The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-09-11
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Mr.. Young opened the. ~Brookhaven
Male Academy. Monday.
''Sit down'on the Grcenback snake be-
fore it gets lis coil around you.
Candidates are out ON the ~warpath after
voters. They are all %sanguine.
Dan Mclean is teaching school in the
neighborhood of Folders mill.
Mr.. r.. b. Withers and family have re-
turned from their northern trip.
Has our Board Of Health ever notified
an, body to clean up his premises?
Mrs. Flood is having a new store house
built on the lot where her old one stood.
The Executive Committee will meet here
Saturday. What it will do, is unknown.
Four bales of new cotton, all belonging
to the same man was broughtin Yesterday.
The game law will soon be ont and then
woe,be unto the game around Brookhaven.
The party at DR.. Johnson'S Thursday
night was well attended and highly en-
joyed.
The little folks enjoyed themselves at
the party at Mrs. Burgess Thursday
night.
Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana, was de-
tanned here a few hours by the break IN
the road.
The ball given last night by the Cocordia
Social Club WAS one OF the most enjoyable
events of the season.
A negro convict, No. 1906, from Jones
conntv, died here en- the oh inst, of ty-
phoid fever.
The Senatorial Convention c~ovene1
here Monday, but as Pike county was not
represented it adjourned till next Satur-
day, the 18th inst.
Primary election on the 22d INST. Can-
didate+c,n have their tickets printed al
The LEDGER office cheap.
How does the Great Financier stand OF
the Moore bond question: lie will be eX'
tected TO show his hand,
Judge Chris;ifer, colprcd, one Ct tho
hands employed in repairing the track
died on the 9uh inst.
Touch the Greenback question lightly
Most OF the Radicals will join the new
party 10 the hopes Of def, ating the Demo-
cracy-
What is the principal object of the
f~:reenback party? TO break down the
Democracy, for without that, it knows 1T
can never succeed.
We heard a man the other day say that
times had gotten so hard he was compelled
to kill birds in order to keep the Hide
ones something to eat,
Mr.. Gates has given up the pastorate Of
the Baptist church here. lie will attend
school at Louisville, Ky. Ills successor
is Rev. +. c. Eager.
]. NJ. II. g. Y. T.. Q. is s%tumping the
county for the Green1ackers. Bill
Vaughan is expected to meet him and ask
fer division of time.
1t is understood that Jesse Taylor is the
person to whom the Picayune refers as
the individual who was solicitous as to
Gov. Nichols welfare while soiourning
here.
Mr.. W. n. Williamson, chief clerk of
Holloway & Mckinney, Mt. Carmel, called
Tuesday. He was on his way to Baton
Rouge, where he goes to visit friends,
The debate, Is the Republican form of
government of the United States better
than the Monarchial government OF
Great Britain? will occur at Judge Chris
mans' Friday night.
Green plnms, green peaches, green
apples or other green fruit will make a
person sick if he eats too much of it, and
those that swallow too much of the Green
back issue may also expect 10 be sick, for
that party will never succeed.
The Knights of Honor have leased the
p hall in the Storm building, and are
having it fitted up for a lodge room. a
reading room for members will be one OF
the features OF the new hall. where the
principal papers and periodicals Will be
kept on file.
The Picwarbeehen Club held their last
meeting at the residence of Mr.. Warren,
An invitation was received to attend the
hon. given by the Conordia Club, which
was accepted. The name of John Nc
Iaurin was enrolled as a member. The
next meeting will be held at II. II.
Henry's.
A friend asked us to loan him a copy OF
that Radical Vicksburg paper, the
Hearld," with Mrs. Dixon's letter. lie
was informed the paper was not Repnoii-
can. He reulied, that he understood IT
was intensely Radical, that that was the
idea the criticisms by the press would con-
vey Of that paper. He read the letter TO a
crowded. anxious spectators.
The proceeding of the convention OF
colored men, held here August 3oth, is
published in to-day's paper. The resolu
tons offered were good, and we are IN
formed would have been adopted but for
interference of u en- who were not deiega-
ties. As they were not adopted, we take it
for granted a majority those present
we're opposed 10 pledsing of the colored
voters as indicated in the resolutions, and
for that reason. would it not be well Tor
every Democrat in the county 10 go to me
polls Monday, September 22d, and vote at
the primary election for men Of his choice?