The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-03-10
State News Boiled Down.

ViOu.
An artesian well is beng sunk at Kos
ciusko,
Perry county is having a new court
house built.
A real live African chief has been lee
turing in Jackson.
A religious aud moral wave is puiIf, ing
the air ut Columbcs.
Horses and mules at Fayctte arc trou-
blel with distempar.
Bay st, Louis Young people have form-
ell Il lawn tennis club.
The late cold snap damaged early v ge-
tables around S~tariville.
Lightning struck tn, depot at Hardy
and burned it last week.
No more gates across public roads are
allowed in Kinds county.
The furniture in the Fayette Christian
! Church was recently stolen.
Several Mormon preachers are report
cd at work around Iumberton.
Bonneville shipped last year ten ear
loads of corn to points south.
Miss Kate Power has been engaged for
the Worlds Fair literary bureau.
The discovery of lead mine is report
ed near Houston, Chickasaw county.
Marcns Summerfield, merchant at va
zoo City, has been indicted for arson.
A cyclone near Queen Hill blew down
a church, school house and some fencing.
Il. Tllomps on, aged so years, dropped
dead on the streets Of Osyka one day lasl
week.
The Gloister canning factory has IN Of
fer from II st. Louis house for thcr entire
output.
Nearly every important town in North
Mississippi has u land immigration asso-
citation.
The Canton Times is successor to the
Canton Progress, with Mr.. NJ. l.. Dinkius
as editor.
The one dollar Gulf Coast Sunday ex-
cursion trains have been inauyuratcd for
the season.
Congressman Beeman, of tho Fifth
Mississippi district, has been quite i'll in
Washington.
In the prairie counties the fall oat crop
is fine and the spring crop acreage is I'M
usually large.
Woodville complains that her cemetery
is being sadly neglected and is "a veritable
stock pasture.
The Thornton Artillery at Pass Chris
tian is being rcoryanized and will be in
readiness to visit the Worlds Faii.
A cololed couple in Lafayette county
are occupying the SAINT cabin they lived
in durin. slavery days.
Mr.. Clarence d. Bonney, IF Summit,
and Miss Hattie Daniel, of New Orleans,
were recently married in Washington
City.
Farmers along the line of the NJ. e. o.
north Of Meridian are making regular
shipments of cattle, hogs aud poultry to
New Orleans.
A meeting of Merchants citizens was
held last week and it was decided to give
up the fight for the removal of the Missis-
sippi College from Clinton to that city,
and at the same time Withdrawing their
tender of money and lands.
Bay st. Louis citizens have retitiuned
the railroad company to give them per.
mission, at their own expense, to improve
and embelish the grounds of tho compa-
ny situated around the depot, with a
view of converting the same into Il gar
den and park.
An exchange tells OF a young man of
Rankin county who got stranded in St.
Louis and beat his way on tho blind end
of the baggage car as far as Jackson.
When he reached homo lc sent the price
of ii ticket fl ION st. Louis to Jackson, to
the railroad company.
The horticnlturists around Bonneville
are very busy and predict II successful
season. They make Bonneville one of
tbs most active and prosperous towns in
the State. Tomatoes will soon be ready
for the cold frames, peas are planted aud
attention is being directed to bans.
There is a remarkable scttl, ment in
Rankin county, whore the following
things, it is claimed, have not happened:
Not II decd OF trust has been foreclosed in
twelve years no neighboihood brOils for
years in tho past not a dissenting vote
in school affairs tor five years not u tat
tier or buSybOdy in other people matters
for twenty years, and not an lllcs,timate
child in the neishborhood for twenty
years.
The cyclone that passed through the
State last Friday, striking Marion, Pa
chuta, Kewanec, Toomsuba. and other
places, carried death and general de-
struction with it. At Marion only about
a do zen houses weIe left aud a number of
persons were seriously hurt. Twenty
seven houses at TOOmsuba were wrecked.
A Mr.. Webb, at Kewanee, was killed AID
several seriously hurt. Johnnie Lovett
was killed at Pachuta, q number mi lred
and many RESIDENCES, two churches and
the depot were demolished. The storm
continued through Alabama and Georgia
into the Caroliras, leaving its fearful
mark of demolition behind. About fifty
deaths are reported.