The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1878-10-04
THE TR 18th HURTS.

la, our issue of September 20ti
We had occasion to call the atten
Ition of the Pensacola Gazette t6
the unjust manner in which the
editor of that paper had garSled
accounts of yellow fever items
from our columns, and called upon
him to please correct the false i'm.
pressions which he had been the
means of circulating. Instead of
coming out and acknowledging that
he was wrong in his statements
and correcting the error, the old
gentleman who runs that ancient
looking sheet goes stark mad
and paws around worse than a
chained bull awaiting his turn in
the arena, and comes back at us in
the following boobyish style:
The Pascageula DEMoCRAT-STAR is an
CRY with the Pensacola Gazette, and very
bitter, uncivil and unjust. As it acknowl-
edges, We copied the yellow fever item
from it exactly as it was printed, suppo-
sing it to be the case of fever in P%ascagou-
la which had been reported. We knew
nothing about Handsboro where, it seems,
the case occurred, and, as we recollect,
there was no "Handsboro Items heading
in that column; and if we had seen such
heading we would not have known that
Handsboro did not belong to the underlined
bailiwick of Pascagoula as, we are told,
Scranton does, and might or might not be
within two or seven miles of the village
with the Indian name. The article APP
peared to be a local item in the DEMO
CRAT-STAR, and we corrected our misap-
pTehtnsion when we were informed that
the editors scraped the strip of sand.beach
they inhabit for forty miles to get items
for the local page of their wretched paper.
We doubt, however, if they dare intrude
upon the domain of the Dahlgren gun of
the Mississippi City Seashorc Gdsette. They
will please discontinue sending their pa
per to the Pensacola Gazette, for certainly
we shall strike it from our exchange list
al extreme penalty we have not before in
tlicted during the more than four years of
the publication of this paper. If they
cannot be happy without the Gazette, and
we do not see how they can, they must
subscribe for it-price "a a year.
We will state to our sensitive
contemporary that we were not in
the least angry, but simply wanted
facts stated as they existed, so that
the public would not be mislead.
The truth is, our article in regard to
the Gazette misrepresenting facts .
only too true, and now the edi-
tor seeks to avoid further cOntrO.
versy by cutting us off his ex-
change list. Such conduct will not
prove to his readers that he was !
but only goes to show that ,
he was entirely wrong, and will not q
acknowledge it.
AS he seems not to be acquainted a
With the geography OF this coast Il
lot knowing the difference between
he location of Handsboro aud |
'cranton-we would advise him to I
procure a copy of CornelIs geogra- 4.
and study up before clipping !
MY more items from the DEMO
RAT-STAR, as we r in the habit L
t giving the news from all the '
owns on the Mississippi coast from Z
st. Louis east, and VIC are taar. II
Il he will copy a yellow fever item l
ON Mississippi City or some 9th l
town and credit it as occurring d
Pascagoula. L
We are quite sorry we have so II
.shly incurred the lispleasure of Il
le Gazette as to be stricken from L
s exchange list, and we don't know "
)w we are to survive the shock of u
Ich an "eXtreme penalty" for we "
'obably clip an item once a year u
ON that Anticipated dispenser u
stale news. The animus. how II
.er, of this striking from the .ex- u
ange list crops out in the last
le-that 81 a year. If the Gaz-
G is hard up or short of paper,
might donate a ream or so TO g
Up them along. Nevertheless, if u
Gazette a dispense with the u
IMoCRAT.STAR, We will try and
Try through life without again ~
ing the dirty face of that dilapi- r'
ted-looking specimen of a news.
per. Ia, ia.