The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1884-11-27

Mr. +. NJ. Hoke, OF Magnolia,
died on the 10th inst.
Kellogg, the arch tiend of Louis
lana carpet baggers was, defeated.
John Peterman and Thos. Spears
were shot in row at Osyka Tues
day.
DR.. S. NJ. Bemiss, q prominent
physician of New Orleans, died sud-
denly last week.
1t has been proposed to exhibit
the old liberty bell at the New Or
leans Exposition.
The LEADER and the Clarion will
be sent to any address one year,
postpaid, for $3.50.
Gov. Schuyler Crosby, of Monta-
ma, has been appointed First Assist
ant Postmastergeneral.
The ward in Brooklyn in which
Henry Ward Beecher lives went
Democratic for the first time.
Joseph Pulitzer of the World, and
Col. Merriman of the Sun, are both
elected to Congress from New York
city.
The Democrats of Vicksburg have
nominated straight municipal
ticket headed by Hon. W. L. Trow-
bridge.
A number of our contemporaries
are doing their level best to relieve
President Cleveland of the trouble
and responsibility of selecting the
members of his Cabinet.
The total vote of Mississippi for
Democratic Electors is III, 1921, of
which the Cleveland Electors re-
ceived 1851, and the Blaine Electors
42,7S5. Majority for Cleveland 3d.
. 773.
Mr.. Samuel Thixpen an old and
highly respected citizen of Kinds
county, and father of Rev. j. E.
Thigpen, a former pastor of the
Brookhaven Baptist church, died at
his home near Raymond last Satur-
day.
The New Aississippian asserts
that it does not speak without knowl-
edge when it says that Col. Lamar
does not expect to have Cabinet
Office rendered to him, and has no
intention ofaccepting such position
il it should be rendered
Col. A. J. Frantz is a candidate
for the Brandon postoffice, and Col.
j. M. Wesson is candidate for the
pestoffice at Wesson. If long and
honorable service in the Democratic
party constitutes anything, these
gentlemen are surely entitled to
precedence over all others.
In a recent interview Mr..
Blaine attributed his defeat in
New York to the Prohibitionists,
DIR. Burchad's "Rum, Romanism and
Rebellion" and a rainy election day
in the rural districts. He omitted
to mention that the 4th OF November
was also very cold day for him
throughout the Empire State.
Rev. James Mcleod, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church in
Indianapolis, and who formerly oc-
cupied the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church al. Buffalo, N. Y, says he has
iton good authority that Governor
Cleveland will shortly be united in
marriage with a young lady of
Buffalo.
Mr.. w. M. Evarts (who was
Hayes lawyer before the Electoral
Commission, and was also the Pre-
siding officer at the recent money
raising dinner given by Jay Gould
and Cyrus Field to Blaine), and Mr..
George Bliss who was the Govern
lDent's lawyer in the Star Route
trials, in which he secured the &C
qnittal of Dorsey, and has since
been a defender of Blaine's Mulligan
TRANSACTIONS, tried in vain to pick
a flaw in Cleveland's plurality in
New York. 1t was no 60.
The jackson Clarion commenced
with its issue of November Goth, the
publication Of the official roster of
all companies mustered into the
Confederate or State service from
Mississippi during the late war. The
publication will be continued for
several months, until completed, and
include date of muster, names of
affiears and total stranoth tn he fol |