The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-21

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taken from a gravel pit near Nor
ton.
The democratic ticket was elect
ed in Arkansas by more than Is
900.
We are opposed to bulldoz'ng,
bat want Barksdalc to 60 to Con-
gress.
Samuel w. Hale is the Republican
nominee for Governor of New Hamp-
shire.
Great destruction is reported
to the rice crops tn Louisiana by
storms.
Senator George is to speak at sew
eral points in the State during the
canvass.
Boys of 1875, awake! There is
work to do. Barksdale must 60 to
Congress.
Work on the Panama canal has
been suspended until the rainy sea-
son is over.
Sound the notes all along the line:
A Barksdale is to represent this
district in Congress.
Eureka was chosen as the county
site of Sunhower over Johnsonville
by majority of $50.
Mrs. Garfield bought a home in
Cleveland, ONO, 'Gasesaa.y- for which.
she paid $4,000 cash.
Mai. Burke, of the Times Demo-
crat, has sent 800 to the yellow fe-
yer sufferers at Pensacola.
The color line having been drawn
by the Republicans in this district,
the fight will be made on it.
Col. L. A. Campbell, one of Vicks-
burgs most enterprising citizens,
died in St. Louis last week.
The Times-Democrat has sent
4 physician to Brownsville to at
tend the yellow fever sufferers.
1t is stated that forty or fifty fe-
male students will attend the next
session of the State University.
We learn that the Gulf Coast
Advertiser, of Handsboro, Miss.
is TO be moved soon to Moss Point.
The cx-Confcdcrates of Noxubec
county are going to erect a monu-
ment to the memory of their dead
comrades.
Judge Theodore Lyon is an indie
pendent candidate for Congress
against Hon. III. L. Muidrow, in the
fir district.
We return Gen. Jno. ID. Freeman
of Canon City, COL, thanks for some
documents relative to the resources
ofthat State.
Gen. J. T. Griffin, of Chickasaw
county, is announced as 4 Green
back candidate for Congress in tho
Fourth Distric...
An Advent congregation at Phil
ipsburg, Tenn, has voted unaui-
mously that the world would come to
an end Oct. 4th.
1t is calculated that the splendid
grain crops of the South will save
that section $1O0,OOO,OO0 hitherto
diverted Northward.
The report that Lamar is opposed
to Barksdale is q lie that no Demo-
crat can believe. 1t is a weak in.
vention of the enemy"
At meeting Of the Mississippi
State Board of Health, Tuesday
it was decided to continue the QUAR-
antlne against New Orleans.
Geo. M. Klein not being inclined
to make the canvass for Congress,
declined to allow his name to go be-
fore the Greenvillc Convention.
Hon. Ethel Barksdalc will speak
at Wesson on Friday night, the Goth
of this month, and at Crystal
Springs, on Saturday night, the
30th.
Why should not THE LEDGER sup
port Barksdale? Answer that, you
harpers. Did it ever fail to stand
by the nominees of the Democratic
party, en-!
Boards of Equalization are neither
popular nor economical. In most
of the counties their expenses ex-
ceeded the revenue resulting from
their labor.
The Natchez Democrat says J.
M. Matthews has been fully exhon
GRATED by the Board of Supervisors
of Adams county from the charge Of
i'll treatment of convicts.
Col Geo. D. Tillman, OF South
Carolina, has been unann ously
renominatcd by the Democrats It
will be remembered he was turned
out Of the last Congress by the Re
pnblicans.