The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-01-20
With State Papers.

About the best item Of news found in the
State papers this week is that found in the ABB
erdeen Examiner telling about a farmer in
that county shipping an hundred fine hogs to
a Cincinnati dealer, getting good prices. Gin
cinnati 10 one Of the largest, IL not the largest
pork markets in the world, and this seems a
parallel case Of carrying coal to Newcastle"
Every one is familiar with the sight of huge
pork boxes being unloaded from northern mar
kets, but tssce Mississippi-raised hogs going
10 the heart Of the pork producing West is
something The good old farmers Of the State
are NOT acquainted with, and but few ever
dreamed Of. But why not Mississippi cattle
have recently found a market in Cincinnati
and commanded good prices, and we see no
reason why our porkers should not become a
is no meat more toothsomc than our own mast
fed hogs, well cured and prepared, and the
old-fashioned highland "razor-back" hog,
whose flesh is made solid and sweet by a life
diet Of %acoras, nuts and corn, challenges COM
parison " it'll the world, as a table food. But
the other and more marketable breeds thrive
IS well here as any place on ear,h with our
unlimited forests covered with mast pork can
be raised as cheaply and successfully as any
where, and II is sad commentary on our peo-
pie whenever a carload of the soft mushy va
riety is brought here from the western parairie
country. We can at least supply home con-
sumption they are easily raised and much
more profitable than cotton. Hogs weighing
from 400 10 500 pounds each are being killed
all over the State, MS reported by the State
papers, andthe signs are that our people are
fast concluding that it pays. Agreeing with
the old da key: II there is one thing better
than good sweet ham it is a piece of hog back
bone, and liz there is another thing better than
a piece of back bone it is a whole back bone
chit.lings excepted.
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Fruit growers throughout the State are con
fdent that this viii be a fine year for
their business, for they they regard the
late cold snap as particularly favorable it
kills insects and prevents a premature rising
Of sep. In the mater of fruit Mississippi can
boast of about every variety, except the ex-
treme tropical products. We raise and ship
apples, pears, early peaches, grapes, figs, al
most all kinds of berries, plums aud there are
melons, nuts, ETC., Of about every variety
grown. ~
And our Mississippiegi;ls excel whenever in
compassion " othsrs-not only in good looks,
but in the matter Of mastery in culture and art.
Miss Blanche McManus, of Woodville, whose
grand art works at the New Orleans EXPOSE
ton attracted so much attention, and made for
her a national reputation, was the successful
contestant for the design and contract for the
frieze in the kindergarten room of the Illinois
State building Of the Worlds Fair. The tai.
ent of the world was her competitor.
u So
The farmers, as a rule, will begin the next
cop with better encouragement and hopes than
usual. The better prices OF cotton stimulate
them, there is no scarcity OF labor, and there
is, generally speaking, plenty of meat and
bread in store. The recent Democratic victory
gives them a tone of confidence in the matter
Of Legislation, and a spirit Of hopefulness pre-
walls. The editorial pen is just now busy
weaving and stringing out the age-worn song
Of advice to farmers how to 'makc it" success
fully With their battle against poverty. The
editor may not know how to stick potato vines
nor shuck cotton, but is well versed in advice
all well meant and sometimes good-and not
suggested by a desire to reek vengeance on
delinquent subscribers. The "hog and homi-
ny" farmer always succeeds while the prosper
ity of the cotton planter is always u happen
so. Aud the editor generally smiles secretly
with an l-told-.you-so air.
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Meridian continues to grow and her citizens
discuss factories, city improvements, etc.,
aided by her two daily papers. The News is
urging an interest in sheep-raising in the hill
and gives u~nanswcrable argument to prove
that that industry is a most profitable one and
would prove a great blessing to that territory
If engaged in extensively.
Tupelo is on the upgrade her newly-or-
gani=ed Board of Trade is arranging for an ex-
cursiOn of land buyers from the North, and do
ing many things for the upbuildipg Of their
town and county. bonneville, backed by a
good all-round county, is one OF the best pro-
duce markets in the State, ard later on in the
season will present a busy scene in gathering
and shipping early vegetables and fruits.
Corinth is solid and dull, but the county
minimum rents are cheap, and The man who
couldn't make a living there ought to go off
and die. All along the Illinois Cent raj road
within the State the people are discussing i'm.
migration, horticulture, canning factories and
dive sitied forming.
~
On account of the internecine wars that are
ever and anon breaking out in Kemper, some
one says that county is especially noted for
two things Raising HI and whoop-poles.
The West Point Gazette, il to be the name
many for the town, but the law Of Survival Of
the tittest applies to newspapers also.
Geo, King, the wife murderer, broke Jail at
Harriston Sunday, end escaped.
The Narkeeta Alliance has resolved to make
home self sustaining.
+. NJ. Pcyton has been reatpo'nted official
~stenographcr of the 9TH judicial district.
The foundry and machine shops at Meridian
Is looked after now by an assignee.
Early Grqve has been almost wiped out BY
the fire Rend.
Oarp IL Uctug ulstV'Dutci ~ @tuc s&tiOuo
streams by the U. $. Fish Commission.
Ylzoo City has added a third policeman.
Adeputy ". 8. Marshal, lack Johnson, was
fatally. shot ~, New Albany by a Mr.. Yancy.
New bankSiil be started at v~icksburg.
Chancery s6purt next week in Hancock.
The Mtcohhbf p6stotice had been raised to
the presidegttE class.
Meridian Is after car shops.
Forged bank checks annoy Jacksonians.
Holmes county reports a coal mine.
A new hotel has been built at Kosciusko.
A brass band is wanted at Pittsboro.
Two "blind-t'gers" have been pulled" Il
Yazoo CITY recently.
Boy loafers are numerous in Durant.
Itawsmba ships hogs to New Orleans.
Wesson officers attached an Illinois Central
train the other day for q small debt, and held
it till the money was paid.
The Cumberland p esbyte-ian Church now
own and conduct the Cooper Normal College,
MOrnOlia cOmplsius of ~lOafers,