The Brookhaven leader., 1883-05-31
G.awrence County-CIrcuft Ccurs
--saas~ Meeting, Etc.

The LHADER made ms nrst visit TO the
staunch, solid old county of Lawrence, and
for two days enjoyed the satisfaction and
pleasure of mingling with her hospitable
clever people who had assembled at the
county capital to hold Democratic mas.
meeting and to attend Circuit Court.
Circuit Court convened Monday at the
appointed hour, with all of the officers of
the court promptly in their places. The
following named Grand Jurors were EN-;
paneled and sworn:
T. ii. Smith, Foreman; i. o. Cowart,
Frank Wylie, Henry Baggett (col. }, S. c.
Buckley, y. A. Scarborough, c. II. Moore,
o. II. Smith, Monroe Boyd, J. G. Sistrunk,
Z. l.. Lee, w. r. Lambert, Archie Fairly,
Jesse r. Thompson, T. j. Patterson, Jack
Davis, J. T.. Laird, j. s. Carter, NJ. b.
Stringer, Jr.; MIN Madison (col.) }. Mr.. Louis
Cohn was appointed bailidf of the Grand
Jury.
The charge of Judge Mayors to the
| Grand Jury was plain, pointed and com
prehensive. A large audience was present,
and it was listened to with marked atten-
ton throughout.
Before court resumed business Monday
afternoon, a mass meeting of the Democra-
CIV of the county which had been previous
ly called, assembled in the Court House
| for the purpose of deciding upon plan for
the nomination of candidates for the ap-
preaching canvass, appointing an Executive
Committee and transacting such other bust
| ness as seemed expedient.
There was strong sentiment in the
meeting, favoring the holding of \ pgima-
ry election as the best plan for nominating
candidates, but clumsy management on
| the part of TIE leaders of this proposition
defeated it, and the meeting finally decid-
ed almost unanimously in favor of q CON
| ventiOn. Among other things of interest
done by the meeting, Hon. A. Ii. Longino
was declared the cOunty's choice for State
| Senator from the new district composed of
Lawrence. Covington. Simpson and Co
piah. MIR. LonginO acknowledged the COM
! pliment in neat, feeling speech and de
clared that while, in appreciation of past
| honors done him by the people of his ma
tive county, he had not intended offering
| for the Senatorship, now that this unsOli-
cited expression that he should continue
in their service had been made, he would,
in Difference to it, at once enter the
contest as candidate, and use all legiti-
mate efforts to make the choice of Law
renee county the choice of the entire dis
trict. j. +. N. Huddleston, Esq, of Gov
ington, who is also candidate for the
nomination, being present, was called upon
and responded i'll few well-timed re-
marks. As the proce ediBgs are published
in full elsewhere in tO-day's paper, we will
make no further reference to them here.
The following civil cases were disposed
ofby the court during our stay, which EN-
braced all for the term:
Albert Cohn VS.. Ransom Baggett. De-
cided for defendant.
II. II. Taylor VS.. d. A. Scarborough.
Dismissed at defendants cost.
DIR. p. McInns VS.. j. c. Magee. Dis
missed at defendants cost
John l.. Turnbongh VS.. Stephen Bow
man and Wade Pope. Decided for defend
ant.
FL. Qninlan & Co., plaintiffs in execu-
ton VS.. j. j. benson & Co., defendants
in execution, and j.. NJ. Sims and Caroline
Holloway, claimants
NJ. W. Smith, plaintiff in executive, VS..
J. J. benson & Co., defendants in execu-
ton, and John NJ. Sims and Caroline Hol-
loway, claimants.
Slocumb, Baldwin & Co., plaintiffs in ex-
ecution, vs.. j.. j. benson Il Co., defend
ants in execution, and John NJ. Sims and
Caroline Holloway, claimants,
All compromised at plaintiffs cost
The case of BrOOkhaven vs. Lawrence
county, recently reversed by the Supreme
Court, was continued without trial.
A number of minor State cases were dis
posed of up to Tuesday evening, the grand
total of which was the sending off negroes
to the county Jail for terms varying from
10 to 20 days, and few others for mere
nominal time. When we left yesterday
morning another negro WAS awaiting SEN
tence for stealing seed cotton.
Up to the date of our leaving, the Grand
Jury was busy, but had made no report.
Foreman Smith reported too sick for duty
Tuesday morning and Mr.. A. Fairly was
sworn in to take his place.
The maiu case for the term is tt at of
young Samuel Bagent, who is to be tried
on an indictment found at the last term for
the murder of his step-fathcr, BentOnville
Taylor. His trial was set by the Judge
for to-day, and special venire was sum
mOned.
We met the following members of the
bar in attendance: r. II. Thompson, A.
G. McNair and c. c. Chrisman, Brookhav-
en-; j. l.. McCaskill, Brandon; A. H.
j. S. Finley, williamsburg; Ben King, Jr.,
Beauregard; J. L. Meade, Hazlehurst.
McNair and Chrisman are attorneys for
Bagent, and the prosecution will be con-
Quoted by that able representative of the
State, District Attorney G. b. HuddlestOn
We are greatly pleased with the sover-
eigns of Lawrence as a whole, many of
whom subscribed for The LEADER during
our visit. We desire to acknowledge our
obligation for special courtesies shown us
by Capt. ID. w. Cannon, Sheriff; Will c..
Cannon, Deputy Sheriff; c. L. Watts, Cir
cult and Chancery Clerk, and Messrs. Ed.
Weathersby and c. X. Dale d Bro. Dur
ing a portion of our visit we were the
guest of Mr.. c. r. Dale and his elegant
lady, and were never entertained more
Hospitality. We may say in this cOnnec-
ton that Mr.. Dale has become a candidate
for the Legislature from Lawrence, and
if we are any judge of the matter, he is the