The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-10-20
State News Boiled Down.

There has been u great deal Of nonsense 20
ing the rounds of the press about the white
caps posting gins and threatening TO burr
them if the owners began operations befor,
the price of cotton advanced to Toe. a pound
But the hum of the gin is heard as usual, ant
the number OF fires is no greater this season
than in former years. Speaking of fires, Hat
tieeburg's visitation was an awful one las
week, wiping out the entire business portion
and serves to show how useless and meaning,
less are amateur fire companies in a small
town that harbors such hell born tends as i.
the one whose work has accomplished such
ruin as this town mourns.
Among the funny instances noted in our OK.
changes is the lambasting the Columbus In.
dex gets from the Brandon Call. The last is
sue of the Call shows the editor mounted on a
high horse of wrath and thus takes a "crack
at creation" and a few brother editors get the
effect of a full charge. Hejumps on the Index
man for stealing his editorial thunder and de-
votes a columns of the "deadly parallel va
riety to prove him a pirate and a liar. The
neighbor, the News, gets a heavy load-and
there's promise of more fun. So excited was
the Call man that he failed to name a new
man for Governor. Jim should lay out all
night in the frost.
These be busy days for cupid, and "nupti-
ais" are quite numerous everywhere. Among
the recent marriages we note the following !;
Near Shubuta, W. p. Cooper, Of Pachuta, and
Miss Efie Price. At Bonneville, Fred viii
liams and Miss Bette D.. Miller. Near Col
umbus, John Oglesby and Miss Cameron. At
Magnolia, Henry Z. May and Miss Minnie
Ferguson. At Vicksburg, Frank r. Birdsall
and Miss Alma Dorsey. At Ripley, f.. r.
Richcy and Miss Margaret Thurmond hurry.
At Durant, j. 0. Lanfair and Miss LEILA Buck
ley. At Meridian, George W. Owen and Miss
Marcia Z. Cox. Near Ripley, +. T. Stewart
and Mrs. NJ. +. Foster. At Aberdeen, Guss
Cunningham and Miss Annie Alternately. At
Rosedale, John Jones aud Miss Euphemia
Melchoir. At Brandon, DR.. $. II. Staplcton
and Miss Kate Coulson. At Rienzi, Louis
Savage and Miss Ruby Perry. At Jpckson,
W. G. Mckay, Of Meridian, and Miss Mary T..
Subway, of jackson. AT Meridian, Mike Lutz
and Miss Ella A. Briggs. At vicksburg, F.
Birdsell, of Tennessee, and Miss Alma Dorsey.
At Bolton, W. :. Wells and Miss Lily Black.
A Meridian fruit stand proprietor is one of
the shrcwdest advertisers on record. He IN
serted in his local paper an lad" to the effect
that a Young man of ample means desired to
torn the acquaintance of a young lady with a
vie" to matrimony, and that applicants were
requested to call at a certain confectionery
store. As a means of recognition they were
to purchase an apple tart. The sales that af-
ternoon were unprecedented. The stock of
tarts were exhausted for the first time iii the
history of the establishment.
The State Supreme Court recently decided
that aay person possessing the qualifications
required by the Constitution is entitled to
register as a voter, whether he shall have paid
his taxes or not, the tax question to be consid-
cred when he proposes to vote, so that a voter
is entitled to register at any time. This de-
cision will affect petitions where the validity
OF a voter comes in question.
Preacher Isaac Blanton, on trial at Water
Valley for bigamy, in marrying a Miss Hush,
told IA story on the witness stand that is
unique, to say the least. He claims to be a
morphine fiend, a victim of over study and
ecclesiastical labor, a victim of a Chicago d.
vorce lawyer and an all round sport of fortune.
While drinking one night he claims that sew
eral ladies began talking to him through A
clock which they have kept up ever since, al
so that Gov. Jones of Alabama, talked to him
through the defendants teeth, at long range,
commanding him to marry Miss Hush. lie is
regarded by some as a %lunatic, by others as a
shrewd artist.
The question of Jury reform is one discussed
in the State. Judge Chrisman is out for A
reform, and the Port Gibson Reveille believes
that most of the people are that way inclined,
as will be made clear when the Legislature
gives them a chance to vote on the auestiop.
1t says the unanimous requirement must 90.
The Nicksburg Herald hopes ''to live to see
the day when our State will institute this ri,
form which will lessen crime, protect life and
save millions.
Mr.. Henry Ware, Chairman of the State
Prohibition Executive Committee, has been
under medical treatment for several weeks at
North Adams, Mass, being seriously threat
ened with an incurable cancer on his face.
Joe Jones, the evangelist, had to be sen
dorsed' at Canton. Joe must have "A trunk
full OF EN- by this time. A few summers ago
IN North Mississippi a handful of the brethren
IN each OF towns where he stopped were kept
quite busy grinding out endorsements"
The Natchez Democrat has completed the
twcnty-eighth year of its existence. 1t was
hrst issued as a tri-weekly and after seven
years, IN response to "A general demand, it was
changed to a daily, and has thus after appear.
ed with unfailing regularity. 1t has no fuss
and feathers" along Its pathway, but is a reli-
able, successful and popular paper.
Some kosciusko boys were using n target
rifle in a lady's field, when the propeictrcss re-
marked in a panied way, "Now, there are,
some of those bad boys shooting craps down
there in my field" Whether the lady thought
that craps was a species Of bird or what not,
Is not recorded.
MIR. Eric Gambrell has left the Meridian
Tribune to accept a position with the Memphis
Ledger, and his brother Percy takes editorial
charge of the Tribune.
The United States Court at Aberdeen SEN
fenced several parties to confinement in the
Kings County Jail Of New York, for robbing
the mails.
scooba recently shipped twenty car loads of
hickory logs, averaging from l6 to "a feet.
Macon has more handsome residences and
ugly fences, it is said, than any other town in