The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-03-17
State NeWsB Boiled Down.

Greenwood has u twc-helded can.
Press Convention talk has begun.
License have b, On issued for two new
saloons in Biloxi.
A steam laundry is among the thiags
talked oil in Biloxi.
Monroe county reports u gourd that
holds almost u bu>lIel.
The next court at Meridian will have
seven murder cases to try.
A telephone line between Bay ST. Louis
and New Orleans is being agilared.
A lunch house is put down among the
number of things wanted at Pass Chris
tiau.
A Yazoo City man convicted of selling
liquor unlawtnlly was fined 500 and sent
to Jail for sixty days.
The unveiling of the Confederate mou-
ument in Vicksburg next May promises
to be Il grand event.
There is SEINE fear entertained in the
della country that the levecs will lie put
to a severe test this spring.
Corn planting has made great Roadway
all tver the State during the past two
weeks, most all the early crop being ill.,.
J. B. Whitney, u prominent merchant
of Water Valley, attempted suicide by
emitting his throat with Il pocket knife.
A Gloister man killed and cured II 900
pounds of meat the past winter, worth
$3.50 or equal to about fifty bales of cot.
ton.
Bob Johnson, Il convict at Grecnville
tried to escape by jumping from d train.
The gnald fired at him, putting out both
his eyes.
Col. W. NJ. huge, of Coril.th, wants to
be minister To- Guatemala. He is biz
enough for the place and we hope he will
be successful.
The Grand Lodge of knights OF Honor
of Mississippi will put three lecturers in
the field, dividing the State into three
districts.
A Jackson magistrate decides that
there is no law in the new code against y
man shooting his mother-iu-iaw with
birdshot.
John G. Hastings, of Port Gibson, COM
mitted suicide in Birmingham. He was
sixty years old and leaves Il wife and sew.
eral children.
There is Il so-callel printer in Winoua
so. called-becauS he has never taken u
drink of whisky, II chew of tobacco or
smoked IA cigar in his life.
A State agricultural exchange says
that the sheep industry in Mississippi is
on the decline the dogs are 10 blame for
it and the law makers are to blame for
the dogs.
Walter McMoris, of Summit, got drunk
and then got after il negr", running him
into +. Schlenler's store. The proprietor
asked the beligcrent to withdraw, but iu-
stead he drew II knife aud killed Schlen-
ter.
jackson is worried over '.Jack the
Spljter," who amuscs himself BIZ prone
uadin2 down the streets emitting great
sluices of tobacco Juice on the shop WIN
dows.
AChoctaw county man has not bought
a pound of meat in sixteen Years !; an Ac-
herman man hasn't bought any lard in
sixty-slX years. A Winston cOnnt, man
fol- seventy years has raised I'LL his meat
lard. corn, meal and potatoes.
CIIEsTNUTs ARE IN BLOOM.
Peach blooms are out.
The mnllet are jumping.
The small boy lyeth kites.
The peach c.opis promising.
Np'IuIp 10 plChNitui ou INV tVdet.
Spring crocuses and other cusses.
The orangs trees are looking fresh.
''Rcd wurrums' for "bait" are "in it,
The red bug aud tick will soon be here
That lazy 'lired feeling is coming
Aud We want to sleep longer Of morn
ings.
And spring cleaning is another "chest
nut happening, "A sense Of duty compel
us to chronicle.
And now doth the busy housewife. etc.
improve each shining hour, its busting
out the pantry. aud the kids are in tn
-four. And the "s-w-e-e-t Whole It's
sweeter than all the roses, etc, are i
bloom, all the same like dogwood bios
SONS.
Its Just about this season that til
spling poet wrote, The lark is up 10 NEE
the sun, the bees are on the wing, the an
its labor has begun, the woods with mus
ic r and the buinble bee has begun t.
humble with the butterfly that has til
golden wing, the lightning bug the flame
the Easter bonnet will sOon DO here, iii
: crinoline the m While the youn
t mans fancy lightly turns to thoughts
love ard livery bills. t
Let US then be up and doing with
heart for any fate, On the gentle fly com,
. kerzip on the slumbering deacon's pate
, still fighting 'skceters, still persu;ug
catching fish and digging bait.
Then comes fi,h-trys, hay rides, II
} cow-slip aud the milk-maid, young calv,
and huttelmilk, new.laid eggs and chicl
Ell cOops, lawn parties aud white cravat
. frog opera, and loveis Swinging in t!
grapevine swing"
Il. Observation-Disclosures Hanki-Panl
wherc-the-bull frog Jumps from hank :