The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-01-30
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

IL. N L. iLbhlIDNA Nus assumed
editorial charge of the Walthall Pioneer.
THE Arkansas Legislature has elected
Hon. J, j. Walker, to the United
States Senate.
THE plague in Asia is spreading, and
European powers are taking steps to
continei it to its present territory.
THE new steamer "Col. Hooker" left
New Orleans on the 2Sth inst, for
Columbia, Monticello and all way points
on Pearl river.
THE Illinois Central railroad has de-
clared a dividend of nine per cent. for
the year 1873. The past year has been
the most prosperous in the history of
the road.
WILEY JONES, ESQ, has changed the
name OF the Nelson House, Jackson, to
the European House, and promises to
give his guests the best the market
affords.
JUDGE HILL says all parties who have
filed their petition in Bankruptcy must
pay the additional cost, in their cases
prior to the first of March. or their
petitions will be thrown out of court.
The Russian and Turkish Govern
ments have agreed to a clause of the
d tlnIte treaty of peace, STIMULATING that
the Russians shall ~evacuate Turkey
within thirty-fvo days Of the signature
of the treaty.
OWING to business engagements Hon,
J, fferson Davis declined to deliver the
annual honorary Grafton at Oxford COM
mencement. Hon. John b. Gordon, Of
Georgia, has been elected to deliver
the address instead.
The committee on appropriations of
tie House OF Representatives ..have re
ported unanimously in favor of one
hundred thousand dollars asked for by
Col. hooker for the erection Of a Gov
crnment building at Jackson, Mss.
A SPECIAL from Austin, Texas, of the
9th inst, says that in a street fight
with pistols, Sheriff j. T. Wilson, of
Palo Pinto county, was instantly killed,
and Ellison, a %by,tander, dangerously,
and another person slightly wounded.
TEsrlM my is being taken in Aber
deem ON the DavissMuldrow, contested
election case, Col. +. Reynolds and
f. NJ. Rogers, Esq, appear on behalf
of Hon. II. l.. Muldrow, and NJ. NJ.
Cummings. Esq for Gen. Davis.
The report of Col. J. L. Power,
grand secretary Of the Masonic order of
Mississippi, made at Okolona last week,
shows that one hundred and eleven of
this organization in the State were
swept away by the epidemic last sum
mer.
ADvICEs from Rio Janeiro to the 7th
state that drought and small pox are
increasing III the North and East pro-
vinces. Four hundred and seventy
three deaths from smallpox have oc-
cured in the capital of the province of
Ceara in twenty days ending December
Dist.
In Missouri Hon. Geo. G. Vest, for
mer Confederate States Senator, has
been elected to the Senate for the long
term, and, Gen. James Shields who
has already represented two other States
in the federal Senate, was elected to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Senator Bogy.
The Spanish Government has ORDER
ed a man Of war to be dispatched to
Puerto Plata, San Domingo, to demand
reparation for the insult offered the
Spuni:h flag by the authorities Of San
Domingo in Selling two insurgents
Generals who had taken refuge on
board q Spanish steamer. and shooting
them.
The new Senator for Connecticut, Mr.
Platt. has OILY a local reputation. He
has been in both Houses of the Legis-
lature, and Speaker of the House.
serving with credit in every Office he
has held. The New York Tribune says
he is "a man of ability and convection,
aud his chief competitor paid him a
very warm tribute in the moment Of de-
feat.
MONDAY the convention of the hide
pendent Order of B'nai Birth convened
in Philadelphia. About two hundred
and fifty accredited delegates were
present. The meeting was calledto order
by Julius Bien, president'of the order.
Josiah Cohen, Of Pittsburg, was chosen
temporary chairman, and Alfred L.
Jones and Lewis Abraham temporary
secretaries.
The United States Circuit Court,
Judge Settle presiding. has sentenced
the Brevard county, Fla, canvassing
board, which, was convicted of iaaking
a false return of the election. Lee, the
county clefk, was sentenced to three
years, Wright, the Sheriff, and Johns,
a Justice, respectively, to II year each
in the Albany ~penitentiary. Lee is
also State Senator from Brevard county.
All the other election cases were con-
tinued to the May term Of the court.
C~oRRUPTIoN has been discovered in
the Connecticut Legislature Of 1876
The stubs show that from thirty to
thirty five Thousand dollars were used
for legislative expenses in influencing
the Connecticut Legislature of 1875, to
prevent the repeal of the charter of
the company asked for by the insur
ance commissic ner. Tue receiver re
fuses to make the names public, but
knows several members Of the Legis-
,ature, that year, received a portion Of