The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
ITEMS.

OF Oxford.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
CorFINs are now manufactured OF
paper.
THE dead lock at Albany continues
unbroken.
Garfield is to go the Atlantic Cotton
Exposition.
Ex-GoyERNoR HENpRIcK's health is
much impaired.
''ARMsTEAD" is the lame of O new de
pot west of Morton.
SENATOR EATON thinks Conkling will
Join the Democrats.
TRENTON, Smith county, is to have a.
daily mail after the 10th of July.
Col. J. j. WILLIAMS has withdrawn
from the Grenada New South.
SEVERAL mad dogs have been killed
in Liberty within the last few days.
BURTON, of jackson. Tenn, is to start
a Greenback paper at Holly Springs.
ST. Louis has now through railroad
connections with San Antonio, Texss.
NINE men have been hanged in Ar
kansas within one month by lynchers.
A TEMPERANCE organization at Crys-
tai Springs is called the Lemonade
Club.
The Canton Citizen has hoisted the
name of Judge s.. S. Calhoon for Gov.
ernor.
The work of removing the snags, etc..
from the channel of Pearl river is in
progress.
DIAMONDS, pure and genuine, have
been discovered neal Seneca City, South
Carolina.
TEE machine shops of the M. & O.
railroad will be removed from Macon to
Okolona.
THE Baldwin works at Philadelphia
are building a locomotive to run eighty
miles per hour.
The women of Weldon, Iowa, chased
out of that town q peddler of the revis-
ed New Testament.
ScorT county is to have q fine Jail
within a short time, the cost of which
will be about $1,000.
A COMPANY has been formed in New
Orleans to supply the city with the
Brush Electric light.
SENATOR LAMAR was yesterday made
an LII. D. by Washington and Lee
University of Virginia.
New YORK is greatly alarmed at the
immense proportions the grain trade TO
New Orleans has assumed.
THE President has appointed Noah c.
Mcfarland. of Kansas. Commissioner
of the General Lard Office.
ONE hundred box-c a have been
built in the railroad shops at Water Val
ley in the past twelve months.
SOME of the Eastern States and por-
tions of Canada experienced a considers
able earthquake shock last week.
In Nodaway county, Missouri, recent
ly. a flock of one hundred and sixty
blcoded sheep were killed by lightning.
pso pie of Prentiss county have
instructed their delegates to the State
Convention to vote for j. NJ. Stone for
Governor.
GRANT is now spoken of by the Stall
warts as the dark horse to succeed
Conkling and represent Bossism in the
=. s. Senate.
MEXICAN Congress has passed a cons
stitutional amendment declaring ineligi-
BILE to that body persons born in the
United States.
The next regular meeting of the
Amite county Grange will be held at
the Toler's Grange hail on Saturday
(16th) of July.
w. w. CoRcoRAN, the Washington
banker and philanthropist, has been
elected President of Washington and
Lee University.
From the Democrat we learn that
Capt. T. J. Adams, civil engineer, has
begun to run the line for a street rail-
way in Natchez.
Col. P. X. MAYERs, of the Pasca-
goula Democrat Star, has been shot at
twenty-five times and shot twice
through the body.
The Pascagoula cannery put up sixty
four thousand two-pound CAM of pine
apples in two weeks. and at once sold
the lot to one firm.
THE Sardis Star says A. J. Wilkinson
formerly editor of the Cotton Plant has
been unanimously expelled from the
Austin masonic lodge.
Some of the finest plantations In
Scott have been deserted, and the hous-
es allowed to fall to ruin, for lack of
competent labor.
IT is said that Hon. A. Ell. Stephens
will review Hon. JEFF Davis "Rise and
Fall of the Southern Confederacy" for
Scribner's Monthly.
GEN. PETER B. STARKE, a we'll known
confederate cavalry officer in Mississip-
pi and Georgia during the late war is
now a Republican.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature during
its recent session made q law authoriz-
ing promiscous attendance of both RAJ
ces in the public schools.
HOWARD NJ. RICE, of Pass..Christian.
has raised two cucumbers. one measur-
ing ffty"seven inches in length and the
other sixty>seven and a half.
A EyERE storm visited Starkville
Sunday night, which did considerable
damage. The new Masonic Lodge and
one or two residence were blown down.
ONE hundred and ninety-iv privatee
and thirteen officers belonging to the
Third Battalion of Infantry, were killed
by a railrod accident in Mexico last