The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-10-28
AVN AND COUNTY ITEMS.

Miss AMINO
j. visiting Mrs. Cope
Mrs, J. NJ. Buckley of Jackson IL VISIT
nor host of friends here.
handsome Mr.. Chesney, of Koscius-
.n.rt sunday in our town.
~. BARNARD Bee is quite sick with
amc fever at his fathers residence.
Ga a. the City Drug Store for pure
IoI which is pure and free from
water.
rh. Wet. IT,, of BroOkhaven, is
N, mace with other Unions of the
state.
n. {. Newman, Of Veto, was in
.,,,, last weak and favored The LEADER
with pleasant call.
Mr.. Allie Cook and child, Of Kosciusko.
..,ov at Mrs. +. NJ Bees, where they
gill mike their future home.
PROT, ]. w. Bethea, of Summit, was in
,oop last Saturday evening shaking
hands with his many friends.
Some days during the past week the
,,.,rssa ON Cherokee street has reminded
,,of Canal street, New Orleans.
After selling your cotton to best advan-
,s0e, step down to Kohlmau's Great Cash
Hons. to see how cheap you can get bar
gains
TIL. corporation privilege tax law has
hsen 40 amended as to include one-horse
wagons hauling for the public within the
city limits.
Rev. J. r. Parish has a call to the
woodville church and will probably re-
move there, his resignation having been
accepted by this church.
Rev. j. II. GGmbrell acceptably hlled
The pulpit morning and evening at the
Baptist church last Sabbath and also at
Old Brook in the afternoon.
Monroe Markham, one of the intelligent
and thrifty colored men of the Caseyville
country, called on the THE LEADER last
week to settle his subscription.
Miss Minnie Collier, former graduate
Of Whitworth College, is now taking an
art course under its efficient artist, Miss
McEwen, and is also monitress.
Messrs. r. Fngler, w. W. and Alex.
Davis, J. A. S. Henderson, J. 4. Chiles
and L. II. White, valued patrons of The
LEADER, were among our welcome callers
last week.
The City Council has ordered the cor
poration public schools to be opened on
the second Tuesday of November and
directed the Board of Trustees to employ
competent teachers to conduct the same.
The friends and admirers Of Prof. l.. L.
Ft2hugh in this place, as we'll as all over
the State, are rejoiced to know that
Whtworth College opened with most
promising prospects for the future OF that
institution.-OEfordF Falcon.
Col Dabney Parrish, the popular trav-
cling preventative of that popular paper,
the New Mississppian was in town, Tues
day, and frightened our sanctum with
his presence Call again Colonel, when
eyre making your rounds.
Gen. S. d. Lee, Prof. Gulley and others
Of the A. & NJ. College have promised, we
learn, to be present at the farmers meet
ing next Monday and deliver addresses.
We hope they will come, for the intorma-
ton they impart is well worth the far
mers' consideration.
Mr.. Ed Matthews has one of the finest
stock farms in Lincoln county. He has
other valuable property in the shape of
large cotton farm and saw mill. Mr..
Matthews has just completed nice brick
store in Wesson, and, taken altogether,
he is the kind of progressive genius that
this end of the county wants to come
down and populate it.-Signdl- COpiahan.
The w. C. T. U. entertainment on last
Friday night brought a neat little sum
for the temperance cause. Statuary, re-
citation and farce composed the pro-
gram. The acting by local talent was
we'll done. If any one deserves more than
acasual mention it is Miss Fannie Bowen,
who delighted the audience by entering
heart and soul into the character she as
sumed-that of q dashing young school
girl. All credit is due Mrs. Wesley Mar
Tin for the evenings pleasure.
Circuit Clerk Warren, in his capacity
% County Registrar, last Wednesday
completed his round of appointments I'M
der the Act of the last Legislature, and
returned to Brookhaven. He rode over
2oO miles, visited every voting precinct i'll
che county; and as the result of his labors
got to register grand total of 6 voters-1
at Caseyville, and 8 at Bogue Chitto,
all white. At Adams Camp Ground
and one or two other places, the
only living thing he saw during his stay
was an impertinent jay bird that screamed
and danced in the trees overhead. The
late red hot Local Option campaign had
made clean sweep-every body had then
registered who could on any account be
prevailed on to vote.
During the coming month Mr.. Luther
manship will give public readings and
character representations at BrOOkhaven,
summit and other places for the benefit of
tne Monumental Association. In the line
oteomic.songs ana recitatious, Luther Man
snip has no equal among the amateurs of
this or any other State; and had he chos-
en- the stage as profession, he would
nave ranked with Joe Emmett and others
OF national fame. We commend the cause
and congratulate the towns that he may
isVor with visit.-NeV Mississippian.
Luther Manship is "a whole show" in