The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-08-25
State News Boiled Down.
Political and Personal Points.

Monroe county will vote "dry."
The postofices are not all ours yet.
Lowndes county discusseth stock law.
Lee county has six candidates for treasurer.
The Bay st. Lsuis Echo opposes "0ld
Stock"
Maj. l.. s. Terry, member Of the Legislature
from Alfalfa county, is dead.
Copiah will elect a State Senator 10 succeed
Hon. Robt. Mayes, resigned.
The Brandon Call takes to State politics
rather fondly and Interestingly.
DR.. ?. w. Peoples is named as a possible
successor to Congressman Hooker.
Quitman county holds a prohibition election
to-day. The Times says it will go wet.
Capt. J. s. Dabbs, Of Clarke, wants to be
one of the State Railroad Commissioners.
Col. +. A. Montgomery, of Bolivar, is men,
toned as a successor to Chancellor Trigg.
Lefore county is settin' up O. nights and
walking the floor with the whiskey question.
These hard times make candidates plentiful
in counties where vacancies occur in public
offices.
The Ellisville New South says that General
$. d. Lee would make Mississippi a capital
Governor.
The Jackson News thinks it time '0ad
Stock" was retired, and predicts this as his
last term.
Several papers in the State favor opening
the gubernatorial campaign early, so as to
last a long time.
Capt. +. ". Anderson, of Issaquena, is a
candidate for Receiver of Public Monies in the
Cherokee Strip.
Congressman Catchings is the only mem
Der from Mississippi who is with Mr.. Cleve-
land on the financial question.
The Ellisville New South says it is a pretty
well settled fact that Judge Mayors and Judge
Terral will be their own successors.
When Chickasaw voted dry it knocked out
the last saloon on the line of the Mobile and
Ohio road from Mobile and Selmer, Tenn.
Prof. J. c. Hardy, of Jackson, is mentioned
by the Elllsville New South as Il most excel
lent successor to Hon. j. R. Preston. .
A Merry correspondent in the Clarion Led
ger springs the woman suffrage question on an
innocent, unotfending and unsuspecting pub
lie.
The Brandon Call says DR.. p. W. Peoples,
of Jackson, knows more about finances than
all the other Mississippi statesmen put to-
gether.
The Vicksburg Post opposes the reelection
of Congressman Stockdale. The Post rs al
ways evel-headed and on the right side of
every question.
Among the illustrious sons of Mississippi
who will be heard from in the future of our ma
tional politics, the Brandon Call names Hon.
Chas. Scott. of Bolivar.
Senator Walthall is spoken of in connection
with the next gubernatcrial race. The Ray
moud Gazette thinks he can get anything with
in the gift of the people of this State.
The Brandon Call presents Gen. Catchings
for Mississippi's next United States Senator,
and says there will be a new Richmond in
that district for Congress.
Brother Carlisle, of the West Point Leader,
stands a chance of being elected to fill the va
cancy made by the resignation of State Sena-
tor Fox. He would make his people a worthy
and faithful representative.
Politics red hot in Bolivar county, as usual.
A State Senator is to be elected, and the Dem
ocrat says there is pickering, bitterness,
strife, neighbor set against neighbor and the
whole county embroiled thereby.
In Lee county there is a vacancy to be filed
in the treasurer's office. In Pontotoc a rep
resentative is to be elected the sam in Ran
in and Wilkinson. The Populists in P%ontotoc
and Rankin are on the move with hopes of
winning their men.