The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-14

R.H. HENRY. Editor and Proprietor
OrrrcE-Ledger Building,22 Cherokee 81.
RROOKHAvEN. rsESS.. e
Thursday, september x4th lsSa
FOR CONGRESS.
HON, h. BARKSDAhR,
OF KINDS COUNTY.
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
Monticello is being rapidly rebuilt.
On the 18th the game laws expired.
The Porte has at last declared Arab q
rebel.
Chalmers has purchased residence in
Sardis.
The wheat crop is estimated at SIG ,aOo,-
900 bushels. ...s .. ....a.-
1t is stated that President Arthur is to he
married this fall. ..-. s..t.
Smallpox has been declared an epidem-
ic in Bolivar county. %
The new gold certificates will he issued
on the first of October. 7+
A Crystal Springs firm has sold $4,000
fruit and vegetable boxes.
Track laying is actively going on between
Vicksburg and Memphis.
DIR; ]. c. Eagan, OF Shreveport, La, ha,
aperfectly white squirrel.
English agents are in St. Louis buyin,
mules for the war in Egypt.
The Ford Brothers, who killed JESSE
James, are to go on the stage.
A petrifed grounding was lately found
in Faulkner county, Arkansas.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee is to meet in Jackson to-day.
NJ. NJ. Estel has been nominated by the
Republicans of California for Governor.
Barksdale or Hill for Congress. Which
do you prefer? One is white and the other
colored.
The National Cemetery at Natchez con-
tains the remains of three thousand Union
soldiers.
General Grant, it is said, will decline
the position of commercial commissioner to
Mexico.
There are more women connected with
the press in Mississippi than in any other
Southern State. ts. .t...
The Democrats of Indiana are claiming
that State in November by over twenty
thousand majority. -s.E e..
The indications are that Wadsworth will
be nominated for Governor by the Republi-
cans of New York.
The latest things at Enterprise are a
marriage association and young mems
christian association.
The report that J. T. Bivins was killed in
without foundation.
Garland, who recently killed young Ad-
Olson of Baltimore, in duel, was tried for
murder and acquitted.
1t is not too early for the Democrats in
this district to commence organizing. The
Republicans are at work.
Collector Robertson, of New York, and
his assistants have refused to contribute TO
the Hubbell campaign fund. .
The population Of Brownsville is about
5000. Eleven hundred and thirteen cases
OF fever is heavy percentage. a-
Last week Hon. George A. Reeves, Speak
er Of the Texas House Of Representatives
died in Dallas of hydrophobia.
A newly discovered gold mine on Rocky
river, North Carolina, yielded 81, 600 worth
of fine gold in the first ten days.
The corn crop of the United States is set
down at one billion, eight hundred million
of bushels for the present year.
Dick Little, one of the James gang, is
being tried at Huntsville, Ala, for robbing
United States postmaster, in 1881.
A little daughter of Mr.. Leon Stewart, of
Scooba, fell in cistern, a few days ago,
and drowned before she could be gotten out
A new railroad company has been form
ed for the purpose of building railroad
from Natchez, Miss, to Brunswick Bay.
Ga.
Col. Manning denies that he had anything
TO do with bringing out Ham Carter as a
candidate for Congress in the Second Dis
triet
During the month OF August there were
1874 miles of railroad track laid in the
United States-the largest ever before
laid
The Government receipts on the 18th of
August were as enormous as usual, footing
up about fourteen hundred thousand dol
lars.
1t is now thought that the number of
emigrants arriving in the country this year
will fall fully a third short Of the total for
1881. ..
The British rife team will arrive in the
United States this week, to win or lose in
one of the most interesting trisls Of skill
ever known.
The Military Department Of West Point
has been discontinued and the place will
hereafter be under the supervision OF the
General'of the Army.
Secretary Folger has issued another call
for the redemption of bonds. The bonds
callei:for are of the loan OF March 3rd, 1863,
continued by Window at 81 cent.
Lemuel w. Livingston, the colored cadet
from the Second Congressional District Of
Florida, failed to pass the West Point cx-
animation. and has been rejected.
The total amount of public lands dis
posed of in Mississippi during the year
ending June 80, was 1877 ,006 acres; 15s, 4Ss
acres of this were homestead entries.
1t is reported from Washington that
Capt s. G. Bedwell, Postmaster at Yazoo
City, is to loss his official head, and that his
successor is to be Mr.. John Doherty.
Lynch says there is some doubt about
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