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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04
NORTHERN ARRIVALS.
to Make Brookhaven and Lincoln
County their Future Home.

From the last issue of the Radiator,
now under the control of our clever and
enterprising Iowa friend, DIR. Craig, we
gather the following notes concerning
Western people who have lately invested
here and intend to make this their future
home. Perhaps the most important ac-
cession il the Doctor himself who has
invested very largely in real estate in
this vicinity, and gone INTO newspaper
enterprise in order to be the better able
to Gcmonstl ate the advantages of our
section tn his Northern and Western
friends. Brookhaven and Lincoln county
have an abundance of room and u cordial
welcome for all Of this class Of lmnligra-
ton that may come.
But to the notes:
We learn that L. l.. kentfield, Esq, of
Given, Iowa, recently purchased the
Grafton place three miles from town.
Still they come, but we have plenty of
room for more.
A. +. Denton went to Chicago for a
business trip last week, returning home
this morning. He hnds many people
making inquiries about EIookhaven, and
is confident that we are to enjoy a season
of prosperity,
Mr.. c. C. Footc, of Nora, ILL.,, Tuesday
last purchased of Daniel Schwem, of this
place, tract of about four acres adjoin-
ing Brookhaven, and will erect residence
here next fall. We are glad to welcome
such genial people as Mr.. and Mrs. Foote
to permanent residence with us.
Mr.. f. w. Barnes, formerly of Sturgis,
Mich, is diligently engaged with i'm
rrovements upon his place, one mile west
of town, which he bought during the past
winter. He has lumber on the ground
for comfortable house and barn. and is
pushing the erection of buildings as
rapidly as possible.
We learn that Mrs. Helen NJ. Davis, of
st. Cloud, Mimi, has purchased from S.
F. Magee, a house and eighteen and one
half acres adjoining town. Mrs. Davis has
made quite an extended tour during the
past winter, visiting number of places
between here and Lal Charles, La and
likes BroOkha ven much better than any
place she has seen.
Mr.. II. +. Blythe, a well-to-do late
resident of Missouri Valley, Iowa, has
taken up his abode with us. lie has pur-
chased from Capt. Hoskins seventy acres
within and adjoining this place, which
he will proceed at once to divide into
acre and half acre lots and place upon the
market. He is energetic, and enthnsi-
astic in his praise of Brook haven. We
bespeak for him and his family a cordial
welcome to this city.
Mr.. }. p. Foster, recently of Marcus,
Iowa, has been busily engaged making
substantial improvements upon his place
one mile West of town. He has twenty
FIVE acres already under fence, has put in
three acres of Mississippi corn, and is ex-
perlmenting with several different vare-
ties of corn in order to determine which
is best adapted for forage to this country.
He has also one acre and half of peas,
about the sane amount of beans, an acre
of Irish Potatoes. He has two varieties
of sweet corn, and will plant an acre of
sweet potatoes.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

''There is Il growing sentiment
throughout the State says the Me
ridian News, ''fOr constitutional con-
vention to he called by the next Leg
islature to meet in 1890, as there are
many necessary revisions or changes
which should be made" 1t is ques-
ton shat will be literally discussed
the coming year, and public men who
have aspirations for legislative honors
would do well to give it thoughtful
consideration"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04
a White Republican Party.

In Alabama, Il circular has been
sent ont by number of leading Re-
publicans to all the prominent white
men of the party in the State, and also
to number of what are known as
protection Democrats" inviting them
to conference in this city to be held
on or abOut'April 10, at which it ispro-
posed to Storm white mans Repub-
lican party in the south" and pass res
olutions excluding the negro. The cir
cular says, "we do not want the cor
rupt support of the negroes longer,
and propose to exclude them from
our counsels." 1t is believed the at
tendance at this conference will be
very large, rs nearly all the leading
white Republicans in the State are
to realize that such Move
ment as this is the only possible
chance they ever will have of doing
in the Southern States. The
ssuing of this circular, it is asserted
,bove board by its originators, was
prompted by talks with President
harrison since INSTRUMENTATION.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Wallpaper at Bochnke's.
Brookhsven's greatest need-more en-.
terprise and public spirit.
DIR. Lewenthal has started his soda
fount again. Come, all We thirsty.
d. & w. always keep on hand hay,
corn, oats and bran Mt living prices.
Boehnke can sell you nice wallpaper to
paper room 16x16, for only $2.40, nice
borders included.
If you see man With nice Sitting
Spring suit on you can bet your last
dollar that it came from McGraths. If
it DONE st it came from the other fellow.
Andrew Jackson, the child-murderer,
undertook to play the insanity dodge in
Jail one day last week, tore his clothes
and raved at his w-prisoners like o
mad man. DIR. Bowen, on being called
upon TO examine his condition, pronoun-
ced him perfectly sane, whereupon he
subsidized and has since behaved himself
in becoming manner.
The business of the PrieBatsch Plan
ing Mill is booming. Orders have been
coming in so fast of late that Mr.. Max
Priebatsch went down TO New Orleans
last week and purchased necessary light
ing facilities, and the mill now works a
double force and ruus day and night.
This is one of the things enterprise and
capital rightly invested will do for the
business of community.
Farmer Lewis White, with that game
spirit characteristic of the man, and
thinking that any grower who will sue
cumb to one disaster in crop has not the
stamina which makes the successful hor-
ticulturalist, tried his hand again this
year, and went il heavy on early radishes
and onions. He now wants to hire some
one to kick the swindling Chicago deal
ers who cut prices on dim, and beat him
ont of his truck and labor.
A protracted meeting will begin at the
Methodist church next Sabbath, in which
the pastor, Rev. A. F. Watkins, will be
w. II. Bowen, of Grecuville. Bro. Bow
en- is said to be somewhat of Sam Jones
style of preacher, and has been very
successful in his evangelistic efforts. We
trust these services will be attended by
our people generally without reference to
sectarian differences, and that all chris
tiaDs may unite in making the meeting
truly and in fact revival of religion.
"Show me the man that is not Passions
Slave and / will wear him H. my hearts
core. Yea in my hearts of hearts"-Shake-
spere.
McGrath says: "ShOw me the man
that has worn one of the Gold and Silver
shirts and is not salts fed and We will
make him so-aye, even to the extent of
q new shirt"
"Gold". 81 90
'Sllver" W
For Sale by
JOHN McGRATH g. SONS.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

Some miscreant stole the Bible, hymn
books and Sunday School library from the
Presbyterian church last week. The
total loss amounts to about $500 Brook
hdren Leader.
Was little rabbit-eared Bartholomew
TiberiOus SnObs in town at that time?
Brandon Republican.
In answer to the above, it is suffi-
cent to say that detective Henry
Boone, of this place, got on track of
the thief and recovered the Bible and
some of the hymn books from "an old
crippled darkey," to whom they had
been sold at discount, and that the
last he heard of the thief whom he
to be a fat and elderly
anti Prohibition beer drinker), he had
robbed the Presbyterian church at
Wesson in the same manner and was
making his way toward his home in
Brandon.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

Robt. Il. Lincoln, Of Illinois, has
been nominated by President Harris
on to I've Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States to Great Britain. He is q son
Of the great Abraham Lincoln, and is
a man of decided ability.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

We have more than our share of
hoodlums and worthless desperadoes
in this city and county ioksburg
Herald.
That is easy enough explained, be-
cause you have more than your share
of whisky and saloons, around which
hoodlumS and desperadoes do 80 love
congregregate.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

Gen. Sherman, it is declared, will
ask but a single favor of the admins
tration, that Gen. Joseph F.. Johnston,
who surrendered to him twenty four
years ago, shall be retained as the
Government railroad commissioner.
The old man is getting magnanimous
in his old age.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04
U. S. Attorney General Miller saws

U. S. Attorney General Miller says
he sees nothing objectionable in sub
ordinates being Democrats, if they
are competent for their positions
and conduct themselves as gentlemen.
Postmaster General Wannamaker has
expressed the same opinion, and it is
evidently the present determination of
the Harrison administration not to
he precipitate in making rcmov-
ais.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

Col. Ananias J. Frantzy is remind
ed that there is an old legal maxim in
reference TO libel, to the effect that
"the greater the truth the greater the
fbel," hence he has always escaped
indictment for that Offense and al
ways WILL, as he will never strike
anywhere near the truth-if he knows
it.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

NERVOUS Debility, Spermatorrhea,
IN Seminal Losses, Night Emissions Loss
of Vital Powers, Sleeplessness, De-
spondency, Loss of Memory, Confusion of
Ideas, Lassisude, Gleominess, Depression
of Spirits, Aversion to Society, Dull, List
less, Unfit for Study or Business, and finds
life burden, Safely, Permanently and
Privately Cured.
blood AND SKIN Diseases, SymphiliS,
3 disease most horrible in it's results,
completely eradieated without the use of
mercury. Scrofufa, Erysipelas, Fever,
Sores, Blotches, Pimples, Ulcers, Pains
in the Head and Bones, Syphlitic Sore
Throat, Mouth and Tongue, Catarrh, etc,
Permanently Cured when others have
failed.
URINARY, Kidney and Bladder Trou-
u bles, Weak Back, Burning Urine, Ere
Guency of Urinating, Urine high eolored
or with milky sediment on standing Con
orhea, elect, Cystis, etc, Promptly and
safely cured. Charges reasonable.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

Gov. Taylor, Of Tennessee, has APP
proved the bill making women eli
gible to the position of county super
intendents of pubic schools.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04
Notice..

A meeting of the Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee of Lincoln is here
by called to meet at the Court House
in Brookhaven on Friday April 10Th,
next at eleven o'clock q. m.
r. r. APPLEWHITE,
CHAIRMAN.
A. LEwENTHAL, Sect'y.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

The Arkansas grand jury failed to
indict anyone for the assassination of
Hon. John NJ. Clayton.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

Ex-Mayor Hewitt has changed the
cry started by Horace Greeley and
advises: "Go South, young man"
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04

The Crystal Springs public school
will take vacation to give the chill
@ren chance to pick Strawberries.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04
The Farmers Alliance of YazoO
county has adopted the following per-

lie FdIHteIS AlliitnCc vi dLoo
county has adopted the following per-
tinent and timely resolutions:
Resolved, That the farmers of this
county have noted with regret that
the Cotton Exchanges of Memphis,
New Orleans and other places have
taken no earnest and sincere steps to
obtain an equitable reduction of the
tare on cotton baled with cotton bag
ging.
Resolved, That we appeal to all
cotton and merchants exchanges to
aid us in this matter or else take an
open stand against us, preferring, as
sensible men seeking all legitimate
measures of defense, open enemies to
secret and insidious ones.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04
Sherif's Sale.


By virtue of two writs of execution TO
me from the Circuit Court of Lincoln
county, Mississippi, wilton Monday, the
9th day ofMay, A ID 1889, at Court House
door, in the town of Brookhaven, proceed
to sell to the highest bidder, for cash, the
following described property, situated in
said Lincoln county, tO-wit:
The south half and south half of north
east quarter, section z, township 6, range
8, east; west half of north west quarter,
section 8, township 6, range 8, east; north
half of north half, section 18, township
range =, east; south west quarter and
south half of south east quarter and
north west quarter of south east quarter
and south west quarter of north east
quarter, section 9, township 6, range 7
east-leyied on as the property of de-
PENDANTS, Frank j Kelley and Mrs NJ j
Kelly, aud will be sold to satisfy the iudg-
ment and costs in fhe above stated case.
This Goth day of March, A d 1889.
r w McNAIR,
Sheriff.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
THURSDAY. ApriI4. I $50.

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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-04


Adj. Gen. VIM. Henry, of the
Mississippi National Guard, is send
ing out circulars to remind the mill
tary companies Of the State of the
proposed annual encampment at
"FOrt Henry" on our seacOast, to be
held sometime between the 18th of
June and the LIST of July.
The Meridian News calls the North's
attention to the fact that there are at
the present time in the public schools
of Meridian 1853 pupils, of which
number there are 948 white and sos
black. The negroes of Meridian pay
into the school fund $63 while the
whites pay over 81, 900. In other
words, there sos negro children kept
in school for nine months in the year,
and all of the expenses is betrayed by
the white people except 500. 1t is the
opinion of the News that these figures
will obtain with very slight variations
throughout the South.
Clinton has land and improve
ment Company. The incOrpOrators
are among the foremost men of the
place. The object is to secure the
division of the lands in and around
Clinton SO as to suit parties wishing
to locate near good schools for educa-
tional purposes. A building associa-
ton is to follow, and possibly a fruit
growers and live stock association.
There is room, work, living, educa-
tional and religious advantages for
100 good families in and around Gin
ton. Judge E. w. Cabaniss is presi-
dent of the Company, and Rev. S. NJ.
Ellis is secretly.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-04
Evolution Of the Plano.

The piano, as We see IL today, says
the Mlsical Courier, is the growth of
cen turtles of invention. In its infancy
it was q harp with two or three strings.
From time to time moro strings were
added, and after while the cithara was
born. The cithara was In the shape Of
tho letter p and had ten strings. II
took many centuries for musician, to
get the idea of stretching the strings
across an open box, but somewhere
about the year 1900 this was thought Of
and tho dulcimer made Its appearance,
the strings being struck with hammers
For another hundred years these ham
mers were held in the hands Of the
player, aud then genius invented q
keyboard, which, being struck by the
fingers, moved the hammers. This in
strument was called clavicytherium, or
keyed clthara. This underwent some
notifications aad improvements from
time to time,
In Queen Elizabcth's time II was
called virginia.. Then 1t was called n
spine, because the hammers were GOV.
cred with spines of quilts, which struck
or caught the strings of wires and pro,
duced the sound. From 1900 to 1900
it was much enlarged and improved
and called harpsichord, and this was
the instrument that Lady Washington,
Mrs. Hamilton and the fine ladies of our
revolutionary times played on. In
ITO Bartolomeo Cristofoli, an Ital au,
invented key or keyboard such as VIC
have now substantially, which caused
hammers to strike the wires from above
and thus deve oped the piano. In the
past $50 years there is no musical in
strument which has so completely alb
So bed the inventive faculty of man es
the piano. At the present day the up
right piano has the field almost entirely
to itself, and has reached such a grade
of perfection in shape, tone and appear
anco that there would appear to be nc
possibility of further improvement.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-04
NenheMs' Claims In FIJI.

Most prom nent among the public no.
toritics Of Fiji is the Vasu. The word
means nephew or niece, but becomes n
title of office In the case of the male,
who, In some localities, has the extra
ordinary privilege Of appropriating
whatever no chooses belonging to his
uncle, or those under his unclc's power
Vasus arc OF three kinds; The Vasu
taukei, the Vasu levu, and the Vasu;
the last is common name belonging to
any nephew whatever. Vasu taukei is a
term applied to any Vasu whose mother
is lady of the land in whic he il
born. The fact of Mbau being at the
head of Fijian rank gives the Queen o I
Mbau prc-eminenco over al FIJI an
ladies, and her son place nominally
above all Vasus. No material difflr-
encc exists between the power OF Vasu
taukci aud that of Vasu levu,
which latter title is givon to every Vasu
born Of woman of rank, and
having first class chief for his father.
Vasu taukci can claim anything belong
ing to native of his mothers land, ex-
ccpting the wives, home, and land of n
chief. However high chief may rank,
however powerful king may be, if he
has a nephew he has master, one who
will not content himself with the name,
but who will exercise his prerogativc to
the full, seizing whatever may take his
fancy, regardless of its value or the
owners Inconvenience in its loss, Re-
81 tance is not tho ght of, and objection
only offered in extreme cases. Thoko-
nauto, Rewa chief, during quarrel
with an uncle, used the right of Vasu,
and actually supplied himself with am
munition from his cnemy's stores.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-04
Why Mexicans are Called "Greasers."

1t is generally supposed that the term
'greaser' applied to Mexicans was first
bestowed on the latter by the Texans in
the days of border troubles along the
Del Norte river. But the more proba-
bic explanation is that which connects
the name with the early history of Cali
fornian colonization. When the first
train of prairie schooners came in sight
of the Promised Land and the Mexican
Californians sized up the drivers, they
pointed In derision to the grease and
filth on the faces and clothes of the
newcomers, due to frequent grcasing of
the axles, etc. By and by the colonists
prospered, and the Mexicans were glad
to earn few reals and pesos by doing
the dirty work. Then the tables were
turned on them, and thenceforward
Mexican and ''greaser" became CONVEX
tible terms. San Francisco Chronicle.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-04
FRED. DOUGLASS SELECTED.
Amounted Minister Resident and
ConsuI.General TO Hayti.

Appointed Minister Resident and
Consul.General TO Hayti,
The president has appointed Frederick
Douglass Of the District Of Columbia to DO
minister resident aud oonsulgeneral of the
United States to Hhyti.
It Is understood that Mr., Douglass will ac--
cent the mission. tits said that the appoint
ment will In nowlss change the situation OF
the United States toward the contending
parties, Douglass commission Will ac-
credit him to the republic OF Hay
HI and no will present his
credentials to whoever at the time, repre-
sents the authority of that republic, II the
situation should remain unchanged Mr..
Douglass will go to Port-au-Prince, the CAPT
tai of Hayti, and ask a reception by Legiti-
me; but II before he should reach that country
Hippolyte should have overthrown Legitime
and set himself up as provisional president,
then Mr. Douglass would naturally recog-
nizo Hippolyte.
AT present this government does not recog-
nize Hippolyte. The dealings Of our present
minister, Mr.. Thompson, have been with
Legitime, and the situation will remain just
the same as before Mr.. Thompson's recall,
unless events in Hayti should in the mean
time undergo n considerable change.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-04
Uses of the EiffeI Tower.

M. Jansen, of the Institute of Fran ce,
is of the opinion that the great EiffeI
tower will have many scientific uses.
Three laboratories have already been ar
ranged on the tower. One will be dc
voted to astronomy, and the second will
contain registering apparatus from the
central bureau of metcorology, and will
be devoted to physic and meteorology.
NM. Mascart and Cornu expect to draw
great advantages from its use in the
study of atmosphere. The second is
reserved for biology aud photographic
study of the air, to be organized by NJ.
Henocque. M. Cailletet is arranging a
great mercurial manomder, with which
he expects to obtain pressures as high
as 400 atmospheres.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-04
Watch Run hx ElectrIclty.

Menlo Park, N, j.. is the home Of NJ.
j. Husscy, who has just patented 9
novel oontrivance for running u watch
by electricity as well as clocks. The
popularity about this invention is tho
gravity movement, which, aided by
small electric current, moves the PEN
dulum of the clocks aud the large bal
ance wheels of the watches. A time
piece will run for an entire year with
out attention. A small battery Ia en-
closed in the watch cas-. The new
watches aud clocks contain only one.
third as many parts as an ordinary
watch or clock. 1t is believed that a
process will be arrived at by which to
keep time piece mn ng five years or
more.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-04
The Catalentcc State.

All the burrowing animals are in a
state Of catalepsy and live for months
in state of apparent death. Frogs
have been taken from solid sandstone
after being embedded for many years
and resusctated. How many men are
cataleptic in the last stages of life Is a
matter which the doctors know scarcely
more about than other people. And
yet in medical colleges poor men are
snatched up before they are cold for
purposes of operative surgery. Paupers
and prisoners who have no friends are
not asked as to their will in the matter,
but are quickly appropriated for pur-
poses of dissection.