The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-04-20
EDITORIAL ITEMS.

SENATOR HILL continues to i'm
prove. He will return to Georgia
this week.
THE Rhode Island Legislature is
being pressed to pass prohibitory
liquor law.
The JAMES gang have sworn dead
ly vengeance against the enemies of
Jesse James.
ANUMBER of young Chinese officers
have lately arrived in France for a
course of study.
A FEW days ago in Wilkinson
county, a half. grown panther was
captured alive.
The Memphis Appeal says that
Ex-Governor Ames of Mississippi is
now an outcast.
THEgE is a rumor in England that
the Princess Beatrice is to be MARI
ed to the Earl ofFife.
The Legislature of Connecticut
has passed law restraining the
sale Of Intoxicating liquors.
The talk of war between Russia
and Austria is probably premature.
Neither power is prepared for it.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in
Hayti, and the insurgents have the
upper hand at the last accounts.
MORE than 5000 Chinese arrived
in San Francisco between the first of
last December and the 23d of March.
The Mexican Gulf Canning Co.,
at Pascagoula, has made an assign
ment. Liabilities 100000; assets
$4,000
PRESIDENT AUTHuR has appointed
j. r. G. Pitkin to the Marshalship
of Louisiana, in place of Wharton,
deceased.
ADRIAN s. HEWITT is being whis-
pered about as possible Democratic
candidate in 1884. He has ambition
in that direction.
The impression seems to be that
the redistricting Of Missouri will
give the Democrats solid Con gress-
ional delegation.
MORRISON, of Illinois, is talked
about as candidate for the Presi-
dency. The Germans of Illinois are
very fond ofhim.
CoviNGToN, Gals one of the most
energetic little cities in the South.
1t has a$lO0,O00 machine shop and
100000 cotton factory. :
The Congressional Reapportion-
ment bill recently passed by the
Virginia House Of Delegates was
defeated in the State Senate.
OLD man Bender, the Kansas
fend, is still at large. The man
arrested at St. Louis supposed to be
him proved that he was another per-
son.
A TELEGRAM from Washington
says Judge Wyle decided the Star
route indictments good and suffi-
cient. A motion to quash was over
ruled.
THE bill appropriating $4,000
for the purchase of seed for the
overlooked land on the Mississippi
river, passed both houses of con-
gress.
A Mr.. Ro. of Detroit, offers to kill
President Arthur, Beecher, Gould
and Vanderbilt within year for a
bonus of $75. Mr.. Ro, you work too
cheap.
GOVERNOR Lowry has appointed
captain w. N. Monroe, Of the Co
lumbus Light ARTILLERY, to the POI
sition of Brigadier- General of Ms
sissippi Militia.
THE strikers in different parts Of
the country still hold out obstinate
ly against their employers, refusing
to return to their work until their.
wages are increased.
AN important decision in the star
route cases, will hinge on the fact
whether a certain Maryland ias
dated 1922, is yet in force in the d.
trict of Columbia. J.
Mr.. JAMES MoLER, of Jasper coun
ty, was indicted for murder fu& kill
ing his wife in a fit of alleged insan-
ity, which will be his only plea for
the commission of the act.
In Alabama two negroes were
taken from jail and hanged by mask
ed men. One Of the prisoners had
confessed the crime of murder, i'm
plicating the other as an accomplice.
PRESIDENT Clarke, of the c., St L
and N. o Railroad, in letter to Mr..
Jacob Gattman, of Aberdeen, says
that work on the c., A. and N. Rail,
road will begin at once and in earn
est.
IT is learned that James Fitzgerald
who swindled Mr.. Charles Francis
Adams of a large sum Of money,
is a well-known criminal insthat line
his first operations taking place in
Milwaukee.
MR.. MAuoNE's Readjuster machine
is again out of order. and il is for
tunate for the people of Virginia
that such is the case, for gerryman-
dering the State has been prevented
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