The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-06-10
Editorial and Otherwise.

The oat crop in East Mississippi is said to
be very large.
| Rev. Joe Jones conducted revival in Shu- |
qualak last week.
Laudcrdale county is arranging for first
class agricultural fair.
| Susie is the name of new postoilice in
Grenada county, Miss.
A six-ycar old boy in the Pttsboro Demo-
crat Office is setting type.
The coast accommodation train will not come
to Scranton this summer.
| The primary election law is not very popu-
lar with the people of this State.
The wages of sin are more readily collected
than any other that can be earned
Sardis is to have canning factory with a
capacity of 10000 to 10000 cans per day.
The present comet has eight tails, and it
it.
Monroe county farmer shipped | 800 dozen
eggs to Memphis. That is better than cotton
planting.
1t is said that the Illinois Central Railroad
will have double track between Jackson and
New Orleans.
Four cigarette smokers sat down on keg of
powder at Chalons and smoked The powder
took one Whit.
oliver 6ukes," disease Of sheep and cattle
in Texas, is said to be caused by drinking
stagnant water.
A tropical moth, called the atlas moth, has a
wing spread of one foot. 1t is gray in color,
and flies by night.
Five hundred delegates are expected at the
Baptist Convention in Meridian, on the first
Sunday in July.
Electricity was discovered by a person OBJ
serving that piece ofrubbed glass attracted
small bits of paper.
The Syracuse Democratic Convention sends
Cleveland delegates to Chicago, and orders
them to vote as a unit.
The burglar who recently tried to burglar
ize a lawyers Office at Port Gibson did not
even find tooth pick.
"Cigarettc Street" is the way the Raymond
Gazette refers to the Speaker of the Mississip-
pi House of Representatives.
= An improved plow cultivator has been in
vented by Calhoun man, which promises to
| Sn yn ,,unh TINA aud lahor
Memphis and New Orleans have both re-
spondcd literally to the call for help from
ovcrhowed districts of Arkansas.
Parties in Crystal Springs are perfccting
arrangements for shipping tomatoes to Eng
land, where they bring 81 box.
A New wJersey man who had for years smok-
ed four packages Of cigarettes per day has quit
smoking them. His widow lives with her
father.
The Tribune says Meridian is enjoying a
great matrimonial revival and hopes it will
continue till many are blessed. Perhaps the
Tribune boys are sin it,
Gov. Stone has pardoned Bernard Lafarge,
: who was convicted of grand larcency some two
= years ago in Hancock county Circuit Court,
aud sentenced to the penitentiary.
Under the new primary election law, the
= county executive committee in each county
must consist of thirteen members-two from
each supervisors district aud three from the
= county at large.
To-day Sam Jones opens his batteries on the
l.. sinners at Macon. He will convict or convert
= some of them no doubt. But Sans converts
don't last long-they 60 back to the world in a
short time after Sam leaves.
Bro. J. X. Altman, the able editor of the
Durant Democrat, has been selected by the
board oftrusecs and faculty of the Decatur
= College, to deliver the annual Grafton at the
commencement exercises, on the l7th inst
!. No doubt j. X. will do himself credit on that
: occasion.
The Stonowall Cotton Factory, in Clarke
= county, reports its net profits for the year
as $26,9is, or l3K per cent. on the capital
stock, without taking into consideration large
: expenditures for permanent improvements
4 The factory is now operating 7,2l6 spindles
and 1888 looms.
Seven convicts, in the State Penitentiary
| made dash for liberty last week. The alarm
! was given and after hard running fight all
were recaptured, although one was killed and
several of them were wounded. The alarm
was given by sixteen year old negro boy.
1 The State Ledger discovered Mississippi
Tom Thumb, in the person Of John Wesley
Farmer, of Rocky Springs, Kinds county, who
at the age of eight years, is only 80 ipche,
tall, and weighs but 2s pounds, having gained
only four pounds in the last five years, though
very strong and healthy.
l The program Of the commencement exer
ciscs Of thc Agricultural and Mechanical Col
legc, at Starkville, Miss, has been received
The exercises begin June 18th, and commence
ment day is June 18th. The annual address
l will be by Gov. John N. Stone, and the dclv
cry Of the diplomas by Gen. s. d. Ice.
4 Mr.. J. A. Myer has sold the Jasper County
Review to Mr.. T. P. Lawlcss, who proposes ID
make considerable improvement in the paper
Mr. Myer parts with his many friends will
regret. lie will probably embark in the news
paper business again ere many months. w,
wish him success wherever hc may 20, and vi
welcome Mr.. Lawlcss to the company Of th,
y press gang.
After a year of trials and tribulations, th
lessenier Daily Pig has suspended publca
tion. The editor, closing half column Arti
Gle, announces the demise with this poctica
cfi0rt
When the hurricane like boom
\, Bends the tree and breaks the twig,
|. Then from out the midnight gloom
viii bust--thc rcsurrcc,cd Pho!