The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-12-15
State News Boiled Down.

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Hickory will have Il band.
DE frcs' Is on de pumpkin.
Macon wants fire protection.
A hospital is Jackson's want.
Vicksburg has bad sidewalks.
Corinth complains Of bad boys.
Football cranks are universal.
YazOo City has the bicycle fever.
Lumberton wants a larger depot.
Ex-Gov. Aicorn is in feeble health.
Cattle are dying in Union county.
Liquor or no liquor agitates Canton.
Chicken thieves bother Pass Chris
tian.
Oxford claims to be up in Gia vocal
music.
Secret organizations are the fad in
Ripley.
The Wcsson Mirror opposes the tax
on %circuses.
Thornton was almost burned up a
few days ago.
Holly Springs claims the best band
in the State.
Insurance rates in BrOokhaven have
been doubled.
Copiah county will have a negro
hanging soon.
Some Union county folks are mOy-
ing to Arkansas.
The Corinth Herald has gone back
to ''patent outside"
A $50 pound buck was killed in va
ZOO county recently.
Jas. II. Neville is being spoken Of
for Acknowledgement.
Attala cOunty's sheriff has bought a
pack of trailing hounds.
Good mules and horses can be rails
ed in Mississippi. Fact.
Bolivar county grand jury reports
bad treatment Of conyicts.
Several families from Michigan
have located in Jasper county.
New Albany churches are poorly
heated. Better stoves wanted.
Friars Point has been inflicted with
a tramp ''Out door" evangelist.
Mrs. Lizzie Hunt is the new Demo
postmaster at Grcenville.
The New Albany Gazette has gone
back to the ''patent" sheet plan.
Thirteen men got on a jury at Mis-
City, causing Il mlstrial.
Tax collectors for the past few days
have been doing a cash business.
The Greenwood Enterprise is seven
years old, and a neat, good paper.
A Charleston merchant advertises
ladies' shoes" for sale.
The Belan Times pays a tribute to
the ''Old time negro" who is rapidly
passing away.
Percy Moore, Of the Clarksdale Ad-
vance, has Il job in the Government
printing ofire.
Rev. A. J. Miller, Of Aberdeen, has
accepted the pastOrate Of the YazoO
City Baptist Church.
Alb Williams, a negro in YazoO
killed his wife and shot an
woman last week.
A negro woman, near Vicksburg,
was burned alive the other day. She
had a fit and fell in the fire.
A Miss German, in Tunica county, |
drowned in four feet of water last
week. Thought to be suicide.
Constable f. NJ. jenkins was killed
by 4. N. Patton, whom he wa trying
arrest, at Shubuta last week.
The demand for the lease of con-
victs is great from delta planters and
over 500 have been farmcd out for the |
year.
Mr.. J. A. Mycr, editor of the Ellis
Vile News, and Miss Debbic Ferrcll,
were married last week. WcOffer our
best wishes for the prosperity OF the
happy couple.
Lexington has forty-twO widows
md KOsciusko has fOrty-twO widow
,rs. An excursion is being planned
TO bring the two forty-twO's together,
when many marriages are expected to
The name Of Hon. II. NJ. Street hav-
ny been mentioned for Governor the
Commercial comes out and
announces that Mr.. Street is not and
will not be a candidate.
Meridian. within the past month,
mas voted sewerage, run out "blind
started another morning pa.
paper, listened to Sam Jones and con-
'crted a host Of sinners. Meridian is
,hU' mOvin'.
The Oxford Eagle says no cross
'oads town in the State can boast Of
legal advertisements tackled up
doors and windows than Oxford.
The town has three newspapers, but
are used mostly for free work.
Oxford Falcon: "Some agoing and