The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-10-21
State News Boiled Down,

Fishing fiue in upper Dog river.
Monroc's turuip crop is immense.
West Poiat has six meat markets.
Natehcz reports counterfeit dollars.
The campaign is lively in Webster
Scott county is ~forsakins the Populites.
Ncwtouitcs aud topulites are strangers.
Some Iowa excursionists will do tn,
Safe this month.
The assessments of Columbus increased
$780, 900 last year.
Yazoo City and Vicksburg will be con-
nected by telephone.
Bonneville is one of the best produce
markets in the State.
In Kinds county cotton picking is near
ly ended. Short crop.
The Third party is going to pieces il
Tallahatchie county.
Miss Lucille Banks is again at the helm
Of the Columbus Under.
The State Medical Association meets
in Jackson November LIST.
Mr. E. j. Bowers is making an activ,
canvass as elector-a,-large
The Bogue Chitto Baptist church, il
Pike county, is 20 years old.
Jackson wants a society for the pre-.
vention Of cruelty to animals.
&c. Sims, in Monroe county, success
fully grows Havana tobacco.
The PopulItes will be fortunate in car.
rying as many It's three counties.
Aberdeen shipped twenty-five car
loads of freight one day last week.
Amite was the first county IN the State
to erect Il Confederate monument.
The Aberdeen Gun Club have ten acres
saved III wheat us II dove preserve.
Rev. r. G. Pearson. the "Doy Preach
err" is holding Il revival in Jackson.
A forty thousand dollar plantation
WAS sold in Warren county this week.
Its Il mighty small Industrial news
item that escapes the Aberdeen Examiner
The people of SenatObia Seem bent up.
on the lLea of having IA canning factory
Some paper ventures the remark that
Burkitt has more Money than he wants,
Brookhmven had a magnificent barbe.
cue and Democratic rally last Tuesday.
Judge 5. S. Culhoon has been doing
effective work for Democracy thi
Isaac Brown, who recently died in
Vicksbnrg. had his life insured for fifty
thousand dollars.
A Chickasaw county farmer raised on
n piece of ground 2lx69 feet, 800 heads OF
cabbage this year.
Fragrant Havana tobacco, raised in
Monroe comfy. fills the pipes of scores OF
smokers this year.
There are very few counties, if any. in
the State. that have not raised an abun-
dant supply OF corn and hay.
Miss Annie Walter, of Holly Springs,
is one OF the faculty in the WOman's
Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Monday wa. Democratic day in Poplar.
Vile. Hon. j. II. Neville and other
preached the Third party's fun
bral.
Senator Walthall made a mastery adj.
lress in Holmes county Tuesday. The
Populltes in that county are daily weak.
The local talent CT Natchez gave a dra.
matte entertainment Tuesday night for
he benefit of tho Louisiana flood sui.
In Marion county white caps shot ami
killed Jesse Pitman, u few nights ago.
men have been jailed to answer
Tor the crime.
The State Board of Education decides
hat all unexpir-d license are valid in
he county where issue | for the time spec
fled OH their face.
Gen. Stevenson made Holly Springs a
short and unexpected visit while
rOuto to Birmingham. He was royalty
entertained by the citizens.
At the Fall River Baptist Association
held in Lincoln county strong resolutions
were passed declaring it sinful to vote for
any man who favored the liquor traffic,
etc. Bre'r Hobbs was there.
Reports from all over the State to the
State Executive Committee ere doubly
assuring of handsome majority for the
Democratic ticket. The canvass has been
thorough aud successful, and still goes on.
The extract from the Code, anent tho
sale OF opium, morphine, etc. has excited
much comment especially from Opium.
mothers who are now o ied
about getting Il few drops Of parrgorie
Tor poor little baby
Some Jackson parties four years ago
a small trout and MAJ keG its
Inns with an underbit and swallow fork
and released it in Blue lake. While fish
IN Rankin lake the other day they
caught it again, II three FOUNDER.
Among the deaths reported are: F. R.
Sherman, Brook haven; Judge J. L. Nor
ris, Meridian }. NJ. Plant, Oxford Miss
Ida May Williams, Sardis Z. A. Tucker,
Mrs. Mary Kendall, and W. IL,
YcIgcr, Grcenville; W. T.. Benson, Wa.
Ter Valley ; John u. Miller, Lowndos
; Mrs. J.. z. Cronier, Pass Chris.
A $4,000 fire visited West Point last
night, in which were destroyed
several business houses, lawyers offices,
The Methodist chn rch building, and the
TWO newspaper offices of the Leader aud
he Forum. Neither paper carried insur-
nnce and each sustained u clear loss OF
about 5000.
Editor John II. Miller has sold the Tu-
pelo Journal to Mr.. j. b. Ballard, OF the
who will consolidate the two pa-
peIs. The State press will greatly miss
Capt. Miller; he has won a reputation
The equal of any IN the State, both as u
writer and all-round newspaper man.
He u turn a paragraph with as much
snap and pOintednoss and force us any
editor that ever served in Mississippi
journalism. We predict that he will not
long remain out OF editorial harness.
Stove pipes going up aud hammocks
down-swallows are going South
SO are wild ducks and ~geese-lndian sum.
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