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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25

If it is in the power of the conven-
ton to give US plan which will settle
the suffrage question once and for all,
why, in the name of common sense,
don't the delegates do what they are
sent there to do? "Subterfnges," as
Judge Chrisman we'll says, won't sat
isfy the people.-Fayette Chronicle.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25

If there is any man in Holmes cOun-
ty who thinks otherwise than that the
suffrage provisions reported by the
Franchise committee, are a miserable
makeshift in which both principle and
sound policy are sacrificed, We have
not heard of him.-Lerington Adrer-
tiser.
Same down this way, brother Oft
nberg.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25

Mclean, of Grenada, characterizes
the Franchise Committee as the Com
mittee of Fraudulent Devices and
Traffic in Apportionment. A very
fair analysis indeed. Crystal Springs
Meteor.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25
MARRIED.

On Sept 18th, at the residence of the
brides father, by Rev. r. J. Boone, Mr..
C. p. CHANDLER and Miss VIRGIL GLO-
YER; both of Lincoln county.
A large company was in attendance on
the above occasion and after the nuptials
enjoyed bouutiful wedding supper.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25
A CONVENTION fDYL,

Good friends" nc said,
And his massive head
Loomed stately up Hike dome,
The needs Of state
Are at present great;
She calls each educator.
Each Shreud eIncndator,
ESch hTainfui legislator,
E.rrh fratriotir Senator.
Sobz small aud great
SD now create
sdltionS fair.
Additions rare.
And ~ forth and ~ on, yon see,
80 that the commonwealth shall be,
A peaceful. perfect home"
How clear ne speaks.
They shout In Shricks.
And all with proud Intention,
Pick up that man
With lucid plan;
Hes In the G. Convention.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25

The board of supervisors have fixed
the tax of Yalobusha county at 20
mills. In Yazoo they are only 81, a
difference of 10a mills.-Yasoo Her.
aid.
In Copiah, only seven mills.-Co-
piah Signal.
Yalobusha is wet county, Yazoo
and Copiah dry. Sect
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25

The flies which peposit the screw
worm are getting so numerous that
people are growing uneasy, and man
won't allow buzzing about him if he
can help it. Several cases where
these worms have appeared in people
have been reported.-Fdyette Chroni-
Gle.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25
Groceries Cheap and what You Wa,

Groceries Cheap and What You Want.
beg the good people to call and let me
sell hem a good Ham, piece Breakfast
Bacon, some good tea and coffee, canned
fruits, dried frnits, SIM dried and evapo-
rated apples and peaches, fresh vegeta-
bles, oat meal, cream cheese, and every
thing in the grocery line. Call and sec
ME, and Obligs,
s. d. POWELL
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25

Country stores, country dwellings and
gins insured at the lowest rates, in good
companies, by J. b. DAUGHrRY,
Agent
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25

No bold, outspoken journalist is
ever popular with the wicked and
evil doer. PascdgouId Democrat
Star.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25
RegtstrdT's Notice.

In pursuance of an Act of the Legislature, ap.
proved March IS, 1885, requiring me as Registrar
ing precincts In said county, and spend one day
at each of said precincts In order to give all Of
those who have failed heretofore to register an
opportunity to do so, l will therefore meet the
citizens OF the county at the following times and
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25
GROVES TASTELEss CHILL TONIC


co.sxnsvnLs. Mss. Dec L. w.
Pssss send me three dozen q ysur r. y, rom yO9
lee. chin Tonic was pleased si i,s ne with Il.
last summer. The people sess ehildren who ws ts
go ~. ga swsrssy aad ensei.ed having yesr sns
shills for months past one o. sn with the chs
ra .Isn ,ssg we're hale and hearty with 'eN
chssks. Il acted Ike Aensrm or srINs0N, u. ~
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-25
Their Bushes Boomlpy

EARNS, FAINT Il Loxg
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
THE RISE IN GRAIN.

The Philadelphia Record of yesterday has
the following on the rise in wheat-''The
price Of -four is advancing at rate to alarm
consumers, the quotations for the last ten
days showing rise Of cents bushel in
wheat and from 40 to so cents a barrel in
flour. The indications are that prices will
be still higher in a short time. Flour
which short time ago sold at $40 and
$685. barrel is now selling at 1918 and
1886, and in some instances fancy brands
bring as high as IS.
1.-THE direct cause of the advance is a
general shortage in the Wheat crop, both in
this country and in Europe. Russia, which
generally supplies a large portion of Europe
will this year have no more than enough for
her own people, and the demand for Anne
rican wheat abroad will be larger than the
supply. Extended hot, dry spells, succeed
ed by continuous wet weather and storms,
has largely reduced the crops in the West
and Southwest. The yield of winter wheat
is known to be very much below the aver
age, and while the spring wheat may turn
out better than is anticipated the crop re-
ports 50 far received are not very promis
ing.
Goats and corn have suffered more ever
than wheat, and of the former less thar
one-third of a crop will be harvested, while
the corn crop will be only about one-hal
the average"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

Every now and then some intere Sted
party in his anxiety fol- the protection of
his own interest exposes the whole purpose
of the Republican party's idea of Protec-
ton. MI. III. B. Haigh who represents the
''Ironclad Manufacturing Coz of New
York, has sent out a circular. He suggests
that the duty Oh tin-plate remain unchang-
ed, instead of increased as the Mckinley
bill proposes, and that instead of the in
crease 50 bounty of one and tWo-tenths
cents per pound be paid to all persons
avho shall produce tim-plate IN this couap-
try" He complacently adds that that
would not add more than $2,OOO,O0O to the
present tariff taxation on tin-plate. That
is to say that the farmers, Gamers. work
ing people-everybody that uses tin-ware
shall, in addition to the present tax on it
also pay 100000 to somebody to start
the manufacture of it. In brief that the
peoples money shall be taken out of theil
pockets to help some man to start bust
ness with, instead Of the man risking his
own capital and taking the chances. How
would the proposition be received to tax
all the people to enable some farmer to buy
a big farm and commence the experiment
of raising citron in the mountains of Viz.
ginia and thereby stop our dependence on
foreign nations for it -? It would be receiv-
ed with ridicule, and yet the principle is
just the one on which MI. Haigh and the
Republican party is proceeding. What in
dustry will want a bounty" from the peo-
pies money next?
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
POLITICAL NOTES.

Hon. Jacob Yost of Iron Gate was in
Roanoke last week, when reporter of the
Evening World interviewed him. The re-
port says: ''The reporter asked his views
on the Force bill, and he unhesitatingly
said he hoped it would not pass and did not
believe it would" Our Staunton and An
gusta readers will be amused to read this
description OF MI. Yost: Ellis eyes are
dark and his hair is getting gray, but in
his walk and conversation he shows all the
vlgor OF man in the prime of life.'' AS a
matter OF fact Mr.. Yost is only about
thlrty-two years of age and is some dis
lance OFT from that ''prime of ife'' which
is usually assigned to middle age. AS the
reporter remarks, he ''has plenty of brains =
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

of the papers without The compliment of a
nomination by reclamation is fully deserved
His best efforts have not only been exerted for
the good of his constituents and the country at
large. but those efforts and the sound wisdom
in his remarks have elevated him in the minds
of high political leaders and caused him to be
taken into consultation by them. His speeches
are ever clear and logical and he is always in
place, fearless.
We are for him and for the Democratic party
of which he is the standard bearer.
From the Fincastle Herald, Aug. Ill
In Mr.. Tucker the Democrats of the Tenth
District have had an able, courageous and in
defatigable representative, and they have done
we'll in again making him their standard
bearer He will without doubt occupy a seat
in the next Congress.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

The party of high moral ideas has always
charged that the Democratic party of the
Nation was the friend of rum and could be
depended on to legislate in its favor. Last
week at a great Prohibition gathering at
Purcellville, Loudoun county, Va. ex-Gov.
J. P. st. John Of Kansas addressed it. In
his address he gave the quietus to the charge
He said:
The Democrats in Maine gave us prohibition
before the Republican party was born, 10
States were under prohibition before the Re-
publican party came into existence, and the
Republican party repealed the law in 10 out
of 10. The Republican States of Pennsylva-
mia, Ohio and Illinois consume 90 barrels of
beer to one consumed in the Southern Dem
ocratic States.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
GLEANLNGS FROM THE MAIL

At Romeo, Fla, e. Tate Carr was with his
brothers assistance, dressing for his wedding.
His brother stepped out of the room to get
him another pair Of suspenders, when Carr
shot himself dead. Some of his phosphate
speculations had proved slow in paying and
he had to borrow money for his marriage,
which preyed on his mind so as to cause his
suicide.
A lady in Baltimore having lost a sum of
money advertised it, directing the finder to
leave it at certain store. The next morning
she went to the store laughing, saying: "You
have nv money, 1 saw it all in a dream"
She then described how, in her dream, she
had seen the finder enter the store and return
it. Her description was accurate, even to
what the finder had said.
The reporters gallery of the House was
thrown into a flutter Saturday by the appear
ance therein of a negro correspondent for the
New York Mail and Express, Colonel Shep-
herd famous South hating newspaper. He
took seat between two white correspondents
for ultra Northern Republican papers, and
made himself quite at home, evidently to
their great displeasure.
In Princeville Perry Co., KY, Judge Lilly
is holding his court in a tent surrounded by SOL
diers, and nearby are camped 400 armed out
laws representing the French Eberson faction.
There have been over three hundred murders
in that county in the last twenty years and
only nine arrests. The courthouse has been
burned down once and no taxes have been col
lected for two years.
Rev. Mr. BARLEY. Church OF England
rector at Montreal Canada, expressed the
opinion that man who had failed to marry
a member of his church after appointing the
wedding day, was rascal. The man called
ON him for satisfaction and got SO much OF 1t
from the muscular clergyman that he has
been in bed for six weeks.
John Henry Newman, Cardinal OF the
Church of Rome died in England, Monday,
in his ninetieth year. He and his brother,
Francis William Newman, left the Church OF
England fifty years ago, one to go to the
Church Of Rome and the other to Agnosticlsm.
The Cardinal was the author OF that beautiful
hymn, "Lead Kindly Light"
There was a marked decrease in the assess
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
FRIDAY MORNING. AUG. is, 1890.
IS ,STAUNTON TROUBLED WITH
THIS?

Taking recently with q "boomer" of
long experience who has been prominent in
the starting of two OF three OF the new
towns in the South, we asked him why, with
thehundredS Of thousands of capital that the
new town companies have to spend in i'm
provements- streets, electric lights, water
works, hotels, &C., they did not avoid that
expenditure by trying to enlarge towns al
ready existing. swell, he said, ''the differ
ence in the work is just that between build
inc road on a level prairie land, and hav
ing to cut away hills and blast rock to build
one In new town we have no holdbacks.
Everybody is pushing to make it success,
because if it fails it is a disaster. Every
body says to outsiders whatever good there
is to say for their town, and everybody
works together. In an old town it is differ
ent. The people have lived together theer
among them and they are soured against
each other. Sometimes they have ''sets, y
and set is against everything it don It
start itself OIL don't get into at the begin
ming. Then there are individual dislikes
which find vent in expressing actually hurt
full, OF negatively damaging opinions Of en-
terprises that the men they don't like ell
gage in. Then there is always a class of
sour men in all old town that don't like to
see other men succeed and would rather the
town should stand still than that they
should make money by prospecting it. And
last of all there is an old fogy element, of
character and good position, both business
and social, that don't. believe in anything
new; cannot believe that anything new will
succeed, and turn their faces against it
j list because it is new. Capital is timid
bird. When it lights in one Of the old
towns and hears the expressions of doubt.
suspicion, despair and general discourage
ment from these sort of men, it flaps its
wings and sails away without waiting to
hear any other side. Naturally, it thinks
that reputable man who lives in a town is
the best judge of what is being done there
and what can be done there. One reputable
croaker with, say S., 900 interest in COM
munity, can scare off $1,000 900 OF capital
in a conversation of five minutes. When
you go in the woods OF fields and start a
town you are not bothered with these men.
If they come to see it they go back home and
croak, OF abuse the place and the promoters,
but they don't settle down there to brighten
off investors OIL exhibit themselves as warm
ing sample of the sort of people capitalist
would have to depend on to make his in
vestment profitable. Old cities can be
''boomed'' and broadened and brought into
great prosperity. but the men who under
take it will have just the trouble tell you
of-they have got to blast lot of rock and
cut down lot of hills before they can
succeed
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

A Staunton correspondent of the Rich
mond Dispatch writing about the political
situation in the 10th district, after inter
viewing Democrats and Republicans quotes
one OF the latter as saying there would be
no Republican candidate for Congress in
this district:
But if the Farmers Alliance were to bring
out Protection candidate they would bother
you people nightly
1t is about as likely that Farmers AL
lance would bring out a Protection
candidate as that flock of lambs would
Hbring out'' a wolf to represent their in
tereStS
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15

The Wilson Original Package bill which
passed both houses of congress, has received
the signature of the President. This puts
the whole question of the liquor traffic in
the hands of the States, and brings to an
early end the mischieyous decision of the
U. 5. Supreme Court that under the Inter-
State Commerce law liquor could be i'm
ported into Prohibition State and sold
there If sold in the original package in
Which the purchaser received it. 1t is a
straight-out State S right bill and many Of
the Capitalization Republican members
must have found it a tough pill to take.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
THE ALTERED FEDERAL ELECTION
BILL.

THE ALTERED FEDERAL ELECTION
BILL.
The Republicans in the Senate have not
been able to support the original Lodge Elec-
ton Bill. Their committee has reported it
with amendments. AS it now stands the bay
onet clause; the house-to-house canvassing:
thed rawing of partisan juries are all omit
ted, and the penalty for violation is reduced
from felony to misdemeanor. But it re-
tains it's Federal Interference with the
State laws: the right of Federal Supervi-
sor to say who has a right to vote and who
not; the superiority of the Federal Super
visOr's certificate Of election to that of the
Governor of the State; drags the Federal
Judiciary into partisan politics, and last land
as bad as any, retains its swarms of Deputy
U. S. Marshals. In this last report it sim
ply takes away the man with the bayonet.
chevrons and a stripe down his breeches
leg and substitutes for him Il heeler armed
with the authority Of a Federal Marshal
and a blank warrant in his pocket. We do
not think that the bill as amended will find
more favor in the Senate than did the orgi-
nal. 1t is just as much calculated to carry
out the original idea of ''raisng hell in the
South" as the original. What the Sou them
people want-like those of every section OF
the Unions non-interference with their
elections by anybody, an army sergeant OF
a deputy marshal. They don't want to be
harried and the peace of the country dis
turbed. They have arrived at period of
material progress and prosperity when such
experiments would be even more blighting
and costly to them than twenty years ago,
when they had just commenced the upward
move. There have been protests from South
ern Republicans without number against
this Interference since the Lodge Bill was
reported. We believe the majority of
the white Republicans all over the
South deplore any such action, and
there is a strong feeling against
it at the n orth. Nobody pretends that the
country needs such legislation-iti is purely
sectional, and intended to operate exclu.
sively in the former slave States States that
above all others in the Union just now need
be ''let alone" to pursue the magnificent
career Of material prosperity they have ell
terrell on
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
AN IMPORTANT OMISSION.

The Iron and Steel Institute of Great
Britain will hold its annual meeting this
year in the United States. Its preliminary
meetings take place in New Y ork City Sep
TENDER 29th and Both, and it's regular sts-
sion begins October LIST in Chickering Hall
in that city. We have read it's provisional
programme of its tours in the United
States, in the Scientific American, and are
astonished to find that in the Southern trip
it does not include trip along the Chesa-
peake u Ohio Railroad. The members of
the Institute will go to Alabama, Kentucky
and Tennessee, and on their return they
visit the POcahontas coal fields on the Nor
folk & Western Ry., Oct. 22d; Roanoke, on
the same road, Oct. 25d; Luray Cayerns
with stop at Shendun) on the Shenandoah
Valley road, Oct. oath; thence to Washing
ton, New Y DIRK, and home to Great Britain
Certainly some effort should be made to
bring them on the Chesapeake & Ohio road
from, say the new town of Basic City, the
first new town on the route, and thence
Westward through the great iron region in
which the new towns of Basic City, Waynes-
boro, Goshen, Iron Gate, Clifton Forge,
Covington, and Kanawha City are situated
With this newly developing iron region
of the South within this section of Virginia
left out, it must be to the British Iron and
Steel Institute a very incomplete tour. AS
their programme is termed provisional, -
which would indicate that it may yet be
changed, we call the attention of the Chesa-
peake Il Ohio Railway authorities and of
thosemost interested in the new towns along
it's route to the fact. 1t is an oppor-
tunity too great to let pass by.
THE EXECUTION BY ELEC7RICITY
The execution of VIM. Kemmler at Au-
burn, n. Y. under the new law of that
State providing that all executions hereaf-
ter shall be done by electricity, was sue
cess. Compared with the brutal exhibition
Of human being suspended by the neck by
rope struggling in the agonies Of suffoca-
ton it was a perfect success. 1t is con.
eeded by the most experienced electricians
and physicians that Kemmler never knew
anything after the instant of receiving the
first shock, though that shock, through the
stupidity Of the warden of the prison was
nearly 1000 volts weaker than it
would have been had he not left
burning twenty incandescent lamps
which took off that much force. The
unconscious movements of Kemmler S boGy
after the first shock were purely muscular
and unaccompanied by any sensation of
pain. The substitution of electricity is a
nierciful invention, but this persistent
search after methods of lessening the pain
of executed criminals is only an evidence
Of latent feeling in the mind of the people
which will sooner OF later find expression
in the abolition Of the death penalty and
the substitution of Imprisonment for life
The old Mosaic idea Of vengeance IAN
eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth''-is
slowly but surely losing its hold on the
popular mind as civilization advances.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
The 10th District Nominee,

From the New York Press, (Rep.), July 2ll
So high a Democratic authority as the Even.
ing Post declared recently that the ablest
speech made against the Federal Elections
Of Congressman Henry st. George Tucker OF
Virginia. We may therefore infer that Mr.
fuckers speech put the case against the bill
as strongly as it can be put.
[From the Buena Vista Advocate, Augs
Since he entered the present Congress, which,
for utter disregard of the fundamental princi-
Piles of Anglo-Saxon liberty, will be rated
with the Rump Parliament, Mr.. Tucker has
proven loyal to the peoples interests His
speech against the Force Bill entities him to
their gratitude.
A stranger to the low acts of the profession
al politician, he does not s'palter in double
sense keeping the word OF promise to the ear
and breaking it to the hope, " but, having made
it, keeps it all the time.
Again he has been called to represent this
district, and we feel sure that if elected, he
will wear wofthily the mantle that has been
worn by John Randolph Tucker, Thomas
Whitehead, John fletcher, Alex. H. H. Stuart,
James Mcdowell, and the giants Of the olden
times.
From the Rockbridge News, Aug 81
The unanimous and enthusiastic nomination
of Mr.. Tucker for second term to the U. S.
House, on Friday last, was a we'll deserved
compliment. In the short time he has been i'm
Congress he has made reputation that many
a member might we'll envy, whose term Of
his does in months. He has spoken not fire.
quently, but always in time and to the point.
lie has been in place and has promptly and
carefully looked after the private business OF
his constituents as we'll as his public duties
Harry Tucker is a man of talent and he has
besides, what Mr.. Garfield once styled, if not
talent something good deal more valuable
and that is a tremendous capacity for hard
work. 1t is such a man we need not only in
Congress, but in canvass.
[From the Waynesboro Times Aug.s.l
The nomination of Harry Tucker for Con.
gress not only gives universal satisfaction
within our own district, but has called forti
words of commentator and praise from many
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
Died.

GAY.-At Roanoke, July 3lst, of malarial fever,
NJ. s. Gay of Sherando, Augusta county. In
terment at Sherando.
FURR.-July %, near Mt. Scion, Mr.. Harrison
Fur, aged about 80 years.
DULL.-August 6, three miles west of this city,
Mrs. Mary Dull, aged about IS years
LYON August Z, at stanton, Joseph Nicholas,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. EnOS Lyons aged years
and monthe.
WEBB.-July 26, in I.ynchburg, Mrs. Lizzie,
wife of Mr. w. w. Webb of Lynch burg, and
daughter of Mr.. j. w. G. NEWMAN ofStaunton.
BACK.--May 4, near Mt. Scion, this county, Mr..
Robert d. Back. aged 43 years.