The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-23

money by the government; favors pub.
lie ownership of telegraph lines and
railroads; demands lower taxes and
better collection; favors liberal legis.
lation for public schools; denounces
electoral system of Mississippi as an
attempt to force a corrupt political ring
on the State; favors an elective judi.
ciary, but objects to the Noel amend.
ment; sorry for the old State house,
but opposes the building of new one
favors a constitutional amendment rem.
dering all public officers and their
deputies ineligible to succeed them
selves; demands an honest and eco
nomical State government.
Additional Legislators Nominated.
SENATE.
Thirty-seventh District. o. Looney, ia
cinto, AIcOrn county.
Thirty-sixth District-T. L. Cooper. Looxs.
hOma Benton county.
Thirty-eighth District-L. T. Taylor, Verona
Lee county.
Seventeenth Distrct-G. L. Wilson, Philadel-
phia, Neshuba county.
HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES,.
Benton-w. G. Gibson. Salisbury. Tenn.
Itawamba-W. II. Brown, Fulton; A. T. Gal
loway tFloater), Mantachie.
Iawrence-J. J. benson, Silver Creek.
Leake-Pres Groves, Oklahoma.
Neshoba-J. &. Long, Philadelphia.
Prentiss-W. NJ. Cox, Baldwin; L. NJ. Burge,
Wheelers.
Rankin-A. w Bradshaw, Synwood - Beck
ing, Pelaha+chie.
Tate-S. T. Clayton. Strayhorn s. w. Jones.
Independence
Tippah-S. Joe Owen, Ripley.
The trustees of the institutions for
the deaf and dumb will ask the legis-
lature for authority to sell the prop.
critics in jackson and just west of the
city, and invest the proceeds in a more
eligible and spacious location, where
the mutes can be instructed not only
in books and haudicraft, but in agri-
culture, horticulture and the care of
stock. A good orchard and truck farm
would contribute largely to the sub,
sistence of the institutions for there
are two, white and colored-besides
yielding some revenue toward other
expenses, and will involve SO little, il
any expense to the State, it will nc
doubt be approved.
In report of the funeral of the late
Governor Atkinson of Georgia, it is
noted that "the capitol porters attended
in body If an executive funeral
were to take place at the capital OF
Mississippi and the capitol porters were
to ATTEND in a body" Taylor hurry
would have all that part of the process
sion to himself. The State capitol OF
Mississippi is the only public building
of it's kind in the United States that
gets along with one porter, but there is
only one Taylor hurry.
The Aberdeen Examiner protests
against the award of public printing tc
parties outside the State; or rather, il
complains of the law that compels con.
tracts thus to be made. Another
Printing Outrage" is the way Major
Jonas puts it, and he further says that
there is no State in the Union as cruel
and oppressive to it's printers as Missis.
sippi." This writer, member of the
board of contracts, freely expressed
the opinion, after the awards were
made, that the law should be changed
so as to restrict competition for all
State printing to esta blishments in the
State; and further, that this contract
should be let for four instead of two
years. Printing plants in Jacksonville,
Nashville and Charleston pay no reve.
nue. to the State of Mississippi, and their
printers don't do any of it's voting. A
four years contract would induce close
competition among home offices, and
the successful bidder could afford to
equip his Office properly for the work.
The Military Park at Vicksburg is
now a certainty, and it will be the
prettiest one in the United States. So
says Gen. S. ID. Lee to the Dispatch.
beginning on the lake above the city,
and ending on the river south of the
city, it will have view unsurpassed
almost in the world" Two or three
land owners still refuse to sell, but con-
domination proceedings will be at once
instituted if they insist on obstructing
the survey now being made.
A Mississippi dealer in one of the
'wet" towns of Mississippi, less than
fifty miles from Jackson, is mailing his
customers an affidavit from the Ken
lucky distillery stating that it had
shipped of one brand alone SIS, 400
worth. to August Is, 1885," And possi-
bly, as much more in the last twelve
months. The wet towns get the reve-
nue. and the dry towns get the ''wet."
w. j. Veazey, very old and greatly
esteemed citizen of Tate county. died
near Senatobia on the 9th. Six of his
grandsons acted as pall-bearers.
The railroads operating in Mississippi
do not show much surplus revenue in
their reports to the railroad commits
sion for the second quarter this year.
Several show considerable deficits.
Editor Williams, of the Lumbertou
Head Block, says that when the Demo
cratic State convention is held in the
chapel of the Deaf and Dumb Institute
it win lack whole lotof being a deaf
and dumb meeting.
The State board of examiners will
meet in Jackson on the a5th instant for
tl,e purnose of grading the examination