The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-10-12

State News Boiled Down.

Tho frat case OF fever IN Jackson !
1878 was on August 81; the mex
Sept. 90; the third Sept. IS. TIL
last death was November IS. Tota
cases In 1873, 400; whites l73, colore'
BIT. Total deaths, IS; whites 40
solored 80.
Jacob ID. Derrick, OF Mississippi
has been appointed to a ~clerkship il
the dead letter Office of the Postotic'
Department.
Home again! the fellow who in
tended TO take 4 little trip of an!
way.
Jackson never made rs much fuss
before since the famous little red
wagon crossed the fa;ed bridge.
The Wesspn mills employ 900 men.
women and children.
The FrohibitioniSts of Mississippi
failed 10 hold their convention al
Jackson, owing to yellow fever pre-
vailing in that city.
C. p. Adalr, editor Of the SunAuw-
or Tocsin, writes to his paper from
Walden, Miss. "Whilc out at Walden
we were fortunate enough to be mar
ried to Miss Julia L. Colmery on Sep
TENDER Ilth.' He also says that in
consequence of this event and q sick
printer, the T'2cstA will not be pub
lished next week.
DR.. J. J. Goss, Of the Osyks TtcO
States, has been elected mayor OF that
town by a handsome majority.
Rev. B. HalsteAd, the Episcopal
minister at Lexington, died OH Sept.
18th in the Slst year of his age.
w. A. Lake, a hotel keeper at Horn
Lake, Miss, was shot and dangerous
ly wounded on Sept. Goth by Vim. ii.
Bate.
The Mississippi Southern is a new
road spoken of to run from Nalchcz
10 Pensacola VIA BroOkhaven.
Professor Montgomery, principal OF
the sspuLiic schools at Oxford, Miss,
has beet discharged from that posi-
ton. IIo was a strong Republican,
and while enjoying his summer vacd-
ton in the North he waved the bloody
shirt vigorously and denounced the
Southern Democrats soundlY.
Col. Jas. II. Dinford, OF Duck Hill,
has been appointed special agent of
the Agricultural Department at
Washington, To prepare all exhibit OF
cotton and cotton products for the
Paris Exposition of 1889. A worthy
appointment.
Each town will have to pay for its
own quarantine.
The Kosciusko Messenger has a cor
respondent only IL years old.
Harrison S~lackhousc, colored, near
Crystal Springs, was slung by yellow
Jackets from the effects OF which he
died.
The Port Gibson cotton factory has
turned out a style of cotton goods de-
signed as a substitute for jute bagglng,
which can be sold at I cents a yard.
An old colorcd man, Hal Rhymes,
was killed by II powerful young buck,
in Copiah county, by a blow with a
piece of scantlihg.
Corinth had a warn of chicken
hawks last week. There was estima-
ted TO be 1000 in the drove as they
few westward. Several were killed.
The Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City
Railroad Company p%ctitioned the
Board of Supervisors of Perry county,
last Monday to submit TO tho voters OF
the county at the next general cleo
zion a proposition to vote 100000 OF
The countv's bonds in exchange tor
100000 of the railroads bonds, bear
ing six per cent. interest for thirty
years. They granted the petition and
Tor and against the subscription will
be voted on at the next election.
The Woodville Republican SAYS 1t
doesn't want DR.. Peoples or any other
Jackson man for Governor.
Coahoma Brood-A1e: "Just as we
90 to press we hear of the horrible
suicide of a white married wonan on
Col. StOvall's place. She put the
muzzlo of a shotgun in her mouth aud
pushed the trigger with a stick, liter
alp blowing off her head.
The body Of Walter Dickey u we'll
TODD young planter Of Pleasant Hill,
De Soto county, Miss, was found
on The l4th inst, at the house of Jack
Tribblr, one Of his tenants. He had
been shot in the head with a shotgun
aud in the body with a pistol.
Mr.. Z. Is. Ward, an old resident of
Columbus, died Of heart disease last
week.
English waInnts are being grown
successfully in Benton county, Miss.
The Board Of Supervisors of Perry
AZ. havo nassau an arder