The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-10-25
State News Boiled Down.

iO " ~ NEdltllIl4 IT at
tory is now running every day in tn
week.
The Farmers Alliance of Mario
county refuse to nse jutc bagging am
longer.
II. G. Kerr, the new Register of III
land office at Jackson, has takcl
charge.
Jones county will raise 81 per cent
more cotton this year than they Iii,
last year.
A great many gin-houses are bein:
destroyed by fire in different parts o
the State.
Oscar Andrews, son OF DIR. G.. G.
Andrews, died suddenly at Meridian
on the 18th inst.
An Independent county ticket will
be put in the field in Lafayette coun
ty in the coming election.
One man in Okt:bbcha county has
a herd of Jersey cattle, the estimated
value of which IS 100000.
Col. j. j. Williams, of the Grenada
Gazette, is a candidate for Sergeant.
alarms of the next Senate.
DIR. A. G. Edwards residence in
Meridian, valued at $500, was de-
stroyed by fire a few days ago.
w. j. Cowart, the much abused
Sheriff of Marion county, has Teen re-
nominated by a handsome majority.
The Baptists of Crystal Springs
have subscribed 5000 towards the
endowment of the Mississippi College
at Clinton.
Eight of the ten young ladies'
who graduated at the /. L. 81 c., last
year are now employed in the public
schools of this State.
John DetterIy, a well-known and
respe ,tcd citizen of Jackson, dropped
dead while working at the carpenters
trade last Thursday.
Miss Mamie Mcdowell, daughter of
DIR. Sol Mcdowell, of Brandon, died
Wednesday night of last week, from
an overdose of morphine.
A citizen of Bolivar county recently
shipped fifteen hundred pounds of
honey TO Kansas City. Truly Missis-
sippi is the land of milk and honey.
The failure of a gas supply for the
engine caused the Meridian NewS to
miss an issue last week. Gas is very
essential in getting OF a newspaper.
II. E. Lots restaurant in Winona
was burned a few days ago and four
persons were burned TO death in il.
Several other people narrowly escaped
An Indignation meeting of citizens
OF Columbus denounced Chalmers As a
liar when he said "thcre was a mob at
the Columbus depot to as%sassinate
me-
Allen Brown, the negro rioter of
the famous Marion riot in 1881, has
been captured, tried and found guilty
and sentenced to be hung at Quitmam,
Nov. 18th.
The Greenyillc Spirit styles Bishop
Galloway "the silver-tOngued orator
n
of the Methodist Church." lie GER (
taisly gets the silver for the Metho- !
dist College. :
The Board Of Control, which is the !
commission, paid into the
State Treasury $500, which makes
$4,000 that the pcnitentiary has earn :
above expenses during this year. :
William Lott, a mail rider, who :
was recently reported to have been {
held up by mail robbers near State L
Line, has confessed to robbing him.
self, and is lodged IN Jail at Meridian. .
The yield of corn in Adams county :
This year issald to be beyond anything {
has been seen for years and will :
be ample for the supply of that coun- S
lY without bringing a bushcl from the =
West. z
DIR. NJ. A. Bland, a highly respected
roung physician of GAINESVILLE, sui a
'ided last week by taking morphine. &
irief and dependency over the death =
If his wife a few weeks ago, was tho :
;ause.
A. +. Matt. who sailed under several
'laises and hailed from Maine, after
winding many negroes in East Mis-
issippi out Of S. each Oh a pension
has skipped for parts un-
An abandoned rcd-headed baby girl
bout iourIo six weeks old, was pick
ID up on The /. c. Railroad track about
mile below Jackson, on Friday
iight. There Is no clue as 10 the =
mother OF the wait. -
Pontotoc Democrat: Henry Brooks. bw,
'olOfed, residing In the negro quarters La
4 town, died Saturday OF consump- =,
ion. IIenry's dying request was that
ms watch and revolver, ms only D
possessions, be placed In the
and buried with his body. But
father thought IL looked aioef lex