The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-01-31
Editorial NOEES.

Judge HE is holding court thus
week at Jackson
THE iron-clai oath rcrealrd in the
House by lS5 t. II.
Hon. f. Barksdale has our thanks
ibr some interesting pntlic docu-
ments.
We like the talk of II New Ms
sissippian about that "ay-b'own"
certificate.
THE Mississippi Mills are prepar-
ing for a big exhibit at the New o.
leans Cotton Centennial.
THERE will be no appropriation for
a State Female College this time,
seems to be the general prediction
THE Governor made the Levee
question the subject of a special
message to the Legislature last week.
Also that of State Hospital.
WHAT has become of Strayhorn:
1t seems mighty lonesome when you
can't find anything in the Legislature
proceedings about this inland and
benighted metropolis.
We regret to chronicle the death
% Mr.. John J. Doherty, local editor
of the VIckeburg Evening Post. He
was buried in ia ;ksoa, his native
eitv, on Yesterday.
One Of the attest sensations in
Washington is the marriage Of Fred
Douglass to a white female clerk Of
about So years Of age. Doug ass
is about 70 and this is his second
wife.
HARRY Moss, an old newspaper
man and the Marx Twain of the
Mississippi press, diel in Jackson
st the residence Of r. ii. Henry,
last Wednesday. Peace to his
ashes.
The Masonic Grand Lodge Of this
State will hold It's sixty sixth annual
Communication in jackson, com
mencing on Wednesday, the 18th
day of Febusry.-The Grand Chap
Ter will meet or the Monday preced-
ing.
A letter from a subscriber in Car
rnH county TO the Vicksburg Bel aid
closes as follows: I made on an
acre of land this year 1851 bushels
of g OIL corn. Tbs acre was 3
test of thorough cultivation, with
out and ounce Of fertilizers. The
corn was planted Oh the 9Th OF June
1888.
SEVERAL North Mississippi towns
and counties want Prohibitory laws,
The Clarion says that last Wednes-
day bill prohibiting the sale or
giving away of intoxicating liquors
within the corporate limits Of the
town Of Sardis or within four miles
thereof, brought the temperance Ques
ton to the front. 1t passed, having
also previously passed the Senate.
THERE ems to be very little
prospect for the passage Of Mr..
Barksdale's b Il to revive the land
grant to the Gulf Il Ship Island
Railroad in this State. Holman, IT,
great Democratic ohjector and Il
possible Presidential candidate, has
secured the passage. Of "A resolution
affirming that &ll land grants to
railroads that have not complied
with their charters, should be for
feited. Holman's resolution asse
by a vote of 25l to Is. IIorr and
other Republicans seem to be mere
liberal to the South than Holman
and other Democrats.
Justice lsc claiming her own in
vicksburg at last. Last we, k Samuel
Hawthorne, who shot Lemuel Magee
10 Vicksburg fre years ago, who
after being senterccd to the peni-
Tertiary Tor life, got new tlial and
while on bail tried to'steal off for
Europe, but wGs- captured at New
York. just as he was taking a
steamer, has been convicted again,
and sentenced to the peniteutiary
for life. Also in the case of the
notorious Jack, MeKenna, who killed
3D.. Wilson, anothersts miller, 10 a
faro bank few weeks ago, the jury
returned verdict Of guilty, and the
murderer sentenced to be hung.