The Brookhaven leader., 1889-01-31

the county, renews many Pheasant &C
auaintances and does what business
he can for the paper. The LEADER
has won many steadfast friends in
Lawrence, and nowhere does the Edi'
tor feel MOTE at home than among its
honest, Intelligent and generous
hearted people. -.--l .-
Just now the citizens of that conn
ty are laying plans for important
steps of progress. Her leading men
feeling that there can be no true prog
ress and general enlightenment with
out good educational facilities, have
lately inaugurated a movement to es-
tablish a high school for boys and
girls, second to none in the country.
A meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of this enterprise was held at
Monticello during our stay and the
location of the school fixed at Silver
Creek, and a subscription of 81 ,450
guaranteed by that community as a
starter. DR.. j. A. Rowan, DR.. Berry,
Will c. Cannon and other well known
citizens have the management in
hand, and it will be pushed to sue
cessful consummation, being an enter
prise in which every intelligent and
public spirited citizen in the county
should and will take a pride.
Another public enterprise claiming
the attention of the progressive citi-
zens of the county at this time is the
proposed Mississippi River g. Mexican
Gulf Railroad. This company, which
has an exceedingly liberal charter,
has been recently recognized
with Jno. p. Richardson as President,
Capt. VIM. Oliver as President,
DR.. Luther Sexton as Secretary and
General Manager and j. s. Rea as
Treasurer. 1t is proposed to build
the road from Natchez or Vicksburg,
via WessOn, and through Lawrence
and other counties to Mobile, or some
other point on the Gulf. Drs. Sexton
and Rowan, of WessOn, were at
Monticello on the first day of court,
and addressed mass meeting of the
people on the subject of building the
road and the county voting $4,000
subscription thereto, and at the con-
clusion of their speeches, resolutions
were adopted commencing the enter
prise as worthy of encouragement
and support. If the proper guaran-
tees are given that the road will be
built, the county will no doubt sub
scribe the 500, 900 and the money will
be well spent, but this point will and
ought to be well guarded. The public
spirited business men of Wesson have
already subscribed $1,000 to the en-
prise, and the initiatory work will be-
gin very soon, with assurances, so the
General Manager says, of sufficient
foreign capital to carry it on to COM
pletion. y
The town of Monticello continues to
gradually improve. A neat new
Presby terrain church has been built
since our last visit and substantial
new store by our clever friend Char
ley Watts, former County Clerk, who
has now turned merchant. The town
offered a liberal subscription for the
location of the High School, but was
outvOted. Sheriff Lee, whose house
was burned some months ago by a
constituencies incendiary, is rebuild
ing, and there are other evidences that
the historic old town is not going into
a state of "inocuOus desquetude."
Hon. c. r. Dale, formerly the lead
ing merchant of the place, has retired
from business and gone to farming,
and makes one of the best in the
county. He believes in living at
peace with his neighbors, and conse-
quently deer could scarcely jump
his fences with running start.
Lawrence being the original Prohi-
bition county, and still holding firm
to the faith, there was little business
in court, Circuit Clerk Cannon saying
that the docket was the smallest since
his first acquaintance with it many
years ago. The term lasted less than
four days. County warrants are
worth dollar for dollar, and Treasurer
Sharp informs us that there is money
enough on hand to pay off the expen-
ses OF this Court and part of the next.
BY the way, the county has good tax
payers and a No. l tax-eolleetor.
Sheriff Lees delinquent hst.is always
reduced to the minimum. He has col
lected more polls this year than the
vote of the county amounts to, and
under the new lsws onlyfhad 70 poll
tax delinquents to post. He will have
little or no delinquent land list at all.