The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-17
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Altcr an elSuI mOntnS session
congress has adjourned.
The Cincinnati industrial EXPOSE
ton opens September 9th.
Moneys nomination in the 4th
congressional district is now assur-
ell.
recording to the Vicksburg
Herald, real estate is on the boom
in that city.
Three crops of German millet are
grown in year on the same fields
in South Texas.
John c. Hamilton, son of the
great Alexander Hamilton, died at
Long Branch last week.
Reed Guiteau's counsel has made
out a bill of $4,000 against the Coy
eminent for his services.
Gen. Grant has been appointed
commissioner to negotiate COM
mcrcial treaty with Mexico.
Jim Hill was nominated for Con
gress by the Republican Convention
at Hazlehurst, or Tuesday.
A water-spout recently damag-
ed farmers crop in Tallahatchie
county to the amount Of 5000.
Capt. Robt. Leech, a conductor
on the Memphis and Grenada Rail
road for nearly 20 years, has resign
ed.
The oat crop in Georgia this year
amounted to 7,!57,77s bushels
Wheat produced 1856, $40 bush
els.
The law of Congress against the
landing of Chinese immigrants on
our shores took effect on the 9Th of
August.
The editor of the Meridian Mer-
curry, Col. Horn, is a candidate for
the next Legislature, on the anti
Sunday platform.
The Jasper County Review is
to be removed from Paulding to
Eossburg, ON the New Orleans and
North Eastern railroad.
Armstead Coleman, the negro
who in fit of jealousy murdered
negro girl at West Point two years
ago, was hanged at that place Fri
Il ay --.t-- -
Farcas, the supposed wife-mur-
derer in Yicksburg, was tried on a
writ of habeas corpus and admitted
to bail in the sum of seven thousand
dollars
The Senate in Washington in
creased the amount of money to be
allowed for the National Board OF
Health 5000, but the House refus-
cd to concur.
Francis S. Key, author of the
Star Spangled Banner" is to have
n 100000 monument at San Fran :
cisco, provided for by the will of the
late James Lick.
BY the first of July, 1888, it is
said that this Strife, will have more
miles of railroad under contract
than any other State in the Union
except Texas.
The total number of immigrants
to this country during the year
ending June 80, was 7S9 900, the
largest number in any year in our
ceuntry's history.
Alabama is ahead of Mississippi
on new cotton this year. A bale OF
this years crop was received at
Montgomery, Ala, on the 9Th. 1t
was in raised Montgomery county
T. S. Crayton Jr., of Anderson
s. c., sold $4,000 Confederate note
last week for $50. it was the only
note of that denomin alton ISSUED
by the Confederate Government in
1861.
The following post-offices in this
State have recently been made
money-order offices: Quitman,
Hickory, Ashland. Biloxi, Blue
Mountain, Centerville, Guntown,
Pickens Station.
AS showing the claim that Chica-
go is the greatest lumber market in
the world, it may not be uninterest-
ing to know that during the season
of 1881 there was received 4, S44, 639,
900 feet of lumber at that port.
New Orleans has five miles of river
front on the Mississippi illuminated
by 1O4 electric lights, and finds the
scheme to facilitate work as well as
preventing pilfering Of goods. That
city has 300 electric lights in all.
A light vote was polled in Ala
bama last week, mostly democratic.
The democrats elect their state Off
GERS and nearly all of the legislature.
Gen. Jno. T. Morgan will be re elect
cd U. S. Senator without serious OPP
position.
Statistics of Texas say her corn
crop this year will amount to no.
100000 bushels. This is about six
times greater than ever before.
There will be surplus for ship
ment of not less than 10000, 600.
Last year the State was compelled
TO import corn.
Adyices of recent date from
Alabama report the oat crop as the
finest ever known. The corn crop