The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-06-08

ed.
THE Republican State Executive
COMMITTEE met in jackson on June
9Th.
Water Valley received four bush
els of the new wheat crop on the 22d
ult.
Camp meeting opens at the sea
shore camp ground Wednesday, July
18th.
On the Doth of June, the Baptist
State Convention will convene in
Sardis,
In Caldwell county. Mo-, a girl
named Taylor, Il years, old is a
mother.
THERE are onIy IA practieiug
physicians in Natchez and Adams
county.
The remains of Thomas Jefferson
are to be taken to Greenwood GENE
terry, Washington.
Two new towns have been incor-
porated in Washington county,
Leota and Cletonia.
THE report that Gen. Hancock
will be candidate for Governor of
PENNSYLVANIA is denied.
On the 25th ult. the Vicksburg
Commercial received the first cotton
bloom of the season.
Matrimonial Insurance compa-
mics are being started in all the lar
ger towns of the State.
THE army worm has appeared in
Alabama and Illinois and is de-
stroying the wheat crop.
THE author of "See That NV
Grave is Kept Green" is in jail at
Indianapolis for forgery.
The old home place of Henry
Clay, the Sage ofAshland," in KY,
recently sold for 100000.
A Mississippi farmer writes that
he knows of nothing better to pre-
serve fence posts than coal tar.
AT one haul of the seine in North
Carolina recently, six hundred
thousand behring's were caught.
Corporation Counsel Whitney
puts the number of New York
cranks at not less than 100000.
Senator Hill is at Eureka Springs
Ark, and the latest news is that his
condition is great deal better.
Congressman Hooker has secur-
ed an appropriation of $4,000 fol-
Pascagoula river and $1,000 for:Pearl
river.
Gov. LOWRY, Lieut.. Gov. Shand>
and State Treasurer Hemingway
are members of the Methodist
church.
W. b. BAKER. of DeSoto county.
has ,aken from his bees this season
300 gallons of honey, or about 5000
pounds.
Mrs. Jas. Carlisle, living near
Aberdeen, has a sweet Almond
tree that is bearing as much fruit
as a peech tree.
On the 23d ult. the Mississippi
Mills at Wesson, shipped to firm
in St. Louis carload of jeans, of
the value of $1,000.
Jim Lynch has introduced q bill
in the House authorizing United
States supervisors of elections to
make arrests at the polls.
One DIR. Kite of Cincinnati, has
invented an electric appliance, which
causes railroad trains, when about
to collide, to stop themselves.
The trial of the Star Route cases
will probably last till July. The
government has sixty witnesses
now in Washington to examine.
To raise mortgage on his farm
an Omaha man sold his wife for
5000, and two years later when
prosperous, he bought her for
$3.50.
The editor Of the Water Valley
Central says the first succession
speech we ever heard was delivered
by Gen. Chalmers at Sardis in
1860.
DR.. John Mckay, of Madison
county, Is a successful strawberry
raiser, he having sold as high as
$1,000 worth of this fruit from one
acreof land, in one year.
The tide of gold has turned
against the United States, although
there are seventeen million dollars
more of the metal in this country
than we had at the opening of The
year.
NEAR Tupelo, ore night recently,
apack oftwenty dogs killed COW,
six goats andieight sheep on the
farm Of Rev. B. L. Clayton, and
we're attacking a horse when discoy-
cred.