The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-03-14
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

THE Senate defeated tue oiii W MANY
she JUL ciary elective.
B,Y,R, TAYLOR has been appointed
Minister to Germany.
CosrxrH, Miss. and Florence, Ala
are connected by telephone.
Mn J. H. SULLIVAN has retired from
the vicksburg Commercial
r,,s train ran over and killed al old
adv named Paree. at Boonv''ie'
n a late act of the Legislature
L,wndes county is o made Sep""'
Senatorial district.
Hon, L. @ G. LAMAR has oar thanks
for a copy of his sresca On the silver
Bal. 1t is an able paper.
wolf has bssn seen near Chester
Miss. and has created muoa excite
IN mt in that neighborhood.
THE B ,ard of Mayor ana Aldermen OF
Jackson have repealed the ordinance
taxing retail drumners so per week
.spEAKss RANDALL thinks Congress
can adjourn the 1st of July. Other ola
members have no hope Of he session
closing before August.
TY1s is the way Mrs Piney W. For
svthe. editor of the Osyka NeUs. states
the case: Capital puulshment-being
k,ssed to death by a pretty girl.
TIE Commercial learns that a negro
,ams1 Perkins killed another negro
vamed Anderson, on the Bedford plan
,.t;on below Vicksburg, one day last
week.
Col. JAMES NJ. NoRMEsT has com
meuced the publication OF the C'"ze"
at ~starkville, being the twenty hrs'
paper he has established. Success 10
the veteran.
wr,,o s.vs he was offered 5000, 600
to give Louisiana to Tilden but he re-
fused it. In reply the New York 1'fo-
vue SAWS that it must have b'en Con
federate money.
Tn heavy rains on Saturday night
damaged the road i'll several places
INIT we are glad to say all breaks nave
been repaired and trains arr now run'
ming regularly. &C.
Mn JOHN NJ. TRAMMELL, OF Lafay>
cite. Ga, has made q pair OF sleeve
buttons. each containing one huhureu
nieces of wood. The buttons are each
smaller than a dime.
THE Governor has approved the OIL
compromising with the Mobile 4 ONO
Railroad, On the basis of the payment
S25. 900 cash, and the listing OF Its Janus
for assessment in 1878.
As the new silver trade dollar is worm
only ninety cents, the New Iork ire
bupe suggests that it would oe all "n
commonly good idea to pay Congress
nan in the first batch OF the new DOL
lar issue.
osE week ago silver sold in London
at 53s pence per ounce, British sum.
a,rd On March 2nd it closed at %
nense; a very decided appreciation az
t,ibuted mainly to the passage OF the
Silver bill.
FEW days ago, in Marshall county,
rrhos. Dick rode up to the house %
Jsam Hancock, called him out anu sho'
hin, aaad The murderer then ode as
nncoucerned as if he had killed a hoe'
He is still at large.
TUE Natchez cotton factory is o
ing briskly forward. 1t IS no" opera
ting about thirty looms, and 1t Is e1pec
.ad that the whole number 1885, Will DC
mt in full operation during the he2'
six or eight weeks.
w~.su,Seros's tomb at Mount Yer
,,s baer connected with the man
sion on the hill by an elect ic burglar
alarm. that his sacred bones may oe
s,fa from the molestation by vampires
.ou,b "a recently attempted the plumber
OF Lincoln's tomb.
Ex-Gov. Moses of South oafoiiha
sol,s ir the New York Sun now the
Electoral vote of that State was ole
f,om Tilden, to whom it belonged by
an honest majority of more than one
.,ousaud. and given to Hayes, to whom
it did not belong.
TUE Falcon says Major Paul b.
pxrr;pger. one of the Oldest and most
rssoected cit,z n Of Oxford in attemP-
ting to cap a pistol last Monday morn.
inc accidentally discharged it, the ball
taking effect on the left side, making a
fatal wound. He died next day.
". P. CONVERSE, foreman OF the jury
that convicted Anderson, has written
Gov. Nichols a religious lecture, pray
mo for the pardon of said Anderson. II
Gov. Nichols pardons the rascal he
himself ought to be asked to resign.
Anderson is guilty and should pay the
.denalty Of bis crime.
OF the IS law students at the State
University at Oxford, 80 are MISSISSIPPI
mans, representing % counties. and 1
from Georgia and 2 from Virginia. Vi
the 4O4 undergraduates. 3f3 are from
this State, and 81 from other States
OF the undergraduates about 2oo are III
the preparatory department. and about
143 in the college classes,
WI learn from the Meridian Merca-
en- Of the 9Th inst, that the late term
of the Kemper county circnit court the
n,,,,axs Henry. H uston and
others. six in all, indicted for the MUIR
dor Of Gilmer and Chisolm. made Their
annearance at the bar OF the court, ana
pleading not guilty, were admitted 10
n LAh q nm