The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-06
For PRESIDENT.
Sam'l J. TiIden,
OF New YORK.
FoR VICE PRESIDENT,
Tn)3.'AnA,1iricx
OF INDIANA.
EDITORIAL ITEMS

HANCOCK stock is..risirg.
WHAT DO you til uk I the re-ult?
IAKE it easy. if yon are beaten.
YoU may get an off q next time.
How do you feel since the election?
SoMsBopY deceived you-dldnt he?
CANTON has d new paper-the Dem
ocrat.
F1aHr1va Joe Hooker died on tho
30th ult.
WHERE is the boosted Democracy OF
Lincoln county?
Most of the candidates have lost
fifth in human nature.
The Yazoo Sentinel publishes one
Harvell, a printer. as n u
The srrnb race ia over. God spare
the ountry from another such scram>
BILE.
The Memphis yellow fever epidemic
auded on its one hundred and seventh
day.
CINCINNATI sends one dark horse to
the Legislature. He pears the colored
name of Williams,
No to report this week
Can't come of the orators come down
and relieve monotony;
The number of cases Of yellow fever
in Memphis to date has been over two
thousand and six hundred deaths.
"A Low partisan speech" is what the
Springfield Republican calls MIR.
Evarts' recent harrangue at New YORK
Col PAUL A. BorTo. editor of the
Natcbez Democrat, died on the Both
of October. He was a writer of con
siderable ability
Tom Wills, a negro gambler, was
Sshot and killed at Natchez recently by
a comrade named Calvin Douglass.
douglass escaped.
THE Mississippi Stock Breeders
State Fair will be held at Meridian,
commencing November 18th, and con-
tinuing one week.
The negro vote Of Lincoln county
sbows that the darkies had been led to
believe that ConerIy was All lndepend>
ent. They were right.
MISS LIZZIE BURRow is the champion
r ae shot 10 Crawford county, Miss. In
y recent contest she hit the bulls eye
at n hundred yards.
How does it become the President to
interfere in the settlement of a State
debt? See Hayes opinion in regard to
the Virginia question.
Gov. CoLoU1r, of Georgia has ac-
denied on invitation to deliver an ad-
dress at the fair of the Mississippi
Stock Breeders Association.
We are now, always have been and
always will be, in favor of drawing the
lines. The stronger the better. Con
SESSIONS will pot do. Away with them.
TIE Iutelligence's attempt to prove
that fourteen could be greater than
twenty one was q failure. 1t takes
thinns entirely too much"for granted
SENATOR ZACH CHANDLER, of Michi>
--1
gan, died in his bed, at the Grand
Pacific Hotel, Chicago, on the 3lst inst,
He was q maj Of ability and prslhdlce.
PRoF. TOE advertises ''the most
brilliant meteoric display ever seen
since 1885," to take place November
13ta, 1879. The performance begins at
La. m,
resr negroes would not vote for Lon>
pino because he was the nominee Of
the Democratic party. That was the
argument used to capture them and 1t
succeeded.
JACK CHANDLER was one of the moot
monument leaders of the Republican
marty. It is unfortunate that both he
and Thurman should pass.of the stage
alb ,ut the same time.
MISS SALE MORGAN, a'native OF this
State, writing from California; IN a
letter to the Winona Advance says:
mississippi is a better country than
California in climate; soil, morals and
pecuniary interests
On the 3eth utt. a difficulty occurred
at Leota, Miss, which resulted in the
death of Harry Eley. a merchant, and
the serious w~ounding of a man named
Atkinson. Both parties fred about the
same time aud were SO close to each
cA,er that their faces we're burnt by the
powder.
THE New York Daily News admires
Gen. Grants advance on the Pres'-
danoy. 1t says there ''is more military
genius displayed in his two years
movement on Washington. with no
other assistance than a newspaper cor
esp dent at his eleow. than be ever
exhibited in his seige Of Vicksburg.
The Picayuue closes an encouraging
review of business in New Orleans with
the following remark: Prospects were
never more encouraging for an active
winter, at no time since the wal has a
season opened more promise Of eniarg>
ea commercial relations, or more spun>
dant assurance Of quick sales and re-
nuuerative prices for our great staflsA