The Brookhaven leader., 1886-03-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.


snd incisive as a Two edged Dumas-
Gus blade.
This is not an orthodox Lcgisla-
turr. 1t hasn't said word yet
about STRAY horn"
Vhc Senate killed the bill TO repeal
the aniilrce pass law ANA also the
Lab, l. Contract bill. Good
The Atwood Gin Factory, near
No cinsko, was rccchtly destroyed
by fire; loss, $4,000 without insur-
uucc.
o. Monday, the 9th, Gov. Lowry
rtal pointed Hon. Warren Cowan, OF
Nirksburg, Chancellor Of the llth
Distinct.
The new building TO b. erected at
Coolel's Wells, Will Le 40xl75 feet,
three stories high, with galleries on
one side and each end.
We learn with regret, of the death
of ID. j. Browne, o: the finn Of
Drougher & Browne, OF Jackson,
which occurred Thursday, the lth
inst.
Under the Local Option Law o:
South Carolina, all of the saloons
have been closed except 53J. or this
number 800 are located in Charles.
ton.
The Legislature should probe the
Penitentiary scandal to the bottom,
without fear or favor. Let no inno
cent person suffer and no guilty one
escape.
Tie New York Courts have di,
vor,ed Arthur l.. Mackaye and
Maud Miller, the daughter of joaquin
Miller, and the heroine in the recent
Chicago sensation.
Edison, Of the electric fame, has
invented and tested the practicable
~ OF a telegraph that is utilized on
train while it is running at the
of 80 or 40 miles an hour.
The Mississippi Mills have Or
ders 60 days ahead. The mills are
turning out 40 dozen towels per day
and an enormous amount OF rope
and various kinds Of cloth.
A correspondent Of the Times
Democrat says both plumbago and
galena have been found in Franklin
county, about twcnty-tour miles
east Of Natchtz, in considerable
quantity by a gentleman from Chic
ago named Stacy.
A. NJ. Parsons, a stranger about
forty-tivc Years OF age, tall and fine
looking, with long black whiskers,
was found dead in II house belong
ing TO mulattO woman in Eicks
burg last week, and is supposed to
have committed suicide by an over
dose of morphine.
Mr.. Morrison's new tariff bill was
INTRODUCED in the United States
House of Representatives on the
10Th. He claims that the bill will
effect reduction of $2O,000,000, in
the revenues from customs, based
ON the revenues OF last year. ii is q
heavy blow at Louisiana.
The editor of the Port Gibson
Reveilie, who is not lawyer, sets
up his opinion against that of eX-
Chief Justice George, Senator Ev-
arts and about 20 other able lawyers
of the United States Senate and
says "the Blair Educational Bill j.
unconstitutional and impractlcabe."
"Whoopla'
The Governor has nominated and
the Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Hon. j. Ii. Wyn, of
Coahoma county, as Judge Of the
4th judicial District, in place OF
Judge Trimble, retired. Judge
Wyn is a graduate of the State Uni
versity, and was stronly recommend
ed for the place.
The carly age at which so many
of the generals on both siies in the
late war have died is All impressive
fact. Within six months of one
another Grant, Mcclellan and Han
cock have all departed from among
the living. Grant was 63. McClel.
Ian was the youngest of all, being
not yet SO years old. Hancock
would have been 62 il he had lived
sill Valentines day.
The W. c. +. u. of Natchez has
established at Ill Main street Don
aldsoR buildng) in that city, a
lunch room, which will be open