The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-05-20
Editorial and Otherwise.
Jackson has got the spelling bee craze.
Negroes are starving in Kansas.

More new subscribers to the DEMOCRAT
STAR this week.
Milet is good for hens. 1t will make them
lay their toe nails off,
No red liquor will be sold on the Columbian
Exposition grounds at Chicago.
The Columbus people will celebrate Jeffer-
son Davis birthday, on June Sd.
The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad has been
placed in the hands of receiver.
The art of printing is by far the greatest
productive agent known to the world
We would like to know a man personally
whose father was not at one time well off,
When a man is praying for corn crop God
loves TO see him say amen to it with hoe.
If David B. Hill goes before the Chicago
Convention he will be defeated. Mark this.
1t is said that Senator David B. Hill is a
woman hatcr. He is certainly very strange
man.
Iowa Democrats feel confident they can car
ry the State for Gov. Horace Boes for Presi-
dent
Dcemng ("Jack the Rpper') will be hanged
on the 23d inst. at Melbourne, France. Just
retribution.
Men who declare the world owes them
living are usually too lazy to hustle around
and collect it,
Advertising does pay when judcously in
serted in live, progressive journal like the
DsxocRAr-SrAK.
Unless you register you will not be allowed
to vote at the November election for President
and Congressman.
negro woman who claimed to have known
George Washington died recently at Bonham,
Texas, aged 10 years.
Chicago Odd Fellows Lodge has been
sued for $4,000 for breaking a novitiates leg.
The "goat" hit too hard.
Brooks Story has entered upon his ten years
sentence in the penitentary for robbing the
Express Company at Durant.
Blanche X. Bruce will make Southern trip
for the purpose of booming Harrison among
the negroes and Office holders.
Rev. Sam Jones will stir up the sinners aud
old church members at Macon for ten days,
commencing on the 10th of June.
It's probable there will be something else
at the Deep Water Convention, to be met at
Mississippi City, on the 3lst inst.
George Zempter, of Memphis, has perfected
cotton picking machine that is hoped will
solve the problem of cotton harvesting.
The DgxooRAr-SrAR will support cheerful
ly anyone who gets the Chicago nomination ;
though Cleveland and Boies is our choice.
The Meridian Daily News is in the hands Of
a receiver. The paper will be continued daily
and weekly under the orders of the Chancery
| Court.
Judge Brady, of the Massachusetts, Superb
or Court, rules that women obtaining divorces
| will not be allowed to resume their maiden
| names.
The prospect for crop in the Delta coun-
try is very gloomy. The Father of Waters
is overlooking the best farming lands of that
section.
The hottest places on the globe are said to
be in the region Of the Dead Sea. The Sea is
said to lose million gallons of water day by
evaporation.
| Hon. Wash. D. Gibbs, Of Yazoo, a loud ad-
vocate of the Sub-treasury craze last year,
now advises the Alliance men to stay in the
Democratic party.
The "dead beats" were wceded out Of the
Mississippi Press Association last week at
Pass Christian. The committee on member
ship did some good work.
The Sardis Reporter believes that Governor
Horace Boies, of Iowa, can be elected Presi-
dent il nominated with Gov. Russell, of Mass,
achusetts, for Vice President.
The State Ledger has dropped David B. Hill,
and is now in favor Of Dan Voorhees,, Of lndi'
ana, for President. We have no objection to
the "Tall Sycamore Of the Wabash"
"Cathcrinc Cole" of the New Orleans Picay.
une, attended the Mississippi Press Conven-
ton at Pass Christian last week to report the
proceedings Of the Convention for the Picay.
une.
4 There have been 1885 petitions sent in tc
date praying that the Worlds Fair be closed
on the Sabbath day. This State sends SS,O35
names of petitioners, Texas IA, Georgia 6, and
Michigan 4,O5O,5ls. The whole number is
II ,OSs,l5O. Others to hear from yet.
Ex-Gov. Robert Lowry, of jackson, has been
mentioned as a delegate from the State-at.
large to the National Democratic Convention
at Chicago. No one better qualified or more
worthy could be found in the State than he.
| He is true Democrat of the old school. We
hope ho will be elected.
The Grenada Sentinel says: ave are relia-
bly, informed that Circuit JudgeJ J. +. FAINT
in his charge to the Grand Jury at Water
Valley, instructed them that the law requir-
| ing screens to be removed from saloons was
now in force and effect to ell retailers, whsthe,
licensed after or before the passage Of the re.
cent liquor law"
Mr.. W. ]. Cowart, ex-sherif Of Marion
county, whose sudden and mysterious disap.
pearance fifteen months ago, has returned to
Columbia and surrendered TO the authorities
At the time of his disappearanoe he was sheriff
of Marion county and was short in his accounts
about two hundred dollars. He states that hi
went to Mexico to escape the penalty Of thu
law, aud remained there until recently. Cow
art claims that he was robbed at Purvis while
under the influence Of liquor, and the loss O
tho amount Of which be was robbed made j
impossible to settle with the county. Ht
!. found no >&ftieal.y in giving boaa Of a $1,000
NwiN prikaoly be acsal'lsa.