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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-12
sMisreUany.
A New Church at Wesson, Missis.
9iUUl

The Rev. Granville T. Storey, who is
under appointment as missionary to
Greece, sends to the South Western
Presbyterian an account of the new
church building at Wesson, Missis-
sippi:
Since July 25th. / have been wor-
shipping with the Presbyterian con
gregation at Wesson, Miss. Wesson
has become well known in the
South and West by the large quantity
of cotton and wooden cloth inanufac-
tured there by the Mississippi Mills. y
These mills employ five hundred and
fifty hands, RIM ten thousand spindles,
and three hundred and eighteen looms.
They are under the control of Capt.
William Oliver, who is treasurer and
also large stock holder. There are
fewer loafers in Wesson than in any
place of its size in the State. They are
a working people.
The Presby terian church is the fruit
M the labors of the present faithful
aud efficient pastor, Rev. Jahleel Wood
bridge, This faithful man of God
served the Presbyterians of Baton
Rouge, La, fourteen years. From
Baton Rouge, he was called to the pas
torate of the church in Henderson, KY.
That large church was made the church
that it now is by ten years faithful la
Dor of Brother Woodbridge, blessed by
God. In 1871, Brother Woodbridge
was led, in the Providence of God, to
Wesson, Miss, hoping that the pure
and healthful air of Wessson would
restore health to an afflicted wife.
Thus God turned the affliction of His
servant to the foundation of church
for his glory; which was organized in
1872 with very few members, E0twith-
standing the heavy losses by numbers
moving away. There are now two ru-
ling elders in the congregational
William Oliver and Henry A Earns
They were without any house of wor-
ship until this spring. They have fin.
ished neat. commodions house, which
will comfortably seat about two huns
dred and fifty. This house cost about
So, 500, which was paid 10y their own
people chiefly, except q very small
sum. which is yet unpaid. The pews.
the chandeliers and the windows are all
in excellent taste, and admirably adap>
ted to the hOuse and to each other.
These, together with the handsome pul
pit set, give to the interior a general
appearance of adoption and neatness
which will attract the attention of any
one who is at all observant. The pull
pit set is neat, appropriate and conven-
Iient. 1t cost one hundred dollars,
which was paid by "The Ladies'
Mite Society" You see the ladies' of
this church are not idle. nor are they
ignorant of the power of mites. The
pulpit set is made complete by large,
handsome. Bible bearing the following
inscription:
"Presbyterian church,. Wesson, Miss.
From friends of the
REV. JAHLEEL WooDBRIDGE,
in his former charge at
Henderson. Ky.
Ps. cxxvi. 6,
1878"
This house is nov ready to be
dedicated to the service OF God af
soon as they can obtain suitble
man to preach the dedication serm )n.
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THe gireside.
The Use Of an Enemy.

Always keep an enemy in hand-a
brisk, hearty, active enemy.
Remark the uses of an enemy:
1. The having one is proof that you
are somebody. Wishy- wishy, empty,
worthless people never have enemies.
Men who never move never ftin against
anything; and when man is thorough.
ly dead and utterly buried, nothing
ever iuns against him. To be run
against Is proof of existence and posi-
tion; to run against something is proof
of motion.
2. An enemy is, to say the least, not
partial to you. He will not fiatter.
He will not exaggerate your virtues.
1t is very probable that he will slight
ly magnify your faults. The benefit of
that is two-fold-it permits you to
know that You have faults, aud are,
therefore. not monster, and it makes
them OF such size as to be visible and
manageable. OF course, if you have
fault You desire to know it; when you
became aware that yoa have a fault you
desire to correct it. Your enemy does
for you this valuable work which your
friend cannot perform.
8. In addition, your enemy keeps
yon wide awake. He does not let you
sleep at your post. There are two that
always keep watch, namely, the lover
and the hater. Your lover watches that
you may sleep. He keeps off noises,
excludes light, adjusts surroundings,
that nothing may disturb you. Your
hater watches that yon may not sleep.
He stirs you up when you are mapping.
He keeps your faculties on the alert.
Even when he does nothing he will
have put you in such state of mind
that you cannot tell what lie will do
next, and this mental qui vlve must be
worth something.
T. He is a detective among your
friends. You need to know who your
friends are, and who are not, and who
| are your enemies The last of these
three will discriminate the other two.
When your enemy goes to one who is
neither friend nor enemy, and assails
you, the Indifferent one will not have
nothing to say or chime in, not because
he is your enemy, but because it is SO
much easier to assert than to oppose.
and especially than to refute. But your
friends will take up cudgels for you on
the instant. He will deny everything
and insist or proof and proving is very
hard work. There is scarcely truth
full man in the world that could afford
to undertake to prove one tenth OF
all his truthful assertions. Your friend
wi call yonr enemy to the proof, and
If the indifferent person, through care
lessness, repeats the assertions of you,
enemy, he is soon made to feel the in
convenience thereof by the Zeal your
friend manifests. Follow your enemy
around and you will find your friends,
for he will developed them so that they
cannot be mistaken.
The next best thing to having hun
dred real friends is to have one open
enemy. But let us pray to be delivered
from secret foes.
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Advantages of Poverty.

Much is said of the independence of
poverty. That riches nor place, elo>
Iuence nor power, title nor glory, bring
happiness is proved in the experience
of all countries and all people. While
this is true on one hand. it is equally
true on the other that poverty has its
advantages, adversely its uses. If they
are not as sweet as Shakespeare paints
them. they are not as sour as many inn
agine. Punch illustrates the common
blessings of common men in the follow
ing truisms: a ~
You wear out your old clothes.
You are exonerated from making any
calls.
You are not troubled by any Wis.,
itors. w
Bores do not bore you
Spongers do not haunt your table.
ltinerant bands do not play opposite
your window.
You are not prosecuted to stand god
father.
No one thinks of presenting you o
testimonial.
No tradesman irritate you by asking
IFS there any little article to, day,
sir?"
Begging letter writer's let you alone.
Imposters seem to know its no use
| bleeding you.
You swallow infinitely less poison
than others.
Flatterers do not shoot rubbish IN
yonr ears.
Yon are saved many a debt and
many . headache.
And lastly,if you have friend in the
world you are sure in very short time
| to learn it.
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A Great Statesman's Advice,

Mr.. Webster, in one of his coyersa.
tions with his biographer, made this ex.
traordinary ststement:-''I am not uu>
aware" said he, "and it would be aifec.
tation in me TO deny it, that have
public reputation to leave to posterity;
hut it has,been earned with difficulty.
If wers to live my life over again,
with my present experiences. would,
under no circumstance and from no
considerations. allow myself to enter
public life. The public are ungrateful.
The man who serves the public most
faithfully receives no adequate reward.
In nv own history those acts which
have been, before Gcd, the most disinA
terested and the least stained by self b
considerations, have been precisely
those for which have been freely
abused. No, no! have nothing to do
with politics. Sell your iron, eat the
bread of independence, support your
family with the rewards of honesty toll,
do your duty as private citizen to
your country, but let politics alone. II
is hard life, thankless hfe."
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The Roll Call In Heaven.

An incident is related by chaplain
who was in the army during one of our
hard fought battles:
The hospitals had been filed up fast
as the wounded men had been
brought to rear: Among them was o
young man mortally wounded and unas
BILE to speak. It was midnight, and
many loved one lay sleeping on The
battle field--that sleep that knows DO
waking, until Jesus shall call for them.
ihe surgeons had been on their
round of duty; and for moment all
was quiet. Suddenly the young man,
before speechless, called out in clear
voice, "Here?" The surgeon hastered
to bis side, and asked what he wanted.
Nothing, said he "they are calling the
roll in heaven. and ] answered to my
name." He turned his head aud was
gone to join the great army whose uniS
form is washed with the blood of the
Lamb.
Reader, in the great roll call Of etern-
ity your name will be heard; can you
answer s'HereY Are you one of the
Soldiers of Christ, the great Captain OF
salvation?
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SHerif's sale,
VS.. tn, hmenI in Circuit |

I. Bloom & Co. Judgment on ,noi'i at,
VS.. la' hiiicH' III LitN',''
w. b. Brewer. court of Lincoln
county for $5S5.o0 and cost.
nv yirtue of a writ Of yendetloni cX.
ponas to me directed from the CirciIl'
court of Lincoln county in the above
81 oted case. L will on
Monday, the fonrhh day Of October, one thousand
eight hundred and serenity eight,
at the court house door. IN the town ol
Rrookhayen. proceed to scii to the
highest bidder for caeh. the following
lands which have bee, We'd on t'y vir-
rue OF an attachment in this case. to-wit
ten acres in Sc ar OF NY or and thirty
acres ic NV or of NV or of sec. one:
1870. and h of ne or sec. two and
8 sc or sec. eleven. and lots one, two
and lot five, II of Indian tracs. IN sec
four. ct s r Q or so much thereof. as
may be sufficient to satisfy the JudS'
ment and cost in the case.
- %. cox, Sheriff.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-12
Training.of Children.

MANY parents make the serious mis-
| take Of not training their children early
| in regular habits So fearful are tney
of being stern or strict. that they arc
on the other side, and allow their chill
dren to take advantage OF their very
tenderness and affection.
It il not at all uncommon, IN these
days, to see children who have fppaf>
emily grown utterly Indifferent to me
pleasantly expressed wishes OF theif
parents, and who constantly transgrebs
the rules and regulations OF the house
hold. =,
They must be urged or scolded to get
them up in the morning, or to come 10
their meals in time, and there is always
a contest before they can be induced to
leave their play. to study their lessons,
Of to do their praCtIcihg. 1t ls no
kindness to children to permit s'ich
irregularities.
The training of the yonng is given
into the hands of the parents with iuli
power te direct and govern, and they
have no right to allow their children
such liberty and treadnm f-~-. PIUPeh
regtrainG as viii render them disagrea-
BILE and unfit them for future usefull-
ness.
They are TOO often weakly allowed to
argue with their parents, and to discuss
the Justice of their commands. This
does no good, but positive BARN, which
| the parent will discover as the child
grows older and more difficult to man
age; and when discord and wranglingi
have driven reace end happiness fror'
the home.
Obediencs should be prompt. Be-
cause father SAYS 30, or mother says 80,
should be sufficient reason. Parents
who do insist on this Must not think it
strange if in future their hearts are
suddened by the preference and unfiliai
conduct of those who should have been
comfort and strength to their dec!in-
ing wears.
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The Friend Of the Poor Man.
Walden. MISS, Aug. Is, 1878.

yAlDENs M lSS., AUX. Ac, Aofo.
Editors Clarion-In addition to my
present "benefciaries" at Oxford, l
propose to furnish rations for fifteen
more, who will agree to do their own
cooking, and mess two or more in
room. Any Young man desirous OF an
education will readily embrace this of
fer. My "beneffciaries" are exempt
from the tax of ten dollars others pay
Provisions will be bought at Wholesale
prices and issued by commissary ut
cost, and time given il needed until
able to pay My mess cottages would
have been built but for an act prohibi>
ting the occupation of the University
grounds west of the Railroad. There
are one hundred and eight rooms iu
the dormitories. which can, on early
application. be had, in which students
, can mess as formally. Mr.. Tyson, a
member OF the last session of the law
class, graduated with third honors, did
his own cooking and washing. and 9TH
ers can initiate his example. l write
this az an experiment and ask the press
of the State to give publicity to it,
that it may be. profitable by the deserv-
Ting. / will take noyouug man whose
family resources are adequate to his
education. / desire young men OF
brains, industry, good morals, ard
who are: 100 poor to educate
themselves, and can adduce testimony
in substantiation of what / require.
I prefer sons of Confederate dead.
Those applying must be advanced in
the primary branches of an English ed,
ucation or they cannot be admitted III
Preparatory Department.
G. NJ. Walden,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-12
She Waited not in Vain

Yesterday occurred the happy ending
of a long and weary waiting on the part
of a lady who was once the fairest of
the fair daughters of Toledo. Eleven
years ago she was betrothed, with her
parents consent to young man of fine
character, hut without what is consid
cred the most desirable possession next
to that, namely: money. Hesitating
to take his beloved from her home to
the trials that poverty entails. he bade
her farewell to go West to seek his for
tune. She had letters from him until
he arrived in Omaha, when they sud
denly ceased. The days wore Into
weeks, and weeks into years-still no
word from the absent one to the anxious
girl, who waited and watched all in vain
His friends gave him up for dead, but
she. with woman's persistency. refus-
cd to think so, and declared her belief
that he would some time return to claim
his bride. Suitors came and went, her
eyes became dim with weeping, the
roses faded from her cheeks and grad
uallv withdrawing from the scenes she
had graced with her presence, her very
existence was almost forgotten by So
c:ety.
Two weeks since. while sitting alone
in her qniet parlor, the bell rang, and
in moment more the door opened and
n GENTLEMAN entered the room. The
bronzed and bearded man had little re>
semblance to the slender youth to whom
she nIiehted her trouth 80 many long
years before. but the eve of love could
not he deceived. aud in moment more
shc was clapsed in the arms of him for
whom she had SO long watched and
waited. His story was soon told.
Leaving Omaha with an emigrant train
for the Pacific coast, it was attacked by
Indians. and he was taken prisoner aud
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1iferaEy.
For the Brookhaven Ledger.]
That ''LOveliest of Girls.
BY HOMER MAaEE.


met her at gathering upon summer''
day,
And by her lovely. face and form, she Won
my heart away;
Her eyes were bright as sunshine, and hel
teeth were white as pearls,
+ thought she was the darlingest-thf
'.ioyeliest OF girls"
From underneath her jockey hat, mass o.
dark, brown hair
In wavy ringlets fell about her shoulders
round aud fair;
Half parted were the cherry lipa, Oh no"
my poor heart whirls
As mem'ry pictures TO my nina ina
''loveliest of girls!'
We strolled about the green old woods,
plucked her flowers gay;
She thanked me, pressed them to her tp'
-. in such charming way!
ooh, my!" thought !, to win her love ie
give thousand worlds,
As walked onward By her side-tha
''loveliest Of girls!'
With laugh and jest we passed the tine
and reached rustic seat,
And as she gracefully sat down, out peep
ed two pretty feet
| took her hand-said she, sits nice, while
tossing back her curls,
| pressed her hand-I kissed her hand
that "loveliest of girls!"
Said she, Il think you are, dear sir, the
handsomest of men,
And I'm not very pretty, sir, but pa has
lots of tin"
saw her smile, heard her words, oh
how my poor heart whirls
As nem'ry brings befe~s my face thai
''loyeliest of girls"
Said unto myself, fright here l will the
question pop"
And rising from the rustic seat, upon my
knees did drop:
"Oh, Mable, dear, l love you now, I'll love
YOU all my life;
Oh, tell me now my darling one, that you
will be ny wife p
"Why Mr.. c.. arise, 1 pray, you'll sol
your broad-cloth there;
Don't act foolish, sir, l beg-oh, my dc
declare!
| wouldn't have you soil your pants, moi
for thousand worlds"
She laughed at me, yes, yes, she did thai
"loveliest OF girls"
"Confound it, womanl' then l cried, fol
fun Pm in no mood,
Come, gather up your hat and things. let:
leave this cu.sed wood"
MY dear dear sir, don't take on 80" the
little beauty said,
IL thought YOU knew l was engaged tc
merry cousin Fred"
"Confound your cousin Fred |" said l, as
swift rushed away;
"Confound you and your cousin Fred--con
found you both, say y
| left her laughing at me there, her teeth
shone white as pearls.
| left and soon was miles from her--thai
"lovelest of girls"
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Facts and Theories About the Su

Facts and Theories About the Sun
The sun is three hundred and twenty
thousand times rs large as this
earth.
The sun is four hundred times as tal
off as the moon.
A lady who weighs one hundred
pounds here would weigh two thousand
seven hundred pounds if Oh the surface
of the sun.
The heat given off by the sun would
melt two hundred and eighty seven
million, two hundred thousand cubic
miles of ice every second.
The diameter of the earth bears the
same relation to it's distance from the
sun as the breadth of a hair to one
hundred and twenty five feet.
A railroad travelling without stops at
the rate of forty miles an hour wonld
get to the sun in two hundred and sixty
three years.
The sun is believed to become two
hundred and fifty feet smaller every
year.
This contraction would be sufficient
to generate the enormous quantity oi
heat which it radiates.
Another theory is that comets and
meteorie matter falling into the sur
may be it's ailments to offset the tre'
mendous loss which combustion GER
| tainly involves.
1t would require the combustion OF
thirty feet of coal over the entire sur
face of the sun every second to geper'
ate the same heat.
The stars are supposed to average lar
ger than our sun and to have planet
systems like this. @
The nearest star is two hundred and
fifty thousand times as far off as oui
sun.
It takes light eight minutes to come
from the sun, but it must have required
fifty thousand years to come from the
farthest visible stars.
When the eleven year storms on the
sun occur. the magnetic needle on tn
earth is variable ard sometimes consid-
erably detected
The earth is flying around the sun at
the rate of one thousand miles min
ute
The sun and all the stars are moving
through space. accompanied by their
planetary systems, at a rate varying
from twent y to two hundred miles a
second.
Some Of the sun-spots (craters) are
one hundred thousand miles in dame
ter, and one of them could easily
swallow mp the whole of the planets,
Jupiter himself not making mouth
| full.
Maedler's curious and brilliant specu-
latlon is that the star Alcyone is the
central sun of our universe, and that
our sun and the visible stars are swing.
ing around it in orbits measured by
millions of years.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-12
A Joke on a Th,eving Newspaper.

Springfield, ILL.,, has been convulsed
with laughter over a trick played on
the State Gazette. which attempted to
establish itself when the State Journal
suspended. It had no daily franchise
but daily scissors and reprints of the
dispatches of rival sheets. including
the headlines. At last it opened
negotiatiations in writing with q
Register pressman for one of the ear
lest copies of that paper, so that the
Gazette could get out an hour earlier
with the dispatches cribbed. The
Register prepared and inserted bo-
gus dispatch in its issne, pnrporting to
give an account of a storm at Winches-
ter. which it is said killed the pastor of
a German church in his study, and
with his last breath, uttered the words.
..Ich habe desc Nacbrieht gestohlen. /"
The Gazette had its advance copy Of
the Registrar duly delivered by its sup :
posed confederate, stole not only the
genuine dispatches. bnt also published
very canspicusnsly, and with displayed
head lines, the bogus telegram. When
the public read md translated "Ich
habe diese Nechricht ges,ohien, mean
ing II have stolen this dispatch" the
joke was seen.
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OLD MR.. GROWERS STORY

am an old man now; folks used to
be more romantic when l was young.
They used to fight ducks Instead Of go-
ing to law, aud they used to elope in>
i stead of waiting and waiting until they
get sick Of waiting, or giving up and
marrying to suit the old folks.
1t wasn't 50 curious about Miranda
Bates clipping, but the things that came
of it were funny.
You see, Grandfather Bates wouldn t
have anything to say to jeremiah Jones
when he asked him whether or not he
could have Miranda. And SO she just
packed up her bundle, and he was to
have n carriage at twelve o'clock to car
ry her off to the parsons.
We'll, she was all packed mp aud ready
in big cloak with q hood, and was
creeping down stairs softly. not to wake
any one, when she saw some one else in
cloak and hood creeping down before
her
It was her grandmother, old Mrs.
Bates, going out to pick herbs. Some
herbs, az folks knew in those days.
wouldn't do any good as medicine il
they weren't picked at midnight.
So that was her idea: bnt, of course,
Miranda was scared back, and hid be-
hind the door. and old Mrs, Bates went
potering for her herbs, and up drove
! the carriage. She didn't hear it. but il
/ happened Grandfather Bates did, and
up went the window.
"Who is there?' beloved he. and
Jeremiah Jones. acared to death and
taking old Mrs. Bates for Miranda,
inmpted out, caught her by the waist.
crammed her into the carriage, and was
driven away like wild.
Miranda saw it all; 80 did old Bates.
Miranda shrieked; old Bates beloved
down stairs he rushed, and met Miriam
da coming mp.
"Who was that at the gate?" he
yelled.
"Oh, grandpai" screamed Miranda,
"Jeremian Jones has carried off grad
ma.
| Nov old Mrs. Bates had been very
pretty. and old Mr.. Bates bad been
yery Jealous, and it all came back. He
stormed and swore, and got his piss
tots, mud wouldn't listen to a. word Nil
randa said, and mounted his horse and
rode after the carriage.
Inside it was pitch dark, and old Mrs.
Bates was as dead as post and thought
robbers had carried her off.
jeremiah kept ber wrapped mp in hel
cloak and called her his sweetest. and
his duck and dove, and all the while
she thought he was threatening to kill
her. and didn's care to speak, but only
sobbed and cried; and when they got
ont on the road piece. clatter, ciatter.
clatter, came the horses heels behind
them and
.Stop." yelled old Grandfather Bates
ssStop, demand that lady!'
Jeremiah looked out Of the window.
| "Never!'' said he.
| "We'll see," cried old Bates and fired
at him. The ball missed him.
Drive faster." said Jeremiah to the
Then he pressed old Mrs. Bates te
his heart.
"Dou't weep, Miranda, said he. "Ht
shall not take You from me. Oh. if il
were only daylight that / might sex
your face" 4 q /.
II hain't got any money with me,
4 sobbed the old lady, but he did mo-
hear her. =.
On they drove, faster aud faster, ani
after them drove the. old man. faster
and faster too. At last, on tue higl
road, in lonely place. with nobody
near, and the parsons house miiei
awsy, Oh came ope Of the car1iagt