The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1878-01-25


Justice C ,urts quite dull this week
Sun rises to-day at 6:55, and set
at sol.
Preceding at the academy Sunday
morning and night.
This is Robert Burns birthday
He was born in 1859.
-Calicoes at six cents q yard at M
a. Dees' Scranton store.
Tomorrow seventeen years age
Louisiana seeded from the Union.
The weather the past few days has
been more like spring than winter.
AT cost for cash. is the motto Of
Uncle Henry, at M. A. Dees' store.
Examine his goods.
We now have two daily mails going
east. Sam puts the mail on the night
train as also on the day train.
Port Collector Gillespie has been
confined to his house for the past few
DAYS on account OF sickness.
m-Yesteriay was the birthday of
Frederic the Great, but no body seemed
to care a cent whether it was or not.
Masters, the accommodating hack
man, was quite unfortunate this week.
One of borses got his leg broke yester-
day.
Rev. J. w. Bingham will preach at
tls academy next Sunday morning at
III o'clock. Let there BIO a full attend
auce.
We notice many of our citizens
have commenced gardening during the
spell of fac weather We have been
enjoying.
Now is the time to secure great bar
gains in clothing, dry goo !s, etc, by
calling OH Uncle Henry. Calio)ss at
six cents a yard.
ED. Hamberliu will preach at
Scranton academy next Sunday and
Monday nights at half past six o'clock.
All are invitei to attend.
The good-looking editor Of the
Haudsboro Democrat, Col. P. X. May
ers, honnred rs with Il call last Tuesday.
He reports his paper as in a dourishing
condition.
Saturday night at $50 and Sunday
morning at II o'clock Ed. J. B. Ham
berlin will preach at the Moss Point
Baptist church. The pubic ars cordi-
ally invited to attend.
The revenue cutter Wn. Il. Sew
ard has been ordered from Galveston
to our watels, IS will be seen by dis
patch in another column. We presume
to take the place OF the DIX.
The route gent on tbs 1:39 p. m.
train from Now Orleans last Tuesday
failed to deliver the mail for this place,
consequently our citizens had to await
til Wednesday for the New Orleans mail.
The next drawing of the LOuisi ma
State lottery takes place FEBRUARY 18th.
Capital prize, $50, 900. Ore ticket may
secure you a fortune. Whole tickets,
81 !; halves, Sl-to be obtained at the
~postofficc.
by reference to the double-column
advertisement elsewhere, it will be seen
that Mr.. NJ. A. Dses offers his entire
stock of dry cooks, clothing, boots,
shoes, hats, etc, at net cost for cash.
Now is the time to secure bargains.
We refer parties needing steam en-
gines. mills, m lchinery or supplies, to
the advertisement OF II. Dudley Cole
man & Bro, IL Union street, New Or
leans, La they being manufacturers and
dealers uf we'll established reputation.
-Lynd, the popular and accommo-
dating hackman between tais place and
Moss Point, is on hand TO meet all the
trains, and c,rrits passengers to and
fro in qnick time, and has good hacks
and horses. Ride with him and be
convinced.
The Herald says a Vicksburg negro
fell from the deck of a steamboat the
day, was sucked under a coal
barge, came up in Tina to catch his
breath before he slid under a raft q
mile long, and finally scrambled ashore
down at W~arrenton, about seven miles,
with the remark, mo use tryin', ye
drown a deep water Baptist"
Rev. j. B. X. Smith and DR..
paid US a hasty visit on Tuesday.
B. says the people of Moss Point
are 'distressingly" helthy. We SYM
with the M. DIS is in the lack
Of business, bat congratulate the peo-
pie upon their good fortune, and hope ,
may never have occasion to call A.,
upon the medicine men only in those ,
necessary" events. e..
Freeman Jones, a colored man OF 6
Moss Point, who has heretofore stood I
we'll in the community, was before G
Randall last Wednesday, charged 3
with feloniously capturing ID. 900 shin ,
giles, the property Of Mr.. ]. w. Fry. 8
After a prolonged examination of wit
nesses. and q lengthy speech by Mr.. j.
:. Heidelberg for the defendant. Jones a
placed under $500 bonds for his 4