The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-01-21
Mountains of Taffy.

Once upon a time in Capitol City
there were published two newspaper.
which strove hard to secure the publ,
printing.
And when the Lawmakers assem-
bled, these papers did pile tally noun
tain high, upon the boys individually
and collectively.
And each one did struggle to pile OH,
more tafiy than the other; and they
rose up early in the morning, and they
fingered till long into the night, filling
their papers with tally fearfully and
wonderfully made, a few chunks of
which were US follows:
From the Daily Bugle;
at q" Hon. John Littlewiggle, enc o
Missis ms inast cininent men, is ac-
companiei by his lovely, amiable and
bewltclling wife, and charming daugh-
tiers, who will produce a great sensation
in jackson society. lie is dis
tinguished lawyer, II born leader, and
the whole south is proud of him."
From the State Day Book:
I" Senator Great jam is not only one
of the handsomest, but ne is also one of
the profoundest and ablest men that
ever graced the Legislature ofour State;
he is conspicuous in the Senate for his
commanding intellect and peerless elo-
quence."
From the Daily Bugle:
e" Senator Bigsnorter's speech yester-
day on the dog tax question, was prob
ably the grandest exhibition of broad
craftsmanship and thrilling eloquence,
that ever echoed through the Senate
Hall.
He manifested thorough mastery
over that great and complex question,
which, with his eloquent and pathetic
appeals for justice, uttered in deep,
musical voice, tremulous with emotion,
wrought wonderful effect upon the
audience and many women tainted,
and had to be carried out, and many
men voluntarily went out.
All the branches of this grave and in
tricate question which presses so heavily
upon our country now, were ably and
deliberately handled, as none save SEN
enator Bigsnorter >ould have handled
them.
There was witnessed in that hall, the
sublime effect which could only have
been produced by master hand.
The combined mantles of Lamar
Clay, and Dennis Kearney have fallen
upon him."
From the State Day Book
The Hon. Col. LOngliar yesterday
made a speech which was undoubtedly
the grandest thing ever delivered o.
written in the English language.
A cruel and unfeeling member hat
offered a bill to deduct two dollars from
the salary of any member, who was alb
sent more than four weeks withou
giving some sort of an excuse and t
have the Sergeant at arms remove
members from the hall when they al
rived at a certain stage of intoXicatior
and for other similar purposes.
The House was stunned with horro
AT this savage and unreasonable bill
and in the deathly silence which fol
lowed, DR.. Van Watts actually SO ia
forgot himself, as to allow the Oppor
tunity to pass, without making me
ton to adjourn.
And then Col. Longliar arose, and j
the bitterness of his Indignation, i
eloquent and imprisoned words whic
sounded through the hall like thur
dered language of inspiration, he dis
combatted the proposition.
He said that the bill was one worth
of dark ages, of the cruel days of tn
inquisition, when such vile, blood
men as Nero and Lucretia Borgia reign
ed, but when advanced in this land {
the free, and the home of the brave,
deserved to be everlastingly sat dow
upon, and spurned with ineffable seor
and contempt, and other such thing
It was a sublime effort worthy {
Mississippi's most gifted son. .
The present Legislature Is undoubi
eddy the finest looking body of me
that ever assembled together, and 1t
the ablest Legislature our state la
ever had"
But the MIssIssIPPIAN will b
for Public Printer next time and W
will make the above feeble efforts s
wan aud sickly by comparison wit
ours, that the perpetrators will dis-owl
Them, New Mississippiap,