The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-04-29
Editorial and Otherwise.


McEncry is not in it.
Democrats, don't fail to register.
There are $50 convicts in the State Peniten-
tiary.
Man is first in high spirits and next in the
gutter.
A Lincoln county woman has eight rcd head
ed geese.
Ocean Springs has new hook and ladder
company.
Chickens sometimes come home to roost--to
the boycott
Farewell to the Louisiana Lottery. 1t is
too dead to skin.
Presumption is the natural and original dis
ease Of some people,
The plant of happiness cannot thrive without
the air of chceriulness.
John A. Morris is sick over the result of the
election in Louisiana.
Ten villages in Hungary have been burned,
and thousands are homeless.
The churches have enough to do to fight the
devil without fighting each other.
Somebody has discovered that the original
third party is the mother-in-law.
She next annual meeting of the State I'm
dertakers' Association will be held in Jackson.
Our fee for announcing candidates for Con-
grcss is $lj, payable invariably in advance
no exceptions whatever.
Mrs. Spurgcon tells the Baptist, an Eng
ish paper, that her husbands personal es
tate amounted only to 100000.
Father 0'Laone, Catholic priest at Lexing
ton, has inherited fortune Of several hundred
thousand dollars by the death of a brother in
England.
Fitzpatrick defeated Shakespeare for Mayor
of New Orleans, the best Mayor the Crescent
City ever had. The bosses and hoodums have
control now.
A new Catholic order is to be formed in this
country for the svangelization of the negro
Cardinal Gibbons has jGst forwarded the final
papers to Rome.
The New Delta has done splendid service fol
the true Democracy of Louisiana, and well
deserves the hearty support Of the best people
of f'thc entire State.
DR.. George A. McHenry, of Hancock, and
DR.. Arthur Brown, of Harrison, have been IL
censed to practice medicine by the State Boart
of medical examiners.
The Lottery organs of Louisiana are crying
| out fraud because the gallant Foster was elect
ed by such large majority. They take thei
mess of crow with reluctance.
The Senate substitute for the Chinese cx
clusion bill of the House provided for the ex
tension for ten years of the present restriction
acts, Instead of total exclusion.
Six thousand houses were destroyed by fir,
in Toxic, Japan, last Sunday and Mondny. A
least one hundred lives were lost. Twenty
five thousand people are homeless.
The meanest man has turned up in nev
form in Lee county. His name is Amos Dorm
bach, and he has sued the school board for al
lowing pupils to drink from his well for year
/ past.
The Board of Supervisors of Jones count,
has ordered the sheriff to summon citizel
named Noah Nichols before the Board at it
next meeting to show t'~se why he does no
provide for and support his mother.
The new dram shop law is almost equivalen
to an imperative 'thou shalt not" when /
comes to prohibition counties. A. jug by ex
press, or an agent taking orders for whiskey
have been relegated to the things that were.
Miss Annabel Power, the beautiful am
charming daughter Of Col. j. l.. Power, o
the Clarion, has been requested to carve tn
column which is to represent Mississippi ii
the Womans Building at the Columbian Elk
position at Chicago.
Gov. Horace Boies, of Iowa. is the first ant
only Democratic Governor the State of low;
ever had the pleasure of living under, and 81
eminently successful has he been in the Exec
utive chair that his name is freely used il
connection with the Presidential possibilities.
The 'T.ily Whites" the Republicans of Tex
as who are trying to organize party in tha
State composed exclusively Of whites and b
shut out that disturbing element, the negro
seem to be thoroughly satisfied with the stu
alton, and think that they are in fair way Il
success.
/ Wonderful things happen in Kansas. Dur
ing the recent cyclone there it is said that a
Heaven river cowwas lifted from the groun'
and carried to the top of house and deposited
4 on an angle of the roof so that she could no
fall, and it was necessary to kill her to get he
from her position.
Mosquitoes and strawberries make a qucc
combination, certainly, but that is what tn
people in the neighborhood of Mount St. Ella
can boast of in a region of perpetual ice an
snow Along the edge Of the glacier, is said
ia strip Of luxuriant vegetation where straw
berry vines cover the ground for miles.
The bold and widc-awake newspaper canno
pander to all classes of people. II is, there
fore, bound to make some enemies, and if
does not, It will have failed to accomplish an
good. As general rule, whenever a pape
succeeds in making enemies, you just put
down that it isa newspaper which is effectn
much good.
NJ E4-stats.Treasurcr Woodruff, Of Arkansas
ehargedwithembcrzllnR State'funds and con
vcrting them to his own use, has been acquii
ted. This was the second trial, the jury
the first trial standing six to six. woodru
went out Of Office Jan. II, 1891. Then his cas-
account was short S6l, 900, and the money wa
not paid in BY his suretiss until Feb. II, 189