19 Feb 1891
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1891
Page
1
Rev T DeWitt Talmage delivers a Brooklyn and New York City discourse praising winter as mother of energy and a theater for divine wonders. He cites snowflakes as miniature universes, recounts historical avalanches and rescues, and urges believers to act in small deeds, aggregating to global good, guided by faith.
A survey of the Farmers Alliance and its allies notes plans for government credit to a Nicaragua ditch syndicate and calls for farm credit on crops to sustain families. It highlights the rise of the National Citizens' Alliance, new leadership, and upcoming congressmen allied with farming interests.
A detailed record of the January 1891 Washington meeting where Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union factions plus Knights of Labor and Colored National Farmers' Alliance drafted a confederation charter. The text covers temporary officers, committee structures, proposed by laws, and early resolutions, including demands for monetary reform, land and taxation policies, and secured voting integrity.
Jackson, Feb 10. Brooks Story, brother of Eugene Story, is jailed in the penitentiary after being arrested on Indictment for aiding Eugene's jail escape. He claims he was thirty miles from Lexington the night of the release. Heroic train collision prevention at Carrollton where a passenger engineer halted two trains within two feet of collision. Mississippi Masons meet at Oxoroxa and Aperpers with new grand officers listed. Governor appoints Dr Payne to State Board of Dental Examiners. Slave Treasury shows January receipts of 341,354.22 with disbursements 110,328.62. Two hundred nine colored voters miss timely registration, hindering reform vote. Confederate veteran Cart C F Emory dies at Yazoo City after fifty years’ residency. Dr William Hayxe Leavell raises 7000 of 12000 goal for evangelical work. Medical license case in Booneville ends in verdict for defendant. Tax commission to revise laws per new Constitution. work begun by Dillard Campbell and Thompson.
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