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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1885
Page
2
The Brookhaven Leader urges subscribers to renew for the new year and expresses pride in its establishment. The editor notes gratitude for patronage and assures readers they will receive value, aiming to maintain the paper’s trusted role in the town and county.
A collection of brief items notes the President's brief messaging style, Vanderbilt heirs wealth, deaths of Gen Toombs and ex Gov Brown, Mississippi and national political shifts, a Hazlehurst fire loss, a Yazoo City wedding, and political appointments. Mentioned are the House balance, GOP succession bills, and an Ohio Supreme Court ruling affecting Ohio legislature and a Democratic US Senator race.
Durant and its readers report on the President's Message as a clear, decisive address. The Durant session closes on the 11th with Grangers pushing constitutional reforms including popular elections and universal supervision. They back A and M College and Female Industrial College, seek school-term expansion, agro-textbooks, and a labor contract law.
The Daily Clarion will publish daily during the legislative session to cover Senate and House proceedings and city news. The issue notes subscriptions at one dollar per month or two dollars for the session, with options for weekly subscribers. It also reviews the Columbus Democrat, praises its editorial and departments, and mentions proposed federal measures on mail advertising bans, mail contract subletting, and constitutional amendments on female suffrage and alcohol.
Notice calls all members of the State Executive Committee of Mississippi to meet in Jackson on January 6, 1886 at 10 am to report and transact business of great importance. Cass. BK. Gaisowar, Chairman. All State players to copy. Death of veteran journalist Col J F Vance at Hazlehurst after protracted illness. He founded Gallatin Argus and helped found Hazlehurst Copialian. He was 61. Greatly missed. May he rest in peace.
The Western Enterprise lauds E S Wilson late editor of the New Mississippian now U S Land Office Register at Cheyenne Wyoming Territory. It cites his rapid familiarity with duties and praised honesty and public spirit, hoping he remains a permanent Wyoming citizen.
Mississippi notices report Prohibition activity in Jackson and Brookhaven with new licenses and arrests. Collected items include postmaster appointments in Vicksburg and Aberdeen, local elections in Oxford and McComb, marriages in Jackson, and brief political health updates from Hon. Ethel Barksdale and Major Barkscale.
In Durant Mississippi on December 15 a quarrel between brothers Chas and Jake Marseilles and W G Davis left Davis fatally shot. The incident occurred at about 6 30 pm and he died within two hours. Davis represented FE J Hart Co and Wood Bennett of Cairo Illinois. The inquest has not ruled yet and neighbors express shock and sympathy for Davis and his wife Lula Sheahan.
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