The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-02
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Of Oxford.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
Locusrs are numerous around Kosci-
usko.
ARMIES of locusts are reported in
many parts of the State.
Col. Scorr's fortune is estimated at
twenty millions of dollars.
Mrs. CRANE died at the home of
her son near Natchez, recently.
CouNTERFErr silver dollars are circus
lating in some portions of the State.
The Pontotoc Democracy are going
to have a primary election. Best plan.
KEMpER county will hold a primary
election for the nomination of her CAM
didates.
CAPT. GEO. BUFoUR, Of Pike county ,
has been appointed Master of Ship Is
land Harbor.
BEN LANE PosEY, a lawyer of the
coast country Was recently indicted for
forgery.
The ice made by the jackson ice
factory is said to be equal to the best
lake ice.
New YORK papers report the average
weekly arrival of eighteen thousand
emigrants.
THE money necessary to build the
railroad from Lexington to Durant has
been raised.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, is about to com
mence another cotton mill. The capi>
tai is $25O.00O.
Born Houses of the Mexican Con-
eress has approved Eads' contract to
build q Ship railway.
FIFTY thousand Sunday school chill
dren marched in the procession in
Brooklyn on the 25th ult.
TIE Terry Enterprise will not be is.
sued this week, as the editor is attend.
ing the Press Convention.
MAJ, E. BARKsDALE is to deliver an
address to the graduates of Columbus
Female Institute, June 18th.
The Chickasaw Messenger has been
severely critieising Mr.. Jefferson Davis.
We can see no reason for it.
THos. JEFFERSON, colored Democrat
of Copiah county, announces himself a
candidate for the Legislature.
MAJ. A. N. T. BEAUREGUARD, broth
er of Gen. Beauregard, died, in New
Orleans, on the ooh ult.
The Carthaginian complains that we
misrepresented its position in regard to
Gov. Stone. We did not intend to.
A meeting is to be held in West Point
to take into consideration the question
of building a Railroad to Kosciusko.
SEVERAL Mexicans were killed on the
National Railway ON Saturday by 9th
er Mexicans. Work was not interrupted
IT is said that the acreage of cotton
planted this year, in North Mississippi,
is five per cent. greater than it was last
year.
LAST week five bushels of beans from
Crystal Springs soldin Chicago for ST.
65, net.
COMMODORE KoUNTZ was arrested in
st. Louis, last week, charged with
slandering tho proprietors of the An
Choir Line.
THOSE old frauds, Haydock & Co.,
of New York, have turned up again, and
are trying to get advertising on a credit.
Don't trust them.
In Georgia two h%ighsgrade idiots
named Hart and Register lately fought
a duel, and we are glad to learn that
both were killed.
JUSTICE MATTHEWS has been assigned
by Chief Justice Waite to the 9Th cir
cult, which includes Ohio, Michigan,
Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Porter Rifles took the first prize
in the drill at Nashville, last week. The
Crescent Rites, of New Orleans, took
the second prize.
THE shipments of grain from the
port of New York during the month OF
April were a quarter less than the cor
responding month of 1880.
CoTToN reports from the interior OF
Arkansas are discouraging. Continu"
Gus rains have prevented work and the
crops are badly in the grass.
WILLIAM l.. DRAKE, General Super
inteudent of the Philadelphia Ledger,
q prominent and well>known journalist,
died suddenly en- the morning of the
9th ult.
As the saloons are now closed in Gin
cinnati on Sunday, the beer drinkers go
to the neighboring towns to violate the
Sabbath. The neighboring towns are
indignant.
FARMERS in the neighborhood of
Crystal Springs want labor, and will
pay seventy-five cents per day and
board. The corn crop in that section
looks we'll.
BRADY wants to know who is respon-
sible for the star route mail ring war.
Let him be sent to the penitentiary,
and in the quietude of his cell he would
find out about it.
The Central Union Republican Club
of Cincinnati: on the 26th ult., adopted
resolutions indorsing President Garfield
and denouncing the action of ex-Sena>
tors Conkling and Plat.
DIR. VIM. WEATHERsBY, Of Beaure-
gard is q candidate for the Sheriffalty
of Copiah county. The latest names
suggested for the Legislature are J. a.
Thompson and ". G. Wilkinson.
Tag Canton Mail says a number OF
State .parers announce that the where's
abouts of Miss Monnie Richards have
been discovered. This is q mistake.
No tidiugs, whatever, have been had