The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-10-17
EDITORIAL ITEMS.


Orleans.
PRESIDENT HAYES was ffty-six years
old last Friday.
LOUISVILLE was blessed With heavy
frost on the 18th inst.
IT begins to look like another Eas-
tern war is inevitable.
SEXTON, the champion billiard play
er, has been beaten by one Rudolph.
TIE fever has abated at Lake station,
and seems to be about over at Holly
Springs.
THAT poor laboring man Butler owns
but $4,000, 900, which is all he has in
the world.
THE North Mississippian, of Corinth,
recently started, has espoused the
cause of Gen. r. Davis.
O'LEoRY beat Hughes about one
hundred miles in six days walk, and
is ready for the next.
GREENBAcK organs in western New
York puts up the motto, "More green
backs and less work.
THE Poss>oftice Department has ruled
that husband has no control over the
correspondence of his wife.
RABBI ADLER has incurred the dis
pleasure of some Hebrews by cele
brating a marriage on the Jewish peni-
tential day.
ENGLAND finds some trouble in in
ducing the Turks to accept her pro-
gramma of reform for the administra-
ton of Asia Minor.
THE yellow fever is prevailing, but
not to very great extent. ct Crystal
Springs, Terry and Byram; contracted
from the Dry Grove neighborhood.
TIE reports that Senator Thurman
has had an attack of paralysis are I'M
true. He had severe bilious attack
from which he is fast recovering.
Hon. J. P. BENJAMIN, of England,
has authorized the Mayor of New Or
leans to draw on him for five hundred
dollars to aid yellow fever sufferers.
FATHER RYAN, the poet, is not dead,
as some of the papers have been say
ing: but priest of the same name did
die in Chattanooga some days ago.
There is a good deal Of wonder ttlar
we don't have frost. There is no oc>
cassion for surprise. We seldom have
frost in this latitude before the first of
November.
TERRY wants the world to know she
ia not half SO bad as has been reported.
Instead of refusing to help the afflicted
people of Dry Grove, she has lent all
the help in her power.
The Vicksburg Herald says the fields
are full of cotton, but owing to no des-
position on the part of the colored
neople to work, it is going to des
truction.
THE famine in Morocco is sweeping
off thousands of people. Entire heards
OF oxen, oamels and horses, and whole
hocks of sheep and goats have persisted
and their carcasses infect the alr.
Col. FRANK BuRKITr, editor OF the
Chickasaw Messenger, is announced by
some of the papers of Northeast Miss
sissippi as their choice for Secretary OF
State. He would make good officer.
In common with nearly every other
country in the world the c1y Of hard
times comes up from Belgium. The
rate of wages for skilled labor is be-
tween sixty cents and dollar a day.
THE Mobile and Ohio Railrod issued
m order to all agents on Wednesday,
forbidding the receiving of any cotton
or other freight for transportation to
Mobile or any point South of Macon.
A LETTER from the interior of Texas
to the Galveston News, says that in
many portions of the State the cotton
crop is enormous, and that much OF 1t
will 90 to waste for lack of laborers.
Hoy. CLARKsoN N. POTTER, Chairman
of the noted Investigation Committee,
has been unanimously renom,nated for
Congress. That is evidence of the fact
that his course is endorsed by his bone
people.
Ar st. Louis the colored Republic
cans have formerly repudiated the Re
publican party, with the cutting re
mark that the claim of that organizes
ton to dictate political action to color
ed men Is piece of unparalleled impu-
dcnce.
THE coinage at the United States
mints, during September, 1873, is as
follows: Double eagles, 1872. 600;
eagles, $l43, 800; half eagles, $408, 500;
quarter eagles. s52,5oo. Total. $685.,
BOO. Standard dollars, ~, f64, UO0.
Total coinage, $3.50, 800.
MISS LILLE SHARP. of Vaughan's
station, died few days ago. She at
tended the last session of Whitworth
College, and received gold media for
excellent qualities. Miss Lille had
many friends in this place who will
mourn TO hear of her death.
GOVERNOR PoRTHR, of Tennessee, We
are informed did not hesitate TO take
money from the State Treasury to as
sist yellow fever sufferers. but the great
and good Governor of Mississippi has
not shown any disposition to secure re-
lief for the afflicted people of this
State. BE should be held in remem-
bfance by all the people of this State.
especially those of Osyka, McComb
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