The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-04-03
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

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The vicksburg Herald does not seem
to- be much of u Tilden paper.
THERE is no truth in the report that
yellow fever exists in>New Orleans.
WE learn that the Greenbackers have
nominated candidates in Alcorn county.
Ex-CoNaREssMAN RIDELE, committed
suicide in Lebanon, Tenn, on the Both
nit. M
THURMAN and Chalmers, in 1880, is
the Fairs Point C~oallomian's ticket.
MY money
enouet to run the public schools one
month.
L. FUTILE claims to have
discovered the open Polar Sea. Send
him to an asylum.
IT is stated Col. Horn, of the Meri>
dian Mercury, will be a candidate for
the Senate.
JAMES HILL has given his bond ms
Collector of Internal Revenue, amount
ing to 1920, 900.
The Pascagoula Democrat Star has
new head, with q picture of the port
OF P~ascagoula.
Bob HART. a famous minstrel perfor-
me , has ,inel the church aud is pres
pairing for the Baptist MINISTRY.
Mr.. E D. ELLIOTT has retired from
the Crystal Springs Monitor, leaving
DIR. Hunter monarch of all he sur
veys."
Mrs. WARREN CROSBY, Of DeSota,
Miss, presented her husband with trip
lets q few days ago. What is the world
coming Ia?
Mr., TANpY H. OuBY, editor of tho
Mississippi Conservative is a candidate
for Circuit Clerk of Carroll county.
Success to brother Curry. \
ALBERT HARRIS. son of ex-senator
Harris. of New Orleans, fell from ,
three story window on the 31th ult
He is not dead, but badly injured.
THE city of Szegedin in Hungary
containing forty or fifty thousand in
habitants has been compile desolatee
by the overflow of the river Thesis.
AT the risk of being calledva mali
cious fool" The Vicksburg Commercial
again alludes to Congressional opera
glasses, stereosopes aid pocket books
ONO should reca!. her distinguished
citizens from the South Uurrfp, III
accomplished assassin who killed por-
ter in Texas the other day, is from
Ohio.
THE New York Express suggests thi.
ticket for 1880: Horatio Seymour. d
New York, for President; L. @. C.
Lamar, of Mississippi. for Vice, Presi-
dent. Very good.
Gov. NICHOLS has signed the bill
repeating the Louisiana State Lottery.
He never did a better thing. That
concern has made enough money out
Of the people to be choked off.
INDIANA is to be redistricted in the
interest of the Democratic party. Fol
many years it has been 30 gerrymander-
ed by tue Republicans that the Demo:
Gratis were almost as good as disfrap>
chised.
A FIRE in Greenville, on the night OF
the 31st ult.. destroyed the stores OF
Stowel Brothers and McMullen, togeth
er with their stock. and the business
house of N. B. johnson & Co., A. Bug
man, N. c. Skinner and G. f. Archer
were damaged.
FORTY FIVE persons have been arrest
cd in Russia for attempting to murder
Gen. Won Drentlem, chief of gender
merle. S,ms were of such high rank
that they were not sent to common pris-
GUS. They include officers OF the guard,
court chamberlains and two daughters
Of prominent ministers.
The Courier says while Otto Steen
was roofing a building in Enterprise,
he came very near losing the greater
part Of his nose. The wind blew the
tin roofing i'll his face and the edge
striking his nose c1t it through. The
nose was strapped back in its place and
Mr.. Steen is rapidly recovering.
In the tw~enty:feur hour walking
match in New Orleans between Tobias
and Turner, Tobias was the victor, he
having walked ninety miles to Turner's
eighty-one miles. During the twenty
four hours, Tobias was off the track
four hours and fifty minutes, and Tur-
ner, seven hours and ten minutes.
JOHN PoINDExrER cowhided G. G.
Curtis, in Richmond, Va, a few days
ago, for insulting a young lady. Curtis
then demanded an apology. when Poin-
dexter drew his pistol and killed him.
Poindexter was tried upon a charge Of
murder. and after being locked mp sew
eral days the jury was discharged, be-
ing unable to agree. .raf
SPEAKING of the probabilities Of the
Senate removing him, Kellogg says:
There is not the slightest precedent
upon which such a cause of action could
be based. Nothing similar to such &C
tion can be found either in our history,
or English history Probably 80. but
history has never produced such a thing
kellogg, either.
TIE Homestead says Col. p. S. Lay
ton, Of Meridian, who was tried and
convicted upon a charge of assault and
battery with intent to kill, has been
sentenced to the ~penitentiary seven