The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-01-27
State News Boiled Down.

h"Dsno w p'ehtiiu'.
LaGrippe is prevalent.
Brandon wants a bank.
Biloxi has $3.50 in treasury.
Purvis is building a new Jail.
Bricklayers busy at Columbia.
Sleigh riding has been popular.
Handsboro agitates Incorporation.
Many horses are dying at Wisdom.
Biloxi ~enforces her anti-tramp law.
Vicksburg boasts of her fine horses.
Jackson's Mayor gets $500 . year.
Raymond reports a ll-pound turnip.
Shannon's brass band is 5 years old.
The snow glutted the rabbit market.
Greenwood has married folks balls"
Sweet potatoes 25c. a bushel at Wisdom.
s. II. Plant 4 Son, of Oxford, have failed.
The Jackson Stays will build a club house.
Macon bachelors recently gave a reception.
A Hollywood farmer raised 5000 lbs. pork.
A shell road to the depot agitates Handsboro.
Mad dogs bother portions of Rankin county.
The Amite county Alliance has recognized,
A night school has been formed at Ellisville.
Several Rankin farmers have the Texas fever.
Wesson will build a SIG, 900 school building
A Raleigh man is patcntee of a bed-sla
holder.
l.. l.. Reason has been appointed Mayor Of
Batesville.
Magnolia was almost completely wiped on,
by fire Sunday.
The colored Baptist Church at Aberdeen wa.
recently burned.
Just enough business failures to keep tn,
lawyers cheerful.
The Meridian News seems to have many
trials in being edited.
Meridian's society devotees INDUCED in
fox chase the other day.
Natchez celebrated the anniversaro of Gen
Robt. +. Lee, last week.
A little cotton in the fields still remain.
unpicked around .Grcenville.
Truck farming has extended westward from
Crystal Springs twelve miles.
The Aberdeen Examiner thinks the c~ultiva
ton of olives would pay in this State.
The people of Winston county are organic
ing against blind tigers and hoodlums.
Yazoo City Methodists have increased thei
PASTORS salary, as have the Presbyterians.
West Points new paper, the Gazette, is
hummer, bearing the ear-marks of success.
The snow at Houston broke in the roof of
business house. 1t was the heaviest since II
The rise in pork doesn't disturb W. R. Harris
field, of Lafayette county. He has it to sell
N. N. Collins, of Crystal Springs, make,
from $500 to $500 per acre with his vegetables
Engineer Lesch, Of Water Valley, found
deserted babe, in = basket At his door the 9th
er night.
II is rumored that northern capitalists ar,
thinking Of locating = new town between Lonf
Beach and the Pass.
The Kings Daughters at Jackson will give
grand charity ball on the 9th. Guess they
will dance in His name.
Herbert Fitzpatrick, of this State, has beer
chosen orator of the law class of Washington
and Lee University, Virginia.
j. J. Taylor, at Wisdom, made 500 gallons
of molasses off less than an acre of ground
At Acc. a gallon knocks cotton out of sight.
The Ellisville News wants a law to compeI
some men to work at least three hours during
the week instead of so much racket over the
Sunday law.
G. W. Miller, Of Crystal Springs, will plant
this season twenty-five acres in tomatoes, .ff.
teen in beans and forty in strawberries. He
has domiciled on his place forty families from
Simpson county.
Columbus men and women have all turned
politicians over the prohibition question. The
Dispatch intimates that if the same amount OF
energy and money was expended in the up
building of Columbus, that beautiful town
would fairly hum.
Ira G.. Holloway, Of Oxford, who was the
chairman of the Cotton Planters Association
held in Memphis last winter, says that another
convention will be called at an early date tc
consider the question Of IA reduction of cotton
acreage, and other matters of Importance.
Adams county still buys western raised
mules. The Natchez Democrat refers to the
fact that some of the counties in the northern
part of this State raise not only their owl
mules and horses for home demands, but have
them for export, and urges Adams county tt
do likewise.
In the Jackson Circuit Court a suit has beer
entered for $4,000 back taxes, alleged to bt
due from a %saloonist whose place of business
| opened on two streets, with a bar facing each
The defendant had paid only one license, ant
the court decides in his favor, but the reve'
nue. agent will appeal the case.
1t is said that a large find of coal lands hai
been discovered in Holmes county. Clay
county also reports coal. Relying on the as
sertion Of an eminent g~eologist, the Vicksburi
Post claims there's no coal in the State an,
that those who are digging for coal could bot
ter employ their time in digging their land
for cultivation.
The removal of the Clinton College still
hangs fire, and the matter promises to end in
glorious old muss, after all. The Suprem
Court decides against removal and the matte
will probably come up again before the mex
Baptist State Convention. 1t begins to looI
that Meridian and some Of the big guns in tina
denomination will not be sin it,"
Capt. b. W. Prince, . wealthy citizen Of Car
%rOllton. was assassiuated last week by A yOunl