The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1878-11-08
Bay St. Louis Items.

Hcu oaCh TIOSt meets lcllOW
Jack then comes the tug of war.
The two Jacks have met, and Vel.
low Jack is dead.
The mails to Pearlington and
Gainesville, on Pearl river, are
opened again after close quaran-
tine of two months.
The dead are buried and there
are many newmade graves. All
the sick are convalescent. Colonel
Henderson's little sou is up, and
wants to eat everything in sight.
We have just returned from a
trip to New Orleans on the Pearl
Rivers. We went over there to
buy winter stores, "grub" and
things. The Pearl is nice little
boat, "neat hut not gaudy," has a
good cook and feeds well. That
gumbo can't be beat. We are glad
to learn that the Pearl will run all
winter, and will go to PascagOula
and, perhaps, Mobile. There is
plenty of trade tor her, and mer-
chants can now get their freights
Oh her by schedule time, the same
as by rail. 1t looks like old times
to go to New Orleans on a steam
boat.
New Orleans looks sad and dead,
but she will, in few weeks, be the
scene of busy life and Of prodigious
activity. Despite Yellow Jack,
New Orleans is the future great
city of the Mississippi valley. For
the first time in thirty years,
since | have known New Orleans,
the merchants there are humble
in their ideas aud prices, and most
anxious TO sell at l0w.down rates.
Iou can get bargains there now,
if you know how to do it.
Judge Hamm has not come, and
We have no circuit court, but there
surely will be, or ought to be, a
court held in Harrison county on
the Is inst, and in jackson county
on the 25th. There is no use fear
ing yellow fever row, and the fail
ure of II regular term of court is
often failure of justice, always a
public burden and a private Injury
to many persons. Judge Hamm
must be rdttled up, wherever he is, !
aud Informed of the situation, and
if he can't come we can probably
get some other circuit court judge
TO come and bold court.
Our gallant postmistress still .
'holdS the fort" at the poStof1icc. ,
leSpite the efforts of yellow Jack
ind of her numerous aSSailautS to
'cmove her. She and all her chill
lrcn have had the fever. coffee
FOLDERS seldom die and never re-
sign" and under the present civil
service administration they are sell
I0m removed, except for incompe-
ency or misconduct. We will not
'Hy that the postmiStTesS should be /
EN- owed, for we cannot fight II
IgainSt woman who is trying to L
uppOrt her children, but we do
ay most emphatically that the
ostof1ice ought to be removed, and
hat light speedily. 1t is kept on n
n obscure, narrow, out Of-the-way
ide street, i'll the blazing sunshine. h
nd on an almost trceleSs street. 1t :;
ught to be on Front or Main
treet, near the cnStomhouse. A II
ostolfice ought to be in the center II
business and where people most
'sort. Cheap rent is no excuse q
IT hiding city postoffice in a cor ci
pr. Uncle Sam is able to pay ~ -,
ostoftice rent.
The bastardy case, previously f.
entioued, occupied three days in NJ
king the evidence and one day in III
Ie argument. The courtroom was W
DIVIDED every day with young and vi
d and middle-aged men, and
lowing that the case was one of tb
neral interest, and had deeply is
.itated the community. The jus pr
20 decided that "the complaint ha
as well founded" ana required no -"
C accused to give a bond with sci
od snreties in the sum of $500,
appear at the next term of the ma
cult court to answer the com. -
iint or be committed TO Jail. th'
ter considerable delayed effort au' W
e accused found two sympathi- ot
RS, who swore that they were in
,rth $500, aud they were taken ma
; sureties. Col. Posey declares III
At he will convict the defendant
the circuit court "just as sure as IN
gnn. barrel" and that the jury ~" i,