The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-12-10

months aga.
The town council at its meeting Tuesday
evening last re-instated Mr.. Jake J. Cunning
ham in his old position. Evil doers aud hood
lums had better keep in the middle OF the road
or Jake will pull them.
On or about the 18th Of January the new
Frederic building will be ready for occupancy
by Drs. Kell 4 Ford as a drug store. The
building will he the finest and most commo-
dious on Delmas avenue.
Miss Alice Rourke opened her private school
Monday with a fair attendance. Miss Rourke
is a thorough scholar, n most excellent and
painstaking teacher and deserves encourage
ment in her laudable undertaking.
We hope good old Santa Claus will pay his
usual annual visit to the Scranton children.
The quarantine has been raised and the town
is again healthy, and there is no good reason
why the old man should stay away.
Last Sunday moraing Elder L. N. Brock re-
signed as pastor Of the Scranton Baptist
church, to take effect on or after the third
Sabbath in this month. lie expects to leave
Scranton about the first of January.
Capt. ?. Feore, while in New York City
lately, was glad to hear from Scranton through
the columns of the DENocRAr-SrAR, which he
found on file at the Maritime Exchange.
was the only paper he saw there from this
State.
The many friends Of Mayor W. W. Farms
worth and his brother, Mr.. r. A. Farnsworth,
were glad to welcome them back t, Scranton
last Sunday. They have been sojnurning in
Tennessee Indiana, Kentucky aud points in
Mississippi.
This county has now on the pauper list thirty
persons, each Of whom draw $i.l5 per month,
making annually Slap the Taxpayers have to
pay for the support Of these unfortunate PEG.
pie, besides burying one occasionally, which
amounts to $40 for funeral expenses.
DR.. W. 0. Talbot, dentist, requests us Il
state that he will be in Scranton on Thursday
aud will thereafter resume his visits here a.
he did before the quarantine. Those in neet
o. dental work should call IN DR.. Taboo
Thursday at his office in Cox's drug store an.
be served.
Christmas will soon be here, but our turkey
the great national bird, where Is it 'atP" Shall
we be compelled to subsist on duck and turn
Ups On this day? II such is fate We are phil
o~sopher enough to do so and be thankful to thu
Giver Of all Good. iut, then, we would like
to have a turkey.
Capt. Frank Warren has resigned his posi-
tiun as master of the schooner Lillian A., aud
will leave at once for Mobile to 60 into part.
ncrship with Mr.. A. NJ. Bright in The grocery
and ship chandlery business, under the firm
name "f A. NJ. Bright & Co. Capt. Warren's
many friends here wish him abundant success
The names of Misses Carrie Turner, o
Orange Grove and Annie Addicks Of this
place, were inadvertently omitted from thu
notice of the Frentz Collie wedding in our last
issue. These young ladies assisted materially
in the floral decorations of the church, the
former presenting the beautiful emblems Of
Cupid, a heart anu arrow.
Lawyer c. =. Meriwether, who has been al
his home in East Side the past three months
came to his office here Monday. He says HI
has been laid up for over n month with ''bil
ious- Encouragement" fever, n new malady ant
unknown to the medical profession. We are
glad to see him in our midst sgain and able Il
look after the business Of his clients.
The $4,000 water and light bonds of thu
town Of Scranton have been forwarded fo
North Dakota. The work Of constructing TIL
waierworks system and electric light plan
will commence in a few days. This will prov
a great improvement that will be highly ap
preciated by the citizens of our town.
last Saturday Sherman Danley, who il
charged with the murder Of Contractor Col
Inns, of the Mobile, jackson aud Kansas Cit,
Railroad, was given a preliminary hearing be
fore Hon. Jas. llelyestion, J. r., at Basin
The prisoner was remanded to the count,
Jail without the benefit Of bail and reached her
Sunday in custody of Deputy Sheriff II. J
Longhridge.
The board Of supervisors rejected bills fo
the payment u quarantine guards right an
lrft, last Tuesday. The bills OF Sheriff Moore
for the same purpose, amounting to $l,l3'
were allowed. Had all the bills prenseu'ed 70
e quarantine services been paid the amour
4, would have reached at least $4,000. We tim
the people generally Of the county, ~especisll
the taxpayers, are thoroughly disguised .
the way quarantine matters were managed
: the county.
: At last, thank heaven, the long desired fros
has made its appearance. As people wake
out Of their houses IN Sunday morning the
= rubbed ,heir eyes, Tor they could scarcely bt
" lieve the sight that met them, but there It va
all the same, a genuine white frost, qlitterln
in the sunlight; nay more, not a few saw ice
q quarter Of an inch thick formed on the surfat
Of pals, pools and ponds. Hurrah! JAG
Frost has knocked ont the germs Of yellow
malaria, breakbons and bilious fevers In thl
section.
y. SAW A SEAL IN MOBILE BAy.-The Mobi
~ Register says: capt. Lsrkey McQuarrie,
the tug John Bacon, reports that last Snnda
while about the middle Of Mobile bsy with
:. Tow Of timber far . vessel, he sighted a ge'
uins seal about ten feet from the tug. tt
' seal made an effort to climb out on the raj
but slid back into the water. 1t is suppose
~ 10 be one Of the reals which escaped from Pc
10 sacola sometime aga, and which we're carrie
ID in,o that part In a fishing smack, which caugl
them near the coast Of Yacatan."