The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-01-11
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State Views Boiled Down.

Lote OF marriages In The State dur
Ing Christmas.
The alleged lot ut Lamar turns on
to be only a fiasco.
The Mayor of Natchcz has little I,
do, Natcltez is becoming such a mora
city.
r. G. Taylor, OF Pamela county, Il
frequently mentioned for Governor.
A correspondent Of the Canton Citi
zen fAvors Hon. Jno. r. Cameron foI
Governor.
The safe OF tho treasurer of NeshObs
county was robbed recently. The
amount stolen was not given.
Ex-senator AlcOrn is spoken Of as
good mar for AttOrncY-General I'M
der the new President.
A soda and mineral water bottling
factory Is TO be established at Green
vile, Miss.
The ~pos,ofhce at Bonneville was
robbed of something over q hundred
dollars a few nights ago.
Six of the Kemper county negro
rioters were captured by the whites
and "loSt" in The woods.
Miss Lettic Smith, daughter OF ]. C..
Smith, of Crystal Springs, has becn
appointed to a 1900 clcrkship in the
Interior Department at Washington.
The people of Osyka, at r public
gathering, repudisted al of the assas-
sins of DR.. Varnado, as old citizens,
except the negro.
The Enterprise Times says 1t is es-
timated that 2,37S,S26 jugs were re-
ceivcd at that town during Christmas
week.
Mrs. E. A. McLaurlu, of Bogue
Chitto, committed suicide on the Both
ult., by taking poison. She leaves a
husband aud a little thrcc-year-old
son. The only cause assigned is The
conduct of a maynard male relative.
The KoSciusko Star 10 authority for
stating that three Alliances in Leake
county resolved last year to raise
their own tobacco and they had there
by effected u saving of$l00.
The Masonic Grand Bodies will
meet In Meridian during the thi d
week in February. 1t will LO the
teventy-frst annual session Of the
Grand Lodge and the fo~rty-hrst Of
the Grand Chapter.
Frank Hughes, a coIored barber tfI
Jackson, and Louis Roseman quarrel
ed about twenty-five cents, aud the
latter cut the formers throat.
q. W. Griffith, cashier of the Capt.
tai State Bank OF Jackson, lost his
residence by fire on December 9Th.
lie lived more than 4 mile lrCm the
city.
Rev. I. A. Adams, D.. D., ell dead
In the depot at Jackson while attend
ing 10 the shipping Of his family
effects to Oxford, which WAS TO have
been his future field of lEbor. Tie
was 4 preacher Of great force and r
learned man.
In the contest snit of Purvls and
Lumbertowm, each claiming to have
been elected county seat for the sec
Ond district OF Marion county, Judge
Terral decided in favor of rurvis.
Capt. Pat Hamilton, Jr., one Of
Aberdeen$ most prominent citizens,
was murdered at his gate last Tues
dav by some unknown person. lie had
just drawn some money for the pur-
pose of sending lis son 20 the Univcr-
sity at Oxford, and when found the
money and his watch were gone. The
instrument used by the murderer was
a railroad pick stolen from the ". &
y. RAILROAD. Capt. Hamilton was a
son-in-law OF the late Bishop Paine.
Neil Clarity, l6 years old. OF Vicks.
burg, while romDing with
young friends on his fathers We
randa on December 26th, fell and
struck his head against the baluurade
which will result IN his death.
A traveller who gave his name as
Demeck, of Yazno, was arrested in New
Orleans for Capt. Bunch, but was To-
leased when H. was found that he WA
n wrong man; wrong in more
senses than Que, lie was simply on q
big drunk.
Some of the best people OF Kemper
county have denounced The sensations.
al reports ieleSraphed over tho coun-
try about the so-called race war there.
They claim that it was no race war.
but a fight betweca white and black
toughS.
The preliminary trial of the assas-
sins Of DIR. Vsrnado, Of O~yka, Miss,
a few weeks ago, has closed at Mag
nolia, after nine days of investigation.
The negro, Henry Sheridan, Drs. Goss
and Rials, were committed without
the privilege Of bail. S. II. Goss and
DIR. w. NJ. Tets were each placed un-
der a bond of $1,000.
The Bolivar county Dsmocrat SAYS: