The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-07
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

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EDITORIAL ITEMS.
pnrNrrss COUNTY has instructed for
Stone.
ARMY worms have appeared near
Natchez.
OKr1BBEHA county favors Barksdaie
for Governor.
GEO. G. MCKEE has been appointed
postmaster at Jackson.
OYSTERS sell for fifteen cents a hun
dren at Bay st. Louis.
The grand jury of Grenada county
fund forty indictments.
HARRISON and Hancock counties have
instructed for Barksdale.
CYRussW. FIELD has crossed the
Ocean one hundred times.
QuIrMAN county has instructed fol
l.. II. Taylor for Governor.
CArERPILhArs have appeared in the
cotton fields near West Point.
The West Point News tina
ii viii suspend on August LIST.
Oathe 2nd Of June Bishop Greer
completed his cighty-third year.
THrAn have been two sun strokes il
jackson since The warm weather began,
Conan COUNTY has a colored candi>
date far the L gislature-Thos. JefferS
son.
The first consignment of this years
wheat arrived in Chattanooga on Tues
day.
THE Baptist Record has been SOLD
again, Rev. J. B. Gambrell becoming
proprietor.
REV. j. A. B. JONES has resigned the
Presidency of Port Gibson Collegiate
Academy.
". G. WILKINSON, of Copiah, has
declined to become a candidate for the
Legislature.
MORE than seventy persons were con-
verified in the Methodist revival a
Holly Springs.
GEN. CHALMERS and family are
spending the summer at Grab Orchard
Springs, Kentucky,
In North Carolina the temperance
question has split both the Democratic
aud Republican parties.
DORSEY, the star,router, is preparing
to build a fine residences at Hot Springs
Ark, where he will locate.
MONROE ROBERTS. of Itawamabs
county. shot himself in the head, from
the effects of which he died.
"OAKLEY" will be the name of thu
first depot below Raymond, on thu
Natchez & Jackson Railroad.
The Vicksburg and Ship 1slant
Railroad has purchased the Grand Gul
Railroad and all its a~ppurtenance.
The Board of Supervisors of Uniol
county have advertised for bids TO
the building of q new courthouse.
MuLEs Gre dying in Noxubee county
fram the excessive heat. Last weel
thirty dropped dead while at work.
THE Blind Asylum at Jackson, CLOSED
on the Oath of June, and will opel
again on the first Monday in October.
Mr.. T. D. NETrERvILLE died at hi
residence in Wilkinson county, on thu
18th ult., aged seventy seven years.
Col. Tnos. N. JONES, q prominen
citizen of Madison Station, died at hi
residence, of malarisl fever, on Sunda..
last.
The Republican State Executive
Committee held a meeting recently a
Jackson and decided not to nominate
State ticket.
SENATOR JONAS, of Louisiana, i
spending a while at Browns Wells, il
Copiah, for the purpose of recruiting
his health.
On last Friday night burglars enter
ed the room of t. Givan, at Meridian
and distracted from his pants pocketj
about $40.
CAPT. T. W. HUNT has forwarded t.
the President his resignation of thu
office of U. S. Marshal for this 9TH
Southern District.
THE Crystal Springs camp,meetine
commences Thursday, August 4th
The Providence camp,meeting will com
mence August 18th.
A P of Edm Lafayette, th,
only living representative of the Mar
quis Lafayette, will be present at thu
Yorktown centennial.
THE line of railroad between Lexing-
ton and Durant is being laid off. The
Advertiser thinks that work will com
mence at au early day.
The case of Joe Owens, who murder
ed j. P. Burman in Franklin county
has been continued until the Decembe
term of the Circuit Court.
CAPT. RoBT. PALMER, a prominent
citizen of Winona, was dangerousl,
stabbed by Geo. Messenger in a diff
Guilty at that place, last Saturday.
A lady of Pickens Station went tt
put on her slippers and found a snak'
eighteen inches long in one of them. w
guess a little fainting was in order.
A YoLoN passed three miles Wes
OF Columbus last Saturday night
Five mules and one horse were killed
ON the plantation of Capt. r. Moore.
G. E. EVERETT, has withdrawn from
the Handsboro Advertiser. and the pub
LEGATION of the paper is continued by G
M. LiddIe, Esq. on his W account
REy. K. A. Jones, of Walden; Prof
r. X. Jayne, of Jackson. and Capt
]. d. Lynch, of West Point, are can
didates for State Superintendent Of
Education.
Is a recent storm at Worthington
Iowa, o barn containing SIX heav,
horses was lifted from its foundation
and CARR, d half a mile, without thu