The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-08-18
ITEMS.

New rice has been received in
New Orleans.
The Jews are still faring but mid
ding in Russia.
The front doors of Vanderbilt's
new housewife cost $4,000.
Mr.. ROBERT H. ALLEN, has pur-
chased the Iuka Springs Hotel.
A ,231 clock has been put up in
Natchez. Oxford's cost 1880.
THE mar who runs against La
mar for the Senate will wish he
hadn't.
A CoLoRED man carried the first
bale.of new cotton to Greenville on
the 18th.
JAY GOULD owns seven thousand
miles of railroads valued at Sl40,-
100000.
A COUNTY ticket will be nomina-
ted by the Republican party in Tu-
MICA county.
THE iron necessary to complete
the N, j. and c., R. r. to jackson,
has been purchased.
BEN. KING, like Barkis, says he is
"willing." Barkis received but lit
tie, and King will get less.
Two cases of yellow fever were
reported at the New York quaran-
tine office on the on 30th ult.
EACH side is now telling "out of
school, what occurred in caucus.
Some wonderful things are told.
PooR Ben King. He is to be pit
tied. He wants to be Governor,
and is not particular how he gets it.
REV. 7. C. BRADFORD, was elected
President of the Port Gibson Col
iegiate Academy, on August the
18th.
GEN. LOWRY, Major Barksdale,
and possibly Senator Lamar, will
speak at a grand political barbecue
in Scooba on the oath.
The Supreme Lodge allows lodges
of the Knights of Honor to be or
ganized in Louisiana, and the order
Is spreading all over that State.
AN exchange says there is a Sc
rious drouth extending from the
Ohio river to the southwest, inclu-
ding Kentucky, Tennessee and Ala
bama.
MEXICAN newspapers propose the
free importation of foreign -four.
owing to the scarcity of the article
and the high price of bread in that
country.
PIKE county has six thousand
four hundred and fifty head of cat
tie above the exemption of two for
each owner.
The Georgia Legislature has been
presented with a temperance petit
ton six hundred feet long. with
thirty thousand names.
SECRETARY HUNT and Senator Ed
munds are reported to be looking
longingly to the vacant seat of JUS
tice Clifford, deceased.
The amount received by the gov
eminent during the past five years
through the Internal Revenue De
partment is $500, 301 ,7S7.
THE Friar's Point Gazette states
that Governor Alcorn has been ly-
ing seriously i'll at his residence in
Jamestown, and his case required
the most careful attention.
THE Jesuits have purchased an,
estate near Canterbury, England
and are about to convert the old ma
nor house into An extensive college
at an estimated cost of 100000.
BOB BOOKER, colored. who killed
Luther White in Chickasaw county,
was arrested, taken out of the pos
session of the officers by a band of
negroes and lynched, by being shot
to death.
The Crystal Springs Monitor says
the peach crop about Terry was not
a complete failure. The Enterprise
tells of a man who shipped five box
es ofthat fruit this season, and in
tends to ship twenty-five more.
The Avalanche Of the 18th inst,
says: Judge R. ]. Alcorn, of Mis-
sisssippi, is a staunch national Re-
publican. but he will support Gen.
Robert Lowry and the whole ticket
nominated by the Democratic con-
~vention at Jackson last weeS.
ALADy wrote a poem for the Press
Association some years ago, and
called it "Resurgan." Most coun-
try editors have been wondering to
this day what it meant. The editor
of the Boonville Pleader has come
TO their rescue, and given the def {
nation, 81 will arise again." Now I
raQt narfurhbad ensr.f a