The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-05-19
EditOriala and Otherwise

You can get iton the Worlds Fair on Sun
day when You have pass.
Hawaii will not be annexed. There is too
much sugar in the scheme.
Arkansas boasts Samson who can lift
sIexas. pony FROM the ground. 49, =
Crops in the west are said to be reported to
be in fine condtion-ncver better.
The proposition to divide Texas into two
States is once more lively agitated.
The Greeks, it is said originated the allur-
ing game of Scraps" Oh, Socrates
West Virginia claims man who is 1O2
years old and has never patronized a railroad.
Lincoln county white caps are now in the
penitentiary, wearing their stripes and think
ny caps.
Jackson, this State, is discussing the ques-
tion of electric railrays, and Meridian will no
doubt follow suit.
Mrs. Cleveland has sent draft of $50 to the
mother Of baby named after the little daugh-
ter of the Democracy
Near Brennan, Tex, some school boys dis
covered quantity of ancient pottery while
digging hole fora post.
An East Tennessee man who was shocked bv
lightning becomes violently insane at every
approach ofa thunderstorm.
The National Club Convention, at Louis
vle KY, last week passed a resolution favor
ing giving women the ballot
After the Worlds Fair closes the hackmen
will be able to erect palata residences or else
travel extensively in Europe.
The remains of Jefferson Davis will be re-
inferred in Hollywood cemetery, in Richmond,
Va, on thu 3lst of this month.
A man in Griffin, Ga, is hording million
dollars of Confederate money, in the hope that
it will become valuable some day.
The Southern teachers association will meet
at Louisville Kentucky, on July II and IL and
proceed thence to the Worlds Fair.
Mr.. Gladstone has suggested the name of
Ruskin for poet laureate of England. The
grand old man must be trying to be funny.
A farmer near Fort Worth, Texas, heard
screams in his chimney while building fire,
and discovered tramp, in hiding there.
A Maryland man is hard at work on an air.
ship which his friends think will fill the bill.
He expects to give public exhibition in about
six months.
Down in Lamar, La, the authorities give the
Kelley cure to every drunken person arrested,
provided the person will have it in preference
to term on the rock pile.
A mare owned by New Hampshire man re-
Gently gave birth to triplets, two of them being
only about as large as kittens, while the other
was perfectly formed and of normal sixe.
The is a postmaster at Pendeton, Ky, who
has persistently barren his neck for the AK, but
cannot induce the authorities to decapitate
the road.
Col. Y. Harper, former citizen of Okc
Iona, Miss, has been appointed Law Clerk to
the First Assistant Postmaster General. His
many friends rejoice to hear of the Colonel's
good luck.
| Friends of the pure food and anti-option
bill in Washington have determined to call an
informal meeting in st. Louis on the 22nd of
the month to consider the best methods to be
employed in bringing these two bills before the
next Congress.
Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick, the moving and
reapng machine mans widow, of chicago, has
decided to locate in Tennessee. The will erect
mansion at Knoxville something on the plan
of George Vanderbilt's palace, now being built
near Asheville, N. c.
| Whitelaw Reid's statement that $50 long as
the Republicans were in power they had money
enough in spite of the heavy foreign demand
for gold" and that the Democratic admins
tration is responsible for the present crisis, is
declared to be "partisanship which is crmi-
nal by the Republican st. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat.
Miss Braddon has realized the historic am
b,tion of Sir Walter Scott, who vowed that he
would make fl00,0OO by fiction before he
ceased writing. This, with ffty-three novels
standing to her credit and still unwanine
popularity, is probably enough. But Miss
Braddon has had her struggles and disappoint.
ments, like other popular authors.
Dueling has become so common in Mexico
that the government, II is said, is going tt
suppress it by passing law fixing the distance
between the principals so that one or both o
them i'll get killed at the first FIRE. Men are
apt to think well before sending challenge
when they know that the duel is sure to ent
in gore or funeral.
At Allegheny, N. c., young man courted {
girl and she agreed to marry him. He went t.
magistrate and procured the license ant
went back, and to his sorrow his intended hat
ter and she consented to take him for good o.
bad, so he went back to the magistrate ant
claimed that he was mistaken In the name, an,
now they are man and wife.
The Supreme Court of the United States OF
April 10th decided case which must be takei
as settling the law about the liability Of rail
roads for trunks containing articles other thar
personol effects. travelling salesman for
iewelry house checked trunk valued at 81 ,0O
and Lost in n wreck The Illinois Circuit Cour