The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-06-10
"A GRENADA NEWSPAPER
SEVENTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD
Found Among The Belongings of The Late Mrs MAYS 1t
Reflects The Life of Those Old Days Sketches of
Some of The Happenings of Before the Civil War Days

A newspaper more than three
quarters of century old found it,
way into The Sun office this week
1t was a copy of the Weekly Register
published in our neighbOring city OF
Grenada. We wonder how many are
now alive who read the events as thew
were chrOnlcled in this venerable is.
sue under the date of Jan. 21, IS43
r. A. Tyler was its editor Another
Tyler was then president Of the
United States, John Tyler-of Vir-
ginia
CHANGING over the age-yellowed
pages, one finds the advertisement
OF an executors sale, Hamilton Do
gan, the great grandfather of our
townsman, J. H. Dogan. being the
executor. the will being that of
Cade Afford. In the sale was in
cIuded III negroes, horses. mules.
oxen, cattle and a new GIN
One reads with melancholy inter
est the column entitled Grenada
Prices Current In it we find but
ter being quoted at y cents a pound,
flour at 81 a barrel, coffee II cents
a pound. cotton from 1-2 to ) cents.
mo!asSes at 30 cents gallon, corn
at 20 cents per bushel-and whiskey
at 40 cents per gallon. An announce
ment that particularly interested the
editor was that the price of the
newspaper was So per wear in ad-
cance, and that the advertisement
rate was 81 per inch.
In that year the Millerites were
engaged in bringing the world to an
END, as at sporadic intervals they
have been doing ever since, and in
the Register we find column ar
ucle signed by one Of them, and in
which was presented unimpeachable |
proof from the Bible showing that
the world would meet with final de-
structlon that year. The author
quoted from 26 Leviticus. verses
27-26, the fifteenth chapter of Jere-
mlah and as "corroborative evidence" !
Isaiah. eth chap. 8th verse. Then
by series of very simple tables. he .
showed how utterly impossible it was
for the world to survive after the
year 1S43.
1hey were organizing temper
ance society in Grenada county and
me promoters had sent the proceed
ngS OF the meeting to the editor of /
ne Register, but he explained he had l.
nislald 1t. However. he had been |,
informed that the meeting had been
nghly interesting and that the move !
nent mad made stout beginning"
The Morse telegraph had been
'rled out IN Washington and the Reg
SIer devoted lot of space to this
wonderful new invention" and grew
Eloquent over its possibilities. Sup
lose IN case Of war" the editor wrote :
a fleet should arrive off New Or ;
cans Instantly information is yiven !
o Washington and orders as instant !
sent to New York, Norfolk and !
,hlIadelphla for vessels Of war at {
nose ports TO sail immediately. =
But IN those days war news did not .
ravel by telegraph and therefore +
that the Texas Rangers had been do b
1g to the MeXicans along the Mexi- y
an border around Christmas time. n
'as news TO the readers Of the Regis 2
ar, the article having been compiled
rom letters published in the New Or r
.ans Tropic a
horace Greedy was then editing !,
le New York Tribune, and from 30 a
mn Street, New York, had sent out n
prospectus descriptive of weekly e.
1ltion which he had in mind. The n
eglster carried half column adyer- II
sement Of this prospectus. "a N