The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1892-10-28
N. n. & Nj. V. TIME TABLE.
Local Happenings

Kings Comedy Company.
Jack Frost has paid us several visits
this week.
The oil mills are now running day
and night.
Opera house next week, eommencin g
Monday night, Oct. 81.
Rev. T. G. Boyce, of Arkansas,
preached at Mt. Carmel last Sunday.
Rev. A. R. Wilson preached good
sermon at the Methodist church Sunday
night.
The thermometer reached the freezing
point Tuesday morning for the first time
this season.
Mr.. G. L. Warren has Just completed
a sign in gold lettering for the Farmers
and Merchants Bank.
-'Possum hunting is getting to be the
fad. The nights are filled with toots of
horns and barks of dogs.
II you live anywhere near Salem you
should not fail n hear Col. Patterson at
Robison's Eigh s. ool Monday night.
All ChS5stiats asre requested by the
pastor TO al in the revival that begins
Sunday at III am. at the Methodist church.
w e nGpe that every man, woman and
child on Island 50 viii turn out to hear
Col. Patterson speak at Revere Tuesday
night.
Remember the appointments of Col
Patterson at Salem Monday night, October
81, and at Revere Tuesday night Novem-
Der LIST.
Rev. Mr. Elliott, of Covington, held
prayer meeting at the Baptist church
Tuesday night.-LauderdaIe County En-
terprise.
DR. Monks lecture on the "Moral
Responsibility of Courtship" will be de-
livered at the Methodist church Novem-
Der 18th.
Manager Edwin Paine has signed
with Kings Comedy Co. for an engagement
of six nights, beginning next Monday |
night. October 31st.
The price Of cotton seed has been
steadily advancing. Buyers here have
been paying as high as sixty cents per
hundred for them this week.
George LaCroix has sold out his
butcher and restaurant business to Wal
ton, Warmath a. Co. George viii prob
ably soon open a butcher shop in Memphis.
Sim Somerville, colored, was bound
over to the circuit court Tuesday by Esq
s. r. shelton OF the charge of larceny
Not being able 70 give bond he was commit
ted to jail
Ashley Fisher is confined to his bed
at his home in this city with a severe
attack Of typhoid fever. He was obliged
to return home from Louisville last Sat
urday, where he is attending school.
The community will appreciate a
course of lectures from noted men-one
each month-under the auspices Of the
Zu1Iiuar, Wprirarc ct l.
delivered November 18th by DR. Monk
Every voter in Upton county, whether
he be Democrat, Republican or PopuIite,
big barbecue at Burleson next Wednesday;
hear the speaking and get good dinner.
There will be lots of that that is good
30 eat at Burleson next Wednesday ann it
will be as free as water and Democracy,
saayou viii be certain of good dinner, |
whether you are Democrat or not, If you /
attend.
The outlook for Covington as a cot
ton market is very hattering this season.
The receipts on the railroad bid fair to be /
the best in the history Of the compress, 8
car loads being received by rail last We'd
nesday.
We are glad to learn that Mr.. J. NJ.
J amisOn of Brighton, who has been very |
i'll with pneumonia for the
past two weeks, Is some better and his
friends now entertain hopes Of his re-
coyery.
We are glad to learn that the slow
fever epidemic al Brighton is subsiding,
owing no doubt 10 the recent frosts. All
Of the five patients we recently reported
there are now mp, and there is but one
new case, that of Mr.. J. J. Miller.
Attachment papers were issued We'd
nesday by Esq. W. G. Exum to j. w. Ma
ley against Eugene Farrin for 5000 debt.
Wednesday evening Deputy Sheriff Moose
executed them by closing up Farrin's
saloon on the west side OF the square.
Those standing highest in scholar
hip and department IN Mrs. McClellaud's
school are IN the order Of their names. as
follows for the month OF October, the first
being best: Lee Crunk, Beauton Smith,
Nat helms, Robbie Rec, Nora helms.
Besides the excellent reportory Of
highly pleasing plays that Kings Comedy !
will delight our theater-gOers
with next week, our people will also be J
charmed with the delightful music that
The company's superb uniform band aud
will furnish.
BY invitation, Rev. S. w. Haddon, of /
Virginia, who was attending the A. X. T. /
Synod at Salem, preached at the Presby- a
-erian church IN this place Sunday morn j
ing and night Mr.. HaddoD, from the Z
enquiries we made, seems 10 have made a d
very favorable impressionap his audience, d
md especially in his sermon at night. f
he left Monday for Nashville, IN the 4
vicinity Of which city he has lends and p
elatives whom he will visit before return d
ng to his home near Staunton, Va. b