The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-01-17
EDITORIAL. Nts'T ~.

as well as proprietor ."f the Halle
hurst Signal,
Mr.. Norrell, Of Yuzoo, has intro
duced a bin il the House, to invcs-
tigate the public officers Of the State.
The Brandon Republican calls it,
two-days' journey from Jackson to
Yazoo City. Where is the new rail
road?
A company have bought the
yicksburg cotton seed Oil Mills, and
propose TO convert them into cot
ton factory.
The disbursements by Auditors
warrants, for the yeer 1883, under
forty different headings, amounted
10 $745, e6624.
G. w. SoULE, of Meridian, has in
vented a cheap cotton seed oil mill
for use on farms. 1t will DC ready
for the next crop.
Capt. J. II. Miller has become sole
editor and proprietor of the Tupelo
Journal, which is one OF our most
valued exchanges.
Con. Ryan was killed by John
iIansberry in Jackson last week in
quarrel over the late municipal
election. Hansberry seems to have
been iustifiablc. Several shots were
fred by both.
Hon. II. B. Payne has been elected
by the Ohio Legislature to succeed
Mr.. Pendleton in the UniIel States
Senate. He has been q lifelong
Democrat, is over 70, and was nomi-
mated on the first ballot.
Mr.. McCool of Alfalfa, has intro
duced bill in the House to punish
editors and printers who print tick
cts not in accordance with the laws
of this State. Referred to committee
ON elections. Let it pass.
Senator Sykes, Of Monroe, intro
duced q bill last week entitled "an
act to prevent the sale or exhibition
of abscene and immoral literature,
pictures, cards, etc." 1t should
became law, and doubtless will.
Director General Burke has been
invited by the State officers, Mem
hers of the Legislature and others to
deliver an address in Jackson at an
early day upon the subject of the
Worlds Centcnnial Cotton EXPOSE
ton.
a farmer named James Wooten
was assassinated near Wesson last
Monday evening. A Few days before
this young man named Ed. Greaves,
was assinatcd near Crystal Springs.
Some hemp. lawfully used, is badly
needed up that way.
Our DEVIL sarcasticaliy remarked
the other day that Fatheree, the
supplemented fellow who was ac-
cidently wounded in the Yazoo Jail
by a brother lvncher, came near
having his brains shot out. Faiheree
was struck IN the foot.
THE entire bridge and trestle work
of the N. @. & N. +. Railroad across
Lake Pontchartrain is twenty three
miles long, and is so solidly built
that although trai run over it at
the rate of forty miles an hour, not
an inch of depression to any por-
tion Of the track has yet occurred.
The Port Gibsol News is after the
Claiborne county Board Of Sapervi-
sors for awarding the printing of
their proceedings to the Reveille,
when the Reveille's bid was $25 10
more than its own. From the show
ing the News makes, ID has just
ground for complaint.
HoN. V. Il: Warts introduced a
bill last Thursday To pre-, ent the
sacrifice Of property sold under deed
OF trust. We hove net seen the con-
tents Of the bill, but undo >tand it to
be measure for the protection Of I'M
fortunas. debtors, aadF from the
views we haze heard oar Represent
alive express ON the subject verb
ally, judge it's provision to be wise
and just ones IL was referred tothe
committee on~agrieullure. J