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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-07-13
THE COURTS.
THE REGULAR TERMS.
Hr
CIRCUIT C0URT-SECoND DIST.
II. TERRAL, Judge.

SAMUEL II. TERRAL. Judge.
JAMES H. NEVILLE, District attorney.
| In the county of Winston on the third Monday
| of January and July, and continue six days.
| In the county of Lauderdale on the fourth Mon
day Of january and July and continue eighteen
days. ts#, lET
In the county of NOxubee, on the third Monday
of February and August, and continue ieighteen
days.
In the county of Kemper, on the secondlMonday
Of March and September and continue twelve
days.
In the county of Clarke on the fourth Monday of
March and September, and continue twelve days.
In the county of Wayne, on the second Monday
of April and October and continue six days
In the county of Greene. on the third Monday of
April and October. and continue six daYs.
In the county of Perry, on the fourth Monday of
April and October and continue six days.
in the county of Marion First District on the
second Monday of June and third Monday of De-
cembeT, and continue six days. In the Second
District, on the third Monday of June and second
Monday of December, and continue six days.
In the county of Hancock on the second Monday
Of MAY and November and continue twelve days.
In the county of Harrison on the fourth Monday
of May and continue twelve days and ON the
fourth Monday of November, and continue six
days
In the county of jackson, on the second Monday
after fourth Mo day of Nav, and continue six days
and on the first Monday after the fourth Monday
of November, and continue twelve days.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-07-13

SALARIES OF SOUTHERN PosTMAs.
TERs-The postUffiee department
has completed the adjustment of
the Presidential postmasters ac-
cording to the receipts fos last
year. The followingin Mississippi
remain the same: Canton sIiOO
Columbus $500, Holly Springs
Sl4OO, jackson 5000. Macon S110O.
Meridian $1,000, Ok0lona s11OO.
Vicksburg S25OO, Wesson s11OO.
The following are increased (:
Aberdeen $500 10 $1,000; Biloxi
$110O 10 1920; Brookhaven s1I00
TO $1,000; Counth 1920 TO $500;
Greenvilie $1,000 10 $500; Grena-
da $500 10 S1400; Hazlehurst
$1,000 to s11OO; Kosciusko s1O0Oto
slice; Natchsz 5000 to $500;
Port Gibson SLIGO to $500; Water
Valley SLIGO 10 $1,000 /; West Point
S1400 10 s1500; WinOna 1900 10
1920; Yazoo City $500 to $500.
Oxford $l4OO 10 $500.
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COVER THEM OVER.
BY MRS. NORA MARBLE.

1t was Memorial Day, and mem
bers OF the Grand Army Of the Re
: public stood with barred heads un
der the beautiful May sunshine t
do honor to their dead comrades.
The scene was in country
churchyard, mawed by no hum O.
busy life, no surging crowd, no eff
fort at display. A few fitting words
spoken by those only who had
marched side by side, fought the
same battles, endured The same
| priyations with them who lay in
deathIess slumber at their feet
had been utteIed--simple words
lraught with no vain eulogy
when on the sacred stiffness of
the place, rose the voices of two
young ladies, sweetly plaintive,
pure, and beautiful as heaven
Cover them over with beautiful flowers,
Deck them with garlands those heroes of
ours,
Lying so silent by night and by day,
Sleeping the years of their manhood
away"
Long after the group had wend.
ed It's slow way from the church
yard, the tender pathos of their
voices rang in my ears, and the
words, like a refrain, echoed and |
re-echoed through The halls of my /
memory.
Yes, covered they were, those
graves, with flowers strewn by ten
der hands, blooming flowers des-
tined to fade and turn TO ashes like
the forms beneath them. AS |
10th to leave the quiet place,
an aged couple slowly approached
one of the decorated graves. Stern ,
" the old man stood above it while |
his companion fell upon her knees. {
"They were good TO our boy" |
ihe sobbed "see, they have COW {
red him with such fragrant flow
RS" {
Her husband bowed his head, S
)ut uttered not word. Tenderlv
he kissed the mound OF green
arth, then arose and stood by his S
ide.
Have you no tender thoughts S
i our son to-day after twenty long
ears, twenty long, scrrowful 4
ears n she said tearfullv, n
Tender thoughts for one who
isobeyed me, one who left us in t
ur declining years TO take up arms
gainst his Government? No, | q
ball never forgive him, never"
red the harsh old man, with up S
lted hands; he is not my son.D lp
William, the son of Mary and
Ohm Roberts," she said aloud, fol- "
owing the inscription upon the
larble headstone. "Willie,n then o
he whispered, with her lips press n
u TO the stone, "be comforted
e does not mean it. He does not 81
lean it. He will forgive his boy." n
Never cried The old man with
~ eyes; "neverln
"Hush I, said his wife, warning d
I; "husbl" he will hear you.
ONE" el
Crown in your hearts those dead heroes
Of ours, nj
'veT them over with beautiful foEers.s
murmured, following their lot. ID
'ring forns as they passed down
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-07-13
CHANCERY C0URT--SECoND DIST.
SYLVANITS EVANS Cbancolor

In the county of Lauderdalc, on the first Monday
| of January and July and continue twelve days.
In the county OF Newton on the third Monday
of January and July, and continue six days.
In the county of Hancock, on the first Monday of
February and August, and continue six days.
In the county of Harrison, on the second Monday
of February and August, and continue six days
In the county of Jackson, on the third Monday
of February and August, and continue six DAYS
In the county of Clarke, on the first Monday of
March and september and continue six days.
In the county of Jasper, the second Monday
of March and September, and continue six days.
In the county Of Perry, ON the thir Monday of
March and September, and continue six days
In the county of Marion, First District, on the
third Monday of May and November and continue
six days. In the Second District on the second
Monday of May and November, and continue six
DAYS.
In the county of Jones' the first Monday Of
April and October. and continuo six DAYS.
In the county of Covngton, on the second Mon
day in April aud October, and continue six days
In the county of Greene on the third Monday of
April and October and continue six lays.
In the county of Smith on the fourth Monday of
April and October, and continue six days.
In the county Of Wayne, on the first Monday of
May and November and continue six days.
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CORSETS.

CORSETS.
25 dozen French Ccrsets 75c.
I50 dozen French cOissts 2Jc.
lChildren's waists soc.
Madame Gitford's hip prcseryer, 75c.
Misses cOTsets 35c.
Misses Woven corsetss75c.
Try "a pair of our so cent CO,sets, best
value in the city.
MISCELLANEOUS.
I5O doz gents hemstiched handkerchcfs,
colorcd boTdered, fast colors, Sc.
30 doz gents white tics S cents Il dozen
$50 dOz check nainsook and gauze shirts
25c.
$50 doz real balbriggan shirts, worth so
cents, we sell for 40c.
u dozen ladies' gauze shirts 25c.
20 doz ladies' ,ibb shirts, l.. N. and SIS. &c.
100 pes percales Sc.
100 pes printed batiste &c.
100 pcs striped hatiste l0e.
300 pes lawns, choice patterns, Sc
so pcs 40 inch India lawn Sc.
so pcs India lawn DC.
80 pes India lawn SC.
80 pcs India lawn l0c.
10 pcs Oriental skirting, As inch, 4Oc yard.
~ pes Oriental s'1irtng, As inch. 45c yard.
; cards hooks and eyes SC.
Hand snap buttons Zoe per box.
Black and tan leather belts 15c.
Black and tan leather belts with pocket
book attached, 35c.
1nbber Hair Pins l0c per box.
o dozen pleated front shirts 65c.
5 doz plain front shirts soc.
Extra sizs white spreads Use.
1arseilles spreads $l.20.
;vlored spreads, good size, 9Oc.
reduced. Send us a
-tl8faCtlon. When you need
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FIGs.-There are five or six good
varieties of the fig grown here, viz :
The Celeste, Marseilles, Madonna,
or Brunswick, the Brown Turkey,
Black Ischla ESQ caIled,) Green
lschia, Lemon or Angelique, and
we have few white Adnatic, San
Pedro, etc. New varieties are
comingin from time to time, and
our people seem to be learning the
value of this fine luscius and whole.
some fruit. As a market fruit.
both ripe and canned, the fig will
soon be in large demand, and we
advise y0uto plant freely and give
your trees good care. On the dry,
sandy soil you describe, it will be
worth while 10 "plow and serape.n p
or dig out with the spade a broad
trench, four feet wide and eighteen
inches deep, put six or eight inches
OF wood trash, rotten leaves, etc .
In the bottom of the trench, cover
ing with earth a little trampled
down 10 make it solid and level,
and then plant your figs thereon,
either roots or cuttings. When
these begin to grow haul dead
leaves, grass and other trash, and
put a layer of this six or eight
inches thick around your tree.
Keep the ground at all times mel
low, moist, clean and rich and you
Will soon be able 10 gather figs, ad
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General
lmerChandiSR
Usually kept iu first. class store. d
Furniture and Housekeeping Goods Of all
Kinds a Specialtv.


Furniture and Housekeeping Goods Of al
Kinds Speciality.
STOVES are sold lower than New Or
leans or Mobile prices, as l buy them fol
spot cash direct from the manufacturers.
STEAM GRISTMILL-Fresh Meal. .Grits.
Homny, Chops, Cracked Corn and Feed
OF all kinds sold at lowest market prices,
and delivered free of charge within city
limits, Buying feed in large quantities
enables me to get the benefit of wholesale
prices, aud can therefore sell as cheap as
,he cheapest.
CUSTOM SHOE DEPARTMENT where
a person can get the best Shoes for the
least money. No paper s0les, paste board
counters or wooden heeels arc used in
myShoe FactOry-nbue but genuine oak
tanned leather, aud defy competition as
to prices and qualify.
Also, haze always on hand first-class
handmade Shingles for sale at reasonable
prices.
Thanking customers tor past patronage
invite continuance of same.
Respectfully, A. BLIJMER.
Goods Delivered Free of CHARGE.
October 2. 1857. 3l-iv
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You are no son Of mine" san
door. ~
They took him, sir, and shot
him, the boy who deserted TO see
MS mother. The old man smiled
and rubbed his hands gleefully
when he looked on his dead face.
Then he had that monument built
"a palace he said, for my SON. and
every day he was beside it looking
for him to come home. We knew
then he had gone daft. It's been
a mourniul sight sir. these MANY
Years to see him dustlng off the
grave, and polishing The cold mar
ble."
deeply moved at The touching
tale, after a pause, | said: II must
see him again, | fancied he looked
I'LL" and with the sexton by nv
SIDE, | returned to the sleeping
figure.
The old man stirred at our ap.
P.roach, and his eyes slowly un-
closed.
"Hark !" he cried, "the drum"
We listened, but no sound dis.
turbed the stiffness.
'Here they come" he cried.
struggling 10 his feet and pointing
toward the gate. Soldiers but
on, how they shine, At last, at
last,' he murmured with out
stretched arms. "My James, my
sol" " He folded in his embrace
an unseen object, reeled, fell back |
ward, and his long wait was over.
"But Why | said to the sexton,
turning to depart. from the sad /
scene, "did they fail to decorate
this graveW
He was a deserter," was the sim
pie reply.
ALAS" said, "alas! that the
mantle Of charity should be so mar
row."
Fhe sexton stopped and reyer.
emily folded the old man's hands.
"But they rest with Him." |
added. 'Let us hope, with Him
whose mantle of forgiveness is as
vide and deep as eternity"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-07-13

Ii has recently been decided bv
the Supreme Court nf Pehnsylva.
MA that marriages on Sunday are
null and void.
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the walk and out at the gate. "Yea
cover them with roses, fragrant
roses; but better than all, cover
them with the mantle of charity
! OF loving forgiveness"
Give such to the livlng,n qua.
vered a voice behind me; s;the
dead rest well without them.n
Startled, | turned to behold an
old man of wasted frame, and large.
wlsltul, blue eyes, leaning against
tall, marble shaft of much beau
ty.
II beg your PARDON" | murmur-
ed, but thought | was alone in
the cemetery"
lie pad no heed 10 my words,
but anxlously gazed beyond me to
the gate.
"Will he never, never come %
ne sighed; "and Pve got lis house
AL ready for him; this white mar
bic palace, SO tall and beautiful /
SIT IN its shadowow every dav.
waiting for hlm to come"
For whom do you wait" l ask
ed, IN surprise.
Ills name is written there.n he
said, pointing 10 the shaft. and
mournfully shaking his head "I'm
afraid he'll meyer see it, never,n
Sacred TO the Memory
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-07-13

1t is always bad for the truth
when a liar speaks It.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-07-13

------~ 90 N
A STORY INA WoRD.-Sincer1fv
is one Of the most beautiful words
in the English language; and, like
many other words, it has a histo.
ry. 1t comes from two Latin words,
sine and cerG, without cement; and
its origin was IN this wise
In the golden days of Roman
prosperity, when her merchants
were very affluent, and dwelt in
marble palaces on the banks of the
river Tiber, there was very natur-
al sort of emulation in the grand
eur and artistic adornment of their
dwellings, Their successful wars
had made many of the gems of
Grecian art the possessions of the
Roman people. A taste for sculp-
ture had been awakened, and the
sons of Rome set to work them
selves in the school of design.
Good sculptures were quickly
drawn up. But lodges sometimes
took place then as now. For in
stance, if the sculptor came upon a |
flaw i'll the marble or il the chisel
missed its aim, he had carefully
constructed cement with which lie
tllled in the chink, and so cleyerly
fixed it as TO be imperceptlble. In
time, however, and after the pur
chase had long been completed,
heat or damp or accldent would
affect the cement, and it would re-
veal It's presence there. The con-
sequence was that, when new con
racts came to be signed for com !
nissioned works of art, there was !
clause put in that they were 10 :
De sine cerG, or without cement. :
What picture-story in a word y
What a moral meaning in it y
amely, that true character should :
Q sincere, or without cementl y
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-05
MOrtgaved Farms.

The Lansing journal recently published
an article on the annual report of the
state labor bureau, which will be issued
next month, and which will tell start
ling story to the farmers of Michigan.
The entire work of the bureau this year
has been devoted to collecting statistics
showing the extent to which farms of
the state are mortgaged. The journal
says. The figures collected by the bureau
are absolutely correct so far as they go,
and vet they necessarily fall far below
showing the true condition OF affairs.
The statistics are based on the reports OF
the township supervisors, who in making
their assessment last spring were instruct
ed to ask each farmer whether there was
mortgage on his farm, and the amount.
there was no power to compel the ques-
toned ones to give the desired informa-
tton, and many whose farms are mort
gagged refused point blank to answer the
question, invited the supervisor to seek
warmer climate than the state affords,
or asserted bluntly that the whole bust
ness was a scheme of the Bohemian oat
men. or course, however, Commits
sioner Heath was compelled to as
sumo that none of these farms were
mortgaged as only those OF which
he had positive information through the
admissions or the owners could be
used. AS it is, the footings reach a stu
pendous amount, and it is said that the
total of the millions in mortgages and the
hundreds of thousands paid out annually
for interest are fairly paralyzing.
The commissioner declines to give any
portion of the report to the press until it
is printed but the state Grange was per
mitted to inspect the tables, and enough
has leaked from the members to show that
the figures are even more than the rumors
have implied. In lngham County, for in
stance, nearly half of the farms are mort
gagged, the total reaching almost 30 per
cent of their assessed value, or nearly q
fifth of the assessed value OF all the farms
in the county. Many of the other old
counties are in a much worse condition,
and the average for the state will be
materially larger than that of lngham.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-05
The Ex-Secretary of the Treasury
Passes Peacefully Away.

Ex-SecretaryDaniel Manning died at 80
O'Clock Saturday afternO N, at the esidence
of his son, James ii. Manning, Albany NY.
Death came very peacefully. Since early
morning the spark of life gradually flick
cred until the light was out and the life
was done. He died in the presence of his
family, those around his bedside being
Mrs. Daniel Manning, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
erick C. Manning, Mrs. John f. Delhanty,
Miss Mary r. Manning, Mr.. VIM. j. Fryer
AMI Mr.. Robert l.. Fryer.
Mr.. Manning's mental faculties remain
ed bright for the past lew days and nearly
to the hour OF his death his hearing fac4l-
ties were intact, and ne could under
stand what was going on. At noon
the end began 10 appear, and all were
prepared. He had received holy COM
muniOn at the hands of the Rev.
DR.. J. Livingston Reese, rector Of
ST. Paul's Episcopal Church, several
times since the hand of death appeared,
and the clergyman was at his bedside Oder
ing pia ayers and consolstiOn.
Mr.. Manning came to Albany on Tues
day evening, December 18th. to seek rest.
The diagnosis of his case at the time he
was stricken down at Washington show
ed that he was suffering from Bright s
disease. This, his physicians believed was
brought on by close confinement i'll his
private office in the Treasury Building
which was in a wretched sanitary condi-
tiOn
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-05
FOREIGN FACTS.

Advices from Zanzibar state that Henry
NJ. Stanley reached Wadelai early In
September, after suffering many priva-
tions.
The steamship Great Eastern has been
sold for SS2,5 500, and it will cost $4,000
more to break her up for the iron in her.
The cyar will send an address to the pope
on the occasion Of his jubilee, but will not
present any gifts.
Russia has prohibited expectation to
Prussia of stone to be used for building
ports.
The uni vcrsity at st. Petersburg has
been closed because of the disturbance
caused by nihilistic students.
Latest dispatches do not indicate war
between Austria and Russia.
An order has been issued prescribing re.
auctions of judicial rents throughout,
practically, the whole Of Ireland. The
average reduction is IA per cent.
It is rumored that Lord Stanley OF
Preston has accepted the governor gen.
eralship of Canada.
Foreign goods exhibited at the Mel
bourne exposition will not be subject to
duty unless sold.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-05

Mrs. Andrew Hoover of Pokagon left
uer home for short time, leaving her
Ii months old baby in charge of its broth.
er who was only four or five years old.
When she returned She found the house in
danes and the baby was burned to death.
The kerosene oil can was found tipped
over near the stove.
Miss Helen M. Smith, for 10 years assist
ant po tmaster at jackson, has been APP
pointed postmaster by the bondsmen of
the ate postmaster, Maj. w. w. Van Ant.
werp, until his successor shall have been
appointed.
The shorthorn cattle breeders associa-
ton, at its recent meeting in Lansing
elected the following officers: President,
Samuel johnson Of the agricultural COL
lege; vice-president, w. e. Boyden OF
Delhi Mills; secretary, 1. II. Butterfield of
Lapeer; treasurer, BIZ. Gibbons of Detroit;
directors for three years, Amos F. Wood
of Mason, W. J. Barton Of East Saginaw,
and Dwight Curtis of Addison.
W. f. Leach presented Myron Baker
post grand army at Morenci with gavel
madefro block Of cedar cut by himself at
Gen. Braggs Mission Ridge headquarters
and shaft of persimmon wood from tree
at Gen. Grants headquarters at Orchard
Knob.
The new lumber and iron docks ut
Escanba give employment to several
hundred men.
The bodies OF two dead Italians were
eaten by wolves near L'Anse q few days
ago.
Madam Marantette's famous horse Ever
green, for which she refused s5,0OOslast
year, died of pink eye at Mendon.
Business men of northern Michigan
recently held convention at Petoskey
and took preliminary steps toward boom
ing their district.
There are 20, $50 members of the q. A. II.
in this state in good and regular standing.
DR.. Hugo X. Arndt, professor of materia
medica in the homeopathic department OF
the university of Michigan, was married
recently to Mrs. Flora b. Hall Of Ann Ar.
Dor.
A railroad from Battle Greek TO Bay
City is talked of.
Louis Talliman, the oldest policeman OF
the Saginaw Valley, is dead.
The saloon near the soldiers home has
been closed, the prophet tors being innu-
anced by the recent decision of the United
States supreme court in the Kansas pro-
ftbition casos.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-05
THE STATE.
Seth G.. MOffatt Dead,

Seth G. Moffatt, representative from the
eleventh district, died of blood poisoning
from malignant carbuncle, In the Provi-
dance hotel in Washington on the I'D inst.
mir. Monatt was born in Battle Creek,
August 1, 1871. He received "a common
school education there, and removed in
the fall OF 50, with his parents, to Colon,
st. Joseph county, where he spent two
years as teacher in the seminary. In the
fall of 1860 he entered the literary depart
ment of the Michigan university, but be-
ing obliged to abandon the literary course,
he entered the law department the follow
year. lie graduated thence in 1853. Dur
ing his last year at the university he was
In the Office of the Hon. Thomas NJ. Cooley.
After graduation he entered the law office
of Hon. Byron ID. Bail OF Grand Rapids.
In the spring of 1864 he removed to Lyons
and began the practice OF law, From
county, in the fall of 1866. He was at once
elected prosecuting attorney for that
county and reelected in 1868. In 1870 he
was elected state senator from the Thirty
first district, and served through the
regular and extra sessions OF lSG-2, ana
the Edmunds impeachment trial. He was
appointed member of the constitutional
Commission Of 1873 In the spring of 1874
he'was appointed register OF the United
States land office at Traverse City, vice
Lieut. Gov. Bates deceased, and held the
Office till it's removal to Reed City in 1913.
In that wear he was elected prosecuting
attorney of Grand Traverse county.
Haying been elected representative in the
state legislature in loSd, his name was at
once mentioned in connection with the
speakership, to which responsible posi-
ton he was elected from among several
prominent and capable candidates. In
1884 he was elected representative in the
10Th congress, on the republican ticket, by
vote of 16,467 to S,9y2 for John Power,
fusionist The Eleventh district was the
only one in the state that had no prohibit
bition candidate for congress. In 1886 he
was reelected, receiving IA, 4S5 votes to
l2242 for John Power, and ;AJ3 for Theron
f.. Carpenter, prohibitionist.
Under the laws of this state it becomes
the duty of the clerk of the county in
which Mr.. Moifatt resided to tOrwith
notify the secretary of this state of the
fact Of Mr.. Moffatt's death. The governor
will thereupon order special election, OF
which the secretary of state shall notify
the sheritfs of the counties of the eleventh
district, and the election will thereupon
proceed as in the case Of the regular bien-
NAL elections
the committee to accompany Mr.. Moi
fatt's remains is as follows: Senators Palm
or, Jones of Arkansas, and Teller of Colo
RADIO; Congressman Cutcheon, Ford
Brewer and Fisher of Michigan, Wade of
Missouri, Lyman of Iowa and Shivelry of
Intiiana