The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-11
~esenerel Notes.

Lamar is reported to have said If the
negroes leave, Mississippi will blossom
like a rose.
The Summit Times says the storm
damaged the crop one-third in that
vicinity.
At the Methodist Adams camp
ground recently sixty~five new mem
bers were enrolled.
The first volumne OF Claiborne +
History of Mississippi will be ready
about the first of December.
England IS shipping an immense
amount of gold to the United States tt
pay for cotton and breadstnif.
The two daughters Of General II. e.
Lee, Misses Mary and Mildred, are
spending the summer in Norway.
The ghost of the RETURNING Board Is
haunting the White House at Wash
ington. Its pass word is "Casanaye.
The Selma Times says Mr.. ID. M
Galloway, in two hours Oh Que street IL
that town, collected $l40 for Gen
Hoods children.
The Plscagoula Star says of Har-
lison county that its financial cond!tlo4
is good; that it's paper is at par, with
but little of it outstanding.
A census of Kansas, just completed.
shows u population OF Sl9,978, an IN
crease of 60 per cent over that Of 1919
which was returned rs 52S, 437.
Natchez has built a cotton factory;
every dollar of the stock is owned by
her citizens, and is yielding the very
handsome return of nearly twenty pei
cent, on the Investment.
A new feature in our educational IN
stitutions is the CAinese Professor 10
Kun Hua, has entered into ascontract tt
teach his native language III Harvar'
College for the next three years.
A correspondent of the Pascagoui'
Damocrat-Star, J. Jackson, writing from
GAINESVILLE, says he has tried the eX
pertinent of shipping beef cattle to New
Orleans, and found it a losing business
At Moss Point, Miss, a number o
persons we're poisoned by eating lc'
cream which in some way had become
poisoned by the extract of lemon, Will
which the cream was favored. N
deaths.
Mr.. Watterson, of .he Louisville
| Courier Journal favors the exodus o
colored people from the South, beliey
ing the South would be better of
when another class of labor could b'
substituted for colored labor.
1t is difficult to believe that a mutt
tuic Of people equal in number to one
fourth the population of the UNITED
States have recently been destroyed 10y
famine in China-yet such is the state
ment that ONE on the authority O.
Mr.. Forrest, the English Consul a
Tientsin.
jim Greener, of the G., ST. L an
0. Railroad. tells the storm story thus
''The waves we're blown over MaHchat
bridge loaded wi h fish, carloads O
winch were picked up, and he couiO
battle his hands in the waters Of the
lake from his position IN his engine"
The assessment of real estate i'll Bay
st. Lonis for 1879, is said to FOO.
MP @&337,775, and for Umcpck comfy
1922. $50, an increase il value OF up
wards of $50 0)0 over the last assess
ment. The value Of PERSONAL property
has increased in Il m lch larger ratio.
The Blton Rouge Advocate relate.
how, when the storm came up, a pas
sanger, box aul fl It car. detached from
the engine on the Baton Ronge an'
Crosse Tete Railroad, were struck 10y
the heavy gusts of wind, and notwlth
standing the fact that they Were "check
ed" they started towards Crosse Tett
at the rate Of about ten or fifteen miles
an hour, and ran ont about two OF tire,
miles before they STOPPED.