The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-04-19

State News Boiled Down.

Scarlet fever is raging in COTE,
vile.
Duck Hin subscribed $2,O26 to IN
Methodist College.
1Crystal Springs commenced shippin
straw berries last week.
A mill to manufacture hosiery, is t
be a new enterprise at Columbus.
John S. Finley, postmaster at Holl,
Springs, died last Sunday.
Safe burglars are getting in then
work in various parts of the State.
Federal Court is now in session a
Aberdeen,
A Signal Service Station has beer
established at Meridian.
The Jail at IIatcsvIllc, Pamela coun.
", was destroyed by fire last week
Maj. J. /. WoGord Will soon COM
mence the publication of a Republican
paper at Corinth.
Westville being a dry town, the cd
itor of the Neps is calling loudly for a
public well.
Farming operations all over the
State are vigorously pushed and in
some sectionsare well advanced.
Aberdeen had a $4,000 fire Sunday
night; insurance about $4,000. Abb
erdeen Is certainly having her share of
bad luck.
Clarks6ale had a very destructive
fire last week. Loss about 100000;
partly insured. Nearly all the business
houses were burned.
A lady of Lcf0re comfy lost her
false teeth. a short advertisement in
the Greenwood Flag found them
Who SAYS advertising don't pay?
q. L. Lawton, a young man of Me.
ridian, has been appointed a cadet 10
the military academy at West Point,
New York.
The Aberdeen chair factory seems
to be an assured fact. There has been
over $4,000 Of its already taken nm.
May good luck attend all such enter.
prIses,
The Greenville Times mentions the
fact that the leading candidates for
Governor are the same as those eight
years ago-Barksdale, Stone, Taylor
and Featherstone.
John l.. West, a Mississippi drum.
mer, collected $1,000 on his last trim.
fof his house, and skipped TO Canada
with his Doodle. lie has since been
arrested.
Col. j. &. Clarke has been elected
President of the Mobile and Ohio rail-
road. w. Butler Duncan, former
President, il nov chairman of the
Board Of Directors. J.. IL. Fav, of
New York, was elected Vice Prcsi.
dent.
j. j. Winstead, of Yazoo ountu
~
has been pardonod by Governor Low
ry out of the %penitentiary. lie was
sentenced for ten years for incest and
had served five years.
Miss Hattie Watkins, daughter of
VIM. IL. Watkins, widow of the
tate eminent divine, died at hei moth
residence in Natchcz, on the IIth
inst. !
Tho Farmers Alliance Of Warren =
county, in order to protect stock grow
ers, will ask the next Legislature for 0
a law forbidding the importation of y
beef into this State.
The OkOlona Times a "For Sale
.heap-Several car loads of old TO-
gies can be bought very cheap in Oko- Y
Iona. Our reason for selling is that "
we want to build a great city here. CT
this we a never do until we get G.
rid of the fOgies." Il
The corner stone of q Confederate o.
monument will be laid at Naichez, on n,
he 18th inst. Judge S. S. Calhoon. tt
Jackson, will deliver an address on
he occasion. u:
All arrangements have been made
or an Alliance bagging factory at -
Jackson, with a capacity of 1000 to
1000 yards a day. The factory build =
ng at the penilentiary has been leased .
convict labor will be employed. &
Clarion. Ledger: Two heavy timber
Imports have been put in Secreta- 81
y OF States office which extend from
ground TO The roof of the CAPITOL. 4,
The same is also being done in the
Governors Office. The supports.
hough not very ornamental. will add :,
'reatly TO the security of The building N.
Nj. A. L. Rowe, who for a great
many years was a citizen Of Brandon.
led IN Chicago, at the residence fbis
.aughter, Mrs. Molhe Pitts, 3 few uc
avs since. lie was seyenly-two years III
Id.
The OkolOna Times contains this w
hlque announcement for office:
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