The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-01-19
State News Boiled Down.

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Robberies are numerous all over TIL
State.
C0rinth has been visited by a safe
blower.
There are about 400 lawyers in Mis-
sissippi.
Radishes are being shipped from
Long Beach.
A hoop factory has been started il
Scott county.
McComb City has s. 600 raised for d
female college.
A %turpcntine still is to be started
near Meridian.
The bed spring men are Ginning
WaynesbOrO people.
A negro boy in CarrolltOn fooled
with a pistol and died. as usual.
Missouri horse-sellers have been do
ing a good business at Shubuta.
Nearly all the public land around
Williamsburg has been taken up.
The Baldwin Cattle Company is a
new enterprise in that town.
Hattiesburg young ladies talk OF es-
tablIshing IA lawn tennis court.
A big fire at Canton last week de.
strOying several large business houses.
Cattle that Craze on pea fields in
YazoO county are dying In large num-
bers. ~
Geo. Winchester, OF Natchez, blew
out his brains in New Orleans, some
days ago.
A number Of Meridian merchants
have agreed to close doors mt 8 p. M,
until October.
DR.. r. A. Venable succeeds DR.. Lo-
max as pastor Of the Baptist Church
ut BrOOkllaven.
Foster. the slayer OF Gen. Morgan,
has been granted bail. lie Is said to
have consumption.
The charcoal shippers about Long
Beach realize about II 600 annually
from that industry.
An attempt was made to rob IA train
on the Valley road inside the city OF
Vicksburg last week.
The New Albany stave factory work
slaves for export across the water to
European countries.
An effort is being made to have an
opera train run out from New Or.
leans to the coast towns.
Editor Sparkman. of the Macon
Sun and Miss Nettie Hammond, of
kosciusko, were recently married.
A stock train loaded with Texas
was wrecked ut Soudan last
week, killing about forty-tve head.
jeff Greenwood killed Jesse Parker
ut Canton, and Dave Smith killed
VIM. Bryant, at Raymond, last week, |
All colored.
A Rankin county farmer raised a
that weighed five and a half
and was twenty-five inches in
circumference.
Meridian has d gifted composer OF
music. Miss Ida Walker Ball. The
atcst production OF hers is "Un the
iulf OF Mexico"
The champion small man Of the
'tate lives in Claiborne county. Jas.
Is 81 years old, 43 inches high
md weighs 43i pounds.
The News says there have been sew.
raj sales Of valuable farms around
since the first OF January.
dortgage sales by loan companies.
Mules and horses are cheap enough
n the OkolOna section. Several re.
cnt sales brought prices ranging all
he way from six to tifty dollars.
A tramp in Vicksburg who was
rying to rob a car was punished by
laid across a barrel and feel the
road side of a barrel stave.
A Rankin man wants to sell the
a mad stone. None Of
he members at present have the n.y.
r0ph0bia, but there is no telling
that may develop.
T. Fl. Walker sued the city Of Mel
Idian for Is 900 damages sustained
y him In a fall caused by a loose
In a side walk. The jury gave
i'm $50.
Laudcrdale county has the largest
lumber Of lawyers, twenty-threc
Iinds, twenty-One. Franklin, Pearl
liver and Quitman are the only coun-
les not blessed with q resident at ]
)rney.
The Plaindealer says Bonneville ]
hips more. cotton, more slaves, more
reduce, more lumber, poultry and
ygs than any town Of her size on the
and Ohio railroad or any other
BAD In the State.
All signs of the October storm will .
'on be vanished, says the Bay St.
ouis Echo. The work Of rebuilding
reakwaters and putting the streets
! good shape Is progressing nicely.
everal wharvcs have been completed
nd Others started. /.
The Brandon News says that sec.
will huv considerable cnrr h,,< :