The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-08-23
AROUND TOWN.

last issue. Send them along
Mai. K. w. Millsaps and lady have gone
to Chicago on a recreation tour.
We had a heavy shower of rain Tuesday
afternoon, accompanied with some wind.
Are Won going to the camp meeting? II
commenced at Crystal Springs yesterday,
Mr.. J. n. Schwall has removed his shoe
. shop to his old stand on Cherokee stree;
The Misses Raiford, of Liberty, were in
town yesterday, en- route for the caml
meeting,
Use so weak / can nearly walk STRAIT
Is what a man said on the street Tuesday
afternoon.
ON account of the rain the Young Mems
Literary Association did not meet last
Tuesday night.
Five thousand boxes and twenty-onc
barrels of peaches have been shipped from
here this season.
Peaches are sold here now to the high
es, bidder. 1t may result yet in a peach
war. Who knows?
Prof. Eckhardt and lady have returned
from Browns Wells. Miss Edwina Burn
ley has returned also.
Well bet a nickel there are more black
terriers in Brookhaven than ia any other
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Quite a number of persons went from
here to the camp meeting Yesterday. We
hope they will all have a good time
= spicy trial took place before the May
or Yesterday. We draw the mantle OF
charity over the scene and forhear com
ment.
Three prisoners, that were convicted al
the Circuit Court, were taken TO the pcnl-
Tertiary last night in cha, sc of Sheriff i,
Q. Cox.
Since the first day of January, 1877,
Mr.. Jesse Warren, Circuit Clerk, has is
sued seventv-nine marriage licenses for
Lincoln county.
Mr.. T. Pfeifer has had new plank put
across the gutter in front Of his business
house on Cherokee street. Street Com
missioner Jennings had the gutter cleaned.
Last Sunday afternoon Rev. J. I, Heard
preached a very impressive crmon in the
cemetery. In conclusion he said it was
not customary here to preach in the grave
Gard, but it was in many other places, and
if the people desired he would T. peat it,
Rev. w. Burgess added a few remarks and
pronounced the benedictiun.
Our gentlemanly depot agent informs us
that fare from Brookhaven to the Crystal
Springs camp meeting and return will be
Sl.S0. Some of our citizens have already
gone to the camp meeting, and many others
will leave Friday and Saturday. The
meeting promi-cs to be more extensive
this year than It has ever before been.
The most eminent Methodist diyinss in the
State viii be present.
Last Thursday Stevens Gaines, colored,
threw an iron spike through one Of the
windows Of the pay car, as it was passing
through the southern part of W The
car stopped at once and Capt. Deaton
stepped out and arrested him. He was
turned over to the municipal authority
An affidavit was filed against him. The
next day he was tried ana fined twenty
five dollars and imprisoned for thirty days.
Dicev Chambers, an aged colored woman
died very suddenly last Thursday evening,
near the colored Methodist Church. She
was on her way home when she fell. Some
one saw her and hastened TO see what was
the matter, and found her in a diving CON
dition. Just before she expired she ut
tered the following words: Give me the
fan" It is supposed she died OF heart dis
case,
Mr.. J. A. Sheldon, the finished photog-
rapLer, who can now be found in the gal
lery next to the Maxwell House, is doing
some splendid work. He is an artist Of
the first class, and those who wish to Sc
cure good pictures Of themselves, friends
or relatives viii miss a rare opportunity
if thew do not avail themselves of his eff
Gent services. He is capable OF render
ing entire satisfaction. Give him a call.
The Mayors Court room has been en-
larged and otherwise improved. A neat
railing now encircles the Mayors desk,
and there is plenty Of room outside of il
for the accommodation of spectators
Heretofore attorneys and wi:nesses have
been SO crowded that it rendered the Court
very uncomfortable. Hereafter, however
there will be nothing of that kind, as only
attorneys, litigants and witnesses will BE-
admitted behind the bar.
Miss Bertha Block, one Of the fail
daughters of the Crescent City, who la.
been spending a portion Of the summer il
our town, departed for her home in New
Orleans last Monday morning During
her ~soiourn here she was the guest of Mr.
Jesse Warren's family, and or the evening
preceding her departure a number of heI
admiring friends assembled at Mr.. War
ren's residence to pay their respects to her
to extend the parting hand, and to sa,
Good bye"
Our friend, Capt. S. Gwin, the Demo
cratic nominee for Auditor of Public Ac
counts, enlightened our sanctum with hi
genial presence last Friday afternoon. HI
will make a punctual, prompt and eflcien
officer, and in his election the State vii
secure the services of a gentleman OF thu
first magnitude. Known as he is, no MAI
can say aught against him, and those who
mention hispame dc ro " "a pnnet favor