The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-04-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

N~>lStHHl isfClllti Mt.ttliNttt = itS-
i%nation would now ue in order.
\ Ieyivcl meeting mt Columbus con-
Quoted 10y Rev. George Inge resulted
in 125 conversions.
The Monticello high school has been
dismissed until sept. LIST on account
Of internal discord.
Col. ii. 5. Fulkcrsom. one of the
eldest and most respected citizens Of
Ficksburg, died the 9Th.
Mrs. NJ. j. Hancock has been APP
pointed postmiStress at Meridian rs
the successor of her late husband.
President Harrison has insultcd the
people of Nicksburg anew by the re-
appointment Of jim Hill as postmas-
ter.
The criminal jurors in the parish of
New Orleans don't get any pay for
their services to the State. No Won
der there are such irresponsible jul
rics
Mr.. George Aird and Miss Dora
Matthews were married at IIazlehurst
Sunday evening. The bride is very
pretty, and daughter of the late J.
+. Matthews.
Kinds county will hold primary
election May 2nd to decide which of
her three candidates for district attor-
ncy shall receive the endorsement of
that county for the Office.
At the late meeting of the State
Democratic Executive Committee,
there were six regular members pres
cnt and twenty proxies, aud -four of
the proxies were brothers.
Deputy Sheriff Phil. Robinson of
Pike county was Killed Sunday nom
ing Ivy IL negro uamed Simon Crycr.
whom he had under arrest for disturb
ing the peace ut Il negro froiljc. The
negro made his escape.
Mr.. 4. W. Cooper, IA Young attorney
Of Monticello, %Hl Miss Flora Burk-
lit, one of Lawrence county's most
attractiN" Young ladies, were married
last week. Tn" LEADER extends con
gratulations and best wishes.
The Chickasaw Messenger, Capt
Frank Bmkitt's paper, is the one
that ought to he the State organ of
the Alliance. 1t is undoubtedly the
ahlcst aud most consistent champion
of the cause of the farmers of any
paper in Mississippi.
The Ford Whitworth Car Coupler
Company held its annual meeting in
jackson last week and elected the
following officers: w. /. Nugent,
President; \. J. Whtworth, Vice
President; WHIT Adams, Secretary
p. w. Peoples, treasurer. Measures
were adopted to actively push the in
tercsts of the company.
The Natchcz Banner last week pub
lished Commercial Edition" con-
sistimg of II large pages, II columns,
we'll filed with sketches and the piCt-
nres of the leading men and indus
tries and a comprehensive review of
the business of Natchez and making
splendid showing for that city. 1t
was one of the most crcditablo pa
pers ever published in the State.
In the case Of the killing Of ITar-
denstein, after an exhaustive trial of
three days, in which more than 100
witnesses We're summoned, although
only about fifty were examined, Cir
cult Judge Gilland decided to admit
John G. eastman and Sam Richard
son to bail and discharged McQuaide.
Cashman's bond was fixed at $1,000
and Richardson's at $500, and both
readily given.
G.. r. Winslow, u postal clerk on the
I. c. Railroad, died at jackson Satur-
day. Claude as he was always
called by his friends, was one of the /
editors earliest play fellows and
schoolmates, III the country neighbour
hood a few miles north of jackson
where we both were born and reared,
and it is with feelings of deepest sor-
row that we chronicle his death. He
was a good citizen and his character
stainless.
At meeting of the Kinds county /
Alliance last Friday, they endorsed
the sub-treasury bill aud the Ocala
platform, Hon. z. Barksdale for Unit
cd States Senator and Hon. r. II.
Hart of Kinds, for Railroad Commits
sioner for the first district, all with /
practical unanmity. This action is re-
garded as placing Major Barksdale,
"f jackson, squarely in the field for
the United States Senatorship. He
Was present aud made n speech, but
did not announce himself candidate.
The Wayne county Alliance also
unanimously endorsed Barksdale and
lse Snh Treasury hill