The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-09-22
State News Boiled Down.

kin county.
Judge Newman Cayce will make his home in
Columbus soon.
Grenada's Jail birds keep the streets Of that
town IN good shape.
White tramps are giving trouble to negro
labor in Adams county.
new Durant Democrat has appeared, with
]. E. Forehand as editor.
The Columbus Dispatch is improving, typo
graphically and editorially.
The Ripley Sentinel has had tome tough ex-
perience with a tramp printer.
1t is pretty well settled that Gen. $. d. Lee
will be a candidate for Governor.
On the 25th vicksburg opens her big hotel
one Of the finest in the South.
Pennsylvania parties are establishing in
Winona n factory for wagon rims.
Farmers around Corinth are growing broom
corn to supply the local factory.
More than ever before are the farmers of the
State taking to the production Of sorghum.
The Baptist churches of Rankin county have
pooled issues and formed a new association.
Wayne county has sold 10000 court house
7 per cent bonds to R. W. Millsaps, Jackson.
1t is entirely too early to open the guberna-
torial campaign, says the Gulf Coast Progress.
Bonneville has shipped five carloads of can
ned goods this season, and has orders for sew
eral more.
In Oxford there are % families of Smiths
and II Of Jones-and they all discuss the sill
yer question.
Mrs. Alice eastman, mother of }. G. CASH
man, editor vicksburg Post, died last week,
aged 81 years.
W. l.. Ross, a telegraph operator of Aber-
deem, while drunk, was run over and killed by
the cars at Durant, recently.
When the people get to electing live men to
Office then, and only then, will live issues take
the place of dead ones.-Ellisville News.
After three trials at Holly Springs the Nor
gan case was thrown out of court. The last
trial ended in a disagreement of the jury.
The Memphis Commercial predicts that the
next campaign in Mississippi will be a "hum-
mer.' State campaigns are generally such
in "Old MISSISSIPPI"
Quitman is the only county in the State
that has a registered negro majority. or
course it is one of the few counties in the
State that clings to saloons.
Hon. Henry Peyton, of Bolton, who now rep
rnsppts IVInHs nr,,,t,, l., a., I.. r.
been appointed assistant attorney in the
office of Hon. Chas. b. Howry, assistant attor-
ney general.
Speaking of the gubernatorial timber that
is beginning to sprout, the Grenada Sentinel
says, ave believe in the scriptural rule ap-
piled to politics, that the first shall be last,
and vice versa"
There is something truly interesting, says
the Terry Headlight, in the placid grin of a
farmer who has a good field of corn and a pen
full of fat hogs as he discusses the financial
situation.
The public generally condemns a good move
until its merits and proven, says the Hatties-
burg Democrat, and then it is ready to reward
the man who stood by the enterprise in its
weakness.
The great Congress of Religions is in session
at Chicago. We very much doubt that it will
result in any good. There are too many big
OTIS among all creeds, and they are in authori-
ty in most cases.-Gulf Coast Progress.
Col. j. l.. Root, who was appointed chief
deputy for the northern district of Mississippi
by Marshal McNeily, has resigned to accept
the position of United States timber inspector
recently rendered him by the Interior Depart
ment.
Gov. Lowry is entitled to recognition at the
hands of the present administration. lie was
in full harness, espousing the cause Of Democ-
racy in the dark days of reconstruction, and
has ever since "stood to the rack, fodder or
no fodder. "-Oxford Globe.
Find mar who has never been a success at
anything, and ten to one he can tell you the
source Of all our financial troubles and the
shortest way out of the financial difficulties
SAYS the West Point Leader. 1t is claimed
that the best political economists are not the
most successful business men.
The prohibitionists of the State are %circula-
ting a petition asking Governor Stone to call a
special session of the Legislature in January,
1894, to submit an amendment to the Consti.
tuition prohibiting the sale of intoxicating H.
quOrs in the Stat. forever. II may be 0bserv-
ed, in passing, that cranks are not all dead
yet.
Mrs. Mary lnge Hoskins, of Corin.h, has
been chosen to deliver an address on the 22nd
of October, at the Worlds Fair, in the inter.
est ofthe W. C. T. U. She is the daughter Of
Col. VIM. NJ. Inge, North Mississippi's bril-
liant and successful lawyer, and is a woman OF
exceptionally clever talents. She will reflect
pleasing credit upon the womanhood of Miss
issippi, at the same time charm her hearers.