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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

achievement unheard ofin this, and
perhaps unknown in any other State
IN the Union, and is due to the fore
sight of q Democratic Legislature,
and the skill, industry and sound
judgment of her officers charged
with the management and collec-
tion of her revenue
In view of all these improvements
accomplished under Democratic gov
eminent, in view Of returning pros
perity TO our State, and notwith-
standing the peaceful observance to
law and order in the State, and the
contentment of the people with the
condition TO which they are rapidly
approaching, we are confronted
with the astounding prospect of
an Independent party-a "Peo-
pies party" inspired by Republi-
cans and to be led by a sore headed
"Bourbon Democrat" of their chos-
ing. We are in favor of turning
our back upon the past, standing on
the present and looking hopefully to
the future" But it behooves us to
light up the pathway of the future
by our experience of the past. 1t
is the duty of every good citizen to
frown upon every effort to divide
the strength of the Democratic par
ty between leaders of discordant
factions. Division in Jul ranks is
the delight of those who make a
trade of politics and who are ready
to align themselves with whatever
party may be in power, provided
the temptation Of a fat office is held
out to them. Division and change
is wanted by that class of politici-
ans whose oscillations have lost
them the confidence of all true 10y
ers of honest and stable government.
Change in the administration OF
the Government is desired by those
who hope to control a portion of its
patronage. Democrats, beware
When you hear a politician making
war upon the administration, in
ouire into his antecedents. Look
back on his record.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

The Vicksburg Commercial says
that the completed Irish census
shows a falling off IN the population
of that unhappy country OF two
hundred and f%ifty-two thousand
five hundred and thirty eight souls
in the last ten years. To such &
proof of discomfort and bad govern.
ment there is no answer. The peo'
pie haye not been swept away by
pestilence or famine. They have
been driven into exile by harsh
usage. The census returns ought tt
awaken the public conscience in
England"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
SPENGLER HOUSE.
the ONLY HOTEL UPTOWN.
OPEN ALL NIGHT(0pposit the CapitOl)

Rooms renovated, repaired, and furnish-
ed with New Furniture throughout.
Guests can choose the American or Eu-
ropcan Plan.
fas1 None but Polite and attentive ser
wants employed. Sample Rooms fitted up
especially for Commercial Men.
g@y~Free Hacks from and TO all trains
day and night. Terms $500 per day.
When you come to Jackson and want q
square meal and clean Bed, sion at the
Spengler House. CHRIS. HINCKLE,
Jan 22-tf. Manager.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

The fierce war that was waged SO
relent,essly against Senator Lamar
because he differed with them in GER
tain matters of policy, has about
subsidized. It is only confined to a
few who have seen their error, but
who are too stifT-necked to &C
knowledge they were wrong in their
attacks upon the man who scarcely
has a peer. Before the Convention
meets We expect this feeling will
have died entirely out, and those
who are his ostensible opponents
will fall into line and march to the
music Of the times. The feeling In
his1 is growing stronger ;;eyery
day.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
While At the State Agricultural and

While at the State Agricultural and
Mechanical College at Starkville. the
other day, a gentleman addressed us in
thus: mississippi provides for her in
sane for her deaf, dumb and blind;
and in her treatment of the boys and
young men, shei is lavish both at Oxford
and S~tarkville; bnt for the education OF
girls ard young women. she has done
absolutely nothing. There should be,
continued our friend, a State Fe'
male college. and it should be
in the central or Southern part of the
State We sympathize with our friend,
in the opinion expressed. and suggest
that now is q good time to move IN be-
half of such an institution Er,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

Miss NJ. M. Gillett, a native OF
Wisconsin, and now a resident of
Washington, and a student of law.
was on Tuesday appointed by the
President a notary public for the
District of Columbia. This is the
first instance of a woman receiving
such an appointment from the Pres
ident.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

yenor, the Canadian weather prophet,
says that he thinks that the latter part
of June, and much of July, will be
stormy and wet-with brief alterna'
tions of very excessive heat and muggi'
ness. August on the whole, he
thinks will be pleasant, and favorable
to agriculture.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
Losses and Gains since the war

-na&eS anu Nu1IHAo
In fifteen years after the war the
South raised nearly 10, 900 bales more
cotton than in the last fifteen years OF
slavery. This addition was worth. SAYS
Mr.. Atkinson, about $3.50, 000, 900.
This would be a very good compensa-
ton for the loss Of the slaves, but as
the proceedso of this crop largely 60 to
the late slaves themselves, those who
lost them do not regard it in the light
Of value for value. They have 30 rea-
son to complain. however. The slaves
themselves had to start in life all Of
n without a dollar of indemnity fol
their past labora, and nobody is better
entitled to the new fruits OF freedom
than those who earn them for the first
time as freemen. After this interval
at ali events, the natural operation OF
economic laws has distributed the
losses ana the gains ns justly as is
possible under human limitations.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

The Recorder, published at Chester,
Ohoctaw county has this to say of La
mar: We believe that nine-tenths ui
the people of this county favor the re-
turn OF Mr. Lamar to the U. S. Senate.
1t is true that III a few instances his
course has not met with the approval of
some of his constituency, but, taken
altogether his record bears the impress
of a true Soathern statesman. His
national reputation and u%nbounded iu>
~fiuenca, his devotion to the South ana
her interests, are recognized and ap-
preciated by the people aud if we are
not badly mistaken he will be returned
to the U. s. Senate with but few DIS
senting voices.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

A WASHINGTON letter, in speaking OF
the wealth Of Southern Senators, says
that George of Mississippi. is a thrifty
business man, owns large plantations,
works them economically and clears
500, 900 a year, but Lamar is inst the
opposite, caring for nothing but the
booky and student side of life, and
never would be anything but a poor
man. unless he got the benefit of a will,
If he lived to be a thousand years DID,"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

Southern reports from North CAROLS
M to Texas show a considerable in.
crease in the acreage:of cotton, the gain
in Georgia being estimated at from 20
to 25 per CEN. For the last fortnight
the weather has been unusually favora-
BILE and the young plants promised fine
crops. Corn is being neglected greatly
for cotton.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

A negro preacher by the name OF
Richard Bennett, assisted by his son,
stole three bales of cotton in Yazoo
county, last week, and carried it to
Vicksburg, where they intended to sell
it. Information had reached the Off
cials at Vicksburg. by telegraph. aud
the two thieves were promptly arrested
and carried back to Yazoo county to be
tried
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
For Sale.

offer for sale my farm and residence, on
Fair River, nine miles east of Brookhaven,
embracing 800 acres Of land; seventy under
fence, and forty in cultivation; residence
comfortable; good water aud orchard, ana
ali necessary ou~tbuildings. I also offer for
sale my horses, cattle, sheep. farming Inn,
plements, horse wagon, OK cart, buggy and
harness. For further particulars address
W. II. BAILEY,
apr21-tf Fair River, Miss.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

On the night of the-I1th inst, a n e
gro dance, at Sardis. was broken up in
CONSERVATION by the eclipse of the
moon. Many of the dusky damsels and
ebony gallauts, thought the world was
coming to an end and they chopped
down on their marrow bones and
prayed most earnestly.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

As an illustration Of the compensa>
tious brought about by the whirllgie OF
time. attention is called to the fact
that while no relative of General Wesi.
ing has lived at Mt. Vernon for many
years, aud none of his family own my
cart OF the estate. descendants of three
families of negro servants still live there
aud neither they ortheir ancestors lave
known any other home since Gen.
Washington brought theif anc ,stors
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
BY the time the Press Association

BY the time the Press Association
meets next year. we will be able to
bring the members by rail from Jack
sen to Natchez, and w can assure them
that the old city will give them an old
fashioned welcome. 1t is pleasing to
see the unanimity With which this city
was selected. 1t leads us to believe
there is a kindly feeling all over the
State towards the effoIt of the people
of Natchez to build up q new pros
perity. Democrat.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

A coIored youth named Elias Henry
exhibited a rusty water moccasin on the
streets yesterday, he having killed it at
Glass Bayou, near the Washington
street bridge; and while so exhibiting
he noticed an unusual enlargement
about its middle. and he proceed to in-
vestigate. Putting his shod foot upon
the place, he soon forced from the rep
tiles stomach a catfish that was six or
seven inches long, and which bad been
but recently swallowed Vicks6urg
Herald.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
SherM's Sale.

No. Gil ! IS Is. Lincoln Circuit Court.
NJ. A. AndingJ
By virtue Of a writ OF execution to me
from the Circuit court OF Lincoln county,
Mississippi, | will on Monday the 4th day
of July 4. D., 1881, at the court house door,
in the town of ~Brookhaven, proceed to sell
to the highest bidder, for cash, the following
described property to-wit: The e hi, Of ne
or, Of Is, S, r q east and n hi of NV or of
S Is IS 7 east levied on as the property OF
defendant, NJ. A. Anding and will be sold
to satisfy the Judgment and costs, in the
above stated case This, 3rd day OF June
A. D., 1881. J.L. MIKELL Sheriff.
Per. d. II. S. Cox D. s., june 8 II.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
A Big Order.

Some of our people have an ides that
factories don't amount to much, but n
few days since Col. VIM. Oliver the
capable manager of the Wesson Mills.
CHANGED to be in Atlanta, the Capitol of
Georgia, the great manufacturing State
of the South. Having some samples
of his goods with him, he received an
order for TWENTY FIVE THOUsASD DOL,
LARS WORTH OF WEssoN GOODS from 8
single house III that city! The goods
are to be delivered within sixty days
from the date of the order. Somehow
or other this transaction looks res
markably like business VickSburg
Herald.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

A BOOM on the subject of cotton man.
ufacturing i'll the South. has evidently
struck with great force in the New Eng
land States. The manufacturers see
the advantages in spinning the cotton
near The fields, and the outlook now is
that the South is soon to be revolution
lied on this subject. Let them come.
We can submit to an invasion Of that
kind without resistance.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
South Carol;na which seems To ba,

South Carolina, which seems to have
been sleeping the sleep of centuries, so
far as. railroads are concerned, will
probably soon be aroused by Northern
capitalists. who are about to take hold
of the South Carolina road, bring it to
Charleston and carry it over the monne
Jams into Tennessee, 80 as to secure
Northern Connections.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

Seven or eight hundred Thousand
immigrants will cone over to this n
try from the Old World this yeat,
Nearly all of them will bring with them
a little ready money and a great deal OF
Drawn and muscle. Seven or eight
hundred thousand would be sufficient
for a State nearly as large in popula-
ton as Observation-Disclosures.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

Heretofore Vanderbilt University co.,
ferred no degrees upon graduates in the
Biblical Department. But at the recent
session of the Board of Trnst. it was
decided that the degree of S. L. d
might be conferred upon graduates who
had pursued with success a course Of
study prescribed by the faculty.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
AND cHAYoMTLE COMBINED INA
CERTAIN PROPORTION
Invariably Cures Either Sick Head
ache.
Neuralgia, Nervousness, Sleeplessncss, Par
alysis and Indigestion.

This is a triumph in Medical Chemistry,
and sufferers all over the whole country,
and even abroad, are ordering by mail and
otherwise. They are prepared in pills at 50
cents a box, or six boxes for 81 30, mailed
free to any address. These pills are prepar-
ed expressly to cure the above named dis
eases, and will cure any case. Depot 1906
North EutawSt., Baltimore, Nd. iun23-1m
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

Hamilton Disston, a Philadelphia
manufacturer, has bought four million
acres of land in Florida, the property of
the State. The land lies in one tract on
Lake Okeechobee; a fourth larger than
the State of Connecticut. end a compa>
nv is to be formed to settle it by immi-
grafton from Europe; but Florida has
blundered greatly as a State in selling
q vast dominion like this to q single
holder. Small patches and little farms
are the crying need of the s nth, ant
every Southern State should sell it'
land, as the Nation does, in quarter
sections.-Spriaqfeld Republican.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

The superintendent of Foreign mails.
at Washington, gave notice last Mon
day that, owing to the withdrawal OF
the Morgan Line of Steamers between
New Orleans and Cnba, all correspond
eneo heretofore forwarded to New. Or
leans and Key West for dispatch,
should now be sent to the New York
post office.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

Mr.. John j. Rohrbacker, of Jackson,
has gone into the stock raising business
in Madison county. He is stocking his
farm with the finest grades of cattle.
horsas and sheen.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
April %, ls8l.-tf.
Wanted.

Fifty head Of sheep and five likely year
ling heifers. / have a registered Jersey
bull. of the Montgomery Moohn Farm
Herd. Starkville, Miss, which farmers and
others canhave the use of for IS. For par
ticulars, apply to J. r. Perkins, Express
Office ~Brookhayen. DAN'L DEENErT,
may19-2m ficayune Farm.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

TIE annual reunion Of the Grifith-
Barksdale Humphreys Braade is nxed
for Che 81 Wednesday 10 July. in jack
son.. A full attendance is desiied. DR..
Byron Lam'y will s3t as Secretary in
nlace Of Mr.. Harris Barksdale. whose
i'll health induced bis resignation.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

A government contractor. with q
force of workmen, is engaged in build
a boat ct Grenada, with which to clean
out the Yalobusha river. Congress
appropriated IS, 200 for the aid of the
work.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
Don't You a 1t.

/ want to sell my farm one mile south
west of Brookhayen, at low price and easy
crms-1G0 acres. Good land, poor land,
plenty OF timber. Well watered and
spring watered. Address me at Pelihatchie,
Rankin, county, Miss.
G. w. HOSKINS.
April %, 1S8l.-tf.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

Tie farmers from all sections report
the cotton ~ in a fourishing O. ndstion.
The hot weather has been of great nd.
vantage TO IL. The c,rn. however. is
sufIering, aud will not produce we'll nm.
less Ne nave ram Lefoie long -Yasoo
Herald.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
NO Hospital needed.

No palatial hospital needed for Hop
Bitters patients. nor large. salaried puff
ers to tell what Hop Bitters will do or
cure. as they tell their own story by
their certain and absolute cures at
home. June 23,2w.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

Ladies WHO appreciate elegance and
purity are using Parker's Hair Balsam.
1t is the best article sold for restoring
gray hair to its original color and
beauty. lune23-lm
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

PERsoNs writing on their own
business should always inclose !
stamp to pay postage.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
ST. JAMES HOTEE.

Cor. FIFTH AND WALNUT STRrETs
g.. LOUIS.
This hotel is centrally located, both tor
business and pleasure. Rooms large, cool
and airy. First class in all its appoint
ments, well adapted for Southern people.
Charges reasonable. Keep on both Amer
an and European plans.
-I6m THOS. p. MILLER, Propr
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
EST POINT

Our next stopping place was
Vest Point, Many Of the citizens
were excited over the news received
that Misses Mamie Cook, Lou
Moore, and Mary Bell had barely
escaped drowning while boating in a
lake near that town. The above
ladies, John Frank and Jno. Stacey
occupied the same boat. 1t was re
cidentally overturned and all were
thrown in the water. But for the
timely action AMI cool Judgment Of
the young men, the ladies wonid
have drowned. At night we attend
ed the closing exercises of Mrs.
Jerdine's Female Institute. Miss
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

When Claude wooed the fair Pau.
line, he grew eloquent in praise OF
Lake Como, all Of which 10 pleasant
for lovers, but fol. substantial wealth
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30
SARDIS.

This is one of the new towns OF
the State. 1t is we'll built and pre-.
sents an air of solid prosperity. Its
most prominent merchants are 5.
H. Gunter, Hunter& Bro. j. Greene
valid and Balletine. MI. w. H.
Wall, Past Grand Dictator OF the
Knights of Honor, is cashier and
manager of the bank; Taylor 4
Kyle, Bulch & Rainwater, Hall &
Booth, and w. d. Miller, are the
lawyers. Hon. r. II. Taylor is not
at all disturbed by the action of his
friends to make HIM Governor. The
Taylor boom is fairly under way in
North Mississippi and gathering
strength daily. 1t is spreading in
every direction. and is destined to
play an important part in the State
Convention. Mr. Taylor is in the
field, his friends have put him there,
and we believe he will be a strong
candidate. 1t is wonderful the en-
thusiasm his name has awakened.
At the last election the Grecnback-
ers captured Pamela county, but we
"
learn they now say that II Taylor
is nominated for Governor, they will
support him. We were pleased to
meet Bonner and Judge Simmons
of the Star. They are splendid
gentleman, whom to know is TO
love. The Star is one of the best
arranged printing Offices we have
ever seen.
COMO.
When Claude wooed the fair Pau
line, he grew eloquent in praise Of
Lake Como, all Of which 10 pleasant
for lovers, but for. substantial wealth
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-30

IuAuc ny tue HepuUilCduS,
flying, not oaiy q superiority of eff
cheney and 4delity in her officers,
but in the increased ability TO pay
taxes under a Democratic Govern
ment. Having improved the gener-
al Legislation of the State and set
her government to rights, she has,
in her recent legislation, approach
ed the citizen and made it practica-
BILE for him to have many wrongs
redressed by q cheap and simple
process, which heretofore cost him
an expensive suit in the courts, or
the slow delay Of Legislative relief
The long list Of State lands which
encountered hes records, yielding
no revenue, was reduced in one year
under an act Of the Legislature, by
the redemption and sale of nearly
five hundred thousand acres, which
at once puts many thousand sof dol.
lars into the State and county treas
uries and puts Q half million of
acres back on the assessment OF
property OF the State to yield addi-
tional revenue annually. In addi-
ton to this nearly one hundred
thousand acres have been struck of
the record. held uader sales which
were void; about the same amount
struck of for want Of definite de-
scription and more than three hun
dred thousand acres Of public Uni
ted States lands placed upoa the
r cords during Republican rule, the
presence Of which on the record and
on assessment rolls was . source Of
annoyance ~ over tho State, have
gone OF tbe record. This is an
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-04
THE CLASSIFICATION PUZZLE.

The new Constitution is affording the
lawyers some lively work about this time.
The classification and organization of towns
and cities has already been the subject of
three separate and conflicting reports from
the Assembly Judiciary Committee, and
whoever has read them all must perceive
that there is a great deal to be said upon
all the numerous sides of the question.
Whether it is necessary to bring in separate
bills for classification and organization and
incorporation whether one general bill for
classification will answer the purpose, and
separate bills for organization whether it
is necessary to lump the three forma-
tions in one bill, or to separate
them into three classes whether these
three classes must be general or sepa-
rate bills; what the difference between
general and special bills is and so forth,
dd iqfRitum, are the problems which
puzzle the legislative brain. 1t is further
to be remembered that no matter what
conclusion the Legislature reaches on the
subject, the Supreme Court is liable to
hold altogether different views, and con-
sidering the extreme uncertainty of every
thing in the new Constitution, it appears
scarcely worth while to spend much time
over this question. Probably the first
guess made at the meaning of the organic
law would be quite as likely to be sup
ported by the Courts as the most elaborate
research.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-04

to be the fact. If, as is stated, there are
some swindling contracts behind the honest
ones, surely the Courts can be trusted to
separate them out The bill which has
passed the Assembly does not dictate to
the Courts, it only gives the contractors the
right to have their cases fairly tried. The
presumption is that under such an ordeal
as they seek the dishonest contracts would
be detected and defeated. Any other pre-
sumption must impeach the integrity OF
the San Francisco Courts. We cannot
understand the heat and bitterness with
which some San Francisco journals have
attacked this bill, in short. 1t is not on
It's face bad measure. and it does not,
when carefully looked into, give the con-
tractors any dangerous privileges, or in
fact accord them anything more than the
opportunity to have their demands adjudi-
Gated.