The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-02-10
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Cor. LEWIS, of Pascagoula, made
5000 by his last sheep shearing.
THE Magnolia Gazette advises Ed.
Perkins to keep 'those horns"
\ large number of counterfeit ten
cent pieces are in circulation in the
South.
DR.. SrRATroN has preached to his
Presbyterian friends at Natchez for
thirty-eight years,
Gov. Stone has issued a reward Of
$500 for the capture of j. Cole Denham,
n thief of the sea coast,
4 young man named Jackson acct
acntally shot and killed Light Barlow,
near Canton, a few days ago,
TIE uniform of the students at
Starkvillo was manufactured by the
Mississippi Mills, at Wesson.
THE Sentinel calls Summitthe "Paris
of Pike" That reminds one of the
Girl who was next to head in her class.
MALONE, the goprobate from Virgins
ia, is as big a nuisance as Grant. lie
has an exalted opinion of himself, but
nobody else has.
IT is stated that Hon. A. II. Steph~
ems denies that he is preparing a letter
in answer to the statement made by
Col. Mcclure.
GATH" says Conkling owes his
strength in the United States Senate to
Democratic votes and Democratic
Bringing.
Billings has not yet been confirmed
United States Judge, and the Vicks>
burg Herald still hopes for Judge Sim
rail.
Tm Mail says Canton r%ejoices tn the
possession Of an attorney who is desig-
mated "Cauton's necessity because he
knows 10 law.
One johnson Of Bay st. Louis, has
asked the authorities of that town to
lock him up so that he could be culed
of his habit of eating morphine.
PHILADELPHIA got upa fund Of $780,
900 and presented it to Grant. Some
of the largest contributors, Vanderbilt,
Gould and Seligman. live in New York.
THE knowing one3 are talking about
scrond term for Garfield. Wait and
see how he does the first term before
bringing him forward for a second trial.
SARAH Bernhadt is playing to $4,000
houses nightly in New Orleans, Sarah
gets 81, 600 a night as her share,
whether there is a dollar in the house
or not. She is playing at the Grand
Opera House.
THE Hansboro Advertiser says
that Mai. W. 7. Walthall intends pre-,
pairing a work setting forth the varied
resources and advantages of the sea-
shore region.
ABI1L has been introduced into the
Legislature of Delaware, exempting
from taxation for ten years ali persons
coming into the State with the inten-
ton of settling.
MAJ. E. B|ARKsDALE, of the Clarion
is mentioned for Governor. There is
10 man in the State better qualified
for Che position OF more worthy of it
that Naj Barksdale.
a porter in the telegraph office at Tu-
pelo dispatched himself away the other
day, taking along a fine %valice, o%vercat,
pair OF sleeve buttons and twenty dollars
in money belonging to the operator.
The Mercury publishes n Floyd, q
printer, as a thief, He is described as
being a small man, with large features
"A tremendous red nose-with a redisl
goatoe and moustache, aud is a mar Of
good address.
Some of the people are saying Senn'
tor Lamar stated in his speech before
the Senate, that Grant was the creates
General Of the late war. He never used
that language. Read his speech pub.
lished elsewhere.
SOME inccndiaries or burglars at
tempted 20 burn or destroy the store O
z. G. Palmer & Co., New Orleans, las
Saturday night by the use of powde,
and coal oil. The building was no
burned but badly damaged.
SPEAKER Randall, who had the House
pass the funding bill, allowing the in
tercst of only three per cent. says he
will insist upon the three per cent rate
whatever lac senate may do ThaI
does not look much like he be-
lonped to the bondholders Of the East.
BUFoRD, who killed a Judge in Ken
lucky two years ago, for deciding
case against him, has been acquitted
on the plea of insanity. That being
the case he ought to be confined in
lunatic asylum. Tt would havea goot
effect to put his lawyers and jury il
also.
TT is the duty of officers, sheriffs
constables, magistrates, mayors, and
marshals to arrest tramps, but If the,
fail to do so, section 1852 of our Cod'
provides that "Auy person may arrest
tramp and take him before a justice Of
the peace, aad have him tried and deal
with accordingly"
THE Courier says Marshal Hunt sem
q negro deputy to Clarke County tt
arrest white gentlemen charged with
election disturbances. Maybe Mar
shaI Hunt thinks that the Republicans
will again control the State, and tc
be on good terms with the negroes he
mast make himself offensive to the
whites.
IT wont be long before the weak
kneed Democrats, The Conservatives,
the Republicans, and the soreheads
generally, set to work some scheme
to defeat the Democratic ticket in this
State next year. Anything for office.
Look for developments. There is a
good deal of talk all over the State.
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