The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-12-01
State News Boiled Down.

DiuIuOn SUN UNIV
The rush in cotton is about over.
Meridian claims IL 600 inhabitants.
The minstrel tronpe is again in the
land.
Plenty of marriages all over the
State.
Nine prisoners are in Hattiesburg's
new Jail.
This has been a good fall for late
gardens.
A telephone service is talked OF in
Greenwood.
Waynesboro has the cotton factory
factory fever.
Meridian will spend 800 Oco on a
sewerage system.
A mad stone in Calhoun county Is
offered for sale for $25.
IIome-raised pork sells in Smith
county ut 6ac a pound.
A large mast crop in the State as
surcs plenty of hog meat.
A Batesville man will next season
plant 500 acres In tomatoes.
Madison county furnishes beef to
the Louisiana insane asylum.
Scaly-bark hickory nuts promise to
be a fayorite marketable crop.
Hon. John M. Allen addressed the
citizens of Meridian on the 25th.
The oyster dredging question is Il
muchly mOoted one in Harrison.
Corn is generally plentiful in North
Mississippi, at so cents a bushel.
A colony of twenty-five people left
Newton county recently for Texas.
An effort is being made to have the
Lincoln county white caps pardOned.
The Corlnth public school give ben
eft entertainments for Il library fund.
Three resident physicians in Cor
NTH have opened a medical and sur
gical intlrmary.
Holmes county is talking of build
ing a 500 900 court house to replace
the one burned.
About fifty persons from Calhoun
and PontotOc equities recently start
ed West in white topped wagons.
No State in the Union, says the
Natchez Democrat, can boast of a
cleaner, better press than Mississippi.
All the idle negroes in Vicksburg
are making arrangements to 90 to
work on the plantations the coming
season.
The Pass Christian Beacon calls its
new neighbor, the News, a "blundcr'
ing infant" and that is likely to bring
on more talk.
So far this season, says the Bran
don News, but one homsteader has
proved up on government land in
Rankin county.
Owing to the increase in the FEEDER
al Court business in this State, an ef
fort Is being made to have an add
tional judge appointed.
The State University football
team is knocking out all competitors
They recently ''whitewashed" boil
Memphis and Jackson, Tenn, boys.
Taxes are coming in slow in nos
parts Of the State. In Rankin cOun
ty out Of a total of 100 only abOu
500 receipts thus far have been issued
State Senator McGehce, OF Frank
lin comfy, while pulling on a gu
band, got his arm jerked out Of tn
shoulder socket and broken In tw'
places.
The Examiner says business thi
fall has been better in Aberdeen tina
for several years past. Better hope
and confidence for the future seem
to inspire all.
A New Albany man is preparing t
store ice this winter. Most ever
winter IN North Mississippi enougI
ice could be stored to supply the sum
mer's demand.
The State Alliance at the Tupel
meeting issued an address recommend
Ing a suspension of participation il
politics until 1896, and urging farm
ers to diversity their crops.
On account Of so many counties gt
ing dry, which cuts of a large fun
derived from liquor licenses, 1t is es
pccted that the State tax levy will b
raised from five to six mills.
Immigrants from Texas are aril
ing, says the Bonneville Plaindeale1
which reminds 1t Of the man VIII
said he would never go to Texas III
Jess he was compelled to go, and the
he would hire a negro and send hin
The Waynesboro Times, in talkin
up local enterprises gets mad at I'll
croakers and addresses them thus
III you can't help a good move final
cially, don't use your confounde
mouth to try to undo the efforts
those who can and will If the croakel
were all dead"
About the best worker among II
preachers OF the State is Rev. ]. !
Bowen, who for the past four yea
has been pastor Of the Aberdet
Methodist Church. During his pa
t0rate there he received into IL
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