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

Louisiana Lottery stock continues
10 tumble.
The gerrymandcr,ng fraud is to ca
through too.
1t will be a fool State that follows
the Mississippi plan.
The people want no fly blows on
their new Constitution.
There have been only "a few spo-
radio cases." as it were.
The contract for Winoua's new pub
lie school building has been let for
$4,000.
Coffecville's handsome new brick
public school building is nearing com
pletion.
Hon. Clarke Lewis has been unani-
mously renominated for Congress in
the 4th district.
The Pike county circuit court failed
last Monday on account of the sick
ness OF JudSe NORTH.
The ant-lottery bill is already
working good. The lottery papers
are shedding their lottery ads. like
autumn leaves.
Mississippi is openly and shameless
~ disgraced before the whole world by
the sinking fraud sought to be per
petrated i'm section of the article on
franchise.
The fraud clause in the article on
franchise will become infamous in his
tory, and the political record of every
man who supported it will be tainted
with the infamy.
If the expressions of the State press
may be taken as an index, the COnsti-
tutiOnal Convention has not meas
sred up to the expectations of the
people on the franchise.
The jackson Commonwealth has en-
tered upon its second year. 1t is the
most reliable paper in Mississippi, and
m point of editorial ability stands in
the front rank. Long may it fiOrish.
There is something radically wrong
somewhere when out of 1874 delegates
elected by the people 10 serve them
in the Constitutional Convention,
there are always from 20 to 40 absent
FROM their seats.
Election frauds are not to be abOl-
ished in Mississippi, as all honest men
had hoped, but they are to be honor
ed by being specially provided for in
the organic Jaw. Poor Mississippi
thy shame is complete.
The people of Mississippi asked the
Franchise Committee for bread and
they gave them stone; they asked
shem for fish and they gave them a
serpent, whose life destroying venom
will course through the veins of the
Body polite for generations to come.
Messrs. Paxton of Washington and
Talbot of Benton have both intrOduc-
ed resolutions in the Constitutional
Convention to prohibit any negro
from ever holding Office in this State,
in accordance with the proposition
advanced by correspondent in an
other column. 1t remains to be seen
what our statesmen will do with the
subject
Capt. J. j. White, the well-knOwn
saw mill man of Pike county, met
with an unfortunate accident last
week. 1t seems that he was riding his
fine horse near his mill, when train
passed, and frightening the horse, the
animal reared up, and falling back
ward fell on Mr.. White with the re-
suit as above stated. The LEADER
heartily sympathizes with him in his
misfortune.
" The movement of the w. c. Il. u.
TO establish themselves at the capital
Of the State has taken defnate shape
Last week, deeds were drawn and
payment made for a valuable lot on
capitol Street, hext adjourning the
Post Office. Upon this lot they pro.
pose to erect a three story bricl
Anilding, suitable 10 the wants of til,
White Ribbon which is to issue from
mere, and for their Ladies Exchange
There Is fine and foreeful energy il
hs@e ToHeH of Mississippi, anyway