The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-09-03
wAYSIpE NOTES.
como Interesting EernInisoon cos
Recalled By woyiarer as 10
Pursnes His. Journey.

no amOluon lot publlc distinction.
do no; probably desire ever to see
their names in print. Yet ali Il csc
good people belong to The class on
which rests tie true greatness and
glory of tie Rcpublic-the farmers
Of the country. What would be.
come of our great interior towns
and imperial cities Ivy the sea, with
gu the hardy cultiva,ors of the SOIL.
to whom l alludc ? II has been
truthfully said that God made tie
country, man made the town"
Ny last mites closed at the old
Fleet Cooper homestead, which be
fore the var was a popular resort
for the young people of Monticello
and why not. since two pretty
Young ladies then lent a charm tt
the LARGE old mansion, with it's Wid,
snow white vcranda that sill lirgcr,
in memory ? The house is situated
in a ward Of several acres. covered
With luxuriant carpet Of green,
"vershadnwed by great oaks and
mulhcrries, and near hy ru~hes ovrI
its gravel V bed the clear sparkling
waters If Far River. This plac.
tuK, ihpr with many other fin
places along IT," river, now seems
completely excluded from tie out.
.ilc world rtp"-ing qHiel!, III tn,
lovely valley, some miles To the lett
,! the rGb'ic highway leading i,
M"hticrilo Before the war > pub
lie road. and one of the best worked
and Tost pleasant in the County
ran through this wealthy farming
region, called the Fair River road
This road turned off to the lief,
about ten miles out from Brook
haven, and after passing by sue.
cession Of Plantations came out one
mile and half west OF Monticello
The main road. generally traveiet
then as now, passed through un
broken woods Without cabin OF
clearing 10 relieve their LONELINESS,
from Msxwcll's Mill on, and il wa
q delightful relief in those day.
for the weary traveller to turn OF
t. the left taking the settled high
way with it's highly improved
farms and greater variety Of natu
raj >ctnery. But that cid tayorit,
road of mine has been long discon
'inued, has grown up in bushes, anc
in mary PAGES is only a hlidl'
oath.
| concluded to take this old roat
once mere aud G. back across nix
river t" look al the country tormr'
w PLEASANTLY familiar 10 me
Passing thrru4h tht swamp. tn,
pathway "vcrhUng hy huge ma2""
has, crossed al he ford and cam,
out at the old lIickerSon place
Here liv d lAany years ago judge
John d., krrs"n. He was man nt
W, aIth. popularity and inhu""re
He owned u large number at slave
aud cultivated an extensive and
valuable plsniali"n. II" was t"r
several Years Pr"hatr judy" and an
Give Democratic politician
'nuLd the old mansion >tandira, bun
all else was changed. AL those " he
Turner Y oc, upiei it had forever Ills.
and the lace once :" not
ed for It's attractiv, ness AMI ho-Di
ralilv, Now seemed lonely and he.
crted But little e The lar q Han
tation is now ia cultIvatinn. hun.
DR., dS IT acres of good bottom Ian"
wing out DR.. VIM. Wcather>hv
whose wife was a dau+ h'tr at July.
Dicker-on, ocCupir'! the place fuI
a number of Nrars before his rragi
{ al death Further on | passed b,
the f. rmer elegant homes of L.Wi-
and William Dickprs"n, brothers 81
tie Judge. Like their owners til.
fine mansion. that once adorned
these places are no longer in ext
n,ncc, but the broad level t, Ids tc.
main Tie same and plcscuL To Tia.
ry" II pleasing posI ect.
Proceeding on ] came Ia the Fail
River Baptist church, one Of IN,
oldest III The STATE. | mean the o."
oanizatiun is one of the oldest, III,
building being a comparatively new
one, and not so large AZ the oGr thai
coupled the same spot for so mann
Years. No me, ting being i'll pr"
grrss, the g,ou d. on tie sabbath :,
popu!"us with ~or.hi pers were
n"w undi-turhrd by a single f""i
fall, and Y '>"lrmn stiffness rcignrC
around" A hooking hird ht.wev.l
Onn sent torn I's sky-h"rn mel
ody and The sweet, south WINDS ladrr
With resin"us perfume. Quierl !,
-ighcd through the trees. ! iuvrl
UNFAIRLY repeat d Br,snt's charmIn.
Forest Hymn - 1.-The woods wrr,
Gods fir>Li,mi,le-." l un-addlc,
my horse and lay d"wn on the leave.
beneath the grateful shade or one o
The giant oaks that adcrn Thu Lowell,
locality and in the quictude u
the hour thought of the past
of the implanted old church
If the men and women | hat
often met there, in the long ago
so many OF whom we're now sleeping
in the little cemetery. whose white