The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-11-25
Editorial Drops.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. I'D

plague, and her merchants
are to-day receiving orders from
the doors of New Orleans, Mobile,
and other cities. We saw the
town under q disadvantage, as it
and showed all day, natu"'
ally retarding business.
We left there Wednesday night
the snow measured four inch
es on the ground, and was still fall
ing thick and fast. Engaging q
birth in a sleeping car, we were just
ready to prepare to visit the land
of dreams, when a gentleman enter
ed and informed the conductor that
he wanted to engage . section for a
bridal couple. The conductor said
he could furnish a single birth, but
he had not q whole section left.
Then the following colloquy occur
red:
Gentlcman-I don't want q berth
for one, but q section for two-man
and wife.
Conductor-My friend, l would
like to accommodate you, but CAM
not. If your bridal couple can get
along with a birth, here it is, the on
" lower one left. 1t is large enough
for two, especially two newly marri
ed people. AS a general thing brl'
dal' couples only want one birth.
Gent-Don't think that will do;
girl is timid.
An old gentleman stuck his head
out and said, where is the gal?
| Conductor, | was once married my
self. but | want such It fool as to
take my wife on q bridal trip in q
sleeping car: but if it will be any
accommodation, N0n can take tins
birth and give me another The
change was made, the young folks
were given q whole section; the nus
band climbed to the top birth and
left his wife shi vering in the lower
enc. They did not G to bt
sleepy, however, and kept up q kind
Of telephone communication til
twelve o'clock, when some Of The
passengers complained to the con
duct0r, and he modestly informed
the young folks that they would con
fer Il favor by talking lower. They
promised obedience, and subsideC
for half an hour. Then q Dialogue
was heard from their quarter, which
seemed to come altogether from The
lower birth:
maggie, now let me kiss you
and I'll let you go to Sleep
mo, no."
please, Maggie. Just one kiss
then you may 60 to Sleep
"No, dear"
Cob Maggie, darling, only on
kiss. Now don't refuse"
"No, pet-wait till morning"
;, Some one in the other end of Thu
car said: GLOW is that fellow goin!
to kiss his wife when she is in ont
birth and he in a~nother:'
Another rem. rked, I'VE have col
lissions on this road sometimes
The fellow may hsve dreampt w
had a collision and has fallen on
Of his birth"
The old man then said, 'you fel
lows tell that to the marines
have been married myself"
The bridal couple were quiet fol
thirty minutes more, when the low
pleading voice of the husband W
heard, Maggie, if you will let m'
kiss yol. we will both 70 30 Sleep
The old IAN could hold his ten
per no longer. ard in a voice lou
enough to wake everyone in the car
cried out: For 49, sake, Maggie
let him kiss you, and then W. viii
all 90 to sleep"
Whether she complied or not, j,
unknown, but no sounds were heard
!, from their section again that night
The weather is colder here than il
has been in November fcr ten years
past. The thermometer registered
four degrees below zero, at some
points in the city.
The young men around Brookha'
ven who were rash enough to bet
New York would not go Republican,
by fifteen thousand have, probably
learned by this time that they have
lost their money. That State gave
Garfield a majority of twenty thous
and.
Gov. Williams, of Indians. died OF
the Goth inst, after a long illness
4 good man has gone to rest.
Kelly has opened another fight or
Tilden and charges that he is res.
ponsible for Haneock's defeat. The
result, it is hoped, will be, that Kel
Fly will be kicked out of the Demo
~cratic party. and Ti!den nominated
and elected President in 1884.
It is generally conceded that the
proposed investigation into the cleo
ton frauds in New York will amount
to nothing. 1t is only a trick Of
Kclly's to keep in the Democratic
party. Garfield has been elected
President, and VII be installed
without hinderance from any source
The Senatorial contest in Ohio
seems narrowed down between Sher
man and Foster. and there are mer
who predict neither will be elected.
Many Democrats here express
themselves as being supremely dis.