The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-10-19
.Ehe gemorraf- Star
State News Boiled Down.

1t is said that there are seventeen
persons IN the Bolivar county jail
charged with murder.
DIR. Bob Magcc, former representa-
tive of Covington county, is dead.
Prof. b. c. Gum aud Miss Gertrude
Harrcll were married in Osl ka on thu
Alb.
A man named Shep Anderson KILLED
q colored "conjurer'' at Aberdeen on
the 10Th.
The Houston Free South says A. IL,
Taylor, of Corin'h, has entered suit
against Chickasaw county for $3,29l,-
O8. The claim dates back to lS47.
Gen. S. d. Lee, President of the
Mississippi Agricultural and Mcchan-
zeal College, not long ago received all
offer of the Presidency of the Univer-
sity of Georgia at Athens. The saIa-
ny was 5000 and house free, etc. lie
refused to accept. His salary at the
Mississippi A. & NJ. College is $2,OOo'
We understand from the East Missis'
sippi Times, of Starkville. that the
CHARACTERISTIC a again proffered
him and the salary raised TO $3,SOO.
But still Gen. Lee refused.
Miss Jennie Worthington, a grace
full and accomplished writer, as also
one of the most intellectual women in
the State, is writing the leaders for
the Columbus Inde1,
Montgomery county has raised the
poll tax to tV" dollars.
There is some talk of having Can
ada annexed to the United States.
F. G. Ray, a manager on ex-Goy'
]. l.. Alcorn's place in COahoma coun-
", was shot and killed by W. w.
Bethel and his young SON.. Ray was
a gallant captain in the Federal army.
The slayers are in jail at Friar's Point.
The killing occurred last Saturday
night.
On Wednesday last we were shown
a stone, about Is or 10 inches IN
length and about the size of a mans
arm, and was evidently a piece OF
hickory wood petriied. 1t was
plowcd up OIL the farm of Mr.. j. +.
White, a few miles from Corinth. 1t
weighed even pounds and was as
smooth as iii had been polished SAB
%SoileT.
DR.. Walter IIillman, OF the Central
Female Institute at Clinton, was rob-
bed last week Of 800 which was AIKEN
from his residence.
The bondsmeu of D, II. Gordon, ex-
treasurer of Grenada county, have
Just paid s5,SlO.16 TO owe his defal-
cation while in Office.
Mrs. John D. Mcdowell, of Annie
county, died recently. Also Samuel
Fox and Francis G. Warren, two we'll
known and highly esteemed citizens.
Utica wants a new county 10 be
formed from Kinds. Copiah, Clai-
borne and Warren.
The Madison County Fair will be
held October 22nd.
Matrimony and mo!her-in-laws are
again looming up.
Wesson is buying from $50 to 200
bales of cotton daily.
Meridian is quiet again.
New Albany is improving.
BatesvIle has a cooking club.
Winona wants a fire company,
Columbus has a Shakespeare Club.
Alderman L. F. Chiles, OF Jackson,
while refugcelng near by, broke his
arm in falling from a load of hay last
week.
j. X. Almon, OF the Durant Demo-
crOt, Is a candidate for mayor Of that
city and will "run OH his fitness and
popularity"
Jute won the victory in a debate at
S~andersville OH "Resolved that cotton
baRging is more beneficial to the
South than iute."
Rev. II. j. Harris has boon appoint
ed Superintendent of Education OF
Perry county.
The negroes OF Jackson, Miss, arc
begging for something to eat.
X. F. johnson was elected and has
qualified as Circuit Clerk of Wilkinson
county,
The Meridian Exposition, which
was set for Oct. 18th this year, has
been postponed until next October.
1t cost Natchez, Miss, s2,4S2 for
quarantine restrictions, which includes
guards and all expenses pertaining to
the preservation of the health Of the
city.
General Reuben Davis, ofthe Aber-
deem bar, is said TO be writing sketch
es Of the men of prominence and
events of interest in Mississippi dur
ing his residence in the State,
The meeting Of the National Al
lance in Meridian has been postponed
an Ianuarv 1G 1880