The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
EDITORIAL. NOTES.

lected Governor OF Georgia.
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
Va, have been placed in the hands of
a receiver.
A new postofllce, known as Ston-
ington, on the Little j." has been
established.
Louisiana possesses the only salt
mine in the United States. The de-
post is inexhaustable.
THE new postal law requires al
letters and papers to be re-stamped
when forwarded from the original
office.
Arkansas has doubled her popula-
ton in the last ten years, and is
ranked as the fourth cotton State in
the Union.
BUTrERwoRTH, the Ohio BLACKBOARD,
has been appointed Government At
torney 10 prosecute the South Caro-
lima cases.
The Alabama coal mines are now
worked to their utmost capacity.
The coal is first class and the demand
for it is enormous.
j. V. HAMILTON, of Holmes, receiv-
ed the caIetship to West Point in
Col. Singleton's district; and T. NJ.
Kelly, of Yazoo is alternate.
THE Brandon Republican records
the death of three old and respected
citizens of Smith county, viz: Rev.
j. G. III Baugh, Jackson Edwards
and Jesse Vanslyke.
ACCORDING to the News, Port Glib
son, which has not over 1900 in
habitants, mas recently raised $780,
900 for cotton factory, $4,000 for
an oil mill, and $4,000 for a rail-
road.
IT is said that the tunnel under
the English Channel has been finish
ed to within mile and a quarter of
the French coast, and the engineers
expect to have cars running through
it within two years.
Judge Shields, of Natchcz, is now
engaged in writing the life of the i'm
mortal S. S. Prentiss. The NJ. SIS. |
will not be placed in the hands of
the printer until enough subscribers
are insured to cover the expense of
publication.
The editor of the Friar's Point
Gazette has been presented with a
fine specimen of the "horned frog
Of Texas. The editor says Of it:
Gas curiosity, our SPECIMEN is a
success, but we do not know what to
do with the cussed thing"
West Point, with 1000 inhabitants
has recently raised $4,000 for a ma
tionaI bank, $4,000 for a cotton
seed oil mill, incl eased its ad valorem
tax list 800, 900 in one year. estab-
lished a Cotton Exchange, voted
$4,000 to a railroad, and is talking of
a 100000 cotton factory.
Mr.. w. L. Birdsong, who has
done so much to illuminate the
columns of the Crystal Springs
Meteor, has Withdrawn from that pa
per for business reasons, and it will
henceforth be conducted by his able
associate, Mr.. r Ably, under whose
management it will lose none of its
wonted sprightliness.
NJ. S. Creel, of Jackson county, SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for seven
years at the November term, 1881, Of
the Jackson County Circuit Court,
for bigamy, was pardoned by the
Governor on the 14th inst. During
his Imprisonment his first wife oo-
,ained divorce, and he was legally
to his second as sooL as re-
leased. q,
THE St. Louis Railway Register
says that the principal event of the
illinois Central for 1883 will be the
of feeders in Mississippi.
The earnings of the G 'ntral for 1882
to S,905,312, an increase
,ver those of the previous year of
s31S,9l2 The net earning for the
same time were $3,660,769, which
we're $433, 5S7 more than in 1881.
INSTEAD Of publishing in full the
decision of the Supreme Court in the
misunderstanding case, which is .
engthy and clothed in the customa- /,
y technical language, we copy the t
Clarion's synopsis Of the decision,