The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-07-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.
he unit rule should go.

1t q strong ticket.
The Chicago Convention furnished |
no crew for The LEADER.
John Kelly favors the unit rule
whenever he can be the unit.
Blaine has written letter full of
taffy to a Democratic bolter.
The jackson Fire Department
now has two first class steamers.
1t will be lovely to see Butler
posing as horny handed laborer.
The Refuge Oil Mills, of Vicks-
burg, have closed down for lack of
seed.
The New York times likes the
Democratic platform and will support
Cleveland.
The gin house of Mr.. J. I. Smith,
of Kinds county, was recently de-
stroycd by fire.
Judge. j. P. Povall, editor of the
Bonneville Pleader, has answered a
call to The ministry.
A Republican convention of the
Seventh Congressional District,
meets in Jackson August goth.
The Pullman sleeping cars on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
are provided with paper wheels.
Bob Hunt and Dan Parker, both
colored murderers of colored men,
were hung at Greenville last Fri.
day.
Ben. Butler lost the great oppor-
tunity of his life when he declined
proffered position in Clevelands
Cabinet.
All of the Mississippi Congress-
men, including Chalmers, have re-
turned to the embrace of an admir-
ing constituency.
John Kelley was born in New
York, and when it comes to test
Of political strength can always be
found "at home"
There were fifty convictions at
the recent session of Circuit Court
held at jackson; forty-two for mis-
demeanors and eight for felonies.
Emanuel Coleman, a yoodoo
doctor, killed negro girl at
Brownsville, Miss, last week by
giving her dose of his compound.
The Carroll Waterman says the
notorious bandit Frank James once
sold fruit trees in Mississippi under
the assumed name of I. N. Wood
son.
DIR. Koch, the German scientist,
expresses the opinion that cholera
germs cannot be carried any
great distance by atmospheric
waves.
Mr.. Hendricks has just used
Secretary Chandler up in the discus
sion of q 500, 900 steal by subordi-
dates in the latter's department Of
service.
DR.. Koch is following the cholera
up, and issuing bulletins that scare
the Europeans out ofa years growth.
The Doctors science is of the alarm
ing order.
George William Curtis attended
the Democratic Convention at
Chicago. He is the leader of the
Independent Republicans of the
Dolly Warden school.
There is warm contest going on
between DIR. c. A. Rice, of Vicks-
burg, and DIR. P. j. Mccormick, of
Yazoo City, for the SUPPLEMENTARY
of the Meridian Lunatic Asylum.
The two greatest questions agi-
tating the political mind at present
are these: What is Ben Butler
going to do about it and, What
will 1t amount to when he does it i?
The State Ledger is enterprising.
In forty minutes from the time
Hendricks was nominated it was on
the streets with the names of the
Democratic standard bearers and
the ticket flying at its mast-head.
IL Henry Watterson isn't muz-
zled, he viii do the Democratic
cause more harm than good. He is
the same windy talker as of yore and
insists that Exclusively" in the
Democratic platform means @only."
The New York Herald flies the
Democratic ticket at its mast head. |
IL would be just like the Herald to
haul this down about the good