The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-11-25

Smylie. A. Lewcu;bal, Max Priobat>ch.
! A. LewsntLal, Jr., ]. K Perkins aud j.
o. Buardwee, besides five lawyers, four
physiciaus, one dentist, one photo
| graphrr aud five hotels. MIR. JOS. Con-
nelly has u foundry aud does excellent
work. The annual imports into Brook
haven amount to about: Flour. $4,000
bbls.; meal, 1000 bbls.; bacon, 100. 900 lbs.
/ The exports of cotton were, in 1879, rosa
bales; lsS0. 773l bales; 1881, S637 bales;
1892, $40 bales; 1883, 1863 bales; 1884
s2l3 bales; lsS5, 1896 bales, aud this
| years receipts will amount To about oOO0
bales.
| In 1854 the assessment rolls for the city
show real $26l ,37J, aud Sl67, 5Il personal
estate; and for the county there was an
increase in assessment for the year 1884 of
Sl39, 2.SS IL over the year 1883.
Isn't this improvement BroOkbavcn
has an opera house, fire companies,
we!l-paved streets, pretty parks, hand
some houses, intelligent people and the
finest schools and churches in the State.
The WhItworth Female College is all
institution that |, as MissisSippian,
am proud of. think enough of the i'll
stitutiOn to give il u special article,
which time prevents me from doing.
II deserves It's panegyrlc.
ROGUE CHITTO
is a small station between Summit and
Brookhaven, ll9 miles from New Or
leans. The village Is not of much int
portance as commercial point. 1t is
situated, as is Summit, McCOmb aud
Brookhaven, in the belt of the timber
district. Several sawmills are located in
and near this place. There is tract of
land-1S, 900 acres-just to the month OF
BOgue ChittO Creek-the very finest that
is To he found-tall, stately pines and
occasionally "A post oak. There Is no
underbrush in this section and TIMBER
men have no trouble in hauling their
logs to market There is little tram
way running from the station ont in
to tie immense forest. A great many
hands are employed III getting "Ut timber.
There are number of farms around the
station. II is
TIE GREATEST CHICKEN AND EGG
MARKET
on the line of the Illinois Central Rail
road Fine stock and fruit growing has
not been introduced. here. yet, though,
several told me thar they intended TO
bring some Jerseys in there next spring
and that they are going to put out some
fruit trees. There are thousands of acres
of unmproved lands here, ~ rich as II
could be, aud would yield handsome
returns to the planter. All it wants is
cultivation. The price is remarkably low
for he quality, and land that will pro
dnce Il bale of cotton or 40 bushels of
corn, have been going brgslng, for
81 30 per acre. Every farmer has his yard
and fields full of chickens. No disease
has ever come among them and great
piles of chicken coops and egg cases are
taken by the trains daily to New Orleans
markets.
TIE MERCHANTS.
Mr.. Geo. Rehlman, Jnn. |. Mars all
& Co., b. E. Bri>trr, and +. A. McLau-
rim are the merchants nj BoGne Chitto,
and carry right respectable stocks Tor
country stores. MIR. b. L. Brisier owl S IL
very large sawmiIl two miles from
BUgue Chtto, employs forty men, and
his mil has Il capacity of about 10000
feet of lumber per day. MIR. Van Zant
also has u mill in the neighbOrhoOd with
a capacity of about 10, 600 feet per day.
There il good free school here under
the instructor ship of Prof. Maxey. The
colored people have also good free
school and their children are attending
with more regularity than they ever
have done hctcre. Mr.. John Martin,
Mr.. Chisholm, DR.. Thompson and Charl"
West are prosperous farmers IN the he!gh-
horhond ard are making money and we'll
pleased with the country. The BAPTIST
and Method SITS 10th have churches with
good membership. Rev. J. K. Parish is
the Baptist minister and Rev. MIR. Lewis
il the Methodist. The col"rrd Baptiats
have also prosperous church. NOR"
quiet aud pcaceable n-iShborho"d, offer
my The advantages that BoEue Chtt0
does, could not be found anywhere.
j. 5. E., JR.