The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1888-06-30
GRENADA MISS. SATURDAY JUNE 80 1885,
MORE GOOD WORDS FOR GRENADA
Our friend, Mr.. Calvin I. VOORHEES,, the

Our friend, Mr.. Calvin I. VOORHEES,, the
popular manager Of the Chamberlin
House, who came here last September
writes ns follows to his old home paper
the Columbia (Tenn.) Herald, for which
we and the people OF Grenada county
feel indebted to him for his kind words
and liberal sentiments:
The beautiful Iitlle town IN winch have
fnniy cast my lot is known on the map oi
Mississippi as Grenada. In central North
, Mississippi, it stands in the angle of TIE
BogGeald YaioL,lsha .lyers. Grenada > Cne
OF Lio eldest corporations in the State, coaval
with Woodville, Vicksburg and Jackson. In
lGi there were Two rival towns, Tallah0ma
AM hilLsbugg, within a Ilile OF each ohor,
aud the population did not exceed 500 souls.
By common agreement thy resolved Oh a
marriage of the two places, which ended in
q consolidation Of forces under the name of
Grenada, ffty-four y2c"s ago.
TAis Ntle place has bcca swept" almost to
deso!aton by cyclones, by fire and by peatll-
encc, until it seemed q flvor,te spot for tire
exercise of all tic furies Of physical natEre.
AT one time, many years ago, every house
was the scene OF desolstion, made by ragi ne
cyclone that swept thirty children into its
depouring jaws Then came fire after fire,
until the Gend OF the Geyouring flame seem.
ed tC have here his local habitation. Not con-
tentwith these, postilence "that walGoth in
noonlay," stole march on Us and snatched
away fifty good citizens before it was discov-
cred that he was the black winged angel, and
in theend five hundred.
Yet after all these sore calamltles, Grenada
has arisen more beautiful and more sublime
than Il she had been left to decay under the
operation of natural causes. The last fire, in
1854, vas the climax Of endurance, the feather
that broke the camel's back, or relieved the
camel's load, and this it did. Seeing no
reason in nature or Providence why the peo-
pie should be overwhelmed, they arose in
the dignity of their manhood and resolved to
make one more effort to retrieve their fallen
fortunes. The result is the most compactly
built city of its size in the State.
But Grenada in the long past and Grenada
at present are distinct and different il every
thing that could spring from a common ori-
gin. AS dawn Of the morning pales be-
fore the light of the ascending sun, so does
this little city in her present proportions rise
above her former conditions. Materially she
is built upon the solid foundations of brick
and mortar, as can be seen in the long row
ofspIendid buildings that cover her CONNER
ical interestsAbuildings that would do DIS
ho-o to no emporium of trade in the Ameri
can Union. Test her by the intelligence of
her inhabitants, and there are no thirty-fye
hundred associated people in the South who
will excel her in all the rc1nements OF
modern civilization. She has within her
borders men who have shed lustre upon
American arms, and who VIII go down to
posterity with their names wreathed with all
the honors of an unframed chlyalry. She
has lawyers whose learning will match those
of the same age in any part of our common
country. She has physicians whose skill in
the healing art will compare with the same
number anywhere else indiscriminately col
lected. She has schools whose curriculum for
female education will compare with any
similar institutions in this broad land. Her
free schools stand on par with any in our
Southern States.
OF course our population has increased
slowly, as the town has for many years been
a distributing center for goods-a sort of ira.
ding point. Long before the era of railroads
the YalObusha river bore all the products
and fruits Of traffic between this and other
points, but the railroad has opened up all the
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