Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-11-25
~FOrty-Five Years AgOl
Extracts from the Prairie News, a Paper
Published in Okolona before a majority
of its present Citizenship were born.
From the Prairie News OF Nov. IL, 1858.

from Ule EFdlfle M
The Editor has been absent to
Mobile, all the week. which will
account for the scarcity Of editor
ial matter.
Thursday being the day ap-
pointed 10y the civil authority as a
day Of Thanksgiving and Prayer.
Divine Service will be held in
the Episcopal church.
FUN AHEAD-The Bailey troupe
will be here next Friday, aud give
tWO Of there entertainments. Be
ready With your quarters.
CottUn-The Mobile market for
the week commencing Monday 22d
open quietly with q limited de-
mand. MiddliDg IL z 8.
True wisdom does not consist 80
mucn in knowing many things as
In choosing and in following what
conduces the most certainly to our
lasting happiness and glory.
PoNToTOo ExAMNER-We are
happy tOWelcOme the temperance
Of this, our friend TOpp's paper
Subscribers will be furnished with
all the back numbers. We hope.
be win not be again under the
necessity Of suspeudiDg.
THE NEXT PREsIDENOY-The
New York Herald recommends
that Gen. Scott be run as the peo-
pies candidate for the Presidency,
in 1860. The Mississippian
publishes some Of the Herald's
suggestions. Gen. Scott is too old
and that bait won't take.
The question is being generally
mOOted by our Southern exchanges.
that It would be better to adveF
tise the laws Of q State as they are
passed and signed, once in each
paper Of the State 30 that the
whole body Of the laws would be
brought into possession Of the
people at large, annually, before
they 60 into operation, instead Of
remaining, as they now do, I'M
known for months after, and then
only published in q way to be Of
use to the lawyers.
EDITORS LETTER FROM WEST
POINT-After a cold and fatiguing
ride OF z or 8 hours, the spires
and steeples of West Point, broke
upon our vision, and 500 we were
seated in the bar room Of the West
Point Hotel, thawing our feet and
hands, which were benumbed with
the cold. This November wealth
er is by no means comfortable. It
is true these clear, cold days are
not ushered in by q gloom Of win
ter clouds hanging upon the bosom
Of the heavens; rendering the
aspect Of everything sad cherries;
suffering out the rays Of a genial
sun, and looking &c il pregnant
with snow and sleet. But then,
from the North, old BOreas comes
bowling with his cutting blasts,
and whistles among the frost with
cred leaves making enc SILVER to
think even, o. his merciless visits.
However, disagreeable az he is,
we love winter, and always extend
q hearty welcome. His cold and
wrinkled front, h0rrid happy, as
be seems to some, always CLOVIS
with q placid beauty we can but
love- The Whistling winds, rat
Ting sleet, aud beating rain, are
but when q body has a
warm fire to sit by. All, this is
pleasant. A huge fire crackles on
upon the hearth, and the miseries
Of winter are forgot. The saVOry
OF fried ham Is borne upon the air
and the narrowing penury, and
ragged mendicants ere for once
buried in oblivion.
We shall vamOse this rancho
tomorrow morning. A consider
able town has sprung up since the
the cars have been running here;
before, twas q perfect wilderness.
It Is an enlivening sight to see
swOrms Of negroes at work grading
the railroad track between this
and Okolona. There Is q busy
bee like aspect all along the whole
line, and IN the course Of two or
three months at farthest, 1 think
the iron horse will be snOrting in
the vicinity OF our town. Between
Ia OF 8 miles is crOsstied. The
country between Okolona and
West Point is one continuous
stretch Of prairie; as fertile, per-
haps, &c any land in the state;
and the broad cotton fields snm-