The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-25
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

ThUkSUAY, JUL1 LIE lofh, 1910
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
1,Hr Indian wal is still being waged.
SEA CoAsr camp-meeting' closed last
we k
TIN Meadville Binner is IS rich anu
Yacy as ever.
THE Greeks are said to be dissatisfied
with the Berlin Treaty.
THE yellow fever is raging in Yer"
Cruz and Yucatan, Mexico. I'D
PRESIDENT HAYES spent the 2lst at
Columbus, Ohio-once his home.
TEXAS sent the first new bale OF cot
ton that st. Louis received.
The B,tesville Blade is ~espousing the
csuss OF the Nationals.
CHOLERA has made its appearance
among the hogs of Kinds county.
THE Jews from every country are to
have a meeting in Paris next month.
CANT MEETING commences near
Crystal Springs on the 9th of August.
THIS is the season for the pestiferons
asA and the gay aud festive mosquito.
The Okoloua States is a readable
paper. although it is bourbonistic in its
ideas.
James A MEEK, a prominent citize n
of Hazlehurst, died the 9th inst, at
about IS years of age.
IT is said that Judge Orr will run as
an independent candidate for Congress
N The LIST district. p
SAM Bass, the notorious desperate OF
Texas. has at last been captured, was
lodged in Jail and is now dead.
DURING the first six months of the
present year there were five hundred
and fourteen failures in New York. s
THE Crystal Springs Monitor has
been authorized to that Col
King will not be o candidate for Con
gress.
NArcHEz proposes to give General
Chalmers a grand reception on the 18th
of next month, the time fixed for his
visit.
CHINA has lost 5000, 900 persons by
famine. Famine also is carrying Off
vast numbers in Brazil the richest m
pire of the Globe.
The State tax OF the personal prop
eaty of Marshall county, according to
the published report of the Assessor, Is
3 ,735,32.
Col. MULDRow was nominated by
reclamation for Congress from the first
district, as was Gen. Chalmers from
the sixth.
THERE were sixteen thousand, nine
hundred and fifty four boxes of peaches
shipped from Crystal Springs up to the
first of July.
Mr.. FRANK HOWARD, once o popular
conductor on the Vicksburg and Merl-
an Railroad, died in Meridian on the
18th inst.
The Vicksburg Commercial is of the
opinion that the Kemper Herald had
better read it's articles before comment
ing on them.
THE speech of Hon. G. N. Potter be-
fore Roanoke College is n logical one,
and is printed for gratuitous distribu-
ton. Address, Roanoke College, Sa"
lem, Va. .r
The kilograms say that James Cor
don Bennett is fitting up two expedi-
tions to the North Pole-ore by Behr>
ing STRAITS and the other by Spitzber-
gen.
SOME people seem hard to convince
that this is hot weather. The papers
have to constantly remind them of the
fact. STANCE, strange, the obstinacy of
some folks.
SENATOR JONES. of Nevada, thinks is
-'would be wise for the Government to
settle the Industrious poor on the pub
lie Ian DIS and give employment to many
on public improvements"
THE papers generally speak in cons
~pllmentary terms of Hon. JEFF. Davis
speech. The most of them think it
was just such a speech as was to have
been expected on such an occasion.
We learn from the Blade that Mr..
". Il. Walker was taken from his bed
near B~atesvile, by q mob, struck sever
al times with q stick and thrown into a
mud-hole. They would have killed
him but for timely interference.
A DIFFICULTY occurred in Corinth.
Miss, on the 18th, between Maj. w.
W. Willis and Maj. J. l.. Wofford,
which resulted In the fatal stabbing of
the former By the latter. The fuss
rose out of an old feud.
CHARLES RoBY, living near Louisville,
Miss, was arrested q short while ago on
a charge of %actionable words. He was
recognized as a negro who had been
sentenced to the p%enitentiary, and is
now in Jail subject to the order of Us.
Hamilton & Co.
WHEN q correspondent writes to a
paper and says the public printing OF
the State is carried ON in an extrava-
CANT manner. we are inclined to think
such correspondent knows but little of
printing. The printing IS done cheap
enough.
WE have received the Homes, a neat
ly printed paper. published in the in
terest of agriculture, at jackson Miss. /,
by Maj. E. J. Wall. The Major is