The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-03-31
State News Boiled Down.

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Handsboro reports humps still on the rise,
The photograph man has struck the State
nil over.
The Crystal Springs graded school has been
incorporated.
Crumpton's saloon at Tupelo has been clos
ed BY creditors.
A panther has been seen near Crystal
Springs recently.
The public schools of West Point run nine
months in the year.
Kinds county will hold a special term of Cir
cult Court April 5th.
All the towns along the Coast report i'm
provements going on.
Monre county is constantly shipping beeves
to the Western market.
The Ellisville New South promises to en-
large to an S-column folio.
Handsboro is to have a millinery store and
Mississippi City wants one.
Mormon missionaries have recently secured
several converts in this State.
A telephone line from Westville to some
point on the railroad is ~agitated.
The Attala circuit court sent four negroes
and one white man to the penitentiary.
The canning factory at Sardis influences n
very large acreage in vegetables to be planted.
Five wild turkeys at one shot is the recent
record made by a Winston county sportsman.
The spoke timber business at Corinth is
very large and is fast thinning out the forests.
Purvis was visited by an inccndiary fire
last week which destroyed almost the entire
town.
The State Board of Health will meet in
jackson April 4th to examine applicants for
license.
A iOS pound Berkshire brood SOW was re-
Gently sold in New Orleans by a Magnolia man
for SIS.
A new female college will be opened in Jack
son by Prof. l.. 7. Fitzhugh, late of the Whit
worth College.
Mississippi City has a COW that crawls
through barbed wire fences and fat,ens off the
tender spring vegetables.
Jas. J. Malady, who hal been assistant post
master at Meridian for eight years, and was
very popular, died last week.
In the Head habeas corpus trial at Utica the
defendant was refused bail and remandcd to
Jail for the murder of Colbert.
T~hieving is reported from Bonneville, Col
umbus and Natchcz. Corinth and Okolona
complain of too many %loafers.
The young ladies' of Kosciusko have organ
lied a prayer-meeting, each one pledgine her
self to lead in prayer whenever called on.
The Greenwood Enterprise dons a new dress
of type and will be a all home print. The En-
is a credit to Mississippi journalism.
The Railroad Commission has cited the tel
egraph companies to appear at the next meet
ing to see if a revision of tolls cannot be ar
The Brookhaven News wants the town cem-
etery repaired, and the Lord to have mercy on
the man who plants cotton and comes to town
and pays twenty cents for meat.
Rev. George Cairns, the %cloqaent evangelist.
is holding forth at Meridian. lie pays a high
tribute to the high standard of morality that
he inds among the people of that city.
Thu ltRunllahonp a... I'm ~ 10
years ago for the proposed Natchez, Brookha-
ven and Hattiesburg railroad, is being fitted
up for exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
The storm last week in the northwestern
part of the State did an immense amount of
visiting several towns. The little
town of Kelly was wiped out of existence.
Hattiesburg has been excited over the dis
appearance of Mr.. A. H. York, with his sister
Miss Susie Goodson, who have left for
parts unknown. A wife and three children
nre left to bear the disgrace of the brute.
The "irst of the season" in the shape of
strawberries and early garden sass is getting
ommon. Church festival announcements
will follow fast. And the small boy is begin
ming to dream of the Sunday School picnic.
W. l.. Smith has been appointed postmaster
at Ripley. Mr.. Smith edits the Southern SEN
Incl, an all-home print and his services in
The interest of the party have been valuable.
endorse the appointment and congratulate
the appointee.
The Canton Times says. "We started this
week to write up Canton rs an educational
when we got t.. the old barn occu-
pied by Prof. Fry for his high grade school
we got a grand disgust and concluded to aban-
don the job"
The State mourns the death of Capt. John
Powell, which occurred at Grenada last week.
He was one of the leaders in the State, a prom
inent Baptist layman, and was noted for his
liberal donations to charitable and religious
institutions, his gifts within the past twenty
years being estimated to be fully $4,000.
Brother Barr, of the Sub-Soiler and Demo-
crat, hopes to meet with the Press gang at
Natchcz, that he may see the historic old town
and embrace the brethrcn-and exhibit that
new umbrella, "Sid," which he holds dear to
his heart alongside the hope OF getting a p. o.
commission. Come by all means, brother, and
bring your "lightning struck countenance"
and appetite with you but leave behind your
spring poetry.
iazoo City and Brookhavcn each arc talking
for u furniture factory, and Vicksburg is play
ing for a toy factory. Greenwood signs for
electric lights and w~aterworks, and Kosciusko
be delighted at the sight of a street.
sprinkler. Fayette has caught the improve
ment fever, and Magnolia wants the introduce
ton of standards bred horses. Meridian is de-
to have more factories, and jackson
the earth and more colleges. All the
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