The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-11-09
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

UfHS&tGpHA u N hSiNs -
Thursday, November tine 9, 1850
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
Well, how do you feelY
How do you like the result?
The election is over, and we are
glad.
Thurlow Weed, the veteran editor,
is much improved in health.
Hair & Avoirne, lumber dealers
of Chicago, failed last week.
Gov. Lowry made some speeches
in Manning's district last week.
The Pocassett mill spinaers Of
Fall River, Mass, struck Friday.
And YOU don't like Barksdale.
Then YOU had better leave the State.
Lilies Touring mill at Knoxville,
Tenn, was burned last week. Loss
$4,000.
The grasshopper plague has APP
peared in the State of Vera Cruz,
Mexico.
Several families of colored people
sailed from Cincinnati Tuesday for
liberia.
Cholera has been raging with ex-
IRENE viruleLce on the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec.
Mrs. Scoville is in London, Ont,
beyond the jurisdiction of the Hi
nois courts.
An earthquake occurred at Fort
Smith last week, continuing fully
five minutes.
Now listen for the cry of ballot
box stutfing and intimidation from
the Republicans.
The work of grading the Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley Railroad be-
gan Wednesday.
The passenger rates to the Pacific
coast points frem'Chicago have been
lowered FIVE dollars.
\ tricycle. has been invented to
run by steam. Its speed is rated at
twenty miles an hour.
Seaborn Reese was nominated on
Monday to fill Gov. Stephens un-
expired term IN Congress.
A three inch snow fall occurred
Wednesday along the line of the
Northern Pacific railroad.
A violent earthquake in the vi
entity of Aintaba, Northern Syria,
destroyed several villages.
Isaac Newsbaum, the oldest citi-
zen in Indiana, died at Wabash
Wednesday, aged 107 years.
Mrs. Scoville has been declared
insane by a jury, but she had sense
enough to get out of the country.
Blaine is looking out for the Pres
ilcntial chair in 1884. All Of
Grants former friends are for him
The case of 1gol. John A. Cock
rell, charge VI killing Alonzt
sIayS2f1 ontinaed till yth'
There is a pros pecs of a big wa
in freight rates between Gould .anl
the oppositiasSqads in the South
west. u ,,s5~. -
Dick Liddle, on trial at Hunts.
ville.Ala., for Conspiracy connectss
with the robbery.as Muscle Saoais
was found guilty. a''
1t is asserted that twenty mer-
chant ships were lost and one hun
dred sailors were drowned durin,
the recent typhoon at Manila.
The telegraph brings information
that the Indiana Democrats are try
ing to persuade Mcdonald to go 70
the presidential nomination in 1881
In y contest between cowboys a
Austin |. j. Morris caught, threw
and tied down a steer with laria
IN one minute and forty-lirc Sc
eon'ls.
An accident occurred at the Nc
intyre coal mines, near Williams
port, Pa, Thursday. Three mel
were killed and two dangerousl,
wounded.
We are glad to again wcleom,
the Summit Sentinel. As an, ole
friend its visit is always agreeable
It looks none the worse for it's MIN
months rest.
1t is entirely true, as was statet
at the free canal meeting in New
York, that grain has been carried
from st. Louis to New Orleans n
- cents per bushel.
The total number of post Office
he United States at the close O
FISCAL year was -four Thousand
andiedsAad two tt Zee one dnr-
be twelve months
Complete train Of cars and en-
ETne was built at Chattanooga
Tenn, for the Alabama Grea
Southern Railroad. 1t was the frs
complete train ever built in til
South.
Greenbackers are6ghting face t