The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-11-23
State News Boiled Down.

Thanksgiving day approaches.
Ripple. has second crop of raspberries.
The constitutional amendment won.
Laurel will probably have n eolto
mill.
Largest sweet potatoes are in ordc
now
Ripley Presbyterians have u nev
church.
Abe rdeen is to have a telephone ex
change.
The Enterprise knitting mills are
success.
Pennington has a Y. NJ C. A., recently
organized.
The spoke factory at iupelo has re-
sumed work. 81
The ice factory Of Tupolo has closed
for the winter,
Holly Springs has voted to adopt the
code charter.
Announcements for county officers are
now IN order.
lippah county has coal aud iron in
large quantities.
Judge X. Dalton, postmaster at Shan
non, died last week
Vicksbnrg offers u bonus of $1,000 for Il
box and match factory.
Wiley N. Nash, of Starkville, is Il can
didale Tor Attorney General.
The Vicksburg Post wants Cleveland
rehominated again in 1876.
New Albany has Il business league,
with IL. E. Blakrsley, president.
In an election Saturday Biloxi, rejected
the code charter by Il vote of IS to IS.
Mr.. Booth Lowrey, of Blue Mountain
is making il rational reputation as Il hu-
m0rist.
Mr.. +. b. Duyall, sheriff of Jones
county, is ii candidate tor railroad com.
missioner.
Gov. Stone counted the cash on Treas.
uier Evans last week, and, as usual found
it all there.
Will Langford, Il Prentiss farmer raised
l.lOl bushels Of corn on sixteen acres ol
land this year.
Fairs and circuses seem to be the
only things of interest iu Mississippi
since the election.
The Clarion-Ledger says it is about
time for the Democratic party to stop it's
wrangling aud get together.
A snag boat is cleaning out obstruc-
tons III Pearl river, to use up i: congress.
lonal appropriation of 5000.
A bear was killed in Pearl river swamp
in Rankin county last Saturday by Ed.
Wansley that weighed 14O pounds.
This is the only town IN the State that
does not advertise 20 pounds of sugar
for 81, says the Holly Springs South.
Complete returns from all the counties
in Mississippi show that the vote this
year was the smallest cast since 1875.
The ~Plaindealer says that among the
exports by express from Bonneville last
month were 81 boxes of cut flowers.
Mr.. Albert G.. Mitchell, of Memphis,
formerly of Corlnth, Miss, was killed
By falling from IL train on Friday last.
Rev. W. L. Lancaster, of Finger, Miss.
has made arrangements with the Ashland
Register to publish u monthly Baptist
paper.
The capacity of the Yocona cotton
mills, in Water Valley. will be increased
soou, and will then consume lS00 bales Of
cotton per annum.
The Copiah SigDel says that E. NJ.
Ashley, OF Hazlehurst, has received an
order to construct II rocking chair for
President Cleveland.
The Raymond Gazette says that Mr..
Cooper. e3 years old. recently walked to
that town from Midway, and back the
same day, Il tramp of sixteen miles.
The New Albany Gazette says, Il man
with the capital and enterprise to build
a canning factory in New Albany would
De the lion OF the hour.
A negro single handed and with an TX,
tried to rob the Senatobia bank one
night last week. He was discovered
and fired upon by Il young man employed
in the oank.
Gov. Stone has refused to grant the
requisition of the Governor of Missouri
for Capt. e. l.. Sykes, of Aberdeen, who
was recently indicted ut st. Louis for
embezzlement.
The little four-year old daughter OF
w. L. Jones, OF Eucutta, while playing,
ON November 8, dug u hole in ii pile of
seed-cottOn and fell into it and when
found she was s%mothercd to death.
From FIVE row eighty yards long, +.
L. Bush, OF Noxubae county, made l25
bushels OF peanuts. At even fifty cents
per bnshel this would beat six acres OF
average land in four cent cotton.
The supreme court has set December
10, 1894, as the day for the execution oil
Steve Adams, Washington county,, Ivy
Bobs, (Coahoma county,. and Judge Gil
bert. BOLIVAR county,, for the crimes OF
murder.
The fifth annual reunion of the Mis-,
sissippi Division United Confederate Vet
Grams will be held in Jackson, December
ETH and 18th. Each of the forty-eight
camps now in the division is entitled tC
Que delegate for every 20 members.
j. W. Harmon. Mayor of Lula, ant
Henry Lawrence we're shot dead last
week by John and Bob Boyd. Boil
were shot through the head and died in
stantly- Tho Boyds escaped. Their
had been bad blood between Harm on upt
John Boyd.
The Yazoo City Herald says: Spar.
ribs, sweet potatoes, sausage. fresh hams
molasses, wild turkeys, squirrels, coons
'possums, are only a few Of the ~luxurie
that CAN roy he found in abundance d
almost any farm house in Yazo0 county
The Manufacturers Record has til
following to say "The election |
over. Whether the result suits you o
not, stop crOaking, go to work : pus'