The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-02

SOME unknown person shot Mo
ses Davis near Enterprise last week
inficting q painful wound. No ar
rest.
j. O. Metcalf, a Justice of the
Peace, was found dead in his room
in Natchez, last Sunday night.
Death was caused by structure of
the esophagus.
AN Illinois paper consideres it an
outrage that the old homestead of
Abraham Lincoln should be sold as
a colored woman's home. Well,
that is putting it fine.
MI. j. W. Coleman has been APP
pointedlacting passenger agent of the
est. L. & n. 0. X. r., vice Maj. S. f.
deceased. He is an experien-
ced railroad man and will creditably
fill the position.
Mr.. r. A. Osmer, Supreme Treas.
urer of the Knights of Honor of the
United States, died at Atlanta, Ga,
q few days ago. His home was
jamestown, n. Y, and he was visit
ING the South in search of health.
d. L. Love, of Columbus, is now
II Ofthe business managers of the
New Orleans Independent. He is
well qualified for the position, and
we trust his success in the Crescent
City may be greater than he hopes.
Last Monday Port Gibson voted
to subscribe thirty thousand dollars
towards the Mississippi Valley and
Ship Island railroad. The vote
stood one hundred and eighty-fOur
for subscription and thirty-sevcn
against it.
LINCOLN, Coahoma, Warren, Boil
yer and Pamela were the only coun-
ties in this State to give Reppbli-
can majorities at the last election.
There was not a Republican or
Greenback vote cast in Smith, New
ton, Scott or Jones.
THE Greenback orators will tell
you their party is increasing, but
the figures are against them. In
1879 it polled G33,978 votes; in
1880, about 100000, and lost half
its Congressman. At that rate, the
party will not be alive next year.
Lieut. Gov. Robinson was acct
dentally killed in a mine neal Lead
Vile, Col, on the Doth ult. 1t seems
there had been a riot among the mi
ners, and he was trying to restore
peace when one of the guards shot
and killed him, not knowing who he
was.
The Only Lung Pad Co., OF De
troit, Michigan, has no financial
standing, and the impression among
reliable agencies is that they will
never pay their advertising CON
tracts. We have enough faith in
them to withdraw their advertise
mept.
IT is stated that some Of the rep
resentatIve men of Texas have in
formed Gen. Garfield that they
wouid support his administration.
They are over hasty. Suppose Gar
fields administration is of the stall
wart kind, would they support it
them
In the First District Muldrow's
majority was 6.567; second District,
Manning's majority, 3,269; third
district, Moneys majority, $40;
fourth district, Singleton's MAORI
ty, 9,54l; fifth district, Hooker's
majority, 5,2s9;sixth district, Chal-
mers' majority, 3,2Ss.
Mr.. ABBEY, a theatrical manager
in New York is preparing to pro-
duce the passion Pay" embracing
scenes from the life and crusifxion
of Christ. There is great opposi-
ton to the sacrilige, the Herald
taking a decided stand against it.
1t has been suggested that should
the play be allowed, John Kelly
would make q most excellent Judas.
WILLIAM HENRY VANDERBrLT'snew
place is rapidly approaching com
pletion, and one of the combined
art and social events of the season
will be the reception to view the con-
tents of his new art gallery. 1t is
stated that Mr.. Vanderbilt spent no
less than half a million dollars for
pictures and statuary during his re
cont trip to Europe, and the collec-
ton contains some of the best ex-
amples of the most famous living
artists.
Martin Marshal, Esq, and Judge
A. w. Brian, were indicted by the
Federal Grand Jury, charged with
influencing election officers in
Warren county. They appeared
before Judge Hills court and
the indictment was quashed. The
names Of that Grand jury, the Dis
trict Attorney and all the witnesses
ought to be furnished the public
through the State papers. Let our
jackson contemporaries furnish the
list. Z