The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-11-28
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

several days ago.
ENGLAND AMI Afghan are having
some little fights.
A LETTER from 0syka reports two
more new cases of yellow fever there.
The Copiahan has been publishing
the names of delinquent taxpayers OF
Copiah.
DEMOCRATIC exchange advices
Republican, editor to 'R sst, perturbed
liar, rest.
Two loses that havs agitated the
public no little Charley Ross and A.
7. Stewart.
Mr.. J. T. BeSroN VAS shot and kill
cd by q Mr.. Merritt, near Meridian,a few
days ago.
IT is estimated that there have beer
SIXTY thoasaa1 cases of yellow fever
this SESSION, aud fourteen thousand
deaths.
z THE editor of the Enterprise Courier
has been presented with new hat, and
il Us happy as Bismark.
We had thought the business about
played out, but see another cotton
planter has been invented.
4 FEW days ago Gambetta and DIR.
Fourton fought duel with pistols at
thirty-fve PAGES. No body hurt.
Rev. ". B. BINGHAM advertises for
principal to superb tend the Hazlehurst
white school for the ensuing year.
IF there ever wis year when the
time for payment of taxes should be
extended, this is certainly the one.
CHRISTMAS is coming and THE LEDGER
is ready, willing and waiting to take
turkeys in exchange for subscription
SEVERAL State exchanges continue to
pub'ish announcements for Secretary OF
State. Gentlemen, the.electlon is over.
The Board Of Supervisors of Gopiah
county VIII ii dsst at the Courthouse in
Hazlehurst the frat Monday in Decem>
Der.
4 REPORT was current last week that
the yellow fever hal broken out in
Natchez, but there was no foundation
for it.
CANADA is making every preparation
to extend fitting reception to the
MARQUIS Of Lorne, the new Governor
General.
Gov. STONE has called meeting OF
the Trustees OF the Agricultural aid
Mechanical College to take place III
Jackson, on Friday, December 18th.
THE Arm Arbcr, Michigan, Demo
Graf, hoists he names of Allen u
Thurman and Geo. B. Mcclellan fol
president aud Vice President in 1890
AckLuN, the member of Congress
fron, Louisiana who was the subject OF
such u terrible scandal, in Washington,
last summer, has been reelected to
Congress. He ran far ahead of his
ticket.
THE last census taken in Austria re-
vea1ed the fact that there were one
hundred and eighty three men and
two hundred and twenty mine women
over the age of one hundred years in
the county.
AT a meeting of leading National
Greenback men, including General
Butler, in New York, it has been dos
termined to call the committee together
to inaugurate preparations for the cam
paign of 1880.
WILL KELLER, of New Jersey, has
been dead six months, still he was
elected Justice of the Peace at the last
election. There is man down this
way that votes for Andrew Jackson for
President at every election.
NASHVILLE owes 81 ,7l2, 6S4 IS, an
not cent in: s14 Treasury Il ten
years the value of real estate has run
down from sl7, 100000 to 81 100000,
while the taxes are not quite as high as
they were ten years ago.
DR.. C.. W. PURNELL, President OF
the Copiah county Board of Health,
has declared the quarantine of Copiah
county, abolished and void. Lock
chains, bar iron, salt, etc., can now be
taken to the free state of Copiah.
MEANWHILE must be in bad way, as
the Banner says 1t needs good tailor.
good shoemaker, good timer, a
good painter. good cabinet maker, q
good butcher and half dozen more
live m .rchants with good working
capital.
W. P. WARE, of Hazlehurst, is the
largest advertiser on the, Railroad. He
is live merchant, keeps number one
stock of goods, and sells them low down
He would probably find it to his adj
vantage to insert double column ad
in THE LEDGER, as it's circu!ates large
" in Lincoln, Copiah, Franklin, Jeffer'
son. Lawrence and Simpson counties.
PRESIDENT HAYES is constant source
Of disappointment to the bloody-shirt
wringers. Itsbegins to look now as il
His Excellency would not send the
army to the Southern country at all.
notwithstanding the efforts of the old
army suffers and disappointed officer
seekers, we do not see the slightest
chance for another war between the
North and South.