The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-06-14
BROOKHAvEN ITEMS.

BRooKHAveN ITEMS.
Texas cowboys!
The streets look dull.
Another heavy rain yesterday.
Candidates will soon be ut work in
earnest.
The trout and perch are said 30 be Bit
ing splendidly. sasa
Texas cowboys at the Fair Grounds
Saturday afternoon. eHH
The many friends Of DIR. ]. B. Doughty
are glad to see him out again.
There was q small crowd in town last
Saturday for that time Of week.
See notice elsewhere of the sale of one
seventh of the "Miller place" in this coun-
ty by Rev. j. b. HamberliB, Guardian, on
July Sd.
The Masonic Lodge Of this city. have
invited all sister Lodges to attend and par
ticipate in the cornerstone laying at
Whitworth, June 10.
Just half dozen took our remark of Last
week to the loafing farmer rs personal. 1t
was good advice, nevertheless, and we do
not take it back. -
Whenever they are collected in lump
about corner like bees at the entrance of
bee hive, be sure there is a candidate in
tie midst of them.
Read the proceedings Of the Pike Coun
~ Executive Committee. The Committee
very properly favor the holding Off Dis
trict Convention for the nomination of .
candidate for District-Attorney.
The cellars and holes dug in Brookha-
ven for protection against tOrnadoes, have
been mentioned by nearly every paper in
the State, and the good sense of their own
ers is..pretty generally conceded, too.
Capt. billiard died ut his homo in Law.
renee county last week. He was men,
Der of the Board of Trustees of Whitworth
College, o public spirited citisen, and q
man of excellent qualities of head and
heart.
We return thanks to the Robert Mitch
oil Furniture Company, of Cincinnati, for
one of their Illustrated Catalogues. 1t is
the most handsome and complete thing we
have ever seen in the catalogue line. 1t
can be had for so cents.
Mr. Z. N. Bee will please accept our
thanks for copy of the Savannah News,
containing some interesting sketches of the
early history of Georgia. By the way, Mr..
Bee himself rs q Georgian, and is justly
proud of his native State,
We learn that Capt. r. d. withers is
now being urged to become candidate
for the Legislature. In the qualifications
necessary for this Office, We believe Capt
Withers will compare favorably with any
one we have heard mentioned in this con-
neotion, and if he consents to run, he will
no doubt make it warm for his opponents.
We return thanks to DIR. Walter Hill
man, President Of Central Female Insti-
tute, Clinton, Miss, for an invitation to
attend the closing exercises of that popu-
lar Institution, from June % to % inclu-
sive. This school has enjoyed q most
prosperous session, and the Commence
ment exercises promise to be of unusual in
terest. tt2~
We were in error in stating last week
that the baccalaureate sermon before the
Senior class of Whitworth College would
be preached by DR.. johnson on Sunday
evening, June 18th. 1t was preached last
Sunday at ii O'Clock. A. NJ, and we are
told by those who had the good fortune to
hear it, that it. was one of DIR. Johnsons
ablest and greatest efforts.
A very interesting number of Demorest's
Magazine is the June issue of this popular
and pleasing publication. The opening
article. which is illustrated, is .'Home,
Sweet Home, and its Author" contributed
by Virginia Titcomb. "Pictures from
Roumania" profusely illustrated, Is of
great interest, as is "The House of the
Troubadoufs," by Lizzie T.. Lewis. Jen-
ME June's ''How we live in New York;
gives glimpse of workingman's home;
and the story s'Out of the World" Is con-
tinued. The shorter stories are contribut-
cd by Jenny Burr, Dorythy Holroyd, Miss
4. B. Cheesborough, and Erie Douglas
while among the poets Of this number are
George w. Bungay, Carlotta Perry, Ellen
Hutchinson, and Adelaide Waldron
''HOme art and home comfort" "Curreni
Topics" various departments treating o.
fashion, household matters, science and
art, and variety Of miscellaneous arti
cles, combine to make Democrats Maya
zine for June remarkably interesting
number. The pictorial department is ex
cellent; the fine steel engraving, eth,
Palm oifering," being after the celebrated
painting by F. Goodall, the noted Englisl
artist, and 10 not only q fine specimen o
the engraver's skin, but gives an admira
BILE idea Of the style of the great painter.
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