The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-12-08
State News Boiled Down.


Hog killing time has arrived.
luka will have a new carding fac
tory.
The 'holiday look'i is at the average
store.
Rankin county roads are in bad con-
ditiOn.
A Calhoun county wild cat still has
been destroyed.
The price Of cotton seed has drop
ped to al a ton.
Andrews gin, in Pike county, was
burned last week.
Cen%terville's population is compos-
cd mostly Of Swcdcs.
There are over 800 colorcd Baptist
churches in this State.
Shipments of hides from Aberdeen
is extensively carried on.
In Northeast Mississippi they are
shipping hogs to Chicago.
Thanksgiving Day was generally
observed throughout the State.
Something like cholera is killing
the hogs in portions of Rankin.
The Mississippi Presbyterian Syn
cd meets next year at Aberdeen.
Only two candidates for the Legis-
lature are reported from Harrison.
A grey eagle, I feet from tip to tip,
was recently killed In Scott county.
-Four hundred cases are on the two
dockots for the next Bolivar county
court.
The general offices OF the Illinois
Central railroad will be moved to
Vicksburg.
Ed. L. S. Foster, OF ScnatObia, has
been elected one Of the editors OF the
Baptist Record.
A four and u half pound turnip
was presented the Brandon News ed
itOr the otherday
On less than five acres an Amite
county farmer raised over a thousand
bushels of potatoes.
Thus far this season III barrels Of
sorghum have been shipped north
from Monroe county.
The Oxford Eagle reports the sale
OF several desirable farms near town
at good figures for cash.
The people Of Meridian rendered a
banquet to Senator George and Pri-
vate John Allen last week.
Hon. A.. II. Stone, of Greenville, is
OF the opinion that the negro as a la
bOrer, Is Il failure In the delta.
The court in Perry county had so
much business to transact that it did
not adjourn for Thanksgiving.
A number of Northern people are
coming down into the delta country
to spend some time hunting game.
The poultry business is lively at
West Point. One day last week over
1900 pounds was shipped from that
place.
The Brandon News has enlarged,
and is all.home print. Few papers in
the State equal the News, in general
get up.
Bryant Rawls, a farmer near Pur-
Wis, took a dose OF poison, installing
it for calOmel, and died in twenty
minutes.
Bay st. Louis has a public reading
room open two nights in the week for
the benefit of bachelors and hen-peck.
ed husbands.
Miss Annie Elmer. OF Biloxi, and
Captain Sichrichs, of BuenOs Ayres,
yer married last week and left for q
trip to Europe.
Salt meat has declined in price. but
the average Mississippi farmer has
begun to live more at home and to
stock his own smokehousc.
Lewis McGee, a negro at Pass
Christian. was shot in the face by his
son. because the father threatened to
punish the son for disObedience.
The New Albany Gazette says the
insurance adjuster who attempts to
put up the rates in that town will
surely get his just deserts at the
hands of a mob.
The Supreme Court has thrown the
Swanson murdcrers at Jackson back
upon the country for a new trial on
the pretext that the newspapers prob
ably influenced the jurors.
Hon. ]. X. Vardaman has been re-
nominated for the Legislature from
Leflore county, he having resigned
last fall to accept the presidential
dictatorship In his district.
Arthur Bailey, OF Meridian, and
Miss Lenora Wainwright, Of Quit.
man, elOped last week. The irate pa
rent gave chase, but love took wings,
as It were, and easily dlstanced the
modern Lord lillian.
Maj. Millsaps who has already Civ
en- $50 600 to Millsaps College, made
the North Mississippi Conference a
proposition to duplicate every dollar
that would be raised In the church to
the amount OF $4,000.
Tho North Micrtccinn, MothoIiet