The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-21
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Ellisviile needs a hog law.
Siding wants a fan factory.
Brookhaven has a goat law.
Attala has a poor corn crop.
Fleas trouble Liberty people.
Jasper county Jail is empty.
Jackson pulls night providers.
Clinton sports a mineral well.
Woodvillc makes war on dogs.
Nicksburg has a fine new hotel.
Watermelons glut the markets.
Vicksburg Jail has 80 prisoners.
Liberty bias a theatrical troupe.
"Clean up" is the universal cry.
Rosedale has a fine crop of dogs.
Good deal of sickness at Siding.
Forest reports a saw mill failure.
Vicksburg has let up on baseball.
Professional baseball wasn't in it.
fallabousha crops suffer for rain.
Too much rain in Jasper county.
The Coast pear crop is splendid.
Stock is dirt cheap in Lee county.
Chickens sells for l21ac at Ripley.
Port Gibson has passed a hog law.
Electric lights agitate Port Gibson.
Cotton in the delta is sorry and late.
Raymond wants a military company.
Grenada complains OF weedy streets.
Corn crop is generally large and fine.
The baseballists are burying the bat.
The Meridian Tribune has come to life.
Greenwood still clamors for a cannery.
Claiborne county reports army worms.
F.. b. Miller, mayor of Quitman is dead.
Rain Is wanted in the Meridian territory.
Watermelons go for a nickle in Ellisville.
A Monroe farmer has four acres in onions.
Hog crop is unusually large in Lauderdale.
The cotton caterpillar is reported at Natchez.
+. f.. Gottseelig, Starkville, has assigned.
NJ. Tucker, Wilkinson, killed his step-child.
ID. Il. Dalton is Shannon's new postmaster.
"A steam laundry would please Hattiesburg.
A matrimonial club is Eastabutchic's boast.
August LIST Chickasaw will vote on whiskev.
Loafers and sickness plentiful in Ellisville.
Cotton worms have appeared in Adams co.
The Crystal Springs Meteor has suspended.
Winona has organized a Horticultural Soci-
ETY..
The Natchez Oil Mills will sink an a~rterian
well.
The hoop factory at Hickory is far behind
with orders.
Jackson pays over half the personal tax Of
Kinds county.
Edmund Down., a wealthy colored man OF
Magnolia, was waylaid the other night and
shot to death.
Col. Nick Mclean, of the Edwards House,
Jackson, is dead.
Greenwood uses a windmill to draw water
from the public well.
Miss Edith Baker has been appointed post.
master at Raymond.
A Perry county man raised this season
5000 pounds of wool.
Greenwood will use forty million brick in
various improvements.
Lightning at Hamburg the other day killed
a man, child and horse.
Sardis has organized a Confederate Camp
with ffty-three members.
Wesson has completed her high schoo
building at a cost of $l7 900.
The last issue of the Bclan Times did no,
contain a single local news item.
The First National Bank at Starkyille has
succumbed to the financial depression.
The last thing a little Enterprise darkey die
before he died was to drink lot of coal oil.
Rosedale is dull and lonesome, so many Of
her citizens having gone off for the summer.
The Progress says Water Valley is doing
her part towards supporting the Worlds
Fair.
Judge Mayers has appointed A. B. Crocker
of Forest, stenographer of the Eight Judicia
District.
A Daleville mar has a cow that Yields pei
day two pounds of butter aud forty-twt
pounds of milk.
The Columbus Rilemen are contemplating ;
Biloxi trip instead of their proposed visit t,
the Worlds Fair.
The yonng ladies of Sardis will organize
matrimonial endeavor association to be know
as a Cooking Club.
Rev. f. l.. B. Mcclellan, pastor Corintl
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, will go tt
California to reside.
The Copiah Signal SAYS the yellow free
stone is the only peach that can be shipped
north with any assurance of success.
A number of lumbermen recently met n
Brookhaven and filed a protest against the in
crease of railroad rates on lumber.
Mr.. X. b. Clark, of Shannon, has the an
pointment of Commissioner to award premi
ums on cotton at the Worlds Fair.
Thomas Tombstone, whose parents live il
Wesson, was found dead and his body badl,
mutilated near Meridian last week.
The Jefferson county Supervisors arc aske,
to levy an extra 3-mill tax to run the publ
schools eight mon tbs instead of four.
Henry Fleming, a Columbus negro murder
er, was taken from the Jail and hung las
Thursday, and his body filled with bullets.
Oxford boasts a onc-arm drayman who /
worth more and does more honest labor in
day than any other two draymen in the town
The Grenada Sentinel suggests a suspensio
OF the stock law and the hcrding Of cattle o
the streets to get rid of the grass and weeds
The merchants and business men of Yazo
City in a published card claim that the ah
sence of saloons has not reduced their bust
ness.
The Ripley Sentinel says: "The Pascagou
la DE~MoccRAr-SrAR now has, without doub
the best State News Column Of any paper
the State"
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