The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-11-10
State News Boiled Down.
Clay county remains dry.


All the canneries in the State ar
doing well.
Negro papers are published in Jach
son and Nicksburg.
a negrorcccntly committed suicid
in Alfalfa county.
Kosciusko will have a poultry ex
hibit in December.
New Albany ships six times as muci
Stave timber as cotton.
The village of Jamestown was de
strOyed b. fire last week.
Franklin county has a four year ole
baby that weighs s. pounds.
On the Bolivar county crimina
docket there 300 cases to be tried.
Fishing is a great past time along
the coast just now. White trout is
plentiful.
The court house at Lexington, to-
gcther with the records, was burned
last week.
A negro prisoner in the ShubutG
Jail burned a hole through the tlool
and escaped.
Wayncsboro compels property own
crs to maintain side walks in front Of
their places.
Jerry NOrflect, in Lafayette county,
was recently beaten and shot to death
10y John Dcttor.
So far Hon. L. Pink Smith has Nc
opposition in his candidacy for clerk
of the Legislature.
J. c. Bryson, of Vick,burg, has been
appointed assistant United States
District Attorney.
Rev, John Taylor, pastor Baptist
Church at kossuth. will move to
Honey Grove, Texas.
All the counties on the Georgia Pa
cltic railroad in Mississippi are now
dry, except Washington.
The Oxford canncry is turning out
thousands Of cans Of sweet potatoes
for the Eastern market.
The jackson News thinks that the
young men in Mississippi should be
pressed to the front in politics.
Frank Green, Of Columbus, while
gathering hickory nuts fell forty feet
out Of a tree, breaking his neck an d
back.
A man in Hancock comfy sued the
n. o. & n. Il. railroad for 80 600 for
breaking his leg. The jury awarded
him $1,000.
1t is estimated that in the Bun
combc country in Union county. 800
worth Of c%hcstnutS have been sold
this season.
The McthodiSts Of RoScdalc will
soon erect a 81 600 church ediilcc to
replace the m destroyed by the cy-
olonc last spring.
DR.. G. e. Otis, who murdered an in
offensive negro in llazlehurst Il few
months ago, while crazy drunk, was
acquitted on the4Jlca of insanity,
The Fulton Herald reports four
eases disposed of last week in the It,
lwamba Chanccry Court Three of
them yer suits for divorce.
At Howard Station one negro was
killed and four others severely wound
ed by the caying of an embankment
in which they were working.
Rev. W. A. McComb,| recently called
to the paStoratc of TIT YazOo City
church, has rendered his res
.gnation and will accept 4 call to the
.hurch in Eureka, Ark.
A negro in AlcOrn county had Il pen
If cotton with which he intended to
Jay for his horse. He tied the horse
the cotton pen and went away for
short time and when he returned
lorsc, cotton and all were burned.
Byrd Stcgall became engaged in a
dispute with his father, at Canton.
yer some business matters which led
o blows. Finally the son seized a
wrench and dealt his father a death
blow above the temple.
The biggest land case ever develop
d in Mississippi is pending in the
}lanccry Court at Jackson, involv-
ny millions of acres of land in Sun
lower and other delta counties.
The Monticello Press is not bother
d about the question, What shall we
with our tramps, but is concerned
lSt now about what we shall 90 to
.eep from becoming a tramp"
Two physicians, operating drug
torres in the dry counties Of the
Northern District of Mississippi,
convicted in the Federal Court
t Aberdeen, for retailing liquor. As
n nearly all first cases" Judge Niles
imposed the minimum fine of 800
nd costs, and county Jail imprison-
lent.
The last grand jury in Hancock
ounty found that the municipal au-
horiticS of Bay st. Louis have not
omplicd with the statute in having
he annual statement Of the auditor
nd treasurer published according to
Nv, and assigned as a reason for not
aying it done that the expenditures
ere largely i'm excess of last year. and