty, sixty
are murderers.
A CORRESPONDENT at Wesson sends us
a letter saying the giant passed through
there on the 10th inst, and ate SIX o.
eight dogs, but as the author was toe
modest to give his name we cannot pub
lish the communication.
CAPT. O'HARA, of New Orleans, has
discovered a bullet, that when free
from a gun, will set fire to the object Il
strikes. Tie Pennsylvania militia ough'
to have had that kind of bullets whe1
they attacked the strikers.
THE primary elections held in tie va
r;ous counties have given universal sat
isfactiop. A primary election is far bet
ter han a convention. One is governed
by the people at large and the other by
q few professional wire pullers.
Col. NICHOLAS SMITH, Horace Gree,
ley's ~son>in-law. horsewhipped Warner
Dlloo ~ ShaPpdHuo oh thO 1'Nh ihop
Bliss is represented as an epileptIc, ant
has been in bad health for Il year. Bills.
asking Smith to move his horse from.tht
sidewalk was the cause
THE government is now borrowing
money at four per cent. For building
which it hires for the accommodation o
some Of it's Bureaus in Washington
city, it is paying rent which is equal t.
ten, fifteen and twenty per cent. on thu
cost of the buildings. This is bas
economy.
The Ashland Sun is complaining be
oause Col. Sims voted against the prop
esition to abolish the Office OF Lieuten
ant Governor. The Senator did wha
lie conceived to be right, and on The 6tl
of next November the people will en-
dorse his vote at the polls. We hop
those WHO are in favor of abolishlng tn
office will give their reasons without as
sailing the record Of the present llol'in
beat.