The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-04-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

IeSlucuJ NISNCiaHN 10 IL potNNN
as favorable to the Morrison tariff
bill.
John Phelps, the well known cot
ton factor OF New Orleans, died last
week.
The last issue of the New York
Voice, the great Prohibition paper,
reached 100000 copies.
Secretary Lamar has returned to
Washington. The report of his in
tended marriage is contradictcd.
The Kinds County Comet says
Hon. Geo. S. Dodds is not Caudi
dhbe for the Congressional nomina-
ton.
The General Conference of the
NJ. +. Church South will convene in
Centenary Methodist Church, Grace
street, Richmond, Va, on May 5.
The Times seems profoundly i'm.
pressed with the belief that some oil
the people OF Wusson have very long
tongues; also that the hoodlums
need tanning down.
l.. b. Watkins, of Red River Par
ish, La, has been appointed Associ-
ate Justice of the Supreme Court OF
Louisiana, in place of Judge Man
ming, whose term had expired.
The New Mississippian learns
that Hon. G. B. Huddleston will not
be candidate again for District
Attorney of the 8Lh District If he
should be, no one else need apply.
The LEADER is indebted to MI
Il. A. Marshall, Secl etary of the
Vicksburg Fair Association, for q
complimentary ticket TO attend The
Interstate Drill, to commence May
l1th.
The legal gentleman who promis
cd several weeks ago through the
Clarion to show that the Local Op
tion law is unconstitutional, seems
rather backward about coming for
ward.
The only remark attributed to the
President in connection with the re-
port of his engagement to Miss Fol
som is that to friend who asked
him about il. He said: 81 cannot
afford to get married. ! am poor
man."
A rumor has reached the Vicks-
burg Post to the effect that eX-Sena-
tor Is X. Bruce will be candidate
for Congress from this District; and
in the event of Bruce's candidacy,
that lion. Il. G. Catchings, the pres
cnt Congressman, will not make the
contest.
SENATOR Hodds' so called candida
cy for Congress seems to have been
little coqGettihg affair with tho
people and the press. At any rate,
he has never formally announced
himself candidate, and nobody APP
pears TO know whether he means
business or not.
Now that the time of the Press
Convention, and editorial love feast
approaches, let US all quit anathe-
matizing each other, and prepare TO
embrace. We are ready to cheer
fully regret any hard words we may
have ever used against our beloved
brothers and ready to embrace them
all.-Neso NiSsiSsippian.
We return thanks To our talented
young friend, Mr.. John Meredith
Matthews, for an invitation to attend
the 37th Anniversary of the Phi
Sigma Literary Society, of the State
University, which will be celebrated
tomorrow at 1920 a. m. Mr.. Mat
lhews is tine Society's orator for thu
occasion and his subject 'Munert
r. Paireris," or, The Gifts OF TIN
Dust.
1t is stated, says an exchange
that Gen. A. p. Stewart will tende
his resignation as Chancellor of the
University at Oxford at the meetin;
Of the trustees in June. The Jack
son New Mississippian and BROOK
HAVEN LEADER both favor DIR. G. L
Galloway. should such be the cast
A better or more competent ma
Than DIR. Galloway could not b
i"Hnd ia the State Grenada Sent
rel.