The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-16
ITEMS.


EDITORIAL ITEMS.
CARL SEIZURE is writing a novel cai'ea
"Max Undersoul'"
THERE are said to be 100000 colored
Bsptists in this country.
TIE genuine cotton worm is reported
in Catalonia parish, La.
FouR persons were bitten by a mad"
dog in Meridian last Tuesday.
0. A. Simpson has been appointed
postmaster for Pass Christian.
DIR. ABpInL, of Holly Springs, is in
trouble. Cause, too much woman.
The castor bean is being planted ex-
tensively in some portions of the State.
The Kosciusko Star reports fine sea
sons and good crop prospects in Alfalfa
county.
CLARION is epidemic among the
working stock in st. Bernard parish.
Louisiana.
Mr., H. G. WILLIAMSON. of the
Walden Nucleus, is suggested for the
Legislature.
Mr.. S. d. HARPER, of the Raymond
Gazette, is urged to become a candidate
for the Legislature.
The Chickasaw Messenger, always
level headed, thinks that Lamar Will
be his own successor.
A WRITER in the Vicksburg CONNER
mercial wants Lamar for Senator and
Barksdale for Governor.
TaE last Newton Report contains the
valedlctory of its editor. The paper is
to be moved to Jackson.
Dr.. J.. H, MCKAY, of Madison
Station, the strawberry King" of
Mississippi, died a few days ago.
BEN BUFFERS nephew, w. FL. Sails
bury, was sentenced to be hanged at
Denver, Colorado, on the 9th ult.
The Scooba Herald that
in future it will publish no legal adj
vertisement unless paid in advance.
GEN. J. q. George will deliver the
address at the commencement of Car
rollton Female College on the Oath.
A good many of the most eminent
preachers reject and will have nothing
to do with the revised new testament.
THE West Point Echo informs us
that several farmers in Lowndes county
are planting the castor bean this year.
IT is reported that Solomon Silver
stein, a ieweler of Meridian, was murs
dered above Bastrop, La, on the 18th
inst.
WEST POINT is anxious to have the
Railroad completed from Kosciusko to
that place, and is agitating the guess
ton.
CLEVELAND, ONO, is without a
police force, owing to a deadlock bea
tween the mayor and police commits
s%ioners.
Hon. Leonel Sachoile West, British
Minister at Madrid. will succeed Sir
Edward Thornton as Minister to the
United States.
M1se1ssIpPI's able Senator l.. Q. G..
Lamar, will deliver an address before
the Jefferson College, Adams county,
on the 23rd inst.
Mrs, CYNTHIA ELLIS, wife of J. NJ.
Ellis, of Fayette, died in Buffalo, New
York, where she had gone in search of
health, on the 9th inst.
The WalthalI Greys Of Grenada,
have been presented with a fine silk
banner and full dress uniforms by the
citizens of that place.
THE New Orleans Democrat offers to
bet $40, 900 that a steamer drawing
twenty five feet can pass through the
%jetties. No takers.
A RELIGIOUS discussion is advertised
at Water Valley, July 18th, between
Rev. A. B. Fly, Methodist, and ED.
T. s. Dalton, Primitive Baptist.
DIR. J.. G. Sails, one of the old
landmarks of Alfalfa county, is men-
toned as a suitable person TO represent
that county in the next Legislature.
TIE Aberdeen Examiner claims that
the counties of Monroe, Lee, Oktib-
bella, Itawamba. Chickasaw, aud other
counties in Northeast Mississippi, are
solid for Stone.
Coon old Democratic Jones county
now comes to the front with J. A. By
num-, Esq, for Auditor. The candi-
dates for Auditor and Secretary of State
are quite numerous.
SARAH BERNHARDT IS announced to
be married. The depraved man who
has concluded to be a husband to her
is to be pittied. Bernhardt is n OF
the vilest women living.
THE Canton Mail says q number OF
State papers that the where
abouts of Miss Mounie Richards have
been discovered. No tid;ngs, what,
ever, have been had concerning her.
THE work of preparing reports OF the
Census for 1880 will not be at all inter-
rupted by lack of funds in the hands OF
the Superintendent. Most of the
clerks will work as volunteers"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Clarion sug-
gests the name of Hon. W. H. Fitz-
gerald for Governor. He represents
the Thirteenth District in the Senate,
and is q gentleman of recognized
ability.
THE Vlcksburg Herald suggests that
harmony can be produced in the Demo
cratic party if all candidates and papers
will stop abusing each other, and leave
it to the people to decide who shall be
the standard bearers.
The proposition of the Greenvlile,
Columbus and Birmingham kallroad &c
4r hu the