The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-09
AROUND TOWN

We are indebted 10 W.T.. ''SSo"'
Franklin county, for favors. !
Look for the big advertisement of
Pfiefer 4 Dreyfus next week.
Another race is to be run at the tack
next Saturday. Go and see the fun.
Mr.. Jesse Brent has a cat twenty five
years Old, raised By Mr.. Jordan Low
ell
Rev. VIM. East will preach at Union
Hall Chuch on the fourth Sunday in
this month,
DR.. Johnson. wife and Miss Josie re
turned from their visit to North Caro-
lima last FRIDAY
Monday and Tuesday were jews"
holidays, aud were observed by most If
our Hebrow Q ~
The bridge on the Boguechit'o. about
two mileA fsom here,on the Holmesville
road, is being rebuilt.
To keep the trade of the to Sn our
merchants should see that the roads
and bridges are kept in repair.
Mrs. Marshal opened her school last
Monday with 8 fair attendance of boys
and girls!6
Mr.. and Mrs. John McGrath left
Monday night for a trip to Chicago and
other Northern cities.
Ban Hudnail,c one -four mos, industri
GUS citizens, was declared insane las, week,
and taken TO the Lunatic Asylum.
We are au.horizedao state that a pro.
tracted meeting will be commenced at the
Methodist church uext Saturday.
1t will pay any man to advertise in it.
Our rates, considering circulation and
general make up of the paper, are very
low.
Cotton does not sell as high as it did last
year, but it is bringing a living price. 1t
lie selling here this morning from-to
-cents per pound,
T. NJ, Henry has moved his goods to the
store next TO Daughtry & Smylie, where
he will be pleased to see his old custom
ers and the public generally,
Benz, Wilson, who has changed his
tase and is now win Berkson Bros,
wholesale g%rocers, was in to zee US this
week. He represents a good house.
Last Sunday was the Jewish New
Year, and the first day of the year five
thousand, six hundred and forty-one,
according to the Hebrew calendar.
An the excursionists have returned
The last to ask admittance to our city we're
Mr.. Heuck, lady, and son, Miss Octavia
Pickens and Miss Mollie Daughtry.
We would call the attention of the street
committee to the fact that several impor-
tant bridges in the corpor ton need re-
pairing. They have been down two or
three months.
Mrs. w. S. Baggett. Miss Ella Bags
get, Jno. Nalty and NJ. Cautoni left on
the st, Louis Excursion Tuesday.
We learn the ladies named intend visit
ing San Francisco before returning.
Tho old flag having been tattered by
the wind and rain, we should have a new
one, The Ledger will head the subscrip
ton list with s.. The proud names of
Hancock and English should float on every
breeze,
You can go to New Orleans and back,
on Burrage's excursion, from Brook
haven, for $3.50. It will pass here next
Tuesday and return Wsdu SHAY night,
giving visitors a stay of tw~enty-four
hours in the city,
r. B. Withers devotes part of his
time in looking after the roads leaving
here. He has spent considerable non
ey from his own pocket in putting roads
in order. 1t is a move in the right di-
rection. Trade will not come here if
roads are impossible.
After spending two months in the East
visiting the most noted watering places,
regaining health and purch asing one o
the largest stocks OF goods ever shipped
South, Mr.. Maurice Dreyius, returned to
his home last Saturday. He chad a roya,
time while abroad.
One evening last week. the veranda
of the City Hotel resounded with the
clear young voices of a scramble party.
The hour was midnight, the air serene
and calm, the voices rich and artistical-
ly blended-rislng IN the air in sweet
strains, holding au audiauce 10 a chain
of admiration. 1t was a delicate COM
pliment, and the recipients were highly
elated.
Our merchants are receiving i'm
mense stocks of goods, and are sntici
patIng a large fall and winter business
We would modestly suggest that they
could use the columns of the Ledger
to advantage. 1t %circulates largely in
sections that should trade here. 1t is
read weekly by ten thousand people in
Lincoln, Franklin. Jefferson, Coipah,
Amite. Pike. Lawrence, Covington,
Marion. Simpson and Smith counties.
We suggest that R. H Thompson, Egg,
President of the Tilden Club here a 1876
issue a call forthe old members to meet
and reorganise for-the approaching cam
paign. The club numbered two hundred
solid Democrats, and if Mr.. Thompson
will issue a call for reorganization many
of the veterans will respond, l. il true
the Democracy has no opposition in the
State worth mentioning, but ii should or
ganize for action. q w Al
w. W. Hosktns. of Lsxiugton. was
in our town last Friday canvassing for
his booklet poems entitled .Atiantis."
and got about twenty-five subscribers.
The work will contain two hundred
and fifty pages, will be printed on rose
tinted paper, we'll bound With elegantly
Illuminated covers, and will contain
several very handsome illustrations
Price, $2-half in advance on entering
names, and the balance on delivery of
book in November. Mr. Hoskins' poems
js p~ronuncea good by compe5entiudges
and his work will commend itself to the
public.