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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Queen Victoria's John Brown had
employed the sunshine to the extent of
81, 100000 of hay-making. a..
Seven years ago Mr.. Bell, of tele-
phone fame, was poor man. Now be
s said to be worth S6,0O0,OO0. .,
joaquin Miller stands by Mr.. Dix
in the reverend doctors war on modern
feminine wickedness. Mr.. Miller has
been twice married. ..f.,--..f. q.
The Washington Republican says
that "a fearful as well as plausible ex-
PLANTATION of the Lady Dixie matter is
the suggestion that Lady Dixie may
contemplate a lecture season in Amer
lea. ' ..i. +..-
The mother of Oscar Wilde has a
long poem on Ireland in the Boston Pr
bot Her conclusion is that the Irish
people, driven frantic, "will take their
stand in mightier land beyond the
broad Atlantic.
Now we have honored John How
ard Payne. the Hartford Pest calls for
honors to "other song-writers who are
forgotten?'' But if they are forgotten,
how shall we know upon what writers
to bestow these honors!
1--WE who write novels for the exist
ing time should face our task with fOrti-
tude sublime writes Edgar Fawcett.
The same thing would apply with equal
force to a majority of the people who
read the average modern novel.
"A very beautiful and expensive book
has lately been made in Boston, only
ten copies of which are printed. 1t is
the richly illustrated story of a yacht
ing trip taken by Mr.. Edwards, the in
ventor of the heliotype process.
Miss Linda Gilbert is now endeavor-
ing to secure additional educational
facilities and other reforms in the prisons
of Baltimore and Washington. In May
she will sail for England and devote the
summer to efforts in behalf of prison
reform there.
-Mathilde Blind says that Mr.. Lewes
was more than a husband to George
Eliot; he was like mother, watching
over her health, cheering her despend-
ency with his own buoyancy, and Great
ing the spiritual atmosphere in which
her genius ripened.
Mrs. David Davis says the reason
she would not consent to marry Judge
Davis while he was in office, was be-
cause, Mr.. Arthur being a widOwer and
Judge Davis Acting Vice President, she
would have had the duties attendant
upon " the first lady in the land''-a
position she did not care to occupy.
The Graphic's estimate of $S,000,-
100000 as the total representation OF
the guests of the Vanderbilt ballis criti-
cised as improbable, but one-tenth OF
the amount is accepted as possible.
The former figure would gi7e each Of
the 700 guests $11, ,42S, ,561--a state OF
affairs that never exists with any zoo
people except those of an editorial con-
vention.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26

has BEEN And there's where your
white. clear skin. and your clear. pretty
eyes are goingI And in that jug, nv
husband, your appetite is going, also !!
OF let the bottom stay out forever! Let
il be as 1t is, dear heart /! and remember
your promise to me p.st. 81 .tLTsIci
And then she threw her arms around
my neck, and burst into tears. She
cOuldn' speak more, r. lesa.U ee,f
"And there was no need. My eyes
were opened, as though by magic. In
single minute the whole scene passed
before me. saw all the mortgages, on
all the farms in our neighborhood; and
! Thought where the money had gone.
The very last mortgage father had ever
made, had been to pay a bill held
against him by the man who had filled
his jug for years! Yes, saw it all, as
it passed before me-a fitting picture
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.! = debit
and, in the end-Death! And / re-
turned nv Molly's kiss, and, said /:
Molly, my own! I'll keep the prom
Use! / will-so help me Heavenr
"And have kept it. In less thar
five years, as Molly had said, the mort
gage was cleared off; my appetite came
back to me; and now, we've got a few
thousand dollars out at interest. There
hangs the old jug, just as we hung it up
on that day; nd from that time there
hasn't a drop of spirit been brought in
to this house, for a beverage, which that
bottomless jug wouldn't have held!
Dear old jug! We mean to keep it,
and TO hand il down to our children for
the lesson it can give them-a lesson of
life-of life happy, peaceful, prosper
Gus and blessed!n y
And as he ceased speaking, his wife,
with an arm drawn tenderly around the
neck Of her youngest boy murmured
fervent .'Amen!'-N. y. Ledger.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
An Honest Boy.

There were dozen of us waiting
around the depot at Chattanooga to
take the train for Atlanta, and pretty
soon stout, red-faced and high-tem-
pered man from Columbus, O., began
jawing about the way he had been bled
by the walters at the hotel, and added
that there wasn't single honest nigger
south of Mason and Dixon's line.
Il beg your pardon, but l must differ
with you," remarked man from South
Carolina.
"Differ be hanged!" shouted the fat
man. IL wouldn't trust one of 'em out
of sight with ten-cent piece"
"Oh, you certainly misunderstood
them. I'll bet you the cigars that if
give one of 'em ten dollar bill to get
changed he'll return as straight as a
string" MA asaa
"rll do it. Give your money to that
chap by the Window t, r- 81.
The gentleman walked over, took a
bill from his pocket, and quietly said:
boy, run up town and get change
for this"
"Yes, sah," was the reply, as the
youth hurried out. ef tt .s..
In about fifteen minutes he returned,
walked up to the Carolinian and re-
turned the bill, and said:
.'-Went all ober, sab, but couldn't git
it busted"
He was rewarded with dime, and
the Buckeye, after a great deal of puff
ing and blowing and wondering over it,
paid the cigars. As we boarded the
train askaI the winner.
"Did you know the boye"
For answer he took the bill from his
pocket and unfolded it. 1t was ten
dollar Confederate MOTEL Cor. Detroit
Free Press.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
Temperance Items.

EMORY STORRs says the 1,500 saloons
in Chicago bear the same relation to
the penitentiary that the Sunday-schools
do to the church.
Mr.. FRANCIS MURPHY is still laboring
perance. During his recent visit to
Carlisle four thousand persons put ON
the blue ribbon.
OUT OF the eight hundred and ten
thousand persons in England who are
classed as paupers, more than five hun
dred thousand can trace their condi-
ton directly to the drinking habit.
One YEAR AGO the Metropolitan Tab
ernacle Temperance Society was formed
in Mr.. Spurgeon's church, London, and
since that time more than seventeen
thousand pledges have been taken
there.
THE LONDON Medical Press, in refer
ring to the serious falling off in the rev.
enue from intoxicating drinks, states
that since October, 1880, one million
people have put on the blue ribbon.
and 564, 600 have signed the pledge.
liz ANY sALOON-KEEPER can show
that he has the right to SO debase men
that it makes our passage through the
streets of Davenport unsafe, in order
that he may live life of idleness, we
will then be ready to resign and emil
grate.-Dauenport Nesos.
LIQUOR TENDS to drag down, and
nothing in it or about it tends to ele-
vate a man." That statement does not
hold water as far as Austin is con-
cerned. Our lookup is on top of hill,
hence, instead of being dragged down
the inebriate is pushed up. Please make
correction as to Austin.-Teras SJt-
i,,gs.
THE CHICAGO Tribune counts ,467
murders committed in the United States
in 1882, an increase of POI over 1881.
Chicago had, in 1882, "a murderers (be-
side her 5000 saloon-keepers) only one
of whom was hanged. Nothing in this
country ever so much increased crime
and debauchery as the accursed beer
business; the vilest and meanest of all
poison drinks.-San Francisco Rescue.
A RECENT ISSUE of the London Ga
zette shows that public-house property
in the large cities of England is rapidly
depreciating in value. There were thirty
public houses within half o mile of Liv-
erpool Custom House closed within the
year, because they did not pay the cost
of rent, taxes and license fees. 1t is to
be hoped that this state of affairs is due
TO better opinion in regard to Tenn
perance.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
HUMOROUS.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has got to
the bottom of the whole matter. 1t
says that Lady Dixie saw mouse.
---"Take care of the useful, and the
beautiful will take care of itself." This
is what the fond and numerous father
remarked when he married off his
ugliest daughter first.-Psck.
-"Bah Jove!" exclaimed young
Dudiboi, ''the weathah is getting so
mild, yer know, that must have the
ferrule taken off my cane. It's too
beastly heavy for warm day, yer
know. ."-BOSton Transcript.
"A man tanned a prairie dog that
somebody sent him until the docile lit
tie creature would eat off his hand. At
least, it ate off about three-quarters of
his thumb one day, but it died of con-
cussion of the brain before it could fin
ish his hand.
"A book Just published is entitled:
"How to Make $500 Yearly Profit with
Twelve Hens" We have not read the
book, but we suppose the author $
recipe is to sell the corn that they would
annually eat, and then kill the hens
Philadelphia NeUs.
Mrs. Sam Millidge, an Austin lady,
was busy trying to make pincushion
of sawdust when the cOlored cook came
to ask what she should cook for dinner.
"Go away, and don't bother me now.
My head is full of sawdust now, and /
can't think of anything else" ..5
B. franklin says: "Time is an
herb that cures all diseases" Frank
lin evidently didn't know much about
"yarbs," and was not at the head of
the class in spelling, if he was a printer
Thyme is an herb, but, not being a pat
ent medicine, it will not cure all dis
eases.-The Imp.
The Rochester Post Express re.
marks: "You mustn't tell us that mar
ried men are not mindful of the comfort
of their wives. Who ever heard of a
married man going home late at night
who didn't take his boots off in the
hall and steal quietly to bed, in order
not to disturb the slumbers of his wife. !"
Asked traveller in the Orient of a
Pasha: ''Is the Turkish civil service
like ours? Are there retiring. allow
ances and pensions, for instance?' my
illustriOus friend, and joy of my liver, ;"
replied the Pasha. .'Allah is great,
and the public functionary who stands
in need of retiring allowance when his
term of Office expires is an ass! have
spoken" s. aI aae 3
Brown struck an icy place in the
sidewalk, and down he went all in a
heap. A gentleman stepped up and
helped Brown to his feet, politely re-
marking, ..It is quite slippery, sir"
Brown was so mad he forgot to re-
turn thanks. What in thunder did
he want to tell me it was slippery forP"
soliloquized Brown; "didn't the fool
suppose knew that before he told me. y
Boston Transcript. .sa .sagai,
sa How the Cincinnati Enqysre,
found this out is a mystery: And
what, in the name of goodness, Is thisP''
asked Mrs. David Davis, as the Senator
mgged something into the room and
dropped it at her feet. THAT is my
shirt, darling; and I win be greatly
obliged if you will sew on button for
me- y David Davis" said the lady.
sternly, sswhen you bring me your shirt,
] will sew on q button for you with
pleasure. as becomes fond and dutiful
wife; but just now, sir, must insist
upon your removing this circus canvas
from my apartment"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26

"Now, ladies, 1 hope you viii ask as
many questions as you please, because
l want to make everything clear to
you," said Miss Maria .Parloa, as she
began her lecture on Marketing" at
the College of Pharmacy, on Twenty
third street, yesterday. On the long
table on the lecture platform was a side
of dressed beef, weighing four hundred
pounds. Beside it, ready to cut it up
TO illustrate the lecture, stood a most
gentlemanly looking butcher. G
"You must remember" said Miss
Parloa, I" that after the meat is dressed
only about one-sixth of it is desirable.
The rest of il, rich and poor. alike, pre-
fer not to buy, but the poor have TO buy
it. because they can not afford the price
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
BALLADE SoF 11aHr H6UsE.


'Tis subtly sweet suggestive phrase, 3
But the simple soul who is lured thereby
Will make a sorrow for many days.
In secret oft will he moan and cry,
And vote the thing tremendous lie, -
For IL mpuns this phrase that sounds so fair,
world Of trouble anu toll and care;
And wild distracting wish 20 go,
Away from il soon and anywhere;
speak of the things whereof know. ,.
II means all little transparent ways.
To hide away from the common eye
The fact that your bread and butter stays
In your desk; that you bake and boil and
fry ia Est
In a single dish. 1t means to try as
To hang your garments, the best you wear,
In folding bed, that last despair r.
of honest souls; and, bittercst blow,
II means a kitcheny-parlor air. .-s
j speak of the things whereof know.
II means to shrink meath the stern amaze
OF the lordly butchers and bakers eye;
Apologizing in meek dispraise
For your modest wants. To rave or sigh
Over the fangs of the boughten pie.
'Tis to pray a strong, Heaven-reaching prayer
For the meal a man pronounces square"
And to be once more in life below
Free from that ace-destroying snare;
speak of the things whereof know.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26

If the women who have adopted the
fashion of wearing red mask wells
could be made to realize how unbecom-
ing they are, they would never be in
dueed to put one on again. except in a
moment Of mental lapse. They give TO
the hair q oopper-eolored tinge, and
make the face Of the wearer look as
though she were suffering from an ag-
gravated case of measles In the name
OF beauty, down with red veils.--B Boston
advertiser.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
C. II. johnson tells the Fruit Grorer

&C. H. johnson tells the Fruit GroUer
that by going carefully over the ground
several times each season and burning
all plants showingraspberry rust he has
succeeded to such an extent that no
more than half dozen cases of the dis
ease appeared last year in the whole of
his three acres devoted to this fruit,
while another, at some distance. "lost
almost his entire stock without knowing
the cause"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26

Mr. Bernard Herbert August Adolph
Barwich wants $4,000 of Miss Rebec-
ca Mclean, a Statan Island heiress.
He declares that she asked him to mar
nv her, that he consented, and that she
afterwards Tilted him. Ten thousand
dollars is a good deal of money.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
ENVOY.

Ye who are tempted this life to share,
Pause ere you enter the tigers lair;
Consider the truth fain would show,
For with hand on heart / firmly swear
Ispeak of the things whereof know.
-GnnH HbcgF
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26

The Legislatures Of North Carolina
and Tennessee have granted pensionsto TO
soldiers who were disabled in the Con-
federate service.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-21

amendment, expressed hts opinion that the
National Board OF Health was the most
stupendous humbug and fraud ever ere
ated. and quoted from its own report that
IL had made nii~expenditures Oh public
money. He could bring home 10 that
Board n deliberate attempt TO create ru-
mors Of yellow-fever In New Orleans.
Mr.. Dunn, of Arkans3. advocated The
amendment, and declaredt that the Louisiana
State Board Of Health concealed the exist
ence Of the pestilcncc In New Orleans, and
was willing to peddle death through the
country in order 70 keep up the commerce
OF the State.
Mr.. Manning defended the National
Board Of Health from adverse criticism,
end reflected upon the Louisiana State
Board. attributing to ii in great measure
the yellow-fevcr epidemic OF 1878.
Pending action the committee rose.
The Committee on Commerce reported
the river and harbor bill, and 1t was re-
fcrred to the Committee of the Whole.
Recess was taken until 1880.
Evening SeSsion.-The House took up
the sundry civil bill. The amendment
placing the control OF the 100000 epidemic
fund in the hands Of the National Board
OF Health was lost. While considering the
item appropriating S1jO,0o0 for the COM
pletion OF the Washington monument, in
reply to n question by Mr.. Springer, Mr..
IIiscock stated that the monument would
be completed two years from July LIST next.
Adjourned at 10 Il. NJ.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-21

An Alarm Of Fire and Its Frisistfnl
Results Fourteen Children Crushed
TO Death and Many others Injured.

New YCsE, February 20.---Connected
with the German Catholic churef, OF the
Most Holy Rcdecmer. In east Fourth
street, Sisters 81 Charity conduct school
for small children. A short time previous
TO the hour for Diminishing the pupils this
afternoon an alarm of fire was raised,
which spread about the rooms. Instantly
one OF the attaches left the building to no.
tify the fire department, and on returning
he found the stairs crowded with girls
from four to twelve years old, piled on
one another In disordered mass,
screaming and moaning piteolisly. A
number OF men came 10 their relief,
and while the Sisters OF Charity
above managed to somewhat quiet
those who were not in the mass, the men
as quickly ~ possible proceeded TO extri-
cate the little ones. lt WIS impossible to
do this with any great speed, but while the
men were working the banisters gave way,
making il more easy to remove the chill
dren. IL was then found that seven chill
dren had been crushed TO death and many
others were more or less injured. The
cause OF the alarm was n small Ore under
the staircase on the third floor. Theflomes
were extinguished speedily, and all whom
the Sisters had kept i'm their eIass-rooms
were then allowed TO go home.
News of the accident spread with light
ning-lke Iapidity IN the crowded tene-
ment district around the school-house, and
the police, who were promptly called out,
had much difficulty TO quiet the mothers
whose children attended the school. a
Chinese laundry which adjoiaed the school
house served az temporary hospital for
the injured. The latest reports from the
disaster make the number OF killed four
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-21
General Foreign Notes.

LONDON, February 20.-The steamer
Quebec, which arrived at Liverpool yester-
dav. has been locked. The steamer Glen
bernie. from Baltimore, has arrived mt
Dublin. She landed the crew OF the Anne
rican ship Fl. S. Gregory, from Queens
town TO Port Townsend. which was aban-
doned $50 miles west OF Fastnet The
Alan-Line steamer Buenos Ayrean has
been i'm collision with and sunk a steamer
of Lamlasb. Scotland. Eleven OF the
crew of the latter steamer were drowned.
A dispatch to the Times from Berlin
saws the Emperor William wishes the
Crown Prince Frederick William to AZ
tend the coronation OF the Car.
MARsELLEs, February 20.-By the latest
mail from Madagascar il is learned that the
French flag is living on the northwest
coast. Owing TO the fact that the natives
are very MUCH irritated the Prime Minister
has begged foreign residents OF Tamil
fave not to venture into the interior. war
like preparations are proceeding at rama
| fave. -, .. -,
members OF the committee OF the Chamber
/ ON the oathS bill has resulted entirely III
/ favor Of the Government.
/ A society of Socialists has been discover
ed AZ XereZ. Several OF the members were
arrested and a number Of documents were
seized. clearly proving the connection OF
the prisoners with secret societies abroad
Senior Posado Herrera, President oil th'
Chamber OF Deputies, will retire from po
litical life in March in consequence OF ole
age. ,tt;s,,
Marshal Bazaine Is about to publish
work on the FrancO-Prussian war, chleii.
IN defend his conduct at Metz. -.
LoNpoS. February 20:-The SiaHdaT9 Z
correspondent at Berlin states that IN
4 Blndesrath has adopted regulation asaihs
American pork. ,u,.,.
In the Landtag yesterday DR.. Maybaeh
Minister OF Public Works, stated thar IN
nroposed bill relative to strategic railway
an the eastern frontier had no disquietiu
meaning. o.,o.
, workingmen yesterday presented M
! mortal to President Greyy protesuu
! against the political instability. OF Franc
which, they say, injuries the interests
4 labor. Thcy declare that the prime caus
i Of the condition OF affairs complained
are the liberation shown pretenders III
9 the ovcr-plIaney towards foreign power
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-21
Flood Disaster on the Missouri River.

ST. Louis, February 20.-Informatlon
from st. Charles, Mo-, is TO the effect that
an immense ice-gorgc came rushing down
the Missouri river yesterday morning on a
high and Tapidly-running volume OF water,
which overlooked the lOw bottom lands OPP
posite ST. Charles and almost submerged
the little town OF Brotherton. The Gov
eminent tug Electra was crushed by the
ice. and nearly all the Government work
for the improvement Of navigation at that
point was swept away. The st. Charles
car-works, on the river bank, with the yaIu-
able dock built into the river, were de-
stroyed. The railroads in this vicinity are
getting in good shape again, and schedule
time is about resumed.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-02-21
AnInsane Moiher.s Act.
SHE TIES HER CHILD IN BUNDLE AND THROW
1T INTO TIE WATER.

SHE tbs HER CHILD IN A BUNDLE AND THROWS
1T INTO TIE WATER.
4 Buffalo telegram OF Saturday says:
Mrs. Cottier. the wife Of Alonzo L. Cottier,
an employe Of an insurance firm here, went
TO the police headquarters late last night
and confessed TO the Superintendent that
she had murdered her child, a little girl OF
eight months. She said she administered
chlorofOrm to it Friday morning, and in the
afternoon took il and started for Fort Erie.
While on the fcITy-boat crossing from
Black Rock she dropped the child over
board, having first tied an axe to the bum
die so that il would sink. The woman's
story was doubted. aud the Superintendent
thought she showed signs Of Insanity. An
Investigation to-day shows that the child Is
missing; that Mrs. Cottier crossed the
ferry Friday afternoon as she states, and
that while crossing she was seen to drop a
bundle overheard. A hope is still enter
tined that she has hidden the child some
where, and that it is still alive, though the
mother evidently believes she has killed 1t.
The only ground for the hope is her mental
condition. Inquiry Il TO be made as to this
by n commission appointed this morning by
County Judge Hammond, and the doctors
who bayc examined her say there Is nc
doubt that she is insane. She will proba-
bly, be committed 10 the State Asylum.