The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-01-09
EDITORIAL ITEMS.


shanks for public documents.
YESTERDAY was the anniversary of
jackson's great New Orleans victory.
THE British Government will not per-
NIT O'DonoNau Rosa to return 10 Ire
land.
4 YR.Mp attempted to rob Frof. j. A.
Godfrey, OF Amite county, & few days
ago,
CASTILLO las fled notice of con
test for Chalmers place in. the new
Congress.
lex has issued his proclamation
stating he will visit New Orleans, Feb
ruary 25th.
DIR. ParLIlps fell on the ice at Can
ton. ON the 26th ult., and broke bis
collar bone.
The Associated Press agent advises
that gold quotations will no longer lie
telegraphed.
Ice will probably be cheaper next
summer than usual, rs Gr abEndznt
supply Is being HOUSED,
PRESIDENT HAYES has declared himself
in favor of the Republicans Of Ohio
nominating Garfield fos Governor.
THE c.ti7ens Of Mensphis have sur>
rendered tie City Charter in order to
avoi! he oppressive demands OF their
creditors.
Ar Bryant memorial meeting, held
in New York city few days ago, Til
den and Hayes occupied seats on the
same stage.
The st. Louis bridge, that cost ST.
zoe, 600. was recently sold at auction
for 81. 900, 900. 1t was purchased Tor
English bondholders.
The RAYMOND Gazette says that full
" one thousand negroes will emIgrate
tins winter from Kinds and Madison
counties to Kansas.
TIE Dallas Herald says if Texas have
- fair count in the nehht CENSUS, she viii
be entitled to fourteen more Congress
mon-twenty i'll all.
SENATOR BRo5E is suyge ted ia sulta>
BILE candidate for the Nice-Presidency,
should Grant be nominated for the
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SENATOR MAxEY denies that the lex
ans want to divide their State, and
savs they expect fifteen members OF
Congress after the next census.
THF Grenada Sentinel is publishing
the names and amounts reoei7ed by the
Relief Association during the epidemic.
The total amount is $24, 493, 43.
JEFFERSON DAVIS book of memoirs
is to be published next spring stimuli
taueously in New York and and Lon :
don. with French edition in Paris,
MRH. Is. EVANS, of Cincinnati, has
our thanks for late Northern papers,
giving an account of the cold weather.
It almost gave us chill to read them.
The Legislatures of Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Florida, Louisiana, North Car
DINA. Texas and West Virginia meet
during the arst two weeks of January.
THE Phi-Sigma and Hermean Socie-
It's of Oxford recently elected Jefferson
Davis to deliver the annual honorary
Grafton at Commencement, and Henry
Watterson-as alternate.
CYRUS w. FIELD and Samuel j. Til.
den are believed to have doubled their
large fortunes in the last month or two
by the extraordinary rise in ,the mort
gage and stock of the New York EIe-
waited Railroad.
PLAGUE has appeared among Co.'S
sacks of Astlachan. The sufferers are
isolated and many doctors have been
summoned to their relief. OF one
hundred and ninety five persons att
tackled since the 1st inst. one hundred
and forty three have died.
JUST before leaving for Washington,
Senator Voorhees, bought new pair
of pants, in the pockets of which he
found the following note: "Charg e
Mr.. Voorhees,, who has just been elect
ed to the United States Senate, ten
dollars more than the usual price.
The Senator didn't take che pants.
THE Meridian Homestead learns that
Taylor Askins & Co., of Chicago.
Agents for A. w. Mass & Co., Meridian
for the sale OF III ,ir Patent Gas
Apparatus, have made sales of said pat
ent in the Northwest to the amount OF
over twenty thousand dollars. and have
pocketed the money.
The Mississippi State Board of
Health passed resolution stating that
in the opinion of the Board the true
cause of the yellow fever is exotic,
and that it only exists in this State by
importation, that it is transportable in
vessels, railroad cars, clothing, goods,
ETC., and that efficient quarantine is
necessary to exclude it from the State
A LATE telegram from London says
the striking employees at all points on
the Midland railway remain very firm
The company is filling their places with
porters and others, but it is currently
reported at Nottingham that the drivers
will strike en- masse if incompetent
persons are engaged.
HARRISON THOMPSON is making the
Brandon Record one of the best
country papers in the State. 1t is well
edited and we'll printed, and should be
literally supported by the good PEG
plc of Rankin county. From the last
issue we learn that the Rankin county
Savings Institution has made an as
alignment OF its effects.