The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-12-21
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Mexico.
Gen. w. S. Frathcrstonc has bee
called on by many Of his old soldier
to he a candidate for the Democrats
nomination for Governor aud he Ia
consented.
Arrangements have been made al va
zoo City for Il big chicken hight at Mo
bile during the holidays. Mississippi
and Tennessee birds arc 10 fight Ken.
lucky and Ohio.
J. X. Almon, the spicy editor Of th,
Durant Democrat, was defeated by ,
small majority for Mayor at the cleo.
ton in Durant recently.
The trial at Osyka of Henry Shcri'
dan for the murder of +. II. Varnado
with DR.. j. j. Goss and W. L. Rial,
as accessories, is attracting cOnSidcra'
BILE interest in South Mississippi. A
grass widow is said TO have been al
the bottom of the trouble.
The little Scven-i ear-Old Gaugh Ell
of U. S. District Attorney Charles ID.
Ilowry, Of Oxford, was burned so Sc
riously one day last week, that she
died a few days after. Her clothing
caught fire and her father aud two
colored men succeeded IN cxtinguisl-
ing the flames. but in doing so they
were severely burned on their hands +,
and the little girl was 50 badly burned
that her life could not possibly be
saved,
The young people Of VIcksburg are
going to have Il ''CaIico Ball" I dance
the old year out and the new one in,
December 3lst.
The South MiSSissippian saws Capt.
Matthews, III County Superntend-
ent of Education, says that Bunch,
the man who robbed the express train
on the Northeastern Railroad recent.
ly, applied to him tor a public school
last spring.
1t is suggested that the convicls of
the State penitentiary could be used
in making bagging inside the walls.
The next meeting of the Alliance
and Wheel under the name of "Fdrm-
crs and Laborers Union of America"
will be held in St. Louis on The first
Thursday in December, 1889.
The joint convention ofthe National
Wheel and Alliance organizations
convened in Meridian, last week, and
consolidated under the name of the
Farmers Alliance Wheel and Coop
eratIve Union of America. Evan
Jones, of Texas, wal elected Prcsi-
dent Isaac McCracker, of Arkansas,
Vice-Presidcnt +. b. Gardner, OF
Tennessee, secretary Linn Tanner, of
Louisiana, treasurer. The meeting
was very harmonious and largely at
tended by representative farmers from
several States.
j. NJ. Mathews, son of the late Print
Mathews, IS a candidate for United
States District Attorney for ,he north
ern district of Mississippi. Meredith
is a base ball umpire par excellence,
a pretty good newspaper man and a
rising lawyer. May he arrive there
simultaneously with both feet.
BY the burning of a residence on the
1lth inst, at Cookvillo, j. King, wife
and six children weic burned to death.
President Hardy, OF the Gulf and
Ship Island Railroad, will start in a
few days for New York, in the inter
est of his enterprise.
The Thornton House, at Gulfport,
was sold under mortgage for $3.50 last
week. ,
The Supreme Court adjourned last t
Monday until the first Monday in I
January. p
ii. ii. Hays, of Wilkinson county, '
saving seed zane sufficient made
S76 gallons Of the finest syrup, aud
$3.50 clear, off one acre Of ground.
A young white mar was arrested at
Pennington on the 9Th, Hnd,r the
of Charles White. Letters on
bis person show him to be Walter
and lac is held for grand
larceny.
Gen. A. d. Upshaw, of Tennessee, ?
'ormerly of Holly Springs, Mississip- .
Assistant Commissioner of Indian
resigned his Office last week,
Ind will probably resume his journal
site profession. n
MI. Bob Magee, Of Simpson county,
vas thrown from his buggy the other
lay and sustained injuries about the 4
Iead which resulted fatally in d few =
ours.
Surely the South Is loyal. Green &
lille has a flames A. Garfield Lodge,
. o. +. SOIL" Surely the Repub- 81
can ask no more.
The Woodville Republican tells Of a Al
who Is tr.ing 10 cross ms bees
nth lightning bugs, IL order 10 en-
bic them 10 work at night. al
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Louis Dunn, aged Is, shot aud kill ~,
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