The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-26
EDITORIAL ITEMS.


THE Magnolia Herald has improved
in appearance.
PRESIDENT HAYES proclamation to
the strikers had no effect.
THERE is an increase in the price and
demand for real estate in Natchez.
TIE Vlcksburg Herald aud Col. ).
S. Hamilton have been engaged IN a
controversy. Col. H. ahead.
Mr.. EDWARD MAYEs, Of Oxford, has
accepted the Law Professorship IN the
State University.
INDEPENDENT candidates. are annouuc-
ing themselves in many counties in the
State. No opposition is the cause.
TIE Free Press says Montgomery
county has instructed for Walthalf.
Then ii should throw away its Stone.
C. E. MERRILL, of Greenwood, Miss,
ia a candidate for Doorkeeper of the
next National House of Representa-
tives.
AT the primary election in Newton
county last week Gen. Lowry was elect>
Ell AS the choice of the county for Gov
ernor.
HEKDR1cKs and Warmoth. accompan-
led by their wives, are travelling togeth>
er through Europe. We can stand 1t II
they can.
Two youths, about eighteen years of
age fought a duel in Texas about five
dollars. One was killed and the other
MORALLY wounded.
ELDER S. G. LUsK, q prominent Bap-
.ist minister of Pamela county, while
out squirrel hunting recently, accident
" shot and killed himself.
The State Convention meets in Jack
son next Wednesday, August LIST. The
n. O., J. & n. r. r. will sell tickets
for one and one-ffth fare.
DURING the strike in the Tribune
office the editorial staff furnished three
compositors and the reporters seven.
Wbitelaw Reid acted as foreman.
T1nDEN has sailed for Europe. He
had better come back and be ready to
slip into the Presidents Office should
the strikers overthrow the government.
THE Westville NewS prefers the ticks
It for 1880 to read Lamar and Hen
bricks instead of Hendricks and Lamar.
Well, we wouldn't object to the change.
The Texas Pacific has been finished
toa point twenty miles beyond Fort
Worth, leaving a gap Of six hundred and
seventy-nine miles which must be made
by stage.
WAnPoLE is the Magnolia Herald's
second choice for Auditor. So is he
THE LEDGER's. Walpole is leading the
race, but he will have to run fast to
beat II friend Gwin.
SOMEBODY suggests that if Wade
Hampton be elected President in 1880,
Blaine will insist upon annexing Maine
to Canada. We could do without eth
er Blaine or Maine.
THE Times is afraid Gen. Woodford
will say, in his Northern home, that
Mississippi is all peace and quietness.
The Times ought to have given the
General a drilling.
IT is said Gen. Grant "heartily APP
proves" Mr.. Hayes policy. This is
more than Mr.. Hayes can say of Gen.
Grants policy, as he is making it his
chief business to undo it.
Two negroes died of hydrophobia at
Lauderdale a few days since. They
were bitten by the same rabid dog. A
great deal of excitement prevails in the
neighborhood, and general war has
been waged on the dogs.
BEN WADE has deserted the irrecon-
cilables, made a meek confession of his
errors, subscribed to the new Southern
policy, and solemnly sworn that he will
never again aid and abet stalwart Re-
publicanism as interpreted by Blaine.
THE Fayette Standard has Just
heard of the suggestion to put a negro
on the State ticket. Why, friend, that
suggestion was made over a month ago
and died as early. Don't be alarmed.
The amalgamation idea has been aban>
doned.
TIE Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company are now working from Merid-
ian 10 New Orleans. This Company
ignored the railroad and run their wire
through the country. Their rates are
s-ome.cheaper, we hear, than the West
eTn Union.