The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-11
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

1880 WILL have three hundred and
sixty six days.
THERE is a considerable rise in the
Mississippi river.
The Supreme Court has refused bail
to Bridewell, of Vicksburg.
The Supreme Court has adjourned to
the first Monday in January.
NArcHEz paid to her City Tax Col
lector. during the month of March,
Sl1, 900.
Gyo. X. B1RCHErr, Democrat was
elected Senator in Warren County Tues
day last.
THE whole Democratic ticket was
elected in Louisiana by a majority OF
about twenty Thousand.
TIE Vicksburg Commercial is max
ing some calculations rs to the result OF
the Senatorial contest.
NArcHEz and Port Gibson are rival
cotton markets, and the war oetween
them this season has been warm.
THE Cornith Herald says neither
Gov. Stone nor his friends are trying to
nush him into The Senatorial race.
The Meadville Banner considers Aver
& Son, advertising agents, of Phliadel>
phia, swindlers. We do not. They
have always paid us.
WE learn that Judge Alcorn and '.
l.. Lake are soon to commence the
publication of a Republican paper at
Jackson.
THE Meadvilie Banner complains OF
a drunken printer. A strange pheno-
meuon! We have heard of drunken edi-
tors. but printers-never!
THE Comet announces that it Will be
published daily during the session OF
the Legislature. Price, $l.0o per
month, or 81 90 for the session.
JOSH NORRIS, we learn, will contest
the seat of Warren Cowen in the State
Senate. and that before Democratic
Senators. The cheek of the man!
Coz. E. RICHARDSON and other CAPS
i~talists. have purchased the North
Louisiana Railroad. They will close
the gap between Monroe and Shreve-
port.
KELLOGG thinks Spaford's case
against him has completely broke
down. He may yet be surprised as
the Senate will probably declare his
seat vacant.
A LARGE crowd of people went to
Waynesboro on Friday last to see Frank
Walton hung, aud were Disguised be>
cause the hanging did not take place.
the case having been taken to the Su-
prene Conrt.
THE Canton Mai gives notice that
on the 1st of January it will cut off the
names of delinquent subscribers. The
LEDGER .cuts off its delinquent sub
scribers once a year, and enters no
name on a credit.
TIE bank presidents of New Orleans
are in a bad way. Berry Russels, form-
erly President of the Bank of Lafsy.
cite. was indicted on the 9th inst.
charged with embezzling bonds and
money of the bank.
The latest sensation is that the Re-
publicans propose to steal the electoral
vote of New York, by allowing the Leg
islsture to appoint electors. The Repub
licans have stolen larger things than
the electoral vote OF a State.
In an interview in Washington
Speaker Randall squarely and unequiv>
ocalIy declared himself for Tilden as
the Democratic candidate for PRESS
dent. We always thought Randall
had q sound head on his shoulders, and
now we are convinced
CALHOUN, of the Yazoo Sentinel, is
blowing because he was elected Asses
sor. Now listen for Murray, of the
Falcon, to spirting because
he was elected Mayor of Oxford.
Well, the men are bigger than the
offices.
Gov. MARKS has called an extra SEES
sion Of the Tennessee Legislature. to
levy an additional tax, not exceeding
one per cent, on property in Memphis,
PAYABLE February LIST, 1880, and to be
expended in repairing the streets and
bridges and building sewers; to levy
the same tax payable December LIST, 1880.
A TELEGRAM from st. Louis says two
lions escaped from the London Circus
and are roaming over the woods III Mad
i,o county, killing men and children.
Public schools Lave been suspended
and the citizens of the county have or.
ganized a large body of men to hunt
the lions.
Gov. HENDgIcKs has been in Wash
ingtop consulting with prominent Dem
ocrats. He is reported to say Congress
oupht TO etand by the issues OF The
extra session. The attitude OF the
Democrats at the last session. he thinks
is unassaiIable, and must be maintained
at all hazards.