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ANNOUNCEMENTS.
For City Treasurer.
We are authorized to announce
CHARLES HEl’CK
as a candidate for re-election to the office of Clt>
Treasurer of Bmokhaven. Miss., at the ensuing
l>eceinl»er election.
We are authorized to announce
JOHN I. MARSHALL
candidate for the office of Treasurer of the city
of Itrookhaven. Miss., at the ensuing herein
l»er election.
2<X) people perished in the Japan
floods last week.
Ex-Senator Ingalls died in Atchison,
Kar. August ltith.
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Fonrie n iufauts died of the heat at
St. Louis last Friday. The temper
ature was !tn.
The tirst bale of cotton at Camden,
Ark., brought 19>4 cents and was do
nated to tii- Bryan campaign fund.
There are 512!) American soldiers
sick in the Philippines, or S..‘i7percent,
of the entire force.
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The Huntington special train made
the run between Xtw Orleans and Mo
bile 1141 miles) in two hours and forty
minutes.
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More steel is used in the making of
writing pens than in all the sword and
gun factoriis of the world. Truly,
the pen is mightier than the sword.
Judge Snodgrass has withdrawn
from the Senatorial race in Tennessee,
leaving Hon. E. W. Carmack the only
candidate. The brilliant Carmack de
serves the victory he has won.
One by one the leading gold bugs who
opposed Bryau in 1896 are now rally
ing to his support, the 1 ist being Per
ry Belmont, who is now enthusiastic
ally supporting his old enemy.
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C. P. Huntington, the railroad mag
nate who died last week, began liis
business career at the age of 11, and
for the tirst year earned his board and
clothes and 884. every cent of which In
saved.
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"Behold a republic standing erect
with the empires all around her bowed
beneath the weight of liieir own arma
ments a republic whose flag is loved
while other flags are only feared. 1177
I ill in J. Bryan.
In Washington hist week an egg was
fried on the asphalt pavement, in ten
minutes: and in Dawson, (la., an ear of
popcorn, whose kernels were snowy
white, was on exhibition as the result
of old Sol's intense heat.
The American Rice Mill, at (lueydau,
La., has 1250 feet of warehouse front
age to handle the coming crop. The
capacity of the mill is 1400 sacks a day.
The rice acreage is a little short this
year. At Eunice, the first rice of the
season brought 83 per barrel.
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Mark Twain said recently that his
wife has played an important part in
his literary life. Everything he writes
passes under her severe censorship,
and when his efforts do not meet with
her entire approval she puts them in
the waste basket or demands a revis
ion.
Samuel Johusou, who for years led a
miserable existence on a dollar a week,
hanged himself recently in a cheap
lodging house in Baltimore. In his
trunk were found bank books showing
that he had 83000 on deposit iu savings
banks and twelve shares of Pennsyl
vania Railroad stock.
Mrs. Hetty Green, who is worth $(10,
000,(XXI,says a young man must do more
than he is paid to do, to make himself
valuable to his employer. In other
words, be must think for himself and
not be a mere tool. The scarcest tiling iu
the world today is a thoroughly re
liable man, the rich lady states.
The successful advertiser always
says what he means and means what
he says. The expressionless advert iso
ment is frequently as meaningless to
the average reader as the German stu
dent’s translation of the quotation
“The spirit is willing, but the fiesli is
weak,” which he picturesquely render
ed as “The ghost is ready, but the
meat is poor.”
The Liberty Congress, which met in
Indianapolis on the 15th, endorsed
Bryan for President. The congress
was composed of a large number of
Republicans who can’t swallow Mc
Kinley and Imperialism. ”1 helped
create the Republican party,” said ex
Governor Bout well, permanent chair
man at Indianapolis, "a party at that
time of justice and principles and hon
esty. I now believe it is a party of in
justice and oppression and 1 will help
to destroy it.”
The recent rioting iu New Orleans
was closely copied in New York. A
policeman was killed by a negro and a
mob Weut through the streets assault
ing every negro they found. New
York will do well to further imitate the
Crescent City by vigorously prosecu
ting all rioters eugaged iu this “South
ern outrage” at the North. Republi
can demagogues who were trying to
stir up sectional prejudice and make
capital out of the New Orleans inci
dent are taking to cover.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee met at Jackson, Wednesday and
selected II. F. Simrall and J. B. Yel
lowly as presidential electors from the
Stateat-large. The contest in the
fifth district was settled by setting
aside the rival candidates and nuinina- ]
ting Dr. J. R. 8. Pitts. Following is
the Republican State electoral ticket :
by districts: First, J. B. Walker; sec
Odd, W. Hargis: third, W. C. Raemas:
fourth, M. W. Woods: fifth, J. K. 8.1
Pitts: sixth, Thus. Rebtr; seventh 8. F.;
B. Pratt.
ROADS i\D ROADS.
i! ving :i sort i t reputation for
Ire. tin. v»r h< onint'-y in Lincoln
a .1 ..‘j n!• it ot not a--, parlies in ot hi r
r.iiin <•< I.hvo asked us to wiitc up
the public roads, and compare the
condition of the roads in this county,
where they are worked by tho contract
system, to that of other count lea where
they are worked by the old plan of
“warning the hands.” When the con
tract system was being discussed by
our Honorable Hoard of Supervisors,
there was strong opposition on every
hand, even by a part of our Hoard, hut
the system was tin illy adopted and the
main roids were •‘let." They were
opened up 1*! feet wide, surfaced to
the centre, and unfortunately for the
contract system, the llrst work was
I done during a rainy season, anil it was
| bog, bog, slush, slush, cuss, cuss, but
now after more than two years' expe
! rience, with few exceptions, our people
1 are all pleased with the present sys
tem and. if left ton popular vote, a
large majority would vote in favor of
working the roads by contract, in
traveling over tlie contract roads in
this county, we can make live miles an
hour with horse and buggy with great
! est ease, with much less worry to our
horse and liability to break oar buggy,
than to travel four miles in the same
length of time over tlie public roads
in our sister counties where the roads
are worked by the “warning" method.
Of course, in many places in our e mu
ty, where the saw mills transport their
pine logs and lumber over our public
roads, it is impossible for our coutrac
tors to keep their roads in good con
dition, and at the risk of getting a hole
shot through our lint, wo here and
now venture to throw off, from our
stomach an accumulation of long
standing, towit: 'That it is not in
keeping with even-handed justice for
lour people to lie taxed to keep up puli
i lie mads where the bottom is knocked
out of them by onr lumber industries.
• They should bo forced to either pay
| an extra road tux or repair the ruins
thereof. We say this at the its); ,,f
| being defeated some more for State
Senator, at the next election tin roof.
J. A. S.
or n.iioK is itiMcirr.
>lf. Stevenson Says tin* Ill-uni
era tic I'arly is a Sure \\ inner.
('Imltnnnogii, Tenn.. \ug. lii The
Xev.s today publishes th • following
i letter fr.au ex \ ioc President Adlai 15.
| Stevenson:
••Bloomington, ill., Aug. Id.
To the Kililor of I lie rii.'ittniinniM xw. •:
“I am glad to say that the reports
from the great Middle West are on
couragiug. 'I'he positions of the two
parties are exactly reversed from what
they wer- four years ago. Then, the
Republican party was united and
every day brought the news of disaf
fections in the Democratic ranks. To
day in the face of t tie* imminent peril
which threatens the Republican char
acter of our government. Democrats of
whatever school of finance are one
upon the overshadowing issue of this
campaign. We have a united Demon
racy and day by day old line Republi
cans are seeing in our policy the only
hope for the continuance of our free
institutions. Many of the men who
fought us bitterly in the past upon
■ minor issues are today our ardent
friends. Many who love liberty and
believe in the deathless principles upon
which our great republic lias been rai
ed are rallying to our platform in such
numbers as to justify tlie hope that
the present administration will be
thoroughly rebuked for its surrender
to organized greed, plunging our conn
try iuto an unjustifiable war of con
(juest at the behest of concentrated
wealth, which hopes to exploit distant
islands under the guise of ‘benevohnt
assimilation.’
"I cannot believe that the closing
hours of the nineteenth century will
witness the American people sanction
ing the betrayal of all that h is given
strength and glory to one century and
a quarter of national life. The sordid
commercialism which weighs ail que™
tious of honor, justice uud right against
gold must be rebuked if the republic
is to be saved. My faith in the Amcr
ieau people is great for I b. live that
under th° guidance of (i ni, we have
yet a \ ist work to accomplish for
do vntroddeu humanity. By our -i
lent example among nat ions we are to
demonstrate tlie unconquerable power
of peace the irresistible strength of
justice an I love. Imperialism with its
sword of might cannot carry tie- day
against the republic founded u; ..n tie
eternal rock of right. Y ■ an s sine r. I .
‘ADLA1 E STEVENSON.
“The resolutions adopted by the
Democrats of the Seventh Congress
ionul district,' says the Meridian Star,
"must have proved sweet n ailing t >
the self perpetuating State Executive
Committee. Whatever political umbi
tion the memb-is of that body may
have hud and it is not to t>o denied
that some there are who have hoped
for things better at the pie counter
all is over now. The Democrats of
Mississippi, the more they study the
frauds countenance 1 and th -refore en
dorsed bv the committee, are deter
mined to strike them down every time
heads are raised."
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Gov. Lougiuolust Friday appointed
Hon. G. (j Hall, of Meridian,'judge of
the tenth judicial district to succeed
Judge Huddlestop, whose term expired
Saturday. W'e never saw Judge Hall,
but will bet £11 he will keep sober.
Brandon Sews.
That's the sort this administration
seems to be looking for. Jackson
Sews.
Caleb Powers, ex-Secretary of the
State of Kentucky, was convicted as
au accessory to the Goebel murder
and given a life seutence in the peu
iteutLry. The jury was out fifty three
minutes. Powers almost fainted when
the verdict was given ana said, “The
verdict is unjust.”
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The Postmaster General has amend
ed the postal regulations so as to per
mit the sender of u registered letter to
recall it after it has been dispatched,
rhis will be a great convenience to
women who want to add another post
script. Boston Herald.
A NHIflrs IMS \STKR.
A Tlienlle in :m Asli Hopper
BY FLORENCE tor NO.
Written fof I In l.emler
“A good picter? Yer say it is? Well, it,
wuzdrawed l>y one uv them picter
tnen what do ye pall'em. honey? For-1
togrifers? Well, he come er prowlin' j
er roun’ here to'ther evenin’ in his am-'
berlnnch en sez:
“Madam, don't you want your home
and the family grouped Into a heallti
tiful picture?”
• Ku I sex, 'Yes. sir. I do, to he shurc’. |
So 1 just tole him that Bud en his paw j
wuz in the Held at work, but ef he'd
'
remain, en stay all night, he itinrht
draw one in the moruin.* By this time
me ole man. si din’ the strange lookin'
wagin.vrWi a kiveretibig letters paint
od on it. er drivin' up tlie bill en stop
fernant t he gate, he jest left his plow
with ole I’at mule er staudin’ in the
row cn come peekin' roun'the house to
see who twuz.
“1 watched him go on en howdy with i
the st ranger ell f ilrawed an idee he :
wuz agoiu' to object to the feller er
stayin' over niglit. so I jist sot my
hands a kimho en sot my head ter one
side en sez. ‘yer can stay.' Kn, man!
this huffed the ole man up en he look
ed vigrusut me en come on to the door
block en fetched me on the sleeve en
git outen here, Pearly, en take that
cow bell from round your ueck ringin’
it. Yer give yer teacher th > headache.
I’ll make yer pappy whip yeter night."
Here Pearly ran thro' the room with
a cow bell suspended from his neck, by
a broad leather baud.
•*\Vt*U. I kuowed when he tetched me
on t tie sleeve hit meant to follow him I
in the house, an’ I didn't want to raise
no mens afore the stranger, an’ I
knowed too I want ergwine ter let him
git off till I had our pieters drawed:
leastwise 1 had my head sot that way,
eu all the ehildun wanted the house
drawed, too. So, mind yer! ez I toller
cd the (do mail in the house I kep one
eye on the man 111 th•» utnberlaneh,
whilst tie kep his sleepy lookin’ eyes
I on me, en peered ter he pleased with
j the idee uv a eomfertable night, fer I
noticed the resemblance of a smile
bangin' rami’ his fine black mustash,
whilst i wuz, er revolvin’ the pertaters
eu buttermilk in my mind, that 1 wuz
gwiue to give him fer Ids supper git
outeii here, Pearly, with that cow hell
er ringin'I tell ye! Bf ye cotno thro
here agin I'll make yer pappy whip
ye teruight, see ef 1 don't.
‘ .Vow, man! no sootier en he got
I rulin’ the eoruder uv the door, the ole
man he blustered out, "whar in the
| thunder a ire ye gwiue to put t h it nun
I ter sleep?”
‘‘Bn I jest sliet one eye en Idiukcd
; tother en sez, smoothly, no whar in the
thunder, lessen you suspose ter make
er thunderin’ uv er mens. Eu 'mint no
use talkin', ole man.' I'm bent en dc
termed to have our pieters struck in
the mornin’en yer jest as well settle
yerself in er framable mind en tell
that purty chap that he kin tint id
critters in the paseher. whilst he kin
fall in with Bud eu Phil Pender en
sleep eomfertable enough, up stairs,
ye know honey! Phil Petnler is the
young man that's here er sparkin' Sis
l >r miy Kosetty Narcissv). I'll slap
ye down, Pearly, ef ye come thro’
here agin with that hell: you'd worry
the horns otfeu er hilly goat with yer
racket!"
"O, ma! don’t talk so snappishly: I
ain't deef.” retorted Pearly.
"Now the ole man knowed 'twain no
use ter split the air with argurmeuts
when tie seed 1 wuz. sot. So he tole
the stranger ef he'd he content ter
stay all night, lie could put up his crit
ters eu in the mornin' lie might draw
the farm en the f.imerly into er pieter
en then he'd give him direeshuus to the
next house.
Be this time the suu wuz er slippin'
( down in his httrrizeu, e:i B i I eu I’hil
I 'en ler ha 1 come r mu' ! -r disengage
I (lie feller in er convers isliun eu wuz
er samplin' ids pieters: en seein’ ’twuz
‘ gittin’ late they imp. him drive his aui
1 b-rlaneh rulin’ fernaut the poultry
yard.
MoaVI I know twuz er amherlaneii'.
Why. I’d seed er meny er one durin' uv !
: I lie war, eu my memory wuz refreshiu’
il set'
"Now. I st-z to the gals, Sist-r, you in
Lady pereet I to git supper, milk j
Afr'mky, churn en do up yer night 1
work, en yer kin s"t with tue en Pearly
• u hi- i>a in my room en listen lo tie
| t ranger spin yarns. Her I've hccneri
t hese t ravellin' men eoiild heat r.p er
spiunin' yarns.
"But, Llld bless yer soul, honey!
The pii-t -r lie dritwed en the yarns lie
slid.heil wer'n't nothin', to the devil
try h fetched roun' afore day break
What did he do? Well, hit shore wuz
iir pi nty! He broke up my settiu'
i hen. lore down me ash hopper, ma le
me putten nigh break my fool neck, eu !
skeered the eliildun niighly nigh to j
death.
•'Well, sir! when the hoys got tired!
er sett in" up, Bud en Phil eu the
stranger went upstairs ter their room."
1 this m ant up a ladder into a small,
eloje room, or loft, over the family
room, which served as the boys’ sle p
ing apartment! ‘whilst me en the two
gals en Pearly an his pail went in ter
bed, er talkiu’ uv the pieter we wuz
goiu’ to have struck in the moruiu'.
Well I went ter sleep, en, man! no v
comes the terrifyin'part uv that night.
Way or long twixt midnight eu day,
I woke up eu listened eu 1 Leered a
foot step on the tloor up stairs. [ lis
toned agin; presently I seed er grayish,
whitish lookin’ somethin’, fer the moon
wuz a shinin’ to beat rip at the top uv
the ladder, en hit wuz er cornin' down.
Now hit jest peered to me like a pow
erful big grayish, whiti'h lookin’ var
mint, er puttiu’ his feet down on the •
rounds uv the ladder, er keerfully let -
tin’ hissef down all iu er heap. 1 sot
tip perpeudickler in bed er watchin' I
hit with me eyes eu er shaken the ole
man with me hands till I seed it wer’n’t
Bud, an then I sez ithinkiu’ hit wuz
Phil) I sez, Mr. Pender, ye’ll find the
bucket uv cool water jest out side the !
door.’ He didn't make me no response
but kep’ on movin’ stidily en keer- j
fully down the ladder, en man! when J '
seed it wuzu’t Phil, hit peered to me !
like my heart wuz mighty nigh jumpin' ]
out uv me mouth, whilst I jest retch 1
back eu give the ole lnau a powerful,
shove, which put ten nigh sent him
sprawlin'in the middle uv the floor,
with the exprrsshun, ‘what in the
thunder aire ye doin'?
“Bud, man! with this the feller j
spr ing often the ladder en made fer
the open winder hy the fire place en
fer the fust time hit dawned on me,
that the stranger wuz cr walkin' in
his sleep. Well, sir! Ilit out over the
foot uv the bed. en Pearly screeched ez
I flounced over him, en his pa ris en
come out on tother side, jest in time
ter see the stranger sail out that win
der like er kite before the March wind,
• Now I wuz nukin' a dive ter beat
him to the winder,en I fairly screitned
ez he went out, ‘muu or-live. ye'll tear
down me a-di hopper, en break up me
settin' hen.’
“But 'twant no use! I heerd me ash
hopper crash en me ole hen squeak, en.
ladies en gentmiin.he scrambled 'round
in that ash hopper till he hit the
ground, en no sooner on he done this.
Itattler nailed him, en here they had it.
round en round, en tusseled en snap
ped till at last the strunger jecked
loose, made er powerful lunge en leap
ed back through the winder jest ez I
shoved me head out ter speak ter the
dog. Be this time the two gals had riz
en wu^darten er bout in the room like
skeered patterges,er tryin’ to git some
whar: en Pearly wuz er jumpin’’ up en
down in the middle uv the floor, er
yelpin' like a wolf's cub. All in
ther sleepin’ epperel: whilst the
stranger wuz er dodgin’ er bout,
try in’ to git through the crowd
to the ladder ergin. Kn the ole man
wuz a seizin' him by fust one arm en
then tother, eu the feller wuz. er jerkin'
eu er strugglin'so till I thought me
ole man would be worked into er jelly
if I didn't ititerspose; so I just stepped
forurds, ketehed the feller by the
shoulder, en me ole man by the collar,
en sez,‘now here! Mr. Stranger, jest
holdup! Don’t be so obstroporus en
stop yer prowlin’ er ’bout here in yer
sleep: wake up now, man! en go back
up stairs en rest yersef en I'll make pa
fetch er cool drink uv water, fer I
know ye er thirsty after all this rucus!
lie wuz. wide er wake now, en looked
awful obflustercated, fer be wuz er
sorry lookin' partner, I tell ye! But I
wuz sorry fer him. notwithstandin' I
knowed the renegate had broke up me
ole yaller lieu, en tore up me ash hop
per en per'aps crippled hisself fer life,
fer I seed tie limped smartly ez. lie went
up stairs, like lie might have unjinted
some uv his limbs.
"So 1 just tole the ole man to take
11im some eool water, en see ef lie wuz.
bruised up much, eu I’d look after the
ship wreck under the winder, git the
gals out from under my bed, where
they wuz. er crouchiu’ like skeered rab
bits, en stop l’eurly's screamin' like er
wild cat. ‘Sister, 1 sez, you eu Lady
e line out from under that bed. en less
see,' sez I, ‘ef that prowlin' rascal has
raily sot bis foot on the back uv me
pore ole yaller Coach in chiny settin'
hen. that Sister Puss gin ne fer er
present on partin’ with her. No! yer
aunt Puss would never git over it!
she'd never survive it ef she knowed
what the end uv her favorite lieu wuz!
‘But taint no use ter cry bout hit,gals,’
I sez, ■ I'll jest reach down in the nest;
eu see ef there's eny hopes uv her left,
but her squeakin' wuz that uv a smash
ed chicken when I last heel'd her.
“Well, the moon wuz er shinin', eu 1
Could see the ash hopper wuz putten
nigh tore up. root eu branch, en ez. I
leaned out tin winder en retched down,
er'feelin' round fer me ole hen, some
how or liother. Pearly fell agin me, en
I lost my balance, en man! what should
I do but turn heels over head into the
devilish nest, restin’ fer er lull miuute
on me head, with the out smelliucst
material uv settin'eggs, scrambled in
slacked ashes surroundin' my brow.
Presently I (lopped over on to the
ground, eu Battler, fer he wuz. still er
settin’by jest took er snitf at me en
sidled oil'in disgust, ez, much ez ter
say. "1 ho theatre iu the ash hopper ter
night wuz jest fine.'
But man er live! when 1 went outen
that winder er turnin' summer salts,
1‘early i n t hem gals jest screeched en
screamed, en I’liil Pender, en Bud. en
his pa come er mimin' outen the loft
like rabbits, sin iked outen er holler:
whilst tin- s! ranger,set on the top r< uu'
urthe ladder with his feet bangin'
down, coolly reviewin’t he family re-I
union at the dour, I r 1 h tint no idee uv
going back thro that winder, ku awin' 1
I'd have ter pass thro the ash hopper.
En. ladies en gentinun. I wuz er sorry
plight to behole! with smashed siltin'
eggs ground in onslacke 1 ashes. \!a.
aim ye hurt much'’ ’Ole oomn ■. /hat
in the so.oi-. ■ is the in,alter with ye?"
•Miss Ward, aire ye bruised m . • 1
axed th cliihluu, me ole man, eu Ph 1
Pender ailiutbe same tune. •Hurl?
matter? bru'se.l?’ i s z in respouse.
•I'm wuss I hail kited! But w hen they
seed I wuz • r breathin' livin' imige
they sloped off to be 1 agin.
"An now, lit tell ye why my head’s a
settin' to one side in I he pieler. While
I w uz er stundiu’ on it in the ash hop
per, I thought I'd be killed, eu I said
toy prayers. I sez just so. ‘Well. Lord,
T in gw iue ter loose my life in this dev- !
ilish ash hopper, en i ll never lay me
eyes on Sister Puss agin.' Eu I'll not
git my picter took no more eu it is now.
Eu Pearly will ho beat to death iu
less than no time, fer I know his pi
will marry ergiu.’ En, man! this gim
me new strength! i jest braced mysef,
give my hands a little more purchase,
Hopped over onto the ground, gethered
mysef up and walked straight 'round
tor the door, thinkin'to mesof, ef my
ole yaller Coach-in chiny wu/u't hurt,
me and her made er powerful narrow
escape. Eu we did!”
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times makes a striking
summary of the government's pension
expenditures. It shows that uearly
one quarter of the government’s rev
enues* goes to pay pensions ari ing
from the war that came to an eu-.l thir
ty live years ago, and that since July 1.
I860, the total pension paymeu!on ,
account of the civil war have amounted
to more than 11^61^,600,000, or an aver
age of 874,000,000 per year. Russia j
maintains a standing army of 1,01)0,000
men: nevertheless our pension lisl has
reached a sum amounting to 82,000,000
more than Russia's total military bud
get.
The North seems to have a black
problem, as well as the South.
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Dentist,
BROOKHAVEN, HISS.
OFl’K'K: Comer opposite C. Heuck &
Sons <iroeery store.
Residence one block south
of otlice.
HOTEL DENECHAUD,
Corner Carondelet and Perdido Sts.,
NEW ORLEANS, - . - - LA.
This hotel has just been enlarged
and renovated. An electric passenger
elevator has been placed in the build
| ing, as well as other improvements
AMERICAN and EUROPEAN PLAN.
/ For FREE
'titCItstUW/l Scholarship
POSITIONS GUARANTEED.
Railroad Faro Paid.
ACTUAL BUSINESS TAUGHT.
Open all year to Both Sexes. Very Cheap Board.
Georgia-Alabama Business College,
Haoon, Georgia.
(II AS. (’HR ISM AX,
ATTORN KY AT LA W,
BROOK II WKX, MISS.
Will practi**** in all ..mrO of Lincoln ;,nd
adjoining counties. anil in tin* Supreme '-ml
Federal ( Oil ft* ;it .lackMill. Miss.
(>lli« • I >o\vn ^taii' in < a'M‘d\ Building, next
t »(‘ourt 11 oust*.
SAM LIGHTFOOT,
The Old Reliable Barber
OF BROOKHAVEN,
\\ril.l. Hi: FOFND hereafter In Ids new
> > Simp un Fronl St., opposite the depot.
Shaving, Mair-Cutting, Shampooing
etc., in up-to-date Style.
Electric Liglits,
AND SHOP KEPT open day and nkiht
DAY’S
Shaving Parlor
OPPOSITE DEPOT IN
LEAKY BlILDINC.
Shaving * 10 cents.
Hair Cutting - 25 cents.
THE best service.
HIVE ME A CALL.
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k Book ‘•How to obtain Patents” | BHUMaMI *•
| hargcs moderate. No fee till patent i3 secured. 1
Letters strictly confidential. Address, j
^E. (i. SIGGERS, Patent Lawyer. Washington, D. C j
R. D. LANIER,
Attorney = At = Law,
BROOKHAVEN. MISS.
Will practice in the courts of Lincoln ami ail.
joining counties, office over Storm's Restaurant.
Kodo
Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat.
It art ilicially digests tlie food and aids
Nature in strengthening and recon
structing tlie exhausted digestive or
gans. It is the latest discovered digest
ant and tonic. No other preparation
can approach it in efficiency. It in
stantly relieves and permanently cures
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea,
Sick Headache,Gastralgia.Cramps and
all otherrcsultsof imperfeetdigestion.
Price 50c. and $1. Parce slzncontains81! times
hoiullslzc. iiookall about dyspepsia mulled free
Prepared by E. C. DeWITT & CO.. Chicago
C. EJ. aRAFTON.
a. m. McMillan,
Attorney-At- Law,
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.
A Short-Hand Chronicle of Cur
rent Happenings. .
Pike county's first bale brought ten
cents.
Jackson is taking a special census of
her own.
Yazoo City now wants to g*’ ' id of
her gambling rooms.
The Greenville News is putting in a
new #2,000 printing outfit, to be run by
electricity.
Jackson’s electric cars furnish «1»-i
version for large crowds these warm !
summer nights.
So far no boll worms or army worms :
have appeared to demolish the remain
ing half of the cotton crop.
Will Thomas, a negro, lost both feet
by falling under a freight car upon
which lie was stealing a ride at Bay St.
Louis.
Lloyd Bass, of Liberty, committed
suicide l>y taking morphine. He was
23 years of age and leaves a wife and
one child.
The Gulf A Ship Island ran its first
excursion from Jackson to Gulfport,
complimentary to the Columbia Club
of the Capital.
State Revenue Agent Adams lias
#1,000 worth of Yazoo .City liquor on
his hands, as the result of litigation,
recently instituted.
The Second Battalion, Third Mis
sissippi Regiment, S. N. G.. are being
royally entertained during their en
campment at Natchez.
Prof. II. H. Harper, of Claiborne,
has been elected principal of the pub
lic school at Camden, Ark. The school
has an enrollment of 400.
The McComb City Enterprise is giv
ing much of its space to arguments on
Baptism by ministers of the Baptist.
Christian and Methodist Churches.
The Jackson's Merchant’s Associa
tion will be represented at the confer
ence of Southern railroad commis
sioners at Lookout Mountain, on the
29th.
Rev. W. J. Derrick, who has been the
able and earnest pastor of the Canton
Bapt ist church for several years, lias
accepted the care of the Yazoo City
church.
All of the public schools in Clai
borne county, both white and colored,
are graded schools, and Claiborne
claims to be the banner county iu
Mississippi in public school matters.
A vein of natural gas has been
struck eight miles north of Greenville
at a depth of forty feel below the sur
face. The gas was lit and burned
some two feet from the top of the well.
Iu honor of Rev. J. B. Stratton who
had charge of Natchez Presbyterian
Church for fifty years, the congrega
tion will erect a •?14.ikhi annex to their
church to he known as the Stratton
Annex.
The law passed by the last Legisla
tare has caused a material increase in
the pension roll. The State Auditor
is having a had time keeping the chan
cery clerks supplied with pension
blanks.
Hon. Truman Gray, ex State Senator,
from Wayne county, and Rev. B. D.
Gray, D. I).. of Birmingham, Ala.,
mourn the death of their father, at the
advanced age of 84 years. He expired
at his home at Boyce.
The Crescent Pine Lumber Com
pany's big mill lias begun work at
Jackson. At this mill, or planer, the
pine lumber is dressed and made into
the higher grades of lumber after the
smaller mills have finished it.
The Russe, Burgess and Graydon
Company, of Jonesville. made a ship
meut of one half million feet of lum
her consisting of red gum, ash. oak
and poplar, to Paris, Prance. It was
taken by barges towed by the tug,
Louisa.
Tne circuit clerk of Leake county
died a month ago and there are thir
teen announced candidates for the
place. On the 5th inst.. Assessor Les
lie of the same couuty died and live
days later there were seventeen fiti
izens willing to wear the dead man's
shoes.
The Brandon News says that on ac
count of the pretermitting of the Au
gust term of the circuit court, the 117
barrels of beer seized on the turnpike,
will lie in jail iimil February. It is a
good idea any way to incarcerate the
drink instead of the drinkers.
Port Gibson's hoard of Aldermen or
tiered property owners to have the
weeds cut from thr-ir sidewalks. The
failure oil the part of a number to obey,
aroused the ire of the city fathers, and
the marshal had the work done at the
expense of the dilatory landlords.
Taylor Murray, colored porter of the
State house for the past teu years,
died suddenly of heart disease. He
was brought to Jackson by Gov. Stone,
to whom he was devoted. .\s a tribute
of respect to his worth, the State offi
cers and employes attended his funer
al in a body.
Residences belonging to Dr. VV. M.
Wroten, Mrs. A. M. Moore an i (’opt .1
11. Gatlin were destroyed by tire at
Magnolia. The latter lost 8180(1 aud
had no iusurange, while D. C. Coney’,
who occupied Dr. VVroteu’s house, lost
all his household effects aud carried
no insurance.
The Board of Supervisors of Simp
sou county has given notice that it
will receive, up to the 1st of Septem
ber, plans and specifications from ar
chitects for the new court house aud
jail to be erected at Edna. The build
ings are to cost not exceeding 825,000.
aud bouds will be issued to that
amount.
Felto Smith, of Vau Vleet, Chicka
saw county, has been farming twenty
three years and lias never bought but
one horse, never bought a pound of
meat nor a bushel of com and never
lost a horse or mule from disease. Mr.
Smith started with nothing, but now
owns a good place, makes a living for
a large family aud has money ahead.
The Meridian Star wants to know if
anybody can “explain why it is that a
Mississippi watermelon can be pur
chased in Chicago 50 per cent cheaper
lhau it cau be put ou the market here”?
Either the commission merchants are
robbing the Southern producer or the
producer is digging his next door
neighbor in order to briDg about this
curious state of affairs.
The Brookhaven Cycle House
is the place t<* buy y„nr wheel,
pet them repaired, and pet '
money's worth. We arc
AGE TS
for the following Standard Ili-h
Grade Wheels, l!*oo Models*
CRESCENTS, The "heel that Stands Up. $25 & $35
MONARCHS, They Keep in Front, $30 & $40 I
RAMBLERS, Best Ever Built.$40
$25.00 CARNIVAL BICYCLES FOR $18.50
CHAINLESS WHEELS FROM $45 UP.
Solti on easy terms, with Rood security.
Ladies' and Gents’ wheels for rent. Bicycles for Sunday ridhiR Imisl ^
enRaRed on Saturday.
Bicycle RepairiuR is our specialty in Hue weather, and Umbrella
Work in rainy weather. Call on us and make yourself at home.esp*.
dally when in need of a Bicycle Physician.
DAHLSTROM BROS.,
Monticello St., next to Boswell House,
■VII ONE into OKU A VEN, Miss,
The undersigned takes pleasure in announcing to the public that he is
now open for the reception of guests and that he lias made a number of
substantial improvements, both in point of room and grounds.
For the amusement of the young people a large and
Commodious Dancing Pavilion
has been erected and a first-class string baud engaged for the season. We
have also arranged with the I. C. R. R. and the Southern R. It. for a
Special Railway Rate
commencing on the 1st of June, of one and one-third fare for the round
triii We feel that we have done and shall continue to do our best to
please and while exceedingly grateful for your patronage in the past, we
earnestly solicit a continuance of the same.
RATPS ; Per day $2; per w eek $10, $12 and $15; per month $35,
$40 and $45.
H. BARGER,
Prop. Castalian Springs, Durant, Miss.
DRS. BETTS & BETTS & DYAR,
214 St. Charles Street. New Orleans. La.
arvm TTATTC Heliility. Kpermatorilm a.
^ jljXVi VUw v Seminal Losses, Niirlit Lmis
slons, loss of vital powers, sleeplessness, de
spondency, loss nl memory, confusion of Ideas,
lassitiiile.’t’loominess. ilcpression of spirit', aver
sion to society, easily discouraged. lack of c<m
liileuee. dull, listless, unfit for study or lillsiness
ami linds life a ImrUen. Safely, permauenlly
j ami privately eared.
BLOOD AND SKIN!'
ease most horrible In its results, completely
eradicated without the use of mercury >. rofula.
erysipelas, fever sores, blotches, pimples, ulcer**,
pains in the hands and bones, syphilitic sore
throat, month and tongue catarrh.' etc . perma
nently cured when others have failed.
To Young and
Middle Aged
Men.
A SURE CURE.
Tin* a" fnl etleets of early
vice, which brings organic
weakness, destroying both
mind and body, with all
I its dreadful ills, perma
| neatly cured.
Urethral Stricture
Permanently cured. Ke
nioval comidete; neither
knit.». eaustie or dilation;
without pain or injury.
Proof indisputable.
U p Address tin s»* \\ ho
** b have impairedthem
I selves by improper indul
: geiieesand solitary habits,
which ruin both body and
niiml. unlltting them for
| business, study or mar
| riage.
\1 m;i:i i n mi n. or those
* 1 entering on that happy
life, aware of physical ue
; bllity, quickly assisted.
URINARY.
<ler troubles weak hack,
burning urine, frequency
of urinating, urine high
colored or with milky sed
iment on standing, gonor
rhoea. gleet, cystiris. etc.,
promptly ami safely cured.
Charges reasonable.
PH p<s ])r" 1 ltv *
I ILL^ Bett \ Dyar
have the pleasure t<> an
nounce that they have
secured the able and dis
tinguished services cf a.
S. I >yar. M. I on*- of the
most eminent and sinrtsv
ful specialists in the treat
ment and cure of Ih-ctal
Diseases in the United
States, and are therefore
fully prepared to positive
ly guarantee a mre in
every ease of pile-*, tistula.
fissure or « tin r di>eases
of the rectum, by a safe,
easy and palnles* method,
which has been indorsed
by many leading |d»ysi
ei’ans. as well sis l-y him
dreds of patient'* ail over
the hind, who have been
permanently cured by In.
Dyar’s method »d treat
OUR SUCCESS i'‘i'!v
i>> lienee. Second Kver\ case i> specially stud
ied. tints -^t;«Ttin^r aright. Third Medicines an*
! prepared in our lahorator> exactly t*' suit each
< ase. thus ehectin : cures without injury.
ITCHING PILES
ery cast* a cure N miarantecd. No Knife, c.antic
; or'’ligature is used.
meat. Al! forms of piles rureu f>\ a ' ■ r 1
feetly painless and bloodless mode t»f treatment
in from one to three weeks treatment.
Celebrated Medical Work
of eight) p iges ou net vouv. chronie an
diseases sriil free, Thousands eared. A f • roi
ly lett«»r or eill mav save you future *
and shame, and add golden years to l ie. Ad
dress or eail on
X>x'<3. BBTTS O’ BDSTTS tl< DTAH,
214 St. Charles Street, New Orleans, l.a.
Patronize Home Industry !
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Place your orders for Monuments, Tablets, and Head
Stones with the
Brookhaven Marble Works,
We carry all the latest designs, and guarantee satis
faction as to workmanship and material.
E. PFEIFER, Pres. M. DREYFUS, Vlce-Pres. and Treas.
BROOKHAVEN
Lumber & Mfg. Co.
(INCORPORATED)
MANUFACTURERS OF **•»
Long Leaf Yellow Pine Lumber
We carry constantly in stock a very large quantity of
l the different qualities of Flooring, Ceiling, Weather
^ I Boarding, Finishing Lumber, Mouldings, etc.; also
Sized Framing, which we offer at most reasonable
prices. Parties intending to buy no matter how
9 small the purchase—are invited to
A Call at Our Plant One Idle North of Sopot, and a Few Hundred
P. O.-BrookhMtn. Yards froa Compress.