The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-03-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.
MANNING beat Buchanan.

acres of public lands.
Ex-PREsrDEHr DAVIS is visiting his
plantation at Davis Bend.
w. B. MERCHANT has been appoint
ed Postmaster at New Orleans.
j. A. TERRY, Of Crysta; Springs
has so, 900 tomato plants in his hot
house.
TIE damage from the Ohio flood
is estimated as high as ten millions
ofdollars.
The Coast Beacon says the Mon
tross House at Biloxi has more than
fifty Northern guests.
J. NJ. COLEMAN, of Crystal Springs,
has purchased 10000 cocoons and
will engage in the silk culture
THE Selma and Memphis railroad
viii be completed to Holly Springs
by the middle of May.
A CINCINNATI paper says the
Spring'poet was not swallowed up in
the food, rs had been .ioyfully re-
ported.
JupeE r. J. ALcoRN has moved to
the Sea-Coast and will collect Inter.
nal Revenue in seven Of the southern
counties.
The Meteor says W. B. Harvey,
formerly of Copiah county, has in
vented an improved system of duplex
Z biography.
TIE Yazoo Herald says that corn
pl.ntiug is generally very active
throughout the Delta, and especially
on Silver Creek.
THE Tax and Tariff Bill was sign
ed on the 18th inst. by the President
at halfpast two o'clock, A. NJ, and
tins became law.
The Last U. ). Census was taken
nearly years ago and some $4,000,
900 spcn'. and yet the public has
not been furnished any information
Tue body oil Chas. Burr, who was
drowned from the schooner Joe
Edwards, was picked up and identi-
fed near Pass Christian last Friday.
If Congress would work half as
cnergetically from the opening of the
session, as it does right at the close
it would get something done worth
mentioning.
Col. MANNING succeeded in work
ing the $4,000 appropriation
through Congress, and Oxford will
now have q Uuited States Court
House to cost that sum.
THE Southern Express Company
is taking steps to have fruit shed
erected at Crystal Springs for the
benefit OF fruit and vegetable ship
pers at that point. A good step.
EIGHT students were recently sus-
pended at Princeton, and President
Arthur's son narrowly escaped. The
Young scions had been indulging in
wine suppers, and were overhauled
by~tshhe~ Faculty.
TIE Vicksburg Herald sarcastical-
ly remarks that whenever cotton
gets so low it is Improbable to raise
il. it intends to advise the land own
ers to raise other things and buy
what cotton they need.
ACCORDING to the census Of 1880,
there are six establishments for the
manufacture of cotton ties. One
hundred and thirty persons are en-
ploycd in these factories, and the
South pays out four millions to give
these tho necessary bounties to keep
the infants living.
Tug Board of Trustees Of A. and
NJ. College have announced that
they will, on June Goth next, at the
College, elect Professors for the
Chair of Mathematics aud of En-
glish Literature. Applications can
5 he fled with L. F. Watson, Sec y
starkyille, Miss.
THe funeral of Georgias great
statesman, Alex. H. Stephens,
will take place to-day. Reports
say it will be the largest and
most solemn affair of the kind eves
witnessed in that State. Sena-
tor G lquitt is chairman of the flu
neral ,mmittee.
MAJ. r. WALPoLE, for years a
member Of the State press, and one
of The OK Presidents of the Mississip-
pi Press Association, left Yazoo city
last Thursday with his family for
the Southern Coast of Florida, where