The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-01-27
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

CONGRESS allows contestants TF'i"V'
TO pay their expenses, if they fail.
Marie Roze and Emma Abbot are the
h st advertised actresses in America.
JONES. of Texas, has not been heard
from sincaIthe Sparks-Weaver difficulty
,JupGE Billings has been appointed
Judge of the Fifth Federal Circuit
court District.
New ORnrANs had four inches Of
snow last Sunday night. Something
unusual in that city.
THE Mississippi Congressman have
the thanks of Tug IHDGRE for veicahH
public documents,
Senator Lamar is in favor Of pension
ing Grant, and spoke for the
bill last Tuesday
Handsboro had a three inch snow
last Sunday night. 1t is possible that
the orange crop is killed.
Miss SELMA FILLER Of louisville
Ky, has recently adopted the stage
and is making Il great name.
The Wabash Railroad has %reccGtI'
gwen Il modest little mortgage on liz
property amounting to $50, COO 000.
THE Yazoo Sentinel wants Gen, Lpr
~ nominated for Governor. The LED
GER stands on tine same platform.
WE learn tbot Ches. Hogg, died
Wesson, a few nights ago, from IT,.
effect Of drinking poisoned whisky.
VIcEsnurG is six thousand, u,ue hua'
drcG aud ffty>four bales of cotton slor
compared with this time last year.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature ha:
been trying to cIect a Senator for the
past week, but has not succeeded yet
The Democrats of New Jersey hav.
rcnominated Hon. T. F. Randolph 70.
the United States Senate. Goo,
enough.
WHITrAKGR's cars, it is said, has cos
the Government 50, 900, aud it is esti
mated that So 5000 more will be spen
on them.
SOME of the papers are are again dis
cnssiug the legality of the Onion an,
P,antcrs's Bank bonds. VIII that ole
woman never die?
The Vicksburg Commercial says sine
the war Mississippi has paid into tn,
National treasury nearly eleven million
Of dollars in internal revenue alone.
A New York firm has ventnred al
estimate on the present crop o
citton to>wit: The entire crop $500,
0)0 bales. Oh tins number Mississippi
is a~ccredited with 100, 900 bales.
E. PFFIFER & Co, of Monticello
have sold ali their goods and stopped
business ot thai place. MIR. Miller ha.
gone to New Orleans. and will proba
by make that his future home.
A NEGRO named VIM. Gatliu. Wa
tried in Liberty last week upon
charge of outragiug 4 ten year Old giri
If his own color. He was commute,
to iall in default of $1,000 bail.
HERMAN RTDDERs. of New York
generously offers us SIC for a column
advertisement one year. AS our prize
f,r that splc" is 1925 We nope he Won
think hard Of us for refusing his prop
oSitiou.
SARA BERVHARDTnommencps n week
engagement at the Grand Opera House
Nav Orleans, February 9th. Seats ar.
selling from one to three dollars. Sh'
Will have immcnsc audiences.
The Summit Times is ON our desl
FIR This week, the first iSsno since th'
fire. The Times has always been on
ut the ncatest and best papers in TIL
) ate, aud we are glad TO see it again.
HARRY n, HOPE on has resigned hi.
position "a superintendent, sccrrtaI'
all treasurer of The Holly Springs Ga
Cpnpapy, and las gone to bonneville
~, 70 assume the dotles OF correspop
d.ut in thnhou,e of Dennis, IoHg Il Co
THERE was an earthqu tko in Main.
? Few days ago. Tine Rcpnb'icans fail
a to seat their Governor. When die
In, Republicans ever before fail in
sclcmn Of |rlscality? 1t was notab''
enough to be celebrated by an earth.
quake.
Inc Tennessee Legislature con:in'
mes to wraugIe over the Senatorial
question, Nh. Bailey has withdrawn
I,x>Goy. Marks has been brought fer
ward in place of Mr.. Bailey. Maynard,
the Republican candidate, lacked oaly
three votes of an election lastaTuesday
AT the Lawrence county Circuit
Court, 10. Mullens was sentencedtothc
penltentiary for four years for killing
Magee, Sven years ago. He has takel
an appeal and is ont on bond. Mack
Wiley, colored, was sentenced tive
vars, for larceny.
A rumor has now started that Ches
Ser A. Arthur is not II natural born
c.tiYen OF the United States. The
Democrats had better look INTO this
matter. Perhaps English may yet h'
Wee President. If so, Garfield viii
hive unpleasant dreams.
The Meridian Mercury has opened {
a warm fire on Governor Stone, a sam
re of which we copy in to-day's paper
Gov. Stonehas had the office long enough
aad it would become him to gracefully
r.tire. There is no reason for keep
ing q man in one position for life. We
are in favor of rotation.
For ten years past the fanatics o.
tho North have been asserting tina!
white people of the South were bulldog
ing and numbering negroes. but the cen
srIs returns are against such assertions
IN some of the Southern States the ne
sroes have increased in population mort
rapidly than the whites.
THE new eide abolshes Rangers ad'
vertisements. Publishers lose very
little by that stroke. We can't under-
" 49, Al, p,oDbni1 d;1 not sov