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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
AVAILABLE DISCOVERY.
Dr.. c. w. Benson, a P~raoticing
Physician of Baltimore, Md,
Who has Paid Much Attention to Ner-
vous Diseases,
Has Discovered that the Extract of
Celery
AND CHAMOMILE COMBINED IN A
CERTAIN PROPORTION
Invariably Cures Either Sick Head
ache,
Nervous Headache, Dyspeptic
Headache,
Neuralgia, Nervousness, Sleeplessness Par
alysis and Indigestion.

This is a triumph in Medical Chemistry,
and sufferers all over the whole country,
and even abroad, are ordering by mail and
otherwise. They are prepared in pills at 90
cents a box, Or six boxes for 81 so, mailed
free to any address. These pills are prepar-
ed expressly to cure the above named dis
eases, and will cure any case. Depot LOG
North Eutawst., Baltimore, Md. jun23-1m
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14

J. Y CHR1srMAs, son of Mrs. Myra
Clarke Gaines, by . former marriage,
shot and killed his brother-in-law, VIM.
q. Whitney, in Washington the other
day. The shooting is said 10 have been
done in self defensa.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
JAS. HAMILTON. Gro. w. HAMILTON
]. Hamilton & Co.
Successors to Hamilton & Haliam.l
BEAUREGARD, -.""""""..MISS
Dealers in and Manufacturers Of
All Kinds OF Rough and Dressed
YELLOW PINE LUMBER,

Store Doors, Blinds, Sash, Mouldings,
Scroll Work, Counters, Novels, Shelving,
Fences, Etc. All work guaranteed equal
in every respect to that OF any market.
Terms inducive. Orders solicited. Send for
nrices may26-6m
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14

Ladies' who appreciate elegance and
purity aie using Parker's Hair Ralsam.
It is the best article sold for restoring
gray hair to it's original color and
beauty. june23slm
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
The State Canvass.

AS near as weahave been able to
learn the following counties have
either instructed OIL endorsed for
Governor.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14

THE re>uuion OF the Griffith Barks>
dalesHumphrey- Brigade hasheen post
poned BY acting Sc oretary Byron Lem y
to o day in the fall.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
Coco0ns and SilkWOrms,

The following is taken from the
Globe, of Mendon, Michigan:
We are permitted to publish from a
private letter the following extract,
which will show that the new settlers
in Mississippi are developing indus>
tries that must ere long bear rich fruit.
We will remark that the writer has on
ly been o citizen of that state for about
three years.
BRooKHAvEN, Miss, July l, 81.
MY DEAR CONTOUR letter of the
9th duly received, and we are glad to
hear that you are well. My brother is
now in New York, and l will forward
your letter TO him. and you may rest
assured that you will get m answer
soon.
After many experiments, which have
cost us dearly, we are delighted to say
that we have succeeded also in raising
Cocoons or Silkworms, and shall hope
now. that they will prove profitable not
only to US, but to the whole South.
They are very easily raised, and in
about two months, one can realize tie
fruits of his work. Next year, if
nothing unforeseen happens, we intend
to raise q great many, viz. from fifty to
one hundred thousand worms, We
have already $50 well grown mulberry
trees, of the best kind, and about 1900
that will be large enough to set next
fall. thus in a few years we will be
able to get on, on a large scale.
Our vineyard also, of about two
acres, with many European varieties,
is fourishipg, and next year We hope
to have plenty of fine grapes. The
Scupernong vines are also doing we'll,
of which we have more than a hun
dred growing. We can raise here al
SO, Jute, very luxuriantly, and l trust
a factory will be built for its manufac~
ture into goods that we now import
largely. AS to the cotton raising, the
sooner the farmers reduce the raising
of it to four million bales per year the
better for them and for the whole
South, Your friend,
A. MIKAs.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
SPENGLER HOUSE.
TIE ONLY HOTEL UPTOWN.
OPEN ALL NIGHT(Opposit the CapitoD

Rooms renovated. repaired, and furnish-
ed with New Furniture throughout.
Guests can choose the American or Eu-
ropean Plan.
say None but Polite and attentive SER
vants employed. Sample Rooms fitted up
especially for Commercial Men.
D6s-Free Hacks from and to all trains
day and night. Terms $500 per day.
When you come to Jackson and want a
square meal and clean Bed, stop al the
Spengler House. CHRIS. HINCKLE,
Jan-22-tf. Manager.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
P. PORTER, Secretary.

LAMAR has enemies in Mississippi, as
what strong. earnest mar has not but
he has frieGds-men who believe in his
methods, who admire his steadipess and
answering courage of opinion, and
who know how fatal it would be to all
progress of opinion we're he to be re-
fused a continuance in the place in the
United States Senate which he has
made conspicuous by his ability, by his
conservatism, and his advocacy Of the
claims of the South, of which he is one
of the ablest Representatives in either
House of Congress. These men are ac>
tive in his interests. Pricing him as a
statesman far above the petty conten-
tions and squabbles that form the basis
of political action, they advocate his
election and will not hesitate, if his
enemies so will it, to make it the mos
tive for a supreme effort that shall seS
cure for Mississippi another Conserva,
tive victory. AS the Natchez Demos
crat says: "With a few men like Mr..
Lamar in the National Legislature, we
would soon have, what we so much
need, a state of affairs in the South and
in the North in which honesty will
again assert itself, and both violence
and fraud will be numbered with the
things of the past, Mississippi, we
think. has already recognized the fact
that she has the foremost mind in all
the Senate. and she will be true to her.
self by being true to her able Senator.
Memphis appeal.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
Wanted.

Fifty head Of sheep and five likely year.
ling heifers. | have a registered Jersey
bull, of the Montgomery Moohn Farm
Herd, Starkville, Miss, which farmers and
others can have the use of for SIS. For par
ticulars, apply to ]. R. Perkins, Express
Office Brookhaven. DAN'L BENNETT.
may19-2m P~icayune Farm.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
Memphis & Ohio River Packet Cox
For Cairo, Louisville Il Cinsinnati,


STEAMERS,
jas. W. Gan, Andy Baum, Cons Miller
Vint Shinkle, JAS. d, Parker, Yirgie Lee,
Steamers of this line leave Memphis
Every Tuesday and Friday at S
p, M, Sundays, IL m.
For Cairo, Louisville and Cincinnati,
Connecting at Cincinnati with Railroads
and Steamers for all
Eastern, Northern & Western Points
Giving Through Tickets TO all p~Oints-Ghiea-
20. Toledo, Buffalo, RichmOnl, New York, BOs-
ton, Philadelphia and ashington.
East, North and Western tourists will find the
La Belle river route stfS, delightful and cheap.
Rates by this line cheaper than any other first
class route. Meals and state rooms free. Bag
gage checked through.
Passengers can rely on q splendid trip by this
line, as the steamers are all trst-clats, -havlng
been expressly built for the accommodates OF
passengers. Each steamer carries a fun string
and. r. w. LfGHrBURNE,
General Freight and Ticket Agent
a. Y. STEVENS, Passenger Agent,
mara Monroe ST., Memphis, Tenn.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
ST JAMES

Con. FIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS
g.. LOUIS.
This hotel is centrally located, both for
business and pleasure. Rooms large, cool
and airy. First class in all its appoint
ments, well adapted for Southern people.
Charges reasonable. Keep on both Amer
an and European plans.
-16m THOS. p. MILLER, Propr
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
DIR. j. w. MARTIN,

Having resumed thepractice of medicine,
would respectfully solicit share Of the lib
eral patronage heretofore extended him.
Special ~attencion given to Obstetrics and
seases Of women and children. ieblQ
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
Don't You Van 1t.

l want to sell my farm one mile south
west of Brookhaven, at low price and easy
erms-l60 acres. Good land, poor land,
plenty of timber. Well watered and
spring watered. Address me at Pelihatchie,
Rankin, county, Miss.
G. w. HOSKINS.
April 90, 1ss1.-tf.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-14
HANCOCK HOUSE,
OXFORD, MISS,

!. w. HANCOCK, PROPRIETOR.
House thoroughly renovated and Furnished.
Table supplied with the best in the market. The
best sample rooms in North Mississippi. Board
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u. n, ON II,
State Sup't Public Education.
Democratic Conservative state
Convention.


Convention.
Rooms STATE Elk. Com. ~DEMocRATIo)
CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF MISS. !
JACKSON, MISS, May 9 1881.
At a meeting of the Executive Com
mittee held this day, it was, on motion.
Resolved, That a Convention of the
ic-Conservltive Party of the
State of Mississippi be held at the
Capitol in the city of Jackson, on
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Sd, 1881
for the purpose of nominating candi-
dates for the offices of Governor, Lit.
Governor, Secretary of State, State
Treasurer, Auditor of Pub. Accounts,
Attorney~General and for the transac~
ton of such other business as may be
deemed proper.
Resolved, That each county in tho
State is entitled to double the number
of votes in said Convention to which it
is entitled in the lower branch of the
Legislature, unless otherwise determin>
ed by the Convention.
Resolved, That the State Executive
Committee recommend q thorough res
organization Of the Clubs of the Demo-
cratic Conservative Party in the di1fer-
ent counties in the State.
Resolved, That the newspapers of the
State favorable to the purposes herein
sci fourth, BE requested to publish
these resolutions.
WIN. l.. HEMINGWAY,
Attest: Chairman
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DIR. JOHN BULL,

The popular remedies o the Day.
3l9 Main St., LOUIS
WILLIE, KY July-1y.-SI
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-22

What constitutes b5na-flde traveller
ON Sunday is question that now days
is 7exing the English courts not little,
and the more that the English Judges
try to settle it definitely the more hope
lessly indefinite does it become. In q
spasm of moral rectitul lie an act of Par
lament was passed compelling the pub
hcans to shut up their houses on Sun
days, thus for the good of public morals
forcing all toss-pots, for one day in the
week, at least, to go athirst. But some
kindly soul, doubtless himself we'll
soaked, merry creature, clapped upon
this just but severe law an easing rider
that excepted "travelers" from its oper-
alton. And so he who would tipple on
Sunday and yet not break the laws of
the land is forced to travel to do it, and
the point that the courts are wtahgling
over is how mitch travelling d man must
do in order to justify his indulgence in
Sunday drunk. The position assumed
by the topers reduces travelling to min
imum. They hold, with the late Pre-
bendary of York-who certainly is the
highest authority as to what constitutes
traveler-that to go "e7eb to the end
of the street is a journey within the
meaning of the act, and that comprising
this modest distance entities them to all
the rights and privileges granted under
the exempting clause. But this is not
by any means the view of the matter
taken by the courts. Indeed, SO harsh
ly hydropathic is the legal conception of
Sunday travelling, that twould appear
inhuman but for the proverbial instinct
i've tendency of the bench to severe
sobriety. Now all this confusion in re-
gard to getting drunk on Sunday is just
like the English-is an admirable exem-
-plifcation of the national tendency to
litigation and red tape. Here in our
own fair, free land we have better and
a simpler method of dealing with the
matter The sternest moralist cannot
find fault with our laws, which in en-
phatic terms forbid the sale on Sundays
of intoxicating drinks to anybody at all;
and yet so perfectly is the right of the
individual protected by our glorious in
situations that there is nothing whatever
to prevent any American citizen SO dis
posed from sailing In every Sunday
morning, in the most open and above
board manner, and deliberately getting
lust as drunk as wheelbarrow.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-22
Brain.WOrk and Sleep.

So long as the brain-worker is able to
sleep we'll, to eat well and to take fair
proportion Of outdoor exercise, it is not
necessary to impose any special limits on
the actual number of hours he devotes to
his labors. But when what is generally
known as worry steps in to complicate
matters, when cares connected with fam
lily arrangements, or with those numer-
GUS personal details which we can sell
dom escape, intervene, or when the daily
occupation of life is in itself fertile
source of anxiety, then we find one or
other of these three safeguards broken
down. Probably the man of business or
the successful lawyer fails to shake HIM
self free from his anxieties at night, and
slumber becomes fitftl or disturbed.
The nervous system, unsettled by the
mental strain, brings about various de-
fects in nutrition; the appetite fails, and
then we meet with the sleeplessness,
the dyspepsia, the irresolution, the If
reliability and the depression which are
the chief miseries of the oyerworked.
The great thing in these cases is to
get rest at any cost. By rest we do
not mean doing nothing, but rather
change of scene, of thought and occu-
patton. If you tell busy man that he
must do nothing, he may endeavor to
obey you, but he will soon find out that
he cannot, for his brain keeps on work
ing IN the same old groove, and he is as
much, or even more, worried about his
business as if he were still in the thick
of it. The great thing is to get rest
by substituting one kind of work by
another, to have for time nice, COM
Portable sort of occupation to replace
the old weary round Of troubles One
of the most important remedial agents
is outdoor life and exercise, which may
be taken in any form most congenial to
the Notwithstanding, walking, field
sports or what not. This is at once
the most natural and often the most
efectuai promoter of sleep we can en-
ploy. j.
Active bodily exertion is well known
to be incompatible with the maximum
of intellectual work, and full advantage
should be taken of this fact. The only
thing TO avoid is excessive fatigue. 1t
is remarkable fact that very large
number Of distinguished literary and
scientific men have suffered severely
from megrim, and it would seem that
some of them have succeeded in Kidding
themselves of the malady by the adop-
ton of some simple hygienic measure.
One, for instance, cured himself by fol-
lowing the prescription Of farrier, who
advised him to drink water, eat little
and take exercise. Another was cured
by drinking every day large quantity
of fresh water, and exchanging highly
nutritious regimen for much-hghter
dietary. A third got rid of his old en-
envy by the same means, and by taking
exercise every day before dinner. There
can be no doubt that in many cases great
benefit would be derived from thor
ough change of locality or climate.
Long sea voyages are not infrequently
attended with excellent results, the at
tacks being absent for months at time.
Unfortunately, these are remedies not
within the reach of all.-Fanaily Ply
stefan.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-22
Authors Not in Their Works.

1t is unfortunate for those who think
with Mr.. Pope, g9
The proper study Of mankind is man,
that few authors put themselves into
their works. No one knows what Shaks-
peare thought or believed. Byron's
poetry is disfgured with cynical sneers
al the world and with contemptuous
smiles at its judgments. But Byron,
the man, was over-sensitive, and listened
at the worlds keyhole to learn what it
thought of him.
The reader of Thomson Seasons :"
would scarcely think he wrote his de-
scriptions of "meek-eyed morn-mother
of dews," in bed, because he was too
lazy to rise and dress himself.
Yet, to the undiscerning many, the
author and the man are one person.
Thackeray's wit, for instance, is cynical.
His works show the mean side of human
nature. He has an eye for repulsive
characters. Kind actions are traced to
sordid motives. The shams of modern
society are congenial themes.
To kindly, cheerful, refined readers
his tone is as irritating as the filing of a
saw. They reject him as they would a
book descriptive of skin diseases. But
the friends and foes of Thackeray's
novels would alike err should they
identify the satirist with the man. For
he was an affectionate husband, an in
dulgeEt father, a generous friend, and
one who has been known to sacrifice
time and money to serve those having
slight claims upon him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-22
Rtinning A Case On lis Merits.

Down in Maysville, the suit of one
George Gambs against the S. r. r. r.
for damages incurred in last summer
excursion train smash-up, came up for
trial. viii
The case was evidently going in favor
of the plaintiff, who had detailed his ter
r1ble injuries in q pathetic manner,
when the sympathetic foreman Of the
jury wiped his eyes and said: ~
You say, my poor fellow, that the
baggage car carried away three of your
ribs, which will leave dangerous and
unsightly wound as long as you live p"
I did, sir" replied the victim, in a
sad voice. pa
"Just be kind enough to remove suffi-
Gent clothing SO that the jury can inspect
the injury
I--er-I'd rather not, stammered
the witness. ssI-er-might catch
cold. Isn't the surgeons certificate
enough?"
Yes but we should like to know.the
exact fact, said the foreman.
"This hesitation looks very peculiar, +"
growled the Judge. "The witness will
peel at once, according to Revised Stat
utes 841-63." ~
"Well, the fact is, gentlemen" said
the witness, desperately wiping the per-
SEPARATION from his forehead, ss5tae fact
is, that L am not the smashed-up party
at all. My name is Skudder."
Then, what in - do you mean by
this action ?" Numbered his Honor.
"The action is all right enough, may
it please the court" exclaimed the
plaintiff. "Gambs was all broke up in
this collision, just as stated. But as he
had been owing me $4,000 for long
time, and as all he had inthe world was
that hole in his side, I just clapped a
first lien on it. Last month he was sent
to jail for sheep stealing, and SO
thought I'd just run the case on it's
merits, 50 to speak, and take the
chances.
And, althou h the railroad company's
attorney moved a nolsuit, the jury was
SO impressed with the propriety Of the
transaction that they gave verdict for
the amount and costs, before the Judge
could be walked up again in time to in
terfere. Louisville Coarier-JournaI.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-22
a deserted Village.

Years ago Mr.. Boomer, young man
from New England, appeared in the then
and still solitary country on the lower
Usage river, in Missouri. Missouri was
slave country and this was about the
most unprogressige part of it, though
near the capital of the State. The young
New Highlander set thousand men at
work getting out lumber in the forests
that line the stream He conceived the
idea, too, of founding in the Missouri
woods New England village, and stores,
mills and many dwellings arose on a slop-
ing hillside on the river and the village
was called, after a cliff on the opposite
shore, Castle Rock. The enterprising
founder built little church, with the
proviso that any denomination of Chris
tians might occupy it.
All went we'll and for time there was
no such village anywhere as Castle Rock.
Then came the war. The people of the
country were divided in sentiment
Boomer rallied the loyalists of the neigh
borhood and joined Missouri regiment,
marched away to the southwark, rose to
a lieutenant colonelcy and fell in one of
the battles around VicksbHrg. With his
death blight fell on his ambitious
plans, framed, as his letters published
after his death showed, notiu the interest
of business alone, but for the best good
Of the people among whom his lot had
been cast. No friendly hand took up his
work. The sound of the ringing ak was
heard DO more along the Usage. The
great business he had built up ceased,
and few years ago the village of Castle
Rock had almost ceased to exist, except
in name. The mills were silent. Dusty
and forlorn weeds encroached upon the
highways and the door of the deserted
church swung idly to and fro. The dream
of New England village, with its week
day business and its Sunday calm, in the
Wilderness had faded away forever.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-22
Romantic DueIs.

Duels make UP almost all the interest
of III. Fortune du BoisgObey's story,
"L'Epingle Rose" The first incident
in the story is the return of one of the
heroes, Fabien, from a party. He loses
his road, finds himself in an unknown
part of old Paris (the date is about 1929
The man of the sedar-chaif says thai
his invalid brother is within it, and asks
Fabien to help him to carry the patient
to a hospital. The good-natured hero
consents the police come up the other
man decamps, and the body of Fabiens'
cousin is found in the chair. He has
been killed by sword-thrust in the eye.
Next we have an encounter IN fencing
room between one of the Swiss Guard
and Marcas, the villain, with two OF his
friends. The weapons are foils, with
the buttons removed. The Swiss fights
the two others first, and wounds both,
in spite of their policy of breaking ground
and retreating. When it comes to Mar
cas- turn, he proposes to fight ON the
billiard table, that there may be no
chance of retreat ON either side He
then leaps within his antagonists guard,
and stalls him in the eye. But Marcas'
great duel is fought with pistols in the
vaults under hall where the Carbonari
are about to meet. His antagonist is
Fabien, the hero. The conditions are
that each party may advance as he pIeases
to spot in the center of the ground,
Each has q loaded pistol, and two extra
charges. The weapons OF course are
the old flint locks. Fabien is smoking
a cigar. At the first fire both men miss.
Marcas' second fire knocks off the ham
mer of Fabien's pistol. The latter is
thus disarmed, and all seems over. The
miscreant Marcss begins to mock his
victim, loads with great deliberation,
and promises, if possible, to kill him
with single shot. The feelings of the
reader Gf he does not foresee what fol-
lows) are powerfully worked on, for Mar
cas- has been killing respectable people,
right and left, all through the story. A
happy thought occurs to Fabien. He
throws open the pan of his fint-lock,
and sees that the printing is all right.
You see that you are not disarmed,"
sneers the miscreant Marcas eta spark
fell from one of the torches, your pistol
might still go off. Fabien calmly re-
marks that he means to kill Marcas, lev
els his weapon with steady aim, and fires
the printing with the lighted end of his
cigar. Marcas is shot through the body,
and expires in an unrepentant frame of
mind.