The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-10-09
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Fly blown section IN catching it
from all quarters.
The "cranks" will yet turn the Al
loon out of the State.
Ground has been broken for the
new Baptist church at Jackson.
a State bankrupt law has been pro
vided for in the new Constitution.
Barnum's greatest show on earth
will exhibit in jackson Friday, Oct.
18th.
The lottery has got so low down,
even the Lincoln county Republicans
are jumping on it.
Mississippi College had Il fine open
ing. Between 175 and 200 students
were anvolled the first day.
%Clcanliness is akin to Goodness"
and jury reform is akin in Importance
to suffrage reform. Let us have It.
If there is anything on Gods foot
stool more cowardly than the average
politician. it has never yet been dis
covered.
The Pascasoula Democrat Star says
it is an easy matter TO start news
paper, but it takes money and the
devil to run it.
Hon. II. Ii. Thompson has done the
State much lasting service as a menu
Der of the Legislative Committee of
the Convention.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
iron bridge over the Pearl at Month
cello. 1t will be u fine structure
when completed.
The Lawrence County Alliance will
meet at Monticello next Tuesday,
Oct. 14th, and be addressed by Hon.
Thos. r. Stockdale.
Why is it our usually outspoken
contemporary the Commonwealth is so
mute on fly blown section 5, neither
endorsing nor condemning
Sheriffs and County Treasurers are
given n term of four years by the
new Constitution and made ineligible
to succeed themselves or each other.
1t would be the crown of folly to
submit the new Constitution for ratiti-
cation when all the negroes and sore
heads of the State would be the arbi
traitors.
The new Constitution limits the
Governor, State Treasurer and Audi
tor to one term, aud makes the Au-
ditor and Treasurer ineligible to sue
coed each other.
Talmage, the great Brooklyn di-
vine, recently preached a sermon ON
'crooked things" He had no doubt
just been reading the report of the
Committee on Franchise.
Jury reform is akin in Importance
to suffrage reform. Will the Conven-
ton give it to US, or give fresh ex-
hibition of it's unfitness to do the
work it was called to perform?
Of 70 members of the Constitution
al Convention interviewed by cor
respondent of the Memphis CONNER
eial, are for submission, 46 opposed
to submission, and 26 are doubtful or
hesitating.
The Alliance Democrats of Lincoln
county are not suckers to be caught
with the sub-treasury taffy thrown
out last Saturday by Staten Baker,
Antony Brown, Jesse Taylor and
their few white allies. Mark that
The graded school at Monticello,
Prof. C. B. G. Ross, principal, has be-
tween forty and fifty scholars. 1t was
opened on the LIST Monday in Septem-
Der. A large building has been erect
ed recently and patent desks will soon
be put in.
Stephen c. Kennedy, a native of
Franklin county, but for As years
citizen of Claiborne parish, La, and a
prominent Mason and member of the
Methodist church, died recently,
greatly mourned by his brethren and
aeighbors.
The 3Sth collegiate year of Central
Female Institute at Clinton began
last week with flattering prospects.
The new structure, "Adelia Hail."
adds greatly to the accommodations
and convenience of this old and Justly
popular institution.
The extensive planning mill of Mes
srs. Lamb g. Rowan between Wesson
and Beauregard was destroyed BY fire
Monday afternoon. Trains on the |.
c. railroad were delayed several hours
by the conHagration, which was very
near the main track.
The business of the New Orleans
post-ofhee has decreased so material
~ since the anti-lottery law went in.
70 eaect, that the clerks have little to
lo ont TO read the papers in search az
.o.seIy advertisements, Fiftv-two
roacanons have heen excluded Co.,