Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1896-02-27
4 AN OLD PAPER.
Arp Ts Greatly Surprised " hen He
Reads About Wars.
Bus % LocEinx At Dates Discover. n.
a. Perusiux Views Prins~d . Han
ared Years Ago Re~alt.
otd DAYS

a 80 AWa E@E aAA AtsaA tA&F AnE
Eussiaus we're drf-afed NJ Glafus IN a
great la,'le ON FIRE sth wi.h a loss OF
several Thousand killed and wounded.
Aud tn French rrusy defeated the
a loss of5.eo lfl-d ~ voundcd.
And twoSanish f1Et@ bouni from
Havana having ga u<ari gon0ssiw we're
captured by four British fngzt@-
And On the ssh Holland was evacu-
aiei by tae English troop rnder tn
duke % York
Ard on the 9Th Prince William a.
tackled the Dyrreh rni French forces n.
Co5horn and killed 80 Dutch and a
Preach general
AMI that there Is nov an awful bat
ts going on at Zuri~h and thu arch
dukes forcvS uumb~r~d $1,000 men and
the array Of Prince Consi- $3.50 mrn.
Put when looked - the date % the
PAPER ! saws that il was January o. Tso
that relieved ms mind Of cours~ Th~
paper vas the Ulster County f.zzrtts
and was handed M by a lady cousin %
my wife. whose father. hong siner d~sd.
had preserved Il b@vause IL contained
an recount % Gen Washington
death and The funeral ceremonies The
paV-r has broad bizck lines between
the columns. One pag~ Is covered With
the zfdrr& OF the huus~ and uf tin sen
ate 20 President John tdams.
iEx the death % 0en- Washington. and
also Mr. Adsm~ Response 80 sacn
bouse. u rr~it~s no Mr. Marshall
With deep sorruu on his c-ouutsuancs
and IN a low. pathetic voice ro~e and adj
drrsS~vi the house After closing
address he moved the resolutions
that had been prepared by Henry
Le~. the father Of our Robert r
and which contained the memor-
able nam that h. gave - Wash
iaztoa- PRS in war. first IN pace ard
Erst IN the h~sr-s % his cnuutry men
John Adams response = very imprvS-
-ive
4 have se~u him. h sail in The
Gsy~ % advcrSitv. in sc~ne - hs deep
~ and most irving p~~rpl~-fris< I
have attended him IA hFs hFxh~sf ~ir
vation and uso~t prusP~roas felicity.
and always with admirafio- for his
wisdom MODERATION au.I -pusranrv-
Nalic- couhi never blast his
honor and envy made him an exception
70 her universal rule.
The orier 81 the funeral prucessiun.
the minute guns thu usouruful meio-sy
- th> n.Hsie- the stately st~ppings %
the generals horse capsriSon.-i with
saddle. holsters and pistols and the
namss of all the p~aiEbrarers are carr
fully st forth in this cd bat well pre-
served paper
Only n few days ago I read in the
Constitution a paragraph about the
Pennsylvania r~i~ilion % ITFa- And
row find in this paper su srvouus
Of ~ and how Johr Adaras -nt in \
message upoa the subject ard said I'VE
cannot refrain from l-arseutfux that the
arts and ealumuies o. factions and de-
signing mrn have excited oF.n r~l-rl
lion a SECOND time in Pennsylvania
etc. We anew that there uas a Hart
Eurs5 s-uuveusIou n ~tezaectirut sha
tried - burst mp things ard a Doris
rebellion in Rhosie Island. bat did not
know that the Quaker state had ever
fried the do~-rne Of n~uTliScatiou-
This i a very funny paper 10 come
FROM New York Ono man ADVERTISE
for sal~ ene-half 81 hEs SavmiII and a
negro wench- Anoth-r nan advertise
his Soo.ls ia rhyme
Ny frisnst azt hayers s-a AZ
II viii gay Yea vel 10 n cau-
You can sivzT< hnss NJ - ms syn
few rods from The house dIytn=
IL y not clear which half Of the mill
Eas for sale nor whether tkr half or
hole Of the weash We 70 20 nor what
church The other uans store Wa near
to-
! Is 70 Perus- thcSe ancient dacu-
nenrs- They are - like history re-
p~ating itself. though they 7-mind u
Of the wonderful progress hat has
been Uaee IN science and invention.
This paper has its head lines Of hates.
news from LossEou- which l. dated Lon
dom uStober ~. and 7,aehrd New York
fhe iSt Of January.
Tbs oldiiue pen-= sem TO have
cons 20 me Es-ly in unusual numbers.
! have ons dated Iz71-the Baltimore
AdFertisrr-in which zen. Washington
adveTtises S.oo0 acreS Z land for lease
at two shilliaEs six pence . wear for
each hundred acV-S leased. the lessee
TO keep his i~ase ten wars and plant
- good app tr,eS ard Sow down fv.
acres in grass meadow on ea-. HUNDRED
acres- He describes the land a. situ
sted on the OHIO and Sanuawha rivers
snd being very rich There = also an
-ad-~ in this paier Of ~sve horses and
. negro man strayed from the sub
scriber last night etc The Old ants
b-lium paPcrs IA Geo.Ea away hack
the fortIe~ u~sd 70 ~ n. away in
stead OF strayca whea applied TO ne
groeS- The Federal tnioF was the
democratic O-szn snj ti-s Southern Re
eorler was the organ Of the whFgS-
both published in MiIIedSeviile once a
week-aHd nearly every voter took one
or the other AMI Swore by IL. The Re-
SOrder had atost a col INN and \ half
o. runaway negru~~ in every iSsas-
and every sd had he little black a
OF 4 trottIng along with one
foot up and sticking .Et bshind him
and a stick n his Shf 1ldet wiki his
bundle Of clothing SUSPEND /. from its
rear end The little ads were very
brief. and the cats dc-yu - column
we're 50 thiek they nea N toache,l each
Their Bot tks Fed---l Union never
rad mora than 4 quarter Of q column.
Tor the democrats were poor AMI disin-r
have many negroes - run away ard
30 the Nhig boys of our town. ike
Dr- Jim Alexander. now II Atlanta
and his hruthT- Tom. nj EOfae. and big
Glib NuSat. afterwards j Judge in Al
lany. used 10 poke fun u u democrats
because ~ couldn't get IN more run
away niggrrS in paper They swore
by their paper and Henry Clay anal
Toomhs an8 Stephens ard ~ sWore by
-ur< AMI Howell Cobb and Charles J.
Mcdonald aEi Walter CoI9usrt- Judge
Clark can describe all this more graph
ically than ran- Iresd his last inter
view with Wallace Res with much in
terest, and hoFe that ne NAV continue
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