The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-01-19
LATE LITTLE NEWS NUGGETS.

The Mississippi Fair Association
building ut Jackson was burned.
McComb City reports Mormon cid
ers in that vicinity.
Gardcn-making has been begun on
the coast and South Mississippi.
II. N. Carter, a farmer near Wesson,
was called to his door and shot down,
this week. Suspicion rests upon his
so~n-in-law, with whom he had some
trouble.
A Memphis woman sues the Pull
man Company for damages, alleging
that while sleeping in her seat ''some
one to her unknown, squeezed her
foot, thereby grossly insulting, humil-
iatlng and alarming her."
Secretary Carlisle thinks the short.
age in the treasury will be $50 900 600,
and urges prompt action by Congress;
failing'in that he will issue bonds to
meet the emergency.
Nine people were killed In a railroad
wreck on the Lackawanna 4 Western
road, in New York State, Monday.
Burglars made an attempt to blow
open the L. & N. depot safe at Pass
Christian Monday night. but were
frightened of.
Senator Gray Is prominently men,
toned for the United States Supreme
bench.
A man named Slicrrod was killed
near Hatticsburg Monday night.
The fruit growers Of Madison coun-
ty have organized.
The case Of the town OF Terry VS..
the Illinois Central railroad has been
compromised, the railroad paying
$50 900. 1t was alleged that a spark
from an engine started the fire that
consumed most of the business por.
tion of the town.
The Deasc- Ryan trial is on ut Mo.
bile this week.
The Hill men in New York are elat-
cd much over the defeat of HornbIow-
er's nomination, and are said to have
agreed to continue the warfare against
Cleveland Democrats. Flower is to
be run again for Governor.
All eyes are turned on Forida's
Governor In his attitude to the pro
posed Corbett Mitchell prizc-fght.
ETlle sports keep on blufling and boast
Ing that the match will be ''pulled
Oft on the 18th, in Jacksonville, and
Gov. Mitchell says most enphatically
that the State shall not be 80 publicly
dlsgraccd. 1t is safe to say that the
Governor knows what he is talking
about and has the courage and back.
bone to carry out his assertion. He
evidently has the law on his side and
also the support and sympathy of the
intelligence and true manhood OF tho
State, and he will win, else we arc
very much In error. In our Judgment.
lie has the State militia under orders
for the occasion. Prize fighting in
the South went into a decline last
year.
Ris Samson, the negro who about
two years ago murdered Mrs. ]. NJ.
Williamson, at Hattiesburg, has been
captured at Gulfport by Deputy U. S.
Marshal J. J. Lyons. The negro ad-
mits that he is the guilty man. Mr..
Lyons. by the capture, earns the neat
sum Of $500, the amount 81 rewards
offered.
Assistant Postmaster General
Thomas Of the postOfice department
has ruled that parties sending through
the mails for counterfeit money .vio-
late the "grcen goods GOT" and there
fore incur the pcnaltyot q tlne Of not
more than 900 and Imprisonment for
not more than eighteen months.
The Mobile and Ohio railroad ID
negotiating for the Birmingham belt
railroad, to make It q ter minus OF a
branch to be run from the proposed
Tuscaloosa division oi that road.