The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-02-24

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-Chancery Court on the first
Monday in March.
Rev. Father Bally is on a visit
to Louisville, KY.
Mrs. s. r. Thompson spent car
uivaI week in New Orleans.
We have no billiards. or cy-
clones in this section.
The Board of Supervisors meet
on the first Monday in March.
The heavy rains this week have
interfered with the garden work.
Scranton needs an ice factory
that will turn out twenty tons a
day.
Mr. II. Bloomfield has been at
Jackson tor sometime attending
the Supreme Court.
Lightning Point is now iuhab-
tied by some of the Chinese Row
citizens.
Captain john Foster shipped
about uine thousand pounds OF red
snapper fish one day last week.
John d. Bobee, the fire bug
aud church burner languishes in
iniI In 1af,ulf nf l,iI
Sheriff Lewis will sell the de-
linquent tax land of this county, on
Monday, the fifth day of March.
"A cock fight was witnessed by
q number of persons ON Delmas
avenue Tuesday. The betting vas
low.
Chinese Row or HelI's Hall
Acre has been vacated. 1t is now
the abode of bats, owls, snakes and
hobgobblings.
Mr.. Walter S. Meriwether, of
the U. S. Navy, has been on a visit
TO his brother, MI, q. S. Meriweth-
er, on Pascagoula street.
Prof. j. o. Glenn, Principal of
the Moss Point Academy, gave us
a call Saturday. He reports his
school in a flourishing condition.
Capt. II. Cole has bought the
residence of Capt. Joseph q. Del
mas, OH the Pascagoula river. He
paid $1,000 cash.
MIR. j. s. Ports has sold Mr..
Joe Hieber, of Mapleton, Iowa,
eighty acres of land neal Scrdn-
ton tor one hundred dollars cash.
Eddie Blake, who has been for
some time at DenisOn, Texas, is at
home for a month for rest and re-
creation. He is looking well.
There is a pecan tree in this
place, on the P~ascagoula river,
about IS years old and bearing
fruit every year.
MIR. NJ. V. B. Carey, formerly :
of this place, has located in Deni-
son, Texas, and gone into the mer-
camille business. We wish him
ucccss in the Lone Star State.
"A little two year.old girl seeing
a turkey gobbIer strutting with
feathers all turned up, said "Dob
bier, you'd better pull down your
tlose.7 ,
"A boisterous sailor was howl {
ing drunk and using profane and OBJ !
scene language on Delmas avenue, :
Tuesday. He was waltzed into Jail {
in a jif1y by Marshal Mansfield.
Served him right. !
MIR. AL. Adams, editor of the /
Independent, Da4ota City, Iowa,
gave us a pleasant call this week. d
de was accompanied by several !
land seekers from the State of Iowa. :
Some Of them invested iu farming )
lands. )
The bar-rooms are closed here |,
on Sunday, still drunken men are ;
seen on our streets. The question \
IS where do they get their liquor s
The next grand jury will be asked
10 investigate this matter. !,
The river front is the most a
picturesque portion of Scranton,
aud those large, majestic live oaks !
measuring some 4 feet in diameter, \
covered with grey moss, attract the a
eye Of the stranger. d
MIR. Fritz ID. Becht, the superb !
Oaroer and b~airdresser, on Kreb's
AVenues has now in his ~tonsorial
parlors a good stock of frst-class q,
perinneries, soaps, and some Of the :
very best brands OF cigars for his i
customers =
Mr.. r. p. Blplack, Of Mobile, y
.as a pleasant caller at the DEMO Z
OtAn-STAR ofice last week. sDiekv \
informs rs that be has bought ont N