The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-07-05
rovx AND COUNTY ITEMS.

Fresh itHS db
p..oIl's Patent Flour is the best.
rora temperance drink, nothing beat
leNenthal's soda.
w,,srmclons and cantaloupes are be
coming plentiful.
ircoln Prohihitionists, remember til,
MISS meeting on July l4th.
Miss Mary Strickland has gone to teacl
sumner school near Monticello.
ur ! w. Crisler, the boss gardener
,,companies Mrs. Kidd TO Sherman.
1eventhars ice-cream soda is de
rrhtful beverage DoH't fail to try il.
uessrs. W. j. Armstrong and J. d.
Burkett, Of Monticello, were in town this
week.
Mr. A. Mikas has the editors thanks
e,r = sample Of bis delicious nutmeg
melons
Our report of the County Sabbath
c.hooI Convention was crowded out of
this issue.
Miss Mary Lamkin, of Summit, spent
last Sunday in town the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Il. II. Thompson.
Al this stage of the game it may lie in
ordsr to remark that the way TO build up
a town is to build it up.
Tho LEADER wants 500 new subscribers
tor the campaign, and hopes its friends
will help it TO get them.
scholarship in the best Commercial
rollece in the South may be had on ap-
plication to this Office.
Bishop Galloway made Prohibition
.pecch in Summit last night, boarding the
whisky lion in his den.
Ms. Hobbs and children, after de-
Jiohtfull visit of two weeks to relatives
in Clinton, returned yesterday evening.
Prof Gus. Fitzhugh has returned from
oxford, where he went last week to at
tend the closing exercises of his Alma
Mater.
The peach crop is almost u failure.
Those not killed by the frost i'll early
spring are nearly all wormy or of infe-
,ior quality.
Or. Murrah and his lovely wife left
Tuesday for Columbus, where they will
spend a few weeks visiting the Doctors
aged mother.
Rev Lewis Ball. representing the Bap-
fist State Convention Board, is here holding
institutes among the colored people and
.nstructing them in the Scriptures.
JE Neilan, our Dakota fre nd who is
living on the Menelas place, was in town
Monday with load of the large st water
melons we have seen this season. Mr..
Nrilan SAYS he followed the Northern
method of planting and cultivation and
1t highly pleased with his success.
Bishop Galloway leaves TO morrow
night for Montana, where he holds IA
conference at Butte City, July 25th. He
will then proceed on his official round to
Oregon, thruce 10 California, not reach
ing home again until the latter part Of
October.
Henderson Washington, negro youth
about IA, stole 500 90 from Rev. }. NJ
Wecms at the Decell House last Sunday.
lie purchased new suit of clothes aud
Otherwise began to ''splurge" with the
money, which aroused suspicion of his
guilt, and on being arrested he confes sed
Being arraigned before the may or Ire got
three months in Jail and was fined 1925. 90
The Presbyterian entertainment last
Friday night gotten mp by Messrs. Chas
Henck, Jr., Vivian Byrd, Eugene Nc
COrmck, Hiram and Robert Cassidy.
Willard and John Seavey, and Misses
Olivia Sones, Ruby Mages and Ruth
Crutcher, was IA grand success and highly
enjoyed by all who witnessed it. Lack
of space forbids such notice as its mcr-
ITS deserve. Suffice it to say that all of
fhe participants, and especially the burnt
cork gentry, covered themselves with
praise.
The Huntsville Female College, one of
Phe best equipped institutions ia the
south for the education of young ladies,
mas an advertisement i'll to days paper to
winch we direct the special attention of
onr readers. 1t is located in the beauti-
lni city OF Huntsville, Ala, SO long noted
Tor the cultivation and refinement of its
people, and besides full and able facul-
", headed by Rev. A. b. Jones, ID. D.,
LL' d., is supplied with all of tie mod
Frh aids and appliances for the conve-
hlenee and thorough training of its pu-
pills.
Nearly all of our editorial aud local
space is taken up this week by other mat
TER the publication of which was request
e" and couldn't well Ire delayed. The
essay by Mr.. L. d. Posey, read before
me Friendship Alliance, though long,
VIII well repay n careful reading, and
Shonld he of special interest to our farm-
or readers And when it is remembered
.nat Mr.. Posey is a young man of only
10 or ~, whose entire life has been spent
upon the farm, with no educational adj
Nantages except such as are furnished by
our country public schools and his own
efforts around the Preside, his excellent
essay and earnest and eloquent appeal
~ oehaif of education and the moral,
social and financial elevot,op of the farm