The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-11-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The LEADER one year for $1.00.
The colored vote was next to moth
ing.
The New York Voice is great pa
per.
The Woodville Republican is sc
years old.
Harris strength was in Watts's
weakness.
Send lis $1.OO and get the LEADER
for II months.
Sambo is not specially charmed with
the new ballot law.
Will it be Blaine and Mckinley
and Cleveland and Boies
The Australian ballot is big sue
cess. Let us hold on to it.
The Australian ballot 'sOrter" takes
away the darkey's appetite to vote.
jackson has secured the location of
the Mary Holmes ColOred Seminary.
Van wasn't "in it," Neither was
Ike c. nor Uncle Benjamin Franklin
Campbell.
There was some wild scratching
done last Tuesday. The Australian
ballot, you know.
In politics Van Watts is what old
Uncle IIczekiall Randolph used to
call ''petered out
Capt. j. w. Walker of Carroll coun-
ty. was killed by a tenant on his place
named league Oct. 31st.
Mrs. jefferson Davis and Miss Min
ME have gone to Richmoud to select
site for the Davis monument.
Clever Ike Smith. whom everybody
likes, will hold the county's purse
strings for the next four years.
Van Watts has lost his political
worm gourd. He will have 10 cut
bait for somebody else hereafter.
With the Australian ballot in
vogue, Gen" IIilson was no more
last Tuesday than common niger.
The unruly Allanceman must be
put down. He imagines he has some
rights the party bosses are bound to
respect.
The occupation of the ticket ped
dlcr and vote fiXer, under the new
ballot law, is gone glimmering like
Othcllo's.
An important official notice to the
stockholders of the Alliance Manu-
featuring Company appears in this is
sue. Read it.
Mrs Jane Robinson. widow of the
late John w. Robinson, and most
excellent lady, died at her home i'll
jackson on the 1st
Thanks to our new Constitution, it
will be four years before Mississippi
is shaken up by another election for
State and county officers.
The Oliver Beirne, the last of the
Mississippi palatial steamboats,, was
burned at Milliken's Bend last week
Ten or fifteen persons were drowned
Rev. DR.. Richard Abbey, one of the
most noted divines of the South, died
in Yazoo City on the 22nd of Oct. He
was eminent also as an author and
writer.
The question is not whether you
can afford to take the LEADER for the
next II months at one dollar Il year.
The question is, can you afford to do
without it?
w. I. Smith, one of Crystal
Springs most honored and best-be-
loved young business men, died last
Saturday. His place i'll that commu
nifty will he hard to fill.
Every person who sends us new
yearly subscribers and So, or 10 six
month subscribers at 80 cents each,
with the cash, will get an extra copy
of the paper one year free.
If Mississippi doesn't have but one
absolutely unfettered paper that dares
tell the truth about political parties,
men and measures during the next
year, that paper will be the LEADER.
If you are already taking the LEAD
Err yourself, do us the favor of call
ing the attention of your neighbors
and friends to its reduced subscrip-
ton price and asking them to sub
scribe.
Frank McGrath, President of the
Kansas Alliance, has been given IL
back seat by the Alliance of that
State. Like Hall and McAllister, he
opposed the Sub-T. and thought he
was bigger than the Alliance.
Gov. Stone has offered reward of
$500 for the arrest of the murderer of
Mrs. j. NJ. Williamson. The citizens
of Hattiesburg also offer a reward of
$1,000, Ellisville 800, another place
800, Mr.. Williamson 300, making a
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