The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-06
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

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MOODY and Sankey are going to Eu>
rope again.
VroKsBuRa has sent $500 to the
Michigan sufferers.
THE Mrs. Garfield fund has o near
Iy reached $3.50, 900.
BEAUREGARD has a Democratic club
of over eighty members.
WEssoN has a very large and enthu-
~siastic Democratic club.
The corn crop of Iowa this year will
be larger than last year.
The prosecution of the Star route
thieves is to be continued.
CAPT. CoUNsE1LLE, sheriff of Tippah
county, died on the 18th ult.
GENERAL ARTHUR is the tw~enty>first
President of the United States.
THE Sunday law is now enforced
against tho livery men of Oxford.
GEN. BEUREGARD will attend the
Yorktown Celebration in November.
The Collier white lead works burned
in st. Louis last Thursday evening.
Pamela is the banner cotton county
in the second Congressional district.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is a widower, his
wife having died a year ago last Janu>
airy.
GUITEAU's lawyer says he will plead
the insanity of his client. The people
won't.
The Wisconsin and Pennsylvania
Democrats had made their nomina-
tions.
d. P. BERRY, of Simpson county,
raised six hundred bushels of corn this
year.
The Summit Sentinel is devoting a
great deal of its valuable space to ex-
cursion.
THE Democrats OF Jackson county
have nominated James B. McRea for
the Legislature.
COLLECTIONS for the Garfield monu-
mcnt fund to-day aggregate SLOT.
Total to date s 5,137.
The Westville News is complaining
about bad roads. Overseers don't do
their duty in one case out of ten.
ARTHUR is the fourth Vices President
who has become President by the death
of the regularly chosen President.
THos. KEITH has been nominated for
the Senate for the district including uhe
counties of Newton, Jasper and Scott.
Rev. DR. JOHN sMcCAFFREY, au emf
nent Catholic clergyman, died at Bal
timore on Monday, aged seventy eight
years.
Ben KINGS friends don't seem to ups
hold his six barrel ideas. How about
wanting to disfrauchise fifteen Thousand
negroes?
THE third annual fair of the Missis
sippi Exposition Association will con-
vene at Aberdeen, Oct. 18th, and con
tiuued five days,
IT cost to run the city government OF
Vicksburg during Radical rule in 1871,
s 1888 %, and in the same month of
1880 only $l.146.l4.
BEN. KING was in favor of q law, dar>
kies, that allowed you to be worked
with an iron waist band and ball and
chain. Remember him.
A ST.. LOUIS drummer by the name
of Levy, shot and killed a young man
in Suni(ower county, recently, suppos-
ing him to be u burglar.
TWELVE buildings were destroyed by
fire at Warren. Pa, on Monday, invoIv-
ing Il loss of $50, 900. with insurance
for one third of the amount.
Hon. JOHN A. CUTHBERT, said to have
been the Oldest living ext Congressman,
died at his home ON Mobile bay, last
Friday, aged ninety. five years.
THE citizens of Benton county
held an agricultural meeting for the
purpose of sending Representatives to
the Atlanta County Exposition.
SOME of the oldupeopIe of Hiram and
Mentor are agitating the question of
changing Garield's burial place. He
has been buried enough. Let the
country rest.
The branch railroad to Lexington is
progressing finely. Nearly one,half OF
the grading is completed and will cons
mence laying the rail in a few days.
The road will be in operation to Lex,
ington by March LIST.
CoNKLINa has again been whipped in
New York. OF the Republican deles
gates elected to the State Convention
one hundred and sixteen are under his
control, and two hundred and eighty
four bitterly opposed 80 him.
THERE will be State elections in ten
States this year, in only seven of which
Governors will be chosen, viz: In
Massachusetts. Iowa, Minnesota. Mis-,
sissippi, Ohio, Virginia and Wiscon-
siu. The legislature chosen IN Iowa,
Minnesota, Mississippi and Virginia
will elect United States Senators.
One of the heroic deeds in connec
lion withAhe Michigan forest fires, one
OF the grandest ever committed by man.
was that of Ira Humphrey, a mail-ri-
der. who amidst the blazing forests
gave up his horse to an old man aud
bid him God-speed to a place OF safety.
he willingly yielded up his life to save
another,