The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-06-19

10th inst,
BAN Anous has our thanks for late
st. Louis papers.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was seventy>ere
years old on the 81 inst.
THs Aberdeen examiner ia a kind III
Congressional reporter.
LAST week the thermometer ran up to
ninety eight in Philadelphia.
The Supreme Cont has remanded
the LAYTON case for a new trial.
SEVERAL cases of yellow fever were
reported ct indianapolis, Ind, May24th.
THERE will be a picnic Mt the grove,
near Kelly's mill, On the 4th Of July.
the report that yellow fever had bro
ken out in Port Gibson proved to be
false.
TIE Silver bill LAS been postponed
by the Senate until next session Of Con-
aress.
MAJOR r. Z. Foote, son of Gov. H. S.
Foote, died at Amora, Nevada, on the
22nd ult.
EXCURSION tickets to the Grant ora
ton at San Francisco have been fixed
at 1925.
MAJOR E. A. BURKE. is announced as
Managing Editor of the New Orleans
Democrat.
The contract for building the A. and
NJ. College has been given to G. NJ.
Rnbush, of Walden, sor $l5, 23S,37.
THE readers of the country papers
will be glad when editors get through
talking abont the Press Convention.
A FEW days ago R. G. Iugersoll de-
atvered an Grafton at the funeral Of his
brother, ex>Congressman E. C. Inger-
soil.
A MAN named Perry, a piano tuner,
WAS killed by the oars near Meridian.
on the VI. & o. r. r., last Saturday
night. r.
I'HE Supreme Court has reversed the
decision of the lower Court giving DR..
J. d. Kline damages against the Vicks-
burg Herald.
AT the headquarters Of General Ord,
in San Antonio, Texas. IS the marble
topped table on which General Lee
worie his capitulation.
MISS LIZZIE DuER, OF Worcester
t county, Maryland, is nov on trial for
shooting and killing Miss Hearn, her
intimate friend.
SneNcER at one time Senator from
Alshama-is out with Hayes and Sher>
,eussa aud proposes to avenge himself
, i,Jor them by aiding the Democrats
in OAiA
The Greenwood Flag says E. Ct.
sSaundera, Principal OF the McNutt
High Str Dol, recently absconded swind-
ling son:e assistant badly teachers and
various. citizens.
A STATEMENT is now going around
that Mr.. Hendricks declares that he
will not ee a candidate o second time for
'Vicerusident. If he is on the ticket
next wear, he must have the first place
Oh it.
SETTLER. of the Lauderdale Review.
is MS serious looking as a Jack in a thuns
der storm, but he is the wittiest editor
in the State. He would make you
laugh at the fuuerel of your mother-in-
law.
The picnic at Boguechitto last Sat>
urday is said to have been a very nice
affair. but AS no n has thought
enough of The LEDGER to send rs an
account of it, we cannot give particu-
lars.
HAYES is now spoken Of for renotnina-
ton to the Presidency. The Boston Her
aid, after a careful canvass OF Massa>
chasstts, esserts that Hayes is the
ssuas est man in THAT State as his OWE
saccessor.
Gov. Stone has parsoned NJ. NJ.
Fcrtenberry, who had been convicted
at the May term of the Circuit Court,
a Lawrenc. county, 1878, on a charge
of embezzlement of the public funds,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
two years.
The Tupelo Journal beautifully says
that Jefferson Davis is of the great
est types of the men that has eve left
his impress on the history of the world,
sud when at last be has gone down to
the grave we predict that the Southern
people will rear over his resting place.
q monument reaching nearer heaven
Than did the image ct Rhodes, Of the
Kingly Jupiter.
WE are glad 20 note that Rev. j. N.
Waddell. d. d., pastor of the Benle
street Presbyterian church Of Memphis,
Secretary Of the Presbyterian Board OF
Education aud formerly President OF
the Mississippi State University at Ok
ford, has been ele,ted to the Presiden.
cy Of the Southwestern Presbyterian
University at CtarksvifIe, Tenn. II he
accepts, the right man will be il the
right plae e.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the soldiers ,~re-union at Mead
Vile on the 4th nf July. A mass meet
lug of tue Democratic party will be
held at the same time and place. One
of the objects Of the meeting isto get
the sense of the party in regard to the
nomination of candidates for county
Offices, for Representative. for State
Senator from franklin, aud Jefferson
c~,unties, and for District Attorney.
s~ccoRD,NG to the Reveille there il