The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Ahe SatiiolicS Vi OXOlOna are
building church.
Greenyille's liquor license this
amounts to $4,000 year.
A Carroll county farmer has 100
acres planted in sorghum.
During August the national debt
was reduced about $16,000,0OO.
Confederate bonds are again be-
ing bought up at Richmond, Va.
Charges of embezzlement are
perferred against the marshal of
Pass Christian.
A drama is now being enacted
called "Flint and Steal, or the Mat.
rimonial Agent"
Sunfower is to choose county
site.-the contestants being Eureka
and Johnsonville.
Gen. Wolseley is commandcr-in-
chief Of the English forces in Egypt.
He is reported to be fine officer.
Beauregard had its first new bale
of cotton last Saturday. Bought by
Daniel & Co. at fourteen cents per
pound.
Mr.. 4. T. Broyles declines the
nomination for governor rendered
him by the greenbackers of South
Carolina.
In New York the Stalwarts and
Halfbreeds are at daggers' points
Conkling leading one side and Cor
nell the other.
Captain Payne, the leader of the
invasion of the Indian Territory,
has been imprisoned, with several of
his companions.
Dr..W. N. Ames, of Starkville,
gathered sixty bushels of Burr
clover seed, worth 500, from half
on acre of land.
II. c. Carterhas entered the field as
straight up.Republican candidate
for Conrgess in the Second District
against Chalmers.
Arkansas has gone Democratic by
q large majority. AS an Offset the
Republicans say the election was
carried by fraud and force.
b. K. Bruce is coming to Missis-
sippi to make few speeches for his
party this fall. He will find some
work to do in this district.
Secretary Folger declined to give
one of Hubbells men the privilege
to go through the Treasury depart
ment and assess the employees.
According to the Mississippi Re-
publican the Democracy of this
State will have an opposing candi-
date in every Congressional Dis
trict.
There is no dependency among
business men nowadays. The out
look for the fall trade is decidedly
bright. Eastern cities report fine
prospects.
Brownsville, Texas, is horribly
scourged with the yellow epidemic
one-tenth ofthe population being al
ready affected, and still the fever
spreads
Jay Gould and Conkling have
blasted Cornells future political
prospects by stating he had agreed
to approve some of their measures
for consideration. But it seems
he failed to stand up to the contract
In Meridian Denis Ramsey (c),
assaulted Sue Snow (c), a woman
OF the town, with piece of iron,
breaking her skllul in two places
and breaking her left arm-all be-
cause he fonnd her with another
man. Ramsey escaped.
A report from Washington says
that when Chalmers decided to run
for Congress he declared he would
provoke Manning to say something
on the stump that would give him
an opportunity to challenge him. 1t
has turned out that way, but the
fight did not come off.
Secretary Folger says if nomina-
ted by the Republicans of New York
as their candidate for Governor he
will accept, but that he does not in
tend to resign the office he now
holds in anticipation of his nomina-
tion. He believes in the old saving
that "bird in the hand is worth.
two in the BUSH"
The Board of River Engineers met
at Memphis on the 4th inst, to de-
wise means to spend the money APP
propriate by Congress for River and
Harbor improvements. The meet
ing was devoted to the consideration
of the First Mississippi Levee Dis
trict, comprising Coahoma, Tunica
and DeSoto counties.
DR.. Maggie Of the Planters Jour-
tiers, Vicksburg. suggests the use of
uncovered electric lights for killing
the moths, Aletia, from whose eggs
the destructive cotton worm is
Matched. He believes that a few
lamps properly placed would attract
and destroy the moths, SO as to
protect a wide belt of cotton coun-
Try. sgfs we
Georgia has few men anxiails
to succaad Hon Ron It'll ii flo