The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-07-04
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

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Miss jerks. 1t is rich.
Wheat harvest began in Texas Just
three weeks earlier than usual.
A father in Bremond Texas, has been
fined 800 for beating his daughter.
WArrERsoN has replied to Hewitt.
He maintains his former position.
A LITTLE child of Mrs. Etheridge. of
Meridian was burned to death the other
day.
THE sugar crop in Louisiana is re-
ported fifteen per cent. better than last
year.
The State auditor of Virginia reports
satisfactory returns from the Mofet
register.
THE Hon. T. A. Hendricks sa VS. he
thinks Grant will be the Republican
nominee in 1880.
Our Paris correspondent has failed to
send THE LEDGER an Exposition letter.
He must do better.
yIcKsBURa has a Photographs talk
ing machine. Every sewing society
also has one or more.
TIE Fourth of July is here. 1t ar
rived early and will stay late. Hnrrah
for tie glories of the past!
JEFFERSON COUNTY has instructed for
Gen. Chalmers. He deserves to a re-
nomination and will get it.
JOHN Z. Owens is playing a tour of
the world, tQeesapy two years and to
close his profess onal life.
THE Queefof Spain is dead. It will
be remembered she was married a few
months ago. with great'pomp and splen-
dor.
When your subscription to the New
York Sun Is out, discontinue the paper,
and take some journal that will not
, abuse you section and people.
Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS will address
the association of the Louisiana divis-
ion of the army of Tennessee at Missis-
sippi City, on the 10th of July.
Our old friend Eugene Carleton. of
Decature. was married to Miss Corne-
liza Williams, on the 9th ult. He is
worthy of the good wife he has wen.
ONE of the West Point graduates this
summer, is John G. Whitaker, a color
ed youth from South Caro- lima, who
stands forty six in a class of sixty-six.
SOME of the papers are talking about
base ball matches on the 4th of July.
The fellow that would play ball on to
day ought to be sent to the lunatic asy-
lum.
The Democracy of Ohio held a State
Convention on the Goth nit, nominated
candidates and promulgated a platform.
They propose to carry the State this
fall.
THE Vicksburg Herald says the Deer
Greek road will be begun within twen>
ty days and pushed rapidly to compile
tion. Sharkey county has voted a sub
scription to the road.
SHERMAN wanted the Potter Com
mittee to subpoena one hundred OF his
friends from Louisiana to prove him
innocent. The Committee decided not
to accommodate Sherman.
THE commission to consider the feas-
bility of removing the Indian Bureau
to the Wan Department has organized.
Hon. G. E. Hooker, of this State, is a
member of the commission.
In copying some paragraphs from this
paper the Paulding Herald credits them
simply to The LEDGER. That is all
that is necessary as there is but one
LEDGER in the State.
Col. HooKER's chances for renomina-
tion are good. He has many warm
friends all over his district. and the
man that goes TO Congress from this
district will have to beat the silver
tongued orator.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH has ex-communi-
Gated Mrs. Tilton. When called upon
to answer the charges preferred against
her by Plymouth church. she solemnly
re-afirmed her charges against Beecher
and stated that they we're true in every
particular.
JUDGE BAaGETr has shown MS a letter
from DIR. J. B. Catchings. of Rockport,
in which he says the army worm has
appeared on his farm. They are not
numerous. hut appearing so early there
is cause to fear that they may multiply
to millions.
If Jas. E. Anderson, of Louisiana
election returns fame, was such a loaf
er, perjurer and rascal. why did STAN
lev Matthews and John Sherman en-
dorse him. and Hayes appoint him to
He was a good man while put
ting HAYES in Office. but a william when
he told of the fraud.
THE tramp nuisance seems almost to
have been abated in the South. The
trsmps are moving Westward. We see
a statement that in the West they have
recently seized freight trains. and by
their overpowering numbers compelled
the railroad men to give them free rides.
We ask the conductors to treat the
iramps kindly and keep them in the
West.