The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-07
For PRESIDENT,
FoR VICE PRESIDENT,
Thos. A. Hendricks,
Or INDIANA.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
OF INDIANA.


UNLESS we nominate, the Isau4cais
will hold al the ofie s.
Fl MusGRovE, Of Jackson, died in
Chicago, on the LIST inst.
OXFORD guarantees against all towns
that had the fever in 1878.
IT looks like the Independents of
Yazoo county were bulldozed.
The Louisiana Convention drafted a
constitution and adjourned last week.
THE Starkville Citizen wants a parts
ner With 500. 1t is a fortune for some
Que.
Wilcox county, Ala, sent her first
bale of new cotton to Mobile on the 4th
inst.
FATHER DOYLE, a Catholic Priest,
died of yellow fever in Memphis on the
4th isn't.
JAMES GRANT committed suicide in
Vicksburg on the 31st ult,, by taking
choral.
WE are glad TO again welcome the
Newton Report, by our friend R. X.
Jayne.
OwlNa to the yellow fever a good
many papels of the State are issuing
half sheets.
NJ. NJ. MoLEoD, colored, has been
admitted to che practice of law in Jack
son, Miss.
ONE hundred and seventeen deaths
from yellow fever occurred in Havana
during the week ending July Goth.
CONE to the convention, Saturday,
and unless you are positively instructed
against it, vote to nominate the county
officers.
KEEP the Radicals out of power by
nominating, either by convention or
primary election. We prefer the latter
mode.
The ape of Pike county will
make one hundred and sixty dollars out
of the candidates for District Attorney
that is, if they all announce.
The people begin to see the neces-
sity of making. nominations, and tile
prejudice heretofore expressed IN that
direction is giving place to sober second
Thoughts.
ABALE Of new cotton was received
at Albany, Ga, on the 30th. 1t
weighed four hundred aud thirty two
pounds and sold for tw~enty~one and
one>fourth cents per pound.
The British Admiralty has ordered
all Indian troop ships to be in readiness
for six months continuous service with
q view of bringing home troops from
the scene of wal in South Africa.
The vicksburg Herald asks if we are
opposed to Jno. Lynch having au office
because he is o colored man. Yes, be-
cause he is a negro and Radical, and
unworthy Of anything from Democrats
CONVENTIONS are generally mainpu-
lated by a few wire pullers, and are
often not an expression of the will oil
the people, but a primary election is
different. 1t gives every Democrat a
chance.
JNo. KELLEY, of the Tammany ring,
is q candidate for Governor of New
York. The question agitating the
Democrats of that State Is, will Tilden
support Kelley? Yes, if nominated, as
Kelley supported Tilden.
THE Governor has offered a reward OF
$3.50 for each of the following persons:
Peter Ford, Dwight Martin, Hal. Irwin
and Jack Marshall, of Yazoo county.
who are guilty of various violations OF
the criminal law, are fugitives from
Justice. and have hitherto evaded and
resisted arrest, and are still at large.
ONE Brown attempted to kill Gen.
Badger in New Orleans on the 4th inst.
As Badger was going up the stairs at
the Custom House, Brown drew a revol>
yer. seized Badger, and fired. the ball
passing over his head. Brown once
held a position underBadger and thinks
he should have been retained.
THOSE OF our Democratic friends, or
the most Of them. who have opposed
nominating candidates, have done so
under the impression that the nomina-
lions. if made, would be by a onven
ton. There is great opposition to the
convention system Of nominating, but
that perjudice does not exist against the
primary election plan.
WADTHALL, Barksdale and Singleton
are the only recognized candidates Tor
the United States Senate. Walthail
has a strong support in North and Cen
trail. Barksdale in South and West, n
and Singleton through East and Cen
trail Mississippi. Mississippi will be
we'll represented it makes no difference
which of the trio is elected to the
Senate.
WHEN Mr.. Alexander II. Stephens
appeared ON the floor of the Georgia
Senate Chamber last week the members
all rose and the galleries cheered. In
returning thanks for the honor, Mr.
Stephens said: IF there is anything
that is nearer and dearer to my heart
than anything else. it is the honor,
the pride. the glory, an the prosperity
Of Georgia.