The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-02
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

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CHoCrAw and Lawrence counties
have no retail saloons.
Two hundred pupils attend the
free schools at Kosciusko.
INITIATED coin is. worth 800
per ounce, troy, in sums Of $500.
The President has appointed Sen
ator A. A. Sargent as Minister to
Berlin.
O'LEARY and Downey commence
another walking match in New Or
leans, Saturday.
A BILL is before the Ohio Legis-
lature to prevent and punish "treat-
ing" Oh election days.
THE Atlanta branch of the Meth
odist Book Concern is to be discon-
tinued. 1t doesn't pay.
A MAN named Brown was killed
while attempting to get on train
at Gallman: last Saturday.
THE Natchez Theological Semina-
ry, for colored people, has three
hundred and thirty-five students.
STATISTICS show that there are 63,-
600 insane persons in the United
States, or one to every TT OF popu-
lation.
THE NiLilists on trial at St. Pc
tersburg number two dozen. Many
of them are accused of more than
one offence.
THIRTY ONE Americans are stu
dents at the Academy of Arts in
Munich. Only the Germans out
number them.
A LITTLE daughter of VIM. Will
son, near Woodville, was burnt to
death, on the 18th inst. while play
ing with fire in q field.
THE wife of the great statesman,
Daniel Webster, died at New Roch-
ellie, Mass, on the 9th ult. She was
Webster's second wife.
THE Corinth papers are still quar-
relling. 1t is time they were dwell
ling together as brothers. Their
quarrel is not interesting.
BLAINE delivered an address in
Washington, last Monday, on the
life, services and death of Garfield.
He had an immense audience.
CHICAGO has now cable street
railroad. The cars run without
horse to steam attached, go quick
and stop readily when wanted.
SENATOR Ben Hill has submitted
to another surgical operation. This
time on the glands of the throat
The report of the case is favorable
SEVERAL Democratic members oil
the Senate put themselves to the
trouble to deny that they have any
collision with the Blaine movement
JACKSON has been unsuccessful in
securing amusements this year: Both
Herman and Rice's Surprise Party
cancelled their jackson dates. The
place did not lose much.
A RUMoR that Miss Ida Farrell, Of
Peoria, Illinois, is the recipient Of
much attention on the part of Presi
dent Arthur, is creating a great hut-
ter in social circles of Peoria.
IT is said we are now importing
from two or three thousand tons Of
potatoes week, from Great Britain
and Germany, besides cabbages
sauer-kraut, turnips, celery and car
rots.
SULLIVAN has challenged Ryan tt
meet him in a boxing-match. Ryar
says he yet intends to fight Sullivan
in the ring and whip him. There
are plenty of people who believe that
he can do it.
AN old fraud, purporting to bt
named DIR. c. NJ. Bell. of Baltimore
has succeeded in swindling many
Southern publishers. We have ev
idence to prove that he is a THE
and q swindler. Pass him around
A MAN in Chicago, named Andrew
Oleson, tried whisky as a remedy
for smallpox, and drank five pints
within the period of two hours
The remedy proved fatal before tn,
disease had time to develop serious
ly.
THE steamer BERTHE Claiborne wa.
burned near Vicksburg, last Thurs
day. Three children and a negro
were drowned, and most of the car
go was consumed, the principal par
being one hundred and sixty bale.
of cotton. @
A CORRESPONDENT of the Clarion
says: "Four years ago, in commu
nication' to the Clarion, l ex-
pressed it as my opinion that thu
lien law had damaged the materia
interests of Mississippi more thar
the liberation of the slaves, and
still think So
THE Lexington Advertiser says
that the most daring and atrocious
assassination and robbery that evel
occurred in Holmes county was per
petrated on the body of Mr.. A. III
Pinkston in his store at Gary's Mil
on the night of the 18th ult., by Jack
and Manuel Brown, two c0lored
youths of the ace of 16 and 18 years