The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-03-24
State NeWSB Boiled Down

Oxford reports Il dog eater.
Brandon will have Il bakery
Port Gibson complains OF dullness.
jackson discusses a packing house.
Meridian claims q population of II, 900.
Tate county is bothered with mad dogs.
The Brandon Baptlsts are figuring on a
parsonage.
A Catholic convent is building Mt
Brookhaven.
Nine white caps have been arrested in
Pike county.
Lee Howard has been elected treasurer
Of Clay county.
Meridian Is in Il good humor over fac
tory prospects.
West Point is preparing for a "big" re-
lisious meeting.
The college at Hickory Flat burned last
week. Loss S1)G0.
The shade trees at Ripley lave all been
topped and trimmed.
w. ~Covinyton, one of Tippah's wealth
lest citizens, is dead.
The late cold snap injured fruit and
vegetables at Wesson.
The matrimonial waters at Port Glib
son arc being troubled.
A convection Of hog raiscrs will be
held in Jackson soou.
A whisky election has heeu petitioned
for in Bolivar county.
The Methodist Church building at Goa
homa burned last week.
Madison county fruit growers were III
jurcd by the late cold SPELL.
Wilcox Bros saw mill men at DeSoto,
have failed for a large sum
Lamar Lodge No. la, /. 0. 0. f., has
been organized at Winonu.
W. B. Worsham, postmaster at Blue
Mountain, died last week.
Columbus and Ripley reports very sue
cessful religious r~cvivals lately.
One day last week Pelahatchie mcr.
chants handled $500 dozen eggs.
The cemetery at Lnmbcrten has bccu
enclosed and improved generally.
The Noxubee Rifles reorgunized aud
elected Miss Mamie Gliggs sponsor.
The prospects for Il continuation of sal
looms in Bay st. Louis are dim, very.
Mr.. Marshall, of Lowndes county, will
devote a large acreage to castor beans.
The erection of a Catholic Church build
ing is contemplated at Mississippi City.
Smith county court has been postponed
nntil the new courthouse is completed.
Suntlowel comfy within n year has re-
duced an Indebtedness of s., 900 to 5000.
Biloxi is endeavoling to get II more
perfect and advantageous school system.
Noah Scales, of Noxubce county, has
one of the finest stock farms in the State.
Pass Christian has prospects of the OPP
ching of a large meat and vegetable mar
ket.
Brooblavcn complains of the habit be-
ing followed thole OF putting out poison
for dogs.
Jackson is endeavoring to get Il dunn
my train to run between that city aud
Clinton.
-Senatobia is thinking of increasing the
sidewalks to make room for the hoop
skirt craze.
1t is announced that Hon. j. II. Bee
man will be made fl ISL assistant secretary
of agriculture.
The Jackson Daily News Is two months
old, and is truly II bright paper. 1t is II
pleasure to read it.
" Rev. A. V. Rowe, of Winona, succeeds
DR.. Christian as Secretary of the Baptist
Convention Board.
The Yazuo grand jury indicted twenty
seven road overseers for failing to proper
~ work their roads.
1t is said that arrangements have been
made TO bring over $4,000 Germans to the
valley of the Yazoo.
II. II. Henry has purchased J. S. Nc
Ncily's stock in the Clarioa-L edger and as
sumes editorial control.
An old plan has been revived looking
to the creation of Il new county from
parts of Rankin aud Kinds.
Gen. S. ID. Lee will deliver the address
at the uaveiling of the Confederate mon
ument in Vicksburg in May.
The Vicksburg Herald predicts sharp
politics in this State when the next cub
Equatorial election rolls around.
Hazlehurst wants a bridge across Pearl
river at Georgetown TO accommodate the
trade OF Simpson and Covington counties.
Cen. J. II. Brinker, of West Point, is
now in Chicago arranging for the sale of
miniature bales of cotton on the EXPOSE
ton grounds.
Evan II. Morgan, Of Boston, known in
literary world rs Frank Norton" is on
a visit to Bay st. Louis. He is the au-
thor of "Self Accused" Il novel, the scene
OF which is laid in the Hawaiian islands,
The Connth Sab. Soilar and Democrat has
reached its majority-2l years old. Col.
Sllas G. Barr, the editor, thinks he is now