The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-04-08
Editorial and Otherwise.

'3i and 6b.
Sam Jones promises to warm up Water
Valley this year.
Castor beans will be extensively planted in
Tate county instead of cotton
Six hundred and fifty negroes left Memphis
Saturday morning for Oklahoma.
In the event that Cleveland is not in it, Gov.
Boics will be the fortunate man.
The Legislatures of Texas and Arkansas
voice themselves squarey for Cleveland.
Reports favoring the admission of Arizona
and New Mexico as States have been made.
Three Grenada ladies raised ji2 pound
bale of cotton for the benefit of Foreign Mis-
si0ns.
A raft that will contain 100000 feet of
lumber is being built in Walnut lake, Tunica
county.
Telegraph companies doing business in this
State are taxed $4,000, but the people pay it all
the same.
Mrs. Zettie Anderson, of Meadvlc, was
poisoned and came near dying from eating
canned fish.
The proprietor of the Holly Springs Gas
works threatens TO shut down for want of
patronage.
The Funeral Directors Association of Mis-
sissippi will meet in Vicksburg on Tuesday,
April the 18th.
The candidate for the third term for Con-
grcss in this district this fall is going to get it
in the neck.
There is going to be more than one Demo-
cratic candidate in this district for Congress
this summer.
At the next presidential election it is esti-
mated that more than II ,j0O,0 900 men will have
the right to vote.
A Monroe county man saved his pear crop
from the freeze by building bonlires in his
fifteen acre orchard.
1t has been practically settled that the Mis-
sissippi Baptist college will be moved from
Clinton to Meridian.
You have no time to lose if you are going to
advertise. The Spring trade has opened.
Remember the DEMocRAT-STAR. Everybody
reads it that is anybody.
The japanese people, as a whole, are the
most elegant and polite in the world. This is
result of the language, which is marvel of
politcness and refinement.
There is year old colt in Georgia which
carries pair of unmistakable horns on his
head. The horns are foot long and as hand
some pair as COW ever carried.
Miss Julia, the daughter of Gen. Basil W.
Duke, of Kentucky, will be the special guest
of the Confederate States Cavalry Association
during the reunion at New Orleans.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland's friends report that
she is now perfectly well, but palcr than she
used to be. Little Ruth is a beauty, healthy,
hearty, happy and with big violet eyes.
Many home has been rent over seal skin
controversy, but who ever thought of nation
going to war with nation over seaions. 1t
may be we are not done paying for Alaska.
The many friends of Rev. j. B. Gambrcll are
glad to learn that he has declined the 0attering
offer made him by the Texas Baptist Stand
ard, and will remain a citizen of Mississippi.
| There's the usual number of threats to bolt,
SC fb, . tlp nifipo
right. But as general thing the Democratic
party doesn't care whether that class Of voters
bolt or not.
1t was discreet clcrgyman'in in Boston, who,
| in the course of his sermon the other Sunday,
said: 81 don't know how to play cards. |
won't ask those who do know how to hold up
their hands,"
The Illinois Central Railroad has refused to
accept any more grain for shipment to New
Orleans, alleging lack of terminal facilities.
The Mississippi Valley road some time ago
issued similar order.
The Natchez Banner thinks Senator Hills
speecn boiled down means that he is Demo-
crat who would like to be president, and con-
scqucntly avoids antagonizing any OF the dis
cordant elements of the party.
! A st. Paul editor wrote squib on the in
spiraton of spring as he inhaled it through
his window. When tho paper appeared next
morning the thermometer was down to zero.
Weather editorials in st. Paul paper are
brightest when they fail to appear.
locomotive on the Reading Road recently
made mile in thirty y-ninc and one fourth
seconds, drawing four passunger coaches.
That means little more than ninety -onc
miles an hour, and indicates that the even
hundred is within the possibilities.
The Minnesota Democratic convention held
at 81. Paulon the 3lst ult. appointed delegates
to the National Convention and instructed
them to vote for Grover Cleveland from first
to last, and that the delegation shall vote as a
unit. That the delegation shall continue to
vote and work for Cleveland as long as there
are reasonable hopes for his nomination.
There is new impetus to the promotion of
Grover Clevcand's candidacy. At Washing
ton there is strong undercurrent at work in
his behalf. The Endorsement he is receiving
in the West, and the prospect of carrying
Rhode Island partly through his influence, has
kgiven new impetos to the boom again under
way. Cleveland will certainly get there.
The vote Of the Tennessee Legislature has
pcen pollcd. Thirty -eight members responded
to the circular Of inquiry addressed to them,
and Of this tweaty-fo arc. for Cleveland for
first choice, with FIVE for second choice. This
shows that Cleveland still retains his hold
uTon the masses, and that Tennessee like
Mississippi, will be found at the right time IN
bis column.