The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-09-09
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No woman is what any other woman thinks
she is.
The rooster does the growing, but the hen
lays the egg.
Those hands are the most beautiful which do
the most good.
Senator Voorhees, says Indiana is dead sure
to go Democratic.
The Confederate Veterans of Greenwood and
LeGore county have organized camp.
Nancy Hanks has beaten her own time two
seconds, having made a mile in 2:O5A.
Jay Gould is half owner of saw mill in
Louisiana near the town of Alexandria.
trains are running through from Jerusalem to
Jatia.
1t is now stated by one who knows, that Mr..
Blaine will make no speeches during the cam
paign.
Dr.. s. r. Oliphant, President of the Board
of Health, says there is no yellow fever in
New Orleans.
Some Northern capitalists contemplate
draining the Florida swamps and planting
them in sugar cane.
The postoicc at Natural Dam, Ark, was
broken open and robbed of $3.50 and a lot of
stamps on Friday last.
Weaver, the Populitc candidate for Prcsi-
dent, once said, "the Southern rebel smells
worse than pole-cat."
The Peoples party of DcSoto county, com
posed Of seven persons, had rousing mass
meeting at fernando, last week.
A branch of the National Democratic head
quarters has been opened in Chicago. Don NJ.
Dickenson will be at the head of it.
A woman with her rhcumaticky husband has
an advantage-she always knows in advance
when it is going to storm and doesn't endan-
ger new bonnet
In speech at Xenia, Ohio, the other day
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid declared that the only no.
bity in this country were the Union soldiers
who fought in the war of the rebellion.
The New York Worlds Western campaign
fund has now passed the $4,000 mark and is
still going up. 1t is to be hoped that by the
first of October it will have reached at least
$4,000.
Col Charles E. Hooker, the "silver tongued
orator" of the South, has again been nominat-
cd by the Democracy of the Seventh district
for Congress.
DR.. S. A. Rogers, President of the Memphis
Board of Health, says artesan water is the
only safe liquid to drink during cholera times,
and that it ought be boiled to make assurance
doubly sure.
Now that We have smokeless powder the
Boston Transcript suggests that inventors
turn their attention to the production of
smokeless cigarette. That and noiseless
hand organ are dcsiderata.
The Atlanta Journal says that "the glitter
ing gcneralitica of the Third party speakers
in Georgia are giving way before the lombard
ment of Democratic facts and figures" And
so ii is throughout the South.
Mr.. George William Curtis, formerly editor
of lIarper's weekly, is dead. lie was noted
Republican, but botcd from the nomination of
Blaine in 1884, and has since that time been
classed with the Mugwumps.
Silver is not an issue. The Democratic par
ty seems to be practically unit as to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, the only
question of difference being as to the ratio at
which the two metals should be coined.
Ex-senator B. X. Bruce, (col.) of this State,
says the Republicans of Mississippi will not
make any effort to carry the State. They
think that it is not advisable to put man in
the field when the Third party candidate is at
all acceptable.
Tillman is reelected governor Of South Car
olina by 10000 majority. Senator Irby says
their side has been sweepngly misrepresentcd /;
this is pure Democratic victory and that they
will carry the State for Cleveland and Steven
son in November.
j. d. Burktt, Of Monroe, brother of Hon.
Frank Burkitt, has been nominated for Con-
grcss by the Peoples party of the First dis
trict. The Burkitt family are on a very cold
trail for public pap, we think. John Allen
will do J. II. up.
The Third party is "busted" in Lowndes
county A county convention was called last
week, but only three convened. of these, one
was an ex-Repubican, one farmer and one a
mechanic. These three decided that no quo
rum was present and didn't convene.
No matter how effective the quarantine, it is
wild to hope that cholera will be kept out Of
America. An absolute embargo on Russians
and rags month ago might have answered.
But the infected substances that shed pesti-
lence in Hamburg, are now scattered from
New York to the Rocky Mountains.
Senator Hale, Of Maine, says that Mt.
Blaine will make no speeches, but that his
heart is in the right place. In view of tho fact
that President Harrison's office holders recent
ly dumped him into the soup it is safe to as
sumo that no matter where Mr.. Blaine's heart
may be it is not in the present campaign.
Hon. fernando DeSoto Money, Of Carroll
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county, has been nominated for Congress in
the Fourth district over several opponents
We are glad that our esteemed friend is going
back to Washington. He is an able and con.
scientious Democrat, and will always be found
at the front defending the Democratic party.
dispatch from jackson says Col. W. l.
Nugent was rendered the nomination for Con
grcss by the Third party in the Seventh dis
trict. Col. Nugent responded in effect tina
he was full Of sympathy with the people II
their progressive efforts for relief and reform
But could not see that they can bc elfectet
through Third party; hence he declined th'
nomination