The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-07-29
Editorial andOtherWiSe.
A lawful fence is five feet high.

This is the year for passing the Hat.
The Gulf of Mexico has risen over one foot
since 1891.
The Prohibition party refuses to fuse with
the Peoples party.
An old maids insurance company has been
opened in Denmark.
The cotton worm has appeared in Rankin
county to an alarming extent.
| Justice l.. Q. C,:...Lamar is at Bethlehem,
| New Hampshire for his health.
The Confederate veterans had hilarious
time in Jackson on the 18th ut.
The seaside butterfly is in the swim and the
hammock girl is having her full swing.
A bill to create Railroad Commission was
| defeated in the Louisiana Legislature by a vote
of 81 to 81.
| 1t is said that corks are being made in New
Orleans from cork trees grown on the coast of
Mississippi.
to the Governor pardoning Ex-State Treasurer
Hemingway.
The wild waves are not saying much just
now. The female surf bathers have the
bulge on them.
The guests at "a party recently given in
San Francisco came arrayed in garments
made of paper.
Almost every week some Mississippi news
paper 'throws up the sponge" under pressure
of the hard times.
There is plenty of time for the conversion of
those who are going about saying that sum-
mer is a failure this year.
1t is stated that during the English elections,
Henry NJ. Stanley the distinguished explorer,
was pelted with rotten eggs and dead cats.
1t is estimated that the taxable railroad
proprcty of the State amounts to $l25,OG0OOO
upon which a State tax of ) mills will be
levied.
J. +. Stone walked from San Francisco to
New York in l2S days. He wore out ten pairs
of shoes on the trip, and lost 2S pounds in
weight.
A catamount three and half feet long and
eighteen inches high was killed on the Miller
Todd place, four miles west of Brandon, last
Friday.
Comptroller Allen, of Tennessee, is charged
with 900 shortage. He denies the soft
Impeachment" and says he will prove his in
nocence.
The New Delta, of New Orleans, has been
sued for libel by Judge Buckner. Damage
claimed is $4,000. The New Delta says,
"Lay on, McDuff"
Gen. s. D. Lee was made Grand Command
er of the State Ex-Confederate Order, Gov.
J. NJ. Stone retiring, at the encampment in
Jackson, on the l4th.
1t is terribly torrid in Minnesota, Kansas
and other northwestern States. In Atchison,
Kansas, on the 22nd the thermometer regis
tered lOl degrees in the shade.
Hon. David B. Hill failed to put in an ap-
pearance at the ratification ceremonies in New
York on the GOTH He was so engrossed with
business at the capital he could not leave.
The Mississippi Democrotic Executive Com
mittce has been called to meet in Jackson on
the 9th of August. 1t will fill vacancies in
the Electoral ticket, and transact other impor-
tant business.
Under the protective tariff system, Andrew
Carnegie the owner of the Homestead Steel
Works, has been able to earn an enormous
fortune of $i5, 100000 within the short period
of twenty years.
State Superintendent Preston has distribut-
ed to the several county superintendent lO,-
900 copies of the school law as amended by
the las Legislature. Every teacher should at
once apply for copy.
Capt. Robert W. Banks announces that
within few days he will convert the Meridian
Standard into Sunday paper, enarging it to
eight pages and adding many interesting fca-
lures. We wish Capt. Banks and his Stand
ard abundant success.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland, Ex-senator
John J. ingalls, and Senator Teller, Of CClora-
do, are agreed on one point, and that is that
the Harrison Force bill is a "horror of repub'
licanism" and the "most infamous bill evei
presented to the American Congress-"
W. F. IIarrity, of Pennsylvania, has been
selected as Chairman of the National Demo.
cratic Committee. He is solid for Tammany
and the New York Press, Republican paper
says he would make as vigorous and Cheerful
scalpcr of Republican oice-holders as Ada
+. Stevenson ever was.
Mr.. James II. Duke, of Scooba, yielding tc
the wishes of his many friends, is announced
, as a candidate for Congress from the Fourtl
district Captain Duke possesses in larg,
degree, all the qualifications to make an eff
cent Congressman, and we trust he may b,
successful in getting there.
, Harper's Weekly is supporting Mr.. Clcvc
land because it sympathzes with the Demo
e cratic position on the tariff, and because i
regards Mr.. Cleveland and the Democratic
= and the Republican platform on civil service
reform.
In a recent editorial Geo. W. Childs, of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, Independent Re
publican, says that "Mr. Cleveland is not onl,
n Statesman, he is a patriot whose great ntcg
rity and sterling worth are unquestionable,
aud would give the country "an honest, clean
able and public spirited administration"
Miss Ella l.. Knowles, whom the People
j., party Of Montana nominated for Attorney
I. General Of the State is a successful practic
:, ing lawyer in Helena. She was born in New
Hampshire, and was graduated at Bates Col
lcgc, Maine, 10 1884. She has an extensiv
practice among miners and workingmen, an,
II is thought that they were influential in Sc
curing her the nomination, which came TO he