The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-08
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

EDITORIAL ITEMS.
Hancock's picture bears a stiking
resemblance to the face of p. h.
Mayers.
THEcotton worm has made its ap-
pearance in Newton and Tate coun-
ties.
THE Virginia sReadjusters have
declared for Hancock and English.
Every body does it.
4 coIoRED Hancock club in Mont
gomery, Ala, numbers two hundred
members.
THE Pascagoula Democrat-Star
was the first paper in the State to
publish a picture of Hancock.
HANCOCK is a perfect type OF
Manhood. He is six feet, two inches
high, and weighs owe two hundred
pounds.
.kTHE Port Gibson Reveille says
Rev. d. |. Purser was thrown from
a buggy a few days ago and had a
leg broken.
THE Seacoast is safe. The Hands
bore Advertiser, formerly for Bay
ard. has hosted a Hancock flag. Let
the work continue.
The jackson route lis now offer
ing exclusion tickets from New Or
leans to Chicago and return, good
till Oct. 31st, for $3.50.
Don CAMERON refused to accept
the position of Chairman of the
National Republican Executive
Committee, and NJ. Jewell was cleo
ted.
The Chicago Times reports a
break in the Mississippi levee, near
Warsaw. Illinois, by which eighteen
thousand acres of farming land are
submerged.
ONE hundred and four years ago,
Jno. Hancock, great grandfather OF
W. S Hancock, was the first mai
to SIGN the Declaration of Indepen.
dence.
The Greenback party is weaken
ing. DR.. Hunter has purchased thu
Flag of the Union, will consolidate i
with the Monitor and publish a gooo
Democratic paper at Crystal Springs
If you are disposed to join the
Greenbackers just sit down and
think over the matter five minutes,
and you will make up your mind to
have nothing to do with the party.
Two negros were hung in this
State last Friday-Scott Bell, at
Starksville, for the murder Of a col
ored preacher named Jim Henry;
and Link Williams, at Rolling Fork,
for the murder of one Plessuer.
REPORTS of good crops come to MS
from every quarter. The outlook is
very encouraging. With good har-
vests and Hancock for President,
the country will prosper as it never
has since the val
The Magnolia Gazette claims to
have been the first Hancock paper
in the State. Unless the incoming
President commissions Burke n
Brigadier General, and gives him a
good place in the army he will. be
%ungrateful.
The Courier says that not moro
than one-half of Clarke county has
been enrolled on the books of the
census takers by reason of the tact
that the necessary blanks were not
placed in the hands ofthe enumera-
tors until a few days before the
time for completing the census had
expired.
Mrs. H. M. Dixon, wife of the late
Henry Dixon, died in Yazoo City
last Thursday. Her death recalls
sad r~ecollectionss Mrs. Dixon was
a good and noble woman, and the
news of her death will be received
with deep regret by every one ac-
ouainted with the history of her
family.
JNo. SHERMAN ought to be happy.
The gross receipts from internal re-
venue for the fiscal year endh (
June Both, estimating the receipts
for the two remaining days, will he,
in round numbers, 1923, 000 1000.
This is an increase of $10,000,0o0
over last year, and of $3,OOo,otm
overthe estimates.
THE Radical papers North have
published, with a great deal of
gusto, notices that Mr.. Jefferson
Davis said the Southern Confed.r
cav still existed. He hever mad
sucI, a statement. He said tlat
the Confederacy did not exist, but
that to the best of his belief the
principles for which the South str'is-
gled do exist.
The Greenback leaders are blow
ing it around that If they can't elect
HEAVIER President, they can throw
the election in the House. Well
hardly, as they have not the ghost
of chance to carry a single State
in the Union. But suppose they
should be able to throw the election
in the House, how would they b."
benefited unless they sold out to