The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-07-22


20 hotice IL IL disagreeable enough 10 have !
@ ~ wa OF sheaking, whining cur, and hear hi
oafA' much less to handle him. therefore what
d nave TO say shall be briefly told,
q SAD, some Time ago, the PRAIRIE News h,
~, .he largest circulation of any paper published
: .he county This the Petrol denied and said y i,
. the largest circulation in this coaptu. admit,
~ as the official paper Of the county, might In,
'ne largest county circulation; but is for geuer
A circulation, believed the PRAIRIE NEWS ha
e TWO SUBSCRIPTIONS TO the Pe,rels one and ofIere
8 70 snow lists any time he wished IfIam wror
IN thinking my paper has the largest circulatio,
ana can be convinced Of it, | am willing to A,
knowledge my error w
said: "Ue hare turger subsrrin,;o, -, a.. u
office IN the county than you sare uour o,rn mos
9Wce ~ then asked him the following o,,est;o
IN The NEWS Of the 23d June:
Now how do you know this Have Won heer ..,.,
ing around at every beS in the county and enouir,n
@ h"Der OF our Subscribers at each one or do yo,
s naNe the assertion with all the impudence and Of
uVu,Sig on a preNancating nature Verify This il ,
good beginning, andif YOU keep on bid fair IN Leeo,o
among liars what Raphael was among painters ,ha
among poets. " ""'
| In the last number Of his paper fJppe ao,h ,
he copies and puts the same question To mo to,
gefher with the article of mine in which 7 sa;d
the PRAIRIE NEWS had the largest circulation of
any paper published in the county. | do NOT
hRo'o the PRAIRIE NEWS has the largest circu.
aliol' but have reason sufficient to warrant n
Strohg behel that way till | learn better. Tie
also says my paper has been sent back TO me "bv
men living IN this region" l. e., Houston, Ibove
only to say to this, if it is Mr. OWENS intention.
and think it is, to say send the Prairie News
10 any one at Houston excepting the PetreN who
Is NOT regular subscriber, or that send il 70.
quarry 10 any one who has returned it since I
became connected with this office, be is ,;ifd
aetoefme har, and mean, ior-do,ra, conardju
siahtele!' just before l came into the Office. n
Soou many papers were sent to persons my pre-
ueocssor thought would subscribe; several were
retufned--some may be more than once o,y;no
to my negligence in erasina the names from ths
oilce books, | have learned from good a,,thor;ty
mat several copies of his paper used to be. #
they are not now, sent back to him. He further
says II can't put my finger on man who has
refused ms paper am guilty of attempting to
put out false impression" Such a man ~ nat |
hard to find. When accused him Of n :. can.
[emptlble lltteness" in not sending me n naner
containing his article, did not intend It shorH
De inferred he was "skeered of the bully " as be
'tyles ne, but did intend to point it ont as
act Of the base, pnsHaniuous MN.
y mat he is. The reliable person who saws he
ia iIlaii paper to me must be mistaken. to cav
nc least OF 1t, as the number which is sent TO
ur oilice usually comes III the same package with
'hef copies OF the Petrct taken at this post Of
ce, ahd inquired particularly of The p'htnos.
er If Petra came for the Prairie News no
Old me Mo- "'' III
In confusion, would say when B. F. OWEN
les, II fortune viii ever thus favor him. the mas.
I Oh the internal regions, in consideration of his
'rg f@Habte services here on EARTH will be by 6
NY pound 20 appoint him to the high and homo
'p,e posi- OF chimhey-sWeep of hell and sculliop L
} the devil John RICp.Rnsox "'''''
Editor of the Prairie News
| expected this would make an end of a
oh paper; but, instead of doing what q
~ one but wbite-livered coward would a
I'VE done, B. f. OWEN wrote the follow. ?
g piece of gasconading billingsgate, Il
hlch appeared in the Petrol of July IA: d
6 s. LET THE CALLED JADE wINCE.v n
:, some weeks since we took john RICHARDSON. NJ
litor Of the Prairie Nesrs to task in n pointed VI
ough well meaning article, for asserting that la
paper had larger circulation than any paper j.
The county. In reply to us we expected q fair ID
sWer, instead OF abuse We were much mis- 10
Ken: he empty Uranium of John Richardson 81
itahed naught but stang and he must belcb it. VI
sweflhg foot according to his folly. we es hi
'ed to show said John, that he occupied re- h,
oiqus posltloh as a puppy and liar. Our ~
'nds said we would have to fight; that John st
II he had any sand in his eizzard. -,
nld demand our blood. As matter of course, ae
looked Tor challenge instanter (l). But 10 hi
oehoid sad John, who never says YOU are h.,
fhef,' instead OF a eaden, shoots at us a yaper MI
iet, ana to convince the world that he is d to-
is'aii' subscribes himself JOHN RICHARD A.,
n, Editor of the Prairie Ners!!t III
We cannot permit this notorious John Richard SCI
to pass without exposing his propensity.
teiore, we set about the task, knowing at the ia'
e time now unpleasant it is to handle skunk. rel
ie sets out by saying. we are DESTROYS of bav- !,
a personal difficulty with him. Oeayen save gu
mark , why we would aw
Rather be a toad ~"
And live upon the vapor of a dungeon"
seek quarrel with such filthy backyard N
would not touch him with a forty foot pole. "
ito we bear more malice against the Consum ter
oco@ndfef, than we do against the faneed or,
&c; tle enemy OF our species. Should he put W
sen ~ our way, we would tread upon him as be
would the viper that 0bstructs our path :,
hen we excepted to the first assertion of This
who 1t seems, is as much at home and at THU
with the abeminable language of the stews 7
le buzzard over the fostering carcass of n
dog, we expected to have a little pleasant cOu
ring, and that to be conducted with the hest
hg. In other words, we mistook John Rich. my
On for gentleman, whom we could meet as he
, but instead thereof, he has proven himself CO.
the outset the chief of blackguards. For his 0ta
trade, we rebuked HIM sharply enough far YER
who calls himselfa gentleman, to seek redress
her ways than by attempting to answer in tihi
ialect of a BLACKBOARD. Verify, he has prov int
mself an Ass, yea, Il Jackass, by his effort to
2 us, after we had given him cause to inflict anu
'hment on us in another way than by a tongue | h;
lg.
e have deemed it but just to say what we troo
to set ourself right. We ask our readers
rdon us for having trespassed upon their pa
e by being put to the necessity of having to CAM
e so complete riHiaa as John Richardson. huls
a we shall never essay to notice again, unless =,
to apply the toe of our boot to his pms. eiiol
disc
don't know whether I did RIGHT in itv
ing him any further; but, as he ex- me-
lily declared he wrote the article in maa
Petrol of June Goth for tho n,rn, | r