The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-07-14
State News Boiled Down,

DR.. Robt. S.Buck, of Jackson, died last week.
A sewing machine factory will be started in
hatcher.
Hancock county has $4,000 in the treasury
and is out of debt.
A good deal of sickness throughout the
State is reported.
The Lawrence County Press has entered up
on its sixth volume.
The Starkville Times is out call home print"
and in a new dress.
The Pass Christian regatta will not take
place before September.
The railroad commission will try to get a
new depot at Water Valley.
DR.. D. A. Nash, a Mississippi dentist, has
patented new dentist chair.
The Churches in Jackson have union SER
vices during the summer months.
"After the Ball is Over is the latest song
that is taking the State. Oh, Lord!
The Winston County Journal took holiday
last week, on account Fourth Of July.
J. W. Feary has been appointed Penitenti-
airy Sergeant, vice Montgomery. resigned.
The railroad commissioners have decided
not to interfere with the sleeping car rates.
The editor Of the Meridian Tribune Genies
that the paper is dead. He says it will appear
soon. ?
Marshall county saved $4O3 last month by
working c~onvicts on the public roads and
bridges.
Meridian will soon vote on the question of
issuing $3.50. 900 worth of bonds for sewerage
purposes.
The shipment of watermelons from Shubuta
has been very large this year. They go by
the carloads.
The shipments Of fruits and vegetables from
Jackson this year have been nearly twice as
large as ever before.
Mr.. Z e. Bass, editor Of the Greenville
Times, has been elected principal Of the public
schools Of that city.
Water Valleys cannery employs sixty-iour
persons, and about seventy-ive farmers are
filling contracts for vegetables.
The Yazoo City Herald wants the Republi.
can mail agents along the Y.& NJ. V. railroad
bounced, especially the colored brother.
The butchers Of vicksburg agree to refuse
credit to anybody whose meat bill remains
unpaid on the 10th day Of the next month.
The West Point postmaster's salary has
been reduced, as has that of Columbus ant
Starkville. Port Gibson has been raised.
The semi-annual report of the State Treas
urer shows cash on hand July LIST, $685. 1877 .05
The Governor ~verifies the statement to be cor
rect.
Miss Mary Oliphant succeeds Mr.. ]. NJ
Williamson as editor and proprietor of tn
Hattiesburg Democrat. We wish her mucl
success.
The "Southcrn Cross" society has been or
ganized by Jackson ladies, to look after ant
assist as far as possible the needy, Confeder
ate veterans.
Jackson is strongly in favor of forming
new county from portions of Kinds, Ranki
and Madison. The proposition will meet wit
, sharp opposition, however.
It is understood that Judge J. A. p. Camp
bell will retire from the Supreme bench an,
his successor be appointed during the mex
session of the Legislature.
Webster Lovern, in Alfalfa county, attempt
; ed to discharge an overloaded army muske
and vas killed by fragments of the explode
: gun hitting him in the face.
The following Mississippians have been ap
pointed cadets to West Point r. Z. Bob
. of Bobo; D. l.. Stone, alternate, Greenville
:, J. T. Lawson, Hickory H. J.. Elson, alterr
ate, Meridian.
Brother Barr, Of the Corinth SubSoiler an
Democrat, is taking a rest, after about twent
h years of hard newspaper work. Mr.. J.
Kinch, of South Carolina, will be associate
with the paper hereafter.
- A shooting ARRAY occurred Saturday
: Gaston's turpentine still, in Harrison count
Roy, a clerk. Ten shots were fired, Roy WI
a unhurt, and Davis escaped, supposed to
wounded.
.e The Senatobia Democrat says: 1.-THE dul
ness Of the times is getting so oppressive y'
can almost slice it with a case-knife. Notl
ing like it in these parts before. Everybot
who can is going to leave and those who can
want to.
> Three citizens of Lawrence county who we
=, enticed away from their homes by a couple
Mormon Elders, to Arizona, about a year ae
report that none of the promises made the
:. by these latter day Saints have been redeei
ed, and they want to get back home.
~ An attempt to revive the Bolivar county
vision scheme, has had cold water thrown
70 it by Governor Stone, who in answer to a 7
quest, refuses to refer to it in his next me
- sage, because the scheme was defeated in t
-. last Legislature.
! The Abereen Examiner publishes a list
\, Monroe county farmers who diversity tn,
:, crops, and gives the acreage devoted to ca
10 product. Most of them plant equally Of CO
and cotton, and they have say 100 acres
oats, so acres of wheat, 50 Of sorghum, so
peas, 80 of hay, 10 of potatoes, 10 of peanu
ETC., and all raise mules, cattle, sheep a
hogs.
n The West Point Leader man has "a tim
d. with the brethren. He objects to being cal
a crank, a fanatic, a man Of the puritani
ta- kind, ETC., and intimatcs that some Of his CT
.ss les are "durned FOOLS" II Is not every m
who can accomplish any good by speak
far just what he thinks on any and every oc'
Tho sion.
North Mississippi was startled the other d
to by the report from Dallas, Texas, that Jan
on Kincannon was indicted for embezxling fr
eat the Ninth National Bank Of that city, $3.50
An. Mr.. Kincannon's home was In Tupelo, VIII
we he ranked high as q lawyer. As a polite
he was active and influential, and at one Ii
tn. opposed John Allen for Congress. He 81
nj. ceeded r. II. Henry as National Bank Exal
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