The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-08-26

House.
Mrs. Rembert, of Bsauregard was
in town Saturday. the guest of Mrs,
Mitchell
Little john Martin, son OF j. "
Martin, il, has been quite SICK for the
past few days.
Mrs. Williams, of Louisiana. is on a
visit to her mother. Mrs. Burgess. ar
ter al absence of eight years.
Misses Olivia Myers and Rebecca
Brown, of New Orleans. are iu our city,
the guests of NJ. Lewenthal.
E. S. Wilson, of the Wslthail Pho
neer, was in town Saturday. What can
be the seeming irresistible attraction?
Ed. Schaller has a new blowing ma
chine. We understand he Intends to
use it on some of the blow .hards around
town.
Miss Lila Cranberry. of Copiah
county, spent a few days in town this
week, on a visit to her sister. Mrs.
Mitchell.
Mrs. Brooks is having o brick build
ing erected next door to Krauss & Lee
WIS, which will be used by them as a
warehouse.
Miss Lizzie Buckley and smaller Sis
tiers are spending a few days with their
father, at the residence of Capt. Gwin,
in Jackson.
The wife and children of Rev. W. B.
Lewis are visiting relatives in Jefferson
county, and the parsonage wears a lone
ly aspect in consequence.
Geo. d. Allen, formerly of Poncha-
toula. is now night operator at this
place, having relieved Mr.. Smith, who
takes the agency at Hammond.
There will be an auction sale, in front
of the old court house, next Saturday.
of wagons, carts, mules, farming nipple
ments, etc. A bargain can be had.
O. T. Crosby, after spending the Va
cation with his mother, departed for
the Academy at West Point, via New
Orleans and Mobile. on Sunday last.
Charlie johnson. who was so severe
", and at first thought to be seriously
injured by his fall, has rec overed suff-
GENTLY to be out on the streets again.
Mr.. Bee has recovered sufficiently
from his injnries, received at Crystal
Springs. to be upon the streets again.
Besides the collar-bone, he had a rib
broken.
The accomplished Miss Bertha Block,
who has been visiting the Misses War
rem during the summer, returned to her
home in New Orleans, last Sunday
morning.
We understand that quite a number
of our young people, and some of the
older ones too, contemplate attending
the excursion to New Orleans, on the
14th prox.
We see that round trip tickets over
this road to Chicago have been placed
at 800, and the regular through aud
local fare been reduced to two and u
half cents per mile.
We see the clerks in many of our
mercantile establishments are busily
engaged in taking inventories of stock,
preparatory to closing the business of
the present fiscal year.
We learn that A. f. Moreton has
completed his mill and has all the req
uisite machinery in position. He Is
now purchasing teams and employing
laborers, and will have the mill in oper
alton in a short time.
The editor is still absent, and the
readers of The LEDGER will have to
overlook shortcomings. We expected to
receive from him an account of the ex"
c%ursion, but have not done so. You will
probably have u full account next week.
New cotton has begun to come in.
The frat made its appearance last week.
the first bale being purchased by Storm
& Son, at eleven cents, the second by
II. b. Withers at the same price. Last
Monday one was sold TO Nevin Il Bro,
for eleven and a half.
III D,ounrhaaba pu y NOW QApn with
smiling, happy ~countenances. because
of the arrival of their badges. They
are Justly proud of them, for they are
of pure dazzling gold. wrought in a
most elegant and appropriate design
and the universal verdict is, "lust too
lovely for anything"
Milt. Hoskins informs us that engine
6s. employed at the gravel pit. while
passing up the road before day Tuesday
morning, knocked from the track, a few
miles below town, an unknown negro
man, who was sitting upon it asleep
They returned and found that the me-
gro's injuries we're very painful. though
not dangerous, nope of the bones being
broken.
Mr.. NJ. NaItv informs us that in adj
'dition to the improvements mentioned
in last issue, be will have a thirty horse
power engine. two new gin stands OF
one hundred and fifty saws. latest i'm
proved, with feeders and condensers;
has also Paxton's Steam Friction Press.
With these facilities he will be prepar
ed to gin twenty bales Of cotton per
day.
The race arranged for last Friday be.
tween the Union Church horse aud the
Towns black mare.took place. and the
latter came of winner. Speaking OF
races, reminds us that DIR. M. J. Fer
guson proposes to beat any horse in
Mississippi for $1,000. with a forfeit Of
$500. He means what he Gays. and is
prepared to stand to it. He doesn't
care to see the horse. but ia ready to
make the bet any day.