The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-01
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

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county recently.
ExtSHERIFF A. J. Flanagan, died in
Yicksburg last week.
GRANT is specializing in stocks and is
said to be getting rich.
SOME of our exchanges think that Put
Darden Is a Dolly Warden.
GEN, LOWRY has not noticed those
opened letters, and we hope he will not.
ED. NJ. 7. MARTIN. late of the Bap>
fist Record, has moved to San Antonio.
FOSTER & BUCK succeed S. r. Hugh"
ston as editor of the Chester Recorder.
TATE county has Democratic, Repub,
lican and Greenback tickets in the field.
GEN. LESLIE COMBS died at Lexings
ton, Kentucky. recently, in his ootb
year.
Col. CoRBrN says there will be thirty
thousand militia at the Yorktown cele>
bration.
A STORM, on the 9th ult. destroyed
$40, 900 worth of property n Charleston
harbor.
Two hundred hands are at work on
the road between Vicksburg and Port
Gibson.
W1NoNA has voted $65. 600 to the
Greeneville, Columbus and Birmingham
Railroad.
Hos. JAS. EATON, of Smith county,
has been nominated for the Senate from
that district.
SUNDAY last prayer was held nall the
churches in New Orleans for the strick~
en- President.
The oyster dealers of New Orleans
have published a card stating that they
will not sell oysters for less than thirty
cents per dozen.
In her last race Maud S. lowered her
record a quarter of a second, and sport
ing men are sad in consequence.
WHILE their parents were at church
three negro children were burnt to
death in a house near Boonyille, last
week.
The Comet that it will be
continued, and a responsible editor will
be placed in charge of its columns.
LAST Sundays New Orleans Times
failed to contain one of Catherine Coles
letters, and still the world breathes.
CAPT. J. M. LIDDLE has been nomi-
mated for the Senate from the counties
of Carroll. Montgomery and Lefore.
GEN. GRANT has bought a 500, 900
house in New York City, and still some
men say Presidents eve a v anything.
The majority against the %prohibisory
bill submitted to the people OF North
Carolina is over one hundred thousand.
RATHER than yield to the demands of
the home laborers. the cotton men OF
New Orleans have employed hands from
a distance.
THERE is some talk that w. lei. Van
derbilt aspires to the Presidency. He
had better confne himself to stocks
and fast horses.
GEORGE ELIOT gives the following
defnation of Conservatives-"Men who
give way to Radicals" Referred to
Ben King for digestion.
A NEGRO named Chas. Aaron vas shot
and killed. in VIcksburg, while stand>
ing in his door, on thenight of the 2Sth
ult, The assassin is unknown.
In some parts of Yallobusha and Tall
Iahatcllie counties people have been
compelled to leave their homes for wa,
ter. Stock has suffered greatly.
The Queen telegraphs her sympathy
to Mrs, Garfield once q week. The 9th
err royal heads of Europe don't seem to
know there is such a Republic as
America.
A DIsPATH from Tombstone, Arizona.
says TIE Indians attacked the town of
Eureka, N. NJ, a few days ago and Kill
led all the inhabitants said to be about
seventy in number.
A CHICAGO man estimates the present
cotton crop at five million bales. We
next expect to hear some Chicago doc
tor telling how to cure yellow fever.
Chicago has cheek.
For the second time a report has
reached us that j. L. Lake had died in
Washington city. He denies the res
port over his own signature. That is
one Lake that won't dry mp.
GEN. WEST used to say the mission OF
the Greenbackers twas to form o third
party which was to be free from the
sins and corruptions of both the old
parties." What does he think now?
THE first negro policeman was put on
the force al Philadelphia a few days
ago, aud he excited considerable atten~
ton, but did not get excited himself
though pursued oil along his route by
loafng men and boys.
A Claiborne county correspondent re-
ports that the cotton crop will be one
third short Of last year, and that the
farmers will need twice as much sup"
plies as they did last season. Not one~
third Of a corn crop will be made.
REpoRTs from all parts of the State
from Republicans say they won't vote
for King and his Greenback tags. but
that they will support the Republicans
on the ticket. The few Greenbackers
who are not disg lstedIwithIthe fusion say
they will support only members of their
fifth. In that event we would like to
know where King expects his votes.