The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-12-07
State News Boiled Down

Day OF. Louis u tiouplcu win tlaNnps.
Grenada had u big lire November Goth
Lumberton will soon have II lath fac.
tory.
~Pearl'ngtou's population is rapidly in.
creaslng.
The State will have no census taken 10
1900 nor 1910.
The sheriffs Of the state are hnstling
around for the taxes.
Two buildings were burned at Biloxi,
Nov. 10Th.
Wild ducks are plentiful at Friats
Point.
Burglars are numerous in many local.
tiles in the State.
Tom Daley fell from a { restle in Vicks-
burg ard broke his neck.
Mrs. Ada Robbins cut her throat with
Il razor, near W~ilksburg.
thanksgiving day seems to have been
a good day for weddings.
1haksgivmg day was generally observ.
ed over the State.
The new Methodist church at Donegal
was dedicated on last Sunday.
A large mOOnshine still WIS raidel
near New Albany Ivy revenue officers.
There is to be a Populite paper publish.
ell at Jackson in the near future
Circnit court is in session Mt Hatties-
burg, Judges. H. Terril. presiding.
Dr.. o. B. Quinn has been reelected
Mayor Of McComb City.
Capt. VIM. T. Boardman died Mt BAY
st. Louis, Nov. Goth. aged go yeats.
Forest fires were raging near Holly
Springs last week.
The hustling little town of Amory has
organized a business league.
T.. II. Dial, Esq, was re elected Mayor
of Meridian last Monday by u good ma.
jori'y.
The MANY c%ircuscs now raging in Mis-
slssippi will get what little surplus money
she has.
The Bi- Metalist is the name of n new
paper at Hazelhulst, With Mr.. DO Grit
ing rs editor.
Mr.. Nc. Teasdale and Miss Sallie Bal.
dwin were married ut Columbus, Thanks
giving day.
Many Poles and Dutch are coming
South and colonizing along tho Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley road.
Jos. f. Colton aud wife celebrated
their 2lst vending anniversary at Match.
ez, last week.
The Sardis Reporter is complaining of
a water famine in that section OF tn,
State.
There is employed at the Okolona depot
! by the Mobile l. Ohio railroad, u Mr., Day,
a Mr.. Knight and \ Mr.. Weeks.
Sam Jones has given up Jackson, Mis-.
sissippi, altogether. He never even goes
through that place.
At the recent teachers examination in
Madison county, only four teachers out
of thirty who had applied for first grade
licenses were successful.
Material is being placed on the ground
for the erection of the buildings for the
Interstate Iron Works at Meridian.
Ninety bales of cotton were received in
one day ut Ripley last week, the largest
delivery of any one day this season.
Mississippi has 700, 900 acres of govern
ment lands opened to homestead entry
Immigrants might take note OF this.
}. q. Dozler, post master at Cedar Grove,
has been arrested on IL charge of robbiny
the mail. A missing treasury warrant tor
$40 was traced to him.
The Enterprise Commercial Club is u
new organization at that place its OBJ
being to foster immigration.
There are ut present six circnses travel
ing through Mississippi. A financial panic
IN the near future will not be surn,isiEg
Mississippi penitentiary farm is vet AZ
unsettled as the general cOndidlti0n of
the country.
The American Building and Loan As.
ISOLATION. of Memphis, Tenn. has or.
ganized IA branch Office 10 McComb City.
Mr.. Howell B. Wilson and Miss Minnie
Buchanan, both Of Rankin county, were
married last week.
In "A fight at Canton. .J0sph Whiting
shot and killed Sam Powers. Both col
ored.
Henry Walker, of Ripley, was bitten
bv n pun,l In ar hot ,,,n.l, .,. A.
was applied, which stuck for ten cOn.
s~ecutive hours.
Meridian has n ~cOlorel woman named
Mary Mott who gave birth to tliplcts on
the morning OF November 26.
The woods are on fro all along the
Northeastern road between New Orleans
and Meridian. This will make it exGep.
tianally hard on stock.
Monroe Keys, cOlOre d, camped for the
night neal Ellisville, and after setting
fire TO a tree law down and went to sleep
During the night the tree burned down
falling Oh Keys aud Killing him IN,
stantly.
The number OF Confederate pension.
nrs IN Mississippi has decreased about
twenty per cent since last year, owing 60
greater strictness on the part Of the Off
Gals IN examining the claims Of appli
. cants.
!, One day last week while the agent a
the depot was out of the Office for a few
minutes, leaving the safe open, some on
:, stole $40 and escaped detection. Bran
don News.
90
| A colony of Kansas old soldiers ,ha
. started mt to invade the State of Missis
sippi. they 90, however, not to wage wal
: but to seek homes in u warmer cllmat,
: than they haye been able to iiud il
Kansas.
=, The large AMI valuable oil mill plant.
/. known as the yicksburg Cotton Oil Mill,
. has been purchased by Mr.. +. Streuby,
for the Lever Brothers, Limited, of Lon.
don, England, and will be started up in
the next few days.