The Brookhaven leader., 1886-04-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Senator Waltha't introduced q
bill Monday to bridge the Missis
sippi at NaIch'z.
Webb Edwards was killed over n
game of cards by Henry Scarbor
ough at Huntington last Sunday
night. Scarborough escaped.
Senator George has our thanks
Cor several interesting public docu-
mcnts. including his own able
sp, eches on the Blair Educational
Bill and the Edmunds resolutions.
In view of the mastery nnconccrn
Of Gov. Lowry about the Carrollt"n
massacre, the article of the Vicks-
burg Post on Gov. Stone and KEN
per county is wonderfully applicable
just now.
One day last week Mr.. Randall,
St seconded by Mr.. Barksdale of Mis-
sissippi, asked the consent of the
House to offer a resolution, calling
for committee to be appointed to
investigate the trouble at Carrallton
The reason stated was that infOrma-
tion might he obtained through
Democratic sources.
Mrs. Maria p. Evans, of New Or
leans, has been arrested and placed
in Jail in default of q $4,000 bond,
on an indictment Of the grand jury
wherein she is charged with publish
ing a forged will purporting to be
that of the late Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines, the great litigant.
The State Senate seems to have
taken no action before final adjourn
mest on the report of the special
committee appointed to investigate
the PenitentIary management-on
the principle, we suppose, that the
more you stir dead pig in the gut
ter the worse it stinks
Attorney General Miller has de-
livered an opinion that merchant,
in availing himself of what is known
as the merchants amnesty act lately
passed, where he has not paid the
full amount Of the privilege tax as
required by law, will not he entitled
t. credit for any partial payment pre-
viously made, but must pay the full
amount that he should have paid
originally.
The United States Senate passed
without debate, the bill providing
for commission Of five persons To
investigate the alcoholic liquor
traffic, its relations TO revenue and
taxation, and its general economic
criminal, moral and scientific as
poets. The Senate also passed the
bill providing for the study in the
schools of the Territories and the
District of Columbia Of the nature
of alcoholic stimulants and marco
tics. Nobody expects, however, that
either OF these measures will run the
gauntlet of Mr.. Carlisle's whisky
-. Al.
A member of the Knights Of La
Dor asserts in the New York Voice
that liquor dealers cannot become
members Of that Order because the
knights of Labor embrace only "all
branches of honorable toll" and
none are admitted except those who
render a fair equivalent for value
received, which the liquor seller new
or does. Also because they do not
wish rum-sellers to have any voice
10 conducting the affairs OF the Or
der, lest they might use it for their
own personal advant ge, as they
have other organizations to which
they have been admitted.
The Clarion has resumed the
weekly publication of the Supreme
Court decisions reported specially
for its columns by w. r. Harper,
Esq, an able young attorney of the
Jackson bar, which should make it
indispensable to lawyers. We may
also say in this connection that the
Clarion has a number of excellent
features which should commend it
20 public consideration and patron
age. The declaration of it's publish |
az after he was defeated for State
Printer, that he would make il
better paper on that account, has
bren fully redee med. and any one
VITO will take it will find it worth
more than four times its subscrip-
Jon price of $50 per annam.