The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-10-27
State News Boiled Down.
Rankin has a large rice crop.

Tishomingo county wants a county
farm.
Vicksburg reports an ''open air
wedding"
Horseback riding is all the STYLE in
West Point.
New Albany Baptists are building
a parsonage.
Leflore county has been added to
the dry list.
A Pittsboro man is in Jail for beat
ing his stepchild.
A spoke factory will soon be run
ming at Yazoo City.
A rice mill is to beoperated in Fam
min, Rankin county.
Greenwood has a newly organized
Odd Fellows lodge.
The Corinth Herald has completed
its sixteenth volume.
A converted Jew has been preaching
in Montgomery county.
Frost has killed the top crop of cot
ton in LowndesN county.
Mr.. j. l. Lengsteld is now editor of
the Vicksburg Democrat.
Sixty-two convicts are employed on
the Coah0ma county farm.
This year Mississippi has built only
three miles Of new railroad. d
The saw mills on the Northeastern
road are resuming operations.
Several Illicit distillcrles in Chicka-
county have been captured.
Clarke county furnishes no aid to
paupers outside the poor house.
There are more negro voters than
registered in Quitman county.
a Confederate veterans reunion on
November 4th, will be held at Liberty.
The kOSciusko Star boasts a game
cock which can lick any chicken in the
county.
Nearly all the counties in North
Mississippi ship cattle to New Or
leans.
Cotton receipts in West Point thus
far have been about double those of
last year.
Meridian is preparing to entertain
large party of northern homeseekers
on the Goth.
"A lady in Calhoun county has 4 BIZ
bic that has been in her family since
the year 1892.
A Montpelier man made Irish DO
tatoes this year at the rate of $50
bushels per acre.
The Sardis Reporter is making war
on the Southern Express Company
for exhorbitant charges.
At Webb Station, on the 18th, viii
Wade was shot and killed by jeff Ev-
ans. Both prominent planters.
The Franklin county Alliance de-
nounces the Board of Supervisors for
IA tax to build a new Jail.
Several Amory stores were recently
the same night, and Joe
Thompson, a merchant. murdered.
The explosion of a lamp the other
day caused the burning of the Easta-
butchie Planning Mills and 300, 600
feet of lumber. Loss, $40 600.
The resources of the national
banks of the State of Mississippi on
October Sd. as reported to the Comp
troller of the Currency, amounted to
So ZIG CAB.
The United States District Attorn.
cy says there is more business trans
acted in the Northern Judicial Dis
trict of Mississippi than in any other
district in the Union.
G.. W. McKie, Representative from
Marshall county, killed a negro on
his plantation last week, and surren-
dercd to the Sheriff to escape the
wrath Of a negro mob.
The W. Il. Adams Machine Co., of
.orinth, recently shipped to Florida
pounds of machinery. They
furnish that State most of it's phos-
plate mining machinery.
An exchange says that a citizen of
Port Gibson says that there is more
liquor sold now in that place than
when twas wet. If we were as big
4 man as Sam Jones we'd say that
was a willful liar.
The whole kit and posse Of the d.
rectors of the national bank at Stark
vile are under arrest to be tried be-
fore the Federal Court at Aberdeen.
1t is stated they owe the bank over
b40 900, having drawn largely in excess
Of the amounts allowed by law.
Frank Burkitt's experience as an
apostle of reform has won him no en-
viable fame, and it seems to have
been a financial failure. In the last
of his paper he makes thisswail /:
For the past two years the Messcn-
ger has been run at a loss to its pro-
prietor, and he can bear the burden
Tut little longer" -
Gov. Stone writes an open letter to
the New York Sun defending this
State against certain sensational Cor
respondents about white caps posting
gins, etc. The Governor says that no
gins have thus been burned and the
statements OF the said correspondents