The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-01-24
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

ANEaa } man shot and killed a negro
woman near Sails last week.
Ey-(f, JAS. b. Ga,oMs has been
elected United States Senator from
Maryland.
SAM BowbEl is dead at last. 1t took
tbs p4psrs alb ,ut two months! to dis
pose Of him.
Ear. failures in thu Northern
States on the Dist inst, How is that
for Yankee solvency? g.
OF the sl20, 900, 900 raised, under the
internal revenue system, tobacco and
whisasss pay ssa, 900, ooe: 3
Tan press seeneraHyS are urging the
passage-ef a law prohibiting the carrys
ing of concealed weapons.
ABILn IS before the Mississippi Leg,
~islature to pnt a stop to the expectation
of cotton seed from the State.
.A.FEw days-since all the prisoners In
Wayne county Jail made their escape.
They were furnished with tools from
outside.
The engineers of the Natchez and
n-raAroad have returned to work,
surveying the ron. Q from Raymond to
Bayou Pierre. -s
GEN. CHLMERs, of the shoestring dis
trict, has introduced a Texas Pacific
bill in Congress-, looking to a terminus
OF the road at Vicksbnrg.
GEMS d. LEE has declined to be-
come a candidate for the Senate from
the ,,Lowndes. county District. Such
things are rare. iuthis Democratic day.
The last words of "a Louisiana negro
as he gracefully swung from the gallows
we're these: Il have lived a Republi-
eau All my life, and | am going to die
onel"
SENATOR PATTERSON says those who
expect that he is going to resign. II
thus lose thirteen dollars a day, are
mistaken. That's the kind of rocking
horse he 49, .. .~e
The Cincinnati Commercial says
Dan Voorhees, is the biggest man ID
Washington to>day. Five million dol
lars could be raised in Wall street to
get up a hanging for him,
TIE Enterprise Courier records the
death of MrsI. A. Adams. widow of
the late S.1=R. Adams. She died of
heart disease on the 18th inst, at the
old homestead in Paulding, Miss.
THs last Crystal Springs Aonltor
shows how much q drunken printer can
demoralize "a printing Office. The
editor now signs for an abstemions
printer to manipulate his types.
CAPTAIN B. j. ROGERS. of Virginia,
who was on a visit to his son-in-law,
Mr.. J. B, Pitchfor,l, who lives a few
miles frem West Point, was killed last
week by a tree falling upon him.
CELIA LEWIS. a'pretty Jewess of New
York, sues her husband for divorce be-
cause he obtained her under false pre-
lenses. Before marriage he claimed to
be a Jew. Now it appears that he is q
Christian, and she wants to get rid OF
Fy-Gov WAsBKURN. of Wisconsin.
has donated his residence and sixty
acres of Land, valued at 600, 600, to the
State for the establishment of an In>
dustrial and R~eformatory School for
Girls.
The Vicksburg Herald is ~disgusted
with the present Legislature. and says
when our so'ons now assembled in the
State Capitol pass 2 law that will bene-
fit the people, the Herald will imme-
diately get out an extra.
THERE is a Mormon sect in Butler
county, Ga, under the leadership OF a
self proclaimed saint named Weary,
who says he is inspired, yet does not
seem disposed to make himself a vica-
riors sacrifice III. behalf of his followers.
Ar the municipal election held in
Summit on the 18th inst. the folio wing,
persons were elected: W. 7. Jones
Mayor; w. Salisbury, John ii. Mills,
J. d. Jacebowsky aud w. j.. Murrell.
Couneilmen; @. H. Lyster, Sr., Justice
of the Peace, and P.s E. Causey, Con.
stable.
CoNovER says he will be a candidate
for re election to The position of United
States Senator regardless of the com
plexion Of the Florida Legislature. He
says the Republicans ought to love him
because he seated Kellogg, and the
Democrats should never forget him be-
cause he seated Butler.
VIZ publish in another column q
rather sensational letter to the New Or
leans Times, reciting the plan Tilden
has adopted to get into the White
House. The writer of the letter seems
to be certain that he has represented
the case as it stood, though we are com
PEELED to doubt the authenticity OF his
statement. Read the letter.
SEXTON won the prize of $1,000 at the
billiard tournament in New Orleans last
Saturday night His opponent was
Maurice DAILY. Sexton the winner By
a score of 600 to ATT. Ayerages-Sex-
ton, .2S e12.2l; DAILY, % Is 81. Best
runs-Sexton. 298, 148, SO; DAILY. 1876
"a. 10. Time of game, two. hours and
twenty minutes. 2 IS 4
The Mobile News tell of q hendish
act perpetrated by n Or. 3. @.
Boughmsn,n pon his wife's sister, This
fellow B~oughmens once lived in this
State, and. if we mistake not, was locat-
rooLoon sHo ynorripd a girl of Mis-