The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-11-10
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

strels.
ALEX. JONES was hurt by the ex-
plosion of cannon at Enterprise
last week.
DIR. ZEALEY, Of Jackson, now
breaches in the Baptist Church at
McComb City,
A. B. HURT, ESQ, of Winona, has
been appointed Assistant Keeper of
Stationery of the Senate.
Two million dollars worth of Con
fcderate bonds had been sold in
New Orleans up to last week.
THE New Orleans Democrat has
faithfully worked for the success of
the Democratic ticket in this State.
The States complain that the New
Orleans merchants use too much Of
the sidewalks for mercantile pur
poses.
w. c. RAUM has been appointed
and confirmed United States Mar
shall for the Southern District of
this State.
THIRTY sleeping car conductors
were discharged in New Orleans last
Sunday. No reason is given for
their removal.
THE Governor Of Louisiana has
called an extra session Of the Leg
islature at New Orleans, the first
Monday in December.
A REGULAR line of herdic coaches
was started on Magazine street,
New Orleans, last Monday. They
are intended as rivals Of the street
cars.
A New ORLEANS man wants to
bet 81 900 that the present cotton
crop will exceed six million bales.
He has found no one to accept his
challenge.
The Commercial has big ideas
about Nlcksburg. 1t says the city
should only be second to New Or
leans as the greatest cotton market
Of the South.
4 NEGRO named Bill Strother was
murdered, at Meridian, recently, by
some men of his own color, with
whom he had had difficulty the
day previous.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT is now
selling off his real estate in New
York. He would dispose Of the
Herald, but can find nobody rich
enough to buy it.
JUDGE You've, of Vicksburg, has
notified his friends that he Will not
be an applicant for reappointment.
How would Judge Warren Cowan
do as his successor?
WHILE visiting Lake Washington
Church, in Issaquena county, on
the 2Sth ult., Bishop Green fell,
and broke his right arm between
the wrist and elbow.
The candidate for Ranger il
Lowndes county made general
canvass for the office. In Lincoln
county no man could be found that
would accept the office.
CHESS, CARLYLE & Co oil mer-
chants of Louisville, KY, and the
merchants Of Columbus, are en-
gagged in a warm fight. The Colum-
bus merchants will win.
Col. NJ. SMITH, who at one time
published the Star at Enterprise,
and afterwards at Pascagoula, died
in Mobile last week. He was q
good writer and genial gentleman.
SINCE the London Times denied
that there were any funds in the
bank of England to the credit Of
the Confederate Government there
has been q great decline in the price
of Confederate bonds.
ARTHUR would like to appoint
Senator Edmunds one Of the Su.
preme Court Judges, but will not do
so, as he does not want to deprive
his party of all the brains in the
Senate, on the Republican side.
Lincoln, it seems, was not the on
ly county in the State that had
men, claiming to be Democrats, who
voted against the nominees of the
party. Clark county was afflicted
the same way. There will come a
day of rcconing.
JAY GOULD intends, when his
road is completed from New Orleans
to Shreveport, to send beef ready
dressed to the Crescent City in re-
frigerating cars. This will reduce
the weight onc-half, and make mar
kcting cheaper than now.
WE have received the American
Register, the new Democratic jour
nal recently established in Wash
ington. 1t is ably edited and is full
of news. Col. w. III. MeCardle, of
this State, Is one Of its editors. We
wish him and his paper great success
WHILE some negroes were passing
along the road, in Sharkev county,
on the 2stL ult., they were fired into
by parties in ambush. Three were
killed and several were wounded.
Such conduct cannot be too severe
~ condemned. The white citizens
Of the county held an Indignation
meeting AZ Rolling Fork the next
day and denounced the murdcrcrs