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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
THE REFUSAL.

"Oh, give me a kiss from those lips so dear, y
Imploring earnestly plead
She held her face bcwitchingly near,
But provokingly shook her head
They parted with in alluring smile,
Those lips of glowing red
| could have snatched their sweetness,
while
She provokingly shook her head.
With seething blood aud heart ON fire,
looked for her soul in her eyes
Although the mad act inhamed desire
Till burned for the tempting prize.
ooh, prove You love me---do not refuse,
Consent and bid me live'-
l softly besought-"yet I'd rather lose,
Than take what you would not give"
begged her to grant what | would not
steal
Our souls, not our lips, should kiss
While our pass onate hearts we should
notly itel
Dissolve in the fcrvent bliss.
She would let me draw her lips so near,
That their fragrant breath could feel,
Then slyly laughing-low yet clear
She mockcd at my vain appeal.
She let me hold her tapering hand,
And press the finger tps
My flushing cheek her tresses famed
Icould almost touch her lips.
The dimples deepcned in her chin,
She laughed with wilder glec-
CLEANED her eyes within,
The more she tempted me
My breath grew faint-yet she would not
yield
Enchanting me more instead
And though her sly glances her love re
vealcd,
She provokingly shood her head.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
CHANCERY COURT-7Tn DIsrHlcT
GEORGE WOOD. Chancellor.

In the county of Jackson, on the first
Monday of March and September, and
continue six days.
In the county Of Harrison, on the second
Monday Of March aud September and
continue six days.
In the county of Hancock, on the third
Monday OF March and September, and
continue six days.
in the county of Pearl, on the fourth
Monday of March and September, aud
continue six days.
In the county of Marion, on the fourth
Monday in March and September, and
continue six days.
In the county of Perry, on the first
Mon lay III April aud October, and contin-
ne six days.
In the county of Greene, on the second
Monday il April and October, and CON
Time days.
In the county of Wayne, on the fourth
Monday after the fourth Monday of March
and September. and continue six days.
Iu the conntyof Clarke, on the first Mon
day in May aad November, and continue
six days.
In the county of Laudrrdalo, on the
second Monday of May and November,
and continue :wclyc days.
In the county of kcmpcr, on the fourth
Monday of May and November and CON
tinue six days
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

uSelui clllZtH. ne a1tefWarU
nnrsed Watts brotheL and both
recoverles were in great measure
due to the intelligence, the fidelity
aud watchiul care with which Mr..
Jayne nursed them. He displayed
80 much zeal and intelligence. was
so sincerely interested in the wei.
fare OF the patient in his charge
(and he was always afterward as
signed to the worst cases. that he
won the admiration OF all. He re.
fused to be relievd, night or day.
aud rarely y took time to eat, drink,
or sleep. 1t mattered not with him
whether the patient was high or
low in the social scale--trom the
rustic plowboy to the refined, ed
ucated wife or daughter of the
wealthier citizen, his attentions
were unceasing, and characterized
always by gentlenesS aud tender
devotion--antlcipating every want,
and finally abandoning his charge
onl Y with the expiration of the last
breath. When the fearful compli-
cation arose, in consequence of the
sinking OF the new graves after the
rdlnstorm and the escape OF the
poisonous gases from tue half.eX-
posed bodies, Mr.. Jayne was the
only person who would volunteer
to lead the way and superlntend
the reflling Of the graves and the
disinfecting of the locality--the
work being done by negroes, under
threats Of abandoning them to
their fate. When he was finally
attacked by the disease he request
ed some friends to come near and
hear what he wished to say in the
event that he should not recover.
Having made his mind easy on the
subject of temporal affairs, he
turned his thoughts to heaven, and,
asking us to join him in prayer, he
calmly folded his hands across his
breast aud uttered the most beau
titul, the most touchingly eloquent
prayer it has ever been my good
fortune to hear. He commended
his spirit to God, and said "Thy
will be done, o God ! am ready"
His attack was one of unuaual se-
verify, Three of the four nhvsi.
clans who attended him and look
il by RELAYS in nurs,py him dpsnnir.
ed of his life. and the crave. .dinrrr
had his grave ready. But tnnrE
God. the noble. brave fellow did
not fill if. He had stolen away
from his aoed widowed mother. and
she knew NOT of his brave deedn-
his uuparallcl hproism: knew NOT
,l his peril till the ioytul news of
,is recovery WAS flashed over the
vires to her All bouor tn rho no.
Die AIississippi boy, He is :, native
# I,,.E,,r .,.J ,hnrt t,,,,,t,. {;
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
Hits an Editor.
Raymond Gazette.

Raymond Gazette.
Goll.heaIed canes, gold medals,
gold watches, etc., having been pre-
sented at various places to heroes
OF the late epidemic, it is now pro-
posed to find out. the refugee y
who made the best time, and found
the safest place, aud present him
with a medal bearing proper in-
scriptions. 1t is thought that pos
siDly some Of our friends OF the
Vicksburg press would make u
splendid run for the medal.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
The Poor.

Sullivan in Yicksburg Herald.
Oh think of the suffering poor,
how they shiver aud freeze aud
fast For the wolf is at the door
aud so is the winter blast. When
happy and cheerful you meet
around the bright, warm hearth,
think of the frozen street aud the
wandering poor of the earth. In
the summer lately passed they had
friends in IA distant cline, not less
do they need friends now in this
drear, bleak winter time; for the
river is clogged with ice aud work
there is none, they say, aud the
poor man sits in his cheerlesS home
since the master stopped his pay.
Think of the suffering poor, of the
widow helpless and old, ot the or
phaned ones that cry for bread
while they shiver and freeze with
cold. Let not the lofty example
taught by our NLrthern friends, be
lost on us who are able to use it for
good ends. OF the little you have,
give freely, wherever want is
known, aud God will bless the Civ
er, will bless him from His thrown.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
Bail Refused.
Meridian Mercury.

Meridian Mercury.
We closed our report of the pre-
iiminary examination OF Willis
Merritt upon charge OF shooting
and numbering DO. Benton, on
Tuesday evening, with the an
nouncement that the decision was
reserved till morning. Gu Wed.
nesday morning Justice Stone took
his seat on the bench and had the
prisoner brought before him, wheL
he announced his decision denying
bail and ordering the prisoner to
Jail. This is rather remarkable
ending for case in which the
prisoner, who was out Ot the
clutches of the law, voluntarily
came aud surrendered himself to
it, showing his confderSe in beiug
entit.ed to bail. But there is the
evidence, and the decision is open
TO free aud full criticism on the
part of the lawyers and the pablic,
and the justice has made it in full
view of the fact, We are sure, with
out bias, with his best understand
ing of the law applied to the facts.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
Josh Billings on Editors.

Josh Billings says. An editor IL
a male whose biZness is ton vigate
Il nuZepaper. He writes out edito-
rialS, grinds out poetry, inserts
deaths and wedinS, sorts out manu-.
scripts, keeps a waste basket, blows
up the printer, fites uther peoples
battles, sells his paper for dollar
and fifty cents a year, takes white
beans and apple sass for pay when
he can get it, raises ii large family,
works nineteen hours out of TWEEN.
ty-four, knows no Sunday, gifts
abused by everybody and onst and
awhile whipt Uy somebody, lives
poor, dies middl5.aged, and often
broken.hearted, leaves no money,
and IL rewarded for a life of toll by
il tree obituary notice in the nuze.
papers.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
Mrs. Senator Bruce's New Year.


Washington special to Boston Journal.
Many called upon Mrs. Senator
Bruce, the cOlored bride OF the col.
ored senator from Mississippi. She
made her debut into ashington
society on this OCCASION, and 10
where were callers more gracefully
welcomed or more Hospitality en-
tertained. Mrs. Bruce is lady OF
great personal beauty, of the An
dalusian type, and wore IA magnii-
cent black velvet dress, made for
her by Worth during her recent
visit to Paris, and handsome dia-
monds. She WAS assisted in enter.
tanning by her sisters, the Misses
Wilson, Of Cleveland, both Of them
handsome and accomplished ladies.
Senator Bruce is living temporarily
at the house of John Nj. Langston,
minister to Hayti, uear Howard
university, but he is fitting up d
house into which he will soon move.
The house is on NJ street, formerly
occupied by Secretary Delano. He
will have as his neighbors Repre-
sentative Blair, of New Hampshire,
and District Attorney Wells.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

TIL NII IAN NV oN NVEV4''
Having permanently located at Ocean
SpIiugs offers his professional services to
the people Of the town and surrounding
country. Thirty years extensive expert
ence in the valley of the Mississippi and
in th2 city u! New Orleans, enables hlm
ia offer his professional experience as cen
ealting physician to the members OF the
wAD ar practiclng At the towns
T., l,tu,r ln HnNst
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

When you are certain that your
friend has erred, be careful not TO
mention your suspicion to any one,
and it you know that he bias gone
estray speak only 10 him Of the
wrong doing.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

"Love is blind" and that's the
reason il can get along with one
small hand-lamp turned down as
low as it will go, as we'll as under a
a blazing chandelier of fitty burn
ers.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

Mr.. j. j. Haynie of the Macon
Sun aud Capt. p. X. Mayors OF the
Pascagoula DEM0CRAT-STAR, have
been doing Mobile together recent
ly. They are both noble hearted
gentlemen.-TupelO Journal.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

The age of economy has been
reached IN Foxboro, Massachusetts,
where a womon stopped u clock
from running because it would wear
cut too tast.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
Ben, Zane POsey,
LAWYER,
BaV st. Louis, Hancock County, Miss.

win attend regularly the courts in Han
cock. Harrison and Jackson counties, and
will attend all calls lrom any of these
counties at any time
n. B.--Ilas had twenty-five years eX
poyience in a general practice OF law in
al the courts.
Special attention to collections, and to
the securing aud enforcement Of doubtful
and bad debts, by new and original
methods,
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
Dr. w. ID. Bragg,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Is permanently located at Moss Point,
Miss, and will practice in the town and
country.
Oiiite ut c. s. Stewards Drug Store.
Olfice Hours from to am, and : to
p,Iu.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
What is sweeter than a sugar.
house Why young ladies' sem.
mary when it is full of 'lasses.

=" To see ourselves as others see
u.s." would not be half SO disagreea,
ble as to have others see US as we
really are.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
A Desperate lSencounter

tuesday an unfortunate difficulty
occurred between Mr.. JAS. Cox aud
the Hon. A. j. Erwin. 1t is report.
ed to MS that Mr.. Cox aud Gilmer
had some misunderstanding about
Il dog. The matter was referred to
Mr.. Erwin who decided that Gilmer
WAS right. This led to discussion
between Cox aud Erwin which ran
into an angry alteration. The
parties simultaneously dismounted
and engaged i'll fist fight. Being
separated they drew their knives
and renewed the fight. Alter each
had received several cuts Cox threw
his left arm around Erwin and
craving him up to him, inflicted
several dangerous wounds upon
Erwin, injuring the spinal column
and paralyziug him. Mr.. Cox re-
ceived several flesh wounds painful
but not dangerous.
Several reasons caused this diff
Guilty TO be generally regretted.
Mr.. Erwin is our representative aud
is highly esteemed. Mr.. Cox is an
open-hearted, honorable man, /
tavorite with everybody. Both are
brave among the bravest. The
parties are related.-COLumbuS In.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

Young lady, gazing on her por-
trait just finished by rising young
artist, remarked: IL look like a
canvass backed duck" He felt
like eating her.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

Professional politicians are like
musicians in brass band. They
care tor no party, but will blow for
whoever pays them best.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

A pair of lovers will sit up half
the night and not burn as much
Kerosene as tho family uses in an
hour during the evening.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

1t is a row OF empty houses that
gets all the windows broken. aud
empty heads, aud hearts,|and emp.
" hands are sure to come 10 grief.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
DIR. A.. II. Chalnplim

Has returned to BILOXI, and resumed
~, practice of his profession
71ice for the present at Shady Grove
Hotel, Room No. 3.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24

1t is suggested that possibly
strict quarantine could keep the
cold wave out. What can keep out
fever eau certainly keep out cold.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
4 II L & o l. Il T s.
REGULAR TERMS,

CIRCUIT COCRT-SEyENfn DISTRICT
JAMES ). llAMM, Judge.
THOMAS s. FORD, District Attorney.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-01-24
Derrick SEAL. ii. BLOOMFIELD
Seal 4 Bloomfield,
= COINsELLU
ScrnntON. .niXs.

WIN practice in all thc Courts Of Jack
SON county, Mississippi. Each partner will
ooutinu4 To practice IN his individual ca
pacity in all the Cyurts Of the Seventh
Judicial District.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

They have queer ideas In st. Louis on some
subjects. For good deal more than year,
the property on which the late Southern Hotel
OIL that city stood has remained vacant. 1t was
eonfessedly valuable property, but some ira
dtion OF ili-luek seemed to cling to it, and it
unnamed unbailt on and unoccupied. The
newspapers seized on it daily as a subject for
alseussion, and loudly asked whether there
was not some man In st. Louis enterprisino
enougn 10 rebuild the burned hotel. Such a
n ,.sn mas oeen found in Mr.. Thomas Allen
ne consents to rebuild the hotel if the owners
2. aolaeent property will give him honns
y siz.'eu. and this bonus has been suhS
SCI . MS enterprise is warmly annlan1,ea
" sne sI. Louis papers. and the hos. oad
Dspa.sa declares that in consideration b,s
na1,lo.le action 1t will support Mr. Allan a far
eae ea'seo states Senate. And now let eysr -.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

There are few persons, mainly bondhold-
ers, who affect to believe that the five and a
half mill interest tax will stand The delu-
sion Ii q pleasing one, yet tits none the less q
delusion. II we do not greatly mistake the
signs Of the times, the tax to support the en-
tire expense of the State government bond
tax and all, will be brought within that figure.
The people Of Louisiana cannot pay more
than five mills. and their representatives In
the convention will not require them to do
more th IN this. Those who pay the taxes will
be protected, and not the bondholders who
pocket them. This is the popular sentiment
In and out Of the convention, as will be dis
covered when that body convenes.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

The 81. Louis Globe Democrat is working
up the Grant movement In the West. 1t pro-
poses to conduct the canvass on the bloody
shirt Issue. For this purpose it has secured
an enterprising reporter to take the affidavits
q the emigrating negroes as they pass
through that city as to the number OF darkies
who have been murdered In Louisiana and
Mississippi to their knowledge. A New Or
leans Custom-House runner could not have
secured more startling statements. Each
emigrant swears to from four to twenty
bloody corpses. The aggregate mounts up
into the millions. The other st. Louis papers,
however, have discovered a monotonous
sameness about these thrilling stories, and
call upon the Globe-Democrat for little va
riety. Evidently the reporter has overdone
the thing
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03
rs THERE A REPUTATION PARITY

The Times is much exercised over a card OF
Senator jonas, OF this State, printed In the
Baltimore Gasette. Senator Jonas, In his
card, denies the charge that he is connected
with the repudiationists. or that there Is any
reputation party Of consequence In Lonlsi-
ana. The Times hopes that Mr.. Jonas Is
right and that 1t has mistaken the signs OF
the times, but devptes much Of its space to
show that the DEMOCRAT and the country
press are engaged In a population move
ment
In one sense Mr.. Jonas is right; In another
he is mistaken Certainly there Ia no reckless
and indscrlminate Reputation sentiment In
Louisiana. We do not know Of journal or
Of a man Of note Id the State who is re-
pudiatlonist pure and simple; In short, who
believes that the debt Of the State should be
repudlated regardless Of Its validity. The
only Reputation movement 81 this deserlp-
tlon We have ever heard OF In Louisiana was
Kellogg's funding act, by which the obliga-
tions Of the State, good. bad and Indifferent,
were COMPOUNDED lib one indiscrimfnate mass
and scaled forty per cent, and the holders of
honest claims made to suffer for the benefit
Of the holders Of fraudulent bonds
IT, however, Mr.. Jonas means that there is
no party Of consequences In the State opposed
to the payment OF the State Debt as 1t now
stands, he Ia very much In error. There Is q
party In the State composed OF fonr-ilfths Of
the white and intelligent colored voters which
favors an investigation OF the debt, which
liz determined that every dollar of It that
does not represent an honest claim shall be
repudiated, and that the interest OF the honest
portion shall be reduced to per cent. Only
two papers In New Orleans are opposed TO this
party-the Times and Picou,,,,e. Upon this
side Of the readiusters stand the DEMOCRAT,
the Bee, the City Item and the Post, and nearly
the whole country press, with vast majority
OF the people and decided majority Of the
delegates elected to the convention.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

Each certificate il Of the denomination
Of TEN DOLLARS, of the size OF a United
States note, and ia convertible, with nc.
crued interest, into 4 per cent bonds.
This bank will be prepared to deliver
these certificates about the tenth day Of
April.
Orders from Banks and Bankers will
be filled upon Government terms, and are
solicited ut as early date MS possible,
that we may be. prepared for prompt
delivery. ap1 Vt
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03
THE RANGER CASE.

The decision In the case OF Ranger against
the city has larger scope than we were led
at first to give It. It determines not only that
bonds of the character OF the railroad bonds,
which were issued under special contract
providing for their payment by taxation, can
be enforced by mandamus against the city
ordering the imposition OF the tax provided,
but that a like writ and order will be issued
In favor Of other Judgment creditors OF the
city.
Thus 1t would appear that the parties hold
Ing bonds, or other evidences Of debt against
the city, must obtain judgment on the same
before they will be entitled to their man.
damus.
1t was In view Of this conclusion that we took
Issue with the city under the former admins
tration for not setting up ell the defenses 1t
had to assert on these and all other securities.
Were there not defenses against these bonds ?
Would not the very defenses recognized by
Judge Billings as sufficient to authorize d
denial of the writ Of mandamus have been
available In the suit on the bonds We have
not the recent decision Of the Supreme Court
before us. But II would seem from its tenor
that whether such defenses were good or not
they would not have availed to arrest the
mandamus on the judgments rendered. The
city expended Its power OF resistance against
the application for mandamus. Would it
not have been better had 1t exercised the
largest portion OF 1t to oppose and prevent the
judg tnent In the action on the bond.
This experience should Impress upon our
City Administrators the lesson we have
sought to inculcate In these columns.
That 1t 10 the duty of our city authorities
to avail of all illeealities and invaliditles
In the claims against the corporation. The
neglect Of this duty has created the strong
opposition to the several funding systems,
State and city, under which 30 large an
amount Of illegal and fraudulent bonds have
been converted into new, and, 1t Is con-
tended, O valid indebtedness, and placed on
equal grounds with undisputed and unim-
peached debts. 1t Is the lack OF this Sitting
process which has rendered this funded debt.
State and city, so very oppressive and SO
odius. Let our present City Administrators
guard against this error of their predeces-
sors. Let them require all creditors and
claimants to prove their claims to be strictly
legal before judgment is obtained against
them. Let them avail themselves of all the
pleas and dafensas possible
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03
fHB NEW oRIHANs DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, APRIL 8 1879.

who have performed faithful service In the
public interest. 1T Is about time for all this
TO be changed. There is now very strong
popular prejudice In favor OF paying those
who work for the State dollar for dollar. 10
do this the i've and half mill interest tex
must be abolished and the general expenses
OF the government brought within the ability
Of the people to meet. This is what the con-
vention is expected to do, and 1t Is entirely
safe to say that It will do Ii.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

Inc oondholders are continually harping
upon the sacred obligation" of the State to
give them their pound of flesh. They cannot
see that there is another obligation upon the
State which Is still more sacred" which is
to protect its citizens and pay honest money
to those who do honest work for her. While
the bondholders have been getting about 20
per cent on their investment, the EMPLOYEES
OF the State have been compelled to submit
TO heavy discount on their salaries and
wages in the way of deprecated warrants
Sometimes this depreciation has exceeded eo
per cent. This loss has fallen upon those
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03

The Paris papers advise the government
to form an alliance with Russia. This sug-
gestion Is not thrown out with any view to
expected complications with England. On
the contrary, II Is aimed at Germany. This
power has latterly been looking with longing
eyes towards Holland, and the Russian alli-
ance Is desired for the purpose OF preventing
any aggressive movement of Bismarck
against the Dutch. Such a combination
would very materially complicate the Eu-
rppean situation