The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26
For VICE PRESIDENT,
Hon. w. n. English.
sgutf| f3 Or INDIANA.
For Congress-5th District,
CHAS. e. HOOKER,
. l.FI of Kinds county.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

ARKANSAS will hold her State
election on the 9th of September.
THE Garfield boom has been hush.
ed, and the stalwarts are disconso
late.
ConoNERs' inquest fees in Missis.
sippi have been reduced from ten to
five dollars.
The capture of the Blenders turns
out Il hoax, practiced by W enter
prising trampS.
JAY GoILp has offered 100000
for the relief Of the ADMINISTRATOR
people of Kansas.
.T%ANGIPoHoA, Louisiana, sent "A
bale of new cotton to New Orleans,
un the 18th instant.
The State Credit party OF len
nessee nominated Hon. John V.
Wright, on last Thursday, for Gov
ernor of that State.
The Parnell Irish relief fund. sub
scribed in this cotatry, now aggre-
gates $277, 766.90.
EARS of corn fourteen inches long
and three inches thick are raised in
the neighborhood of Aberdeen.
In Jackson there are twenty-nine
persons who have attained and pas
sed the age OF "three cor and ten"
CADET Whitaker has asked for 4
furlough for an indefinite period,
and he will be released from arrest.
A Rome dispatch says, the pope
is weak and depressed He had an
attack of vertigo after Fridays con-
sistory.
SAM GORDON. the negro who muir
dered deputy sheriff Melanie, at Ed
wards. Miss, some time since. has
been captured.
Col. E. L. Ross is to revive the
Canton Mail. The paper will be
printed on the press formerly used
by the Kinds County Gazette.
The Greenbackers of the First
District have nominated Mr.. Z. W.
Davidson, of Clay, (ex-member of
the Legislature) for Congress.
The Republican alleged love feast
in New York threatens to become a
death struggle between the factions
10 secure pledges for the official
spoils.
GEN. WEAVER has not carried any
States yet. Since the alabama af-
fair the Greenbackers are trying to
muzzle and have him stored away
out of sight.
Hon. HEREsHEL V. JOHNSON, Dem
ocratic candidate for Vice President
in 1860, and also a member of the
Confederate senate, died in Georgia
Monday night.
THE New York Greenbackers are
disturbing themselves unnecessary
ly. They have been holding a Con
yention, and several delegates have
gone to the expense of attending.
The Presidents veto of the Chi
nese immigration bill is to be circu-
lated on the Pacific coast as a cam
paign document. 1t proves the hol-
iowness of Republican professions
at the Chicago platform.
The longest flag pole in the State
is ut the head quarters of the Demo
cratic State executive committee at
Jackson. 1t was formally owned
by the Federal barracks in that city,
and is one hundred and seventy feet
long.
The Democratic campaign in In
LLAMA will be opened on the four
teenth of this month, with one hun
dred and eighty four mass-meetings,
two in each county in the State
All the prominent Democrats will
take q hand,
WHERE in the mischief is all that
Republican enthusiasm that was to
sweep everything before it? We will
be. muchsobliged for ever a small
sniff; of it, for it's absolutely distres-
sing the wav matters and things are
going now.
A Republican editice was tumb
led into fragments, by the publica
ton of the Hancock-Sherman letter.
and some of the Republicans are
trying TO construct a temporary
sbanty from the debris, but are
making a miserable failure.
MAJ. III. b. MCCLELLAN, OF Lex
iDgtOn, has been elected orator for
the next annual reunion of the Army
of Northern Virginia. He was on
the staff of Gen, j. z. B. Stuart at
one time, but later on that Of Gen.
Wade Hampton. The orators sub.
ject is Services and character OF
"a. Stuar t."
THE Republican papers declare
that the recent conference in New
York was a remarkable gathering
1t was. indeed. Never before in the
history of any party did candidates
and leaders come together thus
early in a campaign to ask of each
other the question What shall we
do 10 be saved u.