The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-07-05
AROUND TOWN.

Judge Sd5tluy suoufo law ho ioNs'
copyrighted.
The campaign is approaching. Get ready
for the contest.
The Board of Supervisors met and adj
journed last Monday.
Stif.starchsd collars wilt now in a very
short time, these hot days.
The sun is oppressively hot with a pros
pect of it's getting hotter.
The county convention will assemble in
B~rookhaven ON Saturday, the 2lst inst.
Days saw mill, four miles west of this
place, was destroyed by fire last Saturday.
From what we can learn the shipment
of peaches is not paying very well this
season.
The Circuit Court of Lincoln county
will convene here on the fourth Monday,
.3d Inst.
Yesterday was the one hundred and
one;h anniversary Of American lndepend-
ence.
Street Commissioner Jennings has got
his force work and is putting the streets
in order.
Miss Mary Ellis, OF Fayette, is on a Wis
it to our city, and is stopping at Mr.. Ed.
Bowen's.
Mr.. A. Scherck has our thanks for a lot
of delicious grapes from vines in his W
garden.
Or1r friend J. R. Neyin has a fine crop
of jamestown weeds and bull nettles In
his back yard.
Mr. NJ. Godbold furnished this Office
with some fine apples last Friday, for
which he has our thanks.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Of last
week were said to nave been the hottest
days we have had this year.
Twill you condescend to accompany me
to the altar" would be a very good way
for a bashful young man to propose.
The first cotton-boll has been brought in.
The next thing on docket is co~tton-picking.
Who will bring in the first bale?
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcintosh, of Beauregard,
took their Fourth Of July dinner at Mrs.
Decell's yesterday. And SO did Pete.
Mr.. Chas. Heuck closed his store yes
,erJay in honor Of independence Day, and
himself and family enjoyed the pleasures
of 4 picnic.
The Fourth of Jewlie passed off very
quietly here, but we presume Judge Hilton
celebrated it at the Grand Union Hotel at
Saratoga.
We suggest that our shoemakers now
put Blue Glass in the box toes Of the
shoes they make hereafter, for it will prob
ably cure corns.
Prof. q. A. Coulon, who has been the
teacher Of painting and drawing in Whit
worth College, left for his home in New
Orleans last Tuesday.
Our friends will confer a favor on eye
local" by handing in the names of absen-
tees and their return. Also the names of
visitors to our town.
K. Levy has removed from Cherokee
street TO Railroad avenue, and can be
found in Lewenthal's old stand next door
to Daughtry & Smylie's.
Capt W. II. Irwin, of the steamboat
Olachita Belle, is spending the cheated
term in our town. He is staying with
his s~on-in-law, Mr.. Ed. Bowen.
The shed in front of Daughtry & Smy-
lies, Z. Levy's, Smiths and Lighfoots
barber shop on Railroad avenue, erected
by A. D. Dixon, is a very desirable i'm.
proyement.
Two colored women had a fight last
Saturday night. They were arraigned be-
fore His Honor the Mayor last Monday
and one was fined ten dollars and the other
two and a half. In default Of payment
they were committed to Jail.
We are authorized to say that Mr.. A. J.
Calthrop and Mr.. l.. Alcus will run a foot
race at IL o'clock next Monday ON the
Montgomery lawn, for two hundred dol
lars a side, and we are requested to add,
the ladies are respectfully invited to attend,
An entertainment was given by Prof.
Thompson's pupils last Saturday night in
the Varieties Theatre, and all who WIT
messed it speak in very commendabls terms
of the affair. Prof Thompson, an able
and efficient teacher, has had chargeof the
colored school, and the exhibition last Sat
urday night gave evidence that his pupils
have been we'll trained. We are author
lied to say that, by request, the exhibition
will be repeated next Saturday night. Ad'
mission, fifteen cents.
That gentleman to whom we referred
some time ago as threatening to dress up
and nav some attention to the ladies, has
actually got his new clothes and looks af
neat as a new pin in a bandbox. But that
ia not all: he has been calling on the young
Ladies'. and has become quite a gallant
Hurrah for G~-goodness, gracious. We beg
pardon; we did not intend to intimate who
it was. and a little more we would nave
told his name. But thanks to a second
thought, we didn't do it. Amt we slad'
When a man gets about half a dozen
good sized, frst-class, hungry feas on him.
and they begin to jump and covert on his
person, regardless of his feelings, the pes
tiferous little animals make him do things
sometimes that he would not otherwise
It gives a man a serious anxiety In com.
pany, and makes him feel like ne wouio
rather make himself scarce for awhile; ou'
the COMPOUNDED little things continue
jumping, covorting and biting nevertheless
and makes a man pull down his vest some
tunes when it don't needt al all. Obi M
gao the haaut; frl Aaa how uuickfy IL doth