The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-01-07

Tor ~ prcciated courtcsies.
Lynch. one Of the Representatives
ftom Adams county is a negro.
or The 4Ol members of Congress.
$50 arc lawyers, including &c OF the
IS mtn hers of the Senate.
Thor are two colorel men in
Curg.c.s-Small from South, and
U'Iiaua, from North CaoIna.
I've United STATES Supreme Court
has decided Missis>ippi's Railroad
SuIcr,i,ium law constitutional.
Judge W. J. Lacey is to edit the
CHI ka>aw Messenger during Capt.
BurkitI's service in the Legislature.
senator Walthall has been placed
on the Committee on Military affairs
Of which Gen. Logan is Chairman.
The Post says the rapo>ilion to
convert Nicksburg into taxing dis
trict, will doubtless be actively OPP
posed.
Alabama has rercalrd the odious
and Oppressive lien law and Mis-
sisSippi, if wise, will follow her cX-
ample.
Seven con>icis working on W. II
llarvcy's plantation, near Starkvilic.
killed Wash Powers, the guard, and
escaped.
Arte>ia lad q large fFC on the
2Sth nit Eight stores were burned.
almost the entire business part Of
the Gown.
Mr.. Thos. 5. Sheridan. well
khown painter Of Natchcz, suicidcd
by shooting himself through the
heart recently.
Senator Beck of Kentucky, is the
champion Of silver in the Senate and
Senator Mcpherson, Of New Jersey,
its chief opponent.
We are uncompromi>iugly oppos
ed to a suspension Of the coinage Of
the silver dollar Sich coins are too
scarce in these parts already
n. B.--.This is the beginning of
new year. If you owe this office
anything or we owe YOU anything
call and lets settle especially #
you owe US
THE LEADER enters upon the
New Year, with the rcins we'll in
hand, firmly seated, confident and
hopeful for a better years work
than ever before.
The oil mills, at Grccnville, were
burned on the 2Slh. 300 bales of
cotton were also burned. The mills
were owned by an English firm and
were partially insured.
No particular s"c;i'n, State or
county Of our common country at
this time, seems to have a close
monopoly of either the good or bad
things Of lite. They are pretty
evenly distributed,
The Baldwin Signet, the paper
which started the Islander about
Rev. J. II. Gambrell, has suspended.
If few more Of the same class Of
whisky sheets would do likewise
society would be better of.
The Mississippi men bFrs OF Con
Gress are soldly opposed to the sus-
pension of silver coinage; they rep
resent the wishes and interests of
their people AMI refuse to how the
HI e. to the golden calf of Wall
street.
Senators George and Walthall are
SO confident OF re election by the
LEGISLATURE that they will not leave
Washington to look personally after
their interest; or it may be that
they hclieve in the adage that
The post Of duty is the place of
safety"
The next thing we know Gov. Nc
Emery, or the Governor of New
York, or some other State will be
writing 10 Governor Lowry urging
that some gallows deserving scoun-
drel in Mississippi be respitcd and
finally committed to imprisonment
in the pcnitentiarv, for life, etc, etc.
Senator Dan Voorhees, will deliver
his lecture on Jefferson in ten In
diana cities in aid Of the Hendricks |
monument. The President has
written Senator Voorhees, a letter ex
pressing his approval oil the monu
'nent project, and expresses a desire
at the proper Time to contribute to
its success.