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A full line Of toilet articles ~ hchenr'
a Browns drug store.
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J. {. BAKER,
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Cotton Factors,


AR. W. A. JOHNSTON having been duly
M ap,ointed Agent for the Wonderful
Davis Sewing Machine, I hereby caution
the public that he alone IL authorized to
sell aud guarantee Davis Machines In Ciai-
horne parish. will not be- Responsible
for the xosd working Of any machine
bought 81 unauthorized persons.
Respectfully.
Agt for North Louisiana.
May 3, 1882.
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BEEF MARkE r.

VIIIS ~ to inform the public that ] am
still in the market business, and wish
To- buy Cattle aud Sheep. Parties wishing
To see me can find me in Homer every Sat
ur,lsv. ANY motto or letter left in the post.
Office or with any merchant or clerk. VIII
reach me. !. ID. klNDEh'
Homer, In, May Il, les2. sG:tin
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Stationery at Kortum's, low down
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roB-woRK NEATLY EXECUTED AT
D this oNcs.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23

In an authentic interview Aleck
Stephens says: II shall not again
be candidate for any office what
ever. | realize that roy present con-
dition is such that / cannot even
meet the duties required of me as
the representative of my district in
Congress. II my life is spared to
serve out my present term, which
very much doubt myself, I expect
to return to my home in Georgia
and spend the remainder of my
days in that quiet which is now an
absolute necessity for my bodily
condition. You can say that / shall
not again be a candidate Of any
party for any position within the
gilt of my fellow-citizens of Geor-
gia. have had my day land have
accomplished my work whether
for good Or evil remains to be seen,
and it now becomes me to take that
repose which my health demands.
What have accomplished that is
good I hope will live in the memo
ries of my fellow men, and what
has resulted badly, ! trust that in
their charity will be blotted out for
ever. In the political contests that
will crop out in Georgia in the near
future, / see my friends arrayed on
either side, and while depricating
the hot strife that must follow for
political mastery, / recognize that
it is inevitable and have no wish to
be an actor in it.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
almers or Alcorn.

TasSlarion says that the wisest
thing the people of the river district
could do would be, to lay aside par
ty feeling and re-elect Gen. Chal-
mers to Congress. We agree with
it in that. But the Clarion goes fur
ther, and suggests that if Gen. Chal-
mers will not serve again, "that in
the same spirit of liberality and
good judgment, the whole people of
the district, as one man, sink party
considerations and call Hon. j. L.
Alcorn to the position" Well, that
is further than we could go. We
have an idea the people of Missis-
sippi have had enough Of j. Z. AL
corn. If he ever did anything for
the State, the people have failed to
discover it. Let us have no more
Alcorns in any capacity. When AL
corn was United States Senator
from Mississippi he allowed his poo
pie to be slandered daily by Sena-
tors from the North. He not only
permitted the false statements to go
uncontradicted, but was himself
slanderer of his own people. Let
Alcorn remain in seclusion. His
day is over.
We know the suggestion of the
Clarion is made in good faith, but
don't believe it will be seriously en-
tertalned.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23

From the above it will be seen
that 342 appeals were made from
the several Circuit Courts, of which
100 or 554 per cent. were affirmed,
and 1852 or AL per cent. reversed.
The following is the percentage of
each Judges
Green-42 per cent. affirmed; So
per cent. reversed.
Watson-60 per cent. affirmed 40
per cent. reversed.
Powell-45 per cent. affirmed; IS
per cent. reversed.
Trimble-5O per cent. affirmed; SO
per cent. reversed.
Cothran-69 per cent. affirmed;
81 per cent. reversed.
Arnold-62 per cent. affirmed; 80
per cent. reversed.
Hamm-61 per cent. affirmed; 80
per cent. reversed.
Mayers-30 per cent. affirmed; 10
per cent. reversed.
Calhoon-69 per cent. affirmed; 81
per cent. reversed.
Smiley-67 per cent. affirmed; SO
per cent. reversed.
Chrisman-71 per cent. affirmed;
20 per cent. reversed.
Young-44 per cent. affirmed; Sc
per cent. reversed.
*Note,-.essssag the above cal
culation. small numerical fractions
were omitted.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
Low Taxes.

The Legislature passed and the
Governor has approved the bill in
relation to public revenue which fix
es the State tax at two and one
half mills for each Of the years 1882
and 1883, including the tax to pay
principal and interest ON bonds,
and Boards of Supervisors are pro-
hibited from levying taxes, which.
added to the State tax, will exceed
twelve dollars and fifty cents on
each Thousand dollars of taxable
property; provided, that to meet any
outstanding indebtedness, the total
shall not exceed fifteen dollars on
each thousand dollars worth of
property. The counties of Adams,
Choctaw, Jefferson, Bolivar, Wash
ington, Amite, Wilkinson, Smith
and Chickasaw are exempted from
the provisions of the act, rs higher
taxes are needed in those counties
to meet their Indebtedness.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
a National Kassar.


The Missouri Republican has q
significant article on the lesson of
the floods, in what it undertakes to |
show that the work of controlling
the Mississippi river is a national
and not a State affair. The United
States paid 100000 for bleak
Alaska. $15,000,000O were paid for
the Louisiana territory. The gov
eminent would spend millions of
money and lives to protect those
sections from foreign invasion.
Why, then, should it be considered
either unwise or stretch Of the
powers of the government to reclaim
from the floods and make secure
and fruitful an area equal to a great
State, lying in the very heart of the
Union? 1t is an insult to the ma
tional intelligence and deprecia-
ton Of American energy to say the
floods of our great river defy our
control or refuse to be held in limits.
What has been done by detached
effort and distracted councils and
inadequate means proves that the
Mississippi in its whole length is
capable of being subjected to the
hand of science and it's margin
made the garden Of the continent.
The government ought to see that
this fertile country is protected
from overflow, as it would guard it
in case of hostilities with other
powers.
The Republican concludes its ar
ticle as follows:
But the needed work if not done by
national authority lies in not less than
six jurisdictions and cannot be efect~
ually achieved except by the concurrence
uuti CONopcIdIlou VI ALL LUIS 10 pkuC"
tically impossible. That the protection
of the ffood>swept territory of the Mis-
sissippi requires the concurrence and
demands the co operation of six states,
and that it is wholly without the power
of any one state to save itself il the
others fail or refuse to join in the work,
shows the subject TO be national. For
separate States to attempt it by isolated
effort or all of them to embark in the
work of protection by deverse plans will
be to continue to fritter away means
which, even properly aud unitedly di>
rected, would be inadequate. If great
and fruitful region is not to be given up
to accident and the misfortunes and
horrors which now disturb the peace
and appeal to the sympathies of the
whole Union are not to recur at fre>
quent intervals the work of controlling
the floods of the Mississippi river must
be regarded as national and undertaken
and prosecuted By the general governs
ment.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
Judicial Records.

- Citizen, correspondent in late
number of the Meridian Observer,
gives the following information:
Some loose statements having been
INDUCED in with reference to the
ability ofour Circuit Judges appoin
ted by our late Governor, as tested
by the Supreme Court, in the affirm
ance or reversal of decisions of the
Circuit bench, l give the following
result Of a careful examination OF
the decisions of the Supreme Court.
as they appear in vols. 50 to IS, in
elusive, of the Supreme Court Re
ports.
The following synopsis shows the
number of appeals from each Judge,
the number of cases affirmed and
the number reversed:
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
Hsra Il s,rush.

In his great play Of the Gladiator,
Or. Bird makes the Roman prctor
say OF Spartacus: Let it be said Of
this man, that it took two armies Of
Rome to defeat him." Let it be said
of Gen. Chalmers: After the Repub-
licans Of his district, the Vicksburg
Herald and Republican Congress
failed to deIeat him, the gerryman-
dering Legislature Of Mississippi
seems to have attempted it. This
State has never had a better Con-
gresham than Gen. Chalmers, and
we should rejoice to again see him
returned. 1t is known that THE
LEDGER condemned Gen. Chalmers
attacks upon Mr.. Lamar, but that
issue is past. Give the man justice,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
NEWS FROM THE FLOOD.
The Worst is over---The Water
Going Down.
rHE RESULT HAD ENOUGH.

Yazoo City, March 20-The water at this
point is two feet above the 1867 mark. It
has risen one inch in the last IL hours. At
this rate Of increase it will likely reach its
maximum point tonight or tomorrow
morning. Boats from above report the
water at o stand and the excitement sub
siding but each steamer brings people and
stock.
A large percentage Of the refugees are
negroes, and, with few exceptions, they are
provided for by the merchants and planters
who have employed them. Some have gone
to the hills to work, temporarily, and as
yet thereis no suffering. Some have re-
manned in town, refusing to work, but
clamor for government rations. AT this
point very little assistance is needed at
present The overfowed business houses
OF this city have had scaffolds built in them
and business continues.
Vieksburg, March 20-The guage at
this point indicated a rise to-day of two
inches in "a hours.
The situation may be summed up in few
words: in the country from Memphis to
Vicksburg along the line of the Mississippi
and from the hills Of Vicksburg to those
OF Natchez and below, lands are submerg-
ed, OF course here and there ends of
levees and tops of mounds may be seen: an
acre Or so of dry land may still peep up
from the waste of water surrounding it; and
some levees are still intact, but the country
is virtually overlooked, and the destruction
LOT the stock and cattle, property and people
is unprecedented. Where the levees are
successfully resisting the heavy pressure of
water against them from the main stream
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
The Water Receding.

The latest news from the over
flowed country is that the rivers are
declining. The Yazoo and Talla-
hatchie rivers are declining rapidly.
Several breaks have recently occur
red in the levees, the latest being
reported from Terrene, Miss. When
the levee broke there several stores
were washed away. A correspon-
dent of the Times Democrat says
that "the smell arising from the
overflow is very sickening and grows
worse hourly. Mosquitoes, buffalo
gnats, gallinippers, frogs and any
number Of nuisances, resulting from
the food, make life one Of torture.
Fortunately this state of things can
only last few weeks. White river
is falling at Clarendon, the Long
vile at Mariana and the St. Fran
els at Wittsburg."
Gov. Lowry is still at Vicksburg
shipping supplies to the distressed.
On the Dist inst. he sent to Yazoo
county, 100 barrels of meal and
5000 pounds of meat; Jefferson
county, IS barrels of meal and 1000
pounds of meat; Issaquena county,
20 barrels of meal and 1000 pounds
of meat; Warren county, 100 bar
rels of meal and 5000 pounds Of
meat-in addition to which, % bar
rels of meal and 1000 pounds of
meat were sent where sufferers re-
CURED it.within the precincts of the
county; to Adams county so bar
res u and 5000 pounds of
meat.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23

The irrepressible DIR. Van Watts, of
lincoln, who not only beat the Demo
cratic nominee, but two or three other
candidates besides, for the Legislature
in the last election. and who, notwith-
standing the fact that he was an Iude
pendent, proved himself to be live,
wide awake legislator. He fought two
or three measures through the House in
the face of great opposition; notably his
bill. ITO prevent the Sacrifice of
Property Decided in Trust" If the
Democracy of Lincoln County hereafter
desires to keep DR.. Watts at home they
must select as their candidate q man
who lives in til present age-who ia
progressive and looks to the future
Van is "weemer." and mo sh crt
horse" can beat him at anything he
goes at.-New Mississippian.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
.nIaraelsI,Nll r,enfa1.

The New York Herald, of Friday
prints the following letter, written
by the late Gen. Garfield to Gen.
Rosencrans. Taken in connection
with the letter which was printed
from General Garfield to Secretary
Chase it is highly interesting:
House Of Representatives.. Wash
ington, January 10, 1SS0.--My Dear
General: Yours OF the Goth Deem
Der came just as was leaving for
Ohio, or it would nave been answer
ed sooner. | have tried for some
time to get hold of the article in the
New York Sui to which you refer
and have not yet been able to do so.
| have been told its substance by
two or three persons who have seen
it. can only say, in the absence
of the article itself, that any charge,
whether it comes from Dana or any
other liar, to the effect that | was in
any sense untrue to you or unfaith-
full to our friendship has no parti-
Gle OF truth in it. .On my way from
your army to Washington met Mr..
Stanton at Louisville, and when he
denounced you in vigorous Ian
guage rebuked him and earnestly
defended you against his assaults.
| did the same as you remember, in
the House of Representatives very
SION afterI entered that body. Ii
you will send me Dana's article,
or If you can find copy of it, l
will, il you think best, write and
publish reply. It's truo / was an
occasional correspondent of Secre
tary Chase. Several times while /
was your chief of staff he wrote me
with regard to the progress OF the
war, and asked my opinions onSva
rious questions connected with il,
but l fearlessly challenge all the
rascals in the world to publish any
such letters written by me. They
are welcome to all the capital they
can make out of them. With kind
est regards, / am, rs ever, your
friend, j. A. GARFIELD.
To Gen. Rosencrans.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23

4 50
A MAN giving his name as J. r.
Davis was arrested in Corpus Chris
ii, Texas, on the goth inst, believ-
ed to be j. d. Gillewater, who muir
dered S. I. Eaton,in Smith county,
Miss. last August. He says that
he never was in Mississippi in his
life, that his home is in Monroe
county, Arkansas, and that he was
in Texas at the time the murder
was committed. Davis answers in
every way the description of Gille-
water. He has been taken to San
Antonio, Texas.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
MIR. TIIden,s New House.

The new house which Mr.. Samuel j.
TiIden is building on the site of his
former mansion. Is Gramercy Park.
will be one of the costliest on Manhat
ten Island, the estimates running all
the way from 100000 to $500, 600; the
materials used are Scotch red sandstone
Belleville brownstoue and Maine granite.
The whole front of the house is one mass
of elaborate clrving wherever the Car
Isle stone is used. and upon this pert
of the work no fewer than 10 men hav,
been employed for several months. The
style is mixed Gothic and Renaissance.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
The sss. Record,

We call attention to a oommuni-
cation taken from the Meridian OBJ
server which gives the number Of
cases taken before the Supreme
Court from the Circuit Court Dis.
tricts. We have no idea who wrote
the article, but presume it is correct.
The authorities are cited and those
interested can consult them. The
article shows that of the appeals
from Judge Chrisman's court sew
enty one per cent. have been sustain
ed. This is the best record given
of any of the Circuit Judges, and it
is q Strong argument in favor of
Judge Chrisman's reappointment.
1t is quite an honor TO stand at the
head of all the Circuit Judges in
this State. The man who occupies
such position must in truth be a
Judge. Whence comes such another?
Judge Chrisman has two years
longer to serve. When his time is
out, his friends will ask his reap
pointment. AS he did nothing to
secure the office four years ago, it is
hardly probable that he will make
any scramble for it now. We hear
that there will be two or three other
applicants for the office. While they
may be qualified for the place, we
are certain they could not fill it bet
ter than has Judge Chrisman, the
peoples favorite. But it is early to
discuss the merits of applicants for
the Judgeship. At the proper time
The LEDGER will have something to
say on this subject.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
Democratic Victories in New York.

The result of the recent local cleo
lions in the State of New York are
very encouraging to the Democrats.
In making a resume of the elections
the Sun says that one after another
of the strongholds of the Republi-
can party has elected Democrats,
aud in several places by sweeping
majorities. The Eighteenth Senate
district repudiated the Republican
Kelly coalition, electing a Tilden
Democrat to succeed the late Sena-
tor Wagner by four hundred and
ninety majority. At the previous
election 1t elected a Republican
by five thousand majority Bing-
hamton, which gave Garfield nine
hundred majority, has just eIectcd
a Democratic mayor lly five hun
dred majority. In Syracuse Re
publican majority of one thousand,
six hundred and sixty-six is over
come and a Democratic mayor cleo
ted. In Oswego, Newburgh, Roch-
ester, Utica, Rome, Elmira, Auburn,
there has been an absolute reversal
of political sentiment, the Demo-
Gratis sweeping Republicans from Of
fee. Nor is 1t in the cities alone.
One county after another has done
like the cities. The desertion of
Kelly, and the corrupt alliance in
the assembly ofthe Republicans and
Tammany, have at once aroused
Democrats and disguised Republi-
cans. The prospect is exceedingly
favorable for Democratic success in
the coming State election.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23

From having been Intimate with the propri-
etors OF Swift's Syphilitie Specific, have
known much Of its manufacture and use. There
are men in this community who were victims
in early life to Syphilis, and who have taken
pearances, and in their own belief, as free from
faint OF disease as the first man, fresh from the
hands Of his Maker. Delieacy forbids their
refer TIE seeptc privately to those who win en-
dorse everything that can be said in its favor.
Being. professionally much opposed 10 recon-
meDding secret remedies, it Is with hesitation
whereof speak when say our science has not
made public 4 combination equal 70 Swiff,s
Syphiiific Specific for the purpose Indicated
~ T.. i. MAssENBuRG, PHI. &.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co. Proprietors. At
lanta, Ga. Price of regular size reduced 20
Sl.75 per bottle; small size, 81. Sold BY /. L.
Cali for d copy of Young Mems Friend y
febfG-2ln
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23


IT seems this is an age of SANDER
and villification. Some wretch has
exhumed from its sleep of nineteen
years aletter purpoting to have been
written by Gen. Garfield, in 1868,
severely criticising Gen. Rosencrans
as soldier. The letter is bitter in
tone and can only beget hard feel
ings. Mr.. Garfield is dead, and it
is unkind to now publish such let
tiers as the one written about Gen.
Rosencrans. They can do no good,
but harm. Let them sleep with the
murdered President.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23
TRuE MpRtr ALWAYS WrNs

There is a eonstatly increasing demand
for Browns Iron Bitters. A druggist on
Washington street reports the sale of %
bottles the first month. Sc bottles the second
mouth, and lag bottles the third month; and
not one complaint or failure to give entire
satisfaction as beng the very best health
and life-giving medicine in all the world.
mar23-1t
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-03-23

A negro man by the name of Ned
Walker, a lunatic, who has been wan
dering over the different counties in
the eastern part Of the State was re-
Gently found dead in the woods in
Clarke county. His death was cans-
ed by exposure, deprivation and
want.