Okolona messenger., 1903-06-03

Extracts from the Prairie News, Paper
Published in Okolona before majority
of its present Citizenship were born.
From the Prairie News of June 3. 1853.

The best bite we ever had when
we went fishing was the bite we
took along.
Rev. J. d. Mann is our author
lied agent at Aberdeen for solic-
iting subscriptions and advertise
ments.
A young poet out West, in de-
scribing heaven, says: SIT is a
world of bliss, fenced in with
girls.
On the 2Oth ult., by w. f.
Tucker, Esq, Richard Griffin, to
Miss Amanda Porter, all Of this
(Chickasaw) county.
On the 18th ult., by W. B. Wal
ker, Esq, DR.. Martin Marsh, to
Miss Elizabeth Cooper, all OF Tip.
pah county.
On the 3rd ult., by Rev. Samu-
el NJ. Montgomery, Mr.. M. P.
Bates, to Miss Cornelia Carroll,
all Of Amite county.
On the 18th ult., by Rev. ].
Gaines, Col. L. Norman, to Miss
s. J. B. Jones, all of Bone. Yard,
TishOmingO county, Miss.
On the 26th ult., by the Rev.
A. II. Boothe, Mr.. Peter Graham,
Of Rienzi, Miss, to Miss CIemen-
tine Brown, Of Alabama.
On the goth ult., at Hickory
Flat, Tippah county, by the Rev.
A. CoWan, Mr. Jackson Parker,
to Miss Jane Clay, all OF said
county.
On the 10th ult., at the Com
mercial Hotel, in Enterprise, by
the Rev. Robert McLaun, Chas.
A. Barbour, Esq, OF Texas, to
Miss Alma d. Brown, OF Enter
prise, Miss.
We direct attention to the new
advertisements In today's paper.
The land offered for sale by Mr..
Ha1ghtOn is as good and prOduc-
tive, perhaps, as any in the land.
We are requested to give notice
that the Episcopal church OF this
place will be open for divine ser.
vice on next Sabbath, at the usual
hour, and that the holy cOmmun-
ion will be administered.
A large and enthusiastic indig-
nation meeting was held in New
Orleans on the 29th ult. ResOlu-
tions were adopted advising the
masters of all vessels to arm them
selves to resist any future out.
RACES on our flag, and pledging
the city to sustain them.
A little boy at his father's fun
eral observed q child OF one Of the
neighbOrs crying bitterly, doubt
less in sympathy with bis little
friend. This reused the orphan
boy, who exclaimed, "You need
not cry; this amt none of your
funerals.
A clergyman was endeavoring
to instruct one Of his Sunday
scholars on the nature of mira-
Gle. "NOw, my boy,', said he,
"supp0se you were to see the sun
rising in the middle of the night,
what should you call that" ''The
mune, please sur" s'No, but.n
said the clergyman, "suppose you
knew that it was not the moon,
but the sun, and that you actu-
ally saw it rise in the middle of
the night, what should you
thinkf" "Please sur, | should
think it was time to get up"
NEGRO KILLED. On Saturday
last q negro belonging to Mr.. Au-
gustus was run over by the cars q
short distance from the depot.
he fingered till Sunday and died.
The negro had laid down on the
track and fallen to sleep. The
train was out OF its usual time.
The report that the negro had
been whipped and acted from de-
sign is a mistake. We under
stand, on the best authority, that
he had not been whipped in some
years.-MacOn Star.
NEGRO STEALING IN KENTUCKY.
The Louisville Courier says
there is now an extraordinary
stampede of the slaves in that
state. Negroes are daily escap.
ing from their owners in startling
numbers. They 60 of, one, two,
three. or a dozen ak a time. That