The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-16
For VICE PRESIDENT,
e. HOOKER,
of Kinds county.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

lars lOG cAIllDltlllS SdlhIiSo III iNNS
burg.
Mt. Baker, in Washington Terri
tory, is reported in a State of VIC
lent eruption.
THE Yazoo Sentinel will issue a
special edition October 18th of four
or five thousand copies.
HORACE PALMER, n negro, attempt
ed to rob the Port Gibson and uu-
ca mail a few days ago.
Prof. A. H. Jayne, of Jackson, has
been appointed n of the tutors OF
chemistry in OXFORD University.
Grant has agreed to visit any
State the Republican Committee may
designate in the interest of Gar
field.
Nh. A. n. KIMBALL has at last
cot control of the Law Office at
jackson. X. j. Alcorn stepped
down and out
The Queen Of Spain has made
her husband feel miserable by pre-
senting him a pretty daughter. He
was expecting a son.
TIE L. & n. r. 4. is offering
very cheap rates to those wishing to
attend the Exposition in Louisville.
Theirs is the best route to that
city.
Gustave Henry, the Eagle orator
of Tennessee, died at his home In
GAINESVILLE, on the 18th inst. He
was an uncle of Pat Henry, of
Brandon.
The New Orleans Times gives
Col. f. Richardson Il complimentary
notice in speaking of his probable
candidacy for Governor of this
State.
W|ALrHALL wants a Sunday school.
She should have one by all means,
with Wilson, of the Pioneer, as the
teacher. He is large enough to fill
the bill.
The Advance wants the people OF
Winonl to invest 100000 in a fe-
male college. Why don't it advance
the money, and hush talking about
the matter?
The National Commission has
sent the Secretary Of War estimates
for improving the Mississippi river.
They call for the modest little sum
of 81, 100000.
W. l. Magee and j. B. Geissert.
both formerly of Brookhaven, have
opened a wholesale tobacco and
cigar house in St. Louis; under the
firm of w. l. Magee IL Co.
BUSINESS in New Orleans has been
booming, since the city was put in
Railroad communication with Tex
as. The future of that great South
ern metropolis is good.
A VOTE was taken on the Collins
excursion train with the following
result: Hancock, $50; Garfield, 26-
Weaver, 5. Poor Weaver. His
friends are deserving him.
THF Vicksburg Commercial is the
newsiest paper in the State. 1t
presents a daily mirror of events in
Mississippi. Col. McCardle knows
how to make a paper interesting.
In Philadelphia there are no less
than twenty Hancock clubs, mum
boring in the aggregate five thousand
men, who have heretofore been ac-
tive members of the Republican
party.
The contract for the iron bridge
across the Yazoo river, at Yazoo
City, has been awarded to the
King Bridge Company. and is to be
finished by the first day of January
next. The cost will be $19,975.
I'uE Democratic Convention in
Georgia failed to nominate a candi-
date for Governor, and two tickets
are before the public; n headed
by Colquitt, the present incumbent
and the other by Norwood.
YoU can see Hancock flags at al
most every town between New Or
leans and St .Louis with one occasion
ally disgraced with Garfield's name,
but not Il Weaver flag is visible.
The Weaver flags are all located off
the railroad.
A CALCUTTA dispatch says: "The
Bombay government is ready to un-
dertake relief measures if necessary.
Unless copious rains occur in the
next few days, there will be appre-
tensions of a scarcity, if not a fam
inc. over an area almost co-eXten-
siye with that of 1876.
TIE earnings of the Loi sville and
Nashville railroad for the fourth
week of August, were: 1880, $247,-
600; 1879, $144, sos; increase, $lo3'
O92. From July 1st to and including
the fourth week of August, 1880,
1882, 900, against, 1879, 1882, 800
increase, 1858, 905.
ONE Gen. Baxter has come to the
front and says Hancock never heard
a shot fired at Gettysburg. AS
Hancock was wounded there,
there is but one way to account for
Baxter's statement: that the soldier
statesman, is as deaf as a post. III
that is true, Baxter may not have
lied.