The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-09-26
STATE NEWS.

The tax levy in Scott county is
only sS Is on the $1,000. The low
est of any county in the State as
far as we have heard from.
Mr.. John Armstrong, editor OF
the Madison Journal, was fined
$3.50 by the mayor of Vicksburg,
for violating quarantine ordinances
by coming from Delta to Vicks.
burg.
Perry Smith, aged seventy years,
living seven miles from Brook haven
MISS, is quite Il genius in his way.
He has ten living children and thir-
ty-six grandchildren, never owned
nickel, and has horse forty years
old.
Aberdeen Weekly: A resident
of this city, keen observer, who
has recently Travelled through the
Mississippi bottoms, estimates that
10000 negroes will exOde from that
section this fall and winter, for
Kansas and other points.
Raymond Gazette: Some of our
State papers predict there will be
a strong combination in our next
legislature between the friends of
the levees and the Ship Island rail
road, for the purpose of securing
for those two enterprises the entire
convict labor of the State.
Enterprise Courier: Those who
attend court next week will find
the walls of the first story of the
new courthouse almost if not quite
completed. Messrs. Sanders and
Dabbs are pushing the work for
ward with commendable dispatch,
and, as far as we are able to judge
they are doing it we'll.
jackson Clarion: Judge Camp.
bell is at work on the new Code. at
his summer retreat, KosciuskO. He
will hade it ready to submit to the
legislature in January. He has
had many suggestions from mem
bers of the legal profession and
others interested In perfecting and
simplifying the lawn of our State.
Vicksburg Commercial JEFF |
Bell of Jackson, Miss, who mur-
dcred printer in that city about |
three years ago, and was sentenced |
to the penitentiary for life, made bis |
escape yesterday near Pearl river
while at work on Col. HamiltOn's |
boat. Officers and pack of dogs
Immediately started in pursuit of
him and after an hour or 80 man.
aged to capture him. During the
pursuit he killed two of the dogs.
TupelO Journal: If the contest
Tor State senator in Warren county
s between g. E. Wright and Josh.
Merris, there is not true demo
;rat i'll the State but wonld prefer
he election of the latter. Every
BODY knows where to place Josh,
but the other has grad
Ially degenerated from a color.line
lemocrat to a pitiful panderer for
Iegro votes, and it is impossible
o conjecture the role in which he
will next appear.
Summit Times: Mr.. w. j. Brent
Informs us that he had a white oak
rec felled OH his place few days
ince, which was about % feet in
iameter, from which an oak peg
tx inches in length was taken that
'as entirely covered to the depth
t five inches with sound growing
'oOd, and at the end of it was
,und % lock of wool in a perfect
tate of persevatIOn-which he saw
negro man cut from head of lit :
o negro boy forty years ago, and
fter boring a hole in the tree place {
ithin it and drive the oak peg ]
ONE.
Corinth Herald: Miss Josie '
owery, an amiable girl just bud :
in z into womanhood and daughter :,
Mr.. George LOwery near Glenn :
ale in this county, was fatally =
urned by "a coal oil can explosion 1,
ne week ago. The oil had been /.
Dured upon the wood, and the can . !.
It down i'm a few feet of the fire :.
lace, and probably some oil spilled 4
ON the wood to the can. In this v
she went to kindle the
re, aud with the blaze, the can n
nearly halt gallon of 4
| burst, sending the flame through q
Ie roof many feet above the top y
the house. .... a
Brookhaven Ledger: Mr.. Hurl- "a
irt, editor of the New York World d
the only man outside of the "
tate to respond to the circular of
70 President of the Press associa-
Dn, soliciting donations for tie "
ress monument. That gentle. /"
an has forwarded his check for O
10. This is a liberal contribution II
I'd for which every member of tl
e association thanks Mr.. Hual- y
lrt. A few more of such dona- g
1nS would quarantine the early L