The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-02-08
EDITORIAL ITEMS.


EDITORIAL ITEMS.
SOME thief has robbed the Episcopal
Church at Macon.
THE Masonic grand bodies met IN
yicksburg Monday.
THu Indians are still fighting the
soldiers Oh the frontier.
TRAINS are now running regularly on
the n. O., J. & G.. n. r. r.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT is now re
ported to be in Florida.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
Of Newark, n. j., has collapsed.
MR. THos. II. JOHNSON, Democrat,
has been elected Mayor of Brandon.
JCsr1cg CLIFFORD, Democrat, has
been selected Chairman OF tho Com
mission.
Rev. E. z. SERMONS is delivering lee
lures in East Mississippi on the heath
en- Chinee.
THE President has sent aspeeial mes
sage to Congress urging the resumption
OF specie payments.
ForR couuterfeiters were arrested IN
New Orleans last week. They were IN
the uickle business.
Col. S. NJ. THOMPSON has resurrect-
cd the Oxford Eagle. May Its flight
be- upward and onward.
H. P. HURT, ESQ, has been appoint
cd and confirmed Collector Of Customs
Of the Pearl River District.
THE crevasses along the Mississippi
river have already swallowed up over
W miles Of the levee.
THE Legislature has passed IA bill
postponing the payment of the Hlnd8
county bonds from 1880 to 1883.
F1rzHUGn's wife keeps a boarding
house in Washington. Fitz tends door,
but he is no longer 4 digger man than
Grant"
HEsraB ANDERSON, e colorel woman
Of Amite county, while hunting her
COWS. struck her head on a log and
broke her neck.
TuR dogs of Macon have the hydro
phobia, and, to the annoyance OF h
fancy dry goods merchants, the ladies
can't get out.
Mrs. SALLIE ADA VANCE, at one time
the editress of the Lexington AdceT-
t.ser, was married,to Mr. John Malone,
in Holmes county, recently.
A PANTHER was killed in Holmes
county a few days ago that measured
nine feet and eight inches from tip OF
nose to point Of tail.
THE contest for Governor will be be
tween Gen. Robt. Lowry, Gen. ). a.
George and Gov. Stone. Either would
fill the Office satisfactorily.
SINCE Maddox told OF Wells efforts
to sell the vote of Louisiana for 81, O0o,-
coo the Radical papers are not putting
themselves to any great trouble to
praise him.
Hon. GEo. L. POTTER, Of Jackson,
led at Lexington, Miss, on the 9Th
INST. OF apoplexy. He was a great
a a fine lawyer,a patriot and a nople
citizen. We mourn his loss.
LADIES desiring to be posted as'to
the latest fashions, should not fail to
send 81 to the Sharp Publishing Co.,
131 Mercer street, New York, and secure
the Aiuiner and DresSmaker n
year.
The st. Louis Times, referring to
the numerous failures of insurance com
panies, very properly observes that
..vhat is wanted in this country jusS
now is a company to insure the insur>
ance companies"
Gov. McCRRERY has recognized Mich
oils as Governor of Louisiana, by issu-
ing a requisition on him for return to
Kentucky of Maurice A. Schwah, ar
rested in New Orleans for alleged fraud
committed in Louisville.
AS Packard's police are on "short ra-
tons" they have commenced to rob
strangers who visit New Orleans. On
Sunday night they forced a gentleman
named Thos. Larkin to surrender his
rocket book and then shot and attempts
ed to kill him. The wound he received
will probably prove fatal.
The following are the counsel selected
to represent the Democratic party be>
fore the Electoral Commission: In the
Florida case, Messrs. O'Conor and Mer-
rick: in the Louisiana case, Messrs.
Trumbull and Matt Carpenter; in the
Oregon case, Mr.. Woolley.
The day fixed for the expiration of
time for the payment of taxes is extend
ed from the first day of December to
the first day of January, and taxpayers
are no longer required to meet the as
SCISSOR. The late law also requires the
TAXPAYER, in giving in his property to
return what he has on the first day OF
February.