The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-12-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The store OF John Rogers, In
Amite county, was recently destroy
ed by fire.
Rev. r. n. Hall and Miss Mary
Emma Lea, of Amite county, were
married on the End inst.
Gen. Mcclellan, it is now sail
was a victim Of disease brought on
Ivy the excessive use Of tobacco.
A box car containing about forty
bales of compressed cotton was re
GENTLY destroyed by FIRE, at Gloster.
A bill prohibiting newspaper
from Publishing details of suicides
is before the Legislature of Uruguay.
Mr.. b c. Chase, the Mayor of
Learned, Kinds County, has fallen
heir 100000 left by English rela
tinns.
The Gimlet, is the name Of a
paper published at Weimar, Texas.
That office must be paradise TO
the newspaper bore.
The Presidents message makes
ten columns in small type. We will
give our readers an elaborate synop-
sis of the document next week.
Gen. B. F. Butler has quietly an
houhced to his friends his intention
TO run for Congress in his district in
Massachusetts, at the next election
Hon. Charles f. Hooker, of Jack
son, is to deliver the address at the
New Orleans Exposition, the
american Mediterl anean Day" Jan
nary 22nd.
Secretaries Bayard, Lamar, Whit,
ney and Endicott, and Postmaster
Generel Villas, attended the funeral
of Vice President Hendricks, al
indianapolis.
Capt. Hardy, of Meridian, who
was several weeks ago elected Presi-
dent of the Gulf and Ship Island
Railroad, says he will begin work
thereon at an carly day.
VIM. Ii. Vanderbilt, the grcs
New York millionaire, fell and died
suddenl y while talking on business
at his residence last Tuesday. His
wealth is estimated at $175,0OO,OOO.
The hand of the Plumed Knight
is visible in all of the important
Republican movements and it
begins t. look like Blaine and Lo-
gan will be the Republican Presi
Dental ticket for 1888.
Hon. J. G. Carlisle was unam-
mously renominated for Speaker OF
the House by the Democratic eau
Gus. The Republican caucus nomi,
mated Representative Reed OF Maine
- an empty compliment.
The kosciusko Star saws that a
man living near Attala county paid
an agent $40 for Bible and after
ling it complained TO him that
there was not as much reading in it
rs lie expected for $40.
Mr.. j. B. Harris, of Jackson, has
been appointed by the President TO
be Attorney Of the United States for
the Southern District of Mississippi.
lie is son Of Judge Wylic p. Har-
ris, and will fill the office with mark
ell ability.
Judge Luke Lea, the retiring Uni
ted States District Attorney for this
district, has filed the position
creditably for years, and carries
with him into his retirement the res.
pect and confidence of a host OF
friends, irrespective of party.
Two cases of small-po have oc-
cured on Belmont plantation, in
Adams county, and another is an
nounced on the Blackburn planta-
tien, in the. same vicinity. Proper
precautions will he taken to pre-
vent the spread of this dreadful
disease, by the authorities.
Mr.. Avery Jones had no sooner
mounted the tripod of the Kinds
County Comet as the successor of
Mr.. J. II. Marin, than he was cleo
ted TO succeed him as Mayor of Uti-
ca. Mr. Jones was once foreman of
tho Leader office, is g. young gentle
man of sterling moral worth, and in
thus honoring him the citizens OF
Utica have honored. themselves.