The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-06-24
Editorial and Otherwise.

lie.
The Usage Indians are again giving trouble
in Oklahoma.
| Texas paper declares itself for "IIogg,
He'll and High Water"
II. L. Louks of South Dakota succeeds to the
presidency of the Alliance.
! Those who do not read the DEMoCRAT-STAR
every week lose great deal
The various State campaigns are this week
lost in the shuttle at Chicago.
! What is forgiveness? 1t is the odor which
flowers yield when trampled upon.
| Foraker SAYS that he would like to see the
Office seek the man once in awhile.
Ground has been broken for the new Queen
and Crescent railroad shops at Meridian.
The new Republican ticket is called by the
printers in New York as the Chat and rat'
ticket.
The Texas Siftngs says never tell an editor
how to run his paper. Let the poor devil find
it out himself.
The nomination of Harrison creates about as
much enthusiasm as the purchase of a ceme-
tery lot would.
A hail of story comes from Omaha to the
effect that the frozen pebbles fell there to
depth of two feet.
The Third party in this State is only an in
nocent unoaensive Hobby and will in due
time Lynch itself. Next
Gen. Eli T. Stackhouse, a prominent Alliance
Congressman from South Carolina, died in
Washington on the lith inst.
Twittng on facts is prohibited in France.
II is unnecessary to state that church sewing
societies are not in it over there.
In New York theatres refreshments between
acts will be served in the future and "the man"
on the outside will be given rest.
Our country people can only be SATISFACTORY
ly communicated with by means of their own
county paper, the DEMocRAr-SrAn.
Rev. J. W. Nicholson, well-known and
popular preacher from Natchez has becomevio-
lently insane and is confined in the asylum.
On the 18th inst, thirteen carloads of to-
matoes were shippers from Crystal Springs.
This is an unprecedented shipment for this
early date.
South Carolina has 5000 acres planted in
watermeons and it is needless to say that
there is no thought of a negro exodus from
that State.
A "dull thud" is very clearly defined in the
manner in which Harrison's nomination was
received by the Republicans outside of the Of
flee holders.
twenty-five tons of gold are produced from
the mines of the world every week, but like
lost umbrellas, no one knWs what becomes of
the precious metal unless it is all horded
by newspaper men.
Some Of the papers are mentioning as an
item of news that the typewriter girls are
forming a union-just as though they had not
been busily forming unions ever since they
=. became an institution.
Proctor Knott of Kentucky in his address
before the Vanderbilt college class at Nash
vile, protested against the humbug phrase,
"The New South" arguing that the results
achieved are only natural evolution.
A Bangor, Me-, dispatch says that Blaine is
now entirely out of politics and is devoting his
time to the cultivation of flowers. AS to his
political retirement the people became aware
of that fact at the Minneapolis convention.
The Clarion says that up to date about lO0
claims against the Direct Tax Fund have been
registered by the Commission, aggregating
about $1,000. The Commission to pass on
these claims will meet in Jackson August %.
After fighting union labor for years Mr..
Reid made peace few days before his nomi-
nation. But workingmen will not be deceived
= by ths--they know his true attitude to be now
as he has shown it to be toward them in the
!. past.
Judge Robert Leachnan, who in Radical
times was Circuit Judge of this district, dice
at Admission, Ala, on the 18th inst. He was 9
: lawyer of some ability and was as kind ant
4 gentle as a woman. For many years he re-
l sided at Meridian. Peace to his soul
/ Young women Sunday School teachers in
the northern cities who try to convert the Chi
l naman too often marry their student. II hap
pens nearly every week until it has become {
question, Is John Chinaman becoming chris
/ tianized or our fair American girls heath
enized?
II is generally commented upon that al
though present at all the sessions of the Re
publican convention John j. Ingalls, never ad
dressed the chair except to announce the vot
of Kansas. This is very little like the man
but then one who has been beaten for rc-elec
ton to the Senate by Whiskers Pcncr ough
not to be too ubiquitous.
Judge Trougec known as the Chicago write
with wheel in his head, predicts massacr
surprising in extent the French revolution,
the attitude toward the negro in the South |
not changed. lie further intimates, in hi
rattle brain way, that the Republican part
has not been doing its duty to the colore
man. But all this comes from Albion Trou
zee and amounts to about as much as the va
porings Of Eliot +. Sheppard.
Gen. j. r. Chalmers, in published lette
expresses his disgust at the nomination
Harrison whose triumph over Blaine he char
- acterizes as "mediocity over brilliant states
manship unequalled since William Henr
Harrison was nominated over the matches
Clay" He thinks the hopes of the Republ
can party in the South has been seriously 81
back, if not forever annihilated. One doesn
even have to tread between the lines" to gue'
y, the trick in Chalmers gamc-Dcmocracy wi
1. have take a narcotic before embracing u