The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-12-16
State News Boiled Down,

Business in railroad circles is dull.
The Purvis calaboose has been burned.
Brandon has a lodge Of colored Masons.
The State Grange met at Forest this
week.
Hancock county court honse is being
repaired.
The stock law in Newton county was
defeated.
Capt. A. j. Mcdowell is Columbus
new mayor.
Enisvillc yearns for one or two factories
and a good bank.
The Yazoo Steam Laundry moved to
Jackson last week.
W. j. Morrow & Co., merchants at Wi
mona, have failed.
The town of Greenwood wants to hello
through telephones.
A new weekly paper at Meridian is
promised next month.
NJ. Hitler, one of the largest firms at
New Albany, has failed.
Bogue Chitto is stirred mp over the re.
peated stealing of cattle.
A Minnesota man has started a bee
farm in Monroe connty.
Evangelist George S. Inge is conduct
ing "A meeting at Oxford.
Many towns in the State have elected
municipal officers this week.
Lee county has ordered q "wet and
dry" election for January 7lh.
l.. an. wilcziuki, the largest firm in
Greenviile, have failed for $780, OO.
Tippah county people voted by a ma
jority of AS against the stock law.
Hard times are making business fail
ures frequent throughout the State.
A new public school building Tor Bay
st. Louis is Il dead moral certainty"
A bob.tailed fox was caught with nine
Others in a recent chase in Rankin county.
John Randall, n well-known citizen of
Crawford, has mysteriously disappeared.
The Masonic fraternity at Bolton laid
the cornerstone of their new hall last
Tuesday.
A farmer in Hancock county recently
shipped thirteen barrels Of pccans to
New Orleans.
The cotton is about all gathered and
the whistle of the gin is heard only on
rare occasions.
While bird bunting in Yazoo county
W. II. Kline accidentally shot George
Butterworth in the eye.
The penitcntiary board of control has
leased $50 convicts, leaving seventy-sevcn
inside the peni'entiary.
A Logtown MAI offers a reward of 8;
for information as to how to kill a goat
without making q noise.
Mr.. McLaurip. Il prominent merchant O
Ellisville, was killed on the 5th-acci
d~entally run oven by a train.
I The Jackson State Ledger is a year Of,
and cODgratulatcs itself Oh being in
prosperous, growing condition.
Palahatchie shipped last week 400 bale
of cotton, ten coops of chickens, twenty
-, cases of eggs, and ten cars OF slaves.
a Marion county circuit court is thu
t week wrestling with II good sized crimi
nal docket, including two murder cases
A farmer ut Johns, Rankin county
r raised on II acre Of pine land 1,6o'
pounds of seed cotton and % gallons O
syrup.
| People near Auter Landing want a wa
: ter-lock in Sunflowcr river so as to brin;
into cultivation thousands Of acres Of tint
Delta land.
, At Il colored dance III Jackson Ricl
Cloud was shot and killed by Will Bui
ton and Johu Wright. A woman was thu
causus belli.
Thirty.one North Mississippi towns re
ceived 46,033 bales of cotton up to Nov
: ember Goth, against lOO,654 during th
same period last year.
r A "Palahatchie farmer this year mad
Oh less than u quarter OF an acre lis gal
, Ions OF Louisiana syrup besides savin!
, 800 stalks for seed.
The man with the remark, "Haviu
, much Christmas out your way !" vii
, soon be around. He is cousin to the maj
q who inquiries if it's ''cold enough fer sc.
Padelford Bros, near Edwards, planted
r this year thirty.fve acres in sweet pota
toes and harvested an average of IL
bushels per acre. They ship to Vicksburi
>, and receive 81 per bushel.
!, Heavy winds have prevailed in Sort
Mississippi this week. Tuesday morn
I ing in Pike county a tornado killed fou
] people, seriously injured several, and di
S an immense amount Of damage,
fl Four saloons in -Greenville have beel
q closed recently by the limitation of Ii
censes paid for, and the limitation o
pocket books to pay tho heavy amount
required to renew the licenses.
The record was broken ut the res idenc
Of State Senator Broylcs in Monroe cour
", last week, by tho birth Of daughter
n the first female child to be born IN til
Broyles family in thirty-four years.
a Monticello had a big fire the other day
which destroyed a whole business block
Among the sufferers was our friend 10
Dale, OF; the Lawrence County Press
Y whose office was almost completely wipe