The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-04-18

SEVERAL OF the banks or New lOff
and Chicago are paying gold over theil
counters in sums of $500 and under.
THE United States have recognized
the Dias government of Mexico, ant
that country is now surremely happy.
The Supreme Court of Alabama hu
decided that it is unlawful fer white:
and negroes to intermarry in that State
The Okolona Suites is a died>in-the
wool Bourbonistic, ~spiritualistic organ
and one Of the liveliest newspapers il
the State.
VICE PRESIDENT Wheeler is said tt
be particularly fond of music. Wonder
how he likes the Democratic air of the
Fraud"
FIFTEEN Railroads are now being
built in this State-on paper. The dis
ciples OF Mulberry Sellers are numerous
in Mississippi.
Mr.. DANIEL SWEET. one Of the oldest
and best citizens of Warren county.
died Mt his residence. near V~icksburg
on the l1th INST,
THE thundcrbolt has struck the wick
ed Henry Ward Beechcr at last. Read
Mrs. Tilton's confession published in
to-day's paper.
TUE Southern Ucroid says it is es-
4;,,,EoJ +bot - A,,,to oo,,,tr tbn 1uop
tity of oats planted is twice as great as
that Of last year.
ID. G. kERNs, Chancery Clerk of JEFF
ferson county. has a drinking saloon
in Natchez. Is that according to the
eternal fitness of things?
Mss SUSAN HARPER died in Jasper
county on the 3rd instant from the effect
of a mad dog bite. She had been bits
ten eleven months before.
Mr.. JAMES WALLACE, formerly q
merchant of Vicksburg, committed sui
eide in New Orleans, II day last week
by stabbing himself i'll the neck.
The New York Sun favors Blair's
resolution to GUST Hayes. We'd rejoice
TO see Hayes ousted, but don't think
the Blair resolution will accomplish
an ything.
The Black Berry Club, of Jackson,
seems to be in a prosperous condition.
The editor of the Times leaves off the
bloody shirt long enough to attend its
meetings.
ABOUT eight hundred persons have
signed the temperance pledge in Col
umbus. Six hundred and ten names
are enrolled in the Murphy movement
at Okolona.
THE President of the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad denies that his company
refuses to take Mexican collars from
those owing it and then pays them to
it's employees.
GERMANS effort at moderation has
been well received in London, and has
produced a favorable impression in st.
Petersburg where the desire for an I'M
~derstanding is real.
Miss LULA DICKSON is soon to appear,
in McComb City, supported by the
amateur talent of that city. Couldn't
she be induced 10 come up here and
-
The Jackson Times learns that the
Tax Collector of Yazoo City has left
for parts unknown with about 1900,
of the dear peoples money. He was
a poor specimen of Democracy.
The Canton citizen says DIR. W. M
Compton, late Superintendent of the
Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, has
been rendered a professorship in the
new medical school at Memphis.
THURSDAY last the case of Tucker,
who killed Raul lat Vaughn's Station
some time ago, came. up before Chan
ccllor Peyton, at Yazoo City, on habeas
corpus hearing. After an investigation
of two days the prisoner was committed
to Jail without bail.
THE spring campaign is over. No
other State election occrrs until Ore
CONS, in the first week of June. This
will be followed by the August contests
II Alabama and Kentucky, and these
by the September elections in Arkan-
sas, Maine and Vermont.
IRIS about Time to planting
cotton. Our farmiHg friends should
not fail to put in q good supply. 1t is
all nonsense to talk about cultivating
corn or raising hogs. Let them alone
they are not worth bothering with.
Cotton is the thing to give your atten>
ton to.
A REUTERS dispatch, dated Constan-
tinople, Friday, that the
porte is removing valuable arms and
munitions thence to Scutari, and is con-
sidering the question of transferring the
government to Scantari SO as to avoid
oeing forced into an alliance by one of
the belligerents occupying Constants
nople.
The Washington Post says Wells
has been SO much engaged in his con
~ferences with his distinguished brother
in politics, r. B. Hayes, relative to the
disposition of patronage in Louisiana,
that he has neglected to institute his
suit against the editor of the Philadel-
phia Times for calling him q mule
thief.