The Brookhaven leader., 1891-01-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The man who does not pay his taxes
ty next Saturday night will not vote
IN 1891.
The fiery Ingalls, was downed by
Judge Pfeffcr, tue Alliance candidate,
Wy 80 majority.
VI. l.. McRee has been appointed
sheriff of Wayne county by Gov.
Stone, vice Q. J. Martin, deceased.
W. s. Howard g. Co. of Hazlehurst
last week sold to j. a. Shinglcur g.
Co. 500 bal% Of cotton Mt 81 cents.
The negroes are reported to be pay
ing their poll tax throughout the
State, in order not to lose their rights
ef franchise.
The London Times has taken tn
studying the race question in Ameri-
ca, and thinks the best solution the
colonization of the negro,
4 hill has been introduced in the
Kansas Legislature comforting the
right of suffrage on women. The AL
lance members are said to solidly
favor it.
The history of the State by Robert
Lowry and W. II. McCardlc, will he
issued some time in April. Messrs.
&. p. Putnam e. Sons, of New York +,
are the publishers.
The local option election ordered
IN Carroll county on petition of the
whisky men, har been permanently
cnioined nn,icr the provisions of the
ew Constitution.
The Copiah Signal has abolished it's
patent outside for about the 4th time
in the last half dozen years. We
hope it may prosper sufficiently to
stick to the change this time.
The deadlock continues over the
L. x. senatorsliip in the Illinois Leg
islature. Palmer, Democrat, has 1OI
votes, Oglcsl'y, Republican, 100, and
Streater, Alliance candidate, 3.
The West Point Forum contains
every week likeness of some promi-
nent man or woman of the period
Its last issue contained an excellent
cut and biographical sketch of Sena-
tor George.
The report which is going the round
of the Mississippi press to the effect
that Justice Lamar is very i'll, is de-
MED by that gentleman himself. He
says in a dispatch from Washington
that his health is very fine.
The New Delta, the only anti-lot-
terry daily published III New Orleans,
is fine paper for news, as we'll as an
ably edited champion of the reform
element i'm Louisiana. Terms of sub
scription will be found in another col
umn.
). y. Bradford, lately acquitted OF
the charge of train wrecking i'm the
Wilkinson county circuit court, has
been warned by public meeting Of
the citizens of that county to leave
instanter and never return on pain o.
death.
The Atlanta Constitution say
''there should be no room in the Sen
ate or in the House for drunken
statesman. The country cannot af
ford to have some of its most vita
policies depend upon the freakisl
whims of a crowd of wine-bibbers.
Right.
NOperson who desires to keep thor
oughly posted on the Prohibition an,
liquor question can afford to be with
ont the New York Voice. The LEAD
Err considers it at once the cheapes
and most valuable weekly paper il
America. Read its adj in another col
umn.
Col. Frantzy expresses belief tina
the editor of the LEADER was inter
ested in the Nations ''moonshine" dis
tllery near BrOokhaven. 1t wouldn
require half as much credulity for til
average man who knows him to be
iieve Col. Ananias was interested i
the "blind-tig saloon lately bro
ken up by the authorities in Bran
don. Tell the truth one tim,
Colonel, and own up.
The editor is indebted to his va
ued friend Chas. Fitzgerald, post;
ON the /. c. route, for appreciate
eourtesies during trip from New Oh
leans last Monday. Mr.. Fitzgeral
has filled various positions of respon
sibility and trust in the postal servic.
and all with such efficiency and salts
faction to the department and public
that though originally appointed as
Democrat, the present administrator
has found no justification, consist
.nt with the public interest, for hi
removal.
Mrs. NJ. A. Lease, the most promi
sent Alliance woman in Kansas,
sutspoken against sectionalism, an
favors an ex-Confederate for the I