The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-12-23
State News Boiled Down.

Wesson will have a new bank.
footpads tronble Greenville.
Grenada has 4 Columbian Club.
Greenwood needs an opera house.
Tnpelo agitates u canning factory.
Eooneville's eannery succeeds we'll.
Wolves are seen in Rankin county.
Natchez is figuring on electric cars.
NELSON'S public school numbers 525.
II. L. Calm, Grenada. fails for $I6,0OO.
Rankin county defeated the stock law.
A merry Christmas to the State editors.
Brookhaven hoodlums shoot out the
street lamps.
Many Of the State papers will not issue
mex week.
Northern immigrants are coming into
the State daily.
The new Code makes the Sheriff the
county librarian.
A wholesale stealing Of turkeys is re-
ported at Jackson.
Near King. in Rankin county, an eagle
was recently killed.
Several Simpson county families have
moved to Louisiana.
A pine log was found in a bale of cot
ton ut Brookhaveu.
Machinery has been ordered for Meri-
dams knitting factory.
Two fine bears were killed in Suhfow-
er county the other day.
NJ. j. Mulvihill has been nominated
postmaster at Vicksburg.
Attachments have been run on j. W.
Croker Il Sons, ut Forest.
Remnants Of the Tolbert gang iu KEN.
per county still give trouble.
Holeman's lumber yard at Purvis was
burned last week. Loss 5000.
Eight inches of snow fell this week in
the northern part of the State.
The Wlnona compress has hauiled
5000 bales Of cotton this season.
Business failures are becoming numer-
ons, and to continue until Spring.
business failures are partial to Winona.
Within three weeks she has had four.
The North Mississippi Methodist Con-
ference meets next year in Columbus.
Station agent Mcmahon, at Muldon,
suddenly fell over dead tho other day.
Choctaw county loses about a dozen
farmers who have moved to Louisiana.
A Palahatchle man will prepare for the
Worlds Fair au exhibit Of Mississippi
grown tobacco.
The West Point Forum has resumed
publication, after being burned out in
October last.
Cincinnati parties recently bought 700
head Of beef steers from Meridian deal.
CTS, pay hs e<u,VVV.
A boiler explosion in a Brookhaven
mill killed a colored fireman and deuol.
ished things generally.
The editor of the Magnolia Gazette reads
the. Congressional Record! Au insaulty
trial may be looked for.
The notorious Brooks Story tried to
tunnel out of the penitentiary the other
day, but were detected in time.
The trial of Poster tor the killing Of
Judge Morgan, is going on in Water VAL
ley, and attracting general interest.
Meridian is having hard time in rals.
ing the necessary amount for the removal
ofthe Clinton College to that place.
A philosophical Na,chez contemporary
suggests that even beef will taste mighty
good this Christmas. That was our idea,
but we were not going to mention il out
side Of family circles.
A Rankin county correspondent says
that the farmers are planning for next
year for one Ut the biggest cotton crops
on record.
Tho whereabouts of a boy named
Francis Edward Madden, who came from
the North to Mississippi recently, is want
aI in Rrnudon
The next aonual meeting of the State
Bar Association will I've held iu jackson
on January 10th, and promises to be of
unusual interest.
Congressman Catching's portrait is to
be painted aud placed in the vicksburg
courthouse, with the seven other por.
traits Of Warren county prominent men.
A KOsciusko negro thought be was
snake-bittea, tanked mp OH whiskey to
effect q cure, fell in u b%ranch-and will
not be on earth to stesl Christmas turkeys.
Editor Tabor, Of the Brandon News,
who has recently made a trip to his old
home in Iowa. says there are many fami-
lies up there who inquire about Mississip.
pi and would move hero If they could sell
their property.
A l7-year old boy in Jackson accident
ally shot his 5-year old sister, aud when
he realized what be had done he turned
the pistol against himself and pulled the
trigger. 1t is thought that the girl will
die but that the boy will recover.
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