The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-05
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

of Il compress.
TuELondon Times predicts that
France will advance its rates of dis
count in order to prevent the expor-
tation of gold.
THOMAS L. CRITTENDEN has been
chosen as nominee for governor
by the State Democratic convention
of Missouri.
TuE Citizen had a picture asking
Hancock and English to return to
StarksviIle in ten days. Does their
Railroad ticket expire so soon?
The new institute for the blind
ut Jackson, Miss, is to be built
Of brick at a cost of 2 1000, and is
to be finished by May LIST, 1881.
Dir. Tanner has tasted thirty
sever days, and if he lives until
Saturday he will have accomplished
the feat of fasting forty days.
InE first Greenback knock down
the alabama election. Weaver
helped to do it with his.foolish rant
inc. senseless, blowing tongue.
Full census returns show the
population of Utah to be one-hun-
dred and forty-four thousand, an in
crease of sixty-fve per cent. in ten
years.
Gen. Grant says he has nothing
against Gen. Hancock, but Gar
field is the man for the office. There
is a difference of opinion on this
point,
CONFEDERATE soldiers have made
up their minds they cannot vote the
Greenback ticket. They see no
justice in repaying the Federal sol
diers.
WINoNA is on the get up,and shows
signs of prosperity. Three new res
licences and eight handsome brick
stores mark its progress, and the
life of its people.
SPAIN has insulted the United
States by firing on two of our YES
sells in neutral waters, but there will
be 40 fight as Secretary Evarts be-
longs to the peace society.
Secretary of the Navy Thompson
is on a political tour ont west. He
made a speech at Denver in which
he intimated that while General
Hancock was a great soldier he was
no. statesman.
THE Greenbackers failed to carry
Alabama by a large majority. Don't
forget that they united with the cor
rupt Republicans to help overthrow
the Democracy. They would unite
with anybody to get in power.
The press of this district has CIV
en- Col. Deason a warm reception
The Kinds county Gazette says he
is a labor-saYing candidate. Yes,
Hooker will save him or any man
the labor of serving the people OF
the southern district.
In the solitude of his country
home, at Cadareta, Miss, S. Newton
Berryhill, late editor of the Column
bus Democrat, says he would be
obliged to his newspaper friends for
occasional copies of their papers.
He shall have THE LEDGER.
The British queen has offered as
a site for the memorial statue of the
Prince Imperial, which was refused
a place in the Westminster Abbey
a place in st, Georges chapel, Win
o Castle, which has been accepted
by the committee having charge of
the matter.
WILMINGTON, n. c., furnishes a
murderer of more than tiendish
=. |A,
character in the person of Stephen
Richardson, negro, who beat his
mother-in-law to death. 1t would
not do tor him to be tried by a party
of sons-in-law, because they would
acquit him.
SENATOR BRUCE had an interview
with the President, in which he de-
manded that substantial encour-I
agement be given to the Republicans
of the South, otherwise they would
take no part in the the next cleo
ton; Mr.. Hayes promised that they
should be aided in every possible
way. .,. ..
THE President will visit the Pa
cifc coast in September, and as
civil service reform is a thing of the
past, he may be induced to
make a few speeches for Garfield
We don't see how Mr.. Hayes can ex
pect a warm reception from the peo
of California, as he vetoed and Gar
field opposed the bill prohibiting the
immigration of Chinese to this
country.
THE Democrats have carried Ala-li
bama W. the fusion of Republic L
cans, Greenbackers and In Deepen
Jents by a majority of about fifty |,
thousand. Weaver was in the State Il
several days before the election, and
boldly announced that the Green I
hackers would carry the State. They
could not do 50 with the assistance
Of the rotten Republican party. PntIe
Weaver down as d false prophet Il