The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-15
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

EDITORIAL ITEMS.
THE Summit Times wants a good hand
pressman.
The paupers cost Harrison county
S.. 90 each per month.
A NEGRO named Brown stabbed Isaac
Hechinger, at Greenville, last week.
A GREAT number of sunstrokes were
reported at New York. on the 9th inst.
THE Vicksburg Herald is very much OPP
posed to the Clarion being reelected State
printer.
AMOS DAVIS killed Henry German, in
Pamela county last week. Both were
King voters.
On Ben King why did You want all colts
under three years old exempt, as well as
other property?
THE Yelled Prophets announce they
intend to take st. Louis by storm.
October Sth. .u
ELLIS DooLY shot andkilled Thos. Jones
in Tate county, last week. Both colored.
a King vote gone.
LARGE monIed firms from New York
and England are purchasing lands on the
Gulf coast, in this State.
LEFLoBE county has voted 500, OAO
to the Greenvi!le, Columbus and Blr>
mingham Railroad.
PAT KRILY fell overheard from a steam
boat, near Greenville, last week, and sunk
to rise no more. He was drunk.
G. o. FERRIS, OF California, claims to
be tie long lost heir to the Tichborne
estate. He will never be found.
THE Batesville Blade, the leading
Greenback paper in this State, de
lines to support the Fusion ticket.
NEGRO named Arthur Brown was
drowned while bathing in TaIlahatchip
river recently. Again King will sigh.
IT is pretty generally conceded now
that King won't carry Copiah, his own
county. He ought not to carry any
county.
MONTGOMERY county has a suit in its
court involving a million dollars. Some
newspaper mar must be sued for dam
ages.
A CROWD of drunken rowdies, whites and
blacks, shot and killed a darby in Clarke
county last week. Can King afford to lose
that vote?
WHEN q person wants to know about
the condition of the President he asks:
What is the latest from the cottage by
the sea?
KING and Yello Wy whooped up the
darkles at Brandon last Saturday, while
the Democratic speakers hurt the old
man on his own soil.
GEN. WEAVER, the chief of the Green
hackers, tells his friends nos to tonci'
the King ticket; that there is no Green
backism in it.
WE are glad to note that our clever
friend C. NJ. Liddle, of the Handsboro Adj
v%ertiser, has been nominated for Treasurer
of Harrison county.
The Terry Enterprise says that W
B. Sorsby, the boss Greenbacker OF
Kinds county, says he will not vote the
Fusion ticket.
Nix. c. II. WOOD, OF Jackson county, has
been appointed a member OF the STATE Ey-
utive Committee from this Congressional
District, vice Oliver Clifton, resigned.
SPECIAL from Brandon says King's
speech was not well received by the ne
groes, and that many declare they will
not vote for a man who has no politics.
Col. ELLIOTT HENDERSON, of Pass
Christian, has been unanimously nomina-
ted Senator from the sea-coast counties.
He will be the right man in the right
place.
AN officer named Jones while at
tempting to arrest David Scott, colored,
in Washington county, was compelled
TO kill him. We are sorry for the dar-
ky and Ben King.
BOB ALCoRN, who is stumping the
State for the Democratic ticket, says
such thinga s putting Ben. King in the
Gubernatorial chair Cant be'did. No,
not this time.
DARKIEs, do yon know that Yellowly,
yoir candidate for Lieutenant Govern
or, was a member of the Legislative
ComRittee that prepared articles of
impeachment against CORDOBA?
EVERY man in the county is now dis
GUESSING the question of Presidential
disability. Who cares anything about
IL? If Garfield dies, Arthur is Presis
dent; otherwise he is not.
SONG of the State papers are calling
the Fusion candidate for Lieutenants
Governor, Yellowboy. He is a green
boy for trying to get the black boys
votes, but the day after election vii!
feel like q blue boy.
A PROFESSOR KING is advertised to
make a balloon voyage in New York. A
man Of the same name is trying a sim
liar experiment in this State. As soon
as the gas escapes the balloon will coli
lapse and the propeller will get hprt in
the fall,
TnE Democrat says the Republicans
are not making much headway in their
coalition with the Greenbackers OF
Adams county. The Greenbackers cam
not see anything to be gained by the
questionable alliance AMI are conse-
qnently holding off.
WHEN Yellowly breaks down in his
speech he screams. oligarchy. When
every word fails him he clings to oils
garchy as his sheet anchor. That new
er forsakes him under any circumstan-
ces. 1t was fortunate that h, le rned the
word, but terrible on his audience.