The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-09-29
State News Boiled Down.
Mad dogs are numerous in Fayettc.

Fair.
White caps in Lincoln county burned a gin
last week.
Claiborne county denies the charge of hav-
ing white caps.
The New Albany Gazette will adopt the all
home print plan.
A new $l9, 900 court house will be built in
Coahona county.
Mississippi has the smallest debt of any of
the Southern States.
VIM. E. Hunt, of Mississippi, has been nom-
mated consul TO Hong Kong.
Hancock county levies a 3-mill tax for coun-
ty purposes. Rankin has S mills.
l. The Ripley Sentinel man has. ad,Cleve-
lands luck. Its a girl.
The Durant News, W. 7. johnson, editor,
made its appearance last week.
Twenty three of Port Gibson's crap shoot
ers were recently caught at one raid.
A wolf was killed near Ingleside last week,
the first seen in Claiborne county for years.
About 1000 people attended the reunion of
the Fifteenth Mississippi regiment at Durant.
Hon. j. X. v%ardaman, Greenwood's attorn-
ey, gets IS for each conviction before the may
or's court.
}. Is. IL. Hemingway, formerly Of Jackson,
has been appointed U. $. District Attorney
for New Mexico.
Some Of Waynesboro citizens have pur-
chased a small steamboat to run on the Chick
asawhay river.
Mrs. Breath, Of Bay St. Louis, has some
Langshan pullets Matched latter part of April
that are now laying.
The State is in debt only one million Of dol
lars. Her bonds and securities are very read
lily taken in the market.
The Aberdeen Examiner insists that no man
can claim to be a farmer who will sell a heifer
calf at butchers prices.
The Copiah Signal has changed hands. Mr..
Duncan 7. Young succeeds Mr.. W. A. RAM
say as editor and publisher.
1t is reported that the schools in this State
are opening with better attendance than for
years. 1t is a hopeful sign.
Smith county has made her W hominv,
says the Raleigh Reformer. 1t depends ON
the cholera whether she gets the hog.
The Wednesday coast train over the l.. 4
N. has been discontinued for the season. The
Sunday excursions will be continued.
The Woodville Courier is now an all-home
print, and keeps on hand n lot of "patent'
stun to supply patrons. who prefer them.
The Ellisville News SAYS that school teach
ers and church members of that town partici-
pated in a dance with "a sang froid that was
refreshing to behold"
A sheep ranch is to be started near Iuka BY
a kentuckian. There is no better country in
the world for sheep and cattle raising than the
hills OF old Tishomingo and eastern Alcorn.
Mr.. Henry Yerger has purchased of Mr.. T.
r. Davidson his interest in the Jackson News,
and will be its business manager. Mr.. Day-
idson has a position in the Government PRINT
ing Office.
A Tupelo negro fell from tn balcony over the
door Of the courthouse, and would have prob
ably been killed, but he went head foremost.
and his head was the first to hit the brick
pavement below.
Seven years ago court time nearly depopu-
lated Gloster, says the Record. Those who
were not in attendance at Court went fishing,
How different now. What has wrought this
changer No saloons.
Ed. Eugene A. Taylor, an old time Natchez
boy, who has for some years past been the
pastor at the Baptist Church at Utica, N. V,
has accepted the charge of the FIRST Baptist
Church in Memphis.
>. U. Horton, convict contractor in Alfalfa
county, who was tried for numbering and con-
cealing the body of a convict, and was %acuuit-
ted, is again in the hands of the law for i'll
treatment of c%onvicts.
Hunt McCaleb has severed his connection
with the New Orleans Picayunc, and II, p.
Weiss, ofthe Mobile Register, succeeds him.
1t is rumored that McCaleb will soon engage
in journalism in this State.
The Industrial Institute aud College at Col
umbns opened with $50 pupils the A. / NJ.
at Starkville, with 200; the Clinton College,
over 200 Mlllsaps College at Jackson, $50 !;
Blue Mountain Female College, 100.
Scranton has a Carriage light" ordinance.
New Albany Gazette.l Yes, and we'uns got
or ordinance about good side walks, and trains
runnin' through the Town MORN 'steen miles
an hour, and er hog law, and a whole
passed. er ordinances.
The Grenada Sentinel says the man who
thinks there is not going to be a lively time
politically in this State in 1895, reads the
signs through the wrong end of the telescope.
There will almost certainly be an opposition
State ticket in the field, without any "nigger''
on it.
The Memphis Commercial has it that the
'riends 0i congressman Allen are doing their
best to induce him to enter the gnbcrnatorlaI
race. Private John is a campaigner from up
where the creek forks the first time, and if he
enters the fight there will be a mighty rust
ling among the other candidates.
Five negro women occupied berths on one Of
the Pullman Palace cars which passed down
49,
Friday, says the Clarion Ledger, and one Of
them had the gall to ask a gentleman to cx-
change his lower for her upper bunk. Society
is getting badly mixed up north Of the Ohio
river and runs down this way under protec-
tion of Interstate commerce laws.
An exchagc says there will be not less than
ten entries in the next gubcrnatorial race in
Mississippi. The campaign is a couple Of
years of, and ZONE Of those who rush forward
for the greatest amount Of free advertising
now, may not be IN II when the race begins,
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