The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-04-28

ODluilbuEs AAiH''t
nese laundry.
TIE Baptist Gulf Coast Association
convened at Scranton, Friday.
Mn. J. WHITE, a farmer in Clay
county, dropped dead few days ago.
FIFTY colored people were baptised
in n pond at Vicksburg last Sunday.
THE United States Supreme Court
will convene in Jackson on the Ind, oil
May.
Mr.. JNo. S. BERRYHILL Is announ'
oed rs local editor of the Walthal no
neer.
The Il. and N. II. II. has made great
rearntions in its rates to the Seacoast
towns.
!. j. MONTGOMERY succeeds IL. ii.
Herndon as editor and proprietor oil the
= Rosedale Leader.
MALONE calls the Democrats OF the
South Bourbons, and the Democrats
call him n traitor.
THE code makesit a penalty to rob n
birds nest, fixing the damage Mt one
dollar for each egg taken.
TIE street car drivers in Cincinnati
strnck. and their wages are increased
twenty five cents per day.
suioila in New
Orleans every week. 1t seems to be a
good place to leave tho world.
A conoRED preacher in Jackson is de
tanned at the county hospital with a
disease known as chickeumonia.
w. H. GARLAND, formerly Of Sums
mt. Miss, has commenced the publ
cation of tho Snnburst, at Atlanta, Ga.
Mn. JAS. II. LAwREsoE died in
Vicksburg, on the ODD inst, Of menln
gifts. He was an estimabie young
NAH.
Hon. W. S. Groesbeck and Mayor
Means are the most pron 'ssnet candl~
datesfor the Democratic nomination Tor
Governor of Ohio.
BRADY, of the postal service, in Wash
ington, has been compelled to resign
owing to his r~ascally tricks in the ''staf
route" business.
ST. LOUIS received last week LILO,
OoO bushels of wheat and Chicago TITS
GOO. The city by the lake seems 10
have had its day.
THE buildings known as the Cahton
cotton mills have been sold to New Or
leans capitalists. who will soon put
them in operation.
THE Vicksburg and Meridian Road
has purchased three locomotives from
the G, st. L., and N. o. r.. r., pay
ing for them Sl3 900.
IF Senator Malone vents h Nnt up a
fight he should take q micro cofs1 and
pick out some one of hie size, meashiiy
as we'll as physically.
A LETTER of E. A: Poe has comEto
light in Which he denies that no WAS on
intemperate man. This will help the
readers of the Raven.
A printer was given an article headed,
"Sarah Bnrnhardt has n chill. He
made it look familiari by substituting a
I'd" in place of the last ''P'.
ONLY two Republican contestants
from this State have filed their testimos
ny with the Clerk of the House, They
are Lynch and Buchanan.
MALONE says he has not traded With
the Republicans, still he has appointed
a brother-in-law of George @. Gorlam
as clerk to his committee.
MERIDIAN, one of the largest towns
in the State, has no fire engines. 1t
would pay the town to invest q few
hundred dollars in engines.
HoN. r. l.. GIBSON, Cong ressman
from Louisiana, has been invited to Dc
liver an address at tho State Un rersity,
during commencement.
NJ. DE LEssEPs' agents IN tier survey
have succeeded in landing themsei} es
in an impenetrable swamp. and aie aow
seeking another route for the canal.
Hon. G.. T. MoGEHEE delivered an
address at the meeting Of the Soldiers
Memorial Association of Wilkinson
county. at Woodville, on the 18th inst
SECRETARY KIRKwooD warns the ne
groes not to be taken in by the New
Oklahoma scheme, which proposes to
settle the Indian ssTerritory with me-
groes.
THE Senatorial question seems DIES
tined to cut a big fgnre in the ap-
preaching election. Especially will tins
be the case IN the election Of Legisla-
tors.
LAURA HAYES, of Alfalfa county,
sued Peter Bailey for breach OF mar"
rage, and recovered $1,000. Peter
"
won't go on any more hazing ex>
cursions.
A MPAN has contracted to extend
the GreanvilIe Railroad to the Snnflow
er river by October LIST, 1881. A great
deal of Railroad building is being done
in this State.
THos. D"EJARNETTE, who killed his
sister in Danville, Va, last year has
been acquitted on the plea of insanity.
That being the case he ought to be sent
to a lunatic asylum.
TIE wife of d. A. Mclnnis was killed
by a storm in Marshall county recent
Iy. The house of Mr.. Morgan was al
SO struck and destroyed, and his two
sons were killed.
The Mayors Office, in Starkvllle,
was broken open last Saturday night,
and the records were stolen. A reward
of 5000 is offered by tho Mayor for
the apprehension of the thief.
CHAs. SMITH was on trial for murder, {
in Lexington, last week. He wa too
poor to employ an attorney, and the f,
court appointed one lawyer and two
Iar ot,1anta n dofenf him The re-