The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-03-21
State News.

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The twelfth annual session of tb
Mississippi State medical assOcia
! ton will be held at Aberdeen, bt
ginning on April 2.
! The governor has commuted Cav
anaugh's sentence to Imprisonment
for lite. He was sentenced to u
hung on the 2lst, today. .ai-
MA MIR. Jere Horn, SOL of Col. Horn
of the Meridian Mercury, has nc
cepted u clership IN tho postOffict
department at Washington, and
has entered upon his duties.
Ben. F. Haines, a section boss
on the N. o., st. l.. and @. road,
committed suicide last week, neal
Water Valley, by shooting himself
in the head. Cause, disappointed
in love.
While repairing the Raymond
Ja,.. recently, one of the workmen
found in the garnet of the building
the say used by four prisoners
with which they effected their
escape last November.
Clarion: The January semi
annual distribution of the common
school fluid Is now being made.
The total amount to be distributed
is S65, 69S "a, and the total number
OF educable children 336,540. a
Brandon Republican: Capt. j..
L. McCaskill is the happy father of
two bouncing boys, and Il friend OF
his suggests that he is bound to be
elected district attorney unless
some one can show ~triplets.
At the tax sale in Yalobusha
county lands delinquent to the
amount of only S2f SO were sold
tor taxes. Taxes on all the rest
had been paid. The warrants of
YalobuSha are at par, and all of
this comes of a democratic admin
istration.
A broken rail caused a small
shake up OF the passengers near
Abbeville, on the N. O., St. L. and
&. railroad last Friday. One sleep
er was thrown from the track, and
several of the passengers slightly
bruised, among whom was eX-Gov.
Kellogg. No one seriously hurt.
Jackson Comet: A maj by the
name af Joyce, convicted of man
slaughter, in the Warren county
circuit court, at its last term, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for
the period Of ten years, was brought
from Vickshurg Wednesday even
ing. He killed a man by the name
OF Costello.
Lauderdale Review There is
oppoSitinI to building the court
house at Meridian at present, and
a petition TO that effect, signed
by rs persons, the majority Of citi.
zenS Of the place, was presented to
the board OF supervisors Thursday.
The board postponed the matter IN.
I'll the 18th instant. when it will
meet IN extra session.
Natchez Sun: We learn that one
of the Anchor Line steamers lately
took on at Delta, Madison parish, |
La, eight hundred co!ored eui.
grants for Kansas. n committee
OF citizens waited upon the captain
and endeavored to prevail upon
him to refuse them passage, but
the request was not granted, and
a consequence the population
Of Kansas will be reinforced BY
800 sturdy tolored laborers.
Natchez Democrat : WIN. Car.
Ter vas murdered with an axe by
Campbell, both colored, at the
Sweet Home place of o. N. Wilds,
bout thirty miles below Natchez.
CAMPBELL is regarded as a desper.
Ido. He shot John Harrison, col
red, at Wildwood Springs, Frank.
in county, killed u man near
recently, and not more
han a week ago shot a woman Oh
he Forest place.
Kemper Herald Nothing of in.
crest occurred at court last Thurs.
and Friday, Judge Hamm dis
Missed the petit jurors. The cases
gainst the Gully's we're continued
ntil the next term of the court.
Judge Hamm We understand init
lates that the cases must be dis
Osed OF at that time The ease of !
he State VS.. Silas Ashford, indict, ,
u for murder was set tor Monday {
t ten o'clock and a special venire
rawn for the occasion. ,
Clarion: The total valuation of t
ersonality, asshown by the assess. I
lent rolls tor the year 1873, now !
n file in the AUDITORS Office, is ,
33,37O,957, and the State tax 9
at 81 mills 1.-THE State levy} :,
SIG, 1913 30. For the year 1877, =
total personality was $50, 1885,. t
81, and the State tax, the levy be. il
e B mills, vas $l6O, 932 40. From +
lis it will be seen that there was f
crease Of valuation in 1873 over o
previous year of $1,188,477-c
nc a decrease of State tax of $44,- g