The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
General Notes.

LhhIu ub iloiiy OpTiuBb, Mioosy tuu
vicinity is worth from FIVE to ten dollars
IN acre
A clerk in a cotton house in Augusta.
Ga, made $45, 900 on the recent rise in
the staple.
Miss Nina Wood. of Vicksburg, Miss.
proposes to establish q philharmonic
society in that city.
The election of Cornell is not SO
much a Democratic defeat as it is a
victory over Hayes.
The Georgia laws prohibit the giving,
selling or lending Of dangerous. weapons
to boys under age.
In all forty-nine Afghaus have been
hanged for completely in the massacre
of the British embassy.
1t is asserted that the entire James
gang Of robbers are now in the cross
timbers in north Texas.
In Desoto. county, Miss, after the
election. ten ballot boxes were stolen
and one tempered with.
General WIS. Feathorstone is being
spoken Of in connection with the Mis-
sissippi United States Senatorship.
The Republicans of Pelquem1nes, La,
have nominated ex>Gov. Il. G.. War
moth for the house Of Representatives.
Conkliag pulled his man through,
bat like his escapade at Caronchet, it
was n mighty narrow chance and not
much to brag of.
The Republican party is piling mp q
pretty tall pyramid this fall, but it is
altogether too tall to stand long with
such a rickety foundation as New York
to rest on.
Mrs. Matte Potts, who recently com
pieted a walk from Philadelphia to
New Orleans and return, attempted to
commit suicide by placing her head
upon the railroad track.
1t may be of interest to some people
to know that the Governor elect of the
Empire State, Mr.. A. 3. Cornell. i, an
experienced and expert telegraph OPP
orator.
Garfield of Ohio does not believe that
Graut wants to be or will be a candi-
date for the Presidency, nor that he is
the most available candidate, even If
he wanted the nomination.
The defeat of Gumbleton, Tammany's
candidate for county clerk in New
York, is the severest of all the severe
rebukes administered to john Kelly at
the late election. Gumbleton is the
man whom Gov. Robinson removed,
and the action of Gov. Robinson is jn-
dorsed by the people.
Between 1874 and 1879 there has
been an average increase of eight to
ten per cent in membership of the
Southern Presbyterian church, accord
ing to the Christian Observer. This
denomination has an institution for the
education OF colored ministers at Tus
c~aloosa, Ala, in successful operation.
The official returns of the late cleo
ton in Colorado show q total vote Of
thirty thonsand eight hundred and
seventy-onc, of which Richmond, Dcmo~
cratic candidate for supreme judge, res
cpivei twelve thousand. seven hundred
and two;Beck, Republican, sixteen thous-
aud nine hundred andtwentv; Salisbury
Greenback, one thousand two hundred
forty sky.
1t was an lawful majority, says tho
New York Times, that the Democratic
factions rolled mp 10 New York city for
Lieut.. Gov. Potter'-ffty lone thou-
sand four hundred aud fortystive over
ifoskins-and what makes it particular
ly ''awful' to contemplate is the recol~
lection that the majority of those fac
items at the election a year ago vas n
ly thirty-six thousand.
This is n striking and significant
paragraph from the Philadelphia Times:
"The election of Cornell is a Republi~
Gun suicide. 1t is not a triumph OF
Republicanism that can stand tho test
of the considerate Judgment of patrio-
tic people. On the contrary it is a VIC
tory of banded p!underers from both
political camps, and q reproach to the
party that is likely to end Republican
supremacy in the Empire State"
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