The Brookhaven leader., 1884-04-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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Orleans the FIRST of the week.
TEXAS Baptists are building =
soc, 900 university at Galveston.
THE State elpctioa in Louisiana
takes place April 81. Tho Democrats
wtl win.
JAY GoULp says absolute free
trade is an impossibility and I'D
lbsurdity.
THIRTY-rivE young ministers have
matriculated at Mississippi College
this session.
VlcKsBuRG, Grenada and West
Point were visited by heavy wind
and rain storm last Monday.
y young Hebrew night Waterman
named Martin, was recently muir
derel by negroes at Vickshurg.
Ir is admitted in Washing on that
Mississippi has he best representa-
tion in the Senate Of any State in the
onion.
CuE Mississippi and its tributaries
sre falling, and the people along
their banks IRE growing more hope
FOL
SEr. ". Price, president Of the
Board OF Supervisors of Copiah
county, who was recently stabbed, is
recovering rapidly.
Fannie Gallman the negro woman
who stabbed Capt. Lowe at Halle
s-hhurst, has been sent TO jail to
await the action Of the Circuit
Court.
TIE Penn brothers who murder
al Itats ct Hazlchurst last week
were committed to Jail without bail.
Yates was released On bond Of
$1,000.
HlGHoATE. MoRGAS, who iisgraced
Tszoo county in the State Senate
some years ago, has written book
entitled "Yazoo, or the Picket Fence
of Freedom"
\ progressive and fast age to be
sure! AT Western hotel they are
putting walters on roller skates and
are meeting with success in the
experiment.. What next?
The STATE Of Ohio will offer a
reward for the arrest and conviction
Of the murderers Of Capt. John j.
Desmond, Of Company b., First
Regiment Ohio National Guards,
killed in CINCINNATI, while in dis
charge of his duty during the riots.
THE Republican State Convention
will meet at Jackson on April -, to
appoint delegates to the National
Convention at Chicago. So far, we
have heard of no stir among the
faithful in this county with view
20 representation at the State meet
ing.
THE Panolian suggests tie fol
lowing as candidates for Con
gressional honors in Chalmers dis
trict: Hon. II. Ii. Taylor, of Sardis
Hon. J. Il. Morgan, Of DeSoto;
Hon. G.. u. Stands, of Tate, and
Hon. Charles d. IIowry, Of LaFay-
cite.
4 special from Jackson to the
New Orleans Picayune, informs us
mat Chancellor Peyton, of the
Jackson district, has cnjoined the
railroad supervisors, restraining
them from interfering with the
management of the Natchez and
Jacks N railroad.
MURAT HISLsTEAp says the admin
sstratiou of criminal Law IN Cincin
natl has becn damnable, and the
influence Of criminals in public
affairs alarming. He appears to
to hsveat last amaked to the fact that
this state of affairs is not confined
to the South he so dearly loves to
maIisn in the columns of the Com
mercial Gazette.
A good many OF the State Papers
are kicking high and crying IN q
loud voice because Mr. c. c. Camp,
hell, a son of Chief Justice J. A. P.
Campbell, was appointed Clerk OF
the Railroad Commission at salary
dsl.5oO per arnum, when he was
already holding the position OF De
pnty Clerk of the Supreme Court at
a salary of $1,000. The Macon
Beacon intimate' that there is
something rotten in Deurnark,' and
the Clarion, now edited by Mr.
Clifton Chief Clerk Of the SuDremt