The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-20
Notes from the CAPITAL.

pendent's gone dead.
just about half of Jackson wants te
lynch Prof. Tice-at least that was the
frame of mind ast(riday morning.
Kinds county taxes this year are $11
on the 81, 900. And still the Independ'
ent Greenback Laborers are not happy
Last Friday the streets were fairly
crowded with cotton wagons-farmers
coming in to get the benefit of the
rise.
OF late jackson has been honored
by the visit of a Countess, Nine. Bsr'
%tinatti, wife of the italian Minister tc
the Hague.
Longino, the handsome and talented
young Selator-elect, of Lawrence,
Lincoln and Pike, was in the city Sat
urday and Sunday, the gueat of Hou
S. Gwin.
The young folks of Jackson have q
German Club, which meets once
week at the residence of one of the
members and enjoys the Terpslcio~
rean art.
Henry Richie, a white, man of Ran>
kin county, came to town last Welnes
day evening, aud was locked up IN the
Jail as q lit subject for the Lunatit
Asylum.
| The late city registration shows that
within the last two years our voting
population, instead of increasing, has
fallen off one hundred and forty-four.
The total registered vote is SIX hundred
and thirty.
Mr.. Philip G Hilzheim. of this city
who will be remembered as the ono
accommodating clerk of the Edwards
House, will be q candidate for the of
flee of Sargeant.at>arms Of the next
Legislature.
The Catholics of the city are abou'
to complete their new convent building
1t is a roomy handsome structure, anc
will be open for boarders as soon as
completed. l hear that application
are already rapidly coming in.
Hon. G. NJ. Lusk, the Democratic
workingmen's Representatives, the las
Legislature has come out as a candidat
for Mayor at the ensuing January elec
ton. He is a good Democrat, but will
have a formidable opponent in thu
present occupant of the Office, Hon
John McGill, Republican.
Gen. Jno. ID. Freeman, who wa'
once a member of Congress from thit
State, Attorney General of Mississippi
and who did more work, perhaps, thar
any other Democrat in the county cam
paign Just closed, has removed from
Jackson to ViGksburg, where he will il
~furture practice his profession, the law
The new Hall of Messrs. Robinson
& Stevens is beng fitted up by Capt.
w. @. Lowd, OF the Auditors Office.
with seats, fine stage scenery, anc
dramatists will hereafter be better nc.
commodated in this respect, and their
auditors be the better enabled to en-
Joy their performances. Several CON
ranies are expected.
Frank Cannon, whoewas s~eGtencetlfC
death by Judge Chrisman at the las
term of the Claiborne cauntv court foi
killing a young man named Martin, ana
whose case was appealed to the Su.
preme Court, was granted n new ira
by that tribunal last Monday. Had i
not been for au ignorant jury. from
What I car learn, he would never have
been sentenced.
The darkies here had q big wake q
one of the colorel churches on thu
night of the 18th. Several brethren
pictured to the congregation in success
sive way ode terrible comm of d
judgment, de folIin' of de stars and d.
perdigiou s fire works of de ole debbil,
and kept all hands up to see the sigh
until fonr in the morning. Dem mig
gers was wrought up for shore" ex
claimed a brother next day; "bnt d,
way dat ole 'Fessor Tice fooled 'em wa
a sin to Aberhamr'
A stranger in the city, giving b!
name as Harris, tried to commit suicid'
last Saturday evening by taking al
overdose of morphine. but being &C
cidentally discovered before he was too
far gone was saved by Drs. Craft ant
Johnston. He told them that his fa
Their. three brothers and a sister haC
committed suicide, and that though h,
was prevented from carrying out hi
design now, it would only be a qnes.
ton of time as to when he would carr
it into execution. He appeared to he
man of education, said he had a family
and talked nationally enough, but from
the foregoing it would seem that thu
whole family are monomaniacs Oh thu
subject of suicide.
Returning Prosperity.
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