The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-02-21

Is CpuiIbl at " vs.
son. No new cases this week.
Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS, on account
OF feeble health. has declined to
address the Legislature on the life o.
the gifted Prentiss.
A bill to prohibit the sale of all
alcoholic liquors in Coriah county
after the LIST of May, 1885, has p SIS
Ell the House and will come before
thu Senate this week. We wish it
happier fate than that-of the Lincoln
hill.
WE are in receipt of the first
number of the Utica Comet, publish
ed and edited by our Young friend
J. NJ. Martin, formerly of Brook
haven. 1t is sprigh,ly and has the
ring Of success, which We hope it
may achieve.
EVEN the Clar on now alludes to
the Copiah "bull dozers" as "those
wild men of the moh,'' and plaintively
inquiries if the people Of the entire
State are to be held responsible tor
their acts. 10 the name of high
Heaven we hope not.
SINCE the Senate Committee began
its investigation of the Copiah affair,
few fellows heretofore ito fortune
and to fame unknown" are fast &C.
quiring a national reputation-but
it is reputation very similar to
Gitean's.
The free pass bill has been signed
by the Governor and become law.
In the House MIR. Goyan amended
the title to make it read, IAN act for
the relief of the railroads. All
State, District and county officials
came under its provisions.
ALL prosecutions against Hon
Frank James in the Missouri Courts
have been dismissed, and he is now
in Jail at Huntsville, Ala. on a
charge of robbing U. 5. paymaster
at Mussel Shoal, in the latter State
His chances far the Presidency are
not so fla.tering as they were.
WHEELER has rendered his resig
nation as Marshal Of HaZlehnrst to
the new Board which not long since
appointed him, and thus added i'm
mensely to the blooay-shirt stock for
Republican campaign purposes. The
Board went out and lifted up their
voices and wept bitterly, but Wheel
er would 60.
WE return thanks to our young
friend 4. A. Weathersby, of the In
vitation Committee, for an invitation
to attend the celebration of the 34th
Anniversary of the IIermean Literary
Society, which takes place at the
Chapel of The State University to-
morrow evening. Mr.. Crawford
Jackson, of DeSoto, will be the orator
of the occasion.
The Senate Committee for the in
vestigation of the Copiah crimes be-
gan it's work in New Orleans list
Friday. So far about so witnesses
have BEEN examined, including the
Matthews brothers and Mrs. j. p.
Matthews and her sons and daugh
tiers. Many of the things recited, as
reported in the City papers, read
more like the acts OF low bred despe,
radoes, than those of civilized and
intelligent men.
Hon. A j. BAKERS bill to repeal
the Oxford prohibitory liquor law
was voted down in the Senate on its
first reading by a vote of "a to 4.
II the arguments we have seen
credited to Mr. Baker on this sub
ject are correctly reported, the re
bnke was well deserved. The Clar-
ion says the State University Trus-
tees excepting Mr.. Baker, and
Professors were unanimous in their
opposition to the bill.
We advise our Copiah Prohibition
friends to nurse their bill closely
until it is through the Senate and in
the hands of the Governor. Pending
the final action on the Lincoln coun
" bin we are reliably informed Sena-
tor Hyer, a noted whisky advocate,
admonished our saloon men to come
home and rest easy-the Lincoln
county bill should never became
law if he had TO "pigeon-hole" it.
Serstor Hyer is also the man who
wants tie election laws changed so
that the ballots shall be counted Sc
eretly. No wonder!
HAVING published the description
of Capt. Put Darden's Farm by a
correspondent OF the Vicksburg Her.
aid. in justice to that gentleman, as
well as 10 the great interest which he
represents, we very cheerfully give
place in another column to the tes-
timony of Capt. Darden's neighbors
snd brother Changers on this sub
ject. Mr.. John F. Brady. the Her
AIDS correspondent, has been very
severely censured by several papers
81 the State for the uncomplimentary
light in which his letter placed The
Worthy Master nf the State Grange,
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