The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-06-28
nowy AND COUNTY ITEMS

IN Rogue Chitto.
Iudre Chrismau is holding court this
week in Leflorr.
H.. temperamce drink, nothing beats
I,wcnthal's Soda
few measly looking watermeIoha have
made their appearance.
Peaches aud apples abound but th'
,,Iitv Is rather inferior.
Miss Mary McClosky, Of New Orleans,
;.on visit to old friends here.
can't. w. X. Woods has purchased the
,l,Nair place on Jackson Street.
The picnic at Cold Springs nest We'd
,e.dav promises to he grand affair.
I.wruthal's ice-cream soda is u de-
Gcbtrul beverage. Don't fail to try it.
lack McClendon has returned to his
aid Mace on the L., n. q. ~ I. Railroad.
Grand picnic ut IIickman's mill on
che Glorious fourth. is one of the things
IN dit.
The way to create business when bust
moss IS dull is to advertise. A word TO
the wise is sufficient.
The LEADER wants 800 new subscribers
for the campaign, and hopes its friends
syiIl help it to get them.
scholarship in the hest Commercial
College in the South may be had on ap-
,Tcotiou to this Office.
Nj and Mrs. /. l.. Underwood, of
Terry. have been GU visit to relatives
here during the past week.
Everybody seems to have been more
than pleased ut the success of the late
Wbitworth Commencement.
Our worthy young friend Virgil Stamps,
has gone to McComb City to master the
machlnists art. Success to him.
Onr young friend L.. NJ. Hubert, of the
st. Louis and Cairo Short Line, is in town
TO spend Il month with relatives and
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Wccms, Prof Murrah and
Others attended the meeting of the Meth
odist ms ionary Society ut Wcsson last
week.
Mrs. j. NJ. Melton, of Meridian, and
one of Whitworth's honored alumnT,
came down last Friday to visit her uncle,
Judge Chrisman.
The congregation of the Brookhaven
Colorcd Baptist Church and their friend,
wiz jo!N in a grand picnic ut Old Brook
On the Fourth of July.
Rev. A. +. Watkins covered himself
with honor by his address before the
Alumni Association Of Vanderbilt of
which lie is highly priced member.
We deeply symplthize with Capt. and
Mrs. \. l.. Morcton in the death of their
little darling, FULTON TERRY, which sad
event occurred last Sunday afternoon.
The best rain since March visited rs
last Friday afternoon, The crops of the
county, 50 far as we can learn, are excel
lent, but cotton is about Il month late.
The sound q the hammer and saw is
ever Il familiar one, and though Brook
haven doesn't claim to be TN "boom,"
her growth is steady, sure and suhstan-
ial.
Our merchants should not forget to
oIteT Il large stock Of the genuine Thur
man bandanas. They are likely to he u
staple commodity dnlinS the he&t cnsu-
ing few months.
Miss M0llie Pursck Miss Fannie Hallam
and two or three other Wes,on ladies
whose names we did not learn, attended
the meeting of the Ladies' missionary
society last Sunday.
Our young friend Edwin Kidd left for
Sherman, Texas, Tuesday. Ed Is a bright
and talented boy, and we expect to hear
of his making IL high mark some day in
IN the Lone Star State.
Messrs. W. +. and 4. ID. Davis, Chas.
Heuck, Sr., John Mccormick, Tom De
cell and Wiley Maxwell went down to
Pearl liver Tuesday on camp fish. The
mosquitoes will bite if the fish don't.
Edward Fontaine, arrested for burglar
lzng the BrOokhayen pOst0fficc, on beng
arraiGued before L. S. Commissioner Win
Ter on the Goth inst, waived an eXamina-
ton and in default of bail, which was
hXed at $500, was held to await the action
OF the district court which meets in July.
Our friend Josh PriebatsCh sends us Il
copy of the Chicago Times of last Friday,
containing many interesting sketches Of
ahe National Republican Convention.
Mr. Prebatsch rightly judges from his
observations while in the great Western
metropolis that the man chosen President
OF tie United States in November will be
'Grover Cleveland.
Mr., C. Menelas and Mr.. IA. Mkas, paid
Fho LEADER most highly appreciated
call one evening last week. Mr.. Meme
las who spends the greater portion of his
%'Ine in New York and Savannah, has
gwen much time and study to economic
and Industrial subjects as related to the
south, and conversation with him ,or
these matters is both entertaining and
Instructive.
The meeting of the Ladies' Missionary
society of the Fair River Association last
SABBATH was not very largely attended,
the subordinate societies of Mt. Zion,
brookhaven, Fair River and Wesson
churches being the only ones represented
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