The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-06-05
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

The wheat crop Of Georgia generally
promises a very large yield.
Row would it do to call Hayes the
'.yeto President for awhile.
". A, Home was killed in Jasper
county last week by tightening.
ROBERT BoNNER's horses are worth
three hundred thousand dollars.
The C. st. L. & n. o. L. r. pays n
State tax of over $40, 900 annually.
EIGHTY, thousand shad hsve been de-
posted in Chunkey river, near Merid>
ian.
Ex- CHIEF JUSTICE S1MRALL will re.
sumo the pratice of law in Vicks
burg
Hon. JAS. F. H. HARRISON oFlCo!um-
bus, Miss, died on Thursday last. He
was a lawyer of marked ability.
THE report of yellow fever be-
iue in V~irlebu"s hoa called forth a den.
ial from prominent citizens of tina
place.
THERE is a bill before tho House OF
Representatives at Washington to rs
duce the salary of the President t.
$4,000 per annum.
A WILD animal, species not known
has FUSED up a number of dogs aroun(
Carrollton. We wish he would come
down this way.
TIE Columbus Index doesn't think
Gov. Browns letter a very great paper
and says in an intellectual point Of
view it is a failure.
Tom BUEoRD, the man who assassi-
mated Judge Elliott, was arraigned at
Frankfort. BY, the other day, and Sc
cured change of venue.
The committee on State debt OF the
Louisiana Constitutional Convention,
have reported in favor of only paying
a part of the State dept.
A GOOD deal is said in certain paper:
about Gen. West position. 1t seem:
hard to determine what he is. We be
1iege he is q Greenbacker.
a Eorthern lecture Agent is making
an effort to induce Hon. Jefferson Davis
TO make & lecture tour of the North
promising III N four or five hundred do
iars for each lecture.
WILLIAM LL0yD GARRISON, the great
apostle Of anti>s!&Fery and the persist
cut, relentless eHemy of the South,
died in New York Saturday night, aged
seventy-four years.
The newspapers kill Father Ryar
every week or two, While the distingu-
ished and honored old hego takes his
ease at his kOmein Mobile and reads
with amusement The fiattefiag obitu-
aries of himself.
IT is estimated By ZONE parties tina
New Orleans has pocketed about IS,
900, 900 by the sale OF cotton futures
this season. This is, says the Times
nearly equal to half the Indebtedness o
the State.
The Supreme Court IN the case o
Trubeville ys. the State, decides tha
the Judge must be present and ccntro
the Court in person during the trial o
State cases; otherwise the iudgemen'
will be reversed.
The driver of a San Antonio express
wagon cut off his nose to spite hI
face the other day. His horse raj
away. which so Infatuated his owner
that he took out his pistol and shot the
animal dead.
The Vicksburg Herald has read. thu
people of Lincoln county generally an'
the Judge especially q lecture. Th'
Herald should re, read the resolution
of the citizens of beat five, and woul'
then see that it hes made some mistake
Mr.. Hull, the representative II
Congress from Florida, who was lndict
ed for fraud in the November election
in that State, has been tried and &C
quilted, Had he been convicted, tn
Democratic majority would have bee
one less.
A NOVEL suit has been entered il
Rings county, N. Y, Carolina Bret
imauie sues Catharine Paasch, O widoV
of Brooklyn, for two thousand dollars
FOR having, by her "charms and allure
ment," deprived her of her husband
affections.
TwENTY-sEvEN school children nav
been poisoned in Newark, N. j., b
drinking water out of a brook where
horse and several sheep had been drown
ed. Ten of the children have died
Great excitement prevails about tn
matter.
The Grand Jury have found tru
DlliS dSulDSb ~. IL I1OiiHaH. ouo ~
the murder in the case OF DR.. Lowry
and one for manslaughter for kiln
Arnold. Holman will be taken to. til
Vicksburg Jail for safe keeping unit
his trial in the fall.
WOMAN in New York has made ap
plication to have her marrlge with
man in the old world annulled on th
ground that it was celebrated by proxy
This marriage, in this manner was Ell
tered into two years ago, but the hus
band has never come for his bride. W
don't blame the oman
On account of i'll health Congressma
Money will pay a visit to the Sanwic
Islands to recuperate. He will be th
guest of the King, having won hi
heart by a speech he made in Congress;
We hope.his visit may be a pleasant on
and that his health will soon be restor
ed. We would liked to have had tn
happiness of shaking hands with him {
the Press Convention, however.