The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-06-06
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

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EDITORIAL ITEMS.
TIE Duchess Of Argyle ia dead.
QurES vro was Hfty-nine o the 22d
of May.
". w. SHRARER. ESQ, Mayor OF
Meridian, died n few days ago.
Hon. A. II. STEPHENS. of Georgia, il
n candidate for no election to Congress.
Mr.. JONES HITLER and Miss Rogenia
Hymsn, were married in Summit on the
2lst nit.
THs notorious Jail bird Wash Cros-
nv. was found dead in q lake three
miles from jackson.
ALL the foreign ministers in Wash
ington think there will DO war. They
are generally mistaken.
A TERRIFIC tornado passed over the
State of Wisconsin n few days agp. de-
stroying considerable property and life.
Col. 8. NJ. MEEK has consented to
deliver the annual address before the
literary societies Of the University of
Mississippi
IT is reported by q special correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati: Enquirer that
President Hayes is fully alive to the
gravity of the situation.
TIE vicksburg Herald has a season
ticket to the Paris Exposition that it's
editor wants to exchange for a white
straw hat with a blne ribbon.
THE editor arrived Friday morning.
He returns thanks to Hon. A. O.
McNair for valuable assistance in the
editorial department during his absence.
SENATOR PATTERSON, of South Caro-
limo, is reported as saving that Presi-
dent Hayes will be out OF the White
House by the LIST Of September.
WE have heard q piece of music call
ed "Gal on the Log" but they have
several men on the log in Louisiana and
Mississippi the log investigation.
The Court of Appeals of Mississippi
has rendered a decision restoring to
Jefferson DaYis the full title and inter
est, his fiue plantation Of Bakersfield in
Warren county.
The Herald says among other places
it proposes to take editors of the Press
Convention to o hanging. that of Dixon,
Tomorrow. Train mp q child in the
way it should grow.
AN Indianapolis beer saloon is haunt>
ed by spirits. Those down here are in
the same fix; but they nre also haunted
by men who fearlessly proceed to lay
the spirits.
Mrs. KATE SOUTHERN. Of Georgia,
who was sentenced to be hung for stab
bling a young lady who danced with
her husband. has had the sentence
committed to imprisonment for ten
years in the State Prison.
LAST Sunday VIM. : Sutcliffe and
Frank Printz, of Louisiana, engaged in
a swimming match. They swan twenty
-four miles in Ave hours. Sutclif won
the match by one hundred and fifty
yards. Stakes $50.
A YcLoNE passed over Richmond,
NO., q few days ago, and did great
damage. SO far fifteen dead have been
found, and two more are expected to die
Immediately. Forty are severely or
mortally wounded.
Mr.. GARRISON POTTER, the author of
the resolutions that have created so
much interest, is described as being q
good natured. English looking man.
and one of the last men in the world
that would try to bring on a revolution
THRouGH The fault of the printer.
several awkward mistakes we're made
in the last letter OF our Clinton CORES
pondent. Printers are not always in
fallible. and when our readers find err
rors they are asked to remember this.
COL. VALENTINE BAKER, who was
cashiered from the English army some
time ago, and afterwards served as a
Pssha in the Oriental forces, has been
partially reinstated by receiving a COM
mand in the Native Indian force to be
sent to Malta.
MADAME PAppENHfEM, the prima don
ma, has disappeared. 1t is limited that
she has gone to Europe in order to es>
cape her debts. Others say she ran Oh
because she could not endure the de-
scription given of her in TIE LEDGER
week before last.
AT the annual commencement OF the
University. of Virginia, which
ia kes place in the last week
of June, the Hon. Thomas
A. Hendricks will deliver. the address
before the societies. i is understood
that he will speak on the electora
frauds.
The Democracy of Jefferson county
is taking time by the forelock. The
clubs are all to meet. e-organize and
send Delegates toa County Convention
at Fayette, on the 18th inst. the object
of which is to elect an Executive Com
mittee for the campaign. and to send
delegates to a Congressional Conven-
ton. ~
ON the els inst. a Dr.. Modelling at
tempted to assasinate Emperor William,
Of Germany. The would be-assasin
fred at the Emperor twice with q dou>
bie>barrel shot gun, the shot taking eff
feet in face aud arm. The wounds are
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