The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-05-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

luO lCdIldn government Is ABOUT
, to publish the unPdited works Oi
= Leonardo Da Vinci.
A destructive fire at Manning, s
I O.. on Sunday, causing "a loss OF
$4,000.
1t is denied in Rome that the
Italian troops were recently defeat.
ed by lei Mahdi at MassOwah.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is
informed that cholera is prevailing
iu Calcutta to an alarming extent.
The electric light poles are vel.
coined everywhere by delighted
people. Gas will DO discontinued
hereafter.
Lawrence, Kan, has 10000 iu-
h%abitants. The druggists have
sold for "medical" purposes 100
gallons OF liqour III the last mouth.
Four fast-sailing Schooners are
being constructed for mission work
Oh the coast OF Africa under the
auspices of Presbyterians.
Samuel S. Cox has prospects for
a gubernateliau nomination in New
York, which filed his mind with
doubts about scoopiug the Turkey
mission.
DR.. Penn, who was to have been
hanged OH the oath for the murder
OF Rials, vas respited by the Gov
enOr of Mississippi till May -.
Several hundred of the cOnstitu-
ents of the Hon. S. s. Cox have pc.
titiOned him TO decline the Tul kiSh
mission and remain at home.
In the joint convention of the
Illinois Assembly seven Senators
and t~hirty-one Representatives re.
Sponded to the roll call. The vote,
like that of Saturday, was scatter
ing.
The present Immigration to
America is unprecedented, 2026
persons, most OF whOm.were Irish,
having left Queenstown within the
past tour days.
The committee of the Belgian
Chambers, to which the matter was
referred, has always unanimously |
adopted the proposal TO authorize
King Leopold to act as sovereign
of the Congo State.
Vice Chancellor Simrall at Louis
Vile has made "A decision IN the
Knights of Honor case, granting a
perpetual injunction against the
Supreme Lodge election of officers
outside OF the State of Kentucky.
The work Of searching the ruins |
of the late fire in YiCksbHrg will be !
continued until all the ground is
searched. Thirty.seven bodies have
already been found The whole ci-
~ Is in mourning.
The New Haven Colony Histori.
cal Society has . bit of the cord
with which Benjamin Franklin
his kite in 1850 that brought
down the electricity.
Recent appointments of Persi-
dent Cleveland tor New England,
sufficiently Democratic to provoke
the critics of the independent
press.
Five officers of the German army
are going TO Congo for the purpose
Jf organizing the black soldiers of
negro princes in that region Oh
, European military footing,
Wednesday last in New York ci-
~ was Il very warm spring day for
that latitude. The glass showed
$50 at three O'Clock in tue after
noon, which was the maximum
temperature for the day. THIS re-
cord has only been beaten three
lines in ~sixty-three years.
Secretary McCrary said that 10
ooking over the record of West
Point Cadets he found that Cadet :
Simpson Grant once had a
very narrOw chance for remaining.
There was a time il he once more
allied to polish his shoes his num-
Der Of dement's would have expell-
al him from the Academy.
The sheriff of Wayne county,,
has brought suit against
ieveral leading citizens OF that
who took a prisoner away
rom him and hung him. While de-
ending the Jail the sheriff was
rounded. The case is being tried
'efOre Judge Baxter, of the United
states District Court. now IN SEES
ion at Nashville. The sheriff sues ]
Or $1OO, 900 damages.
The British steamship Lord
WE'LL, which cleared at Baltimore
last GLASGOW, Scotland, has
board 42,S27 sacks of -four, rep
aseuting about $4,000 barrels.
his is one Of the largest cargOes of
our eve shipped from that port
D Europe, and was valued at s1S6,
A Washington special, April %. O.
avs; J. Calvin Chase, a negro :,
Jerk in the War Department, was X
Is missed for incOmpetency to-day. Il
10 was a1ifor of fha Raa oud Ia