The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-27
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

NJ. F. MINIS, shot by apegroht Lau-
drrdaie, has since died. ,
MIssIssIPPi's three Census Super
visors will be appointed soon.
Coz. MoCARpLE is announced as O
supporter Of Grant for a third term,
Miss LILY MILLER is now publishing
the Quiet Ridge Reflector, at Ripley.
The Republican National Convention
will probably he held the middle OF
May.
THE Enterprise Courier has been
shown a gourd four feet and two inches
long.
FRANKLIN county re-elects three of
ITS Supervisors. Lincoln re>elects the
same number.
GEN. J. z. GEORGE has our thanks
for a copy Of his Starkville Address.
1t is a sound paper.
THERE WAS a heavy fall of snow at
Augusta, Ga, on the 10th inst, SO the
kilograms says.
CoLEMAN's chances for the United
States Senate are increasing daily. His
friends will stand by him.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire swept over Gal
weston, Texas, on the 18th, destroying
$3.50, 600 worth of property.
WHY Is it that the Republican papars
are SO violent against Tildenl Because
shey are afraid of him in 1880.
Our Legislature will meet on :he fret
Tuesday after the first Monday in Jan
uary next, the 9th day of the month.
THE cotton seed oil mill at Yazoo
City was destroyed by fire. Loss
amounted to s45, 900 and the insurance
only $40. 600.
THE New York Sun does not like She
idea of the Republicans wanting the
Democrats to nominate Bayard for the
Presidency.
JAY GOULD has thrown Railroad CIR
Giles i'll a buz By purchasing largely Of
the stock of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Railroad.
The New York Tribune ls Champion
ing Tilden for the Democracy. That
is II of the most damaging thrusts
the sage of Gramercy has received.
CAPT. N. V. BATES aud wife, travel
ing with Coles circus, are said to be
seven feet. elven and oneehalf inches
nigh. Combined weight. one thousand
pounds.
On the completion of the new French
cable, on the Goth inst, NJ. Grevy,
President of the French Republic, sent
q telegram to the President of the
United States, expressing most cordial
sentiments.
PosrMAsTER-GENERAL KEY is about
to break up the lotteries, asd if he sue
ceeds the people should forget
him, He has issued instructions to
postmasters not to deliver 4. letters adj
dressed to lottery companies.
WILLIAMS, of the Grenada Sentinel,
and McGee, of the Enterprise Courier,
were elected to the Lower House of the
Legislature. The only editors in this
State remembered on election day.
They ought to feel highly compliments
ed.
MISS S1cKLEs, the only child of Gen.
Daniel E. Sickles, late United States
Minister to Span. has eloped with an
Englishman named Mccarthy. She
learned her bad tricks from her mama.
who, it will be remembered, created
some excitement in this country some
years ago.
The Democrats OF the Twelfth Con.
gressionaI District of New York elected
Waldo Hutchins in the place of Alex
ander Smith. Republican, who died on
the night of his election. The district
is the one that Clarkson Potter formerly
represented, and is uniformly Demo
cratic in the absence of a third party.
E. c. PALMER, late President of the
Louisian Savings Bank, was indicted
the second time in New Orleans, on the
2lst inst, for tmaking false entries in
the books of the bank with intent to
deceive the Stockholders and depositors
as to the condition of the institution.
He was released upon giving a bond of
$40. DOC.
CoNaREss VI next Monday.
There is much speculation as to what
will be done at the coming session. The
House Committee on Rules is putting
the finishing touches on their work done
at Long Branch last summer No com.
plete information touching the new
rules can yet be obtained but it Is safe
TO assume that they will be greatly
simplihed.
Why don't some one start a McClel-
Ran boom? He could carry New Jersey,
probably New York. Connecticut and
Indiana. 1t has been said that it will
not do to nominate Hancock against
Grant, because it would he putting the
weaker against the stronger. That OBJ
lection could not be urged against
Mcclellan, because he is Grants equal
the field of battle. and decidedly his
superior in every other respect.