The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-10-17
In and Around Town.

Editor BrOokhdcen Ledger:-
In the last issus of The LEDGER you
mention the quarantine being violated
morc than once and refer to the case of
Capt. Hoskins. who is now in town.
When the burden of proof would have
been on the part of the prosecution
think thu Captain should certainly have
She credit of going into voluntary exile
FOR ten days. just half the time requ;r>
ed. 1t was purely voluntary on his
part for no proof against him had been
adduoed. Ii he could stand one half,
it looks like the corporation could have
stood the other half. Poor corporation
that would be less liberal than private
individual.
While the quarantine has doubtless
done great deal of good, and the ex>
ecutive officers have been very atten
tive il the discharge of their duties, l
must confess that the system is defec
tive; and that this place is largely in
debted to good fortune III having es
capped the dreaded sconrge after having
kept up personal Intercourse with other
places after the appearance OF the
fever, and until the places were officially
hitting certain parties to take risks
which were declared to be dangerous
TO Others. While it has been violated
to favor certain parties who doubtless
took risks, yet it has been made op-
-pressive to others equally a. deserving
who had not been exposed.
Take the case of James May, who
was not permitted to enter town until
the law had been complied with. APP
Iplication for a permit to enter was
made to the Aldermen, who, ut that
time, exercised that "sole exclusive
right" to Hoskins and McGrath, but in
this case "they could not sec it. p"
This seemed rather strange and might
have been passed by, hut for the paral-
lei case of Col. J. NJ. Hooker. who,
like May, had come from a locality
north of the line parallel with Terry.
but unlike May was permitted to enter
town unmolested, simply upon the au-
thorities being satisfied.
Now I do not say that either or
both onght to have been quar- Nntined,
but do think that such discrimination
ought rot to be made, although do
think that the Colonel is the last man
in the world to misreprcsent anything.
or come here after beng exposed; but
the question naturally arises why shoud
the law be enforced in one case and not
in others2 and why should permits be
granted to some to violate the law with
1t may be argued that per-
mlts were worthless; not given at a
meeting of the Board Il was certain
~ very strange conduct on the part of
the Aldermen to sign those permits.
thereby placing themselves in pos
tive position" in the case of IN appeal
from the Mayors conrt.
As regards the published ordinances
pnrported to have been passed on the
10th and 18th Sept, relative to said
permits, it is well known that they are
bogus, aud that there were no meetings
of the Board on those days, and that
they were spread npon the minutes on
the 10th Sept. after the appeal of
Mr.. McGrath. In fact. those ordinances
looked suspicious when published, pur-
porting to have been passed at meetings
of the Board without presiding officer
and besides were violated blythe Mayor,
aud Marshal through ignorance in mo-
testing Mr.. McGrath on his return.
IF those ordinances as published are
bogus, how are we to know what ordi
nances are genuine and what are not?
rho g tell what is law and what is
not law? ROUNDABOUT.