The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-03-02
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NtdtS INSM DUllSu UUMu Ill.
New hotel at Brandon.
The log men are logging.
Tax assessors are abroad.
Brandon needs sidewalks.
Brandon has blind tigers.
Stems Creek has mad dogs.
Oat sowing retarded by rain.
Its credit time with farmers.
The town COW bOthers Summit.
summit has a real estate Office.
Centeryille has a Swede colony.
Rankin grand jury found 10 bills.
kosciusko ships % 900 bales cotton.
Lots Of bad weather the past week.
Street lamps are needed in Summit.
Ripley brags about having few dogs.
Very few business failures reported.
luka has organized a X. of p. lodge.
J~aynesville, In Simpson county, is
said to be further from a railroad
than any other town In the State.
Greenville city dads have ordered
the street railway track repaired or
they will tear it up.
The Vardamans seem to have IL
propensity for public office equaled to
the McLaurins.
The delinquent tax list in most OF
the counties is unusually short.
Yazoo City reports gardening com
menced.
Holly Springs had a two days snow
last week.
Northern visitors are still coming
to the coast.
McComb City and Summit are con-
nected by telephone.
MissOuri-raised horses sell in Sena-
tObia for $50 each.
An exchange remarks that the only
thing advocated by the delta papers
Is rot gut whisky aud levee appropri-
ations.
Chancellor Graham suggests that
there should be a separate docket or
record for white and cOlOred divorce
cases.
Madison county truck farmers re-
solve not TO ship to any house that
employs a solicitor there.
FOrty-eight timber depredators
were indicted last week by the F'eder-
al grand jury at Mississippi City.
Bay st. Louis talks of brick houses,
since the big fire. A steam fire COM
pany is also proposed.
Enterprise young folks are raising
funds with which to beautify the
town cemetery.
Joseph +. Hahn, who robbed his
sister-ln-law at Natchez, of $50 600 in
bonds and diamonds, has been return
ed from Guatemala, and all parties
concerned are trying to arrange mat
tiers. About $o5 900 Of the treasure
were recovered.
Sheriff Sullivan, Of LeflOrc county,
was recently removed from Office on
account Of an alleged shortage of
$S O0. 1t now turns out that the
county owed him 5000, sc the indict-
ment against him was withdrawn
and he Is again sheriff.
The OkOlOna Sun gives all Of its
space to the OkolCna Cooking Club,
to edit the paper as they please.
Senatobia young ladies are about to
launch cooking club on that commu-
nifty.
Frank Burkitt says the Populist
party will enter the Congressional
campaign this year and fight for cv-
crythlng In sight. He thinks the f.
nancial question will be the leading
issue.
North Mississippi don't take kindly
to Senator McLaurln. The view of
the Woodville Courier, in sizing him
up as a "cross between a Populitc and
Tammany Hail." seems to accord
well with many papers.
An amendat0ry law passed the last
Legislature, excmpting all farm pro-
ducts raised in the State from taxa
tion. The old law read, sail farm
products in the hands of the produce
or shall be exempt from taxation"
Under the new act all cotton and
farm products are exempt from taxa
tiOn, without qualification.
Nature performs some queer antics.
The Summit Sentinel tells of an in
stance: An old China tree near the
depot was broken off years ago, leay-
ing a square top at the trunk. An
acorn from a water-oak tree was left
thereon, perhaps by a gay and festive
jaybird who forgot the dainty morsel.
The acorn sprOnted and grew into a
tree and now the novel sight of a
water-Oak growing in Il China tree
can be seen.