The Brookhaven leader., 1890-12-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Convention.
Old Sitting Bull is how a good In
dian. He is dead.
They are having a Kilkenny
fight of it in Ireland.
Indian suffrage was adopted il
South Dakota and woman suffrag,
voted down.
Gov. Tillman says South Carolin.
must have Constitutional COnyen
tion at any cost.
Ex-President Cleveland is said t,
have been converted in his views t,
the free coinage of silver.
Senator George delivered foui
hours speech in the Senate on the 1Otl
inst, against the Force Bill.
Judge Wharton accidentally fel
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 p.
hard as they ever d;d the hated En-
glish.
Slhc Farmers Alliance and PROFIT
btionistS face the same way. They
oaght to east the same ballot" Miss
Willard.
The Mississippi delegates to the Ma
tional Alliance Convention were J. II.
Becman, Frank Burkitt, \. NJ. Street
and VIM. S. McAlliSter.
Senator Wade Hampton owes his
defeat for the Senate to his own fault
in failing to give the State Democrat
Ic-Alliance ticket an earnest and
cordial support.
The Mississippi Bar Association
meets at Jackson January l, 1891.
Hon. W. b. Hill, Of Macon, Ga, a
brilliant lawyer and orator will deliver
the annual address.
1azoo City'S cotton receipts have
almost doubled since the Prohibition
law went into effect, and the town
has improved as never before in its
history Sentinel.
Tide editor of the Memphis Even,
ing Democrat has been indicted by &
Federal grand jury, for violation o.
the lottery law, by publishing the
winning numbers of the Louisian,
Lottery.
Senator Wade Hampton's last piece
OF bad luck is getting beaten for re-
election to the Senate by Col. Irby
The fall given him by the Alliance
was harder than getting thrown by
that mule.
A new generation will soon take
the place of the old politicians and
leaders. John l.. Irby, Gen. Wad,
Hampton'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 $1,000. The contract embrace,
besides the school desks, hall settees
office desks for school board, CLERK
and superintendent, maps, globes
etc.
The two addresses issued to thei
countrymen by VIM O'Brein and til,
sther Irish ENJOYS to this country
mark them as statesmen and patriot
besides whom Rule or Ruin Parnell
in the present crisis, pales as tallov
candle before the king of day.
The assertion of correspondent o
the Clarion-Ledger that Senator
George has more sense than all the
editors of Mississippi combined, Will
Senator Walthall thrown in for gool
measure, has not tended to increase
the popularity of "Old Trace Chains.
Sna scientific discussion of the sub
iect, DIR. ID. L. Phares says the failure
- hhC POoNh Siop ioA lCJU " DIS uue u
tile dry summer and fall of 1889, rath
er than the hard freeze of March
1890; also that the trees had exhaust
ed their vitality in large measure by
the heavy crop of 1889.
5. A. jackson, the President of tn,
National colored Alliance, recent,
said smart thing. 1t was this
As for social equality, we do no
want it. But tell my people, whel
You have grace in Your heart, knowl
edge in your head and money in you
pocket, you are anybody's equal"
One of the LEADERS Oldest an,
most ievel-headed subscribers close
u business letter with these words
wouidn't take pretty for the arti
Gle on Some things the LEADE
would like to know in your Issue c
the 9Th. think they are straighteu
M mp around Jackson, don't you {?