The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-03-04
Editorial and Otherwise,
Speaker Crisp is dangerously i'll.

Inc ne" Messiah out III Iowa has grown tire
and departed.
Justice l.. O. c. Lamar has left Pass Chris
for Washington.
Arbor day, 22d. ut. was appropriately cclc
brated by the schools of Meridian.
House bill, dividing Perry county into tw
Judicial districts passed the Senate.
Galveston men have pledged $l5O,OOO for tn
Texas building at the Worlds fair.
In California hogs that weigh 800 to $50 lbs
are becoming common now -a-days.
The new postal card, unfortunately, is larg
enough to write spring poem on.
me unsnspcctlng school-boy is sometime
like municipal revcnues-rascd by tacks.
sweet potato was recently dug up in Fres
no, Cal, that weighed 443a pounds.
kentucky paper tells of ears ofcorn, cacl
weighing pound, that grew on one stalk
Only give him good show and the bald
headed man will always get to the front.
PENNSYLVANIA has 10000 brass bands an,
can put 100000 able-bodic men on a toot a
once.
rive hundred acres of potatoes for cxporta
tlon are to be placed this season in the vicinit,
of West Point.
The Woodville Courier is out in favor of Col
). IL. Jones, of Wilkerson for Congressman
from this district.
There will be an election in this district next
November fora Congressman. The canvass will
open in the summer.
For every factory failure there are ten mer
camille failures, consequently the best invest
ments capital could make is factories.
The new code as amended by the Legislature
provides that any person to be a member of
the Board of Supervisors must own at least
$3.50 in real estate.
Ex-Gov' Campbell, of Ohio, who was at De-
troit last week with Mr. Cleveland, ,ays Hill
has not the ghost of chance of being pomi.
mated.
Inc ilrst Methodist church, of Memphis
raised a church debt of $50 900 last week
This shows great enterprise and that Memphis
is progressive.
All of the New York papers with perhaps
the exception of the SUM- now agree That Scpo-
tor liill will not get the presidential nomina
ton, and that it will go to some Western man
upon whom the factions of the New York Dom.
ocracy will readily unite.
The grand jury of the United States District
Court, which has been in session for two wccks
at mississippi City, adjourned on Thursday of
last week, having found thirty indictments.
mostly for violations of the internal revenue
law. Court adjourned Saturday.
Receiving Teller, Charles +. Jumonyilc. Of
the Canal bank, New Orleans, has gone wrong
and skipped the country. He is short in his
accounts $4,000 He has been cmployed in
the bank thirtytwo years. He is fifty wears
old and is heavy imbiber of the ardent.
More to follow.
L. foiey, who was convicted iu the United
States District Court last week at Missssipni
City, of burglarizing the postoAice at pasca-
gooa, was sentenced on the 25th BY Judge
Nells, to hive years hard labor in the pcnitep
tiaryat Detroit, Michigan, aud to pay fine of
T'oo. On being taken back to Jail Foley at
tempted to strike one of the deputies with a
large Jail paddock
The New York Times is still for Cleveland
ana says the Convention at Chicago will not
nominate Hill. 1t may go West for its cand.- |
date, or South, or to the Pacific coast If it |
comes East orsto New York it will come for a
man better known and more respected than
David B. Hill. That is exactly what we be-
believe.
GAIT. GEo. l.. CowAN, who resides on tho
Battle field of Franklin, Tennessee, is at
Jackson urging the Legislature to make an
to furnish marble head stone
Or each Mississippi soldier buried on that
''ood-stained battle field. This State lost
more men than any other, and 81 each is ask
ID for. We favor the necessary appropriation.
The bill of Hon. d. W. Fowler providing for
he congressional re-districting of the State
low before the Committee on Registration and
siections, proposes the following changes in
his the Sixth District, which will become tho
seventh The Seventh gains Lincoln and
rankin from the old Seventh and has the fol-
owing formerly comprising the Sixth District
ADAMS, Amite, Covington, Hancock, Harrison.
ackson, Lawrence, Marion, Perry, Pearl, Pike
nd wilkinson. Population, lS6,olG Legisla
i've members, 81
The Tupelo Journal has the following in ref
renee to the action taken by the Masonic Con-
cntion held in vcksburg No true Mason can
beet to a conscientious and impartial effort to
urge Masonry ofunworthy members, but there
re scores OF good and true Masons who will
olcct to making amember's occupation a test
his unwortincss. 1t will be hard for man !
lth developed sense of justice to understand 9
ny disreputahlc man of one vocation Is cx- /
'lied. But the thing is done and all Masons
gagged in the liquor traffic, whether rood
en- or bad men, must step down and out. :.
The House seems bent on reducing salaries.
no amendment reducing Supreme Court il
'dges from $500 to $4,000 was lost BY a vote |,
90 to e4. The pay Of Circuit Court Judges
d Chancollors was fixed at s2,5oo. The At Il
rncy General was reduced to $4,000, and the I
strict Attorneys get tho same amount, =
'vernor from $4,000 to $500 Secretary Of = !,
ate, Treasurer and Auditor, from $500 to !, !,
200. Railroad commissioners from $4,000 to =
900 their clerks from 81 900 to 5000 su. q
r'ntendcnt to $780, The Judges Of Tho su- Z
emo Court escaped reduction of from g..
to 5000 by tho close vote Of b6 to "a. All a
at part Of the chapter proposing to give y
dgcs and chancellor travelling expenses was g
rlckcn out. n