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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25
THE NANCY LEE.
London Wit and Misdom.

London Wit ana w lSuOm.
We were we'll mo The Gulf OI
Bengal, bound for Madras, when
one morning, just as night wa,
fading into dawn, | thought
heard voice haillng us from the
surface of the sea. There are sea
birds who cry out almost like hu'
man beings, and although | was
startled by the hail | dismissed il
after few seconds as the cry OF Il
bird. Scarcely had | done SO when
It cane again, aId this time
knew /! was the voice of woman
There was no need to hail he mate
on watch, for lie heard The cry a'
well. We we're Jogging along un'
der easy sail, aid lie seized The
glass and ran up the forerigging
There was sort of steam rising
from The wafer, but the mate had
mol climbed thirty feet when down
he came again, and in one
breath ordered he ship into he
wind. the captain aroused and a
boat lowered.
We of he watch had no doubt
that the ship had been hailed by
castaways, but the boat was down
before any Of us made Out lone
woman in a sort of canoe craft
about two cables'S length away on
our port bow. She hal neither
paddle nor oar, aud her craft was
driving with the wind and sea,
while she sat covering in the stern.
Our boat was soon alongside of
her craft, aud The woman and Ca
noe were soon aboard of The Al
miral Nelson. The watch below
had been turned up, and every
body was on deck TO see what as
going cn. The woman was white,
and, as we soon ascertained, Amer
lean. ] say white, but bronze
would be The better term, for II
was evident that she had long been
expUsed to tropical weather. She
was of medium size, regular feat
ures, about forty years of age. and
had ut one time been good looking.
"Who and where is the captain
of this shipg" she suddenly snap
ped, as she reached The deck.
"Here, ma'am," gallantly replied
our old man as he stepped briskly
forward.
Il want 10 talk 10 you in your
cabin" she continued, her fingers
working nerv0usly and her eyes
afire.
They had been gone a quarter
OF an hour when both reappeared
on deck. | was at the wheel and
therefore heard all that was said.
Ii appeared that the woman, whose
name was Mrs. Thomas, owned
and sailed the schooner which had
been left her at her husbands
death. IL was a strange vocation
Tor a woman, but it seemed she
liked il ard also had II good busi-
ness head on her. She had a crew
of six. her male being an English
man and the others Lascars, and
had been sailing between nearly
all the towns on the Gulf. Three
days before we picked her up her
schooner had LETT Sumalra bound
for the Indian coast. The crew
seemed 10 be perfectly quiet and
content, but at 10 o'clock OF the
previous night, headed by the
mate, had suddenly Land violent
hands on her and sent her adrift
without water, food or paddle.
The intention was 10 run away
with the schooner and cargo and
sell them, and this plan might
have been carried out but for her
rescue.
She was the spunkiest little wo-
man ] ever saw. She was so mad
she couldn't stand sull for three
seconds al a time. What she
Sanied was for our ship 10 90 in
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25
THE COURTS.
THE REGULAR TERMS.
CIRCUIT C0URT-SEcoND DIST.


T., tbo county of Winston, on the third Monday
0fIannary and July. and continue six days.
In tLe county of Laudcriale, on the fourth Mon
Jay sf January and July and continue eighteen
DAYS. 81, .rl
ofFebruary aud August and continue eighteen
dava 81,
IN the county of Kemper, on the second Monday
of March and September, and continue twelve
days. -, ,,, "A
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 Marion First District, on the
third Monday of june and December, and con
tjruo six days In the Second District, on the
fourth Monday of June and december, and eontn'
ue six days.
In the county of Hancock, on the first Monday
Of MAY and November and continue twelve days
In the county of Harrison, on the third Monday
cfMay and November and continue twelve days
Ia the county of jackson, on the first Monday Of
June and continue six days and December and
continue twelve days.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25
THE BAYONET OR THE NEGRO.
Birmingham News.

Birmingham News.
The negroes in the South will
always vote as race, and will
hold all or none of the Offices IN
every locality, and everybody has
learned that negro government is
simply insulTerable. The South
prefers military despoIism TO ne
gro domination, and will have it
when the issue is made.
If Reed aud IA partisan Senate
have determined to set the negro
over us they have determined to
destroy Republican facts and forms
of government in all these South
ern States.
If they propose TO send Federal
Commissioners here TO control
elections, they should send an
army with them.
The Ne1cS has always avowed
that the South was in The Union,
aud Of it, and would fight for it,
and this is all true, but only of a
While Mans Union.
The South does not propose to
belong to an African Union, and
If to an African Despotism, il must
be maintained by Federal bayo-
nets.
Send soldiers, Mr.. Reed, to take
charge of and guard your inspec.
tors and supervisors. They may
run the machine" down South,
but only when backed by FEDERAL
bayonets.
TO a military despotism the
South may submit, but never to
the curse of such supervisors as
Harrison and Quay and Wanna
maker and Reed would force the
! Federal judiciary, their ermine
dragged in the mire, 10 appoint.
Let us deal frankly with thl'
monstrous madman or knaye
Reed, and Senate Of the United
States, drunken with power, and
say to them that we don't propose
to vote as subjects of IL despotism
or under the masters eye of 9
Chandler or Sherman returning
board.
We are to day in the Union, and
loyal to il, and have never violated
its laws or any contract made will
| it, or any duty as its citizens, anC
we have done and said enough-al
that we can do and retain rtspec!
for ourselves-and if Harrison,
government undertakes now, after
these twenty-five years of peace
to sci the negro over us and rob us
of the rights of free citizenthlp, we
frankly give Mr. Reed and the
Senatorial traitors to the Conetitu-
lion, notice that this proposed
code will be the conversion Of the
South into a military despotism.
We can afford to submit to the
bayonet, but never to the DEGREES
of body OF partisan bigots led by
man who, to win and retain pow
er, would subject us to namele IS
insults and TO negro mastery. The
negro is dearer, and The white man
OF The South more hated, each day,
as The reelection of Harrison be-
comes more and more palpably
impossible.
The adoption of Charles Sum.
ner's dreadrully codicil to the last
will and testament Of our fathers,
the Constitution, was called the
brntalest blunder of The ever blum
dering politicians of the North and
the South. States were induced
to adopt this Constitutional
Amendment in order 10 escape
the presence of soldiers and The
bayonet set up State governments
of the reconstruction period.
We have learned that the bayo-
net is a wiser and better ruler than
the negro or the carpet bagger.
Carry out your inlquit0us de-
signs, Mr.. Reed and Chandler, and
ere long the honest masses of the
people will call you cursed"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25

The wheat crop for this year will
be smaller than that of last year
in the United States, and larger in
India, Russia and the rest of Eu-
rope. Therefore the price OF honr
in this country will be higher than
if foreign wheat could be imported
which will be prevented II Mckin-
ley's cut-lhroal tariff bill becomes
law,
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25

| --@ N----
In these days of Republican mis-
rule and robbery, it is refreshing
TO read after that always hopeful
writer, Henry w. Watterson. He
says
This country is not upon the
down grade. 1t has not even
reached The summit of The heights
of national glory, 10 which it is
steadily, but suIRly, surely and
against the o ructions piled
across its path b. republican lead.
ers, making its Way. 1t is too
large 10 be gobbled up by a clique
of politicians, and such politicians,
led by such scamps as Reed and
Quay. 1t is too great to be long
governed by a combine of mere
sectionalism and plunder. About
the time that this force bill, if it be
passed, as | think it will be, breaks
beneath its authors, showing their
folly and its rOttenness, the Ad-
ministratIon will be in the market
borrowing money to carry on the
government, having exhausted the
surplus left in the Treasury by its
wild adventures and wasteful APP
preparations. Then The people,
with their bellyful of mounte-
banks and mountebankism, will
throw off the disgusting mask of
corruption as an overloaded stom-
ach throws off its gorge, by one
heroic effort of relief, and we shall
be free forever from political
quacks and patriotic shams and
frauds. Old Gov. Charles Scott,
the Indian fighter, and one of the
clearest headed and biggest heart
ed statesmen and heroes produced
by Kentucky in The early days,
used to say that when things get
bad, they are hard TO mend, but
when they get Id bad, they just
cut loose and mend themselves"
| have an impression that they arc
nearing this latter condition.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25

The world is not made for a
tomb, but a garden. You are to
be a seed, not a death. Plant
yourself and you will sprout, bury
yourself and you will decay. For
a dead opportunity there is no
resurrection. The only enjoyment,
the only rest 10 be attained in this
world mrsi be secured on the
wing. Each day brings IFS own
benefit, but it has none 10 spare.
What escapes to-day has escaped
forever. Tomorrow has no over
flow 10 atone for The yesterdays.
I Old Homestead.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25
ORR AGENTS.

,,1owinc gentlemen are authorized to col
l"O ,,,a. to the DRMocRAT.STAR office, and re-
coipt for the same: 90 sn,,or. Ni.aia.irDi
a. %.' Gsorce W. Brown, Pearlington,
a., n Butchert Pass Christian
N. Io.se II. Jackson Orange Grove
MIS-. Otis, Logtewn.
a, Hugh NJ. McCallnu Augusta
II. n. n. ?. Jones' Hattieshurg'
Mr. panl Mcleod Leakesville
NJ S. Davis, Waynesboro,
r,nt sam1 B. Watts Meridian,
Mr j. p Davis, Henderson,
ur Thomas Mcintyre, II Union St. New Dr.
leans, louisiana
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25

THB SANR OLD ROosTER-The
man who wipes his nose on his
sleeves, picks his teeth with a
fork, squirts tobacco juice on the
cookstoVe hearth, rides 10 mill
with corn in one end Of The sack
and a stone in the other, drives
with hickory bark lines deposits
his money in his last winters socks.
insists on paying his taxes with
coon skins and wild honey, fastens
his suspenders with wooden pegs
and wears "possum belly" pants,
Is the same old roosier who has no
use for his home paper.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25

The VIcksburg Post docs not en-
dOrse Senator Georges plan, be-
cause it does not believe it would
work we'll or prove satisfactory.
The suggestion of the Senator that
the Legislature elect the Governor
and he be authorized TO appoint
the other State officers, the Post
terms "wild and out of place." for
as 1t says, "the appointing power
now welded by the Governor. in
the selection of Judges, is already
the subject of much adverse criti-
cism and dissatisfaction, and the
new plan suggested would certain
ly subject our Stale TO the criticism
that ii was being run under the
one man power"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25
is THE CENSUS A CHEATg
vicksburg Herald.

Vicksburg Herald.
We print the approximate fig
nres of the census of Jackson,
Greenville, Naichez and Vicks-
burg. These are as surprising as
disappointing. They are so much
under The estimates of we'll post
ed citizens in all the cities, that
we are forced to the conclusion
there is method in these under-es-
Inmates, for we are sure they are
all under estimates. 1t would be
possible 10 miss some citizens here
ana there, but when it seems TO
have been done everywhere in
this State, there must be some 9TH
er explanation for it, than mere
accident.
A great many complaints have
been made to us in this city, and
we have repeatedly relerreI To-
them; and in the country even
less effort 10 secure full enumer-
alton, seems To have been made.
As the appOrtionment of the next
House of Representatives will be
made on this census, it seems
probable The census is beng made
with a view 10 robbing the State of
one or two Representatives.
So far as the census of the pop
ulation is concerned, we regard it
totally unreliable. In this city
and adjacent country, we think
there is from 20 to 25 per cent. of
the population not enumerated.
Our city should take some sys~
tematlc and effective method of
finding out how mamythe enumer-
ators left out of the count.
AS sample of the way it is
done in other localities. We copy
tins from the Raymond Gazette
1--WE know nothing of the CEN
sus-taking elsewhere, but here in
Hlnds county is was farce, and
for ten years to come will be a dis
grace TO all who had anything TO
do withlt. Right in this aeighbnr-
hood we can point out family after
family not visited at all, and with.
in thirty steps of the GaSette office
is a business man with a large
family, prominent in every way,
whose name will not appear
among the country's population.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25

DOS'r borrow your neighbOr's
DEMOcRAT-STAR; get one Of your
own. II only takes - 10 get a
copy a whole year.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25

The school book trust is getting
into decidedly bad order. Not
long ago il was charged with brib-
cry m the State Of Washington.
and now the same charge is made
against it in Virgins. The trust
should be discouraged by rairon-
izing to The utmost firms that are
doing business independent Of il.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-07-25

Mr.. J. ID. Rockefeller has given
another 100000 10 the Baptist
Educational Society for its general
work. He had already given 800
600. besides 10000 for The found
ing Of a Baptist colleso m Chicago.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
Electrified Seeds.

The results of the application of cleo
tricity to seeds aud to growing plants are
curious. Mr.. N. Specnew has described
the latest experiments in Practical Flee
tricity In one series he used seeds of
haricot beans, sunfowers, and winter and
spring rye The seeds were soaked, cleo
trifed, and Immediately sown. The
plants were more developed, their leaves
were larger, and their color brighter than
those grown from non-electrifed seed,
but the yield was not affected. In an
other series of experiments plates of cop
per aud zinc about two feet by two feet
six inches were buried at the ends of the
plots and connected by their upper faces,
the effect being to establish a current
through the earth. The result was mani
tested by larger crop and by the growth
of vegetables of enormous dimensions.
In third series electrical collectors were
mounted on insulated roads, and con-
nected by wires, the effect being to OBJ.
tain a highly electrified atmosphere.
Seeds of rye, corn, oats, barley, peas,
clover, potatoes, and fax were used.
This form of electro-culture increased the
yield of seed an average of one-half, and
that of straw one-third, while the ripen-
ing was more rapid. &c Chicago NsSs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
The Preacher Was Ton Eresh

In Pickens Superior Court jury
lad been out some time trying to agree
on a verdict in one of the arson cases.
In order to get little exercise thew
were permitted to walk up and down
the street In charge of an officer. Dur
ing this exercise preacher came near
the juryme1, and in low voice whis-
rered: Stick to him, boys. stick to
nm; you know l am your preacher,
and you must do as 1 tell YOU The
jury, 'n returning to the courtroom
informed Judge Gober how they had
been approached. Judge Gober had
the minister summoned before him, and
sentenced him to Jail for a month and
to pay dne of $500. -Sapanrsah Nesus,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
Military Ballooning.

The Russian hpalid has just published
an order from the Minister of War pre-.
scribing military aerostatic exercises in
the fortresses. The regulation of this
service was sanctioned on April 81.
The application of aerostation to the art
of making war dates from the last cen,
fury, and had been tried in France; but
the trials made in France, as well as in
Austria, gave such little success that ever
IN Germany the army little though OF
employing balloons. 1t was proved BY
the Americans in iheir Civil War and By
the French during the siege of Paris tina,
balloons could be of great use. Since
then the Russian Ministry has been look
ing on at the success arrived at by
Others, and it is now DESTROYS of intro.
ducing this service into its army, jast as
it adopted the pigeon service few yeari
ago.-Aa'l and Express.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
South American Poisoned Arrows

The savages and others that inhabit
the almost unknown Amazonian frontiers
of Peru and Bolivia kill their game with
tiny poisoned arrows blown through reed
guns ten or twelve feet long. The ar
rows are made of species of iron wood,
or tipped with bit of flint, poisoned
at the point. Strange to say, though the
merest scratch of one of the arrows
causes death in less time than it takes
to tell it, the flesh of the animals killed
thereby can be eaten with impnnity, as
the poison acts only through the blood,
producing paralysis and instant death,
but is comparatively harmless when taken
into the stomach. South American In-
'dians kill n;ore birds, tapirs, jugars, and
even larger animals, with the blow gun,
than the most expert hunters of other
lands can bring down with the best
rifles, and when these poisoned become
weapons of warfare they are more to be
dreaded than grape and canister. The
deadly weapons are perfectly noiseless,
and cannot be distinguished among the
dense foliage when in the hands of
savage perched like a monkey in the
branches of tree.
The secret of the poison has never
been revealed, it being kept within the
knowledge of few medicine men" oil
each tribe, and handed down from the
father to the SON Sir Robert Thornburg,
who has made poisons life study, says
that it is probably distilled from the sap
of the strychnos toxifera, shrub re-
sembling that which supplies the
''Quaker button" of commerce, from
which strychnine is made. Others as.
sert that it is taken from the poison
glands of venomous serpents. More ter
rible still to contemplate is The possibility
that it is derived from the putrefaction
of human corpses, A recent writer states
that the dead bodies after a battle, and
often those of prisoners taken in war, are
devoted to this diabolical purpose; being
stuck full OF arrow points and left in tine
sun for weeks or months, until the flesh
is all decayed and the arrows thoroughly
saturated in putrefaction. After being
subjected TO that process, even those who
prepare the arrows must handle them
with the greatest caution, as the slight
est puncture or Craze of the skin means
quick and horrible death by poison for
which there is no antidote. Instances
are known where arrows of this sort,
which have lain for many years in
museums, have killed those who care
lessly handled them Washington Star.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30

The annual report of the managsrf
of the Pennsylvania Hospital relates o
very interesting case. showing how
benefactions long past have procured
unexpected returns in the present. Al
aged relative of the late Admiral S. w.
Godon, of the United States Navy. at
the period when the latter was lad
and had just entered upon his career
as midshipman, fell into the care Of
the institution for several years. Wher
off his cruises the midshipman, led by
by his affection and interest for this pa.
tient, visited him at the hospital and
often expressed his great gratitude for
the sedulous care and attention shown
for the comfort and welfare of tho pa
tent
This gratitude was signally mani.
tested when he came to make his will,
after attaining high rank and distino.
ton in the service of his country, for
by it. after providing for those of his
kindred who he deemed had claims
upon his bounty, he made the Penn
sylvania Hospital his residuary legatee.
and, all the life annuities having now
terminated, that institution has re-
ceivcd in cash in three payments sos
954 80 and $4,000 IN per cent, and
in the month of April OF the present
year the further sum Of $39, 900 United
States per cent, in all the magnii-
cent gift at present market values Of
over $l13, 000.-Philadelphta Times.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-08-30
ACTORS ATTACKED BY A MOB.
The Members of "A Variety Troupe Rough
1y Treated In West virginia Town.

The Members of "A Variety Troupe ROugh-
1y Treated in a West virginia Town.
There was very serious riot on the floating
theatre at Ceredo, Wayne county, W. Va The
audience drove the performers from the stage
into the river, and there stoned them in most
inhuman manner. Several of the troupe as
well rs the citizensand police who went TO the
rescue were badly wounded. The sunny
South, variety troupe were at the theatre,
which had all along been disorderly, made an
open attack on one of the performers Two
members of the company went TO his aid, but
were oyerpowered and terribly beaten. The
whole troupe then went 10 the rescue. while
the two police of the town deputized half a
dozen citizens, and tried to quell the riot The
lights were put out, and police, citizens, per
formers, and audience became mixed up In a
confused mass.
The audience drove the police and perfor-
mers back through the stage and all were
crowded into the river, while crowds on the
bank began to stone the half drowned and
helpless wretches. Finally the police got
ashore and began shooting into the crowd jim
Fry was badly wounded. While this was going
on the company got shore when they were
again attacked, and four or five were knocked
senselesS With clubs or stones. Finally all
were rescued by citizens, but the company is
badly uSei up.