The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-04-14
EDITORIAL ITEMS

A REVENUE officer was recently muir
dered at Gallatin, Tenn.
A UNITED STATES Court has been Q s
tablished at Aberdeen.
THE StarkvIlle bank has not suspen-
ded, as was announced.
DIR. E. I. HENRY, of V%icksburg, died
at Marietta, Ga. on the 10th inst.
LAST Monday Henry Spaine shot and
killed John Sheehan, in Vicksburg.
GEO. MARSH, colored, has been elec-
ted Circuit Clerk of Washington county.
SENATOR Edmunds has returned from
FLORIDA to Washington much improved
in health.
w. S, PARISH has been elected Dis
trict Attorney in one of the river Dis
tricts.
Tue assassins of the Gear have been
sentenced to death, One is a woman OF
noble lirth.
Miss SELMA FETrER, the rising Ken
tucky actress, will play in jackson on
the ed inst.
THE police arrested six gamblers ard
overhauled one of their dens in Natch-
ez on the l1th.
In Texas thieves are hanged from the
trees, but in Connecticut the thieves
steal the trees.
Some of the specials sent to the New
Orleans papers are the worst trash eve
penned by novices.
A call is made elsewhere fer relief for
the distressed of Chic. The distress in
the island of that name is great.
Mrs. MCCAIN, mother-in-law of State
Treasurer Heming way, died in Jackson
on the 10th inst.
IT is announced that Hon. 81. d.
Money will erect a $50, 600 house at
Eureka Springs, Ark.
A DESPATCH from Paris announces
that Pierre Napoleon died at Versailles
on Friday, of govt.
WI have received the first number of
the Edwards City Item, by r. & J. s.
Schwab. 1t has good reading.
THE Walden Nucleus, NJ. McClurg,
editor, is on our table. 1t is neatly
printed and well edited.
A GREENBAcKER suggests that the
name of Put Darden be placed OF the
Greenback ticket. Darden is no fool.
The police have raided an opium den
in New ORLEANS. Four prominent citi-
zens of New Orleans were arrested in it
The President has decided to contin"
ue his nominations and let the Senate
become responsible for not acting on
them.
CARTER HARRIsoNs, majority in Chi
cage is about eight thousand. His ma
jority at the last election was five thou
sand.
SENATOR Malone receives the flowers
fashioned in the shape of a horseshoe.
Probably because he is the representa-
tive kicker.
The Governor of Massachusetts, has
appointed ex>United States Attorney
General Devens to a seat on the Su>
preme Court bench.
The Greenback organs are now blow
ing off about Democratic fraud. Some
of them are as slanderous as the vilest
Republican sheet in 1870.
S. M. THOMAS shot and killed his
brother-in~law, NJ. 81. Dickson, near
Shreveport, on the 10th, for dragging
and disgracing his daughter.
WHAT would the country think if the
President should call Congress in extra
session to help his partisan friends IN
the Senate out of their trouble?
j. 7. Raymond, the comedian. was
married to Miss Courtney Barnes, in
Philadelphia, ON the 18th inst. The
bride is a daughter of Rosa Eyetinge.
LIGHTNING struck the residence of B.
F. Jones, editor OF the Advance, in Wi
mona on the 10th inst, and did consId-
cradle damage to the property. No
person was hurt.
THE Enterprise Courier thinks unless
the State Convention is called early il
will be composed almost exclusively OF
candidates. There will be nobody else
to act as delegates.
The Republican Senators have de-
termined to stick, and 50 have the
Democrats. This is considerably like
an irresistible body coming in contact
with an ~immovable object.
r. WILLIAMS is travelling over the
country in search Of his family. consist
ing Of wife aud six children. They left
Meridian, Miss, December 18th for
San Francisco and have not been heard
of since.
The wrangles in the Senate continue.
The Republican members, having moth
ing else to do, charge the Southern
States with reputation and bulldozing,
md it is to be regretted that Southern
Senators notice the lies.
REPUBLICANS in the Senate are OBJ
structing the public business for the
sole purpose of dischalging their obli'
cations to Malone, whose treason to his
party they bought with the promise Of
a mess of pottage.
On the 18th inst. Senator Johnson's
desk was ornamenteG with a fora
shield, which bore the following in,
scription: "Virginians to Virginia's true
son; may he continue to shield her hon
or and traditions from all the assaults o.
her enemies foreign, or domestic"
THE statement that Malone is worth
50. 900. 900 is denied. His wealth is es'
timated at 800. 900. He owns a fine
house at Petersburg, Virginia, hes foul
Attorney COWS in his back yard, and @
flock of pheasants. He cultivates these
birds for their eggs. Hens eggs are
not to his taste, which is eccentric and