The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1883-07-14

Tho Jail N Harrison county II
nov used Ne n luDatic asylum
lnst week thefo WINS q death
from yeilow foycr on Ship Island
Natchcz has bought 200 pounds
u copporas, ~ BE- used for sanitary
purposes,
Miss Jessie Alcorn, . daughter
Q[ tho xGoyernor, has o""" on
The pincy lands " the coast Offer
better facilities for stock.raising
than Texas.
Smallpox has been declared ep.
idomic IN the Sharon district Of
Madison county.
Near Georgetown, Copiah coun-
lty, on tho LIT inst, Mrs. Ragus
died, aged l03 years.
Flux il NO fatal at Byhalia that
physicians advise the people ="
move out for u few weeks.
Natchez has n doU chat FheaKs
,nto stores and steHls enough pota-
toes to supply his master
In Newton ounty n man has a
If ortbnokes containing l0l
.,aiLs r nine feet high.
-. Culpeppcr, Of Oktibbeha
dnty, now IN her one hundrcdth
year, is in excellent health.
A man living near Camden.
Madison county, has a mule that
was in the battle of Gettysburg,
twenty years ago.
Col. I'd. Richardson has pro.
sented the Warren County Light
Artillery a complete uniform made
Mt the Wesson Mills.
Preparations arc being made for
an old-faslIioned Methodist camp.
meeting in Harrison county, to
begin early next fall.
Three negro boys of Jackson
have been arrested for stealing the
brass from two locomotives and
selling II to a junk.shop.
At Ocean Springs on the Bird
inst. Charles Bclmon committed
suicide by drowning himself
cause, temporary insanity.
Col. NJ. d. l.. Stephens was scri.
ously II not fatally injured by
Jumping from a moving train at
Water Valley a few Nights ago.
A substance, believed TO be kao-
in, has been discovered at vicks.
burg. Should il prove to be kaolin.
i is the only bed ever found in the
state.
Near Natchez on the Natchcz &
Jackson road, on the 9Th inst, n
fell through a bridge so feet
Conductor Jennings was killed and
light passengers wounded.
In jackson county within the
month lightning has twice
truck the same pine tree, stand
ng in the midst Of several other
rees of the same size and height. :
At Bay Sc. Louis n few davs
inco Robert Cashier (c) knocked
and robbed a Mr.. Planchette
4 $3.50. The robber fled, but was
pursued and arrested, making a
confession.
The E%llisyille Eagle has discoy.
red one Of the greatest curiosities
4 the age-a woman who has never
cen her shadow in n looking-glass:
md she isn't blind, either. Well,
We call for proof.
One Valain, a hermit over eighty
fears Of age, and claiming TO have
'een one Of the notorious Lafittc's
died near Ocean springs
m the 30th ult. lie saws fahtte
two jugs filed with gold on
he Chandelier Islands.
This State has eight vacancies
N Peabody scholarships that will
filled by competitive examina-
ion in August next; for further
Information applicants should adj
iress Gen. J. A. Smith, State su-
p~orintcndent Of Education.
The farmers Of Lowndes county
ire destroying the boll-worm and
'aterpillar-ay by placing lighted
amps in the fields at night. Tho
" ouc W tltsc Ules now |
8 equivalent TO the destruction Of
thousand worms in August.
II. A. Hccot, Of Holmes county,
ias found a now way 10 kill rats
10 chips of twenty-five match.
reads, soaks them In water. and
up corn.mcal dough with
he water -plaeing the dough
where the rodents will find Il.
The late term Of circuit court Of
Washington county lasted Eve
seeks-ten civil and twenty.two
cases being tried at q cost
4 S,47s,40, For such q record the
'reenville Times very justly Sc
'erely criticires Judge Trimbls.
Col. 4. Richardson, the worlds
argest cotton planter. says that
he prospect for the present crop
very favorable. He has about
acres In cotton, and will