The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-06-13


or murde" and cut up a few ~unoffen
ing children at some period in our fu
ure, We shall neither Of us ever crea
such a sensation again as we did whe
that paper went crowding into ever
: piSeon-hole of every post-otice in o,
county. While all Pottsville knew an
d|isapproved, on general principles, (
the fact that the daughters of Judg
Pike had bought an old and never SUI,
c~essful job-printer's outfit, we had nc
, lisped Of the coming paper to any one
We worked a month on that frs
number, for we had TO learn to Sc
type, and for that we needed both pa
tience and perseverance. We had Al
old-fashioned press, and it require,
not only strength, but skill to know
how to jump on the treadle to secur,
the best results.
Our trial numbe" vas a funny-look'
ing thing. One would think we had
expected a clientele of Cinnamon.
We had placed our columns in the
wrong positions. so that every thing
was wrong side to-"
o, how We worked! How cross and
tired and inky we got! We looked, in
side our office, more like daughters OF
Dahomey than light-haired Vermont
girls. But We ~persevered and we're
found in u sanctum glowing with
pride on the morning after the appear
ance of the Pottsville News by scores
OF callers. all of whom congratulated
lis upon our enterprise, some OF whom
thought, p'rpps, we might succeed,
and q few of whom subscribed for the
paper. Then came the tug-of-war.
Subscribers must be got. We had de-
cidcd to run our paper on economical
principles and do every bit of the
work ourselves. After the stream OF
callers subsidized, we hired a horse and
started to canvass our town. We had
already printed Il terms, our policy,
and an earnest appeal to the people of
louisville in particular and those OF
the State and county in general not to
neglect the broad path to literary
and intelligence which we had
opened to them and made easy at only
Sl.5O per anrum. regret to say that
many OF them neglected it, that they
shamcfully dcspised it. But we re-
turned the first night with fifty SUBJ
'cribers. Every day after that we got
up at five o'clock and worked on
he next issue until eight. Then
sc ate a hearty breakfast and
out canyassing, working
ate at night in the office
make up for our absence. We
walked whenever we could. We went
~ train to ~neighboring towns and
coured the country round about At
end Of IA month we had secured a
absorption list of 81, which exceed
d my tondcat expectations.
We were often refused, often laughed
t, often looked upon as a pair of es-
apcd lunatics; but were more often
nCouragcd, checrcd, complimented
nd patted on the back; and both
and foe subscribed, either from
I'VE or curiosity. so our main object {
as gained, {
Our outside work over we cast about {
Il our minds tn improve the appear ]
nee and general tone of our paper. {
t had been full OF mistakes, but no. q
ody mad appeared W "v.;oe .h.-
compliments of all kinds were shower c
d upon Us, from Rev. Bamboozle
moods fcrVid You are doing a noble .
ork. ladies; may the Lord bless your =
to old Farmer Tomkins' loud J.
'oken assertion in the p~ost-ofice, C
Iat Them Pike gals were gittin' up
Dustin good paper. ?
were our W foreman, COM W
pressman, printers devil, b
itor-in-chief, managing editor, bust
IS agent, reporter, mailing clerk, Ii
ivate secretary, chore-boy and scrub 81
'man. As cold weather advanced we n
en- added to our list OF accomplish O.
ents, and sawed our own wood. We D.
d no sawhOrse, so Jennie used to
ace the stick of wood on the stairs II
sit on it while | industriously ii
the saw. This exercise is said
be good for people who lead seden- m
y lives. SO is working a Novelty a,
ess- il
When local news became scarce we
chrOnicled the death OF every OF
cat or dog, with appropriate re- Sc
.rks. Jennie won the everlasting tn
c OF our one rich woman by writing Of
most touching epitaph on her dead W,
nkey. In the fall we made a note an
every pig that was killed, every Ri
eel critter" that was sacrificed. for Pc
public good. We manufactured Sc
important items about the local dam an
OF the last storm or the untimely tic
ssoming Of sweet violets in Novem- Is
If any thing did happen we made in,
most OF it. II nothing happened, An
we made the most of that also. rel
cordially noticed every specimen bel
moss work, manipulating or GRO no
ted cdging, every monstrous egg. a
squash and big apple that pc
received. We got up a question pos
answer department, in which fcti- the
IS people asked all sorts OF foolish Sta
stiOns, and we answered with all "
wisdom Of the gods and foolish ton
hen my ambition grew editorially.
gan to give ~utterance TO the most n
tive opinions on all sorts OF SUBJ har