The Brookhaven leader., 1890-12-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Old Sitting Bufl is now u good In
dian. He Is dead.
Indian suffrage was adopted in
South Dakota and woman suffrage
voted down.
Gov. Tillmam says South Carolina
must have q Constitutional CONVEX
ton ut Any cost,
Ex President Cleveland is said t0
hive been converted in his views io
ihc free coinage OF silver.
Senator Grorge delivered u four
hours speech in the Senate on the 10th
inst, against the Force Bill.
Judge Wharton accidentally fell
down his office stairs in Jackson last
week and was badly bruised.
The Irish never do things by halves.
They are fighting each other now a<
hard as they ever did the hated En-
gIi>h.
The Farmers Alliance and Proh.
bitionsts face the same way they
ought To east the same ballet. Miss
Willard.
The Mississippi delegates to the Ma
tioual Alliance Convention were }. II.
Bccman, Frank Burkitt, 4. VI. Street
Senator Wade Hampton owes his
defeat for the Senate to his own fault
in failing to give tire State Democrat
ic-Alliancc ticket an earnest and
cordial support.
The Mississippi Bar Association
meets ut jackson January ], 1891.
Hon. W. y. Hill, Of Macon, Ga, a
brilliant lawyer and orator will deliver
the annual address.
lazoo City'S cotton receipts have
almost doubled since the Prohibition
law went into effect, and the town
has improved as never before in it's
history Tasoo Sentinel.
Tide editor of the Memphis Even
ing Democrat has been indicted by Il
Federal grand jury, for violation of
the lottery law, by publishing the
winning numbers of the Louisiana
Lottery.
Senator Wade Tianpton's last piece
of bad luck is getting beaten for re-
election to the Senate 10y Col. Irby.
The fall given him by the Alliance
was harder than getting thrown by
that mule.
new generation will soon take
the place of the old politicians and
leaders. John T.. Irby, Gen. Wade
iiampton's successor in the United
states Senate, was born about the
time the war began.
The furniture of the new public
school building at Yazoo City will
cost $4,000. The contract embraces
besides the school desks, hall settces,
office desks for school board, clerk
and superintendent, maps, globes,
etc.
The two addresses issued to their
r"untrymen by VIM O'Brein and the
other Irish ENJOYS to this country,
mark them as statesmen and patriots
nesides whom Rule or Ruin Parnell,
III the present crisis, pales rs tallow
candle before the king of day.
The assertion of correspondent Of
the Ciarion-Ledger that Senator
george has more sense than all the
editors of Mississippi combined, with
senator Walthall thrown in for good
measure, has not tended to increase
the popularity of "Oid Trace Chains"
In scientific discussion of the sub
leet, DIR. ID. L. Phares says the failure
OF the peach crop for 1890 was due to
Tie dry summer and fall of 1889, rath
er than the hard freezc of March 1,
1880 also that the trees had exhaust
ed their vitality IN large measure by
The heavy crop of 1889.
). A. Jackson, the President of the
National colored Alliance, recently
eaid smart thing. II was this
As for social equality. VIC do not
want 1t. But | tell my people, when
F"n have grace in your heart, knowl-
'agc In your head and money in your
pocket. ,on are anybody's equal"
one of the Leaders oldest and
most ievel-beaded subscribers closes
. business letter with these words
" ouidn't take pretty for the arti-
!" ON Some things tho LEADER
would like to kuow' in your issue of
we ail. think they are straighten-
As mp around Jackson. don't ron :