The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-11
For VICE PRESIDENT,
Thos. A. Hendricks,
Or INDIANA.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

No yellow fever at Mississippi City
DELTA, LA has had a suspicion:
case"
j. GOULD has sent s., 900 to stricken
Memphis.
JUDGE SHACKLEroRF, of Jefferson
comfy, is annouced as a candidate 70.
Senator.
Col. A. Y. HARrER, Of the Okolon;
States, has gone North on a lectuiins
tour.
THE Democratic State Convention o
New York met yesterday. 1t is posi-
BILE thai Tilden may have been nomin'
ated Governor.
THE second Senatorial Convention
for Lawrence, Lincoln and Pike coun,
ties will be held in Brookhaven on til,
18th inst.
RANKIN and Sanders, who recent,
escaped from the Fayette jail, and TO
whom the Sheriff offered rewards hav,
been re captured.
A WHITE man named Street assassinat
ed negro named DeSanch, near Friar'.
Point, a few nights ago. No causC
given; murderer at large.
THE Vicksburg Herald has overdon,
the "Yazoo affair" 1t is well enough
to condemn a measure you do not like
but there is no use to continually harl
about it.
The coast towns have never beel
healthier shan tss past summer. Bay
ST. Louis, Pass Christian, Biloxi anC
Ocean Springs are reported to be per-
ectly healthy.
OK last Saturday morning the fun(
now beng collected ut Atlanta for the
children of General Hood amounted i,
one Thousand one hundred eighty-nin'
dollars and eighty cents.
LANOON. L OOI ItCSli'J buil'iOHCu III
Board of Health, at Nashville, by re-
fusing to have his trunk fumigated
He fumigated pretty lively himself
when the indignlty was offered him.
A OUT named HATTIE. a few day.
ago, murdered his mother, aunt anC
cousin, at Maynesvil!e, Ohio, and thel
killed himself. That having occurred
outside of Yazoo county and Missis
sipps, will not be considered much o.
an affair.
One day last week Mrs. Spragut
left her husbands house with her three
little girls. Her whereabout is IN
known. Sprague is as mad as a "N1arcl
hare" It is rumcred the Madam vii
sue for a divorce.
How would it do to hold the mex
National Democratic Convention in st
Louis, in the same hall used before
and nominate the same ticket-Tilder
and Hendricks? 1t would be the
neatest and best thing the Democracy
OF the United States could do. We are
for St. Louis and the old tlcket-espec-
tally the old ticket.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON is reported
by the Richmond State as saying to al
interviewer that Thurman Or Bayard
will be the next Democratic nominee
for the Presidency. As Senator Hamps
ton is not a prophet nor the son of 6
prophet, it is more than probably thai
aeither of his friends will be nomina-
ted. "Uncle Samey' will capture the
Office.
A from New Orleans says
that sdyices from the parishes show
that almost every sugar plantation in
the State suffered more Or less by dam
age to or destruction of buildings by
the storm. The cane crop is not be-
lieved as a general thing to be seriously
injured, but cotton plantations in the
track of the storm reported damaged
ten to fifty per cent.
o. A SPECIAL to the Vicksburg CONNER
cial says an attempt was made Saturday
night. at Lake Providence La, to as
sassinate Rev. Silas Smith, a promin
emit colored minister. The peace and
auiet of his home was broken by the
EXPLOSION of the assassin's double bar
rel gun. at a back window. The load
which was evidently aimed at the heart,
passed through the right arm.
The trial of Henry Gulley, for the
killing of Miss Cornelia Chisholm, is
progressing in Kemper county. Josh
Morris and District Attorney Ford are
prosecuting; Col. S. M. Meek and
Capt. Thos. HI. Woods defending. Mrs.
Chisholm and Gen. Woodford are IN
attendance. Representatives OF the
%, ess from New York, Chicago, Vickse
burg and New Orleans are present.
WE don't know whether the letter OF
Mr.. Davis, declaring he is not a can
didato for United States Senator, will
suit the vicksburg Herald or not; but
it ought to silence that paper. 1t has
been criticising Mr.. DAVIS for the last
Twelve months, but now that that gen.
tleman has said he was not before the
public for Office it ought to hold up.
The letter may not be III accord with
the great Conscientious paper. pnt ~
will answer the purpose for, winch 1t
was intended.