The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-12-21
EDITORIAL ITEM

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yer of Lexington, died recently.
Around Ripley number Of cows
have died, from eating acorns it is
believed.
Col. +. d. Frost is Superintendent
of the. Memphis ~ charleston rail-
road. -
Mr.. Il. II. Wear is now alone in
the publication of the Winona Ad-
vance.
Hammond, of Georgia, is backed
h. t'lc Gcor6ia Salc-otio.. to- Srcak
81.
:. rs1es $1,000 & ....lt1 10 .a- tic
expenses of the city government Of
Nicksburg. ....-. -..5. -.. 49,
Houston. Chickasaw county, is to
have Il new paper, the Waterman
ana hclOIilltl.
The Courthouse at Eureka, Sun
flower county. is to cost the whole
amount of $500.
The road from kosclusko to Alb
crdccn is to be completed by the
18th of November, 1889.
The Georgia papers are already
censuring Gov. Stephens; they say
he is pardoning too many convicts.
The mayor Of Columbus has q
salary of $1,000 year, the marshal
$500 and the policemen. each, S54O
VIM. Foote, son of the late II. $
Foote, of this State, has been elected
Railroad Commissioners in Calfor-
MIA.
Sixty buildings were burned at
Newport, Ark, on the 18th inst.
There can't be much of that town
left.
In the United States there are
nearly six and quarter million OF
people who can neither read nor
write. j.
Rev. W. L. Browne, OF Canton,
has accepted the call of the vestries
to the Episcopal Churches at Winona
and Walden.
\ rat bit 4 lady on the arm in an
Atlanta hotel, aud her husband is
suing the proprietor of the house for
$4,000 damages.
At Biloxi on the % ult. ball
WIS taken out of the neck Of L. b.
Holly that had lodged there on DC
tober 9TH, 1862.
Two hundred and five mercantile
failures were reported last week,
against one hundred and nine for
the week previous.
In Itawamba county this year a
man 81 years old has made with his
own labor bale Of cotton and sew
enty bushels of Corn.
Mrs. NJ. Bounds. of Bonneville
who had been blind ten years, had
her sight instantly restored by the
removal of 4 cataract.
Two candidates are out for Dis
trict- Attorney in the ninth judical
district. The election will take
place next November.
Col. II. J. Nugent, Of Bolivar
county, who planted corn after the
overflow, with little cultivation
gathered forty bushels per acre.
In the suit of Jas. F. Mallory, oil
Ed9cfcld, S. c., against the New
York Herald for libel, the jury re-
turned verdict Of $4,000 for the
plaintiff.
Judge L. Z. Houston, of Abcr.
deem, has this year raised the third
crop of Strawberries from the same
plants, and they are in bloom the
fourth time.
Greenvillc has public reading
room containing about eighteen
hundred volumes, which cost s.
600. The books were donated by
Mr.. c. 2. Huntington.
Jefferson Davis has been invited
to deliver the address at the unveil-
ing Of the statue of Gen. r. +. Lee
at Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, Va, next April.
Owing to an excess Of population
in India measures are being adopt
cd to prohibit marriage. 1t will be
thousand years before such a
thing Is necessary in this country
j. W. Graham, of kemper comfy
has raised on little over one acre
of ground four hundred bushels Of
sweet potatoes, which, valued at
80 cents q fushel, amounted to
5000.
Col j. c.. Clarke, Vice President
and general manager oftlic est. L.
" N. o.. r. r., has resigned to look
after the, development of $4,000
acres of timber land owned by BIN
in California. rt
On the Texas and Pacific road all
thcexpress and passenger trains
between FL Paso and Fort Worth
haze been supplied with 9" strong
force of State rangers to guard
against train robbers taas 81 ri 81
Tobias Booth, Of Edwards, raised
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