The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-02-10
AROUND TOWN

Some hard faces were seen here last Fri
day.
Some of our farmers are preparing t
SOW oats.
Little Frank Larkin is clerking for Nj
Gilbert.
A house in the suburbs was burnt las
Friday night.
The bad, bad, worst sort of weather, still
continues.
Schwabb wears a big smile. 1t is a tel
pound girl.
John Marshall is clerking for Brister &
Co, Boguechitto.
Hardy and McClendon won the money
on the horse race Friday.
We learn the mail is again being carried
from here to Oaseyville.
Mr.. Eitel is quite happy. A little girl
has come to their house to stay.
Mr.. Gilbert has opened 4 store in the
SchwalI building, adjoining Mr.. Nick.
A. c. McNair wears a pleasant smile. A
fine boy at his house explains the matter.
Dave Allen is at home on %avisit, after an
absence of four or five years. He is looking
remarkably well.
What is the matter with our amateurs
that they do not getup some entertainments
here this winter?
Did the last Grand Jury know there was
a statute against gambling-throwing cards
for money?
DIR. Bennett has shown us a young beay-
er, drowned by the recent fresh, on the
place OF Isham Smith.
The yellow Boy a noted race horse,
was ratified off here Saturday. r. b. With
ers was the winner.
Go and hear Prof. Minor at the Theatre
tonight. There will be something to amuse
and instruct you.
Mr.. Austin Nicely, representing the Plan
ter Pillow, manufactured by Mcdonnell, at
Jackson, was in to see us.
X. y. Miller, of Hazlehurst, and Ben
King, Jr., of Beauregard, were in attend
ancc at the Circuit Court last week.
The little boys in town have given up
"nigger-shooters," and now they make the
air resonant with venture dubbs."
The tent of Day & Emerson was torn in
shreds by the wind Sunday morning. They
are located temporarily in the Masonic
Hall.
Mr.. Chas. Heuck has purchased the
building known as the Varietias Theatre,
and talks Of fitting it up in first-cIass style
As a place Of amusement.
Moonlight serenades by complaining cats,
have been suspended for a short while, on
account of the bad STREAK" OF weat her we
have been having.
Lincoln county has a population OF
1881; males, 6,S43; females, 6,704; ma
tiyes, l3,4O7; foreign, l40; whites, 7,7Ol;
blacks, 5,846; Indians, 4.
Las; Sunday was the worst day OF the
new year. The wind and rain kept up all
day, and fences were blown down in all
parts Of town.
Day & Emerson have moved their pho
tographic gallery into the lower story of the
Masonic Hall, and are prepared to take
pictures As cheap and in as good style as ever.
1t issaid that Messrs. Pfeifer & Dreyfus
intend building their store two stories high,
the upper story to be fitted up in elegant
STYLE and used as a theatre and town hall.
f. p. Prayeley's advertisement on our
outside, will attract the attention Of all ad-
vertisers. He deals in all kinds of machin-
cry and saw mill supplies, and will sell
them As cheap as any house in the South.
Nr. Bee will commence the sale of Mardi
Gras tickets on the Goth inst, and continue
10 sell them till the 2Sth. They will be
good to return on from New Orleans till the
evening Of March 9th. Price for the round
trip, from Brookhaven, S4.55
The walls Of Pfeifer's ruined building
suecumbed to the force of the wind last
SUNDAY. One Of the walls fell against the
frame store now occupied by Pfeifer 4
Drcfus and knocked in the end. No per
son hurt. though Benedict was so badly
frightened that there is some fears enter
tanned that his hair is turning white.
Capt. F. O. Huntley, of Winona, travel
lug agent Of the Cooperative Lie Associa-
ton Of Mississippi, paid us a pleasant visi'
the latter part Of last week. He is here in
the interest OF his excellent Company. We
know Of no Insurance Company we could
more heartily commend than the Co-opera-
tive Lie. 1t is cheap, safe and a home in
stitution.
The St. James Hrtel at New Orleans is
one Of the best kept houses in the South.
1t is centrally located and is convenient to
the leading theatres. It'll is run by as
clever gentlemen as the South contains.
They thoroughly understand their business,
The clerks are Messrs. VIM. F. Strong, Jas.
Christy and F. C. Twain, and each one
takes pleasure in accommodating guests.
Go there when you are in New Orleans.
Prof. W. T. Minor, of Virginia, will give
a literary entertainment at the Theatre to-
night, consisting of reading, recitations and
songs. His reading will embrace comic,
humorous, sentimental and pathetic-The
Raven, the Bellies, May Queen, Edward
Gray, extracts from Dickens, Yankee Far
mer, Gone with a Handsomer man, Betsy
and I are out, etc. Prof. Minor has the
reputation of being a very fine elocutionist,
and those who hear him are promised a
rare treat.