The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1882-02-25
Dver Thirty Years Ago.
rEIE NAMES OF PROMINENT MEN,
AND THE BUSINESS THAT
THEY ENGAGED IN
AT THAT TIME.
Grenada Republican, Published I'm
1851, Unearthed, and What
it Contains.

4 III the Grenada Republican that was pub
/ lished in this city by ]. Adrian snidel
nd s. G. W. Haynie, Saturday, Novem
len 80, 1851. But few citizens OF the
Z resent day will remember this publica
Mon, but there are many who well re-
N aember that vile and contemplate radi.
6Rl organ, the Grenada Republican, that
Mas published here several years since
IN Price, Lincoln and Kelley. The pa.
|A Hen was well preserved by the late Mr.
al: Gerard, being almost in the same con-
1ition now as the day it was issued from
The office Of publication. The paper
contains the names of many persons who
xre now living in Grenada, and many
0thers who are now lying beneath the
tomb in the city of the dead. The fol
bwing advertisements appear in the
copy of the Republican before us: G. W.
Ind M. Comfy, dry goods; Beck 4 Stokes,
4 general merchandise; Wallace's clothing
House, east side of the public square
S#Union Seminary, located halfway be-
a stween Grenada and Coffeeville, conduct
\ "a by Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Adams, for
males and females dissolution notice of
wv. N. Sherman and John Powell L.
Jef. Cleveland, proprietor Of the Sitter
iry depot" one door north Of the "Gre-
\ ia da Hotel" Masonic Academy, E. W..
@Beckwith, principal; dissolution notice
On N. G. snider and Z. S. Fisher, attor-
neys-at-law, Cotfeeville; $40 reward Of
Tered to the finder of gold watch and
Nehain, lost between Black Creek and
Spring Kill, by N. Maiet; A. Gerard,
\ watchmaker and jeweler, south side OF
flle public square; Mrs. a. Gerard, mil
liner and mantua maker; G. W. Lake,
#Commercial Row, dealer in fancy and
Staple dry goods, produce and groceries;
M. X. Mister, dealer in dry goods, boots
and shoes, clothing, hardware, saddles,
groceries, produce and jewelry, a'ep brick
Mouse, on the corner, Main street; w. E.
q Long, silversmith and jeweler; w. N.
SHERMAN, receiving, forwarding and COM
Emission merchant and Wholesale and re-
tail grocer; Levin Lake, wholesale gro
Ger Bascom Female Seminary, Rev. A.
In Edgerton, principal, teachers, Misses
10. NJ. Lawton, Clara George Mrs. S. G.
#Edgertcn, music teachers, Misses Olivia
IN. Studley and Sarah W. Hutchngs,
board of trustees, DR.. d. F. Phillips, M.
III. Mister, Rev. IT, A. Roseman, DR.. E.
aAV. Hughes, VIM. Lake, A. $. Brown,
Rev l.. L. Peacock, Levin Lake, James
Parker, James Sims, G. w. 'sledge, J. Z.
ErensAaM, G. A. Graves, f. T. Gibbs, w.
~. Bryarly, G. w. Lake, +. T.. Moody;
AZ. A. Willkings, John sadler, P. w.
i Ntause and II. M. Purnell; Il. Neil, den
fal surgeon; j. @. G. Rosser, gin repair
Yer; W. Il. Holley, gives notice that all
persons Indebted to the " Young Ladies
4nstitute" for board or tuition are res
1ectfully requested to call on him and
|&nakc payment; j. H. McRae, Z. Cof-
oman and L.. w. Graves, commission
merchants, New Orleans; cotton shed,
Immediately above the Lower Ferry, on
#tho bluff, NY. Hunley, G. w. Comfy and
8M. Comfy, proprietors; j. 4. Snider, at
fnrD Dnv nt lo,r. Top,oc S;n,c ,,oab5aa,ctor.
JoSeph A. Morrison, cotton shed and
warehouse, at the Lower Ferry.
XSuch was Grenada over thirty years
&ago. Since then many changes have
8 #becn wrought; some for the better and
#sOmc for worse The Bascom Seminary
/ was then, it seems, the pride Of Grenada,
land the board of trustees, it will be OBJ
sserved, was composed of the best tmen
that inhabited the town. II was then
4 THAT the tintinnsbulating Of the school
bell peeled forth its voluptuous sound
over the happy village, and summoned
many beautiful and lovely girls to the
Fold Seminary. To-day, the building that
twas once the pride and honor Of our
5city, and within its walls some OF Gre
fnada's fairest flowers assembled, to recite
/ lessons and to interMingle in the pleas
ures and pastimes of happy school days,
lisa wrecked institution. No more will
their sweet angelic voices usher forth |
from its portals; no omore will the daugh-
tiers of our beloved Southland gather
within its borders. A new era has
Edawncd and institutions OF learning, per-
maps of greater magnitude, have been
organized all over the country. Some
OF the type on which the Republicaa was
printed IS in this office at the present
llne. Want of space forbids us to |
make mention Of other items chronicled
lhthc RPabticanthat might be Of interest
10 our readers, but those of our clll citi-
Mns who desire to per,ise its columns,
ana would, no doubt, recall fond recollec-
uons of the past, can have the pleasure |
oi dong SO by calling at this Office.