The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-07-13
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
is preparing for war.

Corinth has five matrimonial in
surance companies.
Work has begun ON the Memphis
and Selma Railroad.
The sea-shore campmeeting be-
gan on the 18th inst.
The death rate from yellow fever
in Havana, is thirty day.
The Grand Lodge, X. of H., will
meet in Canton ON the 18th.
The first wife of Brigham Young
died at Salt Lake last week.
The State Prohibition Convention
will assemble in jackson on the Goth
inst.
The cotton compress at Columbus
Miss, handles $4,000, bales each
year.
The Mississippi Valley railroad
has one thousand hands at work up
on it.
There has only been one case of
yellow fever in New Orleans this
season.
The cannery at Biloxi is canning
large quantities of crabs, okra and
tomatoes.
Judge Osgood, formerly ofWilkin-
son, died recently in Bolivar county
IN this State.
Work on the Georgia Pacific rail
road from Columbus eastward has
been suspended.
BY the railroad survey the dis
lance from Jackson to Yazoo City
is only Az miles.
Nobody believed those Georgia
editors would fight and nobody has
been disappointed.
According to the Kemper Herald
the corn crop ofthat county has been
damaged by drouth.
The first bale of the new crop of
cotton passed throuh Gonzales, Tex
as, on the 4th of July.
Mr.. w. d. Calhoon retires from
the Madison Democrat, and is sue
ceedcd by N. A. Leitch.
BY the death of Skobeleff, Russia
loses the bravest and the greatest
General in the Empire.
In q few days 800 convicts will be
put to work on the Memphis and
Holly Springs Railroad.
Cadaretta and Greensboro beats,
in Webster county, have instructed
for Money for Congress.
The new Blind Asylum at Jack
son is nearly finished and will be
really for use in September.
The Wilkinson County Democra-
tic Convention will meet in Wood
vile on the 18th day of July, 1882
Three white men, Shaw, Simmons
anl Stafford arc being tried at Oko.
Iona, for the murder of Gen w. F.
Tucker.
The Congressional nominating
Convention for the Second District
will be held at Oxford on the Second
OF August.
A Nebraska Judge has decided
that when a man swore to his assess
IN mt the County Supervisors had
no right to raise it.
Bancroft Davis, Assistant Secre-
tary Of State, and Walter Blaine,
Third Assistant Secretary of State,
have resigned.
One hundred and sixty men went
to Jail in Amite county for not work
ing the road, preferrjng imprison
me 1t to paying the fines.
Judge Jeffords seems to be the
coming man for the Republican
nomination in the Sd District, two
or three counties having instructed
for him.
The first term of the Federal
Court for the Aberdeen district
will be holden at that place com
mencing on the first Monday in Oc
tober next. --,- .--.----- -- .--,--
The Democrats of Clay county
have instructed their delegates to
the District Convention to vote for
the nomination of Hon. F. S. White
for Congress.
Judge Morgan, of DeSoto Coun-
ty, has announced himself as a can
dldate for Congress from the
Second District, now represented by
Col. Manning.
The American Bible Society pro
poses to canvass the entire popula-
ton of the United States, and pre-
sent every destitute family with a |
copy of the Bible free of charge.
The Half-Breeds do not like the
way in which the President is por-1
tloning out the loaves and fishes,
and the Buffalo Commercial sng-
gests they can emigrate.
Two steamers on the Ohio river
colllded on the 4th at Mingo juno
lion. They had on board between
ooDa ana GOO. excursionists. 1t is
thought seventy five lives were lost.
President Burkitt, of the Missis
sippi Press Association, is making
arrangements for an excursion