The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-08-30
Ghr 1emorraf- Star
State News Boiled Down.

The Brookhaven canning compan'
has been sold under n deed Of trust.
Eggs sell at six cents a dozen ana
chickens at six cents apiece at Column
bus.
An exchange thinks that there
should be q professorsllip of veterina'
ry at the A. & NJ. College.
The Ereaiag Post says II ia doubt
full il a single saloon keeper Of Vick' y
burg has legal license.
1t is proposed 10 have a reunion III
the Confederate and Union armies il
VicksbuIg in May, 1890.
Columbus needs and is talking oI
having a handsome public park with
beautiful walks and So forth.
The Georgia Pacific Railroad
begun work at Winona last week on a
coal chute 400 yards in length,
Forty per cent. of the 240 delegates
to the recent State convention were
graduates of our State University.
There is a stock company being
formed for a note bank at Winona.
This will give That town three banks.
The Masonic Hall OH Summit street,
WinOna. will be completed by LIST of
September. II is a handsome struc-
ture, two stories high.
Great quantities Of rotten meats are
being shipped to Vicksburg by West.
ern packers. II will be s. nj back,
however, by order of the authorities.
Mr.. Webb Harris, of Lafayette
county, will he a candidate for Ser
geant-at-Arms of the next House of
Representatives.
One drug house in Vicksburg, it is
said, received orders one day last
week for Is tons, 10000 pounds, Of
Paris Green. The worms are busy a!
work.
The first i:ainO of the Georgia Pacific
system, over the broad guagcd track,
arrived in GrecAville Friday, the 10th
inst. Grocnvillc virtually has a line
clear through TO the Atlantic ocean
row..
DR.. V. b. Watts, of Brookhavcn,
who was converted by Sam Jones, is
delivering moral lectures through the
State, which are reported as being in
tcresting and amusing.
Instructions have gone out from
Water Valley Alliance No. S07 to the
subordinate lodges for nothing but
cotton and pine straw bagging to be
used for wrapping cotton the coming
season.
The name of Gen. j. II. Sharp has
been suggested for Speaker. lie filled
that high Office in 1886 with great
credit. lie is one of the best parlia-
mentarians in the State.
A negro m named Annie
Walker Carr was recently arrested at
Sardis for q murder committed by her
five years ago, when she killed another
womcn at Loglown. Her husband be-
trayed her. :
The Liberty Herald says Mrs. Thos. =
WaTng of that town has a LeConte !
pear tree which bore its first crop this :
year, and that some OF the pear, v
weighed a pound each. The LeCuntc
is a fine pear.
The report of Tie city clerk shows 4
that Meridian has spent for improve
ments within the last year $4,000,
and is going on with the good work.
This includes three school buildings
and the city hall and market house.
While attempting to open the blinds
in the second story of her residence, ia
Bolivar county, Mrs. Stokes, wife of
Col. j. +. Stokes, LOST her balance aud
fell headlong to the yard below. She
was fatally injured and died Within
an hour.
A telephone message from HAYNES
Bluff, on The 22nd inst, states that at
near Decchland Store, about fifteen
miles from Nicksburg, Mr.. Walker
Folkes, a young planter, was attacked
by two negroes, aud he fatally wound
cd both OF them.
Gov. Lowry has appointed quite a
number Of delegates to the National
Farmers Convention 10 meet at Mont
gomery, Alabama, on November 18Th.
Among Them are Maj. j. S. Dillups,
Of Columbus; Hon. John u. Came
ron, of Madison ex-Gov. Alcnrn and
Col. StOyall, Of Coahoma, and Gen. S.
w. Ferguson and Major Hood, Of
Washington.
DIR. L. NJ. Leper was brought TO
Brandon by Deputy Mason, of Madi-
son county, on the 20lh inst. and was
at once placed in Jail by Sheriff Dob
son. II is charged by the grand Jury
that Lcper, who was a school teacher.
forged the names OF the schoul trus-
10 the approval of his school
report and received the money
on IT.. lie viii probably by trted nj