The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-09-26
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AROUND TOWN.

Too many entertainments.
Cotton il beginning to roll in right fast.
Skating at the rink Saturday night.
<japt. Burke did not write Citizen"
Whilworth College will not reopen iii
Octeher; 30th.
Moi. J. F. Sessions has given the Ho W.
ard Association S25 %.
The question still remains unanswered
Will 1t ever remain thus?
The Young Ladies' Relief Association
have donated a carload of pine knots to
Iie'ly Springs.
In obedience 10 Gov. Stones proclama-
ton. services were held at the Methodist
church last Friday.
Keep the fires up three weeks longer
They cost but little and are known to be
great preventives.
No proceedings of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen this week. What's the
matter?
Msi. Millsaps and W. 1. Magee have
giving the Howard Association $50
each. Who will be next to subscribe?
The family of Mr. w. /. Magee have
returned to town. They haye spent the
list few weeks in the country.
Several of our fellow-townsmen Sho
are absent, are detained from returning
lone on account of the quarantine.
A good deal of cotton is coming in.
Up to YESTERDAY evening, $50 bales
had leen received. 1t is selling this
morning at from nine to ten cents.
Mr.. BIB Perkins, our former fellow
townsman, who has been sick with the
yellow fever at Holly Springs, We are glad
u learn is again or his feet.
To give all the entertainments that are
ROW given in Brookhavem special men
lion. would consume one side of The
LEDGER, and require the whole attention.
of one man to write them up.
The entertainment given by the Young
Ladies Relief A ISOLATION at the college
on Friday night Melted Sl4:50. The fun
was immense, the candy very sweet. the
milk and mush fresh and nice. 1t was the
o,.lsion ofmnch marrim mi.
We can't publish communications from
every man in town about the action of our
CITY officials. Gentlemen, stop and con
slider: all men arc human and liable to
err. Our quarantine may not be perfect,
hut it haa protected Us thus far, and we
2ughttn be thankful.
Oar Mayor received an order this week
from Mr.. Holland, President Of the How.
ard ASSOCIATE II at Holly Springs. for
eleven carloads Of pine They are going
t. 'rv the effects of fire and smoke on
YELLOW Jack, which j. no doubt 4 capital
idea.
Misses Clara Pf-ifer and Rachel Weis
made q couple Of pin cushions. WI ich were
ratified off for the sum of Sl5 90. at twen,
tv.tive cents a chance. MISS Rachel Wfis
received the first and best one, and Mr..
Fred. Sherman the other. The money has
hern cent to the yellow fever sufferers OF
Memphis.
Our town il now passing through the
most critical period Of the season, and
tho quarantine laws onght to be rIgid'v
enforced. II we are vigilant two or three
weeks longer. there will be no fear Of fever
here. Let officers keep vide awake (" d
allow no suspicious parties to conn within
Our borders.
The Young Lndie>' Relief Association
have made all necessary preparations for
n good time for all who will assemble at
tte college chapel tonight. Together
will, the many other pleasant features
therc will be n supper which will consist
Of MANY good things to please the palate
of the most fastidious. Charges very lo"
.Al should attend.
A crowd of drunken men passed through
one of our principal streets on Saturday.
k~allowing and cursing like wild Indians
why we're they not arrested? The Mari
shal was at home sick in bed, bnt was there
not a deputy in his stead? This is not the
first time this has occurred. Such off-n-
ders onght to be arrested and made to pay
for violating the law.
No one can be sick now without the
uossips declaring he has the yellow fever.
T. NJ. Henry was sick q day or two. and
the news soon spread that he had the vel
low fever. He ia at work again. Ed.
Perkins WAS confed TO his room a few
hours, and the takers avowed he had the
genuine yellow fellow. There has been
no yellow fever here, and will be none if
t',e quarantine Is enforced. ard people
will bride their lips. See DIR. Bpwen's
ard