The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-10-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Creek Legislature met yes
N terday.
Coal miners.all over East Teunes
p see are striking.
Mobile has abolished the drum
= mer'S tax.
King Alfonso, of Spain, has in
y termittent fever.
Several planters have begun su.
%gar-nakmg in Ascension parish.
Thirty.One poStmasterS were ap-
Y pointed by the President yester.
, day.
/: King, Negro rapist, of New Lon.
: don, Mo-, VAS lynched yesterday.
+ The glass-makelfs strike ut Pitts.
burg has been satisfactorily al.
Justed.
The recent cyclone has destroy.
ed five hundred East Indian viii
lagos.
Mobile is reported to be flooded
with counterfeit French and Amer
lean coins.
The Apache chief, Geronimo, is
said to have been killed in a lecpnt
6ght with United States troops.
Sweet, the slayer OF Dir. Waugh,
at Chicago, has been released, til =
grand jury refusing TO bud a true
bill.
A man named Alexander has
been arrested at Paris, Tex, for "A
murder committed thlrty.two Yeas
ago.
The bill to reduce the authority
of the railroad commission has fail.
ed in the Georgia LIE legislature.
K. q. Bloomfield, an English nan.
is being prosecuted IN Denver, Col,
tor traudnIently entering govern.
meut lands.
Belgium has withdrawn from
the monetary convention, and there
are prospects for the return of Ger.
many to-bi metalism.
VIM. Shipp, white, and Mrs.
Shipp, coIored, OF Waco, were ar.
iested yesterday for mi>ceeenation.
They were married in 1877.
Colorado had u Democratic STATE
at Denver, yesterday.
It pronounced IN favor Of the TN.
.lmitei coinage OF silver. i
The latest New York scandal
concerns the militia, involving NAL. 5
ieTsations of over 800, 900, in
Gen. Alex Shaler is said to
implicated. A
The Baltimore grand Jury re-
ports that tue introduction OF The C
whipping post TO punish wiie.beat. d
rs has bad a Salutary effect ~
There Is an increased demand Mt :,
he National Treasury Tor fraction. Gr
| coins, which is thought to indi.
ate an encouraging revival of bus.
ness.
w. w. Watson, Esq, of Byhalia. u
liSS., was killed IN Il street igut ia
HOLLY Springs Yesterday evening, ,
y Hon. s. W. Mullins, member Of
ne State Legislature.
There were 275 new cases of E
lolera aud III deaths from that q
IN Spain yesterday; 1I6 Z
cases aud 40 deaths in Paler. e
o.. ~
Uninterrupted rail commuuica.
Oh between ST. john, New Bruus. Prl
lex, aud Boston is afforded by ~
g bridge over the st. John liver -
the former point, which was for.
ally opened Wednesday. u
Commissioner Atkins, of the H.. q
Bureau, lett Washingto,
sterdny on Il tour through the
riOus Indian Reservations. He
lends TO look specially into the
outbreak.
Mr.. Foster, Minister to Spain, =
S returned To Washington brlLg
: with him the new treaty which
has negotiated with mat couI. no
:. Its provisions have not yet v
FL made public.
The United States District Court
Oxford, Miss, yesterday Tender. ,whe
a decree in the large suit OF u. iarg'
EverS, OF London, apd Thomas Il
Of Chicago awarding pure
10000 acres OF Mississippi Lands s ParI.
the Englisbmau. d n.y.
{ is predicted that the pineap. lowe
crop OF Florida will soon Ice ne
important than the orange free
p. Much OF the scrub aud pal Or
TO land In the southern part of fully
Slate has been utilized for i'eto
cultivation, and the + -
Is are reported good .vr "a heavy A
d of the fruit. y
he followingi is the total average
'entage compiled from the re.
= received by Slate Commits.
er OF Agriculture Bird, CON. a.
III with the same date last YEAR
on condition, SS.12; corr. W.
where han vested, 1882 rIrp. 4
! where harvested, IO2,O0; su'
cane, condition IO6 O5 sor.