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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-12
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

--Rev. DR. Morgan Dix, of New York,
has written life of his father, the late
General John A. Dix.
-Bldck,1o0d says the influx of Amer
lean magazines has surprised the Brit
ish public by the beauty and extent of
their illustrations and the freshness of
their literary matter.
The daughter of George Francis
Train says she is now the only one with
whom he viii speak. Formerly he re-
fused to shake hands with people, but
now he will not even speak.-N. y. sam.
When General Spinner was asked
by Florida man few days ago how
old he was, and If he was in good
health yet, he said; I" / am eighty-one
years of age, still in good health, and
believe / can whip men of my size
yet"
Prof Henry Croft, of the Toronto
University, who died in Texas recently,
had filed the chair of chemistry and
experimental philosophy in that in
stitution for more than thirty years.
He was noted for rare skill as a ma
nipulator of chemical experiments, and
was for many years the chief and al
most only authority cited in cases of
suspected poisoning.
Frederick n. Crouch, the composer
of Kathleen Mavosrneen," is gray
haired man, who lives on poor fare in
Baltimore. A tattered coat of Con-
federate gray keeps some of the cold
out. He is now out of employment
and too old to help himself. He has a
wife and five children. He tries to
smile cheerily at fate, but admits that
he needs help.-Indianapolis Journal
The Washington Post says of the
new Treasurer of the United States, Mr..
Wyman: .'In person he is slightly
above the medium height, well formed,
and apparently about fifty-five years of
age, his iron-gray hair and beard add
ing to his attractiveness. Personally
he is genial gentleman, much es-
teen1ed by all who know him, his
subordinates speaking of him only in
terms of the highest regard"
Mrs. Frank Leslie, the lady man.
ager of ten periodicals and four hundred
employees, has recently returned from a
tour in the South, where, as she is of
Southern birth, she met a cordial re-
ception. Iwonder how many people
know that the elegant house at Saratoga
was built by Frank Leslie in three
weeks in consequence of his fiancee's
promise to marry him as soon as it was
done? The workmen toiled day and
night, c.n,i at last, on the arrival of the
bride and groom, nothing was lacking
but candles, there not being light in
the house.-NeW York Star.
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HUMOROUS.

"A relic hunter-A fellow endeavor-
ing to capture widow.
MIA, are we cannibals?" asked a
little girl of her mother the other morn
ing. '.Wby, my child, what do YOU
mean?" ''Oh, nothing, only heard
you say to Bridget, boy legs for break
tast.'
The old superstitious notion tha,
crocodiles weep has been exploded by
the scientists; but it is pretty generally
acknowledged that sailors have repeat
edly seen whales blubber.-Nationai
Baptist.
Julia, my little cherub, when does
your sister Bertha return?" Il don't
know" Didn't she say anything be-
fore she went away?' 'She said, il
you came to see her she'd be gone till
doomsday."
Young Slowtocatch recently had
cause to borrow pair of rubber shoes,
and after putting them on remarked:
They're immense; they fit me to IT,
and then he could not tell why the peo-
pie smiled.-Chaf:
"A lady in a neighboring city, whose
husband had remodeled the front of
their residence, while the rear was badly
dilapidated, said the front of her house
was Queen Ann and the rear Crazy
Jane style.-BoSton Commercial Bal-
lettn.
Two men got into a wordy contro-
versy which waxed quite hot, and final
ly one challenged the other to a square
fight. But the other refused. mot
that / am coward" he said, FOR that
am afraid of you; but l am always
unlucky in fight"
-"No, sir,'' said an old Indian,
down in Maine, 81 don't have my boy
taught arithmetic. / learned it, and
the curse of my life has been the re-
marks of people who thought them
selves funny, to the effect that / was
very pleasant because l was an Indian
summer"
NO." he said, II am not a bad
tempered man, but when somebody
takes my toothbrush and puts in place
of it another that has been used to ap-
ply hair dye, and / get hold of it in the
dark and use it, I think it's not sur
prising that l said: Gosh durn it, ~
Boston Post.
Why she was weary: "Oh, dear,
Tn all tired out" exclaimed Mrs.
Shoppingham; ''you can't have parcels
sent to the depot now without paying,
you know, and in an economical fit I've
been Juggling this all about the city,"
And with a great sigh of relief she took
a spool of cotton out of her pocket and
deposited it on the table, Chicago
Herald.
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Ruskin to cry saerilege" now, but
suppose Mr.. Ruskin had clanked across
that bridge six hundred years ago, with
fair-eyed Hope throwing him goodbye
kisses from the further portal, he would
have given worlds for the saving shrek
of the steam whistle. Do you ever 60
back to the old school-house and weep
and sob because some heartless o'd
iconoclast of farmer is going to make
firewood of the old beech tree? Ah, no;
you have wept enough on account Of
that tree in days gone by. You take
the farmer by the hand and say: "Chop
it down, and then grub the roots and
fill the hole with salt. Why didn't you
think of this thirty years ago!" So the
tree and Bridge of Signs must go, for
what are schoOl-house dress but breeches
of sighs?
1t is world of change. We may not
like to see the old landmarks go, but if
they stand in the way of the railroad
they must go. There are some links
that tie us to the past that even / dread
to see broken, but they can not stand in
the way of manifest destiny.
Why, there are people, my boy, who
think it is PROCLAMATION and sacrilege be-
caused it is proposed to have railroad
wind its way up the sacred side of
Mount Olivet, and to send the railway
locomotive steaming and putting along
the sunny slopes that were trodden so
wearily by the aching feet that sancti-
fed the mountain with their perfect
holiness two thousand years ago. But
urEil 7 oil to
honest reverence for sacred things, my
boy, l can see no proclamation in the rail-
road, even when it winds along the
slope of sacred Olivet. Because as l
look at it, it was the light that shone
from Olivet, it was the life that made
the mountain holy ground, that led
mankind from all darkness into all the
light of the nineteenth century; it was
Oliyet and the instruction of the teacher
whose prayers and tears and sufferings
were all for all mankind, that led us
from barbarism to civilization, and to
all the triumphs of civilization from the
brazen-wheeled chariot to the light
running ambulance; from the solid
wheeled Syrian ox-cart to the road
wagon and the Victoria: from the slow
moving caravan to the limited express
and fast white mail, and if anything in
the world has a right to 60 shouting
along the grades of the Mount of Olivet
it is the railway locomotive. Nothing
that is really progressive can be sac
rilegious. But there is great deal
that is profane and sacrilegious, my boy,
that isn't the least bit progressive
Bur0ette.
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Dummy Money.

The dummy" money in the window
of brokers' office on Kearney street is
proving a dear advertisement to the
proprietor. A fortnight since two en-
terprising young thieves smashed the
plate-glass window with q brick and
grabbed a lot of counterfeit greenbacks,
under the impression that they were
good money. Yesterday afternoon q
glazier charged MIR. Anthony something
like seventy dollars for putting in .
new pane of glass. The job was finished
last evening, and at 7A5 young thief
named James Neary, alias Nealy, alias
Ryan, demolished it with cobble slung
in a pocket-handkerchief. Through
the aperture thus created he grabbed q
pile Of neatly-turned brass discs of the
size of twenty-dollar pieces, the top one
being bona-fide double eagle. As he
thrust his hand in he toppled the pile
over. losing the twenty dollars and only
securing twenty-three of the brass
counterfeits,-San francisco Chronicle
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American Society.

American society, as now carried on,
is maintained solely for the benefit of
young girls, and is generally little bet
ter than a marriage mart. The parents
launch their offspring as well as pos
sible, and display their wares to the
greatest advantage, but the business
of the market is carried on chiefly by
the young girls themselves, instead of
Europe. There is no special objection
to this method of transacting the busi-
ness, but it is preposterous that young
girls and their affairs should over
shadow and shut out everything and
everybody else. The result of this alb
sOrption in one class and one pursuit
is that American society is often insult
ferably dull and fiat. 1t is made up
too exclusively of ignorant girls and
their attendant boys. Half the educa-
ton of cultivated and attractive
woman is, of course, that which is de-
rived from society and from the world;
and yet American society is almost
wholly given up to the business of en-
tertaining and marrying those who are
necessarily wholly destitute of such an
alence of social principles of this de-
scription is the supremacy of that most
rustic and unattractive of habits, the
pairing system, which converts society
into vast aggregation of tete-a-tetes.
This prevails all over the world to a
greater or less extent, but it should
never reign supreme. The upshot of
the whole thing with us is to drive out
of society nearly all married people-for
marriage under such a system is de-
structive of social value; nearly all un-
married women over twenty-five, who
are thought to have overstayed their
market; and, finally, considerable
proportion of the unmarried men of
thirty and upwards. In other words,
except at few large balls and re-
ceptions, all the best and most intel
ligent part of society is usually lacking.
1t has been pushed aside, and is
obliged to find all its social amusement
in small coteries of its own. This re-
tirement is, of course, voluntary, be-
cause the pairing system ruins general
society, and makes it, in fact, impos-
sible in the best and truest sense. A
clever young Englishman not long ago
expressed his surprise at the fact that,
whenever he asked who a lady of a
certain age, as the French say, might
be, he was invariably told, not that she
was Mrs. Blank, but that she was the
mother of Miss Blank. The girl, like
the boy, is properly the most insignifi-
cant member of society. When
young man goes forth into the world,
he starts at the bottom of the ladder,
and works his way up. The same rule
should apply to young women in socie-
ty. They have their place, and it is an
important one; but they should not
start in social life at the top, and then
slowly descend. Such a system is
against every law of nature or of art,
and with its inevitable concomitant of
universal tete-a-tetes makes really at
tractive general society impossible.
We place the social pyramid upon
its apex instead of upon its base,
and then wonder that it is poor. tot
tering, and unlovely object.-Attantic
MOsstaiy.
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Advice to a Young Man.

want you, my boy, always to keep
up with the times, but want you, how
ever fast you may run, to retain a
tender and loving reverence for the
dear old past, with its beautiful lessons
of honest purpose, of loving faith, of
trustfulness, of really good feeling; re-
member the past with reverence.
At the same time don't want you to
be sleeping or stupidity conservative.
This is rapid old world and you must
sleep with your spurs on if you will
keep up with the times. I don't want
you to live forever in the past. We
must live in to-day. / don't agree with
the esthetics who wall about the desc
Grafton of the past by the noisy, vul-
gar, money-getting present; these
people who rend their garments be-
cause a railroad runs through Palestine
and another winds up the lava-scorehed
sides of Vesuvius, and put on sackcloth
and sink down in ashes because steam
propellers steam and splash through
the busy streets of Venice, and the
steam whistle tortures the gloomy quiet
of the Bridge of Signs. Good for the
steam whistle. Had it shrieked its in
dignant protest against the hate and
blindness of the past, centuries ago, the
gloomy, pitiless cruelties and remorse-
less tyranny that now invest the Bridge
of Sighs with morbid, inhuman inter
est, would never have been. If were the
steam whistle of 1888, under that shadow
of the dark ages, would pull my valve
wide open until my head hung down on
4 n n \ = n n
until the torment of my civilized yells
shook that pathway of tears, that mon
ument of barbaric cruelty and pitiless
torture from its cruel and iniquitous
foundations. Mr.. Ruskin lifts his fee
BILE voice against the clamor of the voice
of steam. It's well enough for Mr..
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Progress Of the Temperance Sentiment
i'm England.

A curious illustrations is found in some
recent numbers of the Queen newspa-
per of the progress of the Temperance
sentiment in England. In the depart
ment of queries, lady, under the name
of Cecchino, had written, stating her
income and outlay, and asking advice
as to what economies she might prac-
tice so as to be able to keep some sort
of carriage. Among the items of her
expenditure was f72 year or wine
and beer. .....
One correspondent finds here a use
less and needless expenditure, which
would of itself suffice for pony car
riage. Another writes that she herself
had made the experiment of abstinence,
thinking it would be a great act of self
denial, but at the end of three months
had found her reward lin the added
health and comfort of the household
generally; work better done; happiness
and content instead of quarrels in the
kitchen; and an economy that would
quite cover the expense of carriage
and pair of horses" When the rule of
abstinence was laid down, the servants
had no objection, and in changing from
time to time, the rule was no difficulty.
Fresh milk, fresh spring water, or water
with fresh lemon squeezed into it, were
the beverages of the house.
A third correspondent enforces the
plan by the consideration of the great
benefit it is to female servants (many
of whom become the wives of working
men) to become abstainers, and learn
by practice the advantages it brings.
This correspondent goes fully into the
ways by which servants may not only
be instructed themselves. bat may use
fully influence their acquaintances. She
herself had been in delicate health, and
had long taken wine ON that account,
without any improvements; nor did she
become strong till she left off the prac-
tice. A fourth correspondent enlarges
on the benefit of substituting q money
payment to servants for an allowance
of beer. We are glad to learn that a
member of the British Women's Tenn
perance Association is about TO have
these letters printed as tract for gen
eral circulation.-Ca Catholic Presbyterian
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A YOUNG MAN who entered saloon
Monday night to get drink. and who.
not having money enough to 60 round,
refused to treat the crowd gathered in
the place, was hit over the head with a
poker and dangerously injured. 1t Is
to be hoped that he win recover, but At
the same time the discipline is agood one.
If all the young men who 90 ip9S'
saloons to get drinks Were served ~
the same way the result would be az
sirsble. .-C Chieaqo NeBs,
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Enthusiastic Professor of Phy

Enthusiastic Professor of Physics,
discussing the organic and inorganic
kingdoms: Snow, if l should shut my
eyes-so-and drop my head-so-and
should not move, you would say was
a clod! But / move, / leap, / run;
then what do you call mee" Voice from
the rear: "a clod-hopperP' Glass is
dismissed. Kassar Miscellany.
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Foster, the author of ''Old Folks at
Home" ii is said received $4,000 for
his share in the sale. Mrs. Akers-Allen
received five dollars for Rock Me to
Sleep" but the publishers made several
thousands on it.
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REV. CANON WnBERFoRCE tells us
of medical man who, after very ex-
tensive practice of more than sixty
years, ''firmly believed thatno single
life has ever been saved by alcohol" !"
He adds: .'The most eminent medical
men have confessed that they have
erred in this direction, and win candidly
admit that the dangerous system of the
perpetual exhibition of alcohol practiced
by themselves in earlier years has sent
hundreds to their graves"
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EVERY TINE man puts his signature
to hquor-seller's bond he is signing
the death-warrant of some fellow-being,
and opening the gates of the poor
house for that mans family.-Ez-
change.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-12

The man who has lived through the
past winter and isn't thankful for il
ought to break leg.-Detroit Free
Press.
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In THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE ut Sap
piro, Japan, instruction is given to the
students on the physiological effects OF
alcohol.
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SOUTHERN EVENTS.

Sudden Death OF the Director ofa Competi-
tive Drill.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 14.-James
NJ. Martin, general manager of the Nash
Vile competitive military drill, to- be held
in this city in May, was found dead in an
clubhouse this morning at 9 O'Clock. His
death was due to disease of the heart.
Tho Flooded Districts.
MEMPHIS, March 14.-A dispatch from
Helena, Ark, says that the guage this
morning shows 46 feet inches, a decline
of one inch during the night. A line of
skiffs has been started between this point,
Johnstown and Clarksdale, Miss, and fiat
boats are delivering goods back through
the country on the accessible streams and
the Pacific and Southern express compa-
MES have resumed their regular trip over
the st. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
railroad. Business is generally resuming.
For the first time in many years there is
a swift current coming down the shore,
Indicating disposition on the part of the
river to again change its channel in this
vicinity. Should this occur the big bar
in front of Helena will be greatly dimin-
ished if not washed away, while the pres.
ent channel of the river will again fill up.
David Davis Married.
RALEIGH, N. c., March 14-David
Davis was married at II o'clock to-day to
| Miss Addie Burr. The wedding took place
at Tokay near Fayetteville in the residence
| of Hon. Wharton J. Green. The presents
were many and costly, but the wedding
was quiet with few guests. At one O'Clock
the happy couple left for WilmingtoniOn .
special chartered steame.
Fire In New Orleans.
| New ORLEANS, March 14.-Seebold''
stationery and fancy goods store, on Cana
street, burned yesterday. Loss, $50, 600
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BUTLERMAKEs A SENSATION.
He Vetoes the Bill Making Appropriations
For Charitable and KeformatOry
Institutions.

For Charitable and KofOrmatOry
Institutions.
BOsroN, March ia sensation was
created in the Legislature to-dayby mes
sage which Governor Butler presented,
vetoing the bill making appropriations for
the expenses of various charitable and ro-
formatory institutions of the state. He
declines to sign it for various reasons. 1st,
that it contains appropriations for district
purposes, some of which are objection.
able and others are not and are but
continuation of what he says is the vic
ious practice of writing in the bill different
appropriations for entirely diverse objects.
He quotes this method as applied to con-
gressional appropriations, where it is q
great bar to satisfactory legislation. Taking
the total appropriations OF the bill, to VIII {:
81, 900, he equalized the various items
which make up that amount. Most OF
the appropriations, no says, are for
the payment of salaries, expenses
and cost of supervision in the state aims
house, workhouse, primary school and re-
formed school for boys and girls and
| he estimates the appropriation for salaries
at go per cent. of the amount to
be expended for the maintenance
of these institutions. The salaries
have been increased rather than
| diminished. Upon a. better ac-
auaintance with the cost of doing business
| for the state, he is more than ever con-
vinced that the commonwealth employs
more efficient agents than are neces-
sary to do its business, and reviewing
the statements made in his inaugural ad.
dress reaffirms his assertions therein !:
that the state institutions are managed
with unnecessary extravaganza.
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A 100000 Romance.

true romance In real life recently TOOK
place In Louisville, KY. The circumstances
were these: Miss Aicsne Vanderespt, tho
beautiful and accomplished daughter OF our
we'll known and esteemed druggist, hada well
known young gentleman. also OF Louisville.
paying her attentions, and both being pos
sessed of speculative spirit, and unknown TO
the other purchased q SI ticket In the Com
monwealth Distribution Company. 1tsohap-
pened that each took q half ticket with the
same number. and when the drawing tefmtn
ated they had drawn &, 900 each, their number
having drawn the $40 900 prize. when the
Young gentleman called to tell hts good tor.
tune, his surprise was great to ind his sweet
heart was also entitled 10 congratulations. OF
course, q wedding soon followed. for It was
selt-evident tn were intended for each
other, and the young gentleman -
now the owner of q prosperous busa-
ness, and at bis request wo rofraan
from giving bis name also. Now let all young
gentlemen and ladies 60 and do hkewtse.
Next drawing, Saturday, March Slst. 1,Soo
prizes, sll2 400. Capital prize. $4,000. Tickets.
only 81. Send your order Immediately to =.
M. Boardman. Louisville, KY. m1Altd&w
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Live Stock Market.

CH1oAeo-Cattle-Recei 1000 head ship
ments, 1000 head market weak under liberal
Offering native steers in fair demands but 10
0l5c l6wer; exports. s6 3506 u good TO best
shipping, 8 1905 -; poor % to 3 dair. = 50
a 75a5 40 for steers stockers weaker 1t = %
"A so feeders quiet at - 2606.
Hogs-Receipts. HOOD head shipments,
500 head; market steady and d.S, SS,nc1anSsd
and shippers bought freely a1alt.y better;
heavy SS fair to choice at q 6037 g light.
s. soar Al poor to mixed, ss 9007 so; skips
sheep-Receipts. 400 head shipments. 100
head best grades in good request and strong;
common to fair weaker poor to fair at - -
IS good to fancy at &5 2506 80.
The Journals British cable advicaS report
Cattle and sheep steady, good American Cat.
tie selling at l8c % b estimated dead weight
Sheep at 1b019c. .--r--r-
EAST LIBERTY- -Cattle-Receipts, ~ bad;
market firm ut about Yesterdays prices.
| HoGs-Receipts,, ,l96 head market actiye ;
!! -,nHafelphias, 81 so0s %; Yorkers. a NO
sneep-Receipts, 1860 head market fair at
| Mondays prices.
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MARKEIS.
Philadolphi0 Market.

PHILADnLrHIA, March H.-Fl0ur dun, weak
to sell Supernne, - 75@l o.; extra, a 10
81; Penn'a Family, IS 0o06 2.
Rye flour at $404 II.
Wheat lower and unsettled.
Corn dull and lower.
Oats dull and weak to sell.
Rye quiet at 68070c.
Provisions steady for jobbing sales.
Lard steady
Butter dull and prices favor buyers Pa.
Creamery extra, SIC; firsts, 3l032c; Western,
3}035c fr5ts, 2S0c0c.
Rolls dull.
Eggs firm fair demand.
Cheese firm.
Petroleum quiet Refined, s0sIc.
Whisky at 81 l8