The Brookhaven leader., 1890-12-04
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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fall was there. ~! country mcu."
The New York Voice is the great
est weekly newspaper in America.
Dr. DobLs has resigned the pas
toratc of the Baptist church at Colum-
bus.
ON account of sickness, Chancellor
Conn, who was due here hast Monday
to hold cUmt. did not arrive until last
night.
j. VI. Philips, IL young man late of
Nicksburg, suicidcd at Grccnyilic
Sunday by shooting himself through
the heart.
The Alliance warehouse at New
man, Ca, and between 100 and 1900
bales of cotton was destroyed by fire
last Monday.
How sad ! rarncll, the able polti-
cal leader and trusted champion of
Ireland, turns out at the same time to
be Il smart rascal and cunning dema,
gogrle.
The stable aud two valuable HORSES
belonging to DR.. Afford of Rockport,
CopiaiI county. were burned last
Wednesday night, the work of an in
cendiary.
L. i. Ware, merchant of Halle
hurst, was convicted in the United
States court at jackson for running Il
blind tiger, fined $500 and sentenced
to Jail for 80 days.
DR.. Graves, the celebrated New
York evangelist, commenced meet
ing at the Baptist church in Wesson
last night, which is expected to con
time 8 or 10 days.
The Clari0nLcdger is entitled to
special credit for its enterprise in
publishing the decision of the Su-
preme Court in the Hemingway ease |
in full the day it was delivered.
Rev. K. J. Boone has accepted the |
position of solicitor for the LEADER, /
and is authorized to collect and re- /
ccive new subscribers. When YOU see /
him coming, begin to feel for Your
cash.
History will DC repeating itself with
a vengeance if 1892 brings Cleveland,
Blaine and st. John to the front again.
That is the outlook now; but may the
good Lord spare us from Ben Butler
and Belva Lockwood.
The Democrats of Nicksburg got
up such "rOusation' before election
day that II. +, Beck, independent Re
publican candidate for Mayor, and all
other opposition candidates with
drew, and the Democratic ticket last
Tuesday had Il walk over.
The total population of the United
States, excluding Alaska and the
white population of the Indian Terri
Tory, as verified by the census bureau,
is 1922, 250. An increase as com
pared with the preliminary bulletin
issued Oct. %, 1890, of 141 40.
The YazoO Sentinel compliments
Gov. Stone for refusing to interfere
with the death Sentence of Dorsey
Edwards, the wife murderer. Yes,
Gov. Stone is right. He believes
death sentence 10y the courts of the
State ought to mean something.
Three well-known and highly cs-
teemed ladies of Copiah county died
last week.-Mrs.. Mason, wife of Rev.
w. A. Mason of Crystal Springs; Mrs.
Brown, wife of Sheriff Z. w. Brown
of Hazlehurst, and Mrs. Ellington,
wife of John Ellington of Spring Hill.
The editors aud other Hemingway
partisans who were retailing the alb
surd rot that Hemingway shouldn't
he punished because it had never been
proven that he used any of
the embezzled money, should hang
their heads after reading the decision
Of the Supreme Court.
+. A. Her, the we'll known ieweler,
was desperately shot in the left arm
and shoulder in jackson Sunday
morning by DR., w. Z. Todd, also of
that city. The difficulty grew out Of
scandal, i'll which Todd had con
nected Hers name with that of anoth-
er mans wife. Hers arm was ampu-
tated at the shoulder socket and lie is
not expected to live. Todd is in jail
Hon. w. 2. Cassidy of Summit has
been appointed by Coy. Stone as the
successor of Judge North in the 9th
judicial district. He was strongly en-
dorsed for the place. Judge Cassidy
romes from family of renowned law
yers, being son of the noted Judge
VIM. Cassidy and brother of Hon.
Hiram Cassidy of Brookhaveh. He
has won an enviable reputation at
the bar and will no doubt distinguish
himself on the bench.
Ehe Postmaster General will try
the exDeriment of free daIivery for