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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
The Sabbath Law Again

MIR. EDITOR
The union of Church and State is
undesirable: To enforce by statute
the observance Of the Sabbath as a
religious institution is adverse to
the spirit of onr principles as po-
litical com monwealth. So there is
no need Of the expression of senti-
ment on these points.
We differ on the question whether
the laws ought to furnish protection
to the civil Sabbath. The distlnc-
ton between a civil aud religious
day Of rest, and which I made in my
late article, is not original with me
but expresses a truth. You would
leave the matter to the decision Of
circumstances, or the private opin-
ion Of individuals. Your statement
that one half of the people would
keep the day were it embraced UNI
der no law proves nothing, mas
much as exactly the same may be
said Of stealing and arson, and il
the argument proves anything it
proves all Laws prohibiting crime
useless in moral communities.
I can best state the case in con-
crete form. The Mississippi Mills
give employment and bread to one
thousand laborers, more or less. All
work ceases on the Sabbath and the
iaborers rest from Saturday after
noon till Monday morning. II there
were no law enforcing that rest, from
the humanity Of the present propri-
etors, it would be given, and the
same privilege of unspeakable hene-
fit to the employees, the Sunday
quiet, wonld exist, law or no law.
But who will govern the Mills when,
the present proprietors shall have
passed away2 Can any assurance
be given that they may not require
the labor Of three hundred and SIX
~ five days o yearp
The tendency Of the age Il to mass
capital In vast corporations which
proverbially have no souls. Under
the present condition the law says:
sYou have right to that resi- Of
one day in seven which every intelli-
gent physician will say Is necessary
to the health Of the body, and which
every moralist will assert to be in
dispensable to social and mental
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
In the Sancturn Again.

Reader!
Wereyou ever an insurance agentp
We have been.
And we have had enough.
We shall never want any more.
Experience is the best teacher, we
are told.
Then we have been taught. we'll
We have completed our education
in the insurance line.
We never liked the schooling.
1t took us six months to get
enough.
We now retire with more expe-
rience than money.
An imaginative mind is necessary
for an insurance agent. Ours was
deficient in that respect.
Without imagination you can't
work the insurance line, especially
that branch known as the matrimo
NAL boom.
You you not only to possess.great
imagination yourself to succeed at
insurance, but must be able to i'm
part it to others.
We tried six months to work up
our imaginative powers. We have
used miles paper in attempting to
figure out fortunes in the insurance
business, and just as we were about
to grasp the goal, our imagination
would collapse and the fortune
would vanish in air.
By hard and constant work we
have raised our Imagination to an
angle of forty.five degrees, but new
err could hold it long enough to rest
and take a fresh start. 1t would
never stick.
That was the trouble. We have
worked our imagination up during
the day, go to bed with it high at
night, to awake in the morning to
find it at zero.
Then fresh start next day was
necessary. The thing became tire
some.
Thus we have been going up one
day and down the next, till tired ma.
ture refuses longer to act, and our
imagination has fallen fiat.
Therefore we are compelled to re-
linquish all efforts in the insurance
line, leaving others with more vivid
lmaginations to conduct it.
There are many such, and the bus
mess will not suffer.
We return to newspaper life,
where no imagination is necessary.
Here it is stern reality. Fortunes
are not looked for in a newspaper
office. Therefore no disappoint-
ments follow. You never imagine
that one fourth of the business men
will patronize you or that one halt
your subscribers will pay their bills.
You don't expect them to. But with
all the drawbacks of the newspa-
per office we prefer it to anything
else, and in future will devote the
most of our time to it. So the read
ers of The LEDGER may now expect
to hear more from us each week
than they have for months. We
trust they may experience as much
pleasure in reading the matter pub
lished as we enjoy in preparing it
for them.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
Yellow Fever.

Yellow fever was announced in
Pensacola, Fla, last week. Nine Ca
ses occurred in one day, and there
were two deaths. 1t is not prevail
ing to any great extent and bnt few
new cases have been reported. All
the places around Pensacola have
established guarantees against her.
The fever is still bad at Browns
vile, Texas, and aid is solicited for
the distressed.
No new cases have been reported
at New Orleans, and it is now con-
coded that that city will escape the
scourge.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

soundness, and You shall have it."
If I understand you, Mr.. Editor, You
would repeal the law and leave every
laborer, clerk or other salaried man
whose living is dependent on the
will Of another to trust his chances
Of ceasing his weary tolls from Sat
urday to Monday to hap hazard, or
the chance notions Of an employer.
Excuse me, but to repeal the Sab
bath laws would seem to me 'like a
Judgment Of God"
was not aware, until read it in
your issue of the Gath, that anybody
was opposed in conscience to keep
ing the civil Sabbath. If so, though
l cannot see how conscience is hurt
in the matter, it certainly does put
a difficulty in the way. The laws
ought not to force any man to sin
against his God even in retaining
from customary work on a day as
signed for rest by the State. Should
the purpose 20 repeal the Sabbath
laws succeed it will be revolution
in the history of these States. Every
one Of them except Louisiana has
them more or less in force, and l
have heard that some of the young
gentlemen acting as clerks in New
Orleans have been trying to secure
for themselves the benefits of the
day which in other cities are secur-
ed by statute. ....... ..s
As to the Jews, widely scattered
as they are over the world, l find
usually that they are so intelligent
as to adapt themselves to the laws
of the overwhelming majority" of
the people where their lot is cast,
keeping their own Sabbath relig-
iously as seems best to them and
not disposed to quarrel because that
day is not chosen by the govern
ment as the rest day of the masses .
To repeal these laws will be an
experiment, though not entirely new.
know in all history but of one case
in which after enactment the Sab
bath laws were repealed by ma
tion-that of France during the
Revolution j. w.
WEssoN, Miss.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

Mr.. Bigelow, Counsel for Seargent
Mason, is awaiting action by the
President and Secretary of War on
Gen. Swaim's decision, that the Ma
son Court Martial was illegal.
Should they fail to confirm his dcci-
sion, Mr.. Bigelow will take the case
to the United States District Court
of New York On write of habeas
anrnus ~
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
Lamar and TOOlubs.

"1eS, SAID my Trend, "nearly
everybody is gone out of town. The
President is away, all his Cabinet
Ministers are away; Commissioners
Raum is up in Maine making speech
es, and even his chief clerk, He'll
and-Texas Clarke is away for the
remainder of the month"
AS we stood there + street did not
look deserted, and we would have
tarned away, but just then Senator
Beck came along with a bundle I'M
der his arm and shook hands with
us.
II am going this week, sure" said
he, putting his bundle in Clay Good
loe's country wagon, ''and if you
boys will come and have julep we
can rest a bit over it, much better
than standing here with our backs
against an iron railing.
The talk fell upon the funeral of
Senator Hill, and Mr.. Beck said it
was plain to be seen that while a
great many of the people in Georgia
did not like Hill, they were all proud
Of his intellect.
81 didn't look at him." said Mr.
Beck; 81 never look at dead people
when cal. help it. l just passed by
the coffin; so don't know how be
looked-horribly unnatural, Senator
Morgan told me.
at was time for burrying ami
mosities," he continued "a great
many were put out Of sight in Ben.
Hills grave. Bob Toombs and
Senator Lamar had not spoken since
Lamar in the House delivered his
eulogy of Charles Sumner. l know
all about it, and it seemed to me
absured that two men, each holding
to an idea he Lad perfect right to
entertain, should be so near together
and not speak; so / said to Lamar.
Come into my room, Toombs wants
to see YOU
"'No he don't said Lamar
He has no use for me. You are
mistaken
SCI tell you he does. He asked
ME if you were here;;' and / gave La
mar a talking to for holding out
with his differences. / told him
that Toombs was an old man, would
probably be dead in year, and it
was folly to keep up the estrange-
ment. So Lamar went in with me
and shortly after we were all three
riding about the city of Atlanta
with Senator Brown, and Toombs
was as happy as clam"
Speaking further of Toombs, Mr..
Beck told low he took pride in hold
ing out the bill of fare and saying
See! you all put on your glasses to
read it, and l can read it without
Yet they say am blind, or will be
very soon," and he talked on about
his eyes, which are really of very lit
tie use to him, saying that he had
lived so long, aud had so many
things come tito life that he could
shut his eyes and see more than the
young fellows could with theirs OPP
en-. He told how the oculists in
Paris and New York had advised
him to permit no operation with the
knife SO long as he could see at all,
and he said not without a glimmer
of fun, "Do you know l believe /
will die before I go blind, and so fool
'em all YETI
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
JAIL NOTICE

Sealed bids for building a county mi,
are invited to be filed with the clerk Of the
Board of Supervisors, on or before the frs,
Monday Of October next, and the board 70.
serves the right to receive or reject any or
all OF said bids. Said Jail to be built ac-
cording TO the plan and specifications 10 he
on file in the Chancery Clerks office by the
11th, inst. The said Jail is to be connie.
ted by the LIST day of February, 1888, and
to be paid for in one, two and three wears
withou interest.
The successful bidder will be required to
give bonds in the sum of 1000, with good
and sufficient sureties, to be approved BY the
Board OF Supervisors, for the faithful Der.
Torrance of the contract.
By order of Board Of Supervisors.
L. NJ. MARTIN,
sep7-4t Clerk.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
AssasSi mated.

DR.. /. B. Clayton, Of Goodman,
was found last Mondoy about a mile
from that town, life being quite ex-
tinct and his body showing the lodg-
ment of ten buckshot. We are not
advised that the perpetrator Of this
deed is known, and at last accounts
he had not been discovered. It will
be remembered that DR.. Clayton
killed Freeman Lester last January
and was acquitted at the following
term OF the Holmes Circuit Conrt.
Ii is said that murder will ont"
aud 1t is scarcely possible for the
slayer Of DR.. CLAYTON to elude the
vigilance OF the law.-Ex
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

@as"Figures are not always facts" but the
incontrovertible facts concerning Kidney
Wort are better than most figures. For
instance: 1T is curing everybody" writes
druggist. 'iKidney-Wor themost popu-
lar medicine we sell. at should be by
right, for no other medicine has such speci-
fic action on the liver, bowels and kidneys.
Do not fail to try it.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
Union Church High School,

UNION CHURCH. MISS Aug. a5. go
me Union Church High School will open Sen
I'm; y. Union Church, Jefferson CO., Miss. Tie
rounded Dy good and moral people, and conye-
me 10 churches; Persons ut a distance wish
a nv 10 patronize the institution will doubtless
ty: For further information, apply to teacher
sep'-b l.. III. STOKES
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

A train of cars running between
Freeburg and Colmur left the rails
near Hugstetter. Fifty persons
were killed and many were injured.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
QUEEN SOUTH CORN WILLS

Having been appointed Agent of the SNIP
son & GAULT Manufacturing Company, a
full stock of all sizes of the Celebrated Queen
of South Corn Mills will be kept in stock ready
for immediate delivery. We are also making
Portable Cockehead Under runner Mills, usll7
with all late improvements, and finished in
much better style than any such mills now on
market. w. J.. CUSHING.
Manufacturers Agt, 166 St,
Agent for Victor and Great Western Sugar
Mills, Cooks Eyaporators
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

Buy your machinery Of H. Dudley Cole
man h Bro, New Orleans. They heep full
lines, and will sell as cheap as any house IN
the country. Patronize Southern enterpri-
ses ieb. "a IT,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

The bombastic address issued by
the Mormon chiefs, calling upon the
Saints to stick together and threat
ening to smash the new order Of
things in Utah by force will not
scare anybody.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
THE BEST COTTON GINS,

TON GINS, which proved such a complete sue
cess the past season. and which took the first
prize at the Atlanta Exposition for ginning
bOls. We also continue to manufacture our
celebrated STANDARD EAGLE GINS, which
for the past rs years have been known as the
leading Cotton Gins, receiving the endorse
make Gin having saws of ten inch diameter
Our FEEDERS and CONDENSERS are the
best invented. and our Feeder was awarded
the first prize at Atlanta. Edward Atkinson,
Col. Barrow president of Wiliamantic Cotton
Company, and other Northern manufacturers
of cotton goods, indOrSe the Eagle Gins as pro-
purchasing the Eagle Cotton Gins do so with
the certainty of getting the best Gin ever made.
Circulars sent on application, giving prices and
terms. A stock of all sizes kept in New Or
leans ready for immediate delivery
WI. CUSHING, Agt., 166 Gravier ST..
OpOOSitp ST Charles Hotel
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
Stedman's ENGINES and Machinery

Stedmans new PORTABLE ENGINES have
steam pump attached to boiler; have steel
shafts and are the most perfect Portable En-
cry Engines are made of 81 sizes. We do not
make the light. tiimSy SO-CALLED~ Stationary
Engines which have been put upon the market
merely detached Portables. The names of 26I
planters can be given who have had our STAN
dard Stationary Engines in use over 20 years.
We also manufacture SAW MILLS, SHAFT
ING HANGERS and PITLLEYS, and are pre-
pared to contract ut very low prices.
W. l.. CUSHING, Agt., 1866 Grayier ST.,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

Corinth up to date has seven matrimoni-
al associations.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
For SDle.

An Iron Screw for q Cotton Press, complete
and rs good as new. Two hands can pack
100 lib bale Of cotton easy and quick. For FUR
ther particulars address,
DIR, A. i, THOMPSON.
ssp7.am BogueehittO, Miss.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

Manning and Chalmers lad a
joint discussion at Holly Springs
last Saturday. The debate was a
warm one. Manning's language was
very severe and gave offense to Chal-
mers, who, after the discussion was
over. challenged Manning to fight a
duel. Gen. Harris represented Chal-
mers and f. NJ. Watson, Esq, Mr..
Manning. The matter was referred
to Senator George and Mr.. L. P.
Cooper, who adjusted all differences,
but on what basis the public has not
been advised. The speaking is to
continue at other places in the dis.
trict.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

The Natchez Fencibles have received
one hundred rifles.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

GRAND PRIZES AT ATLANTA 1NTERNATIoN-
Al. COTTON EXPOSITION.
The great contest at the Atlanta Exposition
resulted in report Of the committee consist
ing OF Il. 5, Kicks as judge, and Thomas NJ.
Smedes and Col w. Barrow as group judges,
recommending to the Executive Committee
the award to the Eagle Cotton Gin Company
for the best cotton Gin for ginning rough or
huily cotton" recommending $50 and a piece
OF plate or medal. The same committee also
awarded an additional prize of medal to the
Eagle Cotton Gin Company for the best Cotton
Gin Feeder. These awards have been approx
ed and endorsed by the Executive Committee
and received the signature Of IL. j, Kimbali,
the Director General,
The above mentioned awards, made by two
prominent planters, assisted by Col. w. +. Bar
row, the President of the Wiltiamantic Cotton
Company, who Is All expert as II judge of cot
ton, We're given to the Eagle Eclipse Cotton
Gin, Feeder and Cleaner. Large sales have
been made the last season of the Eagle Eclipse
Cotton Gins and Feeders, and they have given
universal satisfaction and received the en-.
dorsement of our largest planters rs the best
gin they have ever used. On account of the
large demand for the Eagle Eclipse Cotton
Gins, we request planters to send in orders for
future delivery at once, and secure the best
Gins ever made, Liberal arrangements made
for payments, Address all orders to
". L. CUSHING f. CO..
MANUFACTURERS AGENTS,
l0S Grayier & ~ Union Street.
july27
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

The Greenbackers and Republicans OF
this district did not fuse.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
THE CAN'T-GET-AWAY-CLUB
WILL GIVEA
Grand Excursion to Chicago
ROUND nIF ONLY CIT

AMI
Leaving New Orleans Sept. 16, ut 30 p. M, by
the GREAT JACKSON ROUTE, with the priv
ilege Of returning on any regular train up to
floffllar l. 1880 assF ~
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

Winona wants better depot building.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
Dement'S Farming School.

where boys will be taught Practical Agricnl-
ture, and win at the same time receive d good
English Education.
forms and particulars made known, and
questions answered, through private cores
pOndenee. DANL BENNETT.
RrQokhaveA May Goth. iant-ti
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
TUFTS HAIR dye,

The proprietor of this celebrated medicine
justly claims for it a superiority over all REM
edies ever offered to the public for the SAFE,
CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT cure
ofAgue and Fever, or Chllls and Fever ,wheth-
er Of short or long standing. He refers to the
entire Western and Southern country to bear
him testimony to the truth Of the assertion
that in no case whatever will it fail to cure If
the directions are strictly followed and carried
out. In great many cases single dose has
been sufficient for cure, and whole families
have been cured by single bottle, with per-
feet restoration Of the general health. 1t is,
however, prudent, and in every case more GER
tain to cure, if its use is continued in smaller
doses for week or two after the disease has
been checked, more especially in difficult and
long-standing cases. Usually this medicine
will not require any aid to keep the bowels in
good order. Should the patient, however, re-
quire aeathartic medicine, after having taken
three or four doses of the Tonic, a single dose
of BULLS VEGETABLE FAMILY PILLS
will be sufficient.
The genuine SMITHS TONIC SYRUP must
have DIR. JOHN BULL'Sprivate stamp on each
bottle. DIR. JOHN BULL only has the right to
manufacture and sell the original JOHN J.
SMITHS TONIC SYRUP, Of Louisville Ky.
Examine well the label on each bottle. If my
private stamp is not on each bottle do not
purchase, or you will be deceived.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
RlVATE
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL,
PlCAYuNE FARM.

The subscriber proposes to establish, at PIC
AYUNEFAleM near Brookhaven, Miss, where
he has resided for years, az small and select
Agricultural School, to be called
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07
Eastern, Northern & Western Points

Giving Through Tickets to all points-Chca-
go, Toledo, Buffalo, Richmond, New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia and ashington.
East, North and Western tourists will find the
La Belle river route sif1, 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 a splendid trip by this
line, as the steamers are all frst-clats, having
been expressly built for the accommodation OF
passengers. Each steamer carries full string
and. r. w. LIGHTBURNE,
General Freight and Ticket Agent.
A. Y. STEVENS, Passenger Agent,
MARIA Monroe st., Memphis. Tenn.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-09-07

| perry anu IfaclnS5 On Tile walls. W
then come'to the Dripping Spring
that comes from the earth abov.
downthrough the ceiling. Here arr
a few small stalactites. The Infer
nal Region is only few feet on
and it is a dismal, wet and disagree
able spot. Serpent's Hall comes
| next, where the trail of a snake il
pointed out on the wall. In til,
Valley Way some beautiful speci
mems of fibrous gypsum are seen
No one is allowed to touch these al
abaster beauties.
After passing the Hill Fatigue
we approach an object which re
scmbles the end of an immense ship
1t is called the Great Western, ant
it's rudder is plainly visible. w.
follow the Valley of Flowers wher,
many rare sights are seen, turn tt
the left and admire Lucy's Dome
There are really two dones here
One is sixty feet In diameter ant
enters the others by way Of a. gothic
like window, one hundred and fifty
feet from the floor. BY the use o
magnesium lights the side and TOT
can be surveyed. The drapery 0
stalactic curtains is grand beyond
tlescriptia. This is the highest
dome in tie cave, the measure tt
its apex being three hundred feet
81 another route We go to Ole Bulls con.
cert hall, where the renowned violinist de.
lighted some friends with his best music
We now enter the pass Of Ell Ghor, see the
Fly Chamber, whose " alls are sprinkfed
with crystals Of gypsum; visit Suicide
Rock, Table Rock, the Crown and other
minor curiosities. Continuing, we stop at
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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-03-25

ual, aud teachers have been zaal-
Gus in carrying on the work, con-
sequen'ly the general percentage
viii make u better showing. The
teachers are well Satisfied with all
except a blank report sent Us 20
be filled out, which IL more vo-
luminous lhan that Of any of the
departments of Washington At
The close of each month, the teach
ers reports Z e enumeration OF pu-
pills enrolled, days present, days
absent, whole number OF days
present, absent and non member;
average daily attendance, average
daily Absence, and average daily
non member; per cent of daily at
tendance. per cent Of daily absence
and per cent of non members, to-
tai per centagp, and all other mat
tiers that would appear necessary
to run a common school. This Is
M il should be, in order to protect
the tax payers, and o give the
county Superintendent basis for
mis- report IN the State Superinten-
dent, But TO require teachers at
he close of the term To re-repOrt
these same items, together with q
host of Others, making altogether
more work than IL would require
10 transcTihe the moral iaw;,
looks to US useless and unbusiness-
like.
Jones' Spring has a regular 90.
ahead lodge of Good Templars.
they are working up the prohi-
hilton question lively, and are do.
ing good for that community.
The temperance people, general
~, appear 10 be determined to be
heard at our next election, and If
they have The casting vote, Hon.
John w. Grantham will be- the
next Senator, from this district.
a.