Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-06-26
Lands That We're Entered at
$500 Per Acre Now Bring
S81.50.
Recollcctions of Brookhaven and
Some of Her People.
a Western Republicans View of Demo
cratic Tariff Reform"

The following personal letter to the
editor, though not written for publ
cation, he takes the liberty of publish
ing, as many Brookhavenites will
pleasantly remember the writer, and
because we are sure several topics he
touches upon will prove of interest to
our readers generally:
GALEsBURG, ILL, June 10, 1894,
i. T. Hobbs, Br0olhayen, Miss:
DEAR FRIEND:-I take the the liberty
of writing you a few lines from this
northern inland city.
The health of my wife and myself is
not very good, but is about as good as
for Il year or two past.
We have left the old farm, which we
made from rae prairie, commencing
in 1852 as our first crop, our land then
worth $500 per acre.
We sold the same, 10 acres one, year
ago last winter, for S1.50 per acre cash
in hand, and we then bought a house
and lot here for $1,000.
We are on paved street with brick.
We keep horse and buggy, have a
small garden and after doing the nee
essary labor of keeping house. well,
we loaf, etc.
Since we were at Brookhaven, we
have been loafing at times in Nebraska,
Colorado and New York, and III Febru-
airy, 1890. took one of my grand daugh-
tiers and went to New Orleans to Mar
di Gras; also to Niagara falls and to
New York city.
But now we are both of us over three
score years and ten, and shall have to
be content to stay close at home.
We often speak of our trips to New
Orleans, and Florida, and especially
the stopping at Crystal Springs and at
Brookhaven, with pleasure. We also
pleasantly remember our friend, Miss
Matte bennett NOW Mrs. DR.. MARTINI
of your place, and also her nephew,
then Master bennett Ewing, now I'M
derstand book keeper in a store in
Brookhayen.
am always pleased to read THE
LEADER, because of its sound principles
and honorable advocacy of honesty
and morality, and against lawlessness
as we'll as it's soundneSs on the tenn
perance question.
/ did think it little too rough on
those lawless fellows who destroyed so
many plantations, and put up X. x. K.
notices thereon that the plantation was
not for sale or for rent, but would be
used as a common pasture in the fu-
ture. because these fellows had been
used so often and so long in the inter
est of the political bosses.
| see by the New Orleans papers that
are sent me, those papers are as siren
uous for protection as any of our peo-
pie here of the north are, but they only
extend the list to sugar and rice, espec-
tally sugar, and use as good arguments
for their industry as any Northern adj
vocate can for all industries of the
United States.
From our standpoint here it looks
now as though the so-called free trade
Democratic party is doomed, and in
fact hardly know where they are at.
| do not write this in any antagonis-
tic spirit, but it seems to us Repub-
licans up here that the Democratic
party, as founded or interpreted by the
Chicago platform, is determined to
make the workingman of the United
States take the wages and conditions
of the Iaboring man of Europe. Car
Isle and Watterson hold to that plat
form, but the Senate by it's 400 amend
ments to the Wilson bill seems to have
lost sight of that plank that makes
''protection unconstitutional"
That great army of monwealers,
in other words tramps, made so by the