The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-08-08
Il. II. HENRY.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

EUlIORlAL ITEMS.
No more reports of sunstreke.
THREE cases of yellow fever have re-
ported at McComb City.
WE hear Capt. Waipole has purchas-
ed the Yazoo City Herald.
BEAuRE GARD and Wessen have estab-
lished guarantees.
Hss0s COUNTY has voted the subscr;p-
tics TO the ~, j. & @. r. r.
HARrsR and Wright have made
friends. Hope they will behave them
selves in future.
EAST Mississippi has had a singing
convention. Thanks to providence we
have rot,
The Nationals and Radicals united in
Memphis and elected everything over
the Democrats.
AT at election ia keatucky,o n the 9TH
inst, the Democrats elected most of
the county officers.
JACKSON county instructs her dele
gates to the Brookhaven Convention to
vote for Col. Hooker.
Gen. Jos. r. DAVIS, of the Sea Shore
Gazette, is mentioned as a candidate
for Congress from the 5th District.
DoN'T forget we will take any thing
raised on a farm in payment for sub
scription. We don't want money.
MINNIE WARREN, the dwarf, and sis
erin law to Tom Thumb, died at her
home, in Massachusetts, on the Oath,
ult.
The Yazoo Valley Flag says a mas
todom's tooth, weighing nearly five
pounds, was found in the lower end OF
Carroll.
The soap house of r. NJ, Bishop &
Co., Cincinnati, has failed for $500, 600.
The head of the firm is now Governor
of Ohio.
THE Democratic State Convention is
in session at Baton Rouge. Elan, Glib
son and Acklen have been re-nominated
for Congress.
QUEEN CHRIsTIANA, widow of Ferdtn-
and VII, and grandmother A!phonse.
the XII, the present King of Spain, is
dangerously i'll.
DANA, of the New York Sun, is now
engaged in stamping out Notification
ia South Carolina, and kicking the re-
mains of Jno. G. Calhoun.
We learn that Boguechitto has quar>
antined against New Orleans and other
yellow fever districts. Now listen for
squalls from New Orleans.
Potter the Printer. formerly editor
of the Walden Record, has taken the
lecture field, and is advertised to give
his first lecture at Lexington, Miss,
S. B. THOMAS, Postmaster at Bovina.
and a son, his deputy, are charged with
having distracted a registered letter
from the mails. The way of the post
master is hard.
The entire Democratic State ticket
was elected in North Carolina, ON the
2nd inst. Both Houses of the Legis-
lature are conceded to the Democrats |
by decided majorities.
MENTION was made in last weeks pa
per regarding the robbery Of Mr.. S. E.
Packwood. The Summit Sentinel says
it is supposed he was suffering by a
sunstroke and fell from his buggy.
THERE is a good deal of talk about
Grant being re-nominated for the Pres
idency. 1t does not matter who the
Republicans nominate, his defeat is
certain. The party has fallen to pieces.
We learn that Capt. W, Fl. Hardy, OF
Meridian, has been rendered the posi-
ton of professor of law in the South
western Baptist University at Jackson,
Tenn, but he has declined the place.
DURING q heavy storm IN Holly
Springs on the I'd inst. James Briggs,
aged sixteen, and Miss Louisa Mailer,
aged fourteen, were killed by lightning
liz different places in the suburbs of
town.
THE first bale of new cotton received
in New Orleans from Mississippi this
season was from Geo. f. Kienstra, of
Adams county, classed good middling,
and sold at auction, July 31st, at 1871
cents pr pound.
j. s. HAMILTON & Co., have contract
ed with the Memphis and Vicksburg
Railroad Company for the completion
of a frst-class narrow guage road to
the Northern boundary of Sharkey
county. ss sEF we as
SoME of the editorials in the vicks.
burg Commercial are written in rhyme.
1t Is unnecessary for Jim Sullivan to be
SO particular about his articles; people
will read and appreciate what he writes
regardless of its style.
JunY Both d mob of men broke open
the Jail at Monroe, La, and forcibly
took therefrom four colored men who.
were confined there, charged with mur-
der, took them into Courthouse square
and hung them to a limb of an oak tree.
The yellow fever is increasing in New
Orleans. Up to August 9th, the Presi>
dent Of the Board of Health had report
ed three hundred and sixteen casea.
eighty-eight deaths. No more reports