The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-05-26
State News Boiled Down.

A wild man roams Union county.
Fish frys are the fad at Fayette.
Columbia wants a brass band bad.
Meridian has revived her Y. NJ. c. A.
Circuit Court in Hattiesburg this week.
The editors are enjoying the blackberries.
suppress the hoodlum," is the general cry.
The May days-summer hot and summer
not.
There are thirteen national banks in Miss
issippi.
West Point proposes to have a horticultural
fair next fall.
Several of the State papers are demanding
jury reform.
Chickasaw county will hold a local option
election soon.
The Forest Register has two little ten year
old reporters.
There are between eighty and 100 China
men in this State.
The Harrison county grand jury returned
only eight true bills.
In the vicinity of Fayette hog cholera has
made its appearance.
Ripe tomatoes have been shipped from Crys-
tai Springs for two weeks.
Waynesboro Baptists are making an effort
to erect a new church building.
Recently the wesson Mills shipped ten car
loads Of their goods in one day.
The first peaches in Rankin sold in the mar.
ket at Jackson for s. per bushel.
In Tishomingo county there is a tree that
measures fifteen feet in diameter.
Augusta had no circuit court last week. The
people were too busy booming logs.
There is promise of a cotton factory at En-
terprise that will employ 80 hands.
A merchant in Bonneville recently shipped
$500 pounds of feathers to Louisville.
Life will soon be worth living to the average
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are almost here.
Judge j. B. Chrisman and Mrs. N. T. Charl.
ton, Of Jackson, were married last week.
1.-THE summer girl-God bless her" hallclu.
jah, is now the song Of the average man.
Chester has a "a foot negro who can easily
shoulder and walk off with a cask of meat.
H. l.. Burkitt L Co., of Clay county, have
built up an extensive business as seedsmen.
The residence of James Dawes, near Craw.
ford, was robbed of $1,000 in cash and ~jewelry
Fayette is to have her telegraph office, which
was recently abolished, re-established at once
The Bay st. Louis Echo says "Bathing's
good" Wonder il the editor speaks from ex.
periencc.
The State Bankers Association met las,
week tn Yazoo City. Eighteen banks were
represented.
Mr.. H. b. McGehcc, of Woodvilie, and Mis-.
Halle Galloway, daughter of he bishop, wers
married in Jackson last week.
Geo. Y. Scott, Of Bolivar county, has beer
appointed a chief of division in the Unitet
States Treasury Department.
The Baptists at Hattiesburg dedicate theil
new church Sunday, and the Methodists of tina,
town have begun work on a new building.
Spring spent the season on the Coast
She Travelled through the other portions Of tn
State in a Pullman, with drawn curtains.
At Marion Station the store of W. F. Tenn
pie was burglarized. The burglars had a wa
gon and loaded up literally from the stock.
Although the election for Governor is YET
far Of, the Vicksburg Post says that severa
candidates for that Office are already quietly a
work.
Two Okolona men, Frank Gallagher and W
II. Goss, went to Chicago and blew out the "a
in their room, and their chances for recover,
are slight.
Mason Smythe, an NJ. L O. r. R. brakeman
at Meridian, has been willed a million and
half dollars by a rich uncle who recently die
in England.
Planters in the unprotected portion Of War
rem county are agitating the question of an
other lcvee district. The country embrace
100 miles or more.
No people under the sun can stand as man
r~everses as the Mississippi Valley planter
says the Yazoo City Herald. Their powers q
recuperation seem exhsustless.
The W. C. T. U. of the State are preparin
a petition requesting the Governor to recon
mend that the Legislature submit a prohibitio
amendment to the Constitution.
The Bay st. Louis Echo last week was en-
larged to double size to accommodate a splen
did write up Of its town. Editor Moreau
succeeding well in his efforts to get out a live
progressive paper.
Judge Cayce, in his charge to the Lownde
county grand jury instructed them to brin
indictments against all dealers in cultures,
and against all druggists who sold any bitter
containing alcohol.
Prof. Fitxhugh, president of Whitworth Fl