The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-05
PARAGR APIEs.

a tiary for five years.
JUDGE CL,YroN, who was on the
G Sup enc Bench with Ju lge Sharhcy
= recently attended a term of court IN
$ Benton county. He is 81.
Ir is said that Jay Gould will
build fine residence in Pensacola
I or Jacksonville, Florida; be having
a been so much delighted while on hi"
: recent visit there that he will here
after spend his winters at one ol
the above places.
: OK the 20 II ult. the Supreme CoHrt
| declared unconstitutional and void
) the law passed: March 9th, 1882, en-
titled IAN act for the relief of Ger
tain litigants. 1t is the act which
provides for attorneys fees in suits
against corporations.
TIE Department of Agri,uIturc
reports that The stock Of corn in the
country on March was about $50
100000 bushels, or So per cent. OF
last years crop. The proportion OF
wheat on hand is 90 per cent. of the
crop, or about 100000 bushels.
OK a petition of citizens Ct Cal
houn county, the Governor Lowry
has granted Henry Fleming a respite
until April %. Geo Rama, color
ed boy sentenced to be hung for
murder April II, has had his sen
tence committed to Imprisonment
for life.
| Gent to watcr-"Giye me some
grammatical and typographical er-
rors." Waiter Cooking puzzled at
first, but recovering in a moment his
usual screnity)-"We are just out
of them, sir" "Then what do you
mean by keeping them on your bill
of farc?'
WE :learn from the Clarion TIL al
Mr.. Joe W. Baily, ofCrystal Springs,
has been elected the orator of Cum
berlaLd University at Lebanon
Tenn, to attend the Tennessee In
ter-collegiate Oratorical contcs
which takes place at Nashville OF
tine 4th of May next.
Col. j. S. HAMILTON recently in
terviewed the Secretary of War rela
tive TO employing convict labor OF
the lcvees in this State, and was tolC
by that official that IL it becomes
evident that. other labor could not b.
obtained to build the ievees he woulC
consent to the employment of con
victs, but not otherwise.
What has become Of Lawrence
county? We never hear her nam'
mentioned abroad or lscr affairs spo
ken of in the papers much often
out than if she hal dropped GU
: of existence. We hope some o
: our readers down there-we hav
quite number-will speak out occa
sionally through our columns.
According to recent decision @
the Supreme Court, Mutual Fire AM
Life Insurance Associations are q
: liable to the State license as Pre-
n MUM Companies. The license re
CURED of each FIRE Insurance Com
pany is one thousand dollars, apd Of
$ each Life Company five hundre'
II dollars. Each Insurance agent i
y liable for tax of ten dollars.
+ THE Wesson Herald says that
+ white baby, was found dead las
e week under log, about two mile
o East Of Wesson. 1t was found b
some boys, who were hunting. TIL
# baby was wrapped up in lot Of oil
IL clothes. Neigbbors were summone
# and the baby buried. Nobod
II seems to know anything ahont i
1t looked as if it had been buric
il several days.
/ Burchard, the Director Of til
5 Mint, in speaking of the three cen
= piece and the discussion which ha
it sprung up ab'ut its legality, say
e there was only one coin in the I'M
C ted States that was in strict compl
ance with the law. That coin wa
! the twenty dollar gold piece. A
}. the others have something on ther
o which the law does not authorize
o or they lack something which th
law requires.
THE New Internal Revenue Law
q recently passed by Congress, pro
: vides that on and after May Isl
t 1888, the tax on cigars win be re