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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

EscArAwrA, MISS, Aug. 20. 1890.

Editor Democrats tar;
The entertainment at The X. oi
II. hall for the benefit Of Zion
school building fund, was a decid'
ell success. Miss Jennie Tam, the
principal of the school, and her
pupils gave the entertainment,
and although the ones given by her
school on previous occasions Of
closing school were pronounced
fine, This, we think, was without
an equal. MISS Tam is undenia-
bly, an adept in the art of teach
ing school, and we think we have
one of the best schools III the cOun.
tv, all things considered. What q
pity that people, individually, do
not appreciate more fully The ben
efit-Of such an opportunity. MISS
Tam is a first class disciplinarlan,
rs is evidenced by the conduct of
the children when before The pub.
lie. On this occasion the recita-
tiOns, tahleaX, ETC., were very hap
PLY chosen. | think the last scene,
the "'wax figger show" would have
been worthy Of a much more pre-
tentions company. Miss Jennie
Holmes, as the lady owner and ex-
hibitor, certainly brought out the
caricature to perfection. Judging
from the size of her bonnet, il
must have taken her some time to
manufacture il, and with Johnny
10 wind up The images one could
almost imagine a real "waX figure"
show. "Susan b Anthony" upon
being wound up, deposited a vote
for woman suffrage; Napoleon
Bonaparte, who discovered Amer
IcaO and was such a wonderful
discoverer, chiefly because he was
such m adept IN the use of the spy
glass, upon being wound up, was
seen 10 be spying ont the new cuS.
tom-house at Biloxi Cd (great
lGmghter) The next was The "feger"
of the lady's deceased husband
whom she loved 81 well. and who
was sIung 10 death by bees. Upon
being wound up, showed how he
fought the bees. Then there was
Mrs. WInslOw, the inventor OF
soothing syrup, and who gives the
baby a dose for our benefit,-and
many others too numerous 10 men
lion. Music on The piano was rem
dered by Miss ROsenthal and 9TH
ers. Refreshments were served in
the school room below, and we'll
patrOnized. A good crowd was
out, and it Is TO be hoped, a few
more efforts will entirety raise The
debt.
MIR. Henry Ehlers is yet very Sc
riously i'll.
Rev. MIR. Yonce, pastor of The
Lutheran church, continues tn be
punctual to his appointment each
third Sunday, but The people here
do not attend services as they
ought.
Rev. Geo. II. Thompson is faith
full To his appintment-nOw the
second Sunday-at Zion NJ. f.
Church. Ii is currently reported
that the finaces of this church are
at a low ebb, why is il. The mem
bers and friends of Zion should
wake up 10 a realization of their
privileges.
Mrs. Geo. Carter was visiting her
mothers family last week.
The Knights of Honor excursion
was largely attended from here.
The Howe and Griffin mill and
planer are running IN full time.
ITEMIZER,
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

WE have a private letter from
Hattiesburg, dated the 18th inst,
which states that the panic caused
by a couple of cases of small pox
at that place is about over, and
those who ran away are returning
and taking up their line of bust
ness. There has been but three
cases Of the disease. one is well
and the other two improving. The
physicians think there is no dan
ger Of any other cases.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22
NrW sEWINe MAeHINE bon SALE.

A new Singer Sewing Macn'"O
with all attachments aud improve
ments is offered for sale at a red''cea'
price for cash. The machine cOstR0O'
but S35 cash will get IT. Apply 10
The DEMocRAT-STAR OFFICE
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22
LAND NOTICE.
AAND I.lv A. 1890.

LAND OFFICE At Jackson, MISS
July ls, leyV;
Notice. is hereby given that the iog !.
ing named settler has filed not'eo 80,
intention to make final proof ~ bs
Of his claim, and that said proof go
made before the Judge or in ms Wi...
the Circuit Clerk at LeakesNhNI
on August 20. 1890. viz: No.
"a ee5 for the west ! northeast aHdss
A.! southeast ! section ), township i OO'''
range 4 west. -,,nosses 10
He names the following wines and
move his continuous residence nPO"
cultivation Of said land, viz; r. W.
4. /. Greene, L. o. Williamson, Leaf
Harrison aud d. ". Mcleod, al u
p. o., Greene county, Miss p.u,ster.
July Is, 1890.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

The Constitutional Convention
will prove an expensive thing for
this State. The cost will not be
less than $4,000, and may exceed
that amount. The session is likely
to be two months.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22
THE %"PIoAYUNE ACT"

Senator Geo. q. billiard, of Nox.
ubee county, suddenly becoming
very saving and wishing TO immor-
talize himself by the introduction
Of great economical measures,
seemed to think, at the last session
of the Legislature, that he would
"turn a few honest pennies" for
the State at the expense of the
newspapers. The largest game
the economizing Senator could see
while the eft was on" was the
newspapers of his State, and so he
introduced, and succeeded in get
ting carried, an act reducing the
printers fees to five cents per sub
division for the advertisement of
lands delinquent for taxes. This
act is well called the "Picayune
Act" and we think it is a digrace
to the State. Before, the printers
received scarcely enough to justify
the publication of the lists of lands
but now the sum offered is scarce-
ly enough to pay for tie printers
ink. 1t seems strange TO us hat
a set of men, who, we presume,
would like to be denominated an
intelligent set of men called upon
to represent the people in the
making of laws, should conde-
scend to such a job as this. We
do not believe that the people of
the State will endorse their repre-
sentatives in the passage of this
act, or in any thing that tends to
injure the press of the State, and
we with confidence, predict that
they, with us, will insist upon the
repeal of this law by the next Leg
islature. We publish below the
communication from the Presi.
dent of the Press Association
bearing on this subject. We en-
dorse it in tOtO-every word is an
echo of our sentiments. And we
are glad to say that the DEMOCRAT
STAR long ago determined to refuse
to yield to the cut throat rates to
which the Legislature would have
us come.
TO THE PEESs OF MISSISSIPPI.
Believing that the act passed by the
last Legislature, requiring State lands for
taxes be published and sold, IS one of
great injustice to the Press, l, as Presi-
dent of the Press Association, deem it
proper to suggest that papers throughout
the State refuse to publish the list when
offered. The price named in the bill is
only five cents for each subdivision for
four insertions, which is less thar the
cost of type-setting. 1t provides further
that only such lands as are sold will the
costs be paid on, the remainder to again
revert back to the State. The Sherifs
of the different counties will tender these
lists to the papers, and if they will re.
fuse to insert them, they will have to be
posted by written notices. If the Press
Will unite end hold out against giving up
theirspace for less hau the price of com
position, it is thought that the Legisla-
tnre will so increase the price as to make
it profitable for the papers to accept the
lists when again rendered.
There is no justice in the bill to the
Press, and every paper belonging to the
Association should refuse to acquiesce in
its demands. Hoping the papers of tho
State will give this address public notice,
l am, Fraternally.
j. G, MCGUIRE.
President Mississippi Press Association.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

Master Workman Powderly says
Of the bayonet force bill that
there is more intimidation in four
lines Of it than in all the
Southern outrages' since the war;
And yet Mr.. Powderly is not a
Southern fre-eater.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

The committee Of thirty five is
at labor. The suffrage question is
the biggest thing the Constitu-
tional Convention will have to
contend with. The elective judi
ciary is the next question which
will likely cause more bad blood
among the politicians and Office
seekers than any other question
before the Convention. We do
hope the Convention viii let the
Judiciary question rest where il Is.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

The Columbus Inder has has not
been received in This Office for sew
eral weeks. The last we heard it
was printed in "yaller." we hope
it has not died of the yellows.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

Mr.. JOHN j. GAINEY, well known
along the Gulf Coast as a United
States Deputy Marshal in recon
s%truction days, died in Washing
ton last Tuesday. No mourners
down this way.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

THE contract for the building of
the colored insane asylum at Jack
son, was awarded to MIR. G. NJ.
Rush, of Meridian, for the con
tract price of $4,000.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

The Constitutional Convention
is composed of many men of many
minds. 1t is a very hard matter
to guess what the outcome of the
Convention will be. We must
wait and see.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

Mr.. McLAURN, of Sharkey, in.
troduced a resolution in the Con-
stitutiOnalC Convention which reads
as follows: @No person convicted
of beating his wife shall be a quail
flied elector." That is good, and
we hope it will be ingrafled in the
new Constitution.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

THos. SCoTT, who shot and kill
ed j. L. Madison at Macon some
months ago, has been indicted for
manslaughter and allowed to give
bail in the sum 1880.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22
NielU .9dUeTtiSeNaents.
LAND NOTICE.
LAND OESlcK AT JACKSON, Miss

NkhRNN Mia
August %, 1880.
Notice is hereby givon that ths Goilo.
ing named settler has filed poticn ~
intention to make final proofin snnno,. ns
his claim, and that said proof will II " n
before The Register and Receiver Ut JAIL
son, Miss, on October 2. 1890, viz.
Hubbard Parker, Homestead No. IA ae
for the south ! of lots l aud 2 seclion SS
and north northeast section u. tows
ship 2. south range y west. """
lie names the following witnesses -
prove his continuous residence upon anS
cultivation Of said land, VIZ
William Farley, Thomas Mizelle. ! W
Rodgers aud w. i. wilkins, all of e,o",.
Roads p. o., Jackson county, Miss,
r. e. KERR, Register.
August %, 1899. 06Et
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

THE postal lottery bill has pass
the House of Representatives of
the United States. This is another
blow at the Louisiana Lottery
Company.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

AN ordinance has been offered
in the Convention, and adopted,t to
take effect at once assigning Pearl
River county to the sixth Con
gressional district.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22
TO ADVERTISERS.
The DEMOCRAT-STAR

is the oldest newspaper on
the Mississippi Gulf Coast
has a larger bona tide circu-
lation than any other news
paper in this section ; there
fore it is the BEST advertis-
ing medium. Advertisers,
bear this in mind.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

The subscription of s55,OOO to
the Mobile, Kansas City and Jack
son Railroad was voted by the
city of Jackson last week by a
large majority, $40 votes being
polled for it and only two against,
being sixty-six more than the nee
essary two-thirds.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

THERE is one case of yellow fe-
yer on board the Spanish bark
Castillo, from CienfugaS, now de-
tanned at the Chandelier quaran-
tine station.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

MR ]. 4. WHEAT, the delegate
to the Constitutional Convention
from Pearl River county, was not
admitted 10 a seat in the COnven.
ton, as that county was not form
ed when the Legislature provided
for the assembling Of the Conven'
ton.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

Mr.. w. l.. MAY has sold the
Centreville Sentinel to Mr.. L. K.
Hays. Miss l.. E. Hays, editor.
We wish the new managers sue
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

w. D. TYLER, a white convict,
jumped from a moving passenger
train near Aberdeen the other day
and broke his neck.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

The DEMOCRAT STAR contains an
increased amount of choice read
ing matter this week.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22
Job Printing at this Office.
FOR SALE

Two acres OF land, with all improve.
ments. situated near l.. N. DantIiers
mills, Moss Point, ard known as " l.
Irving's former residence.
Perfect Title and Immediate Possession
ma moderate. Apply to
onf. IRVING. Scranton, Miss
June 90, 1890. H."
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

Mr.. CHARLES EHLERs has been
appointed postmaster at E.cataw-
pa, vice Henry Ehlers, resigned.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

SUBscRiBE foI your own county
paper, the DEMoCRAT-STAR. Only
81 a wear in advance.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

We don't take advertising on
the cooperative plan" Patent
papers" may do so.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

NEsHoBA county this season will
make all the sorghum syrup that
the people of the county can use.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

WARREN county's first new bale
of cotton weighed $40 pounds and
brought fifteen cents per pound.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22
Special Meeting Of Ihe
Board Of Supervisors

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON County,
Notice is hereby given that u special
meeting Of the Board Of Supervisors Of
said county will be held in the Court.
house, at Scranton, on
The First Monday, the lat day of
September, 1890, 10
for the transaction of any and all business
that may be done ut such meeting.
J. NJ. RABBY, President.
WALTER NJ. DENNY, Clerk. alM
August Is, 1890. @-3t
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

WE rather like Judge Chris
mans idea of suffrage, so far as it
goes.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

IT is; now understood that the
Force Election Bill will not pass
this Congress.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22
lOS&4 1907

The DEHocRkT-STAR Is The best
sdvel Using medium in south Mis-
sissippi. Try it.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson has resigned.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1890-08-22

cess.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-15
BARBAROUs FEROCITY.

There is something inexpressibly sad
dening in the account of the fatal quar-
rel which occurred in Lexington, KY,
on election day, in which a DIR. Lilly
and his brother and Mr.. Wilson We're
killed.
1t is immaterial to inquire now what
was the cause of the trouble. Both Mr.
Wilson and DR.. Lilly were armed and
after desperate encounter both were
MORALLY wounded, and the brother Of
Lilly was also shot down as he APP
preached.
That these two armed men should
have met, quarreled and killed each
other, and unfortunately involved in
their quarrel an unoffending party Is,
alas, not very extraordinary, occurring,
as it did, in Kentucky, but that which
lends terribly dramatic interest to this
tragedy is that the father of the Lillys
has been for weeks risking his life
as a judge in the mountains of
southeastern Kentucky, in the successful
attempt to bring to justice those lawless
men who have been there defylng the
dignity of the state of Kentucky for
years.
The state, whose honor and dignity
this brave old man risked his life to
maintain, it seems, however, is incapa-
BILE through its lawful officials, of main
tanning order and respect for law even in
its cities.
What was the use of Judge Lilly risk
ing his life to uphold the dignity of the
state when the state permits such en-
counters as that wholesale killing at
Lexington? Well may Kentucky be
called the clark and bloody ground"
for its history is filled with accounts of
brawls, the barbarous and uninterrupted
ferocity of viii h would disgrace from
tier territory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-15
A PUBLIC BENEFACTIoN.

Prof. Koch, the dispatches tell us, has
decided not to give the public the form
ula for his consumption cure. Come to
think of the matter calmly, the professor
is probably right. As he says, in the
reason given for withholding the secret,
if it were generally known incompetent
and irresponsible persons would under
take to prepare and use it, to the detri-
ment of the remedy and the injury, per-
haps, of innocent and confding patients.
This was forcefully demonstrated in the
case Of Brown-Sequard's elixir year or
two ago. Whatever virtue that discov-
cry may have had, it was thoroughly
discredited by the incompetent and
bungling appli alton Of it. The accred-
tied members of the medical profession
viii have no difficulty in procuring the
formula. The suffering public will, no
doubt, be able to get the benefit Of the
new remedy, and that, too, without be-
ing compelled to make the trip to Berlin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-15

dividual shall remain in undisputed
possession of his home, and shall receive
the full reward Of the products of his
own efforts, together with his share of
the profits arising from the distribution
of the same, and he w ho makes little or
no effort, or is not engaged In some use
ful occupation, shall receive little or no
reward.
They are corporation organized for
| strictly business purposes. a trust, II
you please. They viii know no more of
politics or religion than the Santa Fe
railroad, or the Standard Oil company.
All differences arising between individu-
ais, or between the individual and the
corporation, will be settled peace
! fully and amicably by arbitration.
There being no debts contracted or
| transfers of titles between individuals,
! the causes Of vexatious and costly htiga-
| tons VIII be removed. and courts, and
! judges, and juries. and sheritfs, and reg
listers of deeds, and justices of the peace,
and const 4bles, and lawyers, and all the
| expensive paraphernaiia required 10 con-
troll disorganiZed state of society VIII
| be dispensed with.
This new era of human brotherhood Is
being established amid the most advan-
tageouS conditions of nature. Our peo-
pie are fully up to the average in inte.H-
gence, most of them giving economic
principles life study. They own some
10000 acres of land of inexhaustible
fertility, abundance of water for irriga-
ton, climate unsurpassed anywhere,
where from six TO eight crops can
be grown on the same land annually,
where the growing season never ends.
When the complications that confuse
society are removed and life simplified.
and each and all have a useful duty to
perform, it will be seen that the hours of
labor will be reduced TO q minimum and
the hours of recreation and enjoyment
and improvement greatly increased.
Those who have been trained all their
lives to dead-beat their way through this
world and who can see no good in any
move where there is a chance to lay
some scheme whereby they can get
something without giving an equivalent,
or acquire wealth from the concentra-
ton of population in certain centers may
scott, but the Topolobampo CO-opera-
tive Colony is the most important move
ment Of the age, and its progress is being
watched with deep interest by thinkers
on this continent and in Europe.
WIN. Ross.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-15
TOPOLOBAMPO.

i o the EDITOR OF the Eagle.
see in your issue of the 18th a special
from Topeka, in regard to the Topolo.
bampo colonists, referring TO them as
the ''communistic coloniSts," and that
they go by way of San Francisco, which
statements are both erroneous. They
are cooperative colonists," and they GO
by the Santa Fe route to Guaymas.
thence by steamer to TOpolobampo. They
will start on the 10Th from Enterprise.
Kansas. They will number close on
200. They are thoroughly equipped and
organized for business on their arrival at
the colony. They start in about twenty
miles from the location of the colonists,
who are already there. Their first oper-
ations viii be the construction of
main irrigation ditch. They take
with them five hundred horses.
wagons, harness. tents, plows, scrapers,
tools and implements in endless variety.
They are well supplied with funds, and
a large supply of such provisions as can
not be procured at present at the colony.
Besides, the people now at the colony put
up $1,000 and supply the newcomers
with all the corn, fodder, beans, corn
meal. rice, sugar and all the vegetables
needed for the sustainance of the party
until the main ditch Is completed. Be
sides, this party takes with them a
special tent and a school teacher. and
school will be running two days after
we arrive on the ground.
There seems to be an erroneous idea pre-
valllng IN the minds of those who know
nothing of the object Of this most impor-
tant movement, that they hold everything
in common. There will be nothing held
IN common by the members Of the colony
any more than things are held in COM
mon IN Sedgwick county. except the
public utilities, such a. the irrigating
systems. the city water works. the rail-
roads. the telephone, the electric lights,
the street car lines, the newspapers, the
public bath, the hotels, the laundries.
the places of public amUsements, ware
houses for storage and distribution. In
short. all the franchises and special priv
ileCeS which, under this competitive sys-
TEN, are donated and parceled out TO a
favored few viii he owned and operated
10y the commonwealth
All the lands acquired bv the colony.
either by purchase or grant from the
government. will be held in trust for the
sole use of its members. But each in
dividual member shall have allotted u
him-according TO the sum he or she
NAV paw in-from two to fifty acres. No
less OF no more. together with perpetual
water uses for the same. free from rent.
tax or interest TO them and their heirs
forever. The rights and possessions Of
afe,Hf
de~tinCr from the rights Of the CITY. or
that Of the individual from the copora-
ton. While all shall cooperate for the
benefit of the whole, and the whole for
benefit II the individual each IN
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-15
AND NOW SOLOMON.

1.-The wbichnes5 of the whyfore" of the
late political cyclone, as analysed by Sol
Miller, in his Kansas Chief, undoubtedly
makes good, sound and consoling read
ing in the only county in the state in
which the Republicans stood by the old
faith in straight and unbrollen lines; but,
we submit Miller would have written
differently if he had lived elsewhere.
The EAGLE will not complain of his crit
icims, although from our own standpoint
they seem unjust, if not little cruel and
cold blOoded. We don't believe that we
have any more love or respect for a whls-
ky saloon than has the editor of the
Chief. The EAGLE did not raise the
storm which defeated the talented Hal
lowell and elected in his stead the howl
ing demagogue who will be disgrace to
this district" We simply called atten-
ton 10 the blackness and rumblings of a
cumulative cyclone, whose potencies
and destructive energies had been de-
veloped beyond the palliative efforts Of
any single individual or paper, conclus-
i've evidence of which is now found in
the fact of the broken lines of the Demo-
cratic party, thing that even a four
years bloody war failed of doing.