The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-05-20

Jackson Monday.
Prof Won Eldercn's free lecture Thurs
day night didn't draw.
TIE LEADER from now till Nov. 10th to
any address for 80 cents cash.
Mr.. Krauss is having some valuable al
tcrations made on his residence.
Good luck will attend you if you buy
groceries of Schnorrcnburg Bros.
Mr.. C. T. Clapp has recently purchased
and removed to the leasing place.
Mrs. S. c. Buffaloe, now of jackson,
Miss, is spending a few days with her rel
atives here.
Mrs. Oscar T. Crosby and sister, of New
Orleans, are on visit to DR.. and Mrs.
Wesley Martin.
Our young friends Vivian Byrd and
Eric Gambrell, of Jackson, spent last
Sunday III town.
A negro breaking Texas mustang was
the free show on Railroad Avenue last
Saturday evening.
Meats of all kinds at j. b. Nalty's
cheaper than ever known. Call and price
and be convinced.
Mcssrs. Thompson and Cassidy were
the first part of the week in Hazlehurst
attending Circuit Court.
Patrick & Hughes are taking some love
" pictures. Call at their photograph
tent and see for yourself.
Chas. Chrisman, Esq, is here or Il short
visit. He is well pleased with his new
home in Quitman county.
You persons who want a good live home
paper, take The LEADER on trial from
now until November 10Th for so cents
cash.
Call on the ladies of the Wesleyan So
ciety tomorrow evening and try some of
their delicious ice-cream. Only 10 cents
per saucer.
Rev. j. II. Gambrell is back from Clay
county, where he has been stirring up the
liqnor traffi for the last two weeks with
a long pole.
Rev Il. +. Jones, of Wesson, filled his
appointment at the Methodist church last
Sunday night and preached to large
congregation.
Dr. G.. A. Teunisson, of Lawrence, was
in town last Saturday on his way home
from trip to jackson and paid The
LEADER pleasant call.
A slow, penetrating rain fell Tuesday
and Wednesday, and it is the first time III
our life we have ever felt fire comfortable
after the middle of May.
Rev. A. A. Lomax has been invited to
address the County Prohibition Convcn-
ton on Saturday, May Goth. He is one
the people always delight to hear.
Several young ladies and gentlemen
of Wesson came down on last Sunday
evenings train and spent a few hours i'll
our city viewing the chief points OF inter
est.
The Sunday school children will en-
JOY picnic next Saturday. Let as many
as possible of the grown children" turn
out and help the little ones to have gala
day.
The G. L. S. G. had a very pleasant
meeting last Thursday at the residence OF
Mrs. Kidd. The lesson was Richard Ill,
which furnished highly interesting top
ic for discussion.
Powell has just received new fresh
goods i'll every liue-choice hams and
breakfast bacon, pure creamery butter,
the best cream cheese, fine teas and cof-
fees, etc
Miss Wessie Martin is attending the
Press Convention as a representative of
the New Mississippian. No paper in the
State will have a more beautiful and tas-
cinating representative.
Miss Adde Marshall, the active and
Jealous President of the Brookhaven w.
c. I. u, has organized Union at Bogue
Chtto, and next Sunday, or soon there
after will organize one atOld Brook.
Boys-you with the sweethearts-it is
rather hard to rush right out OF
the amusement into the festival season,
hut such is life. Straw berries and cream
are cheap, though, and that's some con-
ISOLATION.
Caroline Thompson, colored woman,
attempted on last Sunday to talk and
hold pin in her mouth at the same time.
but the pin got down into her wind pipe,
and was the source of considerable pam
and fright
Mr.. A Lewenthal, Jr., left for West
Point Tuesday night to represent The
LEADER at the opening of the Press Con
ventIon yesterday morning. The Editor
in-chief left last night and will join the
happy gang of quill drivers this morning.
Miss Minnie Smurr, Principal NJ. & F.
Institute, Sallis Miss, has our thanks for
an invitation to attend the closing eXer-
cises of her school which take place to-
day and tomorrow. An interesting pro-
gram will be presented each day highly
creditable to the accomplished young
Principal who, by the way, is a Brook
haven girl.
A great many farmers have had to re-
plant their cotton on account of the April
freshet and the cold nights since. Some
can't obtain seed for replanting and will
either have to work the land with an i'm
perfect stand or pillow it up and plant in
corn. In view of the prospective low