The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-03-25
Editorial and Otherwise.

DOH tct SWuutcTS Hct dHc1u Oh you.
Don't make excuses which are unnecessary.
Luck relies on chance; labor on character.
The Hill boom is simmering down in Missis-
sppi.
Mr.. Cleveland says success is still within
our reach.
New Albany wants an artesian well and
street lamps.
The first of the early pea crop is now going
North from Florida.
A lrookhayen hen laid cighty-Gvc eggs in
eighty-fvc days.
Jones county has more than doubled her pop
ulation in six years.
The present outlook in Florida indicates
very heavy orange crop this year.
The Grenada Ice Factory was sold under an
execution last week for $500. 1t cost $ls 900.
The Legislature has had the good sense to
let the Congressional districts alone this scs-
sion.
Perhaps il David had not come to Missis-
sppi it would have been better for him politi.
cally.
1t is hard for some people to live above their
surroundings, especially if they are weak
minded.
April 9th is Confederate decoration day, and
several towns in this State are making ready
for its due observation.
The Alliance Bagging Factory, at Canton,
has been sold to private syndicate. 1t has
never been paying institution.
Miss Dove Williams takes the place of her
aeccased father as editor of the williamsburg
Watchman.
A negro girl was lynchcd at Rayvillc, La,
Saturday for numbering family of nine per-
sons by putting poison in their coffee.
The house has passed joint resolution to
submit to the people an amendment to the
Constitution providing for an elective Judi.
ciary.
The Meridian Tribune records the death in
that city on Saturday, of Aunt Fanny Simpson
lcolored.) who was born in Richmond Va, in
February, l77l.
The proposition to establish box and bask-
ct factory in West Point has fallen through.
because the citizens were asked to take half
the stock in it.
A fallobusha county butcher killed calf
recently, and an examination of its nav re-
vealed a silk handkerchief which the animal
had deyoured.
Slect and snow in Lousan and northern
Mississippi on the 18th. The cold wave reach
ed the Gulf coast but was comparatively mild.
No slect or snow.
Physicians of Choctaw county have entered
into an agreement to refuse to attend those
persons owing any member of the fraternity
bill that he has been unable to pay.
Lnck lies in bed and wishes the mail would
bring him news of legacy /; labor turns out
at T. o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing
hammer lays the foundation of competence.
The blizzard which swept over Arkansas,
Tennessee and the northern portion of Texas
OIL the 10th and 18th inst, was the severest
which has visited that portion Of the South in
fifteen years or more.
The business man who is too stinpy to sub-
scribe for his town paper is too mean to live,
aud does not deserve the patronage of the peo-
pie Of the town. He reads his neighbors's pa
per. The old Devil will get all such.
sheriff W. 5. Golfer, Of Covington, bal
anced up accounts with the State recently. Mr..
Golfer is only twenty eight years of age and is
serving his third term as sheriff of his county |
Misses Mary Lou Green and Mary Troupe,
of Aberdeen, are in Jackson endeavorinr to
impress upon the Legislature the Importance
of making an appropriation for an exhibit at
Chicago.
When belt gets saturated with waste oil,
an application of ground chalk will soon alb. |
sorb the oil and make the belt workable.
Blood travels from the heart through the ar
teries ordinarily at the rate of about twelve
inches per second its speed through the ca
pilaries is at the rate of three one -hundrcdths
of an inch per second.
This is how the Charleston News and Con.
ricr sizes up David B. Hill "a candidate
without creed, a politician without a princi.
pie, a statesman without conviction, Demo-
crat without a platform, Senator without
well defined opinion upon any leading ques-
tion.'
The State Ledger has made new departure,
in journalism, having substituted Twice-a-
Week for its Weekly, published Tuesday and
Friday, thus giving its readers the news fresh
twice week for the low price of$l.25. etc.
The Oldest Of the public men most talked
about as presidential nominees is Senator
Palmer, who is "A. The youngest, excepting
Of course, the Massachusetts, fayoritc. Gov
ernor Russell, is Senator Hill, who is 4s. Mr.,
is IS, Senator Gormon So, Senator
Allison 63, Senator Cullom 81 and Senator
Carlisle 81, while Boics, Gray aud Sherman are
past middle life.
x-Postmaster- General James has written an
article on "The Ocean Postal Service for the
April Century. Mr.. James advocates letter
rate Of two cents an ounce for ocean postage,
and reduction in the rate on international
uoncy-orders. He thinks this reform is more
needed than that Of lower rate Of postage on
domestic letters,
The Mcrsey Dock and Harbor Board, at
l'overpool,havc, through their brokers, ,intimat-
% 70 tho trade that they are prepared to re-
'cive tenders for an cntirc. cargo Of sawed
pitch pine logs bright, fresh, first class, and
equal in quality "a. the best shipments i'm
ported. The cargo must also be Of long aver
sge length, containing large proportion Of
logs forty feet and upwards. Tho board are
using immense Quantities Of this wood IN their
ncw dock improvements