The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-23
STATE NEWS.

8c1Obi bs5 baseball cInb.
Bfookhsyen hos a skating rink.
A. q. Hora offers tho Meridian Mer-
olty i1r sale.
Gro iit court convened ~ Magnolia
last Aoaday, Judge Smiley preiidiDg.
Cartsin T. b. Frpnk killed Mr.. Gore,
Of W'S Point, on Friday Of last week.
Colonel franklin Smith, IN old .nd
higaly esteemed lawyer Of Canton, died
~ that place last week.
Col Cooper bas sold the material OF
bis Comet TO a party At Brookhaven,
where the publication Of the paper will
b5 resumed.
Halle Clark, colOred, was put under
UOud, at q Iitman last week, for her ap-
pearaLcs ut the Clark county rcuIs
court to answer for poisoning her i'll
aut.
Clarion: J1hn Z. Ford, senior pro-
pr,etor Of tae Ripley Advertiser, died
January 27, 1877. Mr.. Ford established
tue AdgeItis 10 1912, and, with slight
ntermi'siJn during the war, continued
IT'S Publication until his death.
Bcsndol Rapublican: A judgment
OF over Sj2 0O0 has been obtained
against the securities of old Lowering,
the abscJndiug tax collector Of Homes
county. TINS may learn them not TO go
on the bonds of earpet-baggers again.
Br4nIon R.publicin. The chancery
clerk Of Madison county was arrested
and tried a5t week ou charge of ez-
turtiou, ia charging and collecting
more fees than the law allowed for filing
and recording deeds of trust. Hd
plead ignorance and was let off. That
is s:r4Dge plea for public officer.
Last week at McComb City a negro
man named Sussex Lswis, while riding
III gallop down the street, rtined his
horse uD ng inst The curbing I well,
and the sudden stopping OF the horse
threw tho rider headforemost to thr
bottom Uf the well, which killed him
instantly. The man was under the in
husnce of whiskey.
NIer dian Mercury: The effects of
the Meridian Savings Institution, which
have been in the hands of j. NJ. Will
liams as trustee, by order of the direc.
tors, at merting on Friday, wers
transferred to DR.. A. FL Smith and VIM.
y. S-one, to be administered for the
beneti: of creditors, upon their giving
a boud Of $4,000 for faithful execution
of the trust. The arrangement, we
unde rs aud, has the sanction of the at
tasding creditors who have lately had
Attachments levied. as mentioned 10 our
Inst. These assets will toe faithfully sd-
to the best advantage OF ths
creditors.
Pano.a Star: Very recently in Sardis
u doZeu people white and colored, aere
suddenly seized with cholera morbus.
: Something 50 unusual created quite
panic. A general rush was made for
doctors, neariy every one in town being
ia demand. After the sufferers We're
relieved they began to Investigate the
cause OF the strange coincidence. Each
)f the afflicted families had bough-
souse at the same place and they natur5
ally attributed the attacks OF cholers
uorbus to this caase, from the supposi-
lion that strychnine had been given to
the hogs, and through the medium of
5ouse found an introduction to their
,lomachs.
Clarion: In Justice to Colonel J. J.
Shannon, of the Meridian Homestead,
Hx-treasurer Of the State Press Associa-
ion, the Hiuds county Gazette states
hat he has "settled his accounts" with
be present treasurer to th entire salts
ac'i of all Interested. 1t is also our
lut, to state that Col. Shannon thus
.xplains why the settlement was so long
delayed: Col. Shannon had requested,
n expected, the present treasurer (Col.
Nalpole) TO draw on him through some
1t tie banks for the amount due.
yhereas Col. Walpole understood thsS
he money was to be forwarded to him
" draft or registered letter. We regres
nat tae misunderstanding occurred,
,ut at it is explained Col. Shannon ID
u!!y exonerated from censure.