The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-08-11
State News Boiled Down.

'"Stato iuiNSN btathfAiNs
Crops around Utica are good.
Sweet potatoes are coming in.
The Shaw Enterprise is dead.
Charleston has much sickness.
Rankin county has good crops.
Winona claims to be improving.
Stave business booms at Walthall.
Fresh apple cider is the thing now.
West Point boasts of pretty babies.
Hattiesburg wants larger churches.
Webster county has no baseball club.
Warren county reports cotton worms.
The Railroad Commission is in session.
Night serenadcs are popular in West Point.
A Touring millis being erected at Charles
ton.
Rankin county has $500 acres government
land.
The last saloon in Clarksdale will expire in
April.
There are only five paupers in Lauderdale
county.
A wheel and handle factory will be started
in Enterprise.
Over 200 Indians engaged in a ball game in
Neshoba recently.
The Columbus Riaemen will visit the
Worlds Fair.
Teachers Institutes are being held through
out the State.
The flying horses at lIazlehurst are consid-
cred a nuisance.
The Pass Christian regatta has been indef-
initely postponed.
South Mississippi has had abundant rains
for the past week.
A band of negro robbers has been arrested
in Pass Christian.
A negro rapist was mobbed in LAFAYETTE
county the other day.
Confidence and ice cream are the things We
want these dull hot days.
Crops in aud around Lee county have been
greatly cut by dry weather.
The Corinth Confederate Veterans had a
pleasant reunion last week.
Boll-worms are reported on many planta-
tons in lssaquena county.
The colorcd Baptists of the State number
$4,000, with 500 churches.
New Albany thinks she sees an ice factory
among the near probabilities.
Claiborne claims to be the foremost county
in the State in educational matters.
Verona is the home of more drummers thar
any other small town in the State.
The postofRce at Poplarville was recent,
burglarized, but only So was secured.
The Corinth Presbyterians have let the con
tract for a new brick church building.
Over 5000 chickens were shipped recent,
from the town of Weir at one shipment.
Twelve young Oxford teachers have gone I,
Texas to teach the young western ideas.
The Mississippi banks have all passed
through the financial crisis in fine shape.
The large increase of work at the Boonevill,
Cannery demands the employment of fit,
more girls.
Gov. Stone announces that there will be M
election to fill vacancies in the Legislator,
until November.
Judge Chrisman decided that the Posta
Telegraph Company is liable for taxation a
the rate of $ | a mile.
Smith county is well stocked on corn. Will
a good crop in sight, there is plenty old corr
at 40 cents per bushel.
The Mississippi editors have been invited t.
make headquarters while in Chicago at tn,
Arkansas State Building.
The Vicksburg Post says the Outlet Con
v%ention at Natchez appears to have been c
pretty large size failure.
The speech of Governor Stone to the Marion
county white caps was strong and fearless, ant
had a much-desircd effect.
The Diersburg, a Mississippi river steam
boat, struck a snag near lIollandale Sunda,
week and sank. Total loss.
The Mississippi Baptist, at Newton, has pur
chased the old Brandon Republican outfit, ant
will resume publication soon.
Will Purvis, the Marion county white cap
was convicted of numbering Burnley and sen
fenced to hang September 9th.
Corinth is putting her public school build
ing in good shape. About 800 pupils attcnt
and FIVE assistants are employed.
In Eastern Mississippi there is plenty o
corn and no Western grain has been shippe,
to that territory as in former years.
Excursions to Texas attract many Nortl
Mississippi people. At Corinth the other da,
L nvar gpQnu ,vnptb. 80 t;olu,, ,va.a ILL
a manufacturing enterprise is putting il
machinery for the manufacture of schoo
desks and seats for churches, at New Albany
One man in 0kolona has paid out this yea
$4,000 for cattle. A business firm has pal,
out $1,000 for eggs and poultry during tn,
same period.
A wool factory what the lIattiesbur,
Democrat advocates for that town. 1t woul,
no doubt prove profitable and a blessing t.
that section.
The Corinth Wooden Mills are doing an i'm
mense business in the manufacture of pants
They send out several drummers and find
profitable field in Texas.
The New Orleans and Northeastern %railroa,
has brought suit for 500, 900 against the Meri
dian waterworks Company for not having tn
agreed pressure on when the railroad shop
burned last January.
A petition is being circulated for the ap
pointment of another United States Distric
Judge. Now Judge Niles presidcs over tn
two districts, aud large increase in the bus
mess OF the courts, makes it necessary t
have two Judges.
The Erlisville News says: IA kiss iron
the %pouting, ruby red lips Of a Mississippi
girl is precious sweet and cheap at almost an
price, but it is an open question if younI
Roudebush wasn't made to pay too dear 70
his" The News is correct. If it amt, "ft
most"
The Raymond Gazette saws: 'If the mon
ey spent during the last fifteen or twent
years in ~truitless efforts to levco the Mississ
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