The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-01-02
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
ho Iv ls still lost.

IN n wv 1olh Olly.
THOSE old humbugs Ash & Robbins
are again coming forward.
RESUMPTION has cJmmenced. Banks
are paying out gold for greenbacks.
p The Mississippi College at Clinton
has on, hundred stulsn.s jim atten-
dance.
The Helena World comes dated
December ~. 1t must have new
calender.
IT doesn't look like Gov. Stone inten-
del calling the Legislature together in
extra session.
WfrH niue millions of taxable prop
erty, Memphis is burdenea with city
debt of 80, 800, 1000.
The Souder, the ship supposed to
have taken the fever to New Orleans,
sunk a few days ago.
One thousand people, ort of the
seven thousand, six hundred who
had the yellow fever at Vicksburg,
died.
The colerel people of Georgia OWE
about six millions worth of property,
rs shown by the tax recor Is, chiefly il
End.
Poor BLAINE! To have tine obscu-
rest man in the Senate made chairman
of his pet committee is the unkindest
cut OF all.
THE Senate Committee to investi-
gate election frauds leave Wash 'ngton
This morning. They will first visit
New Orleans.
The Comet, formerly published at
Meridian land afterwards at BrookhS-
ven. is to be revised at Jackson, by its
old editor
The Grenada S ntinel publishes a
picture of Butler P.I Anderson, who
fell while nobly fighting the yellow
scourge at GREE ada.
HENRY Guy CAR 4EToN won the priz
offered by the Nsw Orleans Times fol
the best poem. Mr. Carleton has lived
in New Orleans two years.
DIR. LUKE P. BLACKBURN has beer
travelling over the southern part of Ken
tdcky in the interest OF his candidacy
for the Office of Governor.
IT is estimated there are ten thou
sand trainps on their way South, viz
the Illinois Central and Chicago, St
Louis and New Orleans Railroads.
THE Potter Committee is now in New
Orleans. 1t is there to complete the
labors left unfinished last Summer in
Investigating the charge of fraud in the
Presidential election.
O'LEARY won the watch over Cam
pana, in New York, on the 28th OF De-
cember. OLeary walked fonr hundred
miles in six days and Campana walk
ed three hu. bred and fifty
BUFFALO Bill has made, 1t is report.
ed, about one hundred and thirty>tiye
thousand dollars on the stage, most OF
which he has invested in cattle, having
in all six thousand, three hundred
head,
CHARLES Francis ADAMS, of Mas
sachussetts, has purchased thirty five
acres of ground price SAC, 000) in the
suburbs of Kansas City, and will pro,
coed to erect large cotton mill, with
cottages for the operatives, sometime
next spring.
The commission of army engineers
which was appointed by the chef Of
engineers, in accordance with an act OF
Congress, to visit Eads' jetties, at the
South Pass of Mississippi river, and
make an inspection and report. as tc
whether there is any modification
necessary in the law have arrived.
CHINESE are colonizing New York
city. There is settlement of Mon
golians on Mott street, which Is known
in the vicinity as "New China" Va
rious establishments are5'opened, such
as grocery store, tailors shop, with
gambling hells and opium deps in full
operation. 1t has also a Chinese res
taurant.
THE bloody shirt debate in Congress
after the holidays seems to be inevita
BILE. Blaine and his cohorts are wheel
ing up their weapons to be ready for the
fray, while Senator Thurman and Other
shining lights in the Democratic..party
will be there to oppose the vind;ctive
ness with which the bloody shirt vii
be waved.
THE Agricultural, College has beer
located at Starksville, Miss. Some o
the State papers are censuring thu
Trustees for locating the College there
We are of the opinion the College will
never amount to much, as Agricultu
raj Colleg es are generally failures, ant
it does not make much dfferenc,
where it is put.
1HE DltiI0 Will
Governor Nicholl, Elk Chef Justice Luz
delng, Col. Frank c. Zachare and
Antony Fairfax, the Republican cand
idate for Congress in :the fifth district
A. Lenord, Blunt, of Natchitoches
and several Republicans from the Eel
icians, to prove intimidation in Louis
lana at the late election.
WE learn that Mr.. H. S, Foote, Jr.
of Canton, will be candidate for Dis
trict Attorney, at the next election. il
the District composed Of Yazoo, Kinds
Madison and Copiah counties, subjec
to the Democratic nomination. Mr.
Foote stands high as lawyer, is ma
tive Mississippian, who has always en-
listed in the services Of his county
either in war or peace, and would max