The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-06-30
State News Boiled Down.

State NeWSB Boiled Down.
Ripley recently had q e35,0 900 fire.
The crop prospect is Frightening.
Hog cholera has struck Columbia.
Brookhaven has a new Catholic con-
vent.
Water works have been established
at Canton.
The oil mills are shutting down for
the summer.
Yazoo City complains Of robheries
and gambling.
A Sunfower county negroes skin Is
turning white.
Neola's chief singer Is appropriately
named Highn0te.
The Bolton boys have organized .
military company.
In the interior fishing Is the great
and only past time.
The "Little J" railroad will be
made standard gauge. 4
Grenada proposes to have q big time
on the Fourth Of July.
The atmosphere has been consider
ably s'het up" this week.
The newly-organizcd ". c. 7. U. at
Jackson has eighty members.
The Hebron Baptist Church WIS
recently robbed Of Z ane clock.
The Rosedale Democrat reduces its
size during the summer months.
The summer teachers school at Ok
ford has over 300 In attendance.
Mr.. Isaac May6eld, o pioneer citi-
Gems Of Monroe county, Is dead.
The two Summer Normals, ut OK
ford and Lake, are well attended.
The Summer Law School at the
State University opened Monday.
Marion county grand jury found
twenty-eight true bills Of indictment.
Ellisville doesn't propose to cele-
brate the glorious F0urth-she never
did.
A father of t~hirty-seven children is
an inmate Of the Rankin county poor
house.
Lee county has purchased thirty
road scrapers, to be used on the public
roads.
There Is talk Of making a new coun.
ty out Of part Of Kinds, Madison and
Rankin.
Eupora will ship $4,000 worth 81
eggs and chickens this year, says ths
Progress.
Judge Simmons, Of the Sardis Re,
porter. IL recovering from q long, se
we're illness.
The Pass Christian Beacon says thu
DEMoCRAT.STAR "loOks very prett.
In its new dress.
West Point has. shipped over a doz
en- carloads Of potatoes this summeI
to the North and West.
The turnpike between jackson an6
Brandon is causing a great deal D
agitation in Kinds county.
Okolona declines to help her sistel
town, Houston, 10 getting o railroad
between the two towns.
There Is a game Of ~freeze-out being
played by the Grenada Ice men. Lei
sells for 25c. per 100 pounds.
The two Jackson policemen detail
cd to the Worlds Fair, have returned
home. Their salaries were too small
For tie advantages Of education
we place Mississippi at the head o
the Union, says the Grenada Sentinel
Col. Sam A. Knox, one Of the bes
known characters In North MisslssiD
pi, died ut his home In Union COUNT
last week.
Hon. H. B. Howry, of Oxford, ha
been appointed Assistant Attorney
General. No better man could hay,
been selected.
Pontotoc has had a great revival
conducted by Rev. w. M. Mcintosh
Sixty persons we're added to the dit
ferent churches.
The trustees Of the State Universit.
have conferred Jhe degree of LII. D
upon Hon. II. H. Thompson, OF tn
BrOOkhaven bar.
The WhitwOrth College will not b
removed to Jackson until next year
Us BrOOkhaven will not break tn,
present contract.
Congressman John s. Williams, o
this State, has been invited to ad
dress Tammany In New York City, Of
the Fourth Of July.
The famous cannon presented b,
Col. ]. s. Hamilton to some IOwane
burst into q Thousand pieces the 9th
or day while being fred.
Capt. r. w. Banks has rented thy
beautiful "Belhaven," Of Col. lone
8. Hamilton, at jackson, wheeo b
will reside with his family.
DR.. Venable, president Of the Gin
ton Baptist College, Is on Of the lead
ing preachers who takes q decides
stand against woman suffrage.
The Southern Livestock Journa
classes th DEM0CRAT-STAR, Aberdeen
Examiner and the ClsriOn-Ledger .
the best papers IN the State.
:. Hon. Wallace McLaurin, OF Bran
don, has been appointed chief clerk o
Col. Garter, Internal Revenue COLES
tor for Louisiana and MIsslsslppi.
The Aberdeen Examiner says tina
there are hundreds Of negroes 10 tina
county who ale net only maxim,
enough meat to do them, but meat :
sell.
. The Tunlca Independent declare
that II the county goes ''dEy" IL VII
have TO suspend. II that u IT. chenc
for life It ought to have been dea'
long ego.
A rumor d. current Ia jackson tina
there II = possibility Of that city 4
curing the Clinton College. An tnau
ential Bsptlst proposes 70 give oloo|
900 toward the sc6eme.
Lamar 1gptalne, Of JacksoA, q
taxa : neerbottle tnsett 3 cork ID 1t
mouth half Nv throw u into IA. u