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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08
LETTER FROM PLUM BLUFF.
Plum BLurr. Miss. Oct. s. 1ss

PLUM BLUFF, Mss, Oct. s, 1876.
Correspondent Democrat-Sta
Mr.. Editor: Thinking you may
wish to hear from this part of the
county, | will try and write you a
letter. We have had an unusually
sickly season, in fact more chills
and fever than for a number of
years past; in some localities whole
families have had the fever. We
have plenty of good doctors. DR..
Dancer at A merlcus; DR.. Trammell
at Plum Bluff Or. Moody at
Gross Roads and DIR. Webb COwart
at Rocky Creek, all in districts one
aud two, so you @ we do not have
to ride as far as of old to get IA doc.
tor. All along PascagOula river
and its tributaries it is chills and
fever. We hope soon as a good
frost comes, that the health of our
county will be better.
October came in quite cool with
us, we find fires morning and night
comfortable.
Our farmers have about gathered
their corn crop, and right good
yield has it been-rice and potatoes
very good. Owing to the freeze
last winter the cane crop will be
short. Mr.. John Gibson, near this
place, has the best cane prospect
your correspondent has seen. II
our farmers continue to work at
their crops as in the past year Or
two, Jackson county will Oon be
iudepepdent-people + trying to
make more manure at home and
buy less.
The logging season is about
winding up, good many are stop.
ping their teams to have them re-
c:uited before the winter sets in.
Camp meeting at Salem Camp
Ground will soon be here. Owing
to so much sickness some will be
prevented from tenting. There
will be a public tent for all those
not wishing to tent. We hope to
see many OF our friends during the
meeting.
Col. St0ckdale, candidate from
this district for Congress, spoke at
Americas last Friday. Those who
heard the Colonel were very much
pleased with his talk, and think the
district will have an able represen.
tative. A good many OF our people
were disappointed in not getting
Judge Van Eaton, but we hope on
election day that they will turn out
as OF old aud do their duty IN citi.
zens. The Colonel has ii good re.
cord as a soldier, and we hope that
he will make a good name in Con.
greSS.
We soon expect to see Charlie
Wood and Sam Denny, Of Moss
Point, and Ben Pickett, of Sc'anton
on their annual hunting trip. They
will be met at Americas by Ed.
Sage, of Mobile, John Ely and Eu.
gene Wood, OF AmencuS and Plum
Bluff. The party will then go on
to the home o! Daniel McInniS, in
Greene county, the place ct hunt
ing. Doctor John D~0ssett, c0l0red,
thnnting partner OF Sam Jenny
aud Henry Bush, colored, drirer
and consulting huntsman, will meet
the hunters from abroad ready for
business. Jobu Ely will II his
two black aud tan hounds, Ring
wood aud JOwler, and Henry Bush
his spotted Gipsey. Sam Denny
aud Ben Pickett will not have any
dogs to care for, they do the blow.
ing aud EARNING around the camp
fire at night, and all are willing to
relieve them OF any cares. Well,
Mr.. Editor, | will close as my let
ter is too long. Yours truly,
CAP.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08
The New Prospect Camp meeting

The New Prospect Camp meeting
is appointed to commence on Fri.
day, October %, and close on the
Tuesday following. A restaurant
will be kept where those who desire
can obtain good meals at "A 0eyy
cheap rate. No traffic will he allow
ell on the grounds; religious litera
tuTe is an exception to this rule.
All ministers who wish to come by
rail, will please inform me by pos
tai and you will receive information
from me when and where yon will
hnd conveyances provided tor you.
THOMAS PRICE, p. c.,
Vancleave, Miss.
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IMrI Notices 10 Gents a Line for Each Insertion.
Register Register !!

No fr0SLQ GOWN uctO 40 JV@
All branches OF business III
Scranton is improving.
Register now or you caunot
vote at the November election.
Our streets are rather dusty.
The sprinkling cart has not been
out for some time.
Rev. j. W. Tinnin will preach
at Scranton Methodist church next
Sunday at II a. m. aud Z p. m.
IT you have anything TO sell
advertise it in tho DEMOCRAT
STAR.
Methodist Quarterly Conftr-
eune will convene at Zion church
'a.lrrow, Saturday, and continue
services through Sunday.
This is a new deal. All voters
have to register if they expect to
vote. Don't neglect so important
a duty,
Mrs. p. K. Mayors left Monday
en- route for Crawford, her old
home, on a visit. She will be ab.
srnt about Two weeks.
The Court house was not
crowded to sufioration during the
speaking OF Col. StOckdale Monday.
Virgins day Of disaster has
passed, and the country still exists,
and We are moving on in the even
tenor OF our way.
Tie new registration of voters
of this county is an important mat
ter, and We hope our people eencr-
ally will attend to 1t. Bead the
appointments OF Clerk Denny.
Mr.. A. W. Ramsay, the well
known merchant OF Bluff Greek
was welcome visitor to the Demo.
GRAFT STAR Office Tuesday.
The Mayor and Aldermen met
in regular council Tuesday evening
aud granted license to Mr.. j. M.
Frank to retail wines aud spIritu'
GUS liquors in Blalack hotel saloon.
Miss Dell Sumrall, Of Mobile,
Ala, after spending several months
pleasantly at Mr.. James Martins,
at West PascagOula, left Wednes-
day tor her home to the regret OF
many
The ship yards here and at
Moss Point are all crowded with
work. overhauling, repairing etc.,
and have employed II large number
of ship carpenters, and could EN-.
plcy more, but they are scarce.
We said last week that Miss
Florence Morrow was a pupil OF
Starkyihie Female Institute, but we
should have said that she gradua-
ted from that school last summer
with honors.
Mr.. Jesse II. jackson, postmas-
ter at Grange Grove, gave us a call
Saturday. From him We learn that
the name Marray's Station, has
been changed to Orange Grove, to
conform to the name of the post
Office.
Charles NJ. Cruzat has a petit
ton before the Mayor and Alder
men asking for a license to retail
spirituous liquors in less quantity
than one gallon. This will make
seven whiskey saloons and two
beer shops in this town.
Our clever friend, Mr.. B. Ii.
Breland, of Stonewall, shed the
light of bis beaming countenance
IN the DEMoCRAr-STAR Office We'd
nesday. he says StOuewalI, on the
beautiful Biloxi river, is at the
same place. Mr.. Breland was over
on a flying business trip to Moss
Point and this place.
Mr.. ]. a. Taylor, who has been
engaged in business at Greenville,
Ala, for some pouths, returned to
bis home, at Vest Pascagoula last
Monday in The enjoyment OF good
health.
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Mrs. n. n. BECK takes this method of
Informing Der friends aud the public gen
orally that she has opened her Boarding
House, ON RaynOir street, Biloxi, Miss
Terms moderate.
MRS. NJ N. BECK.
Biloxi. June n. 1Sa6. l53m
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08

THE DEMooRAT-STAR is a home
printed paper. II does not use the
"ready-se natter or any OF the
patent bumbngs. Each week the
paper is 6lled with a variety Of
choice reading matter, selected and
written expressly for its columns
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08

SHOES, Hats, UmDleIIas, BasheIs anu oHIcU-
els. You wouldn't believe there was so
many shoes in the United States as l saw
in that store, and az prices SO low they
would make your hair curl. The've got
everything from the common brogans to
the finest shoes for ladies, men and chill
dren. And hats-there's oceans of hats.
You eau buy the latest Style straw hats
there from 25c. to 50 co Il piece. And you
are sure to get your moneys worth II
you'll look at this picture you'll see just
about the way Uncle Zeke is going to
make for the BIG RED STAR. corner OF
Ca.al and Exchange Place every time he
goes to New Orleans.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08
Camp Meetings.
SALEM.

The Salem Camp meeting will
begin Friday night before tue third
Sunday in October. Ministers Of
the gospel, local and itinerant, are
Invited and will be cared
for. Those coming by rail will be
met at Scranton, Friday morning.
w. G. BACKUS, P. C.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08


AT the meeting of the Board OF
Supervisors last Monday Mr.. D..
Mcdonald was elected President
of the Board to ill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of
Mr.. John Hill. Mr.. ]. S. Wilkin-
son also rendered bis resignation
as member of the Board to take
effect at the end of that meeting.
This made two vacancies, one IN
Beat 3 aud the other in Beat 8.
Tue Board, therefore, ordered an
election to take place in these two
beats on November 2nd to ell these
vacancies, and also an election to GIL
a vacancy in the Office Of Justice Of
the Peace of Beat No. 5 Bluff
Greek precinct, at the same time.
This will be on the same day as the
Congressional election. Candidates
will hud tue DENocRAT-STAR the
medium to announce their names.
A word to wise, etc.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08
COLLE0E,)
BrOOkhnpem, MISS.

viii reopen SEPTEMBER 20. The con
tinmed success Of this school for young
ladies Is one of its best recOmmeudatio ns.
Experienced teachers are engaged for next
term, among them Profs. RICKETTS, and
POWELL. The Boarding Department is
home-like, discipline good, Tateslow. The
cost for academic year in college classes,
including board, washing, fuel and tuition
in English and Latin, if paid promptly,
S154; in preparatory classes only Sl44.
The railroad bed is higher at Brookhaven
than at Cairo, Jackson, Tenn, Oxford,
Grenada, jackson, Miss, or Summit. This
in part accounts for the healthfulSess OF
the location. For Catalogue giving all
needed information, address
L. T.. FITZHUGH, A. NJ, Principal,
or PROF. X. s. RICKETTS,,
Jnly IL, 1886. ~ BIN
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08
MARRIED.

On Johns Bayou, near Vancleavc. Miss,
September q, 1886, Mr.. JoE GoFF and
Miss ELLA ROGERS, by Hon johnson Ware
We congratulate them on their early
marriage. May their future be crowned
with joy and peace. ARGUS
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08
IOmcial.l
BOARD OF MAYOR And ALDERMEN

The Beard Of Mayor aud Aldermen met
In regular session on the 4fh uf October.
Presont-M G Altman, " II Nix Geo +
Hurrius and A Goelzcr.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08
Scranton Fife Company hf


Scranton Fife Company has
purchased a lot adjOurning the
DEMoCRAT.STAR office, upon which
they propose erecting II firemeh'S
ball and engine house. We like
good company and bid them wei
come, but hope they will never
haye TO throw cold water OH us.
Mr.. O. p. Barnes on last Sat
nrday received his appointment as
keeper of the light house at the
mouth of PaScagoula river, vice Pc
ter b. Clarke, removed, and took
chaI &c Wednesday.
Peter, Peter, the crow eater,
Had an office aud couldn't keep her.
All, Peter, you have grown lat on
Democratic pie, but it was too
good to last. Bat remember, oh,
We of little faith, that Hon. H.. S.
Van Eaton aud Gen. George cooked
the goose before Col. Stockdale bad
time to say grace. Sad, sad, sad,
is the eternal fitness of things-too
late, Colouel.
MIR. Chris Nelson, in Order TO
make room for his immense stock
of goods, which he is now receiv-
ing, has rented the Lovett store
Just across the street, where he
intends to keep ready-made cloth
ing, hats, boots aud shoes, trunks,
and a general assortment of goods
suitable tor this market. They
will be sold very reasonable for
cash. He invites bis old customers
aud friends to give him II call be
fore they purchase elsewhere.
CLERK Denny has completed
his rounds through the county reg
istenng the voters, and he informs
us that there are o about four
teen hundred already registered.
We can safely calculate that one
hundred more will be registered
before the election.
1t will soon be time to lay in
coal for the winter. Apply at the
DEMoCRAT-STAR Office if you want
a few tons OF good Alabama coal.
Price S4.75 per ton delivered at the
depot.
Drink Keystone Rye Whiskey
a pure, unadulterated whiskey, free
from headaches. Only $1.5O per
gallon. Also FreepOrt Rye, four
years old, the best 50 whiskey in
the United States. Sold only by
Craft & Co., 20 aud a Dauphin
street, Mobile, Ala, sole agents.
Scranton Fire Company NO. L
met Monday evening and elected
officers for the ensuing year as fol-
Presidents. r. Thompson.
Vice P esident-DT. NJ. Moore.
Secretary-H. g. Dempf.
Treasurer-V. ROs.
Stewards. B. Richards.
Foreman-George Frentz.
First Assistaut-George E. Hug
gins.
Second Assistant-Thos. Stig.
let's.
On Friday the 22d Of October the
company will celebrate their third
anniversary by a street parade aud
ball at night. DR.. w. A.
Cox has been elected marshal Of the
Har ]
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-10-08
UNCLEzEKEI IN NEWORLEANS

There IS no use talk
ing about big places
and sights, for l went
to New Orleans the
other day and l was
fairly paralyzed. l
went to Il good many
places, but the one that
got teetotally ahead
If me was a tremend-
ous big store they call
the CRED STAR" It's
as big as a %25O-pound
girl gu roller skates,
and DOM you forgeti
Wat do they keep :
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ter and the best special features of the
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The gnmaawgifayMue

Which may be taken separately from
the daily subscription service, is full
and complete in all news departmental,
with the added features of household,
fashion and society talk, and o feast OF
choice original and selected literary
matter for home reading. The special
writings of "CATHARINE COLE" HENRY
HAYNIE paris correspondent, JENNIE
JUNE fashion writerl, MoLLIE MOORE
DAVIS, and many others, appear In the
Sunday issue.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03

stitutional amendment to confer this
right on women, but it is found the
constitution now provides that suffrage
can be extended by law, but the law
before becoming operative must be
submitted to the vote of the people,
and must receive majority of all the
votes cast on the subject. Such law
was passed by the last legislature, and
only needed to be sanctioned by the
people to render it effective. This has
been done, and woman suffrage in re-
spect to school matters is now the law
of the state.
The law as it stands provides that
all women of the state, who have the
same qualifications as men in regard to
age, residence, and in other respects as
those required of men to render them
qualified electors, /" shall have the right
to vote at any election pertaining to
school matters" This appears to in
vest women with the right to vote for
all school officers, including State Su-
perintendent, County Superintendent,
School Trustees; also the building, re-
pairing and improvement of school
houses and grounds around them,
school furniture, and whatever is nee
essary for the equipment of the schools.
1t also gives women the privilege 10
vote on the employment of teachers.
Such seems to be the liberal construc-
ton of the law, and it is difficult to
see how any one of the aforementioned
rights can be denied. On many mat
tiers pertaining to the schools women
manifest deeper interest than men,
and are quite as we'll qualified to vote
as males. The privilege of women to
vote on school matters is not a new
experiment in this country or in Eng
land, and it does not appear that its re-
suits have any where been unfavorable.
The women Of Wisconsin are now in
vested with a new responsibility upon
them, which, if we mistake not, every
public spirited woman will cheerfully
accept. Next to the Christian religion,
the cause Of education, especially of
the children and youth, comes in i'm
portance, The hope for the future of
our country depends pre- eminently on
the public schools of the land. The
women of the state who desire full
investiture of the right to vote for all
elective officers under our form of gov
eminent will no doubt bear in mind
that according to the wisdom they ex-
hlbit in the exercise Of their suffrage
right. in respect to The affairs Of the
schools, will they be judged Of their fit
ness for an enlargement of their voting
privilege on an equality with men:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03
CHURCH DEDICATION.

The new Methodist Episcopal church
at Bristol, in this county, which is be-
ing finished, will be dedicated on Fri
day, Dec, 10, 1886. The dedicltory
sermon will be preached by Rev. DIR,
hldgeway, President of Garrett Bibli-
cal Institute at Evanston, III. The
church dedicate service will be fol.
lowed 10y lecture in the evening.
We bespeal the favorable attention of
the people of both city and country to
this church enterprise. The village of
Bristol is pleasantly located, has good
class of inhabitants, and! one of the
most desirable improvements which
has been wanted was a neat village
church edifce. The nearest English
speaking church is some miles away
--~quite too far for people presumed
to be inclined to church going. 1t is
hoped and expected that the people
generally will exhibit their apprecia.
ton of the public spirit of the inhabit-
ants of Bristol in the building of a
creditable church ediice by their at.
tendance at the services OF dedication
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03
LETTER FROM PROF. L. B. AR
MOLD.

EDITOR HoARD's DAIRYMAN
In your issue of Oct. 29th, over the
signature of John Boyd, the following
statement occurs: "Some great wise
acre has invented the theory that cream,
to produce best results, should be aerated
and oyygenized before churning.
The fact is, this theory is simply az alb
surdity."
AS l am the wiseacre" who put that
las Mr.. B. would think wicked theory
before the dairy public, brief sketch
of the circumstances that induced me
to do SO may interest some of your in
curing readers.
In the winter of 1879-90, while giving
course of lectures at Cornell University
| spent the time between lectures for
three months in the chemical laboratory
of the agricultural department, in work
ing upon questions connected with the
dairy. One of these questions was,
"what influence, if any, has the free
oxygen of the air to which cream may
be exposed while rising upon the flavor
and quality of the butter made from it?''
To determine this it was necessary to
set two parcels of milk, exactly equal in
all respects, and under exactly the same
conditions, except that one should be
exposed to free oxygen and the other
not. To accomplish this two bottles
were taken, holding about four quarts
each, and each was filled half full tof
milk, weighed out of the same sample.
10 make the contrast as wide as posi-
BILE, the space in cue bottle above the
milk was filled with oxygen gas, and the
space in the other with carbonic acid
gas. Both bottles were closed with
ground shoppers and set side by side in
temperature of 81 degrees f. az G3.
After 48 hours all the cream had
risen in both samples and the milk in
each was little sour-just beginning to
thicken. One-half of the sour milk was
drawn from the bottom of each bottle
with syphon, and the mixture of cream
and milk in each bottle churned by
shaking, each being shaken with the
same rapidly and in the same manner.
In the bottle containing oxygen butter
began to appear in Is minutes and was
gathered in 2A In the bottle contain.
ing carbonic acid gas, and from which
oxygen was entirely excluded, butter be-
gan to appear in % minutes and was
gathered in 80. There was the same
weight of butter in each bottle, but the
samples differed in quality. The butter
from the milk covered with carbon gas,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03

1t is said an attempt will probably
be made at the next session OF the
legislature in this state to repeal the
Sunday laws now on the statute book.
An organization known as the "Per-
sonal Liberty League" exists in vari-
Gus parts of the state. Those belong
ing to that league think their rights are
encroSched upon because they are not
allowed to do what they please on
Sunday. The adjustment of the leg
allied christian Sabbath, they believe
would give them their natural rights
A recent attempt lie secure the strict
enforcement of the Sunday laws in La
Crosse, Wis, has stirred up this new
opposition to law which has long
been on the statute book.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03

Among the Thanksgiving sermons
which have been the subject of criti-
cism is one delivered by Rev. DR.. J. 2.
Newman, Chaplain of the U. S. Senate,
and pastor of the Metropolitan Metho-
dist church, Washington city. He is
reported to have said. Gle would
make every priest and every Roman
Catholic lenounce before God and the
holy angels all allegiance to every
foreign prince or pontiff, whether spirit
ual OF temporal" All who have heard
DR.. Newman concede him to be bril-.
liant preacher, but in his exuberance
Of thought lie sometimes slOps over
with extravaganza and imprudence of
expression.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03

will be reversed. The warm air touch
ing the surface of cold milk will have its
capacity for holding moisture so dimin-
ished that it cannot retain all the water
it was holding, and a part Of it will be
deposited on the surface, making the
cream moist and soft. Cream can be
made leathery or the reverse at will,
simply by changing the relative tenn
peratures of milk and the atmosphere it
stands in, without at all changing its ex-
posure to the free oxygen of the air.
Mr.. Boyd, no doubt. has the best of
intentions in the counsel he offers to
dairymen, but it seems to me he is clear
off his base in this matter, and is, I'M
willingly, guilty of the very charge
which, in one part of bis article, he lays
at the door of others, viz, tracing results
to wrong cause.
L. B. ARNOLD.
Rochester, N. Y, Nov. 10.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03

The vote at the late election on the
question of suffrage for women on
school matters was not large. There
appears to have been no organized eff
fort for bringing out the vote on that
subject; in many localities the question
was allowed to go by default. The
majority in favor of the voting privilege
for women was 1854 The general
impression was that it required con-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03

About 400 knights Of Labor met in
Chicago on Tuesday evening last, and
adopted a declaration, the first sentence
Of which indicates its spirit. 1t reads
as follows:
ave believe that the verdict of the
recent trial, condemning seven men to
death and sentencing one man to
fifteen years Imprisonment, was an
outrage on common justice and an as
sault on free speech and The right of
people to peaceably assemble for the
discussion of their grievances"
If the deliberate plotting of murder
and the throwing of life-destroying
bombs is to go unpunishel, then what
protect is there for the people.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03
SUPERSEDAS.

The stay of judgement in the case
of the Chicago anarchists perhaps
means an important point gained on
behalf of the criminals, but probably
nothing mere than delay, and delay al
ways inspires hope. 1t is useless to
speculate on the outcome of this mat
ter; in these slippery times all calcula-
tions are only conjectural.