The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-08-18
State News Boiled Down.


Quarantine is the thing.
Oil and water won't mix.
Some marrying going on.
Beef is cheap at Logtown.
Chester is a growing town.
Liberty has an egg famine.
Meridian ships lots Of fruit.
Dogs overrun Hatsiesburg.
Travel to Chicago is brisk.
Teachers Institutes galore.
Hancock county reports oil.
Neshnba county owes 5000.
Society rests at Yazoo City.
Liberty improves her streets.
Jasper has had too much rain.
Brandon wants a gab-stopper.
Ripley's streets need wedding.
Jackson has only three saloons.
Jones county has meat to sell.
Bvhalia has been Joe J0nescd.
Logtown lumber mills are busy.
Yellow fever scare has subsidized.
New Albany ships lots Of lumber.
State melish is at Cooper's Well.
Where is Detective Sommers at
Protracted meetings everywhere.
Lauderdale has a training school.
Biloxi is sick Of negro excursions.
Muscadines are ripe on the Coast.
Spelling bees %enliven B~rookhaven.
Circuit court in Rankin this week.
Scnatobia has 70 business houses.
There are only seven wet counties.
Magnolia has a Bible study school.
Bilcxiis visited by Mormon elders.
Judge Cayce is decidedly popular.
Poor fruit is marketed in Grenada.
Clock peddlers are doing the State.
Brandon had a hail storm last week.
Brandon sports a new livery stable.
Bridge builders are busy in Jasper.
Hay is making while the sun shines.
l~ncendiary ticnds bother Greenvillc.
Gloster has 80 pound water melons.
Pass Christian regatta on the 26th.
Bicycles arc ia sight" in Columbia.
The cotton worm is in Clay county.
Friar's Point chickens have cholera.
Chicken thieves flourish at Meridian. g
E!lisyille arrests train-jumping boys.
The first bale OF cotton is about due.
Too much rain in South Mississippi.
Peaches Toe a bushel at Yazoo City.
Fights are frequent in Smith county.
The editors 60 to Chicago next week.
Heavy dcws fall in North Mississippi.
Some horse thieves in Rankin county.
Indians aud negroes fill Neshoba's Jail.
Yazoo City complains Of dull business.
Winston county has q mammoth cave.
Editor HUFF and bride visited Chicago.
The festive watermelon is about gone.
Grenada grand jury found . true bills.
Steamboats, are plying the Tombigbee.
Snuif-dipping is practiccd in Winston.
Lightning struck the Union courthouse.
Hon. W. r. Morrison visited Columbus.
Hattiesburg has a matrimonial society.
W. G. Worthington, Columbus, is dead.
The Brandon Call is q lively young 'un.
Young men are scarce in Bay St. Louis.
The Tupclo Journal wants a rabbit foot.
Vicksburg enjoys ish-frys and baseball.
Starkville wageth war on worthless dogs.
Certified checks are the thing nowadays.
Baseball amounts 10 q craze in the delta.
S~tarkville's bank has resumed business.
A Union CO. white cap is penncd for life.
The pcnitcntiarv officials are catching il.
Coast hotels report satisfactory business
Meridian builds a $4,000 Masonic temple
I'm soon be "books" with school childrer
Ten Lawrence white caps were sentenced
A change in the jury system is advocated
Horseback riding is popular in Senatobia
The Jackson Grocery Company has failt
The Paulding Review continually improv
Meridian defeated another whisky petit,
Cotton seed convention at Fayette on l!
A bull gored to death an Independence IN
Col. J. ID. Bills wants the Corinth postoa
Sweet potatoes ripe. Where's the 'possu
1t has rained on North Mississippi droug
The Oxford Globe cnsses dcadbeat read,
Dr.. W. G. Sykes, Of Aberdeen, has been
receiver Of the Starkville First
ional Bank.
The Illinois Central shops at NcComb c
ave for the present suspened about one h
|red hands. ~
Woodville used to have q mayor who wo
.et On a spree and the next day open court
inc himself.
Judge Wood, Of the State Supreme Co,
Miss Marks, Of Dallas, Texas, were
emily married.
The Brandon Call says the plnmed crest
lississippi's next Governor already loo
bove the horizon of the future. Aud he
Dung Democrat too.
The Wal,hall Warden editor is going to
Fair in September, and wants so
ind Of a clamp to keep his mouth shut SO
Won't catch SO many gnats.
A Greenville man set a loaded gun trap
atch achicken thief, aud he forgot IL when
uttered the hen house so there WAS q fun
next day. lie canght the load in his sta
'ch and died soon afteward.
Some Jackson society people raided a R
in county water melon patch. The farr
Tipped up and took possession Of their c
eyances, and refused to deliver until Il
ad paid 81 for every melon eaten and
troyed by them.
Capt. T. D. Harris tells a Brandon Call n
hat he has seen over 100 drunken men in
curt square there at one time. When
ras marshal in 1851, the v. 4 N. road !
bout 1900 Irishmen employed, encamped n
here, and one Saturday there we're so m,
runken men cursing and making mischief
be streets that before night he had the
nd calaboosc full, and had nine chained I,
hina tree near the court house.