The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-04-01
EDITORIAL NOTES.

last Sunday.
The late Warren county grand
Jury examined 225 Witnesses and
ioLn | So true bills.
Col. Hooker has formally announ-
ed himself a candidate for Congress
from the 7th District
Sam Small has quit cigarettes
and Sam Jones his tobacco cud, and
to God they ascribe the glory.
DR.. b. Jones, for many years a
leading dentist of jackson, died
last Saturday after protracted i'll
ness.
Col. D. S. Patterson's elegant res
i lence at Martin was destroyed by
fire March %. The loss is said to
be over $4,000.
The Anti Prohibitionists of Lau,
derdale county have started petit
lion for an election. The contest
will probably be bitter.
Governor Stoneman, Of California
has appointed Gesrse Hearst a
Democrat, to succeed John F. Miller,
deceased, in the U. S. Senate.
C,L. v. Row, deputy United States
internal revenue collector, and an
old citizen If Wilkinson county,
died at Woodville on the Goth ult.
On the 10th ult., Gov. Lowry, re.
appointed Hon. j G. Hall, Chancel
lor of the Third District, and Hon.
Charles Campbell, Circuit Judge OF
the Fifth District.
Hon. Jefferson Davis has accepted
an invitation to deliver lecture at
Montgomery, Ala. for the benefit Of
the monument to the Confederate
soldiers to be erected there.
Judge W. H. Kilpatrick,aa old and
respected citizen of Corinth, died
Very suddenly of Brights disease.
He had been Circuit Judge, and fer
come time Mayor of Corinth.
Mr.. John W. Clarke, the jailer of
Yazoo City, was struck on the head
by the negro murderer Dick Hud-
son last week while the prisoners
were attempting to break Jail. and
died from the effects of the wound
Inc next day.
We heard gentleman from Mis-
sissippi Bottom say that as rule,
the landowners in that section will
favor banishing the saloons on at
count Of their corrupting infuehte
on the laborin9 classes.-Srdrd ana
Shield.
DR.. +. S. West, a member Of the
State Prohibition Executive Com
mittee, writes US from Woodvflle,
that they are having stirring times
in Wilkinson on the liquor question,
and have closed 8 saloons since the
FIRST Of January.
Governor Lowry has appointed
Gen. f. S. Butts, Hon. l.. w. Ma
gruder and Capt. John b. Mating
ly trustees on the part of the State
Of the Mississippi Hospital at
vicksburg. Aldermen j. +. Baum
aud y. Rice are trustees on the part
Of the city.
Mr. Jno. p. Richardson, has been
elected President OF the Mississippi
Mills Co. TO succeed his father, the
late Edmund Richardson. Though
young in years, he is one Of the
most active business men in the
South, and in this respect seems to
have inherited The wonderful quail
ties Of his father.
The true, knightly courtesy Of the
rival editors of Port Gibson is
we'll worthy of being admired and
initiated. They may disagree and
spar at each other most vigorously
but, like true gentlemen and repre-
sentatives of their profession, they
always leave balm for every wound,
shield for every scar.
- The Local Option Law recently
passed by the Legislature, together
with discriminating tax against
whisky drummers OF $3.50, other
drummers paying but $25, is excit-
ing great interest among whisky
men. The law provides that TWEEN
ty-fve freeholders shall sigh a petit
tion in addition to the counties vot-
ing favorably on the question. The
whisky men think the pressure
brought TO bear on freeholders can
n 1t he overcome easily, especially in
small towns.