The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-02-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Gen. Hancock is said To have died
from the effect of his wound recciv-
Cd ut Gettysburg.
tie Legislature has done but lit
Tie since our last issue, hence no
supplement this week.
Fourteen of the thirty -lwo prison
or. in the Jail of Washington coun-
y arc charged with murder.
The lower house OF Congress pass
ed the Fitz John Porter bill by u
vote of Ill yeas to ll3 nays.
There is not money enough in the
Safe treasury To make the semi-an-
nual distribution 10 the free schools.
The Ri. Rev. VIM. NJ. Green,
Bishop Of Mississippi, is the oldest
living American Bishop. lie is 81
years old.
Our State Board of Railroad Com
missioners are holding cousulta
ton over the tariffs of the Illinois
Central Railroad.
Livingston Peyton, editor of the
Mayersville Spectator, and Miss
Idelia Speirs, of that place, were
married ON The 10Th.
Gen. Jno. NJ. Schofield becomes
the senior Major General OF. the
United States army by the death OF
Gen. w. s. Hancock.
The Legislature adjourned last
Friday for an excursion to New Or
leans, aud enough members hadn't
returned Monday for quorum.
The Marshal of Kosciusko is
remarkably clever official. He car
ries offenders against the law out Of
the city to keep from having TO ar
rest them.
The Grenada Sentinel states that
within the past few weeks nearly a
thousand negroes have taken the
train at Batesville for Arkansas and
the Mississippi Valley.
Up to Feb. 18th the cotton re-
ceipts at Summit for the present sea
son were 1854 bales-an increase
over corresponding date of last year
of just 8 bales.
The House after some amend
ments passed by decided majority
the labor contract bill of Represen-
tative Jones published in last weeks
paper.
The case of Jos. f. Lotion was
argued before the Supreme Court
this by his attorneys, Messrs. A. II.
Longino and A. c. McNair. A
decision may be looked for next week.
Senator Hoar, from the Commit
lee on Library, has reported favora-
bly, the bill introduced by him to
appropriate 100000 for monument
to- Gen. Grant, TO be erected in
Washington.
DR.. j. Britton Tory, of Washing
ton county, Miss, and Miss Fon.
tame Garrett, of Canton, were MARI
ed in that city on the 10Th. Miss
Garrett had many friends in this
city, who recall her visits here with
pleasure.
The sale of whisky and ardent
spirits is absolutely prohibited in
the Indian Territory. and in the
Cherokee Nation. The Introduction is
enforced, too. II an Indian wishes
to go on a big drunk, he must cross
the line into Arkansas or Missouri
What a commentary on Anglo Saxon
civilization!
We can scarcely conceive any
thing more rcprthensible and harm
full than the airing OF dirty church
linen in a secular newspaper or, in
fact, any other sort of paper. 1t
neither speaks well for the parties
TO such controversy nor the editor
who will permit his columns thus to
be used. Him that hath ears to
hear let him hear.
Three Democratic candidates for
the Presidency Mcclellan, Han
cock and Seymour-have died with
In the last few months. Your Uncle
Sammy Tilden will also no doubt
soon draw the drapery of his couch
about him and lie down to pleasant
dreams, where Electoral Commits
sions, ETC., are unknown.
The City Council of Magnolia has
passed an ordinance forbidding the
starring OF fertilizers known as
Super-phosphate, Ground Bone or
any kind having an offensive odor,