The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-11-25
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Counterfeit silver certificates are
circulating in Vicksburg.
Col. j. w. FAINT has been re-
elected mayor of Holly Springs.
GOV. James d. Williams, Of In
diana, died on the Goth inst.
Diptheria is prevailing at some
points along the Mississippi coast.
Arkansas will be the only State
represented in the next Congress by
n negro.
The electors of California, it
seems, stands five for Hancock and
one for Garfield.
A man waa fined sixteen dollars
in Starkville last week for beating
his mule with q trace chain.
While at Biloxi, Coup, the show
man, lost by e~pizootic, his leaplng
horse Nettle, which cost him 500
600.
MINNESOTA and Dakota will, in q
all probability, produce one-tenth
the entire wheat crop of the coun'
try.
CHARLES Foster and John Sher
man are rival candidates for the
Ohio Senatorship. Charles has the
inside track.
Col. John W. Forney will not re
turn to the Republican fold. His
paper will hereafter be independent
Democratic in politics.
JCDGE Daniel James, for many
years 4 resident of YaZoo City, dice
a few days ago in Galveston, Texas
in the S0th year of his age
IN one German city, Breslau
there are 5000 people who do not re
ceive their correspondence until i
has been examined by the police.
JOHN Sherman will succeed Gal
field in the Senate, it is said, an,
thus prevent any embarrassment t
the incoming administration.
To Wade Hampton is credite'
the opinion that the Democratic
party, especially in the Souti
ought 20 preserve its organization
W. Q. Lowd, Esq, who has 70
several years done efficient servic
as dupty in the Auditors office, i
Jackson, has resigned his position
THE city of Eickburg, not lon.
since, passed an ordinance levyin.
tax on drumme-s. The'Judge c
the Circuit Court declares it uncon
stitutiona
THERE is some talk of having a
extra session Of the Legislature thl
winter, for the purpose of maxim;
new apportionment under the re
cent census
WE learn that the boats find grea
difficulty in entering the mouth
the Yazoo. The Mississippi is To-
and the Yazoo high. Therefore tt
rapid current.
Ex-Gov. Jos. E. Brown, Of Geo
qia, was elected to the United STATE
Senate from that State on the l6t
inst, 1t is believed that he wi
act with the Republicans.
The Ohio politicians are bus
quarreling over the offices they a
going to have when Garfield b
comes President. Ohio is runnin
this country nov On shares.
In breaking the ground for
Methodist church in St. Louis.
hundred women took part in I'll
ceremony, each tossing some cart
into a cart with a polished bras
shovel.
MISSISSIPPI Democratic electio
law is an exact copy Of Ohio's r,
publican election law. But VIII:
suits the Republicans Of OH
doesn't suit the Republicans {
Mississippi.
The question of the liquor trafi
is exciting our Canadian neighbol
as we'll as ourselves. Christendol
is waking up from its long slumbel
concerning the grcacst evil the
curses humanity.
IT is said that the Treasury of til
State of Texas now contains near
" one million dollars. 1t is e2
pected that this announccmeI
will, induce an influx Of carpctbae
gers into that State.
THE new code Of this State give
members of the Legislature fou
hundred dollars for regular session
and five dollars per day for speci;
sessions. Mileage at the rates {
ten cents per mile Travelled.
TIE State we learn, has contract
ed for the building Of q chapp'
within the walls Of the p%cnitentiar,
1t is to be Gothic in its structure
and will have all necessary conv'
niences Ior church services.
FULL official returns from Ca
fornia show that Henry Edgertol
republican, receives 507 more vote
for elector than does Judge Terry
the lowest on the democratic ticke
The other democratic electors hay
majorities ranging from 81 to ii;
The Chicago Times remarks: IN
great discernment is necessary t
read between the lines of Judg