The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-11-09
GRENADA MISS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1880.
there is country wagon loaded with

there is a country wagon loaded with
produce, butter, eggs, chickens, turkeys,
sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and among
the whites are to be seen many thrifty
and respectable looking negroes riding,
their own horses, driving their own little
carriages On thesguare an Indian docs
tor has set up his tent. He gives a free
show, pulls teeth for nothing and sells a
liniment that the negroes are always
willing to buy since there is nothing SO
true as that a negro and his money is
soon parted. A fine bllck building with
cupoa and clock tower is pointed out
to me as the courthouse, and as we drive
on down the pleasant streets under the
shade of big trees I see what cheerful
southern homes are these set in large
grounds and are flower grown, SO that
know much of life must be sweetened
with its roses here. They show me a
huge white stone, stately looking build
ing, that has before the war" written
on it Just as plainly as / see it writtena
on the face o. a gentle, wrinklefaced,
sad eyed, shy little cid lady who has
come in from Duck Hill to attend the
county fair, and who sits opposite me at
breakfast. The building is Methodist
school Tor girls Two hundred young
ladies are being educated there, and a
wholesome, handsome lot they are in
their eemi-military gowns of tailor made
navy blue cloth with fatigue caps to
mstch And then they take me to the
public shoochouse, stylish, $4,000
brick building, not yet out of the hands
of the contractors where 200 other lads
and lassies are getting their schooling.
They show me the fine school-house set
apart for the colorod people and for which
Democratic authorities select good trained
colored teachers. Grenada hopes to se-
cure the Methodist Male College, and has
offered noble site ofground and $4,000
in money. If it should throw in a
promise to shut out it's seven saloons 1t Is
almost foregone conclusion that the
college would be located here.
Religion is practically practiced here,
and theseven saloons are more than offset
by four or five colored and four white
churches. One of the prettiest and
churchiest looking edifces in the state is
the new Baptist church, just approach
ing completion. 1t is of Ozark red brick,
with graceful lancet windows and very
elegantly finished. A new Episcopal
church is Just being built. This church,
by the way, possesses historic window
that is as lovely as it is dear from associa>
tion. The window was made many,
many years ago in England for old Trinity
church, New York 1t cost several hum
dred pounds and represents the "Ascen-
sion.1 When old Trinity outgrew this
window it went from one church TO the
other, and finally become the property Of
the Grenada church, where 1T IS properly
appreciated. Good old Bishop Green was
very dear to the church people IN this
little city, and this beautiful window is
to be placed in the chancel as a Bishop
Green memorial window,
| It is difficult to realize that Grenada is
a town in need of more morey, more In
dustries and more immigrants. A town
whose assessed valuation amounts to
$500 900; that has a big bank, hne schools,
a prosperous building and loan associa-
tion, insurance companies, hardware stores,
a $4,000 Job office, Two good newspapers,
one the Grenada SENTINEL, edited by a
prince of good newspaper men, j. W.
Buchanan, the other the Gazette, edited
by the scholarly and distinguished old
politician, Colonel J. j. Williams; that
| has few prosperous manufacturing in'
dus tries and fine cotton trade, cannot
1e said to be starving for immigration.
A growing southern town like this can
not be kept down. Its 5000 inhabitants
will be doubled in few years. Cotton
factories will come up along the banks of
the Yalobusha river that Is clasped about
the town; the enterprise OF smart men
will tell-and the town that is succeed
ing without foreign aid will speedily find
itself securing the best money, the bes!
brains and the best blood of those wise
people who conclude it is better to come
south than to 60 west.
Five years ago Grenada was burned
down to the ground. Since then it has
been splendidly rebuilt with home bricks
and home money. 1t has a safer, surel
future of permanent prosperity before il
than any "boomed" town in all The wild
west can count upon. On the gallery o.
charming cottage home that sits fal
back in great garden all specked with
autumn blooms, saw, as we drove by
fine looking, familiar, soldierly figure
and by bis side plump and gracious
lady, who is said to be the handsomest
southern woman "in congress" 1t was
Fair day and all the world seemed hurry
ing byto the races. But no one failed
to salute the solderly fellow on the cot
tage porch or to make pretty reverence'
to the sweet, white.halred woman at hi:
side. 1t was General and Mrs. Walthall
I looked at them with interest-this man
and woman who stand side by side in
the hearts of the Mississippi men. She
followed him all through the war-livine
in tents, loyal and brave, waiting while
the battle went on and cheering all who
came her way. That song OF Charles
Kingsley's might have been written o.
them:
"Tbe years 20 up and the years go down,
And sunshine follows the rain,
Rnt Yesterday sneer and yesterdays frown
No, never come back again"
Tho chief fault of Grenada is spirit
of Indifference to the outside world New
comers are welcomed with genuine and
lasting hospitality, but they are not in.
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