The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-04-09
LETTER FROM MOBILE.
Correspondence Democrat-Star-


Frost this mornings real pro
+ nounced trost-none OF your thiI
! skim-milk affairs, but a live, gedin,
, frost that you see with your eyes
aud teel with your nose aud toes
= Wonder if you had any dow
5 South | tell you We are putin:
on Northern airs, and our peepl'
will soon be seeking u warm climat,
to winter in.
A singular fatality has apparent
~ hung about Mobile this year, OH
Sundays, between terrible accidents
and deaths, brutal murders have
filed in the time, until now when
Sunday comes, one will ask his
neighbor, dwell, what do you
think will happen today y We
have lost some OF the most promis-
ing men of our city. Many young
men, with some more advanced in
years though not old, that will long
bc missed. We had ono brutal
murder, that OF young Vincent
Malone, murdered on Sunday by il
brute OF a policeman named Har-
ringtOn, without p%rOvOcation, of
any sort, this being the second or
third man he has killed. Malone
was a light, spare built young man
weighing about I25 pounds. The
brute, Harrington, who murdered
him, is one of the largest, most
powerful men about town, weigh.
ing abont 225 to 235 pounds,
| have been told is Il man of prodig
ions strength, having Won money
by holding out 100 pounds at arms
length and yet could nOtcarry this
stripping 10 the guardhouse with.
out kicking and stamping him to
death. He should have been taken
out and lyDched. Short, SHIFT
and rope should have followed this,
the most brutal murder that ever
disgraced the fair name of Mobile.
He was tried last week, aud a mis-.
trial was the result. All agreed as
to his guilt but could not agree az
to his punishment. Eight, | I'M
derstand, were for murder and four
for manslaughter, but all for guilty.
The grand jury uuearthed anoth.
er brutal affair, that of a brother
Keeping an nsan sister boarded
up in u small clubhouse, entirely
naked during the terrible cold
weather OF the past winter, until
her cries tor help to keep from
freezing exposed the terrible cOndi-
ton OF tue poor creature confined
in II pen like "A hog, and with no
more attention given the pen than
would have been given a hog. The
solicitor nor jury could fluid no law
TO reach this wretch, but a rope IN
the name Of humanity could have
been fOnnd, and should have been
used. An outraged people should
longer put up with such crimes,
aud ii The law cannot reach them
he people should. 1t seemS IN
Scrntabie in God, that he should
away such men as Young DR..
and Amos Martin, who :
gave promise Of usefulness to their
Ise aud generation, aud allow the l
to be cursed by such wrptcheS 1
rs Harrington and this other brute,
whoever he was. lam no advocate !
mob or lynch law, but when life
< so cheap that Il man must keep "A
gun Ia his house and become
walking arsenal himself, it Is high ]
ime sOIBe higher law should pre- ;
'ail. 1t is very cheap bravery aud |
morality to denOunce uutrages in {
Mississippi, or in Wyoming, or |
bat the streets of Jerusalem |
vere Kept clean by every man q
weeping before his own door, aud |
he outraged sense of the better a
cement in our community calls tor y
HALT in thunder tones. l
Mobile is certainly on the up a
grade; its advance is slow u
nut positive. Old buildings are I
eing torn down to give place to j
and more elegant ones; the s
hole city will sOOn during this !.
be lighted by electricity, l
nj the old Grand Trunk railroad e
ill soon stretch its stiffened legs a
D the coal mines /; the rivers above Il
S and the harbor bellows US are all a
l an advancing stage, aud the day u
not far distant when Mobile will 4
its old glory, and it will 4
Dmc to stay. 1t is true the times l'
ere now are dull aud hard, but any a
ne who studies the situation will a
that such improvements could
OF go on unless the future gave d
of payment. By the way, y
on r putting on city airs your
elf, aud will SOOu DO wanting to A
eep the COWS ont of the streets.
Yell, you can turn them over to
our suburban village, Moss Point
nd, speaking of Moss Point, re. Il
inds me that one or her charming 81
Onng bellies, Miss Gertrude Bragg, oil
iughter OF DIR. Bragg, has been 5
friends and relatives here al
lring the past week, aud adding u
any new ones tn her list, all Of &C
hom hope soon to see her again. e,
ECHO. 81
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