The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-11-24
State News Boiled Down.
A circus is doing the State.
Macon ie after a fire lpnartmpnt-

NlckSDurg had Il SlU ~ grocer
failure last week.
G~reenyille reports a hardware stol
failure for sI2 900.
Brookhaven has a fire bell that ca
be heard five miles.
Tobacco culture proves ~successfr
about LumbertOn.
A saloon at Mayersville was attacl
ed for debt last week.
Wild turkeys are plentiful in til
Hattiesburg market.
a mar In Jasper county ships pos
SONS to New Orleans.
A negro at Vicksburg was choke
to death by a cuckle burr.
A Bay st. Louis man has 81 600 cal
bage plants just beginning to ''head.
A biscuit factory in Sardis con
sumes twenty-five barrels of -four
day.
A Jefferson county farmer advertis
es seventy-tive young h0me-raise'
mules.
Football Is the popular thing nov
with the students at the State Uni
yersity.
The Wesson Mills haye just place.
in position two car loads OF new ma,
chincry.
Jas. Skccn shot and killed w. NJ
Bigby, his neighbor, near KosciuskO
last week.
The North Mississippi Methodist
Conference meets at Columbus on
Nov. Goth.
Bob Burdettc, the noted humOrist
lcctured at Blue Mountain Monday
night last.
J. II. Stafford, a popular young mar
Of Rosedale, was killed by gin machin.
cry recently.
Frank NJ. Shaw, of Natchez, Is after
the dictatorship Of customs at the
Natchez port.
W. Morgan, a prominent planter OF
Wilkinson cOunty, has been confined
in the insane asylum.
The Pe%nitcntiary Board OF Control
will re.let the convicts on the first
Monday in December.
Harrison county will elect Mr..
Dahlgren's successor in the Legisla.
ture on December 4th.
The Sunfower TOcsin man had his
suit of clothes stolen last week. And
winter will soon be here, too!
The Natchez Democrat notes the
receipt of some turnips weighing sew
en- and a half pounds each.
Adams county boasts OF a fine sys-
tenn of public roads, and gives credit
to the new law for them.
The old State House at Jackson is
beginning to fall down, and the south.
ern wing is said TO be unsafe.
A COW in Lafayette county recent.
ly gave birth to three calves. and all
OF them are perfectly formed and
alive.
A negro selling his cotton in Oko-
Iona, refused to take silver dollars,
because the Democrats had Counter
feited" them.
Geo. Brown. a postal clerk, on trial
FOR tampering with the mail, was
found guilty by the Federal jury at
Jackson last week.
The Federal grand jury at Jackson
Indicted W. II. Gibbs, ex-Republican
for embczzlement. The
mount Of shortage is 50 92O 81.
In Choctaw county, a few days ago.
Hon. L. L. Hammer lost his gin house
by lire, and his l3 year-Old son., who
vas ia the lint room, peris he'd in the
Editor Henderson, of the West
Forum, has gone to Washing.
on to accept a government position,
the Forum in charge OF Harry
Il competent newspaper man.
Major Douglass Walworth has re.
ired from the Natchez Democrat. to
lie regret OF the press of the State.
We don't know the name of his sue
essor, but whoever he is, he fills the
osition well.
In and around New Albany they
ave begun to utilize most everything
Or profit, and during the past ten
lonths there has been shipped oyer
10 600 worth OF long-eared hound
ogs, SO the Gazette says.f New AL.
any can go nov to the head Of the
lass.
The Columbus Index don't like the
ersonel of the Legislature, stig.
latizlng some OF the members as
red necks" and ignOramuses gcner.
lily. The young editor of the Index
entirely too "frcsh," and lacks a
God deal Of representing public sen.
Forrest Runnels, a young Newspaper
who for several years was con-
ected with the Mississippi press, at
pmpted sulcideby taking morphine
4 Memphis. a few days ago. He had
'st his job as reporter on the Appeal
.vaianchc, and that IL assigned as
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