The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-07
rowH AND COUNTY ITEMS.

Sow your garden sass.
a,ring fights have opened.
Max Priebatsch is always busy.
The voice of the water-frog is again
heard in the land.
The new residence of he Aessrs. Nevins
IL one of the handsomest in town.
Hons. r. r. Applewhite and V. b. Watts
spent last Saturday among their cOnstitu-
ents
bill to adopt new city charter has
been temporarily referred to House COM
mittee.
The Knights and Ladies of Honor hold
their oyster supper tonight. More about
it next week
CAPT. Cook, of Wesson, accompanied his
daughter Miss Laura, to WhitTorth last
Sunday.
s. Kohlman is one of the best and most
accommodating merchants of which our
city can boast.
Mr. VIM. Delaughter and Miss Amanda
McGuffie were married by Supervisor Max
we'll last Monday.
Mr. Louis Lewenthal will soon move to
New Orleans, much to the regret of his
many friends at this place.
We are indebted to Hon. G.. r. Dale for
the honor of a short call while on his re-
turn to the Capital last Saturday.
Owing to our absence from home until
too late to read the proofs, caused some
awkward errors in last week paper.
Anyone visiting New Orleans, can get an
excellent cheap lunch by calling on Lem
Marthe, 10 ST. Charles street. Try him.
Col. J. NJ. Wesson, ST., was in town last
Saturday, talking railroad charter, and
hJnored THE LEADER with pleasant call.
Dstrict-Attorney Frank A. McLain paid
us pleasant call Monday evening and
had his name added to cur list of regular
subscribers.
Miss Mary Vardaman, one of Halle
hursts fair daughters, spent several days
this week in our city the guest of her sis
ter Mrs. J. o. Frilick.
Mr.. l.. H. Baggett returned from Mem
phis Oh Friday last with his "sheep- skim"
and accepted position with Messrs. Sher-
man & Davis. Success to you, Lark"
Miss Maggie II. Lake has our hearty
thanks for club of Ia subscribers, accom-
panied by the cash. We are proud that
THE LEADER has such an appreciative
friend.
The merchant who takes a mortgage on
n crop yet to be planted and grown, is
doing cotton future business that some
times proves as hazardous as the other sor-
of Futures"
There are still some fine bargains to he
had at the Bankrupt sale of the Lewen-
thai stock on Cherokee street. Our young
friends, Mr.. Hyman and Lewis Decell, are
on hand ready to serve all callers.
We fell into the error last week of stating
that it was Mr.. w. w. Fore, who had been
charged before Justice Baggett with burn
ing the Matthews gin house in the north
srn part of this county. 1t should have
appeared John p Fore.
Mr.. Hynum has resigned the position of
Postmaster at Martin, and at present our
good friend Mr.. S. d. McNair, is the post
master. No better man can be found to
fill this place permanently, than Mr.. Me
Nair, and we hope he will get it.-Port
Gibson Netcs.
The readers of The LEADER should
always remember +. II. Hartman, of
BTookhaven, when they are on the war
path in search of low prices and good bar
gains His store is constantly supplied
with just such things as the farmer and
working man needs, and our word for It,
ne will give you the worth of your money.
A member of the Grand Jury was fined
and discharged last week for drunkenness
while on duty, and this week both of the
murder cases before the court enter plea
that the indictments found against them
were found on account of the influence of
whisky on the jury. And yet there are
men who think that whisky is BENEFIT
to the county and town.
Our esteemed contemporary, N. P. Bon
ney, of the Summit Sentinel, was here last
Monday, and favored us with call. We
saw him later in the evening, and he was
strongly leaning toward the opinion that
nearly everybody in our town is bankrupt
or suffering from a chronic case of hard
times, which of course is grave mistake.
Hon. r. r. Applewhite, we learn, will
soon introduce a bill for the funding of
the county's present Indebtedness, and au-
thorizing the Board of Supervisors, at
their discretion, to issue Understanding
bonds for the erection of a new Court
House. We think it the part of good poll
cy to adopt this course as regards our
county finances, and to proceed with re-
building the court house as early as pos
sible.
Mr.. j. s. Burns, one of our Fair River
subscribers, presented THE LEADER with
turnip last Friday, of the Purple-top
Globe variety, weighing 81 pounds. We
and sample it, and found that nOtwith-
standing the extremely cold weather
through which it had passed, it was sweet
and juicy. Mr. b. is one of our most sue
cessful farmers, and he claims as much for
the ground-which is fresh and rich,-as
he does for the variety of turnip,