The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-22
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

1AZoo CITY has ten months free
school each year.
Corn is selling IN Lee county at
fifty cents per bushel.
The Senate has confirmed Brews-
ter as Attorney General.
TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS changes
hands on pay day at Wesson.
The Meridian Homestead and OBJ
server is to be issued tri weekly.
Senator Lamar's wife and daugh-
ter are with him at Washington.
THE office of the Sardis Star was
destroyed by fire few nights ago.
WAMBo is the name of a new
pOst-ofice established e<n Alfalfa
county.
THE Beacon says Mr.. Philpot had
AGAR load of fine cattle at Pass
Christian.
Louisiana's sugar crop is estima-
ted at one hundred and fifty thou
sand hogsheads.
THE Methodist Conference of Tex
as has petitioned Congress to put a
top to polygamy.
THE United States sloop-of-war,
Kearsage, arrived at New Orleans
on the 10Th inst.
A BILL is before Congress to pay
Mrs. Garfield the salary of the Pres
ident for one year.
The Comet says the Baptist Rec
ord is to be moved to Clinton dur
ING Christmas week.
Mis-. BREWSTER, wife of the Attor-
ney General, was once clerk in the
Treasury department.
a MILD winters predicted by the
scientists. So far the weather has
verified the prediction.
RIDDLEBERGER was elected United
States Senator by the Virginia Leg
islature on the Goth inst.
A New England company is
going to build 100000 cotton fac.
tory at Fort Worth, Texas.
We learn that Rev. DR.. Mcneil
will contest Hon. G. S. Dodds cleo
ton before the Legislature.
BENEFITS arctic exploring vessel,
the Jeannnette, has been heard from.
She was crushed by ice last June.
TIE census of the wealth Of the
South shows that the average wealth
of this section is $145,94 per capita.
The Starkville Citizen refers to
this paper as the Brookhavcn L.
That's an L. of an idea, Miss L.
OWING to the death of the wife OF
one of the jurymen, the court trying
Guiteau adjourned for few days
The Vicksburg Herald is again
fighting Hon. c. Z. Hooker, the
worthy Congressman from this dis
trict.
TIE grand jury of Warren county
at its last sitting, found forty six
indictments, four of which were for
murder.
The Louisiana Legislature is try
ing to tax New Orleans to death
Every body takes "whack" at poor
old New Orleans.
The Clarion says that Mr.. Walter
S. Davis, Of Yazoo City, is a candl-
date for Clerk of the next House of
Representatives.
J. II. Wegand, collector for the
house Of Baum & Co., Vicksburg.
has absconded with a good deal OF
the firms money.
On the 10th inst, at Yazoo CITY
Bill Shivers, colored, was sentenced
to be hung February Cd, for the
murder Of his wife.
1t is said that the Pope is serious
ly contemplating removal from
Rome. He is consulting with the
Bishops who visit that city with ref
ereace to the matter.
A PLASTER caste of Guiteau' s
head was taken on the 18th inst.
The sculptor lost splendid chance
to smother the murderer.
McCULLoUGH's new play, The
"Bondman," is not spoken of very
favorably. His acting appears to
be the redeeming feature.
THE President has appointed
Hon. Horace Gray, of Massachu-
sets, one of the Judges of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court.
Leslie, who confessed to killing
the Walker brothers, was taken to
Aberdeen, and released, as there
was no evidence against him.
MEMBERS of the legislature and
senators can prepare to pay $35 per
month for board at private houses
and $40 at hotels, at jackson.
The big failure of the fertilizer
firm in Baltimore ought not to have
surprised anyone, for the firm has
always been in bad odor. See 1?
There is good deal or talk about
Gen. Featherston for a position on
the Supreme bench 1t will be some
time before there is a vacancy.
Fitzgerald says that bulldozing
and intimidation are over in Mis-
sissippi. The balance of the Flu
sionists claim that they still exist.