The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-01-03
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

TIE V. & N. Il. IL. sold for one
thousand dollars.
On Christmas day Baldwin was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.
TnE Mobile Register has put on n
new dress. 1t is a fine paper.
DoN'r swear il You date your letters
1877 when You should write 1878.
Gov. IRWIN, of California, was once
a school teacher at Port Gibson, Miss.
HAVING but few State papers this
week our news is somewhat short.
REV. s. BUFrKIN, a Baptist minister,
died in Franklin county, q few days
ago.
SENATOR BLAINE and a party of
friends have gone to the Hot Springs in
Arkansas.
GES. LoNdsrREET is going to keep "A
hotel in GAINESVILLE, Ga. Will he pruc-
tice civil rights?
BILL ROBERTSON, a negro boy, was
run over and killed by q tain of cars
near Shubnta, last week.
SENAToR,ELECT FARLEY has been
misrepresented. He is a strong adyo-
cate of silver reconciliation.
Mrs. CHISHOLM, of the Mississippi
tragedy, will have an office in the Treas
ury Department, at Washington.
THE District attorney of the District
of Columbia has decided that ladies
car be appointed Notaries Public.
The Senatobia Tidal Ware is be-
alleging the Legislature with heavy ar
tillery.
ArRE in yicksburg, OIL the 31st ult.,
destroyed Ries' stable, burning several
horses to death.
w. L. CHANDLER is not a United
States Senator from New Hampshire,
"a reported.
Con. CLAIBoRNE's History of Mlssis-
sippi is written. and only needs tran
sribing to be ready for the press.
II is proposed to change the time of
the meeting of Congress from the first
Monday in December to the frst Mon
day i'll October. r
WHILE the postmaster of fernando
was returning home on the night of the
22nd ult., he was garroted and robbed
OF 5000 belonging to the post Office.
THE statement going the rounds of
the press that Georgia elected eighty
Independents to the Legislature is in
correct. Ten only were elected.
BECAUSE Senator Lamar voted against
the silver bill, some of the papers are
now saving he is bidding high for the
Vice Presidency in $780,"
BEN BUTLER says if the President
joins the Republican party, the Repub-
licans will carry New York in 1880.
Ben is generally wrong in his calcula-
tons.
FRANCE notified Don Carlos, the
Spanish insurrectionist, to leave her
territory. Don and the Ex-Queen Isa-
bella were plotting together for the
overthrow of the present King of Spain.
TIE st. Louis Globe Democrat I'M
furls a flag inscribed with the names:
For President in 1880, Ulysses S.
Grant, of Illinois; for Vice President,
Roscoe Conklilg. of New York.
The Indians. think they are entitled
to some rights, and complain because
they have to fight negro soldiers. They
say that the negroes wool is so infa-
mously short that they cannot be scalp
ed with anything like decent facility.
The Canton Mail says that ON the
night of the 23rd ult. q band of thieves
broke into the store house of Mr.. G. NJ.
Kemp, at Calhoun Station, and carried
off about a Thousand dollars worth of
groceries, dry SoOds etc.
A JOINT stock company of colored
men in Augusta, Georgia, have begun
measures looking to the erection of a
cotton factory. with a capital already
made up of about forty-five thousand
dollars. The object is to provide en-
ployment for colored children.
CONSERVATIVE people of South Caro-
lima are reported as determined that
Senator Patterson, though he may es-
cape punishment in their courts by
staying in Washington, shall have the
benefit of q q full exposure of his ras-
calities which they say are such that
the Senate cannot fail to expel him.
Mr.. J. J. benson of Lawrence coun-
ty. is a candidate for Sargeant-at- arms
for the House of Representatives. Mr..
benson was a Sargeant-at-arms for the
Mississippi Legislature before and af>
ter the war, and filled the Office to the
satisfaction of all. We would be pleased
to see him elected.
As naval power, Mexico is rather
weak There are four war steamers al
together, and it is stated by the Mex
lead papers that not one of them has
been cleaned or repaired since it were
brought from England several years
ago. There will probably be q grand
explosion of boilers some day, and that
will wind up the career of Mexico's
navy. $50,
! SENATOR BLAINE was interviewed at
st. Louis a few days ago. and spoke of
the Southern people as hypocrites, who
pretended 10 a reconciliation that was
not real. Men who thus loosely stig-
matize a whole paopIa hafrov a raoL.