The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-24
BROOkHAVEN ITEMS.

The Free Press failed to appear last
week.
TIE LEADER is ready to call the meet
ing whenever requested.
The Misses Gartman have closed their
millinery store Oh Front street
If you do not take THE LEADER, right
now is a good time to subscribe.
The roof of the popular st. Marco Hotel
has received new coat of paint.
Marshal McClondon is pushing street
work. He says he is going to do the
streets up brown this time.
Sam Magee has returned from trip to
Williamsburg, whittier he went after the
eonviets sentenced at last term of Court.
Capt. R. B. Wlthers claims the best
garden in town. Judging from some sam
Pile vegetables we saw him have few
mornings since, he is correct.
The first box of peaches was shipped
from this place last Tuesday. They were
raised and shipped hy A. Scherck, and
consigned to F. N. Fucch, New Orleans.
A goodly number of Brookhayenites and
others will leave here for Monticello next
Sunday and Monday to attend the Law
renee Circuit Court. THE LEADER will be
represented.
Capt Thos. Cotton presented the editor
with two nice ripe peaches last Tuesday
of the May Beauty, variety, for which we
return thanks. He says he has q good
crop which is fast ripening.
Maj Schwall, of this place, has pc ach-
tree which bears 3 peaches to the blossom.
lie does not know any distinguishing
name for it, so we will call it Schwall's
prolific. A specimen may be seen at this
Office.
Tho whole LEADER Office force, from
editor to devil, enjoyed the pleasure
of dining with that estimable lady, Mrs.
N. E. Hubert, ON last Monday. 1t was
repast fit for a king, and no dinner was
ever eaten with more relish.
The new msrket house is going up. A
special meeting of the City Council was
called Tuesday, and a committee, COM
posed of Aldermen Perkins, Atkins and
McGrath, appointed to supervise the work
and see that contract is faithfully carried
out.
Jesse Taylor, of Brookhaven, and some
colored associates, will run an excursion
from Magnolia, to Natchez, June 8th. Fare
for round trip, from all all points between
Magnolia and Jackson, $500. The train
will leave Magnolia at o'clock on Fri
day morning, June 9Th.
Since last Sunday afternoon when a
stiff north wind sprang up after the rain,
the weather has been colder than was ever
known at this season of the year within
the memory of ''the oldest inhabitant."
The sky keeps clear and the sun bright,
but the days have been cool and at night
and early morni ng, fires are necessary for
comfort. The thermometer at this place
has been down to A. Frosthas been seen
at several places in the county.
The public are hereby cordially invited
to attend the literary and social entertain
=
evening, June 1st, by the young mems
Literary Association. DIR. j. o. Frilick
will deliver an address, and the question,
"Resolved that we derive more pleasure
from hope than from memory" will be
discussed by Messrs A. Lewenthal Jr.,
and G. ChrIsman on the Affirmative, and
Messrs. T. ]. S. McGrath and w. r. Spen-
Ger on the negative.
On Tuesday last, Serintha Younghlood,
negress, was tried before Squire Curtis
in Boguechitto on tho charge of burning
the house of Pat Davis, negro living in
the extreme Southern portion of this coun-
ty. The evidence in the case was purely
circumstantial, but sufficiently strong to
bind the woman over to await tho action
of the grand jury; and being unable to
give the required bond of $500, she was
brought up here and lodged in Jail. The
prisoner is reported as bad and reckless
character, and the prominent men of that
community took considerable interest in
her prosecution.
General Passenger Agent Hanson, of the
Illinois Central Railroad, has issued the
following notice to Mr.. Bee and other local
agents in regard to tickets for the National
Exposition of Railway Appliances, at
Chicago, May 2ith to june 23d, 1888:
''You may sell excursion tickets to Chica-
go and return at one and one-third fare for
the round trip, adding enough to make
the rate terminate with 0 or 5. Sell Tues
days and Wednesdays of each week during
the continuance of the Exposition (com-
mencing May Doth and 30th), aud make
tickets good to return until the following
Mondays" This will be an excellent OPP
portunity for all those who wish to take a
cheap pleasure trip to the great city of the
Northwest.