The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-06-13

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Idaho.
CpysrAL SPRINGS has been shipping
fruit three weeks
T'sr Fruit Growers Association will
hold a fair in New Orleans July 18th. s
The report of the cotton crop pub
lished in to-day's paper presents a
cheerful outlook.
STEWARDS HOTEL for women only
proving a failure. has been thrown
open 10 the general public.
THE Pastime Base Ball Club of Nc
Comb City, will play any club in the
State for the championship.
The Mississippi Educational Associa-
ton will hold its annual meeting on the
29th of June next, ut Oxford.
SEyAToBIA had q destructive fire Fri
day week. Several large stores and
residents we're swept away.
OREaos elected a Democratic Leg's-
lature on the 9th inst. The Legislature
will elect a United States Senator.
The Indications are that Chalmers
will be renominated from the Shce~
string District without opposition,
JOHN ARMSTRONG, for years onnec>
ted with the press of Miss, is now
publishing the Madison, La, Journal
WE are gratiied at the prospects OF a
Press Convention being held at Pasca-
oou,a. It is q delightful place for a
Convention.
The Socialists, generally known as
Communists, have organized a club in
New Orleans, and passed som foolish
resolutions.
NED Jackson, the negro who killed a
brother of color, on b. f. Martins
place, will be hung in Hazlehurst on
the 2Sth inst.
THE Independents have not yet deci-
ded who they will run for Congress in
this District. His name will be an
nonnced in due time.
Hon. KINLocH FALCoNER, II excel
lent Secretary Of State, has our thanks
for a copy of the poor laws passed by
the last Legislature.
A of the New Orleans
Times, writing from Pearl river Miss.
says that quite a number of farmers are
planting rice this season.
The blacksmith shop caught on fire
in Westville q few days ago, and the
News comes forward and urges the
importance of organizing a fire com
pany.
AT the election held in V~icksburg on
the 4th inst, it was decided to issue
city bonds to the amount of 500, 00O
in aid of the Vicksburg and Memphis
Railroad.
Rev. KNowLs SHAW, the preacher
and Murphy organizer who created such
an interest in Jackson a few months
ago, was killed by a railroad accident
in Texas last week.
ADOPTING the cry of all radical
thieves when being pursued by Demo
Gratis, Sherman said the Potter invests
cation means war. It certainly does
mean war Upon John Sherman and
some other Radical frauds.
THE Port Gibson Reveille says Mr..
Tom r.. Mellen. attorney of Natchez,
a lay delegate to the General Confer
ence, was assigned, through mistake,
by the Bishop, to preach at one OF the
churches in Atlanta.
KEY, Hayes jumping jack, gives it
as his opinion that the Republicans will
have a majority in the next House OF
Representatives. 1t were better that
such be the case than for it to be CONS
posed of such Democrats as Key.
THE Copiahan learns that in the
cas- Mississippi Mills V w. w. Cook,
tax collector of Oopiah county, the SUI
: preme court sustains the decision of
Chancellor Peyton. The decision was
that the mills should pay taxes on cer>
tain property.
THE Meadville Banner mentions ~
attempt made by a negro to outrage a
a white lady near Shaw's store, in JEFF
ferson county. The lady was alone at
the time, but succeeded in getting
loose and ran to the nearest neighbor S
house and told what had occurred.
; STRANGE to say, neither of the Nicks-
burg papers have published the Grafton,
essay or poems delivered before the
Press Convention in that city. Here
( tofore it has been the custom for the
papers printed i'll towns where the Con-
yehtions were held to publish such pro-
auctions. r5Hla
.e BEN BUFFERS pet bill, to establish a
paper at, Washington topublish the laws
of Congress and the advertisements of
the departments al fixed yates, under
the direction of superintendent of
Public Printing who is appointed by
the President, by and with the advice
aud consent Of the Senate, has passed
che House. =
WV. HosKfNs, the polite editor of
the Corinthian, was married a few days
ago 10 Miss Mary W. Inge, of Corinth.
He took his bride to the Press Conven-
ton, and while reading a poem before
that body tainted. May their married
life be IS bright and beautiful as the
poets dream or the brides bushes.
A TELEGRAM from Contantinople says
the railway between Varna and Rust
chnk will shortly be re-opened. The
Bulgarians continue to commit atroci-
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