The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1883-02-08

Whlle jumping from train at
Grenada last week N. w. Bradford,
of Pontotoc, fell and broke leg.
South Carolina has twenty seven
tiourishing cotton mills which make
an average net profit of II per cent.
The total valuation of property
in the United States, according to
the census of 1880 is $40, 1000, OOO,-
600.
r. McKinstry, of Hudson, N. Y,
owns the largest apple orchard in
the world-39,oo0 trees on 800
acres. I
The Republican State Committee
Of Ohio has fixed as the dates foI
the next State Convention June 5
and 6.
The Carrollton Conservative
learns that a very malignant type
of pneumonia is prevailing in the
Yazoo Valley.
A Chinese paper gives an account
of man thirty-four years old who
has thirty two children-sixteen
pairs of twins.
Two sharp confidence operators
in Virginia were taken from the
Jail in Russell county a few nights
ago and lynched.
A mob armed with a cannon at
tackled the Jail at Shawneetown, ILL.,,
for the purpose of lynching negro,
but were repulsed.
A wildcat weighing As pounds or
Whereabouts and measuring more
than four feet in length, was recent
ly killed near Sardls.
The managers of the Grand Opera
House, San Francisco, have abscon-
ded, owing the company one weeks
salary besides other debts.
1t is reported that DR.. McCosh is
to retire from the presidency of the
Princeton College, and that he will
be succeeded by General Mcclellan.
Three women on the American
stage-Patti, Nilsson and Langtry
are said to be making more mon
ey than any ten men in the profess
sion.
Miss Lula G.. Bogard, of Michi-
gan City, after laboring two years.
has made quilt containing 2093
squares, with five pieces to the
square.
At Water Nalley T. NJ. Adding
ton sold bale of cotton weighing
five hundred pounds, of the "sllk
peeler" variety, for 134 cents a
pound,
A statistician who has been inves,
tigating the question, estimates
that in the South mulattocs form
about per cent. of the colored
population.
Cody Mann a Justice of the Peace
of Vicksburg has resigned his Office.
This is most remarkable occur
renee for a free and enlightened
American citizen
jackson has more fire alarms than
any town in the State, but the fire.
men are always promptly on hand,
and generally extinguish the fires
before much damage is done.
R. H.. C. West. was convicted of
subornation of perjury in the last
circuit court at Meridian and sen
enced by Judge Terral to five years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The Meridian Mercury has inter-
viewed some OF the commissioners
Of the Meridian asylum, and their
statements are entirely satisfactory.
Read what Hon. HI. M. S treet has
to say.
The testimony of the night clerk
of the Newhall House, Milwaukee
is to the effect that if he had not his
office duties to attend to he could |
have had time to warn and save
every guest in the house.
William Anderson (c), of Jasper
county, who is ninety-six years old,
with the assistance of his wife, who
is almost as old as himself, made
last year over bale of cotton, be
sides peas, corn and potatoes.
There is trouble in the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. Md. AL
spirit of INSTRUMENTATION has been
manifested by number of the ca
diets, thirty nine Of whom have hcen
placed in the prison ship Saatee for
Cheering in ranks.
Mississippi has stale treasurer
=
who cannot be lured into the specr-
latiye mania Of tho day. Heining-
way IL man who tan lie trusted.
and Thorough Investigation Of his
Office we. believe would reveal al
clean record and an honest admins
tion.