The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1881-08-26
Hos Point Items
a long string OF suckersl I

a Ious string OF suckers!
Don't fail to attend the meeting
st Escatawpa school honss Monday
night.
The three "komicai ksraeters.
have been amusing our people thi:
week.
The man with the flying horses
has folded his tent aud departed
He was : public nuisance.
Mr.. Valyerde has bought out
Mr.. Laurendine's green grocery
and market, opposite BIumeris
store.
The lawn party In Mrs. Bor.len's
yard tonight bids fair to be a feast
OF pleasure aud good things for all
who attend. Let each one see that
he Is there With his own or some.
body else's sister.
On Sunday merning and night,
Rev. A. ]. Witherspoon, DID,, pas.
tor Of the Seaman's Bethel of New
Orleans, will preach at the Presby.
terian church. The public are cor.
daily invited to attend.
We we're visited on Tuesday By
a considerable bail storm and wind.
The wind was so strong that it
blew down the smoke stacks at the
saw mill of Messrs. A. q. Danner
& Co.
Brother Jonathan Stickney Has
kell has been among us for q week
or more, aud not finding a suitable
place to pitch his tent, has been
holding forth at the colored Bap.
tlst church, having been refused
the use of other churches iu town.
His audience has been composed
almost entirely of sinners of the
colored persuasion, whom we
thought would flock to him by the
hundred, but. for the past three or
four nights his audience has mostly
been composed OF benches, at which
times Brother Jonathan was always
too unwell to preach. The negroes
are beginning to realize that he is
a fraud, aud bis purpose here is
being suspected as far from relig.
ious. Whatever good character be
might have had while at Hands
boro and other places, he certainly
is not upholding it here, and the
good people, both white and color.
ed, should steer clear of him. The
predictions OF the Advertiser are
being fulfilled.
On Sunday night one Henry
Crawford, slipped up on one Geo.
Williams, and cut him up fearfully,
in about dozen places. 1t seems
that these two negroes had been
quarreling before, and this cutting
scrape grew out of that. Henry's
intention was to kill, for he after.
ward said that he intended to kill
George, aud would do 1t yet before
he rested. Again on Monday
night a negro named Charles
Smith, struck Mr.. Fisher, the night
foreman at Mr.. DeSmet's mills,
with o block, inficting n painful
wound about the head. The negro
then fled to a boat, which he had
prepared beforehand, with men to
pull him over the lake, which
proved o premeditated attack.
Such fiendish work as this is get.
ting to be a common occurrence at
Moss Point, and very little atten.
tion is paid to it. No aflidavits be.
ing made, hence no arrests are
made. The families living on our
streets are compelled almost daily,
and at all times during the night to
listen to the obsceuity, vuIgarity
and oaths that are thrown out by
,rowds of hoodlums passing along.
It is high time the law.abiding citi.
,ens of Moss Point were devising
'ome means to check the insults to
which our wives aud children are
llmost daily subjected. 1t is grow
ng from bad to worse aud il not
oon checked, our once noted town
or morality will be a Sodom of vii.
Amy and corruption.
Since writing the above there |
Tas a meeting of the citizens at Es
atawpa shool- house on Tuesday
light, which owing to the short no.
Ice and threatening weather, was
OF very largely attended. A com.
littee was appointed to draw up
esolutions as to the best method
I suppressing these growing evils
I our town, and a report is to be
lade at q meeting OF the citizens
ext Monday night at the same
chool.house. We want q general
leeting of the citizens, both white
nd black, who are interested in
ood order and morality. Let there
9 q large attendance.