The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-01-15
LETTER FROM MOBILE.
correspondence Demoerat-star.

lI
Year TO all your patrons and read
ers is the wish OF your Mobile cor
respondent. $50 mote it be-" TAX
lug your first number this year DIS a
sample, your readers will certainly
have no cause OF complaint on
your part, and if they pay as
promptly aud fully as you provide
tor them in the way of fresh news
and good reading matter, it will be
a matter Of congratulations all
round.
The holidays here passed off very
quietly and pleasantly, there being
very mnch less drunkenness aud
boisterOus conduct than formerly.
There were reasons for this, among
which the scarcity of money might
be II large factor. So "By and
LARGE as the boy said, we had IA
very quiet time and beautiful
weather. DeLeon, issued his gOs
sip illustrated, with IA great flour.
ish of trumpets (Ad.J aud great
promises. and despite the fact that
many people call him "Mobile's
Great Fakir,' it was Il pretty paper
for Mobile, and Il large step for
ward from bis Soldiers SOuoiRir.
There are Il few copies that eau
still be had at the news stands.
We had a IRE last week ''as was"
At fire, with a loss o! about 5000,
00O. The weather has been for
several days, and still is cold, aud
the coal and wood men wear smiling
faces. | have no doubt that the
cold wave was produced by the
nomination OF that hOary-headed
old whelp, Sherman, of Ohio, for
U. S. Senator again by the Repub.
leans OF that State. | sometimes
wonder if Ohio is really a benight-
ell State, and that nothing can win
up there but the "aospcl of hate.f
The people of this section of the
country should unite in boycotting
anything made IN or coming from
Ohio. No merchant should give an
order Of any size to any drummer
from Ohio, 10, th":e Is 40 necessity
for our any longer playing toady to
amy people that pay lis Only in hate
aud SpitetulneSS. There has been
no State in the Uhion, that has been
as spiteful and shown so much IGt-
tired to the South MS Ohio and it
is about time the South, as a people,
showed her teeth, and the most
way to strike them is their
pocket, for that Is where their souls
lie, aad every man and woman when
they 90 iuto Il store should ask il
the goods they look at come from
and if so they should let ii
severely alone. Furnish them no
more money TO return ln curses aud
abuse. There IRE doubtless GOO
people among them, " hO do not en-
terrain the feelings ct the majority,
like red.handed John Sherman.
hut like "Oid dog TIaA" they ar
IN bad company a"ti ought 10 leavt
he State. Such relies as red hand
ri, bloody .Shirted Sherman, Logan,
& Co., belong toa dead past,
who live and fdtten only on the
putridity ot by.sone days, aud
hey should be dead and putIid
y 18th them, and not stand m The
way of this progreSslveRget lac y
pack of v%ulturrs mixing up dead
TO icustOu. IlpeDsouth has
.ruckled enough, aud ia this new
rear they should resolve 10 tIade
10 more with a people, who gives /;
hem nothing bnt abnSr, aud Will 3
wing abuse at that. Give such
as Ohio the go-by, there are {
,ther ami better Suites to throw !
'0ur mouey IN, that will treat as {
in return. {
Allen Alexander, Il negro, no;o !
.iOuS MS Il leader of the riotous sort ,
# negroes, has at last reached The |
md Of bis teuler, ana there stands J
his eyes the brilliant pros. !
rect of a gibbet. He is charged
it'll murdeT, stahbiIfg IA marlin the /
back when down, and bail is fixed n
o high that he is cooling hImselt :
a the boter DEL B rafuarLa at tie ex /
'ense of The county. He bad a c
clearing tor bail before Judge I
who Teaianded him despite !.
threatening, bribing letter sent c
lin anonymously, and that reminds )
ne that d colOred barber said to \
ne a few days ago, that "AlIen :,
TOnt stay in Jail, some white Dem /,
crat wilitake him out" But the L
Thite Democrat HASN'T PIT in an = I
ppearahce YETI but we have an 2
npOrtanb election coming on this =
ear, and TO IA certain class of je
o%liticisus Allen might be useful. n
1t Is 10 lie iOndly hoped that r.
OTe official changes may be made A
our county Offices, besides which II
a legislative ticket for the coun- W y
=, State officers, aud later on a y
congressman. But | hardly think "a
change will be made Ia u Con. A
Mr.. jones has been an Sc
Iicntive, industrious aud useful -,
representative TOR this district !: NJ,
Id however great some mems am. III
I'iOn may be the voters are not III