The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-06-23
State NewSB Boiled Down.

Attorney General Johnston is recuperating
at Biloxi.
Timber depredations on railroad lands are
reported in the delta country.
Mrs. Bette Heidelberg, died of 'heart fail
ure" at Heidelberg, last week.
An immense amount of truck and fruit is
being shipped from Edwards.
Rev. J. 7. Christian has accepted a call from
one of the Baptist churches in Louisville, Nv.
The Clarion Ledger is jumping on the city
council of Jackson for being too extravagant.
The time for which several State papers had
'come to stay" expired during the past two
weeks.
Charles Workman, of this State, has the ex-
elusive control of the peanut business at the
Worlds Fair.
G. NJ. Brown, Jr., first honor man of the I'm
iversity law class, completed both junior and
senior courses in one year.
The ladies of Jackson are raising money to
put an iron fence around the Confederate bur
ial plot in the city cemetery.
The State militia will be supplied with the
new and improved government rifles as soon as
the regular troops are all armed.
Edward n. Hall has been appointed assistant
Secretary of State, a position made vacant by
the resignation of ID. p. Porter.
Sol" Hopgood, the notorious pal of Bunch,
has been brought to Marion county to stand
trial for murder, on two cases.
The Raymond Gazette, noting the death of
several State papers, says all the balance are
dying by degrees for want of patronage.
Sam Jones and his brother Joe say that any
man who will curse will steal, and the Yazoo
City Herald says any man who will make such
a statement will lie.
A special election will be held in Wilkinson
county for the selection of a Representative to
fill the vacancy caused by the removal of Hon.
I. V. holland from the county.
The case of the State VS.. Henry Foster, for
killing Judge Morgan, was continued until the
next term of court at Water Valley, on account
of the absence of material witnesses.
"Polly Hopkins" (Mrs. g. a. WILSON, who
contributed with such grace and ability to the
columns of the Durant Democrat, in her news
items from Lexington, is now with the Licking
lon Advertiser.
Hon. VIM. Buchanan, of Brandon, says he is
not a candidate for judge of the circuit court
of that district. Judge A. G. Mayers, who
has held the office for eighteen years, will
likely be re-appointed.
1t is said that the farmers are giving more
attention than ever before to the raising of
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. Poultry and
eggs and garden truck also receive more at
%tention than ever before known.
The Meridian base ball club has disbanded,
and the Clarion Ledger says it goes to show
how 'that aspiring village continues to ape
Jackson. Some weeks ago the Jackson nine
disbanded, and now Meridian has followed.
Hattiesburg has hopes of utilizing the gray
ell beds three miles from that place, as the
railroad promises to construct a track to con-
meet the main line and the gravel beds, and to
ballast the road from Meridian to New Orleans.
The Baptist Church at Oxford is enjoying a
series of meetings, conducted by that celebrat-
ed evan gclist, W. L. Penn. He is about the
strongest evangelist in the South, and when
he holds a meeting in a town he leaves the
church in an ideal spiritual condition.
A Woodville man sent this rather mixed or
der to his merchant, says the Courier: 'Send
me a sack Of -four, five pounds of coffee and
one pound of ice. My wife gave birth to a big
baby boy last night, also five pounds of corn
starch, a screw-driver and a fly trap. 1t
weighed ten pounds and a straw hat"
Detective Summers, who is in the peniten-
tiary for robbery, had a%"scrap'' the other day
with Swanson, the murderer of the jackson
policeman, and mopped up the floor with
him, much to the amusement of the %convicts
the bully of the pen.
Since jackson has been aroused over reli-
gious matters, the saloons of that city find
themselves in the middle of a bad fix. The
registration books have been ovcrhauled and
liquor petitions are not in it. She may get
rid of saloons in the near future, but the Leg
stature will continue to meet there.
Natchcz has been dealing with a slick swim
der, j. II. Lewis, who circulated amongst the
negroes representing himself as being an agent
for a government publication, which every
man drawing a pension was compelled to sub
scribe for. A goodly number of negroes bi,
at the bait and are out a dollar apiece.
The Oxford Globe thinks there must be
something wrong with the State University
which has fifteen professors, costs the State
1872 900 per annum, and has in attendance
about l2j students. The idea seems to prevail
with the Globe that the professors ought to ge,
out and hustle for patronage during vacation
The Attorney General rules that "a count,
convict hired out is not required to work out
to pay for his clothing, medicine, or medica
attention. These the contractor is required tt
furnish the convict. Time lost by sickness
cannot be charged'against the convict. Tn.
Board of Supervisors cannot release the con,
tractor in any of these respects"
The Greenville police, inspired by indigna'
ton at the obnoxious conduct of women of the
town on the streets and at their houses, las'
seven of them with a few male friends, wer,
jailed. They were marched in a body to The
mayors office next morning and convicted, tn,
fines and costs aggregating $3.50.
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