The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-05-04
EDrToRIAL ITEMS.

SENATOR BEN HILL has gone to
Eureka Springs.
The Mississippi mills at Wesson
nav a dividend Of &c per cent.
The Governor General has stop
ped the expulsion of the Jews from
Russia.
Col. SINGLETON is still there; but
the Woods are full of Congressional
aspirants.
ABERDEEN is expecting to have
national bank and branch of the
Federel Court.
PIERCE deem, of Newton county,
fell out of a wagon few days ago
and was killed.
THE Picayune of last SUNDAY
contained an interesting editorial,
written in Spanish.
RIGHT Rev. N. A: Gallagher, d. D..
was consecrated bishop of Galveston,
in Galveston on Sunday.
CAPT. BLooMER, veteran eff the
war Of 1912, died at Hawley, Wayne
county, Pa, on Thursday.
THE report that Messrs. Parnell,
Dillon and O'Kelly are to be imme-
diately released is positively denied.
Mr. 10. HORNE, of Hazlehurst,
died there last week, of that most
trying of all diseases, consumption.
CORTLAND, in PAMELA, is the on l.
~ town in that county that ship
ped more cotton this season than
last.
The knights of the Golden Rule
q new mutual benefit association, is
being organized in some parts OF the
State.
IT is reported that the Jews are
leaving Wilma en- masse. Two.hun,
dred families start for America Nav
lst.
A WAR between Uruguay and Bra
I'll is in prospects on account of the
maltreatment Brazilians iu Uru-
quay.
WEST VIRGINIA will elect her four
Congressman on the second Tuesday
in October, a bill to that effect hay
ing passed both houses of Congress.
IT is rumored that Senator 10.
Brown, of Georgia, intends resign
ing his seat, and that Gov. Colquit
will appoint Gen. Gordon in his
stead.
SIR WM. HARCoURT has announced
that DR.. Lamson, before his execu-
ton, confessed his guilt to the chap
lain, and acknowledged the Justice
Of his sentence.
SENATOR BAYARD has accepted an
invitation to deliver an Grafton up
on Daniel Webster at Dartmouth,
on the Wednesday of commencement
week at that college.
Mr.. BENJAMIN LEVINE, a4etired
merchant of Philadelphia, bequeathed
all his estate, valued at between
$4,000 and $25, 900, to the Jewish
Hospital Association of that city.
Ms. FRANCES SCovILLE will soon
begin a lecturing tour, and while out
will get up names to a petition to
the President asking communication
of Guiteau's sentence to imprison-
ment for life.
lT is reported that committee of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union waited ON the pastors of the
Dallas churches.and requested them
to discontinue the use of fermented
wines for communion purposes.
AK attempt was made Saturday
on the lives of W. H. Vanderbilt and
Cyrus W. Field, by sending them
explosives through the mails. a
timely discovery of The scheme pre-
vented a possible loss of life.
The Commissioner of Pensions re
ports to the Senate, in response to a
resolution, that the number of pen,
sioners on the roll in September last
was 269,85l, the annual amount CT
whose pensions was 500, 2G3, 469.
The President of the Pennsylva-
mia Pharmaceutical Society is stated
by he Lancet to have said that
"two- thirds of all the medicine sold
in the United States was in the form
Of patent medicines"
The funeral rites over the remains
of Ralph Waldo Emerson took place
at Concord Sunday afternoon. AL
most every building in the town bore
over its entrance door large black
and white rosette with sombre dra-
peries.
SATURDAY James and JEFF Davis
brothers, killed VIM. Grant, at Ed
wards Mill, Leake county, Miss.
They attempted to kill Edwards, the
owner of the mill. Edwards shot at
Jim Davis, missed him, but killed
his mule.
Mr.. BLAINE's grafton upon the life
and character of President Garfield
has been engrossed upon sheet of
Bristol board by a resident of Phil
adelphia, who intends to present
this result of long and patient labor
to Mrs. Garfield.
REV. w. N. PAYNE LEAvELL, pastor
of the First Baptist Church, Boston,
has severed his connection with that
denomination, because, as he claims