The Brookhaven leader., 1891-02-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

They are having heavy snow storms
in the Northwest.
Arkansas aud Tennessee are talking
Constitutional Convention.
The census shows 24O,273 Indians
in the United States, exclusive of those
in Alaska.
The Arkansas Legislators are mad.
Treasurer Woodruff embezzled all the
surplus aud they can't get any pay.
The Force bill will go into inocuous
desuetHtIe with several nails in it's
coffin driven by Mississippi's Senators.
West Point is organizing against the
aIoOHs, and Hon. y. VI. Roane is one
of the leaders of the Prohibitionists
Gov. Stone broke the color line last
week by appOintinga negro constable
for one of the beats in Washington
county,
Six hundred persons were disfran-
chised in Natchtz under the provisions
of the new Constitution, principally
negroes.
The LEADERS article Of Jan. 18th,
''AcrOss the Rubicon," has been ex-
tensively copied by the press, North
and South.
send me some extra copies of yOnr
last ISSUE" writes North Mississippi
PrOhibitionist ''there is lots of good
reading i'm that ISSUE"
The Penitentiary Board of Control
has turned 1000 in cash into the
State Treasury Since January LIST,
over and above expenses.
st. Johns vote in 1884 was $50, 1855.
Fisk in 1888 received 249,900. And
that's the way the st. John campaign
"set Prohibition back 20 years"
That "one- gallus" Texas Mayor un-
doubtedly got notoriety by his. at
tempt to cane Rev. Sam Jones, but it
was not the kind of notoriety he was
counting.
SenatOr-elect PETER, who takes the
seat now occupied by Ingalls,, is a Pro-
hibitionist in principle, and will sup
port all measures in national legisla-
ton looking to that end.
Geo. c. Briley, prominent mer-
chant of Magnolia, failed recently.
Liabilities, about $4,000: assets,
$50, 1000. Bad crops and poor collec-
tiOns are assigned as the cause.
The Clarion Ledger says fifty-six
white men of Jackson have not paid
their taxes and therefore cannot vote
this year. Two hundred and nine
cOlored voters also failed to come to
time.
DR.. WEIGH, the quack who was in
dicted in Copiah county for abducting
two young girls from Wesson and
skipped his bond, was brought back
from Alexandria, La, last Monday
night by Sheriff Brown.
The Lawrence County Press says
the bridge across Fair river on the
Monticello and Beauregard road has
been washed away. Also that work
has been temporarily suspended on
the new iron bridge across Pearl river,
on account of high water.
The Western Farmers Alliance,
which met at Omaha, adopted reso-
luton calling for a convention con-
sisting of one person from each State
to meet Feb. %, to fix upon some time
and place for holding National Con
ventiOn for the nomination of candi
dates for President and Vice Presiden
in 1892.
Puck talks to the farmers and la
boring men thus: "You are in TIN
soup, just where your friends, the pol
iticians, left you when they were don,
with you last November. You are il
the soup, and there you will stay fo
the next four years, unless, in tn,
meantime, you learn wisdom of exer
cising common sense"
The Greenville Democrat has con
tanned some interesting articles re
Gently exposing the needless extrava
gence of the Mississippi Levee Boart
in the disbursement of the peoples
money for official salaries. Member
of the Board and their hired attorney
are striking back, but on the las
round, the Democrat was still severa
lengths ahead.
The address in to-day's paper b,
DIR. j. b. Gambrell, as Chairman o
the non- partisan State Prohibition Elk
ecutive Committee, should be careful
ly read by all Prohibitionists. Thougl
- strong believer in Constitutions
Prohibition with a party behind it
DIR. Gambrell, like the loyal Prohibi
zionist that be is, is ever ready to figh
the liquor traffic by every mean
available.
How is it the Clarion Ledger hai
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