The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-09-01
State News Boiled Down.
Editorial Chatter of the Exchanges.


ism. Brandon Call.
Mr.. Cleveland "denics the allegation and de-
des the alligator. "-Clari Ledger.
Water Valley has no "hard times and no
idle people who wish to work.-Progrcss.
God knows we want a change, and our only
salv alton is more change.-Greenwood Enter
prise.
Drawing tooth picks for the drinks is one of
the latest diversions ofthe period -yicksburg
Herald.
As solid as the works of Gibralter is the f.
~nancial condition of Lowndes couuty.-Colum-
bus Index.
The airs som people put on are calculated
to make one have "that tired feelmg."-Gulf
Coast Progress.
Prejudice is unbecoming christian men and
Soiler and Democrat.
The cotton crop will soon begin to move.
Pay the editor out Of the first money YOU re-
ceiye.-West Point Leader.
Twentv-one of the young white citizens of
Fayette and vicinity were indicted for gaming
by the grand jury last week.-Chronicle.
Be patient, keep your eyes open, trust in the
Lord and the Democratic party, and a sure de-
livcrance is yours.-Greenwood Enterprise.
We know full well how to sympathise with
the country in its present financial condition.
We are used to it.-Winston County Journal.
In a very short time you will be running
around hunting some fellow to borrow that
money you are now hiding.-Clario Ledger.
Talk about Frank Burkitt going to Texas
The fool crop has not all been garnered in
Mississippi and Burkitt knows it.-Greenville
Times.
The money famine is relaxing its pinch, but
the famine of craftsmanship at Washington
manifests a disposition to hang on.-Clarion-
Ledger.
The Mississippi farmer finds it mighty hard
to do away with both dogs and children, and
50 far most of them have stuck to both. --Clar-
ion-Ledger.
Times have become so corrupt and men so
dishonest that it is hard for many of the un-
informed to measure up a true statesman
West Point Leader.
1t needed the present condition of affairs in
the country to satisfy our Gulf State people
that they were the best conditioned folks in
America -Abcriccn Examiner
This is an agricultural region and capable of
enormous develodmcnt, but its growth, thank
heaven, does not draw upon the dregs of Eu-
rope for Observation-Disclosures Examiner.
The j%aw-bonc remedy for hard times is still
being vigorously applied by Congressman,
while the people remain on the anxious seat
and regard the patient with wondering eyes.
Magnolia Gazette.
The first barrel of sorghum of this wears
crop, that we have heard of being marketed in
East Mississippi, was sold in this city Tues
day, at 20 cents per gallon.-Aberdeen Exam
iner.
) Utica experienced II novelty last Sunday, in
, 'hc Shhpt \" IL magistrate 5 court III luil blasl
at the hour when church bells we're pealing
Q forth their sounds of praise.-Raymond Ga.
zctte.
5 Hancock county has no white caps, nor d,
we want any of them. Our people are law
, abiding, order loving, and there is no danger
p of any such organizations within our limits
Gulf Coast Progress.
= God bless the sweet little children is an cx-
clamation that often escapes our lips, on seeing
them moving along the streets so admirably
dressed-living porsonifications of innocence
, and love.-Grenada Sentinel.
: With new cotton at seven cents the dividing
y line between a mans soul and his pocketbook
, is so faint that it hard to distinguish where
one begins and the other ends. In the pres.
ent state of finances they are very much mix.
. ed.-Ellisville News.
Scranton, down on the coast, is the place for
u pears, as Mr.. Irwin Delmas of that place, on
two acres of pear trees sold 800 bushels from
q one dollar to one dollar and fifty cents per
bushel. This makes cotton turn green with
d envy.-Grenada Sentinel.
n T. b. Franklin, of Columbus, while in Chi
c cago recently, detected a pickpocket in the act
t of robbing a lady passenger on street car
and promptly knocked him out. The blow he
. gave the fellow on the side of the face broke
his little ingcr.-Starkville Times.
Every few days we see telegrapllic reports
OF how some young man has killed his sweet.
heart and then himself. This is good sensa.
q country for the young man to kill himself frs
g and then shoot the girl.-Clarion Ledger.
+ Economy is a good thing, but there shoult
be method in it. For instan &c, while you ma,
save five cents by buying a foreign made ar
ticle instead of buying one made at home, tina
l entire dollar is lost to your community be
cause it is taken out of circulation there
Tupelo Journal.
A man might drive a horse into Greenwood
with the names working into the flesh of hi
e shoulders, or ride him with a "set fast" on hi
: back as big as a half bushel, and hitch him t
a tree and let him stand there until he starve
to death, and never be disturbed BY the off
GERS of the law.-Enterprisc.
A young lady wants to know how to max
'not enough" out of the wore "enough.
That is very easy. Take the third, sccon
t and first letters for the first word, and tn
o sixth, fourth and fifth for the second and yo
r will have something that is not enough for tn
average girl. Figure it out.--Columbus In
dex.
There is not an observing citizen in til
county who has not been impressed with tn
large number Of colts in the county, many
s them of fine pedigree, and none of them scru
| stock on the sires' side. . From all az
+, counts more pork will be killed this wintt
than nj any nariod nf onr avisfonpo a q n conn