The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-02-17
State News Boiled Down.

Logtown advances.
Log rolling is at hand.
, West Points Jail is full.
I Thieves overrun Greenville.
! Fayette is tackling prohibition.
{ Shannon ships hogs and cattle.
Fayette enjoys a skating rink.
j.. Tupelo is after a broom factory.
The river is very low at Greenville.
Gulf Coast hotels are full just now.
Laurel lameuts the lack of a school.
Hogs have the cholera around Boly.
Dat sowing is over in Jasper county.
Gainesville is building a box factory.
Greenville has a fine fire department.
An infrmary is wanted at Greenville.
Mad dogs have appeared in Lafayette.
West Point strictly observes Sunday.
Lee county will ship corn next spring.
Attala county has a large criminal docket.
Biloxi is talking of an electric light plant.
The stock law is not in it in Jasper county.
Almost every town reports som sickness.
Real estate is a drag at Jackson at present.
Grcenville is a good mule market Just now.
p'tHaua Hao eoHPe'eu uet Fit WV uTlure.
John T. Bates is now editor of the Clarks-
dale Banner.
0kolona is talking of organizing a h~orticul-
tural society.
Okolona's new Baptist Church was dedicat-
ed last Sunday.
Several large vineyards are being prepared
in Lee county.
LaGrippe of a malignant type prevails at
Madison Station.
In eight months Tupelo shipped $4,000 worth
of chickens and eggs.
The Masonic Grand Bodies will meet in Hol-
ly Springs next year.
The Bonneville canning factory will double
its capacity this year.
A Tupclo lady made $40 during February
last by shipping %violets.
Claiborne county will work her ~convicts on
the public roads this year.
Hancock county will hold an election March
l4th to elect a treasurer.
A thousand pounds of wrapping Irvine a day
is made at Water Valley.
Carthage will run a boat between that town
and Jackson, on the Pearl.
A West Point man will sell miniature bales
of cotton at the Worlds Fair.
Aberdeen's "Trade and Sale Day." once a
month, proves a grand success.
Holly Springs officers nabbed sixteen crap
shooters in one haul last week.
A negro in Lowndes county broke the record
by committing suicide last week.
A Monroe county farmer is fa%ttening 300
head of cattle for western markets.
Gov. Altgeld and a party of friends from
Illinois, have been visiting the coast towns.
The Lauderdale county grand jury offered
at the opening Of each days session.
st. Louis house offers to pay Mississippi
armers Is cents a gallon for sorghum.
Hubert Swift, a Jackson boy, will play one
the lead cornets in the Worlds Fair or
Ben Mccoy aud j. Terry, of the Copiah
county gang of negro robbers and murderers,
vil hang March 22d.
A lazoo county man sold the seed from two
'ales of cotton for 81, 60O-more than he re-
eived for the lint.
Z. b. Powers at Rocky Springs, while on a ,
runken spree, threatened his wife's life. She !
laid him out" with a gun.
Miss Sarah Felix Banks, daughter of Cant.
!. W. Banks, and Mr.. c.. D. Hill were married
4 Meridian last week. ,
An Ellisville negro boy lost the ends of both l
Is thumbs the other day by picking at the
usiness end of a cartridge with needle.
Willie l.. Parker, a l7-year old Brandon NJ
o.y, has left the parental roof, and his where },
bouts is wanted by his father, W. NJ. Parker. j
The ladies ofthe IIazlehurst Baptist Church T.
ave published a cook book which finds a
lady sale. The proceeds go to the church.
All the towns in the northeastern part of the A.
late is more or less worked up on the subject II
immigration. An excursion from the
Orth came down from the Mobile and Ohio
ilroad this week.
up? The Oxford Globe says: ave s
We our ideas about the University having
Gu a slim attendance this session, and BY the /
'rnalS we will let the Press of the State u
a few things about the time of next as.
milling of the Trustees.
lr> ]. A. Oliver has got rich and retired
m the West Point Gazette, after an expert
e of about a month. 1t may not apply to
Gazette, but frequent changes on a paper A
e a very depressing effect on the public's
fidence and support of the institution.