The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-07-15
AROUND TOWN.

Mr.. Prince and family have moved to,
New Orleans.
Mrs, 7. j. S. McGrath Is visiting rela~
tiyes in I%llionis.
DIR. johnson, wife and Miss josie nave
gone to North Carolina,
Mr.. Bingham will preach in the Presby-
terrain church next Sunday,
The Greenback party has summer
growth. 1t will die in winter.
w. j. Smith has had a neat lattice work
erected IN the front of his store.
The Rev. VIM. East will preach at Union
Hall. the first Sabbath IN August.
Misses Sallie johnson and Annie Ogles~
by are visiting San Antonio, Texas.
It's 4 little giri. and luther Hobbs in
consequence is immensely happy.
MANY of the Greenbackers in this coun-
~ say they will vote for Hancock.
The weather indicates a marriage in
Brookhayen tonight about eight o'clock.
The membership of the Picwarbeehen
Club now numbers about about twenty
five.
Mr.. Dreyfus has gone to Ashyille, N.
c., to breathe the pure mountain air of
that region,
DIR. J.. NJ. B,ggett, who for the summer
ismaking Monticello his home, has been
in town the last few DAYS
Prof Powell, wife and Miss Edwin Bur
My, will open the McNutt High School, in
Lehore county, September 10Th,
Rev. Pinckney Johnson. of Crystal
Spring, was in town yesterday. He is fin
ancial agent of Whitworth College.
Jno. NJ. Martin Is making a short trip
through East Mississippi for VIM. Z.
Browning q Co., clothiers of New York.
Why is the Greenbackers on the
east and west sides of the Railroad like a
game of base ball? Because there is nine
on side.
f. S. Wilson was in town last week. He
has purchased the Walthall Pioneer, and
will assume control this week. He is com
petent to publish a good paper.
There will be a race run at the track
Saturday, between Smiths horse and
Towns mare, by T., J. Decell and Alfred
Smith. Purse, twenty-five dollars.
The District Attorney is now looking
over the account of ex>Treasurer Cart
man, and expects to investigate other
county officials during the summer.
ten. A. p. C. Y. Y. 4. is still befnddel-
ing the minds of those that will listen to
him. He knows better, and ought to be
ashamed of himself for annoying people
this warm weather.
J, NJ. II. Martin, Jr., has gone to Coffee
vile, and we learn will take charge Of the
Yalobusha Standard and run it in the in
terest of the Greenback PARTY. Another
Richmond in the field.
The mill men held their regular meet
ing here last Friday, but did nothing of
interest to the outside world. 1t is UNDER
stood they are cooperating with each
other, comparing accounts, etc.
Two to one that the Greenbackers don't
carry a State in the Union: Who'll take
the bet? Notwithstanding the fact that
their organs claim TO have a membership
of twenty-five hundred in this county.
Greenbackers are opposed-awfully op-
posed-to being taxed to pay the interest
on the the bonds. How do they like the
idea of being taxed TO give to the Yankee
soldiers enough money to make their wal
paw equal to gold? Think Of this.
Cadet Oscar Crosby-known in Military
parlance as Sergeant c. has returned
from West Point, after an absence of two
wears, He will spend the Summer here.
In a class of sev~enty-fve Oscar stood
fourth.
Mr.. Thos Lewis and daughter, Miss Sal
lie, returned from their trip to Philadel-
phia a few days ago. 1t is understood
they brought hack several hundred dollars
in gold that some good relative had been
kind enough to leave them, before pro-
curing a passport for the other world.
Mr.. VIM, Connerly, of Pike county, has
been in our county several day. He spends
most of his time around the Courthouse
but does not tell every one what he IL af-
ter. Some of COnnerly's friends think he
would make a good Secretary ofState, and
so do we. If compentency il to be con>
sidered, he is the equal of any man in the
State.
1t is amusing TO hear some of the Green
crackers blow off. They are going to carry
Lincoln county, Mississippi and three
fourths of the other States of the Union,
so they seem to imagine. Mark this pre-
dictinn: They Will not carry Lincoln
county, Mississippi or any State in the
Union. they will carry nothing. except
those they dslude with their false and rid
Iculous notions, and in three years the
party i'll not be heard of. 1t will have a
more sudden collapse than did the Know.
nothing party,