The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-06
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
BEFORE THE WAR.
Some Gleanings From the PIANO.
Ia Weekly Picayune, Pub. !,
lished i'm The sos. u,
Echoes From Half A Century Age
That Will be Interesting
Reading.

ing items from the Sard1s flcayune Oh
dates ranging from 1852 to 1857. They
are worth reading and call up many
memories of the past.
On August 25, 1855, a taker OF pict-
ures came to town and the event caus-
ed considerable OF a iutter. The edi-
tor said 1--WE intend to be struck"
The American party of that day
seems to have been In opposition to
what was then called the Democratic
party, and for the former the Plea
yune labored faithfully.
Political item of August %, 1855,
which shows that forcible words were
used in those days to give expression
to thought: 81. X. Clinton, the great,
is a candidate for the Legislature in
Yalobusha. and the antis are trying
very hard to beat him. They would
dig up the foundations of the earth and
pitch them into h If that would kill
the noble fellow"
In the issue Of May Is, 1852. there
appears the advertisement of Ponola
Select School. I'm all the earlier dates
the name was spelled ''Ponola.") This
school was conducted by Warren S.
Duncan. Most Of the faculty was made
up OF educators from Pennsylvania. II
was the custom in those days to hire
educators from the North almost exclu-
sively. The Southern a%ristocracy did
not have to teach school.
There was then no G reat railroad sys-
tenn connecting the North with the
South and there was talk at this time
OF encouraging these enterprises. The
nearest railroad point to this section
In 1852 ended at Nashville, and Mem
phis. that splendid city now, with its
102, 320 inhabitants was dependent upon
the river for It's commerce.
In 1852 H. S. Foote was governor Of
Mississippi.
A man in New York ouce got him
self into trouble by marrying two
wives. A mar in Mississippi did a
similar thing once by marrying one.
One column in Il certain issue ends
up this way: Don't read any further
down here"
The editor published the following
notice: "Persons hereafter having
job work done at this Office must have
the money to nay for it so soon as the
work is done" We wish we could en-
force such II rule in this year, 1900.
Sept. 9, 1852: We have received the
FIRST annual catalogue of the officers
and students of the Yalobusha Baptist
Female Institute, Grenada, Miss, W.
S. Webb, "A. NJ. principal. The iusti-
tuition is in IA f%ourishing condition.
On the same date as the above
the following announcement ap-
pears, which brings to mind the con-
trast TO the similar visitation at Gal
weston so recently: "a violent and dis
astrous hurricane occurred at Mobile
on the % alt. The gale continued for
a great length of time. The tide water
rose up into the city and immense loss
OF property was sustained. The loss
is estimated at from $1,000, 600 to So,
000,605."
A Judge Longstreet was president o
the University Of Mississippi in 1855
and the Picayune scores him for issu
ing a manifesto against the Know
Nothfngs. Whether he was a relative
of our Judge Longstreet OF the presen'
day we do not know.
In TS54 P. b. Jones wss proprietor O
the Pamela Hotel, where you coult
find accommodations for man AM
horse. "All I ask is Fair enume a
tiOn.n said the host in an advertise
ment.
Advice to the Girls: "Youpg ladie
il you want to marry an industriou
aod Intelligent maa, and becom'
wealthy in your old age you do well
and IL you marry a vain foppish dandy
OF Goldfish a~ristocracy and non compo
meutis order, and should be brough
from asluence in youth to beggary +
old age you do wrong"