The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-10-02
For PRESIDENT,
FoR VICE PRESIDENT,
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

mere.
WHO'S is bigger man than old
&c ant, now?
"UNCLE'' Dan'l Drew of of New York
lis dead.
Mrs. Langtry wears 100000 worth
of diamonds.
GRASS is growing IN the streets and
alleys of Memphis.
The Hood orphan fund in Atlanta
has reached nearly $4,000.
PEACH trees are in blossom at New
Iberia Louisiana.
THERE are forty eight divorce cases
on file in Dallas, Texas.
KING ALFONSO will be twenty-five On
the 2Sth of November.
The Augusta, Ga, ladies raised
: S1S4,2 % for the Hood orphans.
The New Orleans Times says that
candidates are thicker than thieyes in
plCuluud Pnliou
A SHIRT of strong chain mail is now
v worn by the Gear. 1t was made by an
nrmorer of Paris.
The chief of nearly all the departs
nents have left Washington, and are
+ stumping it i'll Ohio.
The great demonstration in honor
., of General Grant has temporarily
eclipsed the Presidential party.
: LORD BEAcoNsFIED comes of a long,
lived stock-his father died at eighty
e. two, his grandfather at eighty nine.
liz there was less style in dress at
. church people in moderate circum'
stances would be more inclined to at
tend.
THERE is one man in the United
States who has not seen Plnafore YET.
~ That man is U. S. Grant. 1t is great>
" to his credit.
ExsCoNGREssMAN LAMIsoN. OF ONO
says the outlook III his State is most
/ hopeful, and he has no doubt whatever
e of Ewing's election.
Quarterly Conference of the Nj. T.
, church for this district, meets at Wesson
/. Saturday. On Sunday the new Methodist
4 church vii, be dedicated.
: Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAx proclalms
, his permanent retirement from public
life. The country can spare a few more
politicians to the lecture field.
The exodus fever has died a natural
death in East Feliciana parish. Louis
lana, aud now a>days everybody, both
black and white, are busy cotton pick
ing.
THE Free Thinkers, who have just
brought their Convention, ut Chaut"u'
qua, to a close, unanimously endorsed
the Liberal League platform at Cincin-
natl.
THE Northern papers are full OF dis
gushing scandal news. If their readers
are to be judged by such articles, and a
paper is published to please its readers
their morals are at q low ebb.
THE Republicans of Ohio are happy.
Sam'l Beatty, a former milk and
cider Democrat has announced his
intention of voting the Republican
ticket az the next State election.
DURING the first twelve week of the
current fiscal year, embracing the per-
iod from July LIST to September 10Th,
the imports of specie at New York ex-
.ceeded the exports by S25, 506.314.
The Treasury Department has re-
.celved unusual demand for one cent
bronze pieces, and as soon as possible
the Philadelphia Mint will turn out a
sufficient amount of them to fill the
many orders received.
TIE work of constructing q tunnel
10 New York beneath the Hudson River
from Jersey City, was commenced On the
9th inst. The work will cost $4,000,
900. The en&iie length of the tunnel
ice twelve thousand feet, including
approaebes. One miie of it is under
che river.
TIE third term beoaners are not get
ting much opt.of Gxaat. He lie as retl>
cent now ,ss he was three months ago.
If he has any purpose Of being q can"
didate, that purpose hasn't iipened nm
der the genial skies of California. 20
far as the vast ailigent observers have
noticed.
The Smithsonian Institution reports
that Prof. Peters, of Clinton, ennoun-
ces the discovery by hiGaself OF q planet
of the eleventh magnitudc. in sweaty.
two hours forty four minutes, right as
cension, aud ten degrees five minutes,
u ~daelination, with a daily motion
of seven minutes south.
ABOUT one hundred and afty. colored
einigrants of all ages, from Nashville.
arrived at st. Louis Tuesday night. en-
route to Kansas. They claim to be
bona fde .emigrants, able to pay their
way and to take up land when they
reach their destination. They are look
ed after by the Colored Relief Board,
and will probably be forwarded to Kan
sas by steames.