The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-14
FoR VICE PRESIDENT,
Thos. A. Hendricks,
Or INDIANA. ~
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

TO market last week. .
The LEpDER from now till after the
election for Fifty cents.
KANSAS threatens to quarantine
against the negro exodus.
We return thanks to Miss Hattie
DingmaD for late Syracuse papers.
THos. Clark shot and killed Mrs.
Reilly il New Orleans Oh the 9Th inst.
The reported case of yellow fever at
Meridian turns out to have been malar-
ial fever.
THE contract for closing the Bonnet
Carre eravasse is to be let out on the
10th inst.
G. E. WRIGHT, ESD, Of the Vicks-
burg Herald, is a candidate for the
State Senate.
7. l.. MELuEN aud Col. Sawyer arc
discussing State sovereignty in the
Natchez Democrat.
GENERAL LoNasTREET thinks Grant
nncomparably the greatest General
ethe war produced.
WE will send IHF LEDGER from now
etill the 9Th of November for fifty cents.
Take nt.fer the campaign.
The Democrats of Kentucky elected
their ticket by forty thousand majority.
DIR. Blackburn was elected Governor.
WESTON and Rowell will walk for the
Ashley long distance champion belt at
,Gilmer's garden beginning Sept. LIST.
A MISTAKE was made in calling upon
Mr.. Elihu May to become a candidate
for Supervisor. Mr.. May lives in beat
two.
One case of yellow fever has Deer re-
ported at Mayersville, Miss. Some
.doubts are expressed as to it being yell
low fever.
CHEvALIER J~UMoNvILLE, cashier OF
the New Orleans Canal Bank, for the
mast thirty years, is a defaulter to the
amount of $40, 900.
THE Suez Canal cost $S7, 593, 6l5. Its
greatest net earning were IN 1877, when
it c!eared$5 $50. 900, or q little over
six per cent on Its cost.
JOSEPH STANDING, the Mormon elder
who.was killed in Georgia. some weeks
ago. was buried III Ogden, Utah, on
Sunday, the Sd instant.
TIE Chinese Cover nment is said to
be preparing for war, to resist the ag-
pressions of Russia upon the outlying
territorls of the Empire In Central
Asia.
"SHoo FLY. No credit with a cows
tail hanging at the door. This is a
sign of o store at Wool Market, on
Biloxi river, Miss, says the Democrat
Star.
TIE Lemars Ga Sentinel beautlful>
lv exclaims: when jeff Davis sits IN
the American Senate, the editor OF The
Okalona States may go slelghing III
hell"
RoRr. BoNNER's horse. Edwin Forrest,
trotted o mile in two minutes, eleven
and three,fourth seconds, on the 10Th
inst. This is said to be the best time
on record.
Report from various parts of Vlr'
sinia chow that the Moffett bell~punch
tax is a source of great annoyance to
the revenue officers and needs the con-
stant supervision of the courts.
A DISPATCH from Rome says: Ismall
Pasha seems disposed to take up his
residence definitely in Naples. 1t APP
pears that the italian Government has
determined to assign a favorite palace
to him.
NEARLY seventy thousand emigrantS
landed in New York since the first OF
last January. They were generally a
hardy set, and looked as if they woul
atop a good deal of American beef thai
might otherwise be exported.
THE national bureau of statistics es'
innate the population of the United
States in 1880 at so, 1858, 100, in 1890 al
81. 900, 900, and at the year 1900 al
90. 900, 900. The bulk of this vast pop
nlat,on will be in the Mississippi val
ley.
A SPECIAL from Jackson to the Vicks
burg Herald, dated Aug. 9Th, says three
hundred white Independents convened
in Yazoo City on that day. and called
nominating convention for the 18Th
inst. We thought the Independents IL
that county had left the field.
TT is said that there is a terrible both
er because a colored gentleman in Gin
c;nnati didn't get the nomination h
was seeking at the hands OF the Repuo
,;can convention. The colored gentle
mor wos unreasonable. Cincinnati !
north of Mason and Dixon's line. I'm
Republicans are in favor OF the uarAie
holding Office south thereof.
Mr.. J. G. CLARKE. manager OF tn
g.. st. L. & N. 0. r r., has sent
~,;rcular TO managers Of southern rail
roads ard roads leading from n T.
Southern States, suggesting a meetih'
in November to adopt measures ioohlh'
10 moro reasonable aud intelligent quar-
ant,pe regulations to be estabiished y;
an ACT of Congress. in accordance VIII
the suggestions offered by suoh con
~anftDsa