The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-05-05
State NeWSB Boiled Down.

Charleston has new paper, the Democratic
Herald.
The two electric companies at vicksburg
have consolidated.
Since January four new factories have been
started in Meridian.
The subject Of starting a bank is being dis
,ussed at Bay St. Louis.
Two Magnolia young men are at the Worlds
Fair employed as guides.
The State Bankers Association meets at
fazoo City, May the 10th.
The oil mills and brick works at Port Gibson
give employment to 1870 hands.
A lawsuit in Montgomery county over a s.
bee gum has run the costs up to $500.
Eight white men were recently jailed at
Brookhaven charged with whitecapism.
1t is rumo:ed that the Mobile and Ohio rail-
road wit soon operate the Northeastern.
The Aberdeen Trotting and Running Asso-
ciat'on will have their annual meeting May
23d.
In the absence of a town clock, Ellisville's
night Waterman strikes the hours on a huge
triangle.
Ha.t,ssbarg has a brick yard employing 50
hanas. sa-. organized by C. W. Robinson, of
MeIiii.2.
The Banner is led to believe that Natchez
will soon have about = half dozen new manu-
factories.
Meridian will probably secure the Shuqua-
lax Female College if she puts ups cash bonus
Of 1880.
The University of Mississippi has just re-
ceived a huge telescope from Dublin, Ireland.
It CO.'S $4,000,
SAGE The indictment Of the road cyerseers
in Yaaoo county the roads are kept in a much
belt condition.
ihe Ca,.oiltoa cotton mills have been pur-
chssea by an English syndicate who will make
improvements Of aoout $1,000
The unwilling Of the yicksburg Confederate
monument last week was a grand affair and
the city was thronged with visitors.
Aberdeen and Okolona are the only towns
with open saloons on the eastern side of the
State between Corinth and State Line.
Clarksdale merchants have been indicted for
selling packs Of smoking tobacco with cigar.
cite papers attached, without license.
kosciusko has in Jail q seven year old muir
derer-a colored child who shot another child
in the head with a pistol during a quarrel.
DE-. Z. E.. Oats, Jr., prominent young ply
stefan at Hazelhurst, while drunk, stabbed and
killed a negro. There was no cause for the
horrible deed.
AT a wedding near Holly Springs twenty-five
negroes were laid at the point Of death from
eating custard which had stood for some hours
in a new tin can.
John Dunn killed his mother-in law In Ala
bama last year and came to Virdin, this State,
where he was arrested last week and carried
to the scene Of his crime.
The West Point Leader gets hot when Sam
Jones is criticised and says the critics thus
make a stab at christianity. Brother Carlisle
should come off the roost.
The Pass Christian Beacon saws at looks
very much like a sin to spend money for for
cign missionary work when there is such a
splendid field right here at home"
The Tupalo Journal explains that it "did
no. come mp to what we expected to make It
last week, because of our putting too. much
confidence in a darned tramp printer"
The poles and wires for the Postal Tele
Company have been erected ftom New Orleans
to this side Of Pass Christian, and the work
men are moving papidly toward Mobile.
Mr.. h. Pink Smith, of the Greenville Demo.
crat, will he a candidate for Clerk of. the lower
House of the State Legislature, a position Mr..
r.. E. Wilson held until appointed Register IF
the Land Office.
WI >. p. Doty, of Grenada, has been ap-
pointed Grand Secretary Of the Grand Lodge
ofOdd Fellows, to fiji the vacancy occasiored
by the resignation of Grand Secretary billiard,
recently appointed Consul to Ecudor.
Miss Kate Power, of Jackson, is in Chicago
employed by q syndicate to write descriptive
letters o! .ho Worlds Fair, and incidents that
come under her observation. Her work no
doubt will meet the most sanguine expecis.
lions Of her host of admiring friends.
This spring the cyclones have been terrible
in this State. The last one, April l9th, which
passed through the country tributary to JAS
per county, cut a swath 100 miles long and two
mi es wide, demolishing over 1000 houses, and
a setre of lives were los. Great suffering and
want is reported.
In Kemper county Isaac Grady unexpected
y returned home and found the door locked.
He entered by prizing up the flooring, and sew
his wife and Simpson JACK fast ASLEEP. With
IN exe he Glove Jacks skull in twain and
~oc.c haze treated his wife in like manner,
brt Oh, awcte ard wrestling the axe from his
grasp, iellcd him to the floor.
Colonel VIM. II. MeCagd,e, the veteran
journalist, died at Jackson last Friday. He
was connected with the Mississippi press for
sixty years, and was q Aaent and fearless
ne was intimate with all the pcomi-
nact men in the State, and IN the old ants-bel-
Gays vas ! prominent Wig party leader.
&C noysG from vicasourg to Jackson a few
yeas ago, and ne and Ex-Governor Lowry
l history Of Mississippi, which ives pub.
Later .hsy wrote and published a
sci 90. history which is now used in a majority
OF ,he sohools in the Stotc. He was a b .lliant
aud polished gentleman Of The old school, and
served his time on earth with honor end fdel-
lily to his country and TO the benefit of men.
LAND NOTICE.