The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-09-09
State News Boiled Down.

.."ee"SA % hiahih5 "H oh ic'
liqnor saloons.
Dr.. Cranfll. the Prohibl.ioulst, is lee
turing in the State.
jas. Burkitt, the Thrill party Con
gressional candidate IN tho First District
is Il brUthcr 70 Frank Bnrkitt.
As yet none of tho papers have men.
toned the fact that Dodds couldn'
Hooker.
Pamela county brass about her lars
corn and iine wheat.
The West Point Leader has moved int,
new and commodious quarters.
All the papers have mentioned It'll,
oysters Il in it.
Que day last week $3.50 worth of excur
sion tickets was sold in Corinth for Texas
New Albany ships ; great deal of ash
timber to northern markets.
The agitation of the stock law question
is spirited in Rankin, LauGerdalc an,
Clarke counties.
The delivery wagon system has beer
inaugurated in Corinth.
The LIST was "movms day" in Okolona
and over thirty changes were made.
Columbus has u real live Sol. Sellers.
Occasionally u Texas emigrant return.
declaring that there is no State like Mis-
sissippi.
A baby show amuses Columbus.
Brandon has three candidates for post
master, if Cleveland is elected.
WaynesbOro is trying tO organize
choral society.
The camp meeting near Water Vale,
is in progress.
The Yazoo and Tallahatchie Transpor
tatlon Co.. do not allow liquor to be sold
on their boats.
Water melons nave "played out"
Hay ride se~renading parties are popu.
lar in Brookhaven.
Weeds %monopolize the sidewalks il
Durant.
Gen. West declined the Populite nomi'
nation for Congress in the Second dis.
trict.
Prentiss county went Democratic las,
week by 200 majority. J. r. Moore wa.
elected Treasurer to fill au unexpired
term.
1t is politics how to the exclusion of al
other news.
.Winona has a new brick hotel in cours,
of erection.
Claiborne county is not going to bnili
any more wooden bridges but erect sub
s~tantial iron ones Instead.
kemper's sorghum crop is splendid.
Vlcksburg is between two dry counties
but will, no doubt, drink enough liquor
to bring up the average.
Durant, 1T is charged, has the stlugiesl
set OF Aldermen on earth.
YazOO City is pestercd with "blipd ii
gers"
Claiborne and Sharkey counties, botl
river counties, have voted prohibition
and now Adams county Is having u tiybl
to keep in the wet ranks.
Magnolia wants her graveyard fence re
paired.
Bay ST. Louis complains that it Is diff
iicnlt to get ice from the retail dealers o.,
Saturday evenings.
Court is in session at Magnolia, and
there arc seTen murder Gases to be in.
yestigated by the grand Jury.
The streets of Meridian are being i'm.
proved, and the town generally is on the
mend.
Judge FAINT retnsel bail to Albert Eos
ter, charged with being an accessory in
the killing Of Judge Morgan last June.
Jackson is undergoing Il thorough
cleaning, and the garbage cart mules, for
the nlst time, are humping themselves.
mississippi girls will never call ZEN
"salluses," and the reference to u zone
gallnsed cuss" will not be tolerated,
The public school question ia Hattics-
burg is in a tan.lr.
Rev. George 5. Inge is conducting the
crystal Springs camp meeting
A game of base ball at Hatton, termina.
ted seriously. Three play ers were shot
and several were Knocked in the head
with bats. The umpire enjoyed the row
from his lofty perch in the top of Il tree.
The editor of the liattiesburr Citi-eu
says he wasn't joking about that "little
game" last week. that gambling goes on
daily in close proximity to his office.
Grenada acknowledges that she is dir.
ty, but claims to be Democratic.
iazoo City, last season, handled 65,63l
bales cotton.
Prize-tights and cholera have the call.
Ripley and Tupelo complain of too
much marble playing by the small boys.
Woodyllle is talking up her Fair.
A good deal Of broom corn is grown
around Egypt to supply her broom fac
tory.
Now for the school girl exodus.
Cotton p%icking'and politics.
e. W. Dudley has sold tho Winonu
Times to W. N. HURT, aud will go to Fri
ars Point to take charge of the Coahomiau
which paper he has purchased.
Sfarkvillc is overslOoked with vags.
The Sea Coast Echo inauguruted a State
news column last week, and appropriated
to its own use only sixty-cight items from
the DEMOCRAT-STAR.
Colored "regulators' are at work in
'Vicksburg. The other night they SO, ere
" cowLlded two bad negro wOmen
The first bale cotton was received at
Vicksburg nearly u month late compared
with last year.
A. d. II. Armistead, tire asurer of Tunica
county, died last week.
The Mary Holmes Seminary for color
ed sills will open in Jackson the 25tl
of this month.
Burglars cracked a safe in Grenada and
got away with 500.
The joke about umbrellas in Mississip.
pi saloons takes a more serious turn, us
it has been decided that to shield ones
self with an umbrella while taking u min
in saloon is against the law.
The Yazoo City and Memphis railroad
is being surved from Clarksdale south.
The theatrical season will soon opeu.
Brookhaven has dances plentiful.
Misses Laura and Beatrice Sims are
employed IN the business and mechanical
departments of the WaynesbOro Times.
When Sullivan passed Richburg on hi.
way to New Orleans, the people OF that
vicinity built bonfires aud Justify cheered
the slugger.
A jackson dispatch tells of the revolt,
ing conduct of q brother and sister IN
Holly Springs. Charles and Annie Jen
kins were convicted of Incest aud sen.
fenced to the %peniieDtiary for ten years.
Several children have been born from
this unholy alliance.
Judge Cassidy ut Magnolia discharged
the grand jury selected for the present
term of court and ordered the sheriff to
summon u new jury.
The railroads valuations Of railroad
property in this State are from $50 to 300
per cent in excess Of the values given by
the companies. An injunction suit /,