The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-02-07
General Clippings.

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local government as a taxing dis
trict.
The yellow fever in the United
States last summer, and he plague
now in Russia, have given a new
impetus to various sanitary com
missions, who are actively engaged
trying to find out means of battling
these deadly visitors.
If the earth should melt with fer.
vent heat, and the heavens pass
away as a scroll. it would put an end
to the Potter committee, and the ac.
complishment of that object would
reconcile Mr.. Potter and u good
many of his fellow democrats to the
dreadful calamity.
According to Senator Lamar, con.
gressmen and senators all dead head
it on the street cars of Washington.
The senator says that he has been
on "a street car Immediately on the
adjournment of congress for the day,
when not a single fare was collected
OUt his own.
An appeal is published in behalf
of Calvin Fairbanks, who was sen
fenced more than thirty years ago
TO the Kentucky p%enitentiary for IN.
citing slaves to run Oft, and exciting
them to armed Instructions. Dur.
ing the war he was released from
imprisonment
The rage of selecting funny titlee
for sermons has extended all the
way to the usually quiet town of
Salem, n. j. a Methodist G ergy-
man OF that place diSturbs the ha-
Oituaiiy nIrrfticd calm which per.
,adcS the place 10y announcing that
he viii pleach on the The Devils
Hog Killing Timer
Nearly all the newspapers in
California comment on the passage
by congress Of the anti Chinese ;
bill, but some Of them consider it Il {
party measure. AT the Chinese |
consulate the bill is considered an a
to treaty provisions and
likely to result i'll compile atoms a
with Great Britain.
Ten of the most prominent citi- c
ems OF Warren county, New Jersey. 5
~ last Saturday were sentenced '
rom one 10 CwO years each at hard "
abor ii the States prison for roblng v
he county III their official capacity. T."
all held offices, or were in one +
way or another connected with the !,
'uDllc affairs of the county. The :.
Gene in the courtroom when they l
sentenced wds most affecting. II
Charles Ethcridge, the St. Pan, =,
defaulter, who ma1.e off Urn -
$4,000 i'll cctobor. and has 6,
OF been Fund ~ the detectives a
nee, has been more ehectuaIly II
out by his conscience, aud a
rs returned $50, 800 to the bank he
rfrauGcd, having before paid over
1000, besides private debts of r
1000. The money passed through 4
lawyers hands, however, so that
le detectives are as much in the
lrk as everas to Etherihge's where. ir
)outS. ii
From Colorado comesanemphatic IL
II for Mr.. Teller to anble nimbly
to his " State and investigate NJ
e elrcting of Hill to the senate. /
is admitted by numerous repub. W
that the senatorship was
ven to Hill according to previous
%ntract, rs a reward for his liberal I
to the campaign i
nd. 1t is positively asserted by ar
EN- that the campaign fund was til
more nor less than "A cor Of
ptIon fund. -
The society for the suppression
vice held its fifth anniversary
st week in New York. 1t was al
ged that ii widespread conspiracy to
against the society by it's
.emieS. Sister societies had been
tablished, however, during the
ar in Boston, Cleveland, Louis =,
He, st. Louis and Chicago. Over !"
$1,000 names and addresses of NJ
'scene circulars have been cap
red, and nearly twelve tons of L.
'sct IL printed matter destroyed. t n'
he greatest triumph of the year So
I'd been the closing of Madame -,
estelle'S establishment. -
A member of the Illinois legisla.
re moved recently that, lnasnuch ~
the prayers offered at previous Il
ssions have proven to be a source IL
considerable expense incurred,
Ithout the warrant of law. the
use hereafter permits and ill.,
its members or piously -dispos- L
persons who may volunteer to
without pecuniary cOmpensa- CA
III, to offer the players deemed
.'cessary for the guidance, iustruc-
,ns, wisdom and preservation Of n
e morals and health of it's mem
u.s." A reference was moved TO a,
e fish and game committee, but
ally the resolution was sent to II
P committee IN retrencilmtnt.
ie Maine Legislature proposes to
oliSh the Office of chaplain, unless III,
. incumbent will reduce the tariff '
I'm So GO to 80 per prayer.
The oft-repeated story that the Bf
takers + a decaying body is by
means true, for an English C
lrnal asserts positively that not
Iy has the falling off of the mum. Sol
r of members of the society been
ecked for many years, but IA CON- On
ranid nrnMfh hnS nISn