The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-28
For PBE IDENr,
For VICE president,
Thos. "A. Hendricks,
OF INDIANA.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

m N on the Odd inst.
MURRAY, editor of the Falcon, is a
candidate for Mayor of Oxford.
SOME of the towns are re-establishing
their guarantees against New Orleans.
Show your LEDGER to your neigh
Dor and tell him he ought to subscribe
for it.
THE ladies' of Magnolia have taken
the initiative step to building a Press
byte,ian chulch.
HENRY MAKER, colored, dangerously
cut a white man named Culkins, in
Vlcksburg, on the Oath inst.
Gov. BROWN has written the Vicks-
burg Herald q letter endorsing its
course regarding the Yazoo matter.
NELLIE GRANT SARToRIs Is not dead,
as reported last week. Her name was
~coufounded with that OF another lady.
The report that there were fonr cases
of yellow fever ut Starkville was false.
The Mayor has published q card deny
ing the report.
The Louisville and Great Southern
Railroad ia now running its own express
trains. This is one of the largest and
best roads in the country.
BARKspALE, who killed Dixon, III
Yazoo City, has been released from inn
~prisonmeut upon a $l5. 600 bond. He
waived a preliminary trial.
THE Patriot Democrat, published at
Clinton, La, hoistS the name OF Hens
bricks and Gordon. as its candidates
for President and Vice-President in
1880.
THE Northern Radical papers are
putting the killing of Dixon on polti,
cal grounds, when it is well known the
killing was about purely private mat
tiers.
THE Fayette Democratic club has
endorsed Major Thos. Reed as their
first choice for State Senator, and
Judge jackson Millsaps as their second
choice.
OF the sixteen persons recently con-
fined in the Pike county Jail five were
men and eleven women. Five OF the
women had their babes with them. All
were colored.
ROBERT HARRIS is going through the
State begging money on the plea OF be
ing deaf and dumb, but when the con-
tributions are not large enough to suit
he curses like a trooper.
NUMEROUS humbugs are now adver-
tised as sure preventiyes of yellow few
Ell. When will the charlatans begin to
advertise burial robes to protect the
dead from the fires of Satan?
OUR young friend Ira D. Oglesby,
of Senatobia, has been nominated for
District Attorney of the Third Judicial
District. He is a rising young lawyer
and will make a faithful prosecutor.
THE Rankin county bulldozing didn't
amount to much. Some of Sutton's
friends, regardless of politics, asked
him to withdraw from the contest, but
be refused to obey and there the mat
ter rests.
The Mail says there was an alterca
ton in Canton, one day last week, be-
tween Robert Ross and VIM. Young in
which the latter was badly cut with a
knife. The parties are cousins and
brothers-in-l law.
Rev. B. WAYNE, who with his FAM
", spent part of last summer in Brook
haven, died in New Orleans last Thus
day from the effects of injuries recelv>
ed while in bathing. He leaves q large
family and host of friends.
Ir is stated that the face stamped on
the American silver dollar, is that OF
Miss Anna w. Williams, a teacher IN a
public school in Philadelphia, she hav-
iues set for the artist who designed the
Goddess of Liberty's head for that coin.
The report of the Agricultural De-
partment informs us that the produc>
tion of wheat in the United States for
the current year will approximate four
hundred and twenty million bushels,
and the quality will be much superior
10 that of last year.
THE Democratic primary election IN
Simpson county nominated for Repre-
sentative, D. W. McInnis; Sheriff, D..
r. Weathersby; Clerk, W. L. Drum
monds: Treasurer. G. j.. D. Punches;
Assessor, r Drummonds; Coroner and
Ranger, A. H. Brown; Surveyor. J. NJ.
Mobly.
GEN. SMITH, State Superintendent OF
Education, has Six Peabody scholarships
to award in the Normal College, at
Nashville, Tenn. They are worth $2O0
each. applications must be made by
the 9Th OF September. Persons apply.
ing must not be under SIXTEEN years OF
age. Address him for particulars.
B. B. PEARSON. Superintendent OF
Education Of Harrison county. shot and
killed an old man named ]. d. Conker-
tou of New Orleans. in Mississippi
City. on the 2lst inst. The difilcnity
rrew out of q quarrel about q drink
Chat Conkerton claimed Pearson had