The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

TuB State Board of Registration
meets in jackson June LIST.
FORTY colored persons were recently
baptized ut jackson in one day.
Mn. J. W. SHArrUcK has assumed
charge of the Wcodville Republican.
DIR. WArsoN, of Memphis, leetured
on S~pirtualisin at Corinth last week.
TIE Lexington -IdterhSef suggests
Hon. II. IT. Street for Dieut-G Governor.
The wheat eropof North Mississippi
is unusually fl1ar.shing, aud promises
a ine yield.
WALTON. United States District At
torney in Mississippi, will succeed Pat
ridge, Minister to Brazil.
Tae Oldest maid III the word ia Re-
hecca Anderson, of Seneca Falls. aged
one hundred and twelve years.
MAJ. JEFF. W~ArroRp, has recently
been appointed Postmaster OF Corlnth,
Miss. A good appointment.
IT is estimated that this State has
enc hundred thousand more acres IN
der cultivation this year than last.
MORTON, of Indiana, will sustain the
claim of Kellogg in the United States
Senate, against Judge Spofford.
BISMARCK has been recalled from the
retirement of Narsin to assume his
functions as Chancellor of the Empire.
MARK TWAIN says it is outrageous III
Turkey and Russia to be fighting this
wny before we have q reliable war map.
The Rising SHn reports that soine
farmers i'll Benton county arc piowlng
up cotton and planting corn. 1he
Europcan war did it.
Ii the map OF it, which wo see III the
patent outside newspapers is a correct
ono. the seat Of the war il the East is
very rough.
CBaMp3RLA1S refuses to be comfort
eI. He declines to accept the Solicl-
torship of tho Treasury. lie Will ac-
cept nothing from Hayes.
A PARAGRAPHS says that the New
York Sun prints a map OF the scat Of
war, and attempts to pass it of on the
public as Il portrait Of Hayes.
LAWRENCE county has held q county
Convention and selected delegates to
the State Convention. The proceed
ings may be found in another column
THE New York Eccning EGp'ess,
pars that applications for service il the
Turkish army are abundant IL Ne"
York. The prospect Of a harem~SHaram
~,xpsdition formed the attraction.
M1LLY DE GGANyILLE, the young lady
with the iron jaw, is tweDty-tilfee years
old and can lift four hundred and tttY
pounds dead weight with her teeth,
DURING the year which ended De-
ccmber 81, 1876, 157,440 emigrants
arrived IN this country, Of whom 1O2,-
g63 were males and 81, $50 were females.
IL next weeks paper we will publish
communication favoring Gen. Huns
phreys for Governor. We support Gen,
Lowry, but are willing that all sides
should be heard.
Ir appers now that the Russians
=. show no intention of crossing the Dan
ubo. The strategy is said to be incom-
~prehcnsible to military men. That s
what we thought aboat it.
Es,srus Brooks will retire from the
clitorship OF the Ercning Express on
the lst Of Juue. The paper will here
after be conducted by a joint stock
company, III the interest of the Demo
cratic party.
THE proposition as to whether the
citizens OF New Orleans should be tax
ed for the Texas Pacific Railroad waf
submitted to the bsllot>box on the
35th, and the anti tax men gained it by
five thousand majority.
TWELVE States will hold elections be.
fore Congress meets, viz: Oregon, IL
June; North Carolina and Alabama, III
August; California, Vermont and
Maine, in September; West Virginia,
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Connecticut,
in October.
The Missouri Editorial Association is
n whole Murphy movement of itself. 1t
has passed n resolution to abolish the
use Of liquors at the annual banquets,
and %suspending from membership edi-
tors who appear at any meeting of the
association inebriated.
ApESs1os OF 1915 per annum has
been granted by Queen Victoria to
each of the three Misses Defoe, the
lineal descendants of the althor of
Robinson C~rusoe." Public charity
had been asked for them a short time
since by a London benevolent society.
SINCE the introduction of the Order
of Odd Fellows in the United States,
ffty-eight years ago, 720, 900 brothers
have been aided; and the sum of So,
900, 900 have been disbursod for
that purpose. The collection of the
Order for oil purposes amount in the
aggregate to $50, 600, 600.
TIE venerable Archbishop Purcell of
Cincinnati, the fitch anniversary of
whose ordination to the priesthood was
celebrated last year, is in very feeble
health, and there is little hope of his
recovery. He built the first Roman
Catholic Church i'll Cincinnati, and was
one Of the few prelases in the Vatican
Council who voted against the defni-
tion Of the infallibility dogma.
From a paragraph in the MeadYille
Banner, it would seem that our good
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