The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-01-23
EDITORIAL ITEM ).


State. The cheek of territory is as
founding.
A FIRE in New York City on the 10th
inst. destroyed about 100000 worth
of property.
ALL Saints Church, at Grenada, Miss
was robbed of number of valuable
articles on the night of the 18th of Jan
uary.
We learn Hon, Fl. D. Money is to be
made Chairman of the Congressional
Committee on Post offices and Post
roads.
Bob TooMBs, of Georgia, never
-. touches case under fee of s., 600.
He often argues before the Supreme
Court at Washington.
FREDERIC OvENBECK, who shot and
killed a negro named Henry Cook, in
Sharkey county, a few days ago, was
arrested near VicksDurg, Saturday last.
New ORLEANS will celebrate Mardi
Gras February 25th. Natchez and
Montgomery, Miss, expect to do some
thing grand on that day also.
Both houses of Congress have passed
bill equa!izing the bounty of SOL
diers, and 1t now awaits the signature
of the President. The bill increases
the pension list $4,000.
THE Mississippi Conference of the
sColored Methodist church assembled in
Yazoo City on the 14th inst. Bishop
E. G. Andrews presided. Sixty-tive
ministers and delegates were present.
Col. GARNETT ANDREWS, of Yazoo
City, will soon have issued supple
mental Digest of Mississippi Reports
that will embrace all the volumes from
the forty-ffth to the fifty-iourtia in
elusive.
The Banner says work on the Frank
lin county Courthouse will be com.
menced about the first OF March. Mr..
Stewart, the contractor, is confident of
having the building complete by the
first of September.
IT has been decided that Hostetter's
Bitters are properly classed under the
head medicinal, that they may be sold
as other medicinal articles and sold
without the vender being required to
pay special tax as liquor dealer.
BY new Law in Georgia, murder is
to be punished by death, unless the
Jury shall recommend Imprisonment for
life or the judge shall, in his discretion,
extend that clemency where the corvic
ton has been found solely on circum-
stantial evidence.
On the l1th inst, near Garner sta
ton, on the c., St, l.. & N. O. Il. X,
Mrs, George Tucker and three children
were frozen to death They started
from the station about 2 p. La. for their
home and froze to death when about
five miles from home
The Cincinnati Commercial Is writ
ing up Secretary Sherman for the Pres
ideney, His chances for nomination
are about as good as those OF any
other Republican. Should the Demo
Gratis nominate Thurman, and the Re
publicans, Sherman, the race would be
warm in Ohio.
In the Texas Senate there are %
Democrats, 5 Republicans, Independ>
snt. In the House there are "a Demo
Gratis, 8 Republicans, 9 Greenbackers
and l Independent. There are seven
negroes in the House of Representative.
There are 81 Senators and 81 Represent
tatives-123 in all.
TWENTY SIX Legislatures are now III
session. Democratic Senators will be
elected in Arkansas, Indiana, Florida
MARYLAND, Louisiana, Missouria and
North Carolina, and Republican Sen
atos will be elected in Connecticut,
Colorado. Kansas, Illinois, New York,
Nevada, Pennsylvania Wisconsin and
New Hampshire.
On last Monday afternoon in Lowndes
county, Mississippi, there occurred
difficulty between the Hon. Artemus
Erwin and MIR. James Cox. They are
both residents of the southern part OF
the county. Both used pocket knives,
and both. being game, were seriously
and perhaps fatally cut.
ROBERT LEWIS, (colored) living near
Lexington, Miss, last November mar
ried Sue Whitehead. The honeymoon
was short and they separated. Last
Sunday evening Robert loaded mp his
shot gun, went to Susan's residence
and fred sixteen buckshot into Susan s
breast. She is not dead but r ebert is
in Jail.
Mrs. FAssErT, who is painting the
Electoral Commission, invited the edi-
tel of the New York Sun to sit for hi
picture for the groupe. The editor de-
clined the honor, denounced the com
mission as fraud, and declares tina
il islands recorded as the most atroci
,ous, odious and shameful thing in thu
history of our country" Worse thar
that, he says: Zone would as sool
wish to have his likeness appear in {
picture of Benedict Arnold's treason.
The Yazoo City Herald satisfactoril,
answers the question. "Why are Unite'
States bonds called five-twerty and ten
forty?" Their names is derived, a
has been explained before, from tn
number of years during which they arr
redeemable at the option OF the govern
ment. The five-twenty bonds were re
deemable after FIVE years from date 0