The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-15
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

EDITORIAL
A coloREp Hancock club has been
formed in Richmond, Va.
TIE Brandon Republican has our
thanks for its good advice.
TupELo has a population of one
thousand and eight persons.
FINANCE will regulate itself and
the Greenbackers cannot helplt.
YAzoo City wants q draw bridge
owe the river there, to cost $lo,ooo'
Col. PELToN, nephew of 5. j. III
den died in New York on the oth
inst.
Now look for the fasting mama,
since being inaugurated by Dr.
Tanner.
The New York Herald publishes
two column cable about the Cars
new yacht.
BRApLAUGu, the infdel, has been
admitted to his seat in the Engllsh
House of Commons.
The Congressional Convention Tor
this district will be held at Hazle-
L,,,.+ navt Monday.
On arriving home from Clncin-
natl Gen. Walthal was received with
distinguished honors.
The Greenback idea is a bugaboo
to frighten grown up children
There is nothing in it.
Ir is announced that the Missls-
sippi College will have a military
department next session.
A telegram from Handsboro says
Hooker spoke there on the 10th lnst''
and that the coast is solid for him.
A WIDOW lady, a Mrs. Underwood
was hooked and butted to death In
Scott county, a few days ago, by a
COW.
MODEST is a virtue Weaver does
not possess, He waits to be Presl-
dent, and is going around telling the
people so.
THE Greenbackers have an undo
fined idea that the millennium vii
come when the country is flooded
with paper money.
THERE were eighty deaths from
sun stroke in New York within the
twenty-four hours ending on,the al
ternoon of July 1st.
IKTHE Governor has appointed >
d. Burke. S. A. Matthews and w
II. Yeandle, Commissioners of Elec'
ton for Pike county.
The cotton worm has made its
appearance on almost every planta.
ton on the Mississippi river between
New Orleans and Natchez.
The Greenback party is going to
pieces. Peter Cooper and othel
sensible men of the party say they
will support Hancock for President
In referring to the candidates fol
the Presidency, the Aberdeen Elk
aminer says it cannot call to mine
the name of the Greenback candi-
date.
Mr.. TILDEN is reported to have
contributed 100000 to the Demo
cratic campaign fund. Augustus
Belmont and Henry Hilton have
each been as liberal.
A REPORT having gone out thai
Jere Black wrote Hancocks letter
addressed to Gov. Pease, Mr.. Black
has written an article stating that
he V saw the letter till he read
it in print.
CHIEF JUSTICE GEORGE has resign
ed that position on the Supreme
Court Bench, and is succeeded 10y
Hon. II. II. Chalmers. Judge
George will continue on the bench
till he takes his seat as Senator.
The Malone men in Virginia have
put out an electoral ticket in opposi-
ton to that of the regular Democra-
CIV. Malone and his followers are as
mean a.set as the Radicals who
used to rob the people ofthe South.
GEN. S. +. CARY, the Greenback
candidate for Vice President -four
years ago, co~ngratulates General
Hancock on his nomination for
President, and expressed the hope
and conviction that he will be
elected.
AFTER sitting and wrangling two
days at Vicksburg, the Republican
Convention nominated j. r. Lynch,
colored, as the candidate from the
Sixth District. He vas nominated
ON the eighty-fifth ballot. Harmo-
ny in the Republican ranks is thing
of the past.
W. w. HosKINs, former editor OF a
Greenback paper in Corinth, has
deserted the weak party, and Is now
announced as one of the editors OF
the Lexington Advertiser, a Demo
cratic paper. People join the Green
back party, look into its nonsenslcal
notions and quit it in disgust.
SOME few of the papers head the
National ticket Democratic Conser-
vative ticket. The useless appen-
dage conservative was not rec0g-
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