The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-11-08
ED.TORIAu. NOTES.
,URs, Truly. Applewhite.

60 since Tuesday.
JEFFERSON. saw Lincoln's 46 for
Truly, AID went 43O better for Ap-
plewhite.
At Your servicc-IIons. S. f.
Pa, kwocd, r. r. Applewhite and V.
d. Watts.
PRE tDExT ARTHUR has appointed
Thursday, Nov. 10Th "a day for
nation Thanksgiving.
Bob Ingersoll and Fred Douglass
have made tic most fuss over the de-
cision Oh the Civil Rights bill.
DAVID DAVIS says he bel YES
three-fft',s OF all the Republicans in
the country favor Blaine for the
Presidency.
THE Volunteer Southrons, of
Vicksburg, carried off the $500 prize
for the best drilled military company
at the Meridian Fair.
ArPLEwuIrE and Truly both ran
best away from home. Truly's ma
jority in this county, As; Apple
whites majority in jefferson. 476.
THE legal department of the New
MisSissippian is valuable addition
to that already excellent journal.
1t will prove of especial valne to law
yers.
Hon. JOSHUA 5. MORRIS has been
suggested as Southern candidate
for Vice-Prcsident on the Republican
ticket next year. He has the brains.
Who'll speak for the rest?
THE State Fair last week was q
grand success, so every one pro-
nounces who attended it. The order
and good behavior presented on the
grounds was admirable.
THERE seems to be strong de
mand that Mississippi do something
at the New Orleans Exposition to
redeem herself from her shame at
the Louisville Exposition. So let it
be.
TIE New Mississippian carried
off the blue ribbon and the dictionary
at the State Fair. Some of our sx-
changes needed the dictionary much
more than. our successful Jackson
cotemporary.
ELECTIONS were held in the follow
ing States last Tuesday: New
York, Virginia, Massachusetts,,
Maryland, Connecticut, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey.
Pennsylvania and Kansas.
Col. DEAsoN distanced McLain in
this county, but he is still on the
anxious seat as to other counties in
the district. He has mentally re-
solved, however, if he is elected, he
will no swap the Office off this time.
EIGHT Ku Klux were lately con
,icted in Georgia for outrages upon
negroes during the last Congression
al contest in that State A Jury
made out of the same kind Of stuff
is now uecded for the Copiah Ku-
Klux.
The Lee Association of Mobile
proposes to raise a statue in honor of
the gallant Admiral Raphael Semms,
of the Alabama. A subscription list
has been opened and an effort will be
made to realize $4,000 or $l2, 600
for the object named.
AS far as we have noticed, the re-
cent dicision of the Supreme Court
on the Civil Rights bill has in no
waylabridged the negro's habit of
riding on the ladies' cars Of our
railroads or INDUCING in any other
practice before enjoyed.
JUDGE r. A. HILL convened the
United States Court for the South
ern District of Mississippi at Jack
son last Monday. This distinguish
ed jurist and true gentleman is now
in his 73:d year, and on Oct. 23rd,
passed his golden wedding day. He
is in excellent health and spirits,
and there is every promise that
many more cheerful days may yet
be added to his useful and well spent
ife.
In a recent private letter, Col. w.
Calvin Wells, of Raymond, insists
that we have treated him with in
Justice and mIsrepresented him in
regard to his connection with the
Kinds county lynching, an account
r. ub;oh MO YuhIi @ bnd cavaral waakS