The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
For Congress1Sth District,
CHAS. Z. HOOKER,
of Kinds county.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

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Some one has presented the Aber-
deen Examiner with a blade of fod-
der thirty-one years old.
GEN. All. MYER, Chief of the Sig
nal Service Bureau, and known as
odd Probs,'' died recently.
PERRY county only raised one
hundred and seventeen bales of cot
ton last year. Iii
FRANK TURNER was killed by
lightning at H%andsboro, a few days
AGO. while bathing.
rHE Yicksburg papers announce
the death of Circuit Clerk c. +.
Beat of hal city.
The next, Conference of the
Methodist Church will be held at
Vicksburg, December 18th.
GEN. GRANT has positively re-
fused the Presidency of the Las
Vegas Mining Company which was
recently rendered him.
FRED RAGAN fell from Il tree
while hunting m%uscadlnes, near
Shubuta, a few days ago, and died
from injuries received.
The Aberdeen Examiner is pre-
pairing q report, by counties, of the
State. 1t has reports from forty
one counties.
Hunter Sharp shot and killed ).
Hatch in Columbus. a:few days ago.
He was acquitted upon the plea of
having acted in self-dcfense.
Okolona is the hrag chess town -ot
the State having won four games
with Jackson, Tenn, amt made a
draw with Macon and Tupcl".
THERE is Il good deal of talk O
building a road from Jackson to
Yazoo City. jackson proposes tc
vote $1,000 to the road.
The census of 1880 shows the
Soulh'slfpt gain in population is five
Representatives in Congress, while
that Of the North is only two. 3
LIHur-Gov. SMs, we learn, lie
clincs to be q candidate for that Of
flee again. How would he do 70
Governor? tal r
GEy. SPINNER, whose drunken
signature is seen on the OLE
Greenback and National Bank not
bills, report says, has joined tn
Hancock column.
TIE West Point News publishe
a portrait of Gen. Winfield Scot
Festherstone, of Holly Springs, &C
companicd BY q biographical sketc
Of his life. ,. a-a.. .r
We had some hope Of the success
of the Democratic party till tina
OH sinner, Ben Butler, returned t
its fold, 1t takes q strong party t
carry such an old scamp as Butler
THE killing at Cof~feeville is attri
butable to the incendiary teaching
of the Groenback organs in this
State. Let them keep it up if they
like.
Hon. c. +. HOOKER is speaking in
Indiana; and Senator Lamar is eN'
pcctcd to 90 TO that State soon.
The people chere do not seem to be
afraid of fpe Rebel Brgadiers.
We see it stated that General
Reuben Davis declines TO make the
canvass as an elector on the Green
beck ticket for the Presidency. II
gives no eason for declining tn
bonm. u .ufnf| .F r'G." b.
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Miss Rosa Clark, of Holly
SpHngsywas recently married to
MrsH. II. Tinsdale. Miss Rosa
will be remembered as the young
lady who delivered an address vel
coming the Press Association to the
City of Flowers inlS77. aal4 FIJI
Bernard Buell.. postmaster at
Martin, was detected in robbing
the mails, was, arrested, confessed,
and now lies in the aNatcliez Jail
awaiting the action of Jthe5Federal
Court. lie will go to the Albany
pcHitentiary for one or more years.
MISS SUSAN b. ANTHONY has be-
gu a her campaign against Garfield
in the western part Of New York.
Miss Anthony predicts that Gar
fields refusal to encourage Women's
Rights will result in the success of
Hancock in the Presidential cleo
ton. ''' -
~ 44unlra- iewtf 48t B4I
a paet named Sarragin, lindingl
fame did not come to him quickly
enough, determined TO make it.. He
hasJlst astonished the city of Lyons
"y entering n cage of lions and
reading one of his poems. The
poofbrntes howled a good deal da-
ring the ordeal, hut did not avenge
themselves upon their t%orltufer.
.a9Af SGiioI $50 A95af1at
THBiHicksburg Commercial says
che sick men taken from the tow-
boat Raven, last Sunday morning
and placed on the hospital barge
anchored 3aelay the ~quaratine sta
zion have been discharged cured,
and Mayor worfell furnis he'd them
with transportation to their bone
at St. Louis, oe s