The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-05-03
Ehe Iemocraf-S Star
State News Boiled Down.
Stone stock for Governor is steadily


Crystal Springs berries opeued
Chicago at 10 cents a quart.
The B~aicsville Jail, worth $9,O(
was burned a few days since.
An extensive Touring mill 10 to
erected al Wcs' Point.
In CLAY county red leaf clover Is
inches high and in bloom.
Crystal Springs last Monday shIT
ped two car loads OF straw berries.
Lee county claims more girls an
finer M sthan any county in the Stat
The Kosciusko Messenger declare
against n Constitutional Convention
The Summit Sentinel says lIon. J
NJ. Stone is the choice Of Pike coun
tY.
The Delta Farmers Convention viii
be held at Grcenvillc OH the l4th day
of May.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights oil
Pythias win meet at Vicksburg Oh
May 14th.
II. NJ. Gastrill, a leading hardware
merchant of Natchez, died lasi week
while drunk.
Tho State Prohibition Executive
Committee has called a State Convcn.
ton for July 81.
The Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows
of Mississippi will meet at Grenada
on the 7th of May. ;
Capt. r. NJ. ButlrTand r. w. Shipp,
two prominent citizens of Yazon
county, died the fore part of the week.
Greenwood, is ADVERTISING in Als-
bama papers for bids for a new jail
The city council should ~palronize
home papers.
The South Mfssissippiqn by W. I.
S%psrkman, published in Summit, has
suspended. 1t was a good paper and
deserved a better fate.
The editor of the CRYSTAL Springs
Meteor, says: ''The editors wife has
been so hoarse for a week she could
ut talk. Blessed days of quiet! come
again."
Camp Henry has been abolished on
account of its inacccssibiIity. Some
1
other point for the annual encamp-
ment of the State Militia will be Sc
lccted.
Roger w. Doolittle, an old citizen OF
Newton, was struck by the cars the
other day while lisilessIy walking
along the track, and killed.
A factory for the manufacture of
fruit boxes has commenced operations !
at Bonneville. II is a good enterprise,
and we have no donbt will pay well.
The Mississippi Bank Presidents
and Cashiers. will have a meeting in
jackson, on 22d of Nav, with a view
to a "free personal Intercourse IN a
social as well as a business way.
A twelve-year-old son of Mr.. Jno.
Il. Taylor, living six miles from Cry
stall, while attempting TO shoot a hawk.
discharged the load into his arm, and
shattered it so badly that it had 10 be
amputated.
Ex-Governor Stone seems 10 be the
leading candidate so far, and In all
probability will enter the convention
as the strongest candidate. Stones
past record will be hard to overcome
by his opponents.
A negro who had stolen a mule in
Rankin couNty was given the option
of going to the penitentiary or receIv-
Ing a hundred lashes on his bare back
lie chose the latter, taking the punish
ment like a man.
Crystal Springs is afflicted with a
crowd of youngsters, who, in their
.piayfulness, go around at night un-
coupling cars, throwing cayenne pep
per on the stove IN the waiting room
OF the depot aud changing signs.
Con. Renben Davis is revising the
proof sheets OF his book "The Recol-
OF Mississippi and Mississip-
plans for Fifty Years" aud 1t is expect
cd that 1t will be in print in a short
It's advent is awaited with
much interest.
Nearly all the white Republicans in
VicEsburg testified that while they
voted for Harrison tor President In
the last election, they voted al the
time for Gen. Catehings as
against Hill. They regarded Hill as
an inierloper, aud did not want TO see
elected to Congress over Catch
ings.
n Vicksburg dispatch says John S.
Of Adrian, Mich, has purcba-
'ed for the American Timber Com
pany of Michigan, 10000 acres Of the
cypress aud hardwood timber
and In that section. lie is also look
ing for 10000 acres Of long-leaf pine -
ana Tor the same company. The
company will, nexl year, remove five
their mills 10 Tins State to cut tim.