The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-06-08
Editorial and Otherwise.

present tHdu eNci ocioie'
| Formerly one had to wait for the wagon
now one must hustle to catch the train.
Three negro murderers were recently SEN
fenced to be hanged in ElliAile on June 18th.
| You cannot dream yourself into character.
You must hammer and forge one for yourself.
b Chicago is to have new postoiiice building |
ten stories high and covering an entire square.
II all the devils were cast out Of some folks
there wouldn't be hardly enough left to look
at.
There are few people more often in the wrong
than those who cannot endure to be thought
so.
lie who receives good turn should never
forget it; he who does one should never re-
memberi it..
The House of Representatives has decided
to vote no more money for the civil service
commission.
Do well, but do not boast of it, for that will
lessen the commentator you might otherwise
have deserved.
There are some men who would rather hear
themselves preach than to listen to an angel
tuning his harp.
The man who loves his neighbor as himself
can put up with a number OF things no one
else could stand.
More than four-ffths of the murders in the
United States last year were by men who had
no regular occupation.
Buffalo is the only city in the United States
that can claim tle distinction Of having fur
nlshed two presidents.
"Flutterers" is the new name given in the
West to the Young ladies' who serve refresh
ments at afternoon teas.
When YOU see a counterfeit coin on the SIDE
walk always pick it up. You are liable to
, arrest if you try to pass it.
The Presbyterian General Assembly resolv-
ed that Moses made no mistakes nor anyone
else who helped write the Bible.
Hon. A. NJ. Hicks, of Myrville, Yazoo county,
Miss, has been appointed Grand Lecturer OF
the Masonic Order Of this State.
= The North Mississippi Biscuit Factory at
Sardis is defunct institution. All the ma
: chinery has been sold and removed.
"Misslssippi Democrats know the value o
party unity and deprccate all iliberality ant
= intolerance which tend to breed dissensions.
e. Z. Walthall.
There are 1900 physicians in Mississippi
one to every 5G5 of the population. This shows
!. that, SO far as the doctors are concerned, Mis-
- sissippi is "distressingly healthy" State.
Two Chinese students at Wabash College
Indiana, refused to register, saying that the,
were not laborers and did not come under th
:. law. There is some talk of exporting them.
Major William L. Estes, of Texarkana, wa
T. the Youngest member Of the first Mississippi
Rifles, which jefferson Davis commanded II
the Mexican war. He is now 56 years OF age
The Court of Claims at Washington ha
allowed claim of $i9,0 900 due the heirs of til
: late Clark c. White, of fernando county, fo
cotton destroyed BY the Federals during tn
war.
A man named Shaw, in Sioux City, mad
about eight thousand dollars in a year b
Il shaving the edges off gold coins. His indus
t, try is likely to send him to the peniten,iar,
-. as that sort of work is made high crime b
's' Uncle Sam.
''' Owing to the prevalence Of smallpox in Ch
10. cago Mayor Hopkins, in connection with til
~. lu city health commissioner, has issued procl,
nation requiring every person in the city
a. be yaccnated, under penalty Of from IS
"' s. for failing to do so.
st Public Printer Benedict's axe descendt
tn with tremendous force on Saturday, and 81
heads, most of them remnants Of the Harrist
= administration, fell under the blade. This
- the largest decapitati"n by single swo'
- under this administration.
Il The Carthagenian, at Carthage, wants Il
s. people to say at the coming primaries for Co
h gressional candidates whether they endorse Il
IS course of Cleveland or the policy of the Missl
J.. sippi Senators and Representatives.. The pl
KS is fair one, and to know the result would
" Of interest.
N A Nashville special says that the gener
h assembly of the Southern Presbyter Chur
il is not only opposed to organized union wi
w the Northern body but has refused absolute
X to appoint u committee TO inquire into a
4. report the position of the latter on questio
M that are considered barrier to organic unio
" There are $4,000 indictments against Sund
r. law violators on the criminal docket of n,
kt Orleans. The Lafayette Gazette says til
" 'allowing three cases Fer day, it would TAKE
VI court over fourteen years to clear the docl
r only of the Sunday law cases, without count
" the several thousand new ones that mig
Y" spring up"
VS. Judge Conn has just decided the Jacks
- sidewalk case. A number Of property ownt
- refused to obey the mandate Of the city
build brick sidewalks along their prcmis
The city started to build the walks, intendi
to charge up the cost as taxes, when it "
enjoined. Judge Conn decided In favor Of |
city.
The summer girl is getting
Her summer things in shape,
SO that no man her beauty
Can possibly escape.
~ And when she has them ready
An angel without wings
The next thing she'll be getting
Her shape in summer things.
New Orleans has won in the suit Of ltali'
against the city for damages, caused by
killing Of several dagocs March IA, 1891, wi
citizens broke into the prison and hung u