The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-12-23

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onsr, TrcusurtI, or any other count
Office, shall lad To take the oath d
office and give bond "a require! D..
law, on or before tho day %. 'p
commencement oluis tom p
such election s.ai ~
other clv,tuu sba q ordered o.
such vacancy.
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Mn. EDtToR - You and SON.
readers-tbose ofthc female prr.u.
; sion in pariiealar-hase Frequently
heard Of the MAN ia the Noon
He has been gazcd at BY ma J d
tair one since the days when Cupid
was a lad OF only a few summers
aud much curiosity has been ex-
pressed to know something about
him. Bat vain has been all such
curiosity. lie is still seen and wan
dered at, but whether he is good.
looking or ugly, married or single,
squint-eyed or b~ald,headed, Is still a
secret, and will remain 40 until he
chances to reveal it to your mundane
inhabitants. Butthough he chances
to keep bis own secrets, he is In n
nice position to find out much tia.
ia thought TO be hid from all eyes,
aud II he would tell, he could make
book that would ill immense spaec,
aud be of vast interest to all who
should be so fortunate aa to escape
mention Ia its pages. For the pres.
ont, however, he prefers to keep
most of those things in his own
brest; but ii you will give him space
IN your journal, he will give you a
few of what you newspaper me-,
call "jottings." You may think il
strange that n communication from
me can reach you, but if you will but
think awhile, YOU will see that this
ia u day ct "strange things Mar
Vicious and wonderful events are
constantly occurring over on your
planet-and it is reported here, that
your people have come TO that point
where truth is stranger than fc
ton" BE this as it may, you do
receive this from ME, and with that
You may be content.
You have u beautiful little town
From this distance, at first glance,
It looks rs though you were begins
ming to assume tho airs of q city,
and your inhabitants were u busy,
enterprising, moral, go-a.head so. t
of people: but | am aware that
distance lends enehantneut to the
and find upon description,
that seven in Sardis," there are
done which should be LEFT
un1one, and some things which
should be done are strangely over.
You have good looking chnrcl
cs, and | am pleased to SEQ such a
throng vending lhtir way church.
ward ON every seventh day. ! take
your people 70 be u Sunday church,
going tolk and do heartily commend
them tor their picty in this. | no.
tice, however hat whenever Your
bells ring for service on any other
day or night than the seventh, a
few females aud rery te,s males only.
are to be seen about your churches.
Why is this sof Are your people
pious only once a week | would
Ike very much to be enlightened on
this poiut and will watch and dis
cover. If possible, the reason why
they attend church SO p~unctually on
Sunday and keep away 50 puactaaiiy
on every other day.
One thing has puzzled me a good
deal about your town. / have OBJ.
served Tor many moIths past that
there are several houses that seam
70 DO very popular places Of resort
make only. and ] notice they are
visited IS much after old Sol has
withdrawn bis light from your part
OF Earth, as when he shines with all
his splcndor. ] have bothered my
brain no little to ascertain what the
attraction is, but 90 far have failed
to discover. ! notice that some
men DO not appear to porsmbula,e
- steadily, and with the saae elias.
step, when they come on, a. when
they 60 into those places. notice
over the doors Of some Of those hous-
ra, l0ticrs which look from this dis