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

. T ADVEDMy
P Z reply to letter we wrote sI ! /
T. tlem q in New York, for inform %
70 s s, a couple Of would.be.ad' s')
IN in the Prairie News, we recejr |u's : |
n loving. We do not know wbstI'
g Intended as confdential--a apv ~ u !
If have concluded to father and s.' N
A ny the way, we see several Il '
. tomporaries publishing the sam. N \
It tlsements the gents mentionad !. M
: ter served on us Wy
Q New York, July VI. i,
= Ed''ors Prairie Neus .--(ip y
a Your letter of the 18th June was -, !
: ed in due time, and, in compIians.
: your request, ! made the necess...
qulries in regard to Mr.. NJ. R na.'
number 49, Moffat Building, and s NJ
'o ~ d re'er funk OF the lowest c,f
and is coming the gift enten,is.
over publishers throughout the co.s
by getting them to insert bis adv.
ments, and then offering to uay n
with lot of old "plated jewelrv.n i
pens DC, worth about fifty cent,
thousand. Therefore, | would I'll
you not to touch film with a FORTY
pole, but pass him around, in orae, II
the rest of your bretheren NAV M
taken in by these internal black lao,
also made every enquiry about
"A. .. White, 4 Co., number so, Lean
Street, and found them to be uu,a h
the same school of Peter Funk, oplv
sula'ing patent medicines for jep.
and playing the same game; and MI
are not in very bad health, I So,
think these pious M. DIS would be M
to help your constitution very mua ~
not paying your bills-on the contu,I
think it would have tendency to MI
your system exceedingly bilious.
| have just returned from a yishM
that other distinguished deciple Of N
" old school of Peter Funk" known
one John S. Dye, who is the inyeptm
another very ingenious method of M
ding the different papers of the intstE
by pretending TO be the publisher NJ
: Bank Note Reporter, and after m
ing it advertised all over the count
1iously proceeds to distribute among II
iupes OF the press certificates Of Nj
bares of stock in the "Patent Sail
PAPER Manufacturing Co.." in PAYNE
# their bills for inserting his advert
nents, without any previous understsp
ng to that effect; and, as no such cou
any ever existed in this latitude, or an
Their, do not think that The memh
~ ? -. =; ! : cry lss
ividend from this beautiful bogus stos]
n fact, it is curious coincidence, M
hist this pussly Quilted pauper is p
'nding TO invent an article for the m
ention of counterfeiting, forgery, I'd
should be using it in another part
le country as a means Of cheating al
honest people out of the pn
'eds of their daily labours. Truly til
a wheel within wheel, and trust Ii
embers Of the press will wheel bid
ON Maine to Texas, as they would
lief.
The Prairie Neus comes to hand ree-
arly, and is joyful little visitor; ba
not permitted to remain long enoughs
t cool, before 1t i beset by about thirt
'ngry readers, add, after having under
ne every conceivable mode of tortun
having been carried in their pockebh
'ooklyn, Staten Island, Jersy City, aa
en- all over New York, and after ha
been concealed beneath every piled
DDS, and behind every counter in th
re, and having been clipped, cut al
lrked, until there remains nothing bd
keleton of its original form, is tha
own on its accustomed file, wearel
lgued and worn out, to serve as a wan
to all little county people who VII
SO ambitious as to venture to comeh
great city to see the Elephank-
en-, and not till then, am l SO foti3
g as to get a glance at it's beaudhl
lie pale face, as it sinks quietly to nj
N the bosom Of great pile dih
lthern forefathers.
zth,'of Col. 1Hos. II. Dunn.-We lean
n a private letter that Col. Thos. b
m, the recently appointed Consd
leral to Havana, died al his residenc
Macon, Miss, on Tuesday, after y
sss'of two days. He was seized VIII