The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1893-11-17
State News Boiled Down,
Utica will have a bank.

Ellisyille has organized 4 mlllti
company.
Anew paper will be started at Mar
tin soon.
Water Valley gets cotton for fort.
miles around.
Cotton seed is selling in many plac
es at SIS per ton.
Rankin Supervisors will purchase
pack of blood hounds.
Near Lochlamound recently a iO
pound bear was killed.
McComb City notes the march o
improvement in that town.
A mar at Tunica cut and housed
2o00 tons of peayine hay.
The merchants of Grenada furnish
farmers a free cotton shed.
The Tocsin says that SunfloweI
county needs more good wives.
Winona buyers have paid out as
high as 81 600 a day for cotton seed.
The Edison Electric Light Co., OF
Meridian, has made an assignment.
Pearl river is said to be lower than
ever known to be at this time of the
year.
Suit has been brought against the
Postal Telegraph Company for State
taxes.
Long swectening, pindcrs and pota-
toes are on the bill of fare until hog
killing time.
Two hundred steers, 60 cows and &C
sheep were shipped from Forest one
day last week.
Keller Jones, q Meridian youth of
sixteen, was kicked to death by a
horse recently.
Seventy-four new postofices have
been established in Mississippi during
the past year.
Some Of the papers + recovering
from the shrinkage caused by the duh
summer months.
Miss Annie Spalding, of Brooksville,
was voted the prcttiest young lady at
the Macon Fair.
Gen. VIM, Henry, of Jackson, is
urged by the Raymond Gazette for
clerk of the next State Senate.
Rev. j. II. Alexander, who served
the kosciCsko Presbyterian Church
for thirty-seyen years, has resigned.
w. j. Brown, deputy circuit clerk
at Jackson, has been appointed to a
clerkship on an Indian agency in Kan
SaS.
Geo. LOwenthal, a Jew, and Miss
Mamie Perkins were married at Brook
haven, last week, despite parental OBJ
lection.
A widow of Y%allobusha county re-
Gently sold a wagon load of ham and
bacon of last years crop at Water
Valley.
The Superintendent Of Education
of Harrison county has had his salary
raised from 5 to s per cent of the
school fund.
Greene White, the negro who set
fire to Sheriff Seals residence at'Nlis-
sisslppi City, has been captured at
lIattiesburg.
The court house and records of Lin
coin county were burned last week by
an incendlary, for the second time in
ten years.
a fine horse hitched near a nest of
yellow jackets, in Rankin county, last
week, was stung to death 10y the vic
ious insects.
A ii year-old 10y in Alfalfa county
40 pounds of cotton in one
day in land that will make half Il bale
to the acre..
Gen. j. A. Smith, of Jackson. has
left for Greenwood, South Dakota,
where he has been appointed an In
dian inspector.
The Brandon Call has been changed
to the Brandon Republican. The late
A. J. Frantz made the Republican IA
nous in his time.
A Texas cattle company has ar
ranged to winter $500 head of Texas
at Grenada. The cattle are
destined for the Chicago market.
The president of the Quitman coun-
ty Board of Supervisors has been dis
missed from office for Specializing i'm
county warrants. contrary to law.
The appointment OF Mr.. Dahlgren
to the CollectOrship will nccessitate
an election in Harrison county this
fall to fill his seat in the State Legis-
lature.
The Kinds county Democrats Mt a
barbecue last week, endorsed the two
Senators and Congressman Hooker
for the stand taken against the un-
conditional repeal Of the Sherman
law.
The Star says KosciuskO widowers
are hustlers. They don't say much,
but If Cupid's arrows strikes them
and they enter the matrimonial race,
they can distance the young bac;c-
Tors with all ease.
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