The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1883-04-26
8ROOKHAvEN ITEMS.

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LEADERS for sale at Robertson's book
store.
Our friends who owe us, would confer a
favor by helping us just now.
If YOU like THE LEADER, please sub
scribe if not, we would not object to your
subscribing any how.
The trains have been crowded all the
week WITH people going to and from the
scene of destruction at Beauregard and
WesSon.
There is ample room in Brookhaven fol
several of the broken-up business men OF
Beauregard, and if they will como they
will be warmly welcomed.
Our readers will excuse the dearth Of
general news this week. So much of our
time and space have been given to things
pertaining to the cyclone, this was I'M
avoidable.
The LEADER was the first paper in Mis-
sissippi to announce TO the public the de-
struction at Beauregard and Wesson'
Hundreds of our Extras were distributed
and then the demand was not supplied.
The Illinois Central Railroad has acted
toward Wesson and Beauregard with even
more than usual liberality. Special
trains have been furnished free to carry
freight destined to the unfortunates has
been checfully transported without q
thought of charges; and in most instances
persons going to and from this capitol OF
destruction, have been allowed to ride on
regular trains, without being so much as
questioned. as to fare. We know that the
people all along this limo will join us in
thanks and three hearty cheers to Col.
Clarke and his no less generous subOrdi-
mates.
The people of Brookhaven, with their
proverbial generosity have responded most
literally to the call of distress at Wesson,
and Beauregard both by rendering all
service possible in person, and also by
contributions of food, clothing, etc. They
were the first strangers OH the ground after
the disaster, and the crowds which have
gone mp on almost every train, and the
anxious inquiries to be heard at the depot
after the latest news from the sufferers,
show that their interest has never abated.
DIR. Johnson requests us to state, which
we will do in this connection, that the
flour, potatoes, meal, hams, bacon, ETC.,
aant 10 paonra~arI l,xy fhA mar no ant 9
and others of this place, were judiciOusly
distributed, largely by his own hands, and
that he was requested to return the thanks
and blessings of the unfortunate recipients
TO all those who thus contributed.
Judging from the failure of others in the
past, it doesn't do much good to mention
the subject, but we will, nevertheless, =
some effort or arrangement ought to be
made by the community, we think, where
by the city of Brookhaven can be supplied
with a hearse. In larger cities, and in
some places not so large, the keeper of a
livery stable or the undertaken who fur
nishes the coffin keeps a hearse on hand for
public use as occasion requires; but here
none of orr livery stable men, nor our un-
dertaker, have seen fit to make any snch
provision, and the necessity remains I'M
supplied. Our friends and relatives con-
tinue to die, month after month and year
after year, and we continue to haul them
to their last resting place on the hill in an
old spring wagon, or it may be a rough
wagon without springs, just as the people
used to do when the town contained but an
hundred inhabitants. Burial is the last
service we can render to the dead, and we
owe it to them and to ourselves to furnish
respectable and suitable vehicle for trans
ferring their remains to the grave. If OuI
undertaken or some one else will not keep
hearse on his individual account, let a
public subscription be taken for the pur'
pose, or an entertainment given with that
for its object--but let us have the hearse,
by all means. We would suggest that the
ladies take the matter in hand, but they
are called on 30 often, it would seem like
imposing on good nature to ask this Of
them.