The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-11-17
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EDITORIAL ITEMS.
SHUT up. You are beaten. lake
it easy.
NINE jurymen have been accepted
in the Cmteau case.
TUESDAY, the Sth inst, proved d
Democratic tidal wave.
PoRr GIBSON has subscribed SIGH
700 for cotton factory. I
TIE observation-disclosures Doet.S
ical over the defeat of Ben King.
DEa ME. lELLowLEY. whst} .
you think of the oligarchy now?
The Presbyterian Synod Of Mis-
sissippi met in Vicksburg ye9 erday
The Vicksburg Herald is blish-
ing portraits of distinguish q men
BEN KING, don't you wish you
were dead You are, politically
OF course the Fusionists are good
voters. but they don't understand
counting,
THE star-route thieves 90 scott
free, and James goes to Florida for
his health.
TRAINS in Kansas are stopped by
heavy falls of snow, twenty inches
being reported.
KING will now probably change
his opinion rs to q free vote and fair
count. 1t ruined him.
Two negroes got up mock duel
at Norfolk. Va, and one Of them
was killed by mistake.
NINE persons were killed by the
falling Of an unsafe building in
New York City last week.
CONFEDERATE BONDS are selling in
London as waste paper. Somebody
got bit by that speculation.
WM. ANDERSON, colored, beat his
wife's brains out, while in a fit OF
jealousy, at Lake Washington, Miss.
THREE hundred and eighty Nor
mons arrived in New York last
week from the Old World. Utah is
an inviting field for them.
THE editor Of the Democrat Star
and the po3tmistress at Pascagoula
are in q controversy about the paper
being delivered at that office.
ALI immigrant trains going to
California are quarantiaed to pre-
vent the spread of smallpox, now
prevailing in the eastern cities.
The Republican, party could not
afford to allow the star route thieves
to be convicted. 1t would have
caused trouble in the household.
II is said that Matthews will
contest Hargrayes' seat for the Sher-
itlalty of Copiah county, because one
of the boxes was destroyed. 1t will
do no good.
THE negroes at Marion obeyed
the Instructions given by King and
carried to the polls their six barrel
codes. Result, the death of several
good citizens.
WHEN last heard from Lowry's
majority was twenty-five thousand
and still increasing. In some of the
interior counties the people arc still
voting for him.
The Hunt family, of New Orleans,
have hunted up good many offices.
The membrs Of that family now
draw from the government salaries
amounting to $4l, 900.
WE see it stated that the mana
gers Of the c., 1t. L. and n. o. r.
. r. have decided to build road
from jackson to Yazoo City, instead
Oh from Canton to the latter place.
AS Ben KING was foolish enough
to run for Governor, he may have
no better sense than to attempt to
contest Lowry's election. Nothing
he would do would surprise the
public,
4 FIRE occurred in the Chancery
Clerks office, of Union county, re-
Gently, completely destroying the
fecordSaf the eaaanss. The Law of
flee and library of Young q Dalton
was also burned.
LAMAR will be reelected Senator
without opposition from Democrats.
The Fusion members may try to
soothe Kings pains by casting a
complimentary vote for him, but
it will avail nothing.
A STORM did considerable damaoe
near Madison station, on the 11tb
inst. The residence of M. f. Ash
was blown down and members of