The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

hurst Copiahan.
THE next term of the Circait Court for
Copiah county will on the
fourth Monday in April.
The Raymond Guzstte publishes a
picture of Bragg, of Winconsiu. 1t is
o handsome but expressive.
Victoria WooDHuLn is O Sunday
school teacher in London. angels
aud ministers OF grace, defend us!'
JgRE HORN. formerly of the Meridian
Mercury, now fills o position in the
post-ofice department at Washington.
TIE Raymond Gazette is propound>
Ing some questions to the Port Gibson
Reveille, and wants them answered.
PRESIDENT T1hpEN writes we'll for a
man whose mind is paralyzed, and he
talks we'll for q nan who has lost his
speech.
THE game law went into effect on
the 18th inst, except as to wild turk
ey. Thay may be killed until the lst
OF May.
THERE is to be a change in the PEI
destrian mania. The Detroit Free
Press mentions a lady who is going to
try to wink her eve one billion times in
one billion seconds.
THs Southern Sentinel is the name
Of a new paper that ome to us from
Ripley; Thos. Spight. editor. 1t is q
neat and readable paper, and is ono
riously Democratic.
STEWARDS body having been returned
10 the widow, so it is said, is how
guarded day and night. The body has
baen placed in the crypt at the New
Cathedral At Garden City.
DIR. r. II. WALKER, of Vicksburg,
has resigned his position under r. G.
Powers, as Deputy Internal Revenue
Collector, and Major Fl. B. Whitfield
has been appointed in his place.
since his encyclical Pope Leo has
several times been threatened by Soci
alists. He forwards their letters TO the
Governments of the countries to which
his threateners appear to belong.
The San Francisco Bulletin says that
the total arrivals of Chinese at that
port in 1878 was six thousand, six huns
bred and seventy~ive and the departs
nres six thousand and seyeuty-one.
MR. GEORGE APPLEwHITE, youngest
son of Mr.. Isaac A~pplewhite, while
out hunting recently, near Osyka, ac-
cllentatlly shot and killed himself,
th,rty buckshots passing through his
body.
The Memphis Appeal furnished al
account of an assassination at Corinth
last week. Pickens, a lawyer, and sons
iu~law of Judge Green. it says, was
found upon the streets with his throat
cut.
WHILE the City Marshal of Grenada
was proceeding to Jackson with a pris-
oner charged with murder, the latter
Jumped from the cars through a win
dow, while the train wasin motion and
made his escape.
A WARRINGTON special of the 18th
inst, says the condition of Senator
Gordon excites serious alarm. His
friends thought he was dying, as he
had spasms very like epileptic fits. He
is very dangerously i'll.
ALABAMA has a law limiting the Leg
i~slative session to fifty days. The
Montgomery Advertiser says, that the
consequence is, that the Legislature
has adjourned leaving much Of it's bus
mess unfinished and in a confused CON
dition.
SPEAKING of Mr.. Davis in conneo-
ton with the Senatorship, the Pasca
goula Democrat Star says: "Should
he desire to be returned to Congress
however, we believe he could be elected
by our Legislature, but we do not think
he does"
Az exchange says that a husband is
the wife's agent to purchase supplies
for her plantation without her consent
and even against her protest. She can
annual the agency only by a divorce.
This ls Mississippi law as ~expounded
by the Supreme Count.
TIE Advance says on Saturday as
Mrs. A. F. Minor of Wiuona was get
ting on the train at Grenada, a NAV
named Samuel Mcmillan stole her
pocket book out of her pocket contain
ing about 500. he was arrested and
was in default of $500 bond sent to
Jail.
SOME wretches in San Francisco have
brought out a passion Play" in which
10 EiO"h uho tio tIu CTuCiuAlOu OF
the Lord Jesus Christ. The authorities
have taken steps to prevent a repetetion
Of the sacrilege. The persons getting it
up ought to be hung or sent to the pen
itentiary for life.
The Atlanta Constitution says Red
path and other apostles, including the
Hon. Eli Perkins, are to be engaged in
composing a bible for use among Re,
publicans. The object of this is to get
q version of the ten commandments
that will be satisfactory to the members
of the party.
IT is stated hat the town election at
Byram. is to be contested. e. w.
Tucker, Dom, was declared elected
Mayor by a majority of n vote, but
Nj. Seay, of the Greenback Labor
party, contests the election on account
of irregularities. The Office is a very
important one. as Byram has a depot,