The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-01
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

cratic Convention.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
HuRRAH for the ticket.
STAND by the nominees.
HANCOCK was Tilden's candidate.
HANCOCK and English will be
elected.
HANCocK's nomination has buried
the bloody shirt.
-sxow felt at Minneapolis Mineso-
ia, on the 18th of June.
THE Hancock boom has bursted
the Greenback bubble.
FALL into ranks and carry the
Democratic banner to victory.
The Democratic platform is broad
enough for all Greenbackers. 1t is
for gold and silver.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana
decides the law taking drummers
from other States unconstitutional.
THE Crystal Springs Camp Meet
inf will open at 6 clock, p. M, on
the 18th of August, and promises to
be largely attended.
GEN. W. 7. MARTIN, of Natchez
is the members of the National
Democratic Executive Commute
from Mississippi,
Miss MARY FLANERY vas found
dead in her bed, in Jackson, a few
mornings ago. Supposed to have
died of heart disease.
WE welcome the. Ripley Advertis-
er after an absence of several weeks,
its office having been destroyed by
fire on the 18th OF last April.
HANCocK's nomination has cleo
trified the country from one end to
the other, and sent a thrill of enthu-
siasm all over the land, greater than
ever before known.
DENNIS KEARNEY says the Green
hackers will carry Maine, Califor-
MIA, Alabama, Mississippi, and per
haps Texas. Dennis is noted for
his extravagant remarks,
TtLDEN, the greatest man in the
United States, withdrew from the
Presidential race with banner fly
ing. His name will go down to his
tory with that of Washington and
Jefferson.
The Greenback party is a snare,
a delusion, a humbug. There is
nothing in it. Stick to the Demo
cratic party led by the gallant Han
cock, against whom nothing can be
said.
Ok the first vote at Cincinnati the
Mississippi delegation stood: Bay
ard, s; Hancock, 5; Field, 2; Ill
den. l. Second vote: Bayard, 8;
Hancock. 6; Field, 2. Third vote:
Hancock, 16.
Col. T. b. MANLovE, of Vicks-
burg. died on the 26th ult. He was
by profession a lawyer, and had,
several times, been connected with
the press. He was one of the pur-
est and most fluent writers in the
State.
Reports from the upper Mississippi
river report a tremendous rise and
the country flooded. In some places
the rise is reported at twenty feet
and travel on all bottom land cut off,
with great loss of property.
In the suit of Jesse Raymond
against Senator Hill, of Georgia,
for seduction, and claiming ten
thousand dollars damages, the Court
sustained the defendants demurrer.
asserting the plaintiffs allegations
to be false.
New ORLEANS shipped to ltal,
during the past year 100000 gal
Ions of cotton seed oil, and to France
10000 And in a few months il
will be put through a purifying pro-
cess and all be returned to this
country as pure olive oil.
The Supreme Court has decided
the Holmes county contested cleo
ton 1t declares Baker ineli
oible to the office of Sheriff, ano
that Hoskins shall hold the Office
until a new election is held, to b.
ordered by the Board OF Super
yisors.
SHERMAN is having his revenge
The United States Marshall of Ar
Kansas, and another prominent Fed
eral official in that State, boil
Grant delegates to Chicago, hay'
had to ''stcp down and out. sner'
man men, Of course. take the'
places.
GEx. JOSEPH 4. JOHNSTON is cred
tied with saying Of that daslins
Confederate casalryman, Gen. For
rest, that she was the brightest mill
tary genius the war produced 81
either side, If we are to Judge hin
by the rnie Of accomplishing TN
largest results with the least mater
ial.'