The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-07

cepteu u POSITION IN tne OmanS HOSPITAL al
Sanchow, China. She is a medical graduate.
w. R. Scott, Of the Eupora Progress, is
styled 1.-THE Sam Jones of Mississippi" Bro.
Scott should consult a lawyer at once.
The June earnings Of the Penitentiary was
$4,6ls.l6. Jackson county has several hands
to help raise this pile for the States Golfers.
The Clarion Ledger says that Mississippi
banks were never more solvent and are NOV
ing along in legitimate lines. No flies on us.
Yazoo blind man makes a living by ped
ding from town to town selling whist brooms.
In Starkvillc he sold $50 worth in one day.
Some hell born hoodlums entered the New
Albany Gazette Office the other night and COM
pletely demolished the office. The Gazette
came out on time, however, and will soon be
itself again in o new outfit.
The hoop factory at Hickory is doing a big
business, running both day and night. Fac
tories is the thing, anywhere located.
The Mississippi National Guards will 20 in
to encampment at Cooper's Well, Kinds coun.
ty, in a few weeks.
In Ellisville the other day U. s. Marshal
Reddock was run out of town.
The News says the feminine kiss has gone
out of date in Ellisvillc. The piney woods
girl nowadays when she meets a friend,
stands six feet of and shouts "Howdy |"
The Clarion Ledger comes around to the
conclusion: "There is no room in MISSISSIPPI
pi for white caps. They must be made to co."
A petition for a liquor license in the town of
Coahoma, consists Of thirteen names. II is
an unlucky number, but a good bakers dozen.
A Gloster man ordered his wedding invita-
tions from Philadelphia, and they came too
late to send them out. What's the matter
with patronizing home concerns?
In Monroe county the great variety of food
crops now being grown reduces the demand
on the corn crop fully forty per cent.
The Mobile and Ohio road is shipping truck
from Okolona to the Tupclo canning factory
at ten cents a crate.
The mayor Of Yazoo City shot an alligator
the other day which measured 4 feet, 81 in.
A Milwaukee brcwry company is going to
put a line Of steamers on the Yazoo river and
its tributaries to carry slaves for the compa-
ny and do a general transportation business.
The Sea Shore Camp Meeting will begin
on the 18th.
The Glorious Fourth was literally observed
by the towns of the State, and many were the
picnics and barbecues enjoyed on that day.
The hog crop is unusually large this year in
most Of the counties of the State. In meat,
bread and market produce Mississippi is well
fixed this year.
The teachers school at Oxford Is a big sue
cess. About 800 are attending.
Butter commands a premium at Oxford.
Jackson and Yazoo City are shooting dogs.
In the prairie counties rain is needed to give
cotton weed, and to bring up June corn.
The Oxford cannery employs fifty hands.
The salary of the Bay st. Louis postmaster
has been raised to 1900.
tucuh tHicfeS dUOUnu III hIHSVIUts
Several young cyclones have visited differ
ent portions of tho State during the past
week. If the Lord will draw the line at cy-
clones and not our State initiate Kansas in
politics, VIC will still have something to be
thankful for.
Charcery court is in session this week At
Poplarville.
Lumberton reports a good deal Of sickness.
The Vicksburg and Natchez gun clubs have
had a tournament.
The cotton bloom fend is expiring.
Daniel Davis struck Charlie Moore on the
head with q billet of wood, and instantly kill.
cd him, at Tula, last week.
Cotton worms in Warren county.
Chickens and eggs are legal tender in Lee.
Ripley has a counterfeiter jailed.
Thos. Hutchens, m Alcorn county farmer,
suicided the other day. Shot himself.
The wheat crop is reported fine.
Lee county still imports Jersey cattle.
Tobacco culture is proving a success around
Lumberton.
A nineteen and a half pound cabbage wa.
raised this season at Aberdeen.
Houston despairs Of getting the N. 4 o
branch and hopes to procure the extension Of
the narrow gagged road from Pontotoc.
Prof. J.R. Griffith, Of Brandon, has beer
elected to the principalship Of Corinth Publ,
School.
A Walden man killed us rats in one barn IL
one day.
These be dog days, and full Of cholera.
Clay county truck farmers make money.
A Clay county farmer has from seven acrel
in potatoes netted $500 this season.
Three new churches will soon be erected IL
Cedar Bluff, Clay county.
The Bolivar Democrat discards "Personals'
from It's columns.
Tho Eupora Progress saws; "Staud by til
paper, friends, and We will give you one Of tn,
best papers that we ever saw. Patronise u,
enough to keep our belly from growing to ouI
backbone, and we are yours truly to the end