The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-29
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

EUlIOh1hA A. Emo.
JAY GOULD says Hancock will be
elected.
DR. TANNER is still fasting. He
is nearing his thirtieth day.
The yellow fever scare is over.
Not case in New Orleans.
GREENBACKERs are growing small
10y degrees and beautifully less.
IT is thought that Gen. Gonzalez
has been elected President of Mex
leo.
GEN. WALTHALL presented the
Democrats of Grenada with fine
flag last week.
THE steamer Dissook arrived in
New York on the Goth, with the
Egyptian Obelisk on board
The prospects are that the Rail
road war will soon break, when rates
will climb pto the top again,
WORMS are reported in the crops
in the river bottoms, though they
have done little damage up to date.
T. T. PIrrs, who was once editor
of the Southern Journal, at Brook
haven. died in Little Rock, Ark,
some days ago.
CAPT. Geo. ID. Wise has been nom
mated for Congress for the Rich
mond va. District to succeed Gen,
Joseph f. Johnston.
BESIDES the large number of Re
publicans who have announced
themselves for Hancock, nearly all
fhe leaders of the Greenback party
are following the same way.
GEN. WEAVER, in his letter Of &C
teptance, says that he wants to re
establish in the administration OF
public affairs the pure Republican
ism OF Abraham Lincoln and Thad-
deus Stevens"
DEMOCRATIC GREENBACKERs. in vo-
ting for Weaver, the author of the
soldiers bill, do you know that you
are voting for an old Radical Re
publican, an extreme, unsafe and
unsound man?
TIE st. Louis Globe-Democrat ia
Tors its readers with an article
ON the dangers of Democracy
THAT journal will find that there is
a good deal of danger in it-for the
Republican party.
CHICAGO will be lively during thu
week commencing August 14th
<,1orO ProParaUrons are beng mad'
to entertain the Knights Templar
who are to hold their Conclave ther'
that week. You can go for 1913.
READ the incendiary languag,
from the Greenback organs, the Va
lobusha Standard and Holmes Coun
ty Times. Such rawlings would Kill
any party. "Whom the Gods woulC
destroy they first make mad"
THE Port Gibson Reveille asks i
Mississippi could furnish the house
hold furniture for the A. d Nj. Col
lege why couldn't she furnish the
other furnit 1re-the brains? Only
that and nothing more.
The Examiner says the crops ar
looking finely in Monroe county
and are clear Of grass as a genera
thing and in excellent growing con
dition The worms have not as We
given any occasion for alarm.
Mr.. A. f. MAGE, former edIto
of the Enterprise Courier, was ma
ried to Miss Mary l.. Byrne, Of Ell
terprise Long life and great hap
piness is the wish of The LEDGE
Miss Byrne was a pupil at Whit
worth College in 1877.
The Philadelphia Chronicle re
marks: The man who can prove tha
General Hancock cut off his grand
mothers eiis and used them fo
fish bait, will be properly rewarde'
by forwarding the facts to Repub
liean newspaper"
Crops are good everywhere Tn
Natchez Democrat says that they az
reported as looking unusually fin
in the Washington district, and Civ
good promise No worms have a
yet appeared in that locality an
the planters are little iubilan
over the fair prospects.
CAPT. BURKE, of the Magnolia G..
zette, is correcting the history &
the country. In his last paper h
says: Hancock was the name {
the first President of this countr,
and Il gentleman by that name wi
be Mr.. Hayes successor" VIII
was Geo. Washington, any how?
THE New York World has ha
Gen. Sherman interviewed in DakO
ia, when the General stated that h
<'has no recollection of ever hearin
anything from General Hancocl
about taking orders from Mr.. Til
den, or indeed anything at all lik
the stories which have been printe'
and published about his cores
pondence with Gen. Hancock
A correspondent of the New o
leans Times, writing from Yazo,
City under date of 9th inst, say
That DR.. w. +. Williams, of Mechan
lcsburg, was assassinated Saturday
evening when riding home. Hi
horse came home riderless. ant