The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-05-17

A few cases Of small pox are re-
ported at McComb City.
Meridian had If deaths in April
IS blacks and 3 whites.
A Baldwin man has shipped
1900 dozen eggs this season.
Five candidates for Congress arc
announced in the LIT district.
Meridian imposes fines "for keep
ing late hours on the streets"
Col. s. NJ. Meek is a candidate
for Congress in the LIST district.
The bend on which Grccnville
is situated continues TO cave in.
J. c. Clarke. editor of the Mes
senger, is Kosciusko's new mayor.
Meridian wants the next Press
Convention and will probably get
it.
Bishop Green, Of the Episcopal
church, has retired from active
duty.
Large quantities of string beans
are being shipped north from Mis-
sissippi City.
The Corinth Herald is after the
farmers for hauling balod hay out
Of that place.
In the last few days n. great
many deaths have occurred in
Tippah county.
]. W. Melton, Jr., of Madison
county, has sold all the hay lac
made at $40 a ton.
Clarke Lewis, a Noxubec county
farmer, is a candidate for Congress
in the 4th district.
There have been Il cases Of smal l.
pix in Holmes county, none o.
which proved fatal.
One day last week in Union
county a mad dog bit a little boy
and two young men.
Wool sells at II cents n pound
in Harrison county-eheaper thar
it has been in ten years.
Hampton Boyce, aged 16, anc
Matte Evans, aged IL, were lately
married in Clarke county.
AT Canton il is fashionable t.
drive around Sunday evenings ans
look at the truck patches.
A man in Madison county own,
a common cow that gives from fiv,
u six gallons Of milk u day.
Jackson has jailed a SO callct
fortune-teller and faith doctor VIII,
has been ~swindling the negroes.
Up TO the 10th the Secretary o
the Press Association had issue,
l6l certificates, representing s
papers.
In Vicksburg W. b. Hart at
tempted suicide by taking an over
dose Of morphine, but a docto
saved him.
On Sunday night the 4th inst
some vandals went through tn,
school rooms nj Senatobia and lie
stroyed $3.50 worth Of books.
jeff Cook, (c), who broke into I
store IN Deer Creek and robbed i
Of sil00 has been captured aus
$50 Of the amount recovered.
There are thousands Of Tcxa,
horncd-frogs at Wahalak, KempeI
county, descended from n paiI
turned loose there several year
since.
The mayor Of vicksburg fnes
Douglas Fontaine 500 for carrying
concealed deadly weapons and s2I
for disordcrly conduct /; the cas-
was appealed.
In Tippah county on the nirhI
OF the 9TH lightning set fire /,
John Hcard's residence, but the
flames were extinguishcd will
slight damage.
Johnson Askcw, Co. a grown
man, Is in Jail at Winona, charges
with committing a namcless Grim,
on Eta Loggins, a little colores
girl ak years old.
In n game Of base ball al Stark
vile on the sih the oktibbehas
champions Of East Mississippi.
defeated the Nationals. of IVES
Point, by a score Of 40 10 Z.
Gov. Lowry, rho has hcenin Wash
ington, thinks that the SUN Of "a.
oQon due the State aud held NJ Al
OFFSET 70 the tsx imposed on Mis-
sissippi IN 1851, viii be paid.
Rev. David Burney, Of Attal'
county, has lost nine lows frvn
mysterious disease though vel
and iat, apparently. they drop dca.
without symptoms of sickness.