The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-28
The Tublic Debt NJ Lincoln
COUNTY.

The county finances are left to the
exclusive management of the Board OF
Supervisors. It is not made the busi-
ness of m other officer to give atten-
ton to, report upon or offer any advice
concerning the collection and disburse-
ment of the public revenue.
For these reasons il is q matter OF the
utmost Importance that men of educa-
ton and incorruptible integrity should
he elected to represent the several dis
tricts in the Board of Supervisors.
Without at present being able to
criticise the acts of the several Boards
of Supervisors of this county who have
managed its finances. we are inclined to
side with those who complain that there
has been something radically wrong in
the past management of the county
revenue of Lincoln county. Nobody
seems to make it f. business to inquire
what is going on, except the spectators
in the county warrants, who o hold
them at about thirty per cent below
par.
Lincoln county is in the unfortunate
condition of having no court house,
no Jail, fit to lie considered such, no
bridges and yet head over heels in debt.
When we consider that this county
was organized in1S7l, without any public
debt at all, while her sister surrounding
counties were prefectly overwhelmed,
this fact seems amazing.
1t is no explanation to say that we
have had to pay rent Coz q court house.
Look at the surrounding counties of
Copiah, Pike and Franklin. Each of
these counties has built a new courts
house and Jail, paid for them aud
their warrants are now about at par.
Starting with Lincoln county. when
they were, overwhelmed, and she was
out of debt, they have paid off their
public debt, built their court-bouses
and jails, while Lincoln has been get
ting deeper and deeper in debt and re-
ceiving apparently nothing In return.
We wish ~ say in conclusion, that we
do not mean to reflect upon the integri-
ty of our Boards of Supervisors, but to
suggest that there must have been
Encouragement and the propriety of
seeing to it at the coming election that
good men be elected as members of the
Board of Supervisors.
Assassination in San Francisco.
Last week the San Francisco Chron
icle denounced r. l. Kalloch, the
workingmen's candidate for Mayor.
Saturday night the reverend gentleman
defended himself in a public speech.
and told some ugly things about the
DeYoungs, editors of the Chronicle.
After the speech Chas. DeYoung drove
N a covered coupe in front of the pri-
vate entrance of the Metropolitan Tens
pie, where Kalloch has his study and
room, and sent a messenger boy asking
HIM to come ont. Kalloch Immediate
ly appeared on the sidewalk when De-
Young shot him in the breast. kalloch
turned to retreat within doors, when
DeYoung shot him in the back. De,
Young was Immediately arrested and
taken to Jail. The laboring men SEEM
ed determined to lynch him, but
Dennis Kearney advised them to let
the law take it's course. They obeyed.
KaIloch, at last account, was not dead
but was in q critical condition.
The ARRAY came very near creating a
riot. and Gen. McComb, commander of
the California troops, telegraphed the
Secretary of Wal for fifty thousand car
tridges. The Secretary ordered the
commander of the arsenal to furnish
them.
Quiet is now restored and Ell outbreak
is hardly probable, unless Kalloch dies.
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