The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-03-03

man wasn't happy.
"0ld bachelors and old maids specially" is
part of a sign displayed before a matrimonial
agency in Kansas City.
Out of lightweight United States Senators
there are sixty-fou lawyers, one teacher, one
doctor and one journalist.
The American Express Company will, after
April lst, take the place of the Southern Ex-
press on the Illinois Central lines.
A Georgia man said that his reason for not
Joining the church was that the editor had
just whipped the devil out of him.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has decided
that the social liquor clubs must pay retail Ii
cense the same as ordinary saloons.
Gov Mckinley is playing in hard luck. First
the American people went back on his bill, and
now his friend has left him with $50, 900 of dis
honored bills on his hands.
Gladstone, the Grand Old Man, astonished
even his greatest admirers, by the vigor, earn
esness and logic displayed in his in outlining
the policy of the government toward Ireland.
Gainesville, Tex. has COW different from
all other cows as far as its appetite Is concern
ed ii IA; all the colored show paper and
the bill posters are greatly annoyed by her
depredetions.
A flibustering expedition is being organized
at Key West by Cubans and Americans
against Honduras. A steamer has been Sc
cured aud filled with cannon, Gatling guns, ar
tillery and ammunition.
Governor Atgeld returned to Springfield, II
linos, last week after an extended visit to oul
Gulf Coast for his health. That is an excel
lent advertisement of our beautiful Mississippi
Sound as health resort.
The United States Senate has passed tn,
car coupler bill which provides that after 1899
all cars shall be provided with some contri
vance by which the cars can be coupled with
ont the person coupling them going betweel
the cars.
Sam Jones captured Memphis. The con
verts are placed a $500. At every meeting
hundreds had to be turned away because ther
was no room for them in the church. Move
ments are on foot to have him return ther
this fall.
The canning factory at Tupeo has to enlarg
its capacity for work. 1t is beginning to sho'
the advantages of such industrial institutions
and the people in the surrounding reg ions AZ
appreciating them by cultivating vegetable
instead of cotton.
The Greenwood Enterprise hopes, but doubt
over the outcome of the Gresham cxperime en-
As expressed by the editor, his feelings al
like those of the negro who tied his dog out
starve, and said on leaving him; "Well, Bul
wish you luck, but doubt it like HI"
late patent is for gang mill which
claimed to be particularly well adapted Fl
! saving shingles. 1t has two gangs of saw
one gang comes up while the other goes dow
It's capacity is placed at from 100000 to lOC
900 shingles per day. The taper of the sh
giles is provided for proper mechanism.
. That the wind is not always tempered to Il
shorn lamb Is made manifest by the untime
fate of the French Camps Lamb, youl
!. weekly paper in Choctaw county, which r
d Gently succumbed to the chilling winds of a
Il versity. As the Durant Democrat remark
:. even old and well-established country journa
now feel the cravings Of hard times.
Judge Walter Quintin Gresham, CLEVELAND
choice for Secretary of State, should be W
- remembered in the South and especially
Louisiana. As Postmastcr-General in Pre-
dent Arthur's Cabinet, he succeeded in havi
the Louisiana Lottery Company exclud
, from the mails Notwithstanding a power
pressure on the other side.
The suit against the Lexington, KY, Leat
for $50, 900 damages for asserting that anotl
editor had the "wilies" has started an ca,
discussion of what the "wiliies" is or are. I
Kentucky editors have reached no conclus
in the matter, except that, If mere alleI
tion of the "willies" is worth $4,000, II
would like to have few of the thing itself.
Mountain lake, large elevated inland be
ne of water water in Giles county, Virginia, is
ported to be rapidly disappearing. IT is
loved that hole burst through the bottom
that it is rapidly being drained. This Il
u was originally formed by powerful spring,
Y outlet of which was damned up by cattle,
it is thought that this has been opened aga
allowing the water to escape in the old W
It is one of the most popular resorts in sou
, west Virginia.
y There were Ave full Confederate general
n the early part of the war Gen. San
~ Cooper was Adiutant General of the Con'
crate States, and who served in that capa
, throughout the war: Gen. Jos. r. Johns
ers Gen. Albert Sydney Johnston, Gen. Rober
re- Lee and Gen. G. T. Beaurcgard, and I
0ss commissions were issued in the order as q
above. Subsequently Congress- passed
IN act making General Lee COMMUNICATIVE
Of the Confederate armies. During the At
7. ia campaign Gen. J. b. Hood was commiss
cd full general, as was Gen. h. Kirby 81
:. J,I ,,u ~ ne tha war.