The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-20
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

VOTE early and solid.
DAVID DAVIS is a beefy old fraud'
LOWRY and victory should be the
slogan.
THE merchants of Batesville are
very busy.
TALLAHATcHIE county is building
Jail.
GRENADA wants a male high
school.
HERNANDo has signal service
station.
In the vicinity of Sardis hogs are
dying with cholera.
Coop Democrats will not scratch
the State ticket.
ATrALA county reports two-thirds
of cotton crop.
TIE schools of Batesville are in
excellent condition.
In Enterprise several COWS have
recently died of hydrophobia.
VIcKsBuRG has contributed over
$500 to the Michigan sufferers.
In Bolivar county the corn and
cotton crops will average two thirds.
THE Handsboro saw mills are I'M
able to supply the demand for lum-
Der.
KING and DAVIS would look we'll
yoked together. They are always
wanting an Office.
INSTRUCT your colored laborers
how to vote. They should take no
stock in Ben King.
GARFIELD monuments are wanted
all over the North. We are afraid
the thing will be overdone.
BUTTERINE, substitute for but
ter, is now being manufactured in
New Orleans, on an extensive
scale.
BISHOP JANsENs, of the Catholic
Church, confirmed forty young per
sons of both sexes, at Meridian, re-
Gently.
If you do not want to pay $4,000
on the 81 900 tax, 90 to the polls on
election day and vote the Democrat
ic ticket.
The success Of the King ticket
means resurrection of the Repub-
lican party, with all it's rottenness
corruption and thieves.
OLD greasy Davis is the receiv er
of stolen property. The fellow was
once Judge of the Supreme Court
of the United States.
OLD Davis did not vote for him
self for President of the Senate, but
he voted with the Republicans on
all previous questions.
Now let the Democrats kick old
beafy Davis off the fence, into the
lap of Republicanism. They have
no need of the old inflated fraud.
TINES are hard and distressing
in Kemper county. Hundreds of
families have no meat and but little
corn, and when their debts are paid
they will be out of money.
EVERY Democrat who wants to
keep Mississippi Republicanism
down, should go to the polls on
election day and vote for the Dem
ocratic ticket.
DAVID DAVIS occupies to Bayard
very much the same position that
Hayes did to Tilden. He has rob-
bed him of his Office, and is no bet
ter than the scamps who stole it.
DIR. j. G. HOLLAND, editor OF
Scribner's Magazine, and author OF
several novels, died in New York
on the 18th inst. He was one OF
the best literary men of the day.
DEMOCRATS, there are but few
days to the election. Go to the
polls on election day. see that your
tenants and your neighbors do the
same, and vote the straight Demo.
cratic ticket.
THE Republican Senators are
praised as being sharp managers.
That is because they are destitute
of every principle of honor. To
carry their point, they will stoop to
do any mean act.
OLD Josh Morris is casting some
reflections on Gen. Lowry through
his paper. Josh probably remem-
bers that similar undertaking en-
ded very unpleasantly for him once.
He had better stop it.
GuirEAu was arraigned for trial
last Friday. His counsel stated
that his client had no money, but
wanted about fifty Witnesses sum-
moned; that he was not ready for
trial, but should attempt to prove
Guiteau insane When the indict.
ment was read to him Guiteau act
ed very strangely, but when asked
guilty or not guilty, bio responded
mot guilty