The leader., 1897-07-14
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Miss Ola Maeee is quite sick.


week.
Little Daisy, infant baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. VI. Turnbough, is still quite
sick.
Little Miss Mildred Spengler, of
Jackson, is visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. Miazza.
Mrs. Clara Tibbs Gowan, of Gunnis-
on. is on visit to Brookhaven rela-
tives and friends.
Miss Kirby Magee visited her broth
err, Mayor Jos. Magee, of Tangipahoa,
the first of the week.
The entertainment to be given by
the Presbyterians in the Park thurs
day night has been temporarily post
poned.
Mrs. r. j. Boone, with her sons Char
lie and Oscar, left on Tuesday evening
for a visit to McComb City and
Holmesville.
Sam Abrams and Ben Wilson Will
leave next Sunday for Chicago and
other western cities, where they will be
absent several weeks.
Among recent Brookhaven visitors
to Crystal Springs are Mrs. Chas. Ooer-
schmidt, Mrs. Hobbs, Misses Maggie
Ewing and Josie Eitel.
The City Council transacted no bus
mess Monday. 1t is expected the con-
tract for digging the artesian well
will be let out this afternoon.
Pres. L. 4. F'itzhugh, whose success
with Belhaven College has added new
laurels to his brow as an educator, was
a welcome visitor on Tuesday.
If you want pure Apple Vinegar at
80 cents gallon, nice Mackerel four
for % cents, and fresh Hams at he
cents a pound, go to S. f. SMURR.
Mr.. Downing, a conductor of the l.
C. at Chicago, and his wife were guests
of the Magee Hotel the first OF the
week. Also Mr. H. Narramore, OF
Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Hyman, accom-
panied by Miss Josie Pfeifer, have lett
for visit to Chicago, and before re-
turning will include Canada among
their points of interest.
Messrs. Martin Flood, Walter Magee
and Maurice Mendle returned Sunday
from weeks visit to Browns Well.
The 'boys" are reported to have cut a
great swell up there, Walter Magee
posing as capitalist with a backing
of 30O0,000.50.
Louis Levy, the beloved son of Mrs.
S. Kohlman, departed this life in New
Orleans on July 9TH, before his anxious
and devoted mother and family could
reach his bedside. Young, strong and
vigorous, there was nothing to warn his
loving relatives and many friends that
his life so soon would end; and togeth
er they mourn the death of the popu-
lar young man, so highly esteemed and
so full of promise The family have
returned from New Orleans.
strengthen the digestion, regulate the liver
and purify Ike bowels if you would have health
TO keep these organs healthy and vigorous is
the especial province of PRICki.Y ASH BIrTERS.
When there is any arrangement it acts directly
on the affected organ going right to the seat of
trouble and driving all impurities and disease
is a thorough system tonic. Heals the kidneys,
strengthens and regulates the liver, stomach and
bowels and so fortifeS the body that 1t can sue
cessfully resist malarial or other diseases that
may be prevalent. Sold by c. L. GRAFTON.
Rev. j. H. Gambrell, who, since he
left Brookhaven in 1894, has been pas
tor of the Baptist Church at Green's
boro, Ga, has accepted an invitation
from his old churches at Shady Grove
and Topisaw to hold; protracted meet
ings with them the middle or latter
part of August. Mr.. Gambrell has
taken high rank as a successful preach
er and strong man in Georgia, his
adopted State, but it is doubtless very
gratifying to him to have two Of the
first Mississippi churches he ever serv-
ed, showing their appreciation of him
in the way mentioned above
Sheriff McNair received notice last
week from the Sheriff of Holmes coun-
| ty that John Magee, the negro "conjure
doctor" who escaped from County Con
tractor Buie last fall, had died on the
County convict farm Of Holmes coun-
tv. wbera ba ba1 been sent for some
crime committed in that coun,,. 'I"
gee was a notorious character. He
went to Pike soon after his escape from
the Lincoln convict farm. There he
was shot and wounded by some one.
and before the authorities here could
get their clutches on him, made his
way to Holmes county, and when To-
Gated again, was on the county convict
farm there.
Louis Emil Menger, Phi. D., who for
four years has been engaged as Asso-
ciate in Romance Languages at Johns
Hopkins University, has been spending
several days with his sister, Mrs. b. T.
Hobbs. DR.. Menger has recently been
appointed Associate Professor of the
Philology of the Romance Languages
at Bryn Maur College, near Philadel-
phia, Pa. This will be the first chair
for advanced historical work in the
Romance Languages established in any
female school in the United States, and
the second chair in any college or Uni
versity whose holder is engaged to de-
vote himself entirely to Philology as
distinct from literature; the other
chair bearing the same title, being in
Columbia University, N. Y. DR.. Men
ger graduated at Mississippi College in
'SS before he had reached his seven