The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-13


II is estimated that one thousand new
buildings will be put in Lincoln, Neb..
this year.
John E. Owens is credited with be
ing the richest man On tho American
stage. He is worth 81, 200, 900.
The New York politicians who are
now swarming at Albany, all believe
that Grant will be the next President. :.
The Tampa Guardian boasts, that
such a thing rs case of starving to
death hns never been known in Florida,
A seven year old OK, weighing one
thousand, nine hundred and twenty
pounds was slaughtered at Austin.
Texas, Thursday last.
A negro by the name of Carter Chan
dler, attempted to hang himself in
Columbus, Miss, few days ago, be-
cause a girl refused to marry him.
A young gambler of Pensacola has
agreed to eat n thousand eggs in one
thousand quarter hours. and says any
one furnishing the eggs can safely back
him.
An industry has opened mp IN South
Florida, that of killing alligators and
fixing up their heads as curiosities for
northern tourists to take them home With
them.
The Eagle and Phoenix Mills of COL
umbus, Ge., are said to be the largest
cotton mills in the South, and consume
more cotton than any factory, making
colored goods only. in America.
On the Story plantation, in the parish
st. Bernard, La, a few days ago a man
by the name of Gonzales was shot and
instantly killed by Joe Fanlk. They
were both III love with the same wo-
man.
Lamar is five feet eleven inches in
height and weighs one hundred and
eighty-three pounds. Senator Bruce,
san, is a man OF more physical heft,
being five feet eleven in height, and
weighing two hundred pounds.
Prehaps the a5surdest thing Of theias,
session of Congress was Ben. Butler
asking aud obtaining permission on Sat
urday to print his Woodstock Fourth Of
July speech of 1870 as a reply to the
, Presidents veto of the anti Chinese
bill.
t The present Governor OF Alabama,
!, Rube Cobb, as he was formerly called
is a fiddler of considerable note. H.
) used to draw a lively bow away up il
st. Clair county, and long before he
, ever dreamed of being Governor O.
the State Of Alabama.
Mr.. Francis G. Barlow, an eminen'
Republican lawyer and politician o
New York. was selected by Gen. Gran
e to go to Florida and see q fair count il
+ the Presidential election. He went
and the other day, he swore before tn,
Blaine Teller Committee that Mr.. I'll
den carried the State.
}, VIM. Carter was murdered a few day.
ago with an axe by William Campbell
both colored, at the Sweet Home place
of .. N. Wilds, about thirty miles be.
. low Natchez. Campbell is regarded al
a desperate. He shot John Harrison,
: colored, at Wildwood Springs. Frank
lin county, killed Q man zeal Woodvillt
J.. recently, and not more than a week age
. shot a woman on the Forest place.
Charles 81. Leonard has been elected
mayor of Galveston by one Thousand
pipe hundred and thirty votes over W
Fl. Stafford's one thousand six hundred
and ninety-two. Politically Leonard il
, independent. The Democratic candi'
date. Col. Stafford, was beaten over two
hundred votes. The regular Democra.
> tic maj ority of Galveston, however, i.
set down at two thousand. 1t is claim
ed that Leonard's election is q rebukt
, to machine politicians.
:. On the Goth of the present montl
Monticello, the home of Jefferson, is tc
q be sold by auction. The stately ole
mansion is near Shadwell. Virginia, an(
is situated upon the summit of one o
the highest mountains of Albemarle. 1
I was from 1907 to 1926 one of the mosl
, complete and aristocratic mansions il
, the United States. Captain Levy, O
, New York, bought Monticello after JET
, feason's death. During the war it wal
t confiscated by the ~Confederates. ant
since that time it has been in constant
Litigation. The court of appeals o.
Virginia has ordered the sale of the es'
tate by the State commissioner.
Ben Haynes, section boss on the G,
st. L. &. N. o. Railroad, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the head at Water Valley, Mississippi,
Saturday night. Information brought
by a visitor from that section Is very
meagre, giving no cause for the deed.
TEXAS is a State full of promise fol-
the Nation and Democracy. The Paris
Banner of that State says the next cen>
sus will entitle her to at least eig Int
more Congressman, and of course we
may reasonably hope that they will all
be of the right political stripe.
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