The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-03-20
AROUND TOWN.

There are q few case- Of mumPs in town.
There was. p reaching in all the churches
Sunday night.
The membership of the Nights of Honor
is rapidly increasing.
The roads will soon he good if the sun
continues TO shine.
Or, Westly Martin has presented us the
frat rsdishes Of the season.
A very cold snap Of weather down this
way for the lsst few days.
The Hose Company met Tuesday night
and elected a new corps Of officers.
Sam Brandon 4 county prisoner hired
to Hamilton b Co, escaped one night last
week.
Mr.. Barnard Bee and lady we're in town
last week, looking a. happy as tits po4siOls
TO imagine.
The present cold snap Of weather Will
have a tendency 10 retard tho growth of
Young vegetation.
The members OF the Pioneer Company
are requeSted to meet at their hall tonight.
Business Of importance.
St. Pa'ricS'. Day WA not celebrated here
A few natiyes of the Emerald Isle remem-
bsred the occasion by wearing the sham
rock.
The last order made bv the Board, to
have the town ~cisterns fixed 40 Ma to catch
water, is = good one. The Street Commits
sioner il low at work on them.
The President Of this road, Mr.. Osborn,
and family were in Brookhaven Sunday,
and attended services at the Presbyterian,
church. Mr.. Clark, Vice President was al
40 in town. They spent the day with Mr..
Mcnelas.
An alarm Of FIRE is sounded here every
week, atill it seems impos.ible to get the
FIRE department re organized. Every
property ownei In town ought to Join or
contribute something to the department
Not half Of them do either.
Mr.. Tom Rails inform. ia bv postal
from Bachelor Rancho, that he planted
some corn in January, which il now six or
eight inches high He ssys it came up
about the middle Of February, and that
the cold weather since january did not kill
it,.
The As.essor i. now on HIS rounds. and
propose, to make s correct assessment
Where he has reeton to believe:.that parties
che Gaze, he will make a note, and let them
and the Board OF Supervisors settle the
matter.
We are requesteI BY mcmbers Of the
presbvterian church to return thanks to
the ladies' and gentlemen who kindly a.
sisted with the last two entertainment
A,sratanue was fully given by every de
nomination. To the string and bras'
bands special thanks are returned.
snmmit claimed last week to nave ship
rrd nineteen hundred more bales Of eottor
Than Bro ,khnvsn. Oar c,tizens csn't be
~persu7ded to swallow thst. In fact, they
nave the best of rs,soas for believing
Summit il behind Brookhsven in cotto"
shipping. Wen see what we'll see.
The Presbyterian Sua lay School Wa. re.
organized last Sunday with n large stiena
snce NJ teAchers and scholars The officers
elected are: r. RI. Tompson, Superintend
ent; p. 4. McI,urin, Assistant, Srparin-
,endent; W. A. Henry, Secretary and Libra
gian; Mr.. C,4-ol IL III Mrs 5Jne-, CORES
pondins Secretaries.
We arc informed tn. Lincoln county
ran have = good decent two story brick
Corn house, for the ann Of thirty-three
snd one third per cent. On each one hun
bred dollars worth Of taxable property, to
be paid yearly for three years. Who has
50 many hundreds Of dollars worth OF pro-
perty that he cannot -ford to pay this tax
let him hold up his ri 5ht hand and speak
The ont house near the residence of Mr.
/. N. Hooker, and occnricd by a German
byIthe name of tchwartz, was consumed b,
FIRE last Thursdav. No damages was don'
to other property, notwithstanding the fac
the house burnt was in one hundred fee!
Of the main residence. 1t caught from
ANAL Gre left in the FIRE place. Schwart'
was phopping wood under the shed which
IL attached, and had bsen there 80 he say
all the evening, yet it WAS too late wher
he discovered the fire to remove any o
his things. He got right badly burnt il
attempting t" remove hi, trunk, which iii
tFonght BY some, contained more than
hun tred dollars ia money. All that HI
saved was the clothes he had on, aud they
were burnt so badly as not. to be Of much
service. Schwartzsss returns thanks t
those who have assisted him.