Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-09-23

declared an epidemic. Ihere
we're three deaths from it on the
18th ult.
DIED-Ieremiah Lucas. age 66
wears. At his brothers. DR.. Willis :
Lucas, in PontOtoc county, on the
18th inst in gloviOus hope Of q
brighter and better world.
The steamship Arabia brings
the gratifying intelligence that the
negotiations Of the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad Company in Eng
land have been entirely successful.
The wife Of George Snow, in
Arkansas recently gave birth to
three children. We supposed this
might be called a small sprinkling
of Isnow." Wonder il she's the
wife Of Mr.. Snow the literary
mani
The deaths from yellow fever IN
New Orleans for the week ending
Saturday last, we're officially re-
ported at four hundred and twenty.
This is no doubt short Of the mark.
From all we can learn, publicly
and privately, one hundred per
day is probably nearer the truth.
The cold spell Of last week, II it
extended as far south as New
Orleans, has perhaps checked the
further spread of the epidemic.
/ DEATH OF THE PRETENDED
DAUPHIN.-Rev. Eleazer Williams
for whom the claim was some
years since set up that he was the
vertible last Dauphin Of France,
died on the 28th ult., at HOgans-
burg, New York. Mr.. Williams
died after a %prOtracted illness, the
drorsy intervening. A cores
pOndent states there is no doubt
that he suffered during his illness
from the want of actual Decessa-
ries OF life.
Quite a considerable discussion
has recently sprung up in the news
papers in regard to the proper
title Of the President Of the United
States. This arose from the ad-
dress of Queen Victoria 10 her
t~elegraphic dispatch. The PrOvi-
dence. r. L, Journal proposes to
settle the matter by clubbing him
.lord Of thirty-twO umbrellas y
The title is borrowed from that OF
an Asiatic pOtentate who is 'lord
of twenty.iOur umbrellas"
MIsTHER MACPHERsoN-A man
by the name of A. ]. Macpherson.
registered his name at Loves
Hotel in our town, on last Thurs
day, as hailing from Kentucky.
Ostensibly, his business here
was to teach folks a new meth
cd OF computing interest; but Il
didn't ''take" very well. On Sat
urday afternoon he quietly walked
away-turned bis back upon the
town and slOped, without even
telling his landlord goodbye, aud
! leaving that gentleman to calcu'
} late the interest on the amount
Mac Ought to have paid him fOl
his board. The i~tinerant interest
calculator may be recognized by
bis dirty coat.
. BRowNLoW AND PRENTICE
Parson BrOwnlow, of the Knoxville
Tenn. Wing, visited Louisville tt
attend the Pacific Railroad meet
> ing. BE called at the Office o
the Louisville JoUrnal.-Here il
what be says Of the editor:
(; Prentice makes a man feel tina
he il welcome, and shakes handl
! with a great cordiality. It haI
!. happened that in all my travels
never met with Mr.. Prentice be
t fore. Prentice is q great man, anC
labOrs incessantly IN his Shir
sleeves, with q pair OF old slipper
: on and an ordinary pair Of pant
2 and vest. His patronage is exten
. sive, his Office pays we'll, and b
! deserves it. he is q heavy bull
man, low in stature, rather ieshy
; Though be has an intelligent face
there is nothing remarkable in hi
appearance, except that be has q
fne an eye as ever was in a man
head.
MOBILE AND ONO RAILWAY
Judge Brown, President Of th
+ Mobile and Ohio Railroad ha
been to Trenton, Tenn, and agree
able to the Journal, he gave th
citizens OF that place every reasO
It to believe that the road was no
in q more prosperous e0nditio
than could be expected g shoi
time ago, By its most saguin
'e friends, for,
ttTudoa Rrown made the YER