The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-12
EDITORIAL. NOTES.

OAlOTU.
The Illinois Railroad pays $l5 ,OO2
annually into the State Treasury!
TIE vicksburg Hornet is dead.
Perhaps it was a slight bit too wasp
ish.
The Pike county Board of Super
visors met again the first Monday
in May.
A CREMATION society has been
formed in Chicago with capital OF
100000.
Telegraphic communication has
been established between Vicksburg
and Port Gibson.
SUMMIT has passed an ordinance
against chicken fighting on the pub
lie streets. Right.
A little negro girl was lately burn
I'd to death on the place of DIR. VIM
Bacot, Pike county.
The Copiah Board of Supervisors
will hold q meeting in the court
house on Monday, the 10th inst.
The Illinois Central proposes to
donate $4,000 to the Centennial
Cotton Exposition, if held in New
Orleans.
Mr.. GRIFFITH ENDERs, well known
to many of our readers, has removed
with his family from Summit to
Natchez.
PERE HYAcINTHE, accompanied by
his wife, will spend the coming sum
mer in this country, and will lecture
in various cities.
Hon. j. G.. HAMILTON is candi-
date for reelection to the Senate
from the Holmes county District.
He is fine man for the place.
w. Fl. FOREST, son of Gen. J. B.
Forest, has become editor Of The
Memphis Avalanche, and the paper
will now be Democratic in politics,
The Vicksburg Herald now pub
fishes a morning and evening edi-
tion. We are glad TO note such en-
terrrise and evidence of prosperity.
TINE Democrats Of Yazoo elected
their city officers last week without
opposition. The editor ofthe Herald,
Mr.. A. NJ, Roach, was chosen Mayor.
]. D. Watson. who tried to bride
an Ohio member Of the Legislature,
was found guilty, and will serve
the State three years in the State
prison.
A PETITION for the retail of whisky
failed to get q majority of the legal
voters in the Holmesville. Supervisors
district. The snti-wh Risky sentiment
seems growing in Pike.
The appointment of A. p. Spark
man, G. M. Govan, S. r. Lampkin
and S. A. Matthews, as deputy as
SCISSORS of Pike county for the year
1888, has been approved.
Rev. J. NJ. Caldwell, the Presby-
terian pastor at Carrollton for about
twenty years, gentleman much res
pccted and beloved, died on the Both
of March.
Mai. Walpole has located at Cedar
Keys, Florida, and engaged in the
mercantile business. Walpole q
johnson, both of this State, is the
name of the firm.
WE learn from the Clarion that
the Rev. G. S. Roudebush, late mem
Der of the faculty Of the A. IL NJ.
College, will establish male high
school in Jackson at an early day.
Judge T. A. Magee, of Franklin
had several valuable sheep killed last
week by dogs. We would like to see
all the counties adopt the Yazoo plan
of placing a tax of 5000 per head up
on every dog except one to each
family.
YAzoo COUNTY has two candidates
for District-Attorney; six for Sheriff;
four for Chancery Clerk; five for
Circuit Clerk; three for Treasurer;
two for Assessor, and the announce
meats not yet all in. Verify, they
love office in Yazoo.
john HOWARD PAYNE's remains
have been inferred at Oak Hill.
Washington. Mr.. w. w. Corcoran,
the Washington banker and large
hearted philanthropist, bore all the
expense of their removal from
1'unis, Africa, to their present rest
ing place.
X. r. LEDBETTER, of jackson, has