The Brookhaven leader., 1888-03-22
TOWN AND COUNTY ITEMS.

Mrs. Crutcher has been i'll.
pr,u Corn and Oats at PowclPs.
Re sure TO price Powell's goods bclor,
You buy.
Grocerirs! u would offresh groceries al
Powelps.
Miss Wcssie Martin has boon on th,
sick list.
Mrs. Spencer returned from Summit
last Friday.
Try a pair of WIN Abshagen's S225 81
Dongola Button.
MIR. u. S. Sutton, of Fair River, paid
Ms call Tuesday.
Cant. Sam Whitworth, of Greenwood,
i, on q visit to relatives and friends.
MIR. Isaac Cope is OF the streets again
after a serious attack of rheumatism.
Miss Susie Powell spent last Saturday
and Sunday with Mt. Moriah Church.
Powell has every variety of Groceries
and he will sell you ut the very lowest
prices.
Buy you fine Hat at VIM. Abshagen's.
lie has the latest, the incest and the
cheapest.
CIsTERNs-A. Riggs & Bro, 247 Delord
street, near Dryades, New Orleans. Send
for price list.
Lcwcnthars furniture store is selling
ont at cost and will close as soon as the
stock is disposed OF
DR.. Lewentha's hot drinks, especially
his hot lemonades, must be sampled to be
appreciated. Try them.
Just TO hand-a line of Saller, Levin &
Co.'S. Philadelphia fine Shoes-the best in
the market, at WIN Abshagen's.
Read the Whtworth five mile law. 1t
is the last nail in John Barleycorn's coffim
so far as Lincoln county is concerned.
Mrs Webb, of Jackson, the grandmoth-
cr of Misses Cecie and Annie NuGent,
visited them at the College last Sabbath.
Some young ladies sweetly serenadod us
very early in the night of last Saturday.
Thanks. and come again when our bundle
of candy is not exhausted.
Messrs. John Baily, A. J. Lowell, Isaac
NJ. Calender, Isaac Smith, Sr., and Rev
4. p. Douglass paid us an appreciated call
while in town last week.
As far as we have heard, DR.. c. j. Hes
ter is entitled TO tho blue ribbon for ad-
yanced truck farming, His English peas
began blooming several days ago.
Capt. ii. II. Hines, of the Auditors
office, aud his estimable wife spent last
Sunday in Brookhaveu, the guests of
Bishop Galloway and family.
Rev. A. A. Lomax will preach at the
Baptist Church next Sabbath, and at 3
o'clock in the afternoon will administer
tho ordinance of baptism at Old Brook.
The w. c. L. L. will celebrate it's ami
Vcrsary at llouck's Hall next Tuesday
evening. An entertaining program has
been arranged. All invited. No admit
tancc fee.
Tho w. G. I. L. will meet at the dc ing
vice Presidents, Mrs. Strick land, this
evening at 4. The members are needed,
10 make the entertainment success on
Tuesday night.
In the absence of Rev. A. r. Watkins,
who was assisting Pastor Lewis in meet
ing at Summit, Bishop Galloway filled the
Methodist pulpit here last Sunday and
preached to II large congregation both
morning and night
Assessor Cox is now making the round
of the county on his official, duties, and
we expect to see HIM give the county one
of the closest assessments it has had for
years. The LEADER is indebted to him
for short call last Saturday.
The w. c. T. U. will hold its annual
election of officers on next Thursday even
ing at Mrs. Stricklantrs. All most urgent
~ requested to attend. Delegates will
also be chosen to attend the State convcn-
ton which meets in May at Natchez.
Mr.. Eprahaim McComb, worthy cit
zen of beat and a valued patron of the
LEADER, died ut his home Oh the 18th
INST. He was confined to his bed for
several days with pneumonia, but the
immediate cause of his death was heart
disease.
The editor regrets that he was unable
to attend the musicale at the Brown
House on Saturday evening. These
evening entertainments designed especial
Iy tor tho refinement and improvement of
the Whitworth girls will be of frequent
occurrence hereafter.
DIR. +. L. Collins, one of tho best farm
ers and citizens of beat 3, paid us an en-
Joyable call last Thursday. lie says
farming operations have been greatly
retarded by the wet and backward spring,
and that pneumonia is the principal all
ment the doctors are now called upon to
attend.
THF WENTWORTH FIVE MILE LAW.
AN ACT to prohibit the sale of Liquors within
i've miles of Whitworth Female College in the
County OF Lincoln.
SECTION Be it enacted by the Legis-
lature of the State of Mississippi, That it
shall be unlawful for any person to sell or
TO give away, to induce trade, any
vInous, spurious or malt liquors, or other
drinks which if drank to excess will pro-
dnee intOxicatiOn, within five miles of