The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-03-25

ant call last Saturday.
Tho G.. s. s. c. meets at the residence
of DIR. Bowen tonight.
Miss Annie Lewenthal is visiting
friends. in Amitc City, La.
Mrs. f. Ffeifer and Miss Clara have re-
tnrned from New Orleans.
TRY schnorrenberg's 8 cent cigar, guar
Anteed all Havana Tobacco.
The question of exempting the firemen
from street tax is being discussed.
The Bautst Church is being recovered
and undergoing other needed repairs.
Our clever neighbor p. j. Nevin is
absent on a business trip to Louisiana.
Mr.. Hyman Zwirn will pay cash for q
large lot of cow-peas, hides and beeswax.
See notice.
Mrs. II. O. Bridges, now of Kansas, City
was in town a few hours last Monday WIS.,
ting old friends.
Miss Mary Norman of Halle hurst spent
saturday and Sunday with her sister
who is a pupil at the College.
senator Dickson, of Simpson, after the
adjournment of the Legislature passed a
dan with his Brookhaven friends.
Mrs. w. C. Baggett of California, Us
Waiting her parents. She is warmly vel
coined back among old friends and rela
tives.
Next Sabbath is DIR. Johnson's day at
xhe Methodist Church, and Rev. J. X.
Farish will hold forth at the Baptist
Church.
Rev. l. w. East, we are glad to an
nounce, has sufficiently recovered from
His recent severe illness to appear on the
streets again.
Hon. C. K. Dale Dale and wife, accom-
paniod by Miss McLaurin, passed through
town last Sunday morning, en- route home
from New Orleans.
DIR. Frilick will leave on Monday for
Union Church and will be absent about
two weeks. All parties desiring his
services are requested to call on him at
once.
Mrs. w. l.. Hemingway, of jackson,
was on visit to Mrs. Galloway this
week. Her young daughter, Miss Annie,
IA now enrolled as student of Whit
worth.
Lucicn Jones, a lOred-spOrtsman, acct
srhI Rnl.
ed. in the neck last Thursday while pre-
paring for hunt. The wound was
slight.
Hon. V. b. Watts reached home from
Jackson on last Thursday evening after
the Legislature adjourned, and has since
been busy shaking hands with his con-
stituents.
Judge ChIisman, Major Sessions and
Indigo Cassidy are attending Circuit
Court at Meadvile, and Messrs. McNair
and Thompson are attending Chancery
Cont at Monticello.
The grass is growing, the trees are
bndding, the flowers are blooming, the
lambs are gamboling, the kids are in
derilment, the fish are sporting and-in a
word, Spring-glorions Spring-has ar
rived.
Rev. f. P. Douglass and Rev. w. H.
Bailey, than whom there are no better
men or more consecrated ministers, paid
THE LEADER pleasant call within the
past week, aud both left years sub
scription as a token of their continued
good will.
Osborne Townsend, young sharper OF
Senegambian descent, was fined ten dol
lars and the costs by Mayor Brennan last
Monday for taking too much change
from a green son of Ham named John
Williams, who had just struck the town
from Beanregard.
Several of the Legislative boys took a
run down to Brookhaven Sunday after
noon; and returned highly pleased with
the hospitality of her generous people
and deeply impressed by the charms OF
her many beautiful and fascinating
danghters.-Nep Mississippian, 18TH
The cotton receipts at Brookhaven from
Sept. l, 's5, to March l, '96, amounted to
1885 bales, against 1850 for the same
months last season, bringing this year ont
los bales ahead. This leaves only 229
NECESSARY to reach the entire receipts
from Sept. l, "a, to Sept. l, '85, and with
several months yet to 60 on, the receipts
are likely to overreach the last CONNER
cial year by come 200 bales.
We are glad to learn that the injury to
Mrs. Powell's sight is not as serious as
was supposed when our mention OF II
was made short time ago. Only one
eye was affected, the other being wholly
uniniured. Mrs. Powell is in New York
under treatment by most skillful oculist
who gives encouragement to the hope
that the injury may be partly If not
wholly Iemedied. We sincerely trust
that his treatment may be entirely sue
ecssful.
At a log rolling in beat one day last
week Pat Morgan had his right arm
broken above and below the elbow by {
blow from handspike in the hands o
Hen Bullock. We learn that Morgan, wht
Ii mere youth, had shot sheep-killinl
dog belonging to Bullock, which in
censed. the latter, and when they met a