The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-10-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.
4 good motto for Prohibitionists:
"ITold on. fight on


the negroes of South Mississippi.
Keep an eye on the Independent
candidate. He'll bear watching.
No, you can't afford to do without
the LEADER next year, so don't try it.
Sam Jones will commence series
of sermons at Grenada on October
%.
Major Geo. NJ. Govan, Secretary of
State, has been licensed to practice
law.
The stockholders of the Alliance
bagging factory will meet at Canton
Oct II.
Mrs. Helen Kiddc1, wife of the
well-known Hammond hotel man,
died recently.
Wyoming bachelors who have
passed the age of thirty-siX have to
pay - poll tax.
The editorials of the New Delta
against the Lottery schcmcrs in Louis
lana cut like lip-saw.
Mrs. Catharinc Shannon, the veneer
able mother of Col. J. j. Shannon.
died in Meridian, i'll the eighty eight
year of her age.
The Appeal-Avalanche predicts that
the Democrats will carry MasSachu-
sets, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and iowa, in November.
Two hundred and tifty-seyen thou
sand dollars is found to be the total
amount of the defalcation of the State
Treasurer of Arkansas.
The jefferson County Alliance is
on the right track with Friendship
Alliance of this county, and proposes
to plant less cotton. See resolutions.
Allanccmcn should keep UP their
meetings regularly and be IN full
training to make the most of the next
agricultural as we'll as political cam
paign.
The Memphis Commercial has been
cut down in size a column to the page.
1t is the second bitter opponent of the
Alliance that has "swunk up" that |
way.
The census bulletin gives the total
enrolment of school children in the |
United States as 14,22O, 600. The in
crease in forty years has been 17215
per cent.
We publish the full text of the new
election law in this State. This is
the law under which the November
election will be held. Every voter
shonld read and study it carefully.
The Madison County Fair Associa-
ton will hold its sixth annual fair at
Canton, from Nov. Bird to 9th inclu-
sivc. The LEADER returns thanks for
a complimentary season ticket.
Balmaceda - Boulangcr -Parnell-I
thee notable figures in the eyes of
the world-all dead within a month
the two former by their hands, the
latter from illness little less sudden.
Attorney General Miller has de-
cided that a new registration can be
had in POntotOc county, only those
being allowed to register in the new
books who had previously registered
in the stolen ones.
The New Delta now sells for cents
a copy or - cents week. 1t is the
only daily in New Orleans that does
not wear the Lottery collar, and is
a lirst-class, all-round newspaper in
every department.
Rev. j. A. Scarborough's patent adj
iustible shaft for vehicles can be had
at Stringer's shop, Wesson, Miss. The
merits of this shaft can be known on
ly by testing it. One pair is worth
more than two Of the old style.
The last issue of the Chickasaw
Messenger had the old familiar ring.
Frank Bulkitt's strong and fearless
hand is again at the helm. We hail
your recovery with greatest pleas
ure, brother Burkitt. 1t was a close
call you had.
Hon. Chas. Z. Hooker has the
thanks of the LEADER for interesting
public documents, including two me-
mortal volumes on the lives and pub
lie services of Hon. s. :. Cox of New
York, and Hon. VIM. d. Kelley of
Pennsylvania.
The Greenwood Flag, under the
skillful management of Bonner Rich
ardson, serves notice on home institu-
lions that it has been putting, and
which have ignored that paper in the
distribution of their fayOrs, that they
will get no more booms till they learn
the rules Of reciprocity.