The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Vote as YOU pray.


Ledger for 800, 200.
Major \. j. Brncey and his son W
VI. died Mt Terry on the 10th.
If the Force Bill isn't buried soon
the corpse will begin to smell bad.
Rev. J. ID. haynes, the blind Meth
odist preacher, died at Terry recently.
Geo. A. Newton, well known citi-
zen of Crystal SPRING., died Oh the
9th.
Nothing except the mint can make
money without advertising. Glad
stone.
Justice Lamar is dangerously sick
at his home in Washington with pneu-
m0nia.
Anderson Harris, who assassinated
Mayor Lewis of Clinton, has been CON
victed.
Judgment has been entered by de-
fault against the Hemingway sureties
for $4,000.
Macon has just become dry town
by virtue of local act passed by the
last Legislature.
Greenville, Columbus and YazOO
City seem to be having more failures
than any towns in the State.
DR.. II. d. Loflin of Rolling Fork
died of pneumonia at the Lawrence
House in Jackson on the 10th.
The LEADER will contain some
mighty interesting reading" for the
next twelve months. Now is the time
to subscribe.
The State of Georgia will begin on
February list to pension the widows of
Confederate veterans to the amount of
800 per year.
Parties are made to serve the pco-
pie, and not the people to serve par
ties, as some politicians and newspa-
pers seem to suppose.
The Tennessee Legislature has
elected ladies for the positions of en-
crossing clerks. Their names are
Miss Wilkinson and Miss Annie Lodd.
r. II. Henry & Co. of the Clarion
Ledger, have purchased the book
bindery of Robert Sproule, which is
one of the largest and finest establish
ments of the kind in the South.
The Mississippi Enterprise has been
removed from Summit to McComb
CITY, and is now called the McCOmb
City Enterprise. 1t is a good weekly
and we wish it abundant success in it's
new field.
There is one party in Mississippi
that does not cringe and cover before
the liquor power and that is the Pro
hibition party" said Judge Chrisman
in his speech before the Constitutional
Convention. And the Judge stated
the exact truth.
The Copiah Signal wants to know
elbow was it that McAllister figured
so extensively in the National AL
lance? AT the State meeting Bee
man, Burkitt, Love and Street were
elected delegates and West, Casey
Dwyer and Boyd alternates."
A free scholarship in the new Mill.
saps Methodist College, to be called
the "Clara Chrisman Scholarship,
will be endowed in honor of tha
young lady, who lost her life in til,
Johnstown food while en- route t,
Brazil to do missionary work.
The following are the newly elected
officers of the State Bar Association
l.. Brame, president; E. II. Bristow
first vice president j. A. Orr, SECOND
vice president; r. n. Miller, thirt
vice president; w. R. Harper, secre
tary; j. @. Robbins, treasurer
Capt. X. w. Banks, late of the Co
lumbus Index, has assumed editora
control of the Meridian Standard
The Captain is frank, fOrcible an(
entertaining writer, but, as Ed. vii
son would say, his "terminal facili
ties' are not the best.
President Thompson stated in hi
address to the State Bar Association
that he had secured an authentic lis
and that there are only 613 lawyers il
Mississippi; the largest number il
any county, thirty seven, is in Kinds
Pearl River county alone is blessed
with the absence of all lawyers.
The Scientific American, referred t.
IN another column, under the headin,
Of Patents" is the very best publ
cation in this country for those inter
ested i'll science, engineering, mechan
les, inventions, etc. A copy of til,
Scientific American may be seen at tn
"ffiee of this paper, where subserip
tions will be received.
The Mayor of old Biloxi refuses t
turn over his Office to his newly elect
ed successor on the ground that non