The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-05-06
Editorial and Otherwise.

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Gladstone has declared against woman suf-
fragc.
Rankin county has a new postofice named
Johns.
Ify you don't register you cannot vote in
November.
Liquor saloons have to close on primary
election day.
Indiana has named as her Presidential ia
vorite Grover Cleveland.
Summit has the measles, or rather number
of her people are so afflicted.
No billiard pool or card playing in the same
house where liquors are sold.
The Knights of Pythias of Vicksburg are
about to build new opera house.
Nine ladies received the degree of NJ. d., in
the New York Medical College recently.
The mayor of Lexington has the same name
as Mississippi's Governor-J. NJ. Stone.
Shaw druggist has on exhibition rad
dish which is shaped like human hand.
What an influence for good or evil is excrtcd
by the proper or improper use of money.
The DEMocRAr-STAR is Democratic paper
at all times and under all circumstances.
A Neshoba county Indian was put in Jail at
Philadelphia for illicit selling of whisky.
A Columbus negro claims to be the father
of thirty one chidren-quite an achievement.
The happier the human being is The longer
he lives the more he suffers the sooner he
dies.
Under the new dram shop law minors are
not allowed in liquor saloons as clerks or Wis
itors.
printer named Buckingham committed
suicide at Birmingham last week. No cause
known for the rash act.
Judge Trigg holds that chancery notices
should be published five consecutive times to
cover four clear weeks.
No true Democrat will forget to register.
He cannot vote at the November election un-
less he does register now.
All male persons over the age of eighteen
years and under the age of fifty years are
subject to road duty in this State.
The DEMOCRAT STAR is 50 a year in advance.
No clubbing with any newspaper or periodical.
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Joe Dale, the second Bill Nye, of the Law
renee County Press, has been elected leader
of the Baptist Church choir at Monticello.
Most of the corn crop of the Delta will have
to be replanted, having been irreparably ruin
ed by the cold rains and attendant cold wealth
er.
The Southern Express Company has offered
reward of 81 900 for the arrest and conviction
of the persons who robbed the Illinois Central
train at Tangipahoa recently.
Mr.. +. A. Shingleur and Miss Maria Lowry,
of Jackson, were married Wednesday. After
the ceremony reception was rendered the
happy couple by the stag Club.
Fitzsimmons and Hall will fight for purse
of $4,000 and side bet of $1,000 each. The
fight will be at the Olympic Club, New Or
leans. or some Club in California.
Three big prize fights are on the tapis for
the first week Of September for large stakes.
The contests are to be between McAuliae and
Myer, Hall and Fitzsimmons, Corbett and
Sullivan.
The st. Louis Globe-Democrat, through its
corps of special reporters has inquired into
the cotton acreage, and concludes that there
will be reduction of at least l6 per cent. from
last years crop.
The Rams Horn says; "When any one finds
it easier to give dollar to the theatre than to
give dime to the church, there is something
wrong about that ones religion" 1t is a
difficult matter, though, to make them see it
that way.
Mr.. Whitney, in an interview the other day,
said "Cleveland is the man to nominate, but
Croker is good man, and | don't believe in
attacking HILL" The following is the transla-
ton of the above Sibylline utterancc "What's
the matter with me, if the New York row is
prolonged?"
Life assurance has been practced, more or
less, for three hundred years. In the last
half century, it has grown with such rapdity
in the United States, that it is now one of the
greatest interests in the country, ranking
with the most important railroad and banking
interests.
The town Council of Tupelo has levied FIVE
mill tax, owes nothing, pays cash as she goes,
is making daily improvements, has a sinking
fund to help pay for $4,000 school house,
has an eight months school, and is thrifty,
booming, and her citizens have faith in her
prospects. How long will il be before Scran-
ton will be in similar situation2
Mrs. Mary Arthur, a poor widow near Ellis.
vile, Miss, would like to know the wherea-
bouts Of her son, c. W. Arthur, who left home
uuTlllK tne Iutc WuT US NOnIcucThtc sOiuleT,
and from whom she has heard nothing since.
She has reason to believe that he is still alive,
and is anxious to see him.
Memphis will do herself proud and reflect
credit on the whole South in the magnificent
celebration which she is to give at the opening
of the great trans Mississippi Bridge on May
18th. The city will be gorgeously decorated
for the occasion, and every feature of the en-
tertainment conducted on magnificent scale.
The railroads will offer reduced fare, and an
immense attendance is expected.
The next Presidential election will be held
on Tuesday, November sth, and the electors
then chosen will meet at the capitals Of their
respective States on Tuesday, January 10,
1888, To vote for President and Vice -Presi-
dent. The electoral votes will be counted BY
Congress on Wednesday, February 9th, and
the new President will be ipauguratcd ON Sat
urday, March ith.