The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-12
Editorial andOtherWiSe.


great salt works.
If you don't want your feelings hurt keep
them out Of the way.
Mans thumb was put on SO he could shake
hands with the voters.
The railroad pie of to-day is the railroad pie
of yesterday and forever, 1t is eternal.
History has repeated itself until political
earthquake is tame and commonplace.
The Natchez Democrat says, in referring to
Frank Burkitt, "Stop galyanizing the political
corpse"
The Supreme Court Of Missouri, it is said,
has not vet decided which has the right on the
road, horse or bicycle.
Ed. J. B. Gambrel, who has just returned
from the North, says that Cleveland will
sweep that section like cyclone.
The DEMocRAr-SrAn is all printed in its
own office. No "plate matter" used in its
makeup. 1t is truly home institution.
Think of it 500 protected strikes in the
United States since the Mckinley bill went in
to operation. "The bill speaks for ITSELF
The Mississippi Railroad Commission asses
scd the Louisville and Nashville road at $50
per mile and the Gulf and Ship Island at $40
per mile.
Hon. John W. Watson, of Coyngton county,
is still hunting for the Democratic nomination
g. -, ,,,, . Il; II ;c
on a cold trail.
The Stackhousc sisters, probably the Oldest
twins in the United States celebrated their
Goth birthday last week. They reside at Ken
net Square, Pa.
The Chanccry Court at Bay St. Louis grant
ed divorce to Mrs. Jessup, wife of Rev. Mr.
Jessup, who was in charge Of the Episcopal
Church at Pass Christian a few years ago.
The editor of the Bristol Courier corrects
man who said that "hcll was an ice house COM
pared with this d-d heat but admits that
the remark was not wholly unjustifed by the
facts.
Cashier Gale and clerk Turner, who recently
embezzed $4,000 from Nashville savings
bank, were captured in Mexico and brought
back. About $lO,OJO of the money were re-
covered.
4 thermometer in the New York postofice
the other day went up to l26 and then explod-
ed. The roof of the building is made of plate
glass and many of the clerks were prostrated
with heat.
Congress adjourned Friday night last at II
O'Clock, after having passed the Worlds Fair
appropriation bill and the sundry civil bill,
and number of other measures crowded into
the closing hours.
The big cotton firm of Bickman Moore,
New Orleans, collapsed last week. The LA
bilities are estimated at $500 OOO assets un-
known. The failure is said to be due to losing
speculations in futures.
Brother Hobbs, of the Leader, informs the
Meridian Tribune that his Third party con-
cedes the State to Cleveland but they will
carry the Fourth, Fifth and Seventh districts.
1t appears that Hobbs is good claimant.
Seven ladies' hold the rank of Colonel in the
Prussian army, including the queen regent of
the Netherlands who has just been appointed
by the Kaiser. The title is purely honorary,
of course, and is only bestowed on members
of the royal household.
Chas. L. Wright, of the Vicksburg Herald,
lately received a patent for a plated safety
wall, to prevent the breaking of levees and
dams. Ii is claimed that the wall can be put
in at nominal cost, and if ii proves available
it will be great blessing to the Delta coun-
try.
A writer in the Batesville Panoian con-
tends that dudes who wear high standing col
lars and six dollar pantaloons should never 60
on fishing excursions. In such apparel they
are stiff and unsociable and make anything
but favorable impression on the public
What are dudes good for, anyhow
The famous suit instituted by Judge 7. Z
Cooper, Justice of the supreme court against
the Alabama and vicksburg railroad in which
he sued to recover $3.50 for return of money
on a ticket purchased by him and not used
was compromised by the railroads attorney
The price of the ticket and costs amounted to
$3.50.
Quite number of the Northern papers ar,
now publishing sketches of Mr.. Cleveland,
cottage at Buzzard's Bay, and that of Presi
, dent Harrison at Cape May, but they forget t,
call attention to the fact that Mr.. Cleveland
bought his cottsge, while the one owned by
President Harrison was accepted as a gift from
land spectators
The machinery at the Worlds Fair will b,
put in motion by the pressure Of a button il
Spain. The marquis de Veragna, the only
. living descendant of Columbus, is too old t
| come to this country to perform the ceremony
of starting the machinery, but connection il
to be made through the transatlantic cable
so that he may do 1t at home.
In the case of VIM. NJ. Hathorn, who mad
a homestead entry of land in jackson, Miss.
district, the secretary of the interior has de
cidcd point of some general interest to liant
LAWYERS. Hathorn desired to amend his cntr,
so as to include additional land, which tn,
commissioner Of the land office and the secre
tary decide cannot be allowed.
The Richmond State holds the mirror up +
!. the measure in dealing with political candi
dates. II says of the Peoples party candidate
h, "Weaver, the Third party candidate for Pres
dent, was not popular man when he run 70
' President in 1880 as a Labor Grecnbackei
and he will perhaps, not get many more vote
now than he received then. AS a South-hatc
and vllifer Of Southern people, he ranks wit
Foraker, Chandler and Bontelle. No intelli
gent, self-respectiug Southerner could vot
for man like Weaver"