The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-07-27
State News Boiled Down,
HattieSburg is improving.

l. ~ fth'ph'S
Canton's bicycle a { ended in di,
satisfaction.
There is not a vacant residence i
Brookhaven.
e Greenwood's tax on dogs is 81. 90 pc
l. head.
; Jones county has 2l92 names on it
! poll tax list.
The New Albany Gazette is now
years of age.
McComb City wants a canning fac
, tory.
, There is not a vacant house in Viii
g liamsburg.
Grenada is likely to have a ladies
: bicycle club.
Natchez has a wife slasher in the
person of Geo. Johnson.
Greenwood has two baseball clubs
composed of little girls.
The Mississippi river is still on its
; good behavior.
V%icksburg will have a hanging on
the 18th of August.
Will the State be arrested for coun.
terfeiting?
Loose teams are a nuisance in Kos
ciuSko.
Williamsburg wants Il new court
house.
A cooperage factory is the latest in
dustry in Jackson.
The State is paying out more money
than it is taking in.
Jasper county has $3.50 white, II In.
dian and 3l75 colored school children.
The Smith County Reformer has
celebrated its third anniversary.
Williamsburg is saving its way to
the front. 1t has two new saw mills.
McComb City has one of the finest
W. c. I. U. organizations in the
State.
Alfalfa county has 2413 registered
voters. An increase Of 600 over last
year.
The Terry Headlight is the only
paper in Kinds county that comes out
sQuarcly against the saloons.
Joe Ellcrbee stabbed his brother
with "A dirk at Meridian on the 18th
Of July.
Jackson merchants have agreed to
accept the new State warrants at face
value.
A Quitman county farmer has 2J
acres in corn that will average 5 ears
to the stalk.
The McComb City Enterprise does
all kinds of wood engraving and stereo-
tipping.
The Prnntiss and Tishomingo Med
lcal Association will meet at Boone
Vile on August I.
The strikers at Meridian respected
the law, and they should be respected
accordingly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Larkin, of
Brookhaven, celebrated their golden
wedding on July 10.
+. +. Becker, of Brookhaycn, will
soon establish Il fine stock farm near
that place.
Mr.. w. II. Bowlin, aged 81, and Mrs.
NJ. Middleton, aged 50 years, were
married July II, at Similo.
Robert Hight, colorcd, of Yazoo
City, is the proud possessor of a coin
that is l20 years old.
The safe of WAITS Business Col.
lege, at Meridian, was blown open on
the 18th and robbed of $50, 600.
Yazoo City has been in darkness for
several nights, owing to an accident
at the power house.
V%icksburg is said to be the best
hard wood market in the United
States.
The Commercial, published at New.
ton, will give to anyone who will take
The pauper oath, a paper free.
There were between 1900 and 1000
people at the Newton County Sunday
School Convention.
Rankin county negroes went to the
house of a hoodoo doctor to whip him.
he resisted, and they killed him.
The Young Mems Business League
OF Oxford is trying to get pure water
for that town.
Meridian was the only place in the
State that took an active part in the
late big strike.
The Board Of Supervisors of Pike
county have undertaken to revolutions.
ize the road law system OF that county.
The Baptist State Convention, the
largest religious organization in the |
has just closed a harmonious
and successful session at WInona.
Conductor McElroy, of the A. & ". |,
road, while on top of IA freight car at
a water tank ear Newton, was fired .
upon from ambush and scriously !
wounded. L
DIR. J. L. johnson, of Columbus. at.
the International Convention \
the Baptist Young People which
vas held at Toronto, Ont.
The Circuit Court of Kinds county
has decided that the street railway
las no cause for dA mnvac arain,@ tLo q