The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-28
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

day.
The Macon Sun reports rains
throughout Noxubee county.
CLARION is playing sad havoc
with the stock in Yazoo county.
A MAcHINEi is being made to locate
the bullet imbedded in the Prcsi-
dents body.
Hon. II. S. ALLEN, q prominent
lawyer of Lexington, recently died
in that town.
The Ripley Advertiser comes out
fair and square for Hon. F. A. Wolff,
of 1ippah, for Governor.
A celebrated Lyons physician, M.
Montain, says that smoking tobac-
co colors the bones.
The New York Tribune says that
Conkling Is endeavoring to turn the
country over to the Democrats.
A MASS Convention of Leake coun-
ty Greenbackers will be held in
Carthage on Monday, August Is.
Justice Nathan Clifford. of the
United States Supreme Court, died
at Cornish, Maine, on the 25th
inst.
THE pension list this year will
amount to 0,000, 900, and it is es-
timated that 100000, 900 will be
needed next year.
THE steamship Wyoming unload
ed seven hundred and fifty Mormon
converts at New York last week,
who are on their way to Utah.
IT is said that seats for the Patti
concerts will range in prices from 80
to $40 in New York, Boston and
Philadelphia, and from So to $l5
elsewhere.
THREE persons threw brickbats
into q train at Summit a few days
ago, but they o regret it as they
have been tried and sentenced to
jail three months.
TON BUFoRD, who killed Judge
Elliot in Louisville, Ky, and was
sent to an insane asylum, escaped
one day last week, but was captur-
cd and carried back.
SHELBY JOHNSON, a negro, shot
and killed JEFF. Young, another ne
gro in Yazoo county, on the 23d
johnson has been delivered up to
the property authorities.
PEBBLES & BRANUM, of Grenada,
now have charge of the Edwards
House at jackson. They under
stand the hotel business, and keep
none but frst-class houses.
Notwithstanding the influx of i'm
migrants into this country the labor
bureau at Castle Garden, New York,
finds that the demand for labor is
greater than the supply.
SrEERs, Independent Congressman
from Georgia, Indignantly denies
the report that he will cooperate
with the Republicans in the organi
cation of the next House.
THE East and West Texas Rail
way Company has sold to an Eng
fish corporation 100000 acres o
land in Kimball, Edwards and Ker
counties, in West Texas, for coloni
cation and settlement.
In the last number of the Nortl
American Review is Judge Jer'
Blacks answer to Col. Bob 1nger-
soils attacks on Christianity, and i
is said to be a mastery and unan
swerable document.
MISSISSIPPI is behind all othei
States IN the number of letter.
written by each inhabitant, while
Colorado leads; the average Missis-
sippian writing six and a half let
tiers, and the C~oloradian fifty-five {
year.
SINCE its establishment The LED
GER has been the only paper in thu
State Of that name, but new can
didate for public favor, called thu
Ledger, has made It's appearance a
Starkville. 1t has our best wishe!
for success.
FROM the Vicksburg Commercial
we learn that Bolivar county was 81
evenly divided between Featherstol
and Calhoon for Governor that nj
instructions were given as to tina
office. Col. Yerger was endorsed 70
Secretary of State.
On the walls of the New York AS
sembly were displayed, the othe
day. these words: .sFor President il
1884, Winfield Scott Hancock.
There is not the least probability o
that gentleman being renominated
however, unless the Democratic par
ty is less wise than we think it is
HUBBARD, the man who shot Mrs
Carney recently in Yazoo count,
in the left eye, because she ant
her husband objected to Hubbard
visiting their daughter, was carries
before a Justice of the Peace 10
trial and quietly stepping into
room had the Justice to make Mis-
Carney and himself one.
MAI. A. D.. BANKS, at one time OF
the editorial staff of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, during Buchanan's admin
istration public printer to the Sen
ate, and on the staff Of Gen. Jos. +