The Pascagoula democrat-star., 1882-12-15
sac Neus.
Wess0a is to have a town hall.

railway.
The bored well at Meridian is
500 feet deep.
Snow fell in Okolona aud CoIum
bus on the 29th.
The Nalchez Democrat has been
a daily eleven years.
Water Valley is to have new
paper 70 be called the Progress.
\ great many apple trees in the
vicinity of Brandon have borne two
crops of fruit this year.
\ white squirrel killed in Ran
kin county is now studied and on
exhibition at jackson.
Fred Artman, of Lexington, of. /
fers reward OF $1,000 for the first 7
bed-bug found in his new hotel.
This State has eight cotton fac
tories vita 94i looms. 1S,27S spin
dies aud capital OF 81 ,222, l40.
A Goodman, Miss, man
challenges any man irthe world tor
a but;iug match tor $1,000 a side.
The oldest iuhabitant OF
KoSciuSlo, Mr. ISlAc Parker, died
there some few days ago, in the
Sjlh yrar OF his age
TIP TO tue 2i'h nit. Wuona had
shipped Ills bales OF cO,ton,
against G,603 bales for the cores
poudiag, period last year.
The sugar.crnc crop is being de
veloprd IN Amitc county 10 extent
uulooked fur in tie past history ot
agriculture in that section ot the
country.
! Pauols county last year tnok pre-
miums on cotton at Memphis aud
St, Louis, aud this year, ont IT, 800
bales competing vt Lit,tlr Rock,
two of it's bales took the premium.
There will twenty-nine hundred
and ninety.six acres Of McComh
city property sold AT the depot OF
that city on the 2Olh lust, by w.
| Il. Archibald, trustee.
Pauola star.
Some OF our State exchanges con
tain announcements of candidates
for the offices to he Glled at the
election next November These
candidates believe in the saying.
"the early bird catches the wOrm.'
Mr. A Il. Spinner, representing
a number ct Northern capitalists
Interested in various sections OF
! land in The Immediate vicinity u
, Columbia. was in said Town las
. week, looking after titles and ger
. ting out titles for new purchases.
Coruth Herald.
\ white man, named Mitchell
D charged with stealing cotton from
+. negro in Prentiss county, was ~
b rested on the north.bOund train OF
Monday by Sheriff Williams an,
escorted back to Bonneville. Nit
ehpll acknowledges the cotton, bu
says he WAS only collecting a deb
the negro owed him. The case vii
: be investigated,
Thad. Harris, son of DR.. Il. G
Harris, was playing carelessly wit
e a loose press band at A. 2. Wal
i son & Cos. gin and mill, on th
2d lust, when his left hand go
caught in the baud, wrapping hi
: arm with the band around the shat
/ and carrying the hoy over the shal
some fifteen times before the et
glue could be stopped. His arr
: was broken in four places and th
palm OF his hand BADLY torn.
similar accident occurred to
/. negro boy at the same place, by th
il same baud. last winter.
}. Raymond Gazette
1 A few weeks ago we were told {
church in South Mississippi tia
a began the process of disciplinin
/. its members tor drunkenness. III
Is incorporate members and all thoS
Il who visited saloons, resisted the n
y a tempted discipline, rallied their fol
70 ees, and finding themselves in tn
> majority,turued all the sober brotl
: ers out of the church. .'and declare
!. !. "the majority shlli rue.' This
, said to be an actual fact. Ii rathe
il strengthens the ilea that major
+ ties are not always intalible.
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