The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-04-19
AROUND TOWN.

A pint of merchandise is the way
some accounts are made out now.
Ladies' hats are now worn on the upper
edge of the left ear. Gentlemen wear
their hats AZ usual-on the head.
Jackson has a haunted house. That Is
nothing strange. Brookhaven has had i
haunted house for four years.
Rev. J. NJ. Weems, of Hazlehurst, was
in our city this week, and we are pleased
TO ackno Wedge a visit from this Christian
gentleman.
Mr.. Ferdinand Becker and his hand
som. bride have returned from their we'd
ding tour, and are nov occupying their
new residence on Church Street.
Spring is the best time to advertise, for
when times are dull people read the papers
more carefully and look about to see who
offers the best bargains.
Capt. Hoskins is building a house on
H,iIroad avenue, next to the Courthouse,
for a postoffce. The Office will be moved
TO it as soon as completed.
Ms. Joe Deason is assisting her father
in the postofice. She is an efficient clerk,
and attends to the wants Of customers with
II smile for each.
We return thanks for an invitation to
the Hibernian %soiree, to be given at
Varieties Theatre on the night Of the
Goth inst.
From the best information we can OBJ
tain from our planting friends, young corn
i. looking very we'll. Cotton planting has
been impeded to some extent by wet
weather.
sympathy is cheap and will bear com
petition" said one of our friends last Sun
dav morning, as he was returning from
Sunday school, and then added, misery
will not"
Col. TT, Cooper, having located at this
place, returned from Meridian with his
family a few days ago. Mrs. Cooper is an
excellent lady, and the ladies of our town
will find her an agreeable, pleasant and
amiable acquaintance.
One of the college girls said 4 few days
ago somebody ought to send the editor OF
the Coliegiaa a bouquet. That would be
hard TO do as the editor Of that paper is not
known. II she was known somebody
would doubtless send her a little bunch Of
roses.
When Il lady gets a new bonnet ii is n
topic of conversation among her lady
friends: and, as it has been a custom from
time when the memory Of man runneth
not to the contrary, We hope there will be
no Improperly in making the announce
men, in this, the nineteenth century, that
our new Chief Of Police has a new hat.
Our H. brew citizens are entitled to
much credit for the manner in which they
are identifying the sacred resting place OF
their dead. Work has been going on in
their cemetery for several days, and ~ ii
progresses it bears evidence of skilifll
hands. Will our Protestants ever move
with regard to their cemetery? \ people
that FORGET their dead deserve to be pun
ished.
Now that warm weather is approaching,
and that health IL q consideration Of vital
importance, we suggest that our city au-
thorilies make a thorough inspection tour
Of our towr, with a view to secure that
cleanliness which ia conducive TO health.
1t will do no harm, and it may possibly do
q great deal of good. All filth should be
removed and destroyed before hot weather
begins.
AS the light-fngered gentry seem 10 he
taking a walk around it would be we'll
enough for our citizens to be on the alert,
and If these individuals who seem to he SO
badly afflicted can get a dose of blue pills
it will work them out Of this vicinity. Our
citizens are charitable enough to admin
ister this dose whenever a favorable oppor-
tunity may present itself, and no thanks
will be expected from the recipients for
these small favors. These pills are gen
orally taken from a double barrel shotgun,
and the effects are immediate.
RGbberiPs.
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