The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-07-29
STATE NEWS BOILED DOWN.

TALLAuATCHIE doctors are busy.
BANK is in sight for Bonneville.
MERIDIAN has the base ball fever.
THE crop prospect is not tllttering.
AMETEuR MINISTRIES in ~Brookhaven.
KoscIUsKo cciletery has $50 graves
NATcnEz dog law ordinance is dead.
TuE Pamela Alliance ddr0cate is dead.
A DUMMY line is promised Columbus.
NEST PoINr has yet 500 bales cotton.
A ''bluc gum negro lives in Jackson.
SUNDAY school conventions numerous.
SHIPPING grapes is a 8 growing business.
ALCoRy Circnit Court held fonr days.
LEFLoIE grand jury found l! true bills.
The oat crop is short. Too much rain.
JACKSON admits the need of a soap fac
tory.
The Topisaw Camp Meeting begins
Aug. II.
The assessment Of Meridian foots up
s5,l5OCOO.
SUMMER opera house is being built at
Columbus.
A LOCAL OPTION election i, being urged
in faliabousha county.
WEST PoINr wants j. II. Brinker as
their hext Congressman.
A NEW railroad from Yazoo City to
Memphis is being agitated.
The Trinity Church people of Yazoo
City ale building a rectory.
MERIDIAN talks OF pillow and baggin g
factories being erected soon.
CAPT. JIM ANDERSON, the popular no..
tel keeper Of Oxford, is dead.
The cultivation of peppermint in Mon
roe county attracts attention.
A Christian church has been organized
in Greenwood with q members.
To the Peoples party i. not coucoded
a single county in the fall elections.
The school history of Lowry Il Nc
Garlic has been given to the printers.
The blackberry crop is abundant. In
some places they sell at Toe. per gallon.
A GRAND Cleveland ratification meet
ing will be held in Water Valley Aug. Sd.
THE Yocona Mills at Water Valley,
have doubled capacity for making Irvine.
MERIDIAN with her Mississippi College
will rival Jackson with her MIllsaps Col.
lege.
The Presbyterian church at Jackson is
beng r~efttcd with fue ornamental win
dows.
The fruit shippers at Raymond are at
war with the Express Company in regard
to rates.
The Baptist State Convention at Me.
ridian was well attended and a profitable
meeting.
THE Third party fellows of Pontotoc
comfy want n. W. Bradford to run for
Congress.
TuH Episcopal Church at Greenville
was seriously damaged by lightning a
few days ago.
An a~rtcsian well in Columbus that had
been running since 1858, ceased flowing
a few days ago.
A NEGRO woman in Vicksburg tried to
kill herself by taking II mixture of arseu-
ic and creosote.
THE uptown telegraph Office in
Greenwood has been disco ntinued for the
summer months.
A TAX OF FIVE mills will be levied upon
about S125. 900, 900 worth of railroad prop
Hrty in this State.
A NEW literary society has been organ
lied in Columbus, burdeued with the
name Of"Rosc bud"
CROPS are laid by, and country protrac-
ted meetings, tried chickens aud apple
pies have the swing.
JUDGE L. a. Hill, of Oxford, fractured
his shoulder II few days ago by falling
down IA fight of stairs.
j. J. CONAN, of luka, has been appoint
ed private secretary to Gov. Stone, vice
II. Cassidy, Jr.. resigned.
THE editors are getting fat on melons,
tomatoes, etc. of unusual size that are
brought into their sanctums.
ADAMS county, it is claimed, will not
be Il unit for any one of the Congressional
candidates in the field now.
Miss L. /. HUNTINGTON, of Natchez, is
now on the staff of Current Topics, a
monthly magazine of New Orleans.
A CAMP Of the Modern Woodmen of
the World has been organized in Bran
don with eighteen charter members.
EVERY county in the eastern side of
the State between Corinth and Meridian,
will have an abundant corn crop this
year.
j, II. JAMESON, president Of tho State
Farmers Alliance, has withdrawn from
the Congressional race in the Meridian
district.
WEBSTER county is a mystery in n po-
liticul sense. She is now picked up in
Il mixture of all the various kinds of po-
litical vinegar. Ai
The Canton Progress is trying to con-
vince SOM of the mossbacks of that town
that a good cotton factory would add
$500 people to Canton.
SOME editors are never satisfied. Bro.
Barr, of Corinth, has the nerve to adver.
tise for Il heating stove while all the
good editors pray daily for II perpetual
motion tanning machine.
SEVERAL Of the jurymen in Wilkinson
county, selected for the last term of the
Circuit Court, were excused by tho Judge
because they had not registered.