The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-30
EDITORIAL TENS.

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Grant has declined To preside over
Republican meetings. He is not so
had as We thought.
CorroN piekers are in great de
mands in Monroe county. Sixty
five cents a hundred is paid.
SoMr Republican roughs amused
themselves a few days ago, in Ohio,
by stoning Il Democratic eXcur-
sion.
THE Mayor of N%icksburg will not
allow females to drive up to saloons
in hacks AMI have liquor sent to
them,
Mas. margaret TAYLOR, Of Clarke
county, joined the Baptist church
and was haptised at the age of
eighty.
REV. w. q. Woodbridge, of En-
tcrprise. has been called to take
charge of a church in Hot Springs,
Ark.
WE call particular attention to
the great speech of Col. F. I. Coop
er, published on the first page of to-
days paper.
WILL the Republicans now admit
that they were defeated in Maine?
They ne"er give up anything until
chokcd TO death.
MIS- Florence Tilton, daughter
of Theodore Tilton. was married to
Mr.. VI. prltDu. of Louisiana, in Lon
don ON tllv 2lth inst.
The Fall River. Mass, operatives
are again ON the strike They have
periodical attacks of the mania
about once :: month.
Spectators are betting that this
wear, cotton crop will be six mil
lion bales. They don't seem to
count the rainy weather.
Republican Hancock clubs are
being formed in all the cities of the
North. 1t would be bad if Garfield
did not carry a single State, but it
hegins to look that way.
Don't let the length of the arti,
Gle about Garfeld's record prevent
you from reading it. 1t contains
facts that every one shouldknow.
TIE Maryland Greenbackers have
put up j. II. W. Onion for Congress.
They wanted to make q strong nom
ination-one that would draw.
TRE Democratic mass meetings
held in New York last Thursday
night, under the auspices of Tama-
ny Hall, were attended by thou
sands upon thousands.
4 GOOD many of the saw mill
hands ON the coast have struck for
higher wages. The oyster-openers
at Mississippi City also struck.
The nurses will be on the list next.
4 telegram from Grenada says
the county jail, valued at $500, vas
burned on the night of the Goth.
Such a worthless Jail ought to have
been burnt. Prisoners are the sup
posed incendiaries.
HOMER MAGEE, a former citizen Of
Brookhaven, is now engaged on the
editorial staff of the New Orleans
Times. He is a young man Of
bright promise, and we are proud to
record his steady advance.
Two girls were arrested in Lex
in@ton, a few days ago, dressed III
boys clothes. They were from
a ; Mississippi, and said they
we're going to the bottoms to pick
cotton. Friends took them to their
nhihers.
Is speech at Macon, on the 2Jth
INST. Hon II. ID. Money said the
Gfccnbackers didn't work any
brain in their platform; he could
get Il committee from the %lunatic
ASYLUM. who could draft a better
{ atform.
OK the 9th inst, the steamer,
Florence Never, from Cincinnati,
struck a snag at Bullets bayou, III
niles above Natehez, and sunk to
the hurricane roof. One cabin pas
-enger the second pantry man,
9ortor, and two rousters were
drowned.
!, C, Cahall, postmaster at Buc-
gatgnpa,got his fingers caught while
stealing from the mails. The Re
i'eblican party has been unfortun-
ate in appointing postmasters in
This State 1T is astonishing the
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number ofthieves it has developedin
shat service.
Democrats are betting on Han
cock carrying the solid South, New
FORK, Connecticut, New Jersey,
OHIO, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Hi
iiois, California and Oregan. They
'arely leave anything for Garfield;
nd Weayer-well! they never think
g the old fraud. lie is not in the
ring. |,