The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-14

txeAsrnf Notes..
Senator Ben Hill, OF Georgia, is a
Methodist class,leader.
Vicksburg continues unusually healthy
ind has abandoned all fears OF the fever.
Rev. "Adriondus," Murray has been
picked up for employing a large aman-
uensis.
The Harrison county, Miss, Board of
Henlth will not declare quarantine
against anywhere this season.
Ohio prodnced thirty nine thouand
tons OF cheese and butter in 1877.
Ohio has. also produced Presidents.
When Minister Welsh arrives at Phil
adelphia next month. a formal recep>
tion will be rendered him.
The Nevada Indians make their hot
biscuits ont OF q -four madeiof craked
wheat and pounded grasshoppers.
The Boston Herald hears that "Gen.
Beauregard is interested III a gas ma
chine in New Orleans" and wants to
know if it is tho Democrat.
Several ladies will run for the Office of
State Librarian. in Kentucky. at the next
Legislature. Only women will enter
for the race, and a lively time is ex-
pected. "a
The colored people Of Holmes cous-
Ity, Miss. will decline to support the
Greenback party unless Freeheart, a
negro man. is placed on the ticket for
Senate s
The graphic accounts for the corpses
of mosquitoes which are found in bot
ties of imported wine. by the very seps
sible suggestion that they must have
been blown in the bottles.
The Republicans in the four states of
Maine, California, Ohio and Iowa have
nominated inst n soldier for office.
There are two Democrrtic soldier cAndi-
dates in Ohio and two in Iowa.
james Gordon Bennett had rented
the Cuanler place at Newport. and then
concluded he didn't want it. so he gave
it up at a loss of $4,000. But what is
$4,000 to a newspaper man? Simply
nothing. .s l'
Jas. A. Speers, OF R,nkin county,
Miss. puts a sponge in his lamp which
absorbs all the oil, and in case the
lamp expiodes or is broken the oil can
not scatter and set everything on fire.
A beautiful floral cross and crown
decorated the channel of Trinity Church
ut Newport asst Sunday in memory of
the late Bishop De Koven. who preach>
in the church one year ago that day.
Rev. Doctor Marks, of St. Louis, put
an ice tank in front of his house for the
benefit of the street car drivers and con
dnc4ors, and the grateful men have PIE
scented him with a gold headed cane.
The little child of Doctor J. J. Sim
mons at Verona Miss. was run
over by a passenger train on the sixth
of August and killed. Not a bone in
the little fellows body was broken,
strange to say.
Vanderbilt controls an aggregate
lgngth of 1920 miles of railroad, COM
prising 6,10s miles of tack. On these
ARE employed q, 706 men who receive,
in round numbers, S1,179,000 IL mo 1th,
or $14. 136, 600 a year.
The bullion product of the Unit'd
States for 1878 was in roun.l numbers.
$50, 900, 600. There VAS Il falling OF il
Nevada of about $17,700,0 00, but a &c l.
eral increase in tie national %psoductic II
outside the Conls.ock.
The political jobbers are thinki!S it
may be necessary to call special ses-
sion of the legislature TO settle the
vexed custom about timer State libra
rian, who was elected az Miss Fltz~Gib-
hons, but who married and holds her
office as Mrs. Peele.
The New York Herald consumed a
hundred dollars worth OF space In ser
wing notice on Mr.. Tildea that it is
useless for him to aspire longer to the
position of President of the United
States thereby increasing his chances
about eight per cent.
When the Hon. e. Barksdale wns
addressing the Farmars' Club, at Ma
riou, Miss, he mentioned the names OF
the various gentlemen suggested for
the United States Senate. His large
audience kept silence until he cane;to
jeff. Davis, and then shout after shout
of. applause showed very plainly how
that club would vote when the time
came.
The result of the experiments of Drs.
Chaille may be looked forward to with
much interest. Many animals, rabbits,
dogs, cats, fawns. of,,different c%olors,
are to be put in a laboratory and black
vomit introduced into the circulation
through the skin. 1t is not impossible
that while studying the physiological
effect of the poison these physicians
may find it's remedy. This is the most
sensible move in the investigation Of
the vomito yet made.
SOME of the papers have made the
statement that John r. Lynch has been
appointed to supervise the census of
this State next year. This is a miss
take. A Democratic Senate will have
a voice in the matter. as they have to
confirm Mr.. Hayes appointments, and
it is not likely The Senate wonld confirm
theIappointment..of Lynch. Democrats
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