The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-07-06
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

Democratic Congressional convention, W NC
held in Magnolia, August go, ISL
EDITORIAL ITEMS.
Aberdeen has q silk company.
lazoo county is going to build a
new Jail. 27iE r. y
THEY have a Land League in
Vicksburg. ..w
Work has been begun on the New
Insane Asylum at Meridian. : -''
Trinity Church, New York owns
fifty millions dollars worth ofproper-
tv. @rl 1->e's s7l@
Meridian after being burned out
several times has started a fire com
pany.
THE prospect for good corn
crop all over the State is very fiat
tering.
Grand Lodge of Knights Of Honor
of the State will meet in Canton on
the 18th of Julys1 -. ss g-~s.l
THE Meridian Baptist, the Office
of which was recently burned, has
resumed publication.
The wool clip of the current year
promises to be the largest ever
grown in this country. sE.aL
Work at the Jackson end of the
Yazoo Valley railroad will be CON-
menced at an early day.
THE State Prohibition Convention
has been called to meet in jackson
OF Thursday, July Goth.
THREE out of the sixteen pris
oners confined in the Coahoma
county Jail, are preachers. To-
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, is be-
ing endorsed for Governor by the
primary Democratic Conventions OF
Georgia.
TIE Shubuta MesseS Days that
some Chicago parties have purchas
ed 10000 acres of land in Wayne
county.
Mr., Sam D. Harper, of the Ray
mond Gazette, and Miss Charlie
Gibbs, of Kinds county, were recent
ly married.
THE Port Gibson Reveille wants
Gen. W. L. Martin, to run for Con-
gress in the 9th district against
John R. Lynch.
THE Memphis appeal says that
Sartoris, Nellie Grants husband, is
to swim in the Thames, this month
for $1,000 prize.
The Southern tanners use annu-
ally 10000 900 worth of jute bag
ging and the California farmers use
$2,5O0,500 worth.
THE contract for building the In
sane Asylum at Meridian was award
ed Mr. Geo. S. Covert of that place
for less than 100000.
j. b. Yellowy, is spoken of as
aprobable Independent Republican
Greenback candidate for Congress
from the seventh district.
The jackson bar is endeavoring
to secure the location of the inter
mediate Court of Appeals at that
place, instead of New Orleans.
The annual camp meeting for
1882, on Seashore camp ground will
commence Oh Wednesday, July 18th,
and continue for eight or ten days.
TIE Comet is informed that DIR.
Andrews, Centenary College, will
succeed Rev. Mr.. Galloway as pastor
Of the Methodist Church at Jackson.
John Dettor, of Lafayette county,
who was lately bitten by mad dog.
was cured by the maidstone owned
Ivy Mr.. Ben Milan of Marshall conn
f..
President Arthur has approved
the sentence of dismissal of O. ii.
Flipper, the negro Lieutenant of
cavalry, charged with embezzle-
mcnt.
THE average immigrant Of this
day is so per cent. more valuable
than his predecessors in previous sea-
sons. Most of the men are skilled
mechanics.
Judge Field thinks that Bayard.
Mcdonald, Hancock and Morrison
are the most prominent candidates
tor the Democratic Presidential nom
ination in 1881.
Henry Forbes, sailor from Ha-
vana, was placed in the charity hos
pital in New Orleans on the 9th
with what was pronounced clear
case of yellow fever.
A Democratic mass meeting of
Pike county instructed the delegates
to the congressional convention to
vote for Col. T. R. Stockdale, first
last and all the time.
IT is reported of Texas justice
that he cut down sentence of thir-
ty days solitary confinement to
twenty days because the days were
so much longer in summer.
The pension appropriation bill
has reached the enormous sum Of
$lOO,000,000 and is increasing at the
rate of so per cent. year. A more
gigantic swindle was never prepetrs-