The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1883-08-25

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Harrison 'opniy has on empty
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Jaotsn cmuiy claims q Bird
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Tlptab esuuiy has mals q large
sorghum crop
Tie saw mill n Aberdeen run
night and day
a vigksbnrg man misod from
ono potato 100
Several new buildings aro going
up IN Okolona
The burnt district NJ Meridian
viii be rebuilt Al once.
!. Around Moss Point there Is q
fair second crop Of figs
Yazoo City has n city physician
who receives ESQ u year.
Tho Enterprise IL the namo Of
n now paper NJ Magnolia.
John Smith Ia n candidate for
Senator in Jasper county.
There IL but ono inmate in the
poor-houso Of Harrison county.
In Canton tho other day light.
ming struck one tree four times.
Pike county will have n special
election for shoriT, September LIT.
Monroe claims moro sorghum
mills than any other county In the
South.
Port Gibson has an ordinance
requiring all dogs 10 wear n collar
and bell.
The Board Of Equalizers in
Kinds county raised tax-assess-
mcnts 100000.
Large quantities Of scuppcrnong
grapes ARE being shipped from the
gulf-coast counties.
The courthouse Of Ncshoba coun-
ty was destroyed by IN incondiary
fire on the 18th inst.
Last week the grand jury Of the
Raymond district of Kinds county
found AZ indictments.
The Moss Point Ladies' Aid So
cicty is making nm effort 10 build
a Presbyterian parsonage.
A new disease something like
blind-staggers is killing many
horses in Claiborne county.
This State has 1891 factories
with n capital of si.501, ia and an
annual product Of sS, 1874 5S.
Aberdeen and Columbus have
artillery companies, and the boys
now want a cavalry company.
During the first seven months Of
this year Scooba has shipped 81
carloads of cows, Numbering 1882.
Rev. DR.. c. W. Grafton, formerly
Of Sardis, is assisting in a Prcsby.
terian protractcd mectinga at Brook.
haven.
At Mayorsvillc withintwo weeks
l3 men have been drowned by
falling from tho Government pile
drivers.
Capt c. f.. Wright, editor Of tho
Vicksburg Herald, has invented d
cotton harvester that Is very high.
ly spoken Of.
Crops are a complete failure IN
Oktibbcha county, owing TO drouth
People are hauling water from
long distances.
". L. Mollison, (c), editor Of the
Mayersville Spectator, isthe Fusion
nominee for circuit and chancery
clerk of lssaqucna county. :
vashti shannon, n colorcd wo
man Of Shannon, Lee county, cnl
up a silver dime and swallowed II
as n remedy for "conjuring."
Jas. L. Clemens, one Of the Dem
ocratic nominees for the Logisla.
turc in Noxubcc county, is total,
blind and has been so twenty-five
years.
i. Eugene Weathcrsby. of Brook
haven, q young man Of high socia'
standing, has been sent 10 the pen
itentiary three years for cattle
stealing.
A State Colorcd Convention will
meet at Jackson Sept 2ist 10 elect
delegates TO the National Conyen,
lion which meets in Louisville,
three days later.
The death rate among pcnitcn,
: tiary conyicts Is n out Of cacI
; lvO per annum, being create,
than that Ct any other prison In
, the United States.
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