The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-10-14
of Kinds county.

purchased tHe I'VE" Aoih WYNN
JACQUES OFFENBAcH, the great
opera composer, died in Paris on
the 7th inst.
THE last Holly Springs South
contained ten columns of circus ad-
vertisments.
TWENTY people were killed by a
railroad collision in Pittsburg on
the 9th inst.
The Sentinel and South at Gren-
ada are discussing the merits OF
whisky saloons.
A NEGRO named Crawford Scott
murdered his wife in Washington
county last week.
WIN. HUTCHINSON, colored was
hung in Tupelo last Friday for
numbering his wife.
THE cornerstone of the obelisk
was laid in Central Park, New York
on the 9th inst:
FATHER QUELARD, an old and high
" esteemed Catholic priest, died in
Vicksburg last Sunday.
The Miss. College, at Clinton,
ooened with one hundred and fifty
students-the largest number since
the war.
GEO. VAN stabbed Mayor Meow
an, at Magnolia on the 9th inst.
The wound is not dangerous. Van
He'd.
A LITTLE darby fired a stray shot
from his niger shooter in Meridian
last week, knocking out the eye OF.
q passing citizen.
Mosr of the towns in North Miss
issippi are agitated about Railroad
meetings. The Railroad epidemic is
bad in this State now.
A NEGRO of Vicksburg, who was
patriotic enough to join the Yankee
army, has drawn a pension of $6943'
His annual pension is 1864.
JAMES HUGHES of Natchez was
found dead in his bed last Wednes-
day merning. He is supposed to
have died of heart disease.
The Commercial is mad because
tho Comet steals its poetry. ~ re
heavens: we nave o"7h1iS
give away with thanks.
AT the Georgia election last week
Colquit was reelected Governor by
majority of over forty thousand
The old gentlemand did not propose
to cody quit so good an office.
The Democrats and Republicans
in Indiana celebrated last Sunday
by several fights. One Republican
rough shot and killed a Democratic
sheriff at Shelbyville.
IT was a mistake about the Cola
RADIO election being held on the 9TH
inst. Under the constitutional
amendment the election will not be
held till November I'd.
Two white men went to the store
of the Kerstein Bros, on Deer
Greek, on the night of the 9th inst
fired at them, wounded one, tied
the other and robbed the store.
GRANTS attack on Hancock will
give that gentlemen hundreds OF
votes that nothing else could. Let
him keep up. 1t may be a sly method
Grant has adopted of defeating Gar
field.
THERE is some talk Of the Repub-
licans withdrawing Garfield and
putting up Grant. The Democrats
If permitted, will ave the Republi.
cans the trouble of withdrawing him
after November I'd.
THE letter of Gen. Hancock in op-
position to Southern claims, has
been Endorsed by most of the Gov
errors of the Southern States, in
Guiding Gov. Stone, of Mississippi.
The last issue of the Westville
News had a case of yellow fever.
That is, it was printed on yellow
paper. Our old friend Gowan is
putting on style as he gets rich.
A HALF interest is offered for sale
in the West Point News; and a
printer with a few hundred dollars
is wanted to take an interest in the
Summit Times.
SOME of the postmasters OF this
State, whose salary is not over $500,
have been assessed $50 each by
the National Republican Commit
the for campaign purposes.
The taxpayers of Warren coun-
tv have employed two attorneys to
test the legality of the tax levied
hy the Board of Supervisors OF
the county. 1t is almost as high as
that of Lincoln county.
SoMETIME ago Grant said, II
lave nothing against Gen. Han
cock. have known him for forty
years. His personal, official and
military record is good" He is
LOW singing a very different song.
WE learn dining room cars will
be added to the passenger trains of
the c., st. L. and N. O. r. R. soon
Why this and all other lines don't
run their own sleepers and express
is something we have never been
able to understand.
There is not . vacant resident in Rip
ley.-Ex.
Glad to learn they aTs all full.