The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-10-06
State News Boiled Down.

hlpitN WANTS u hiEuN"
Hattiesburg will have a tannery.
Cumberland is TO have a jug factory.
McComb City has a minstrel troupe.
Tunica county reports cattle thieves.
Joe Jones had big time at Pittsboro.
Coons and possums plentiful in Yazoo.
Grenada has organized a board Of trade.
The Guntown depot was recently robbed.
Corinth boys talk brass band. 0, Lordy !!
A single factory will start in Charleston.
Water Valley will have a two-story depot.
Circuit court in Wayne county this week.
Durant Baptists will erect a $4,000 church.
The tramp nuisance abounds on the coast.
Chills aud sore eyes are prevalent in Pauld-
ing.
Central Mississippi has a tremendous hay
crop.
Tate county will have her annual fair this
month.
The churches in Yazoo City are lighted by
electricity.
The streets of Ripley are overrun with cattle
and stock.
A new negro paper has been started in
vicksburg.
Would-be train wreckers are in Jail at
Clarksdale. 'd-
The Dnrant brick factory turns out 10000
brick a day.
Marshall county sent over 100 peep to the
Worlds Fair.
John P. Taylor, of Rankin, suicided at Port
Gibson recently.
Highway mail robberies are frequent in
Winston county.
Geo. 7. Gracey has been SUBMITS depot
agent since 1857.
The attendance at the A. 4 NJ. College is
smaller than usual.
Brookhaven has ~"nose" parties. Who
noes what that is?
The Oxford Globe SAYS there are 10000 hog.
in Lafayette county.
In Friar's Point Jail there are sixteen negr'
!. murders awaiting trial.
Mrs. J. W. Maxwell, a most estimable lad,
of CAUTION, died last week.
Twenty families bought tickets at Iuka'fo
Texas, one day last week.
Monroe county will produce about a million
gallons of sorghum this season.
One negro stabbed another to death at va
200 City over a dispute about $3.50.
II. O. Rollins, for Is years a typo in tn
. Grenada Sentinel, died last week.
Judge R. c. Beckett and Miss Mary RandaI
Of West Point, were married recently.
Capt. John Chatham, an old resident {
Canton, died last week, aged 50 years.
Lee county Democrats in the election fc
County Treasury wiped up the populites.
$ Evangelist Mcintosh had 200 converts
! Water Valley, during his recent meeting.
Mrs. Cora Mitchell, wife of the late edit,
= W. l.. Mitchell, of Hazlenurst, died last wee
DR.. g. W. Garner, pastor of the Bapti
Church at Oxford, has resigned to go to Flo
da. :
!, The chief end of the Brandon Call seems
# be e .ien,iOn" certain men for office. 1t
tiresome.
q The Fayette Chronicle, one of the be
+ pieces of newspaper property in the State,
offered for sale.
Y Near huntsville, a II year-old lad nam
Will Bray, killed his sister by striking her
the left breast.
- The Brookhaven Citizen urges Col. Hook
& for the Senate and ex-Gov. Lowry for Hoo
er's successor.
1t is said that Hon. Joe Askew, of Star
vile, has his weather eye on Private Jo
Aliens seat in Congress-.
Miss Hattie Carter, of Pontotoc, has be
: appointed to the vacant scholarship in t
Peabody Normal College at Nashville.
Hon. r. G. Lee, Of Madison county, h
been appointed Attorney of the United Stat
for the Southern District of Mississippi.
Miss Kate Power has been extremely
with nervous prostration caused by owe
work as correspondent at the Worlds Fair
The Gazette says that in New Albany OF
one piece of respectable sidewalk can
N, found. That town is just one piece ahead
~ Scranton.
vicksburg had a big fire last week in viii
"a the frame car shops Of the Valley road w
destroyed, together with sixty cars. Lo
TX about 100000.
u W.B. Russell, the school teacher who
m saulted a Is year-old girl in Beauregard l
Spring, was brought in from Texas last we,
,r to stand his trial.
j.. II. Marshall, who escaped from the pc
tertiary in 1885, has been captured at Amo
ct and sent back. He was convicted in Chicl
l.. saw county for grand larceny.
Storms, rust, catterpillars and boil wor
=, have reduced the cotton crop one half aro,
Gloster. Corn crop short potato and CT
y" crops good. Hog cholera in many parts of
county. sd
q The Delta Advance says at is a g
IT. thing for the lightweights that they can
III "mcntioned for Governor" three years abe
because they will be forgotten when tie I
les comes"
Hon. l. d. Oglesby is going to Fort SIN
els Ark, and practice law with Judge Rogers
els former Mississippian. North Mississippi,
lch especially Tate county, will regret 10 lose
els Oglesby.
it'll The Stovall Springs, near Colum