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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
BROOKHAVEN MISS, THURSDAY. MAY 81, 1877

and in the neglect Of self-dlscipline--
uniovely, also. from carelessness OF at
tire and personal neatness.
With tue image Of herself ss she was
ten years before, and with the image of
her husband fondiy, passionately KISS
ing that image, dwelling IN h"r Imagi>
nation, Mrs. Rowland went buck to her
ell sac had sullsnly awakened
rom a drsAm. aud tne Language of her
heart was "rnank God, / am awake!
AS they sat at breakfast the next
morning, Mrs. Howland noticed change
IN the expression of her husband face
as he looked at her across the table let
ting his eyes dwell on her with unusual
interest. Ii was an aimostadmIring ex-
preston. She was in no doubt as to
the cause, for she had attired herself
with scrupulous care i'll clean, bright
morning wrapper, and wore q cap fas-
tened ut one side with a Rubber hairpln
and ornamented with two or lhree small
pink bows and sprig of flowers A
plain linen collar pinned with cameo
was around her neck. Aud, better than
all, she had banished every sign OF dig
contept aud fretfuAess from her face.
How weet mother looks this morn
ingl' said Mr. Rowland, giancing at
one OF the children who sat near her,
and smiling oue of his old bright
smiles.
Don't shell" answered the little one
lifting her rosy mouth to mamma for
kiss.
Me kiss too. mamma so beautiful"
and little Allie scrambled down from her
chair i'll new born admiration of her
mother, aud put up her month also.
And me. tool" exclaimed Mr. How
land, passing around tha table and lay
ing his lips Iftly and lingeringly upon
the lips Of his wife. He saw. as he
looked across the table, resuming his
seat, that her eyes were dim with tears.
He know they were tears of pleasure;
but he did not imagine how deeply her
heart was stirred nor how full of pre-
cious m ,mories and golden hopes the
moment was crowned.
Ten years after marriage. Loves
lamp was burning low, the oil nearly
exhausted, the wife grown SO unattrac.
i've that the husba I'd s heart was turn
ing back in worship of the bride. But
the lamp was blazing up again; there is
a supply of oil. n beauty beyond any
bridal beauty invests the wife, and it
shall grow moro womanly, more luxurI-
ant, more enchanting, as the days sue
ceed each other and years progress. un-
til the soul puts on her garments of
eternal youth.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
The soil tor Grass.

Poor land in no country will rsiss
rich grass. But there is difference.
other things beng equal, in the natural
adaptations OF soil to grass. Sandy
soils are unfayorable to il. This wans
OF natural adaptation may, however. be
compensated by extra pains in prepara
ton and manuring. Tight clay soils
are, at the South, best adapted TO grass.
Wherever such soil is either naturally
or srtitioisIly rich, grass will thrive ia
it. Some OF these soils arc unsliited 10
any other crop from their eompactness.
unless it be oats. For instance. what
are called '.pipe clay lands. these will
bring neither cotton or corn to advant-
age, but will produce excellent herds
grass. There are thousands and tens
of Thousands Of acres of this p,pe-clay
land, now utterly valueless 20 their
owners, which would mako tine herds
grass meadows.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
garn, ,Nofes.
10 Restore Rancid Butter.

There isro need Of eithers selling OF
using rancid hnttes, owing tw - fScsS
that it may be easily restaxet& tDnaaoe4
and perhaps better condition than
that which characterised il when entire
ly fresh. No matter how strong, prop
er management in the plan we are now
going to set forth will maks it all night,
every time. ...E-.
Place in clean barrel three psunds
of fresh, unslacked lime and Poas sese
it twenty gallons Ut pure oold vstss.
Let it remain one day, atirring oosastsa.
ally, then let it stand ten or t~slvs
hours without stirring 10 give IL .
chance to settle. At the end OF I Ia
time pour or draw off the clear liquid
and strain through three thioknesses Of
6ne domestic or muslin. Place into q
clean barrel aud it is ready for the ran
cil butter.
Gut the butter in thin slices- thin
as you can cut it convenient'y--a aod
place il directly into the lime water.
Put in as much as che water will ceyer.
then place over it O clean, fosting TIT
and weight down sufficiently to prevent
any butter from being exposed 10 the
air. Keep il iu this condition about
forty-eight hours. stirring three times .
day with clean stick.
At the end Of this time the butter
will have lost Its rancid condition. tho
lime having completely nentrslised tbs
acid. The solution should now DO
drawn from tho barrel, and it's place
supplied with pure cold water. to stand
undisturbed for SIX houra. Next take
out the butter, let drain an hour or 30,
then re-work and re-salt exactly after
the manner OF managing nsw butter.
This process will lesve the butter
quite white, aud therefore, ii for the
market, you will need TO color II, which
you can do with preparation Of anna
to, now sold for the purpose in most
drug stores
If you desiro to convert the butter
restored as above into f1rst-class arti-
Gle, fully up to the best Goshen. yca
will take say fifty pounds o, it, which
you will place into a revolving chnrn
with six gallons OF new milk and pint
of the juice pressed from carrots. No
other than a revolving churn will an
swer, for the hardness OF tho butter
will prevent the motion Of q dssher.
Start the churn briskly and keep it go
ing for half an hour, after which take
ont and handle the same as new butter.
No other coloring is nceded-the carrot
juice will have impaired to it rich
yellow color. 1t will also have added
to the favor, making the favor resem-
BILE that of new butter in every rar!!cz.
u Progress.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
Gen. Robt. z. Lee.

As peculiarly appropriate at this peri,
od, we produce the following beautiful
and Just "Iu Memorism' tribute to him
who held the hearts and swords OF the
Southern people in his hanl. 1t ap
peared first IN the New Orleans Times,
but who was the gifted aud eathusiss-
tic author we have never learned:
ROBERT E. LEE.
The Great, the Good, the Wise,
Called hence to his reward.
OF all the men that ever carved their
names on Time,
He stands alone.
Others haze become famous for their tri-
umphs.
lie made failure glorious,
And won honors from defeat.
Vanqushed!
He was vet victor.
To honor virtue, is to honor him;
To reverence wisdcm, is to do him rever-
lie was a model for all who liye;
In death,
He left heritage to all.
One such example is worth more to earth
Than the stained triumphs of ten thousaai
CnSars!s
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
Sensible.

Mr.. Moody delivered the following
opinions in reply TO queries in the
s'unestion drawer"
II would not hurry people into the
Church; | am growing conservative
about that. I woull not get a child to
sign covenant not to swear or drink !;
he relies on that instead of Christ l
would not get children to speak IN gen
eral prayer meeting; il makes them sci:
righteous I would pns life into q
prayer meeting hy first getting it in my
own heart. and get nv church to work
by going to work myself. would get
all Christians united in work. l have
always found that our work is in pro
portion to the number of churches that
get enlisted in it. / would have the
same speaker night after night in evan
gelistic meetings. Different preachers
scatter interest rather than gather it.
One man on fire is better than dozen
without fire. Where there is ono mar
anxiou, for souls, there will be those
about him anxious for their own souls.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
James Parton's Baby.

| It is stated that "Mr. James Parton
is rejoicing over his first baby Far
ton, Parton? Yes, We renember, now,
Mr.. Parton married Fanny Fern. Was
her third husband. And wheu she died
he married her daughter--hih step
daughter. But he could not endure
the idea of being o stepfather. 1t was
repngnant to his feelings. SO he mar
ried her, and then discovered that the
laws of tho State did not recognize such
marriages, and asked the lawmakers to
make little law for him. bnt they re-
fused, and he moved off the premises
without notifying the landlord, since
which time we have not heard OF him
until this baby reminded of these
things. But what bothers u54ow IL to
fix Mr.. Parton's relationship-or rather
his numerous relationships-to that
baby. In the first place. ought We to
call him father OF o grandfather? Be,
canse t-is his child and his grandcsild.
Bnt if that baby ig his grandfather. and
Parton is its father, bless US, Parton
must be brother to himself! That is
auite clear. And il Parton il his own
brother, why, then, be must be uncle
to that baby. That follows, OF course.
Aud if he is uncle to that baby his wife
must be its auu:. Why, there ts M
end to this confusion. OF conrse, Mrs.
Parton can't be amt and mother Mt the
same time. Tho idea 3 absurd. We
now see where We were III error The
exact relationship may be stated thus:
Parton is father and-is it half or
fourth grandfather? No matter; call it
a half. Consequently that baby is is
- Now Fanny Fern took him as her
third husband. and Partons present
wife being her daughter, and not his,
that daughters baby is no kin TO- him
That sounds absurd, too, very. Allow
ing it is Parton's child, to begin with,
Parton is its grandfather, unless 1t is
the intention not to permit the poor
thing to have any grandfather at all
Now if it is his grandchild and he was
Fanny Ferns third husband and this
baby is the child of her daughter. ev-
sry time he takes it en- his knee--it
couldn't possibly be twins, could IT?
Yet there does appear to be two gener
ations in that one baby somehow. The
idea of dangling two generations on one
knee! That is the most ridiculons idea
of ali. Why, if that child we're really
Fanny Ferns daughters child, and
Parton was third husband to Fanny,
and father to he, daughter now. it amt
possible that Parton could pick himself
M and dangle himself Oh his own knee?
This is the most serious matrimonial
complication We have ever tried to
solve. We are unable TO do moro than
crack the shell; the keruel appears to
be shrouded in complications as nnmer-
ous as the folds enwrapping All E2yp
tian mnmmy. We are afraid to pursue
the subject any further. lest the hnrri
bic suspicion that dawns upon IA that
that baby should be Parson's father
should be verified. As it ia. we think
it ought not to no Parton's father.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
Eferasg.
Memorial Poem.
BY MISS sJoHNNrr HUNT, "MApaE.

BY MISS JOHNNIE HUNT, "MADaE."
Read on Memorial Day, May LIST, in the Cemeter!
at vickshurg, by Hon. Roswell '. Booth.
We stand in the silent city
Where pure white slabs are cleaning
Above each breast.
Whose long. sweet rest
Is never moved by dreaming.
On to the outer margin
Where graves cease TO be numbered;
Where, through the years
Soft smiles and tears,
A Nations dead have slumbered.
Under the long, loose lights
Dreamily dropping crown,
In hushed phalanx, and solemn ranks
They've laid their aru.or down.
The low sun seems to linger,
With touch almost supernal,
Where lines of graves.
Like green capped waves,
Stretch toward the shore eternal.
Each wave its freight has landed
SuLiimely were they freighted~
And the time each soul
Touched heavenly gotl
In the great Log book is dated.
Under Deaths fse of truce
Away from the fallen fort
God grant they sailed, with sins Christ
veiled
Into the silent port,
Over the grass step lightly,
Silence the children's laughter;
Their arms are stacked,
They are bivouacked
IN the fields of the Hereafter,
Here were the great guns planted,
Here were taa brave arms steadied,
Here with shout.
Did the blood gush out
While the soul on the red tide eddied.
Then scatter The wreaths Of flowers
Over each quiet mound,
The hearts that watered thcgtouhd,
They have ceased TO beat-ioW under ou,
feet
Though shaft nor pile nor pillar,
We raise to their ashes never,
In hearts Of each,
Too deep for speech.
Our dead are mourned forever,
through all the future ages
In history and in story,
Their fame shall chime
Their names shall twine--
They need NO greater glory.
Tenderly fall orr tears
Over their lieiess cay;
Here lie the dead who tough: and bled
And fell in garbs Of Grey.
Oars the fate Of the vangui-hed,
Whose heart aches never cease;
Ours the .cars,
Regrets and fears
Theirs the eternal peace.
Anger they dropped forever
With the passing buriea ot breath;
The Blue and the li.cy
Are alike to day
In the colorless land of death.
And the living 10 wore the Blue
May bring to the sieepers h!wers,
For the Blue ami the Grey are friends TO-
dav
In q happier land than ours,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31

Ir takes time aud money to make s
good farm Of one that is all run ont
Take small piece at timo. save and
use all the home made fertilizers econ>
but do not spread them over
too much ground. Yon have no labor to
waste in tending crops on two acres.
rhioh could better be grown on ono.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31

A WITTY Frenuh lady, who was an
adopted" member of famous military
corps, when Cigar was lighted in her
presence with the remark, II suppose
they smoke in your regiment" said,
"Yes, but not in my company.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31

3CASApIAs farmers claim .thst sis
bushels OF peas are equal to ten bush.
o,s Of corn for fattening hogs, aud that
peas yield larger number Of bushels
per acre than corn.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31

FEED sulphur, charcoal copperss.
black autimony aud sand. id wheat
dough, to lot OF chickens that begin
to droop aud it will have an efcsllest
eGtcf.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31

Marriage notices ant deaths. not .N-
ceeding ak lines, published free. All
over SIX iirns ch arged for nj regular sd-
yertising rates. 81
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31

HOW TO

Adorn and beautify the head is the great beside
ratum of all female society; yet no art can equa
the ma gpncent beauty Of o long and luxuriaH
grow IN Of live silken tresses. But many ladies
hair fslls out 80 rapidly and becomes so short
ana thin that they can't support Club" without
the aid of "desd hair'' shorn perhaps from some
diseased scalp We will tell you how to stop
your halr froIa falling out at once; how 30 cake
/. grow very long ana very rapidly 10y the use of
an elegant and highly perfumed Hair Dressing.
which cleanses and ccols the sc2i2 and Is lee
from sugar Of lead or any other poison.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31

GroRoIA farmers. are checking Oh
their cotton and planting corn every
eighteen feet, in yiewof the future high
prices Of all kinds OF grain. s
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
OWN HAIR

This wonderful preparation caused hair 70 grow
six feet in length on the head Of Kentncky iady
who mad beeil bald and has restored hair TO the
hesds 81 Many gentlemen who had been bald
from 10 TO as yeafs. Proof positive and unlnis-
tskahie from merchants, preachers Doctors
drugrists etc, free Thc arttcie alluded TO 10
Inown "a ISr. j. Newton Smiths Hair Restora-
tive, which is SOLD at 81 90 per bottle or three for
$3.50. Can be expressed but not mailed. send
arcas T j. 2. DRs,MaooLE. Icu.sYtir, K-.
sysv Qlyr
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31

When do two and two make more
than four? When they maks "a.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31
In Makers Rheumatic Cure

the proprietors have not attempted IN
make mngic cu'e-all, but have c"ncen-
trated their study upon this one a!lmr nj
ard III there is truth Ia he found in
this world" the testimony Of numerous
cures made Immediately around them at
hnma appear TO suhstantiate the fact
that this cure will actu II reliefe 81
per cent. Of th, sc who give ii tair trial.
They are willing to gusrantet every
case who will take The cure UHdCr tlslr
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-05-31

Read on Memorial Day, May LIST, in the Cemetery
at vickshurg, by Hon. Roswell '. Booth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-05
CRIMINAL NOTES.

John Thompson was held yesterday in $500 bail
nv rusfce Vy charged with attempn TO rob the til oi
- Fishers drug 30. 327 Bccckesi on Monday eve
nirg
At the Essex Market Police Court yesterday, WI,
committed Tor trial, ~ delut
II bail Tor completely ~ the robbery 0 Isaac lunn
pridltr OF No SO Hcsieat Ia East Eeycnsi, on august
90 Three other boys have Deeh arrested Or The 0fenee
Levy Lehman. alias Sesa Bloch. was convicted
Yesterday OF bny the Court ~ General Sessions before
Judge Gi .er-ecvc. is two were Ersua Brown asa
sarah BaeI auG ne from his own statements 10 nave
trusted a divorce his first vile granted D. Jewish
Rabbi
Fsr some time past articles Of cutlery aud crock
cry been missed from he New-NoIk Hospital W H.
Topper servant and sister Louisa washer oman en-
poyet ureses, suspected and pticcuNe N"De
arrested them. number Of pawn tickets senung some
oi tGr stolen propt were folnI ON theu he! we're W
yesterday before Justice nxby. and re1ande' u today
when tIc property viii d. prOd-cet ia Court
Samuel II. Pine formerly an employ6 Of sidney
Mis- - 30 ~ Broad agent fr tie lniiel STATES
NteDr Cpnuluy tela brought before JuSc liNDy
ON charge. obji iu Goods by iiics ami device. Tie
complainant Was Mus Who sad That some time fler his
ti-c.arfc called Eu sEd OBS ira hc iaa s we'd an
Order needles from ta'r named IT. n Twin oe
procured goods MI Mills ioT reiisry Thirty Gay
credit was %, gwen. -oOH aitrfwalUs fiA" uialafn
all.sr ln. by similar representation ,ffHI MT -h-
ir- tuat tacy II. g. kutza.t2 %, ENrEut b a
= aithst ir ,tys tll Pin, pI.clr,d 800 worm %
le-.. q .l e . h-s ti4t lnet. 4rc % 'c pc.. oh'
a4 h. tihc piot-s- 10 have received ortcs
Tie Is-5DleT VS. Iclauccd un.4l ip-ai
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-05

toner says held his wifes complaint and is She
who guilty OF bad conduct and he IL able TO give baA
question of no small importance has arisen under
the new code whether OF not provisions the require
old law that ding of the note OF issue stem
ogaphcr paid has ceased TO he operative
Lawyers s pay the - fec but many OF them under protest
In the matter OF Emanuel Bucksteln, bankrupt,
one the creditors opposed discharge from bankruptcy
ami specifications the Register. Judge Batohford
the papers granted discharge MI Buck
stein then resumed business and several months later e
creditor asked the discharge set aside The ground
that trial OF the should have been ordered on e
cat Judge BiatChtOr SIT aside the cschEc
tie ground OF the should nave Oeeh
asked for within after the bankIuprs discharge
John p. Rogers, who married the mother OF Mabel
Leonard yesterday application to Judge Wesorook
To DC released from custody claiming before that he hAd
ponc ia do with removing the child custody Of
c. Harrlott child entrusted by the COURT
that he had done could induce his wife TO restore
child that he had no furth power the matter, ana la
his health suffering his confinement IN reply u
was stated taaf mother had iey Nlted 10 eI a
e motion Cone without costs and Win leave 70 renew
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-05
DECISIONS eErr. 1.

Srpreme Court CAam5as--Dy Judge Wcstbrook.-
II the matter etc. Of fne New Amsterdam Haynrs Bank
OIauon Musl1avc ag,. S.erv OoIN colJra-dgn. Jones
aet Uud-rliI; Iuska aat Hofii-, T. gets att Smith
Iewcnihal AIT. Hoa-r. Hathaway alt. ~tawi Wiliams
acf. Alien % cara a-t. Carney h,rm9u 2gt o.tid. ger
schcs lseln and .utAe.; AVEr' Hs Ac.t t1r
ro at. deil; lsrFtr arL iaIb g. it ppliaH -ii-
COMPANY agi. lc rf.l ~ oilers 'Irh tti y a1-
fsi.er Nctns .tud iu tIr U@4fr ~ t..i4gs :
Young AT. O'Ntl: I9ldHIt a"f. ID g...t '"Ia7 "tL
fisr~curs IeItr ocf NtioImari DERBY silver 'llf ny.
boo ih, na lCf .tc. 81 i. hHy popiar i.t i"-uIa ce
.u. .-l .l.lt.l. u aaII go. n h'it, Mar
I'd aet. NOiualu; Caip 81. l.'ctni. Church
ardeAs aid kestr men % me .hGitl o the 0y SaYo
savings Eaua 1-t. tirg'f pc German wings
Bank ~ Name art Posi- Freeman agL Bal ;
t--,l at, t.-ur4n,cd smith d6. btinniion-s APP
proved FbeshaIo ast. hchuster Motion go vaca;e attain
heat iranie. Jacobs o IujrU oa iis Fed'
$40 cost. abide event. Brink German Fir, ms rance
Com s.Iy.-tfiNe uo,lcc 90 Nj. Hatch.
ll Jud-e nohut in the matter of The petition OF TIE
Trustees O. Tire Ncr.N0rk and brooklyn Bridge, etc
Granted Eel a. Iel-DeTce u divorce granted % ,he
plaintiff .
Common gleqy-> pGoiaI ierm.- BY Chei Justice C..
r. Daly- WesihcucT sgt. SeidHsr a.A0tun 10 make
cE!r and certain denied casts q" abd event
New ors Guardian SOC. llOys llou'l
10 .ud laf 81, 1910 granted. Nar-htn aS-
Marks Motion granted without costs Ward tt batf
Appl caOn aOuru sale granted. Ryan ay rCImt berg
te.ige AIT Frost AIT Fr.deIcSs lotion tp ei>nis5
complaint granted with so cnss W!ckot "a Fubri, e.
al. 40 D. same, go 2Muuoa 10 iscu1rrt re-
cp.rr. granted Tire matter o. Nafuer.-kp APPLICATION
granted stewart ag. McC00AOtiCu denied. HafanN agt
Sder Reach agt Ea-au; GeOihelrt ag G0odhoSft-Ordcrs
lf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-05
OUTDOOR SPORTS.
THE RIFLEMEN AT PRACTICE


Notwithstanding the fact that the rifiemen
OF both the Amer can and British teams had been invited
10 the Governors excursion yesterday, the range at
Creedmoor appeared offer the greater attraction ana
they resumed practice The American Rife team, tho
exception of Mr. Hepburn, who absent at the Amer
cnnC Canadian match Toronto and nine OF tue BRUSH
rflcmen besides the Crescent City Rifle club, were at
Creedmoor for practice. The day was one which the
British riHemcn hailed wit delight, as the wind blew
strong and rescherousy nearly at right angles with the
range during the shooting at tAe 500 and 900 yard
ranges bat while shouting at the 1000 yard range the
wind veered more 20 the southwark and became lighter
An force.
The scores made by the American markSmen surpassed
ANYTHING ever before any rnge, either In piac
tice competition or a match. The number OF points
made IN the highest eight American scores made total
az 65i points IN possible 500 the highest total be-
for. being $40. leaving out the score OF T. Lamb, Jr
who is one OF the reserves the team total Is lOil or one
point ghor than the highest eight scores ever made be
fore Bydenburgh made clean score OF 10 buFseyes NJ
the 500 yards range and second the list OF scores
Tho higcS eight Of the British remcn footed up
q total OF ssh points, Miner again leading.
The members Of the Crescent CITY Club were shooting
at disadvantage, they using new but poorer
powder. They nave concluded 20 sharPs rides ony
ana VIII to-day begin practice with them
The scores made were rs follows: