The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-11-09
State News Boiled Down.

Laurel people are talking mp n cotton
mill.
Hogs are being shipped from Monroe
county.
The Sentinel says Pontotoc is on a
boom.
Mississippi Annual Conferences at NJ
ridian, Dee. l2th.
Mrs. j. ]. Yarbrough died II ear Voss-
burg Nov. >.
The drought has ben broken ut Voss-
burg. by II good rain.
The city tax levy ia Jacism is lll
mills on the dollar.
New Albany is having subst antial plank
sidewalks laid down.
Monroe King, Satartia, has assigned.
Liabilities about $50, 900.
Mormon elders are doing missionary
work in Jefferson county.
A p~ostofice has beeu established at
Teckville, Lafayette county.
The cotton receipts at Jackson up to
the 18th ult., were 1915 bales.
Col. John K. Camer,n. OF M,llson,
Will stand for governor next year.
Reports say cotton rcceiprs throughout
the State continue to be large.
The railroad between Bolton an | Ray
laond will soon be in operation.
AYazoo county planter harvested D.
300 bushels of corn ihls season.
Visitors at the Meridian fair were
greatly annoyed by pickpockets.
Frost were repottel in several pal is of
the State Saturday and Sunday.
Ben Edwards seriously cut Rcedur
Stroup IN Il drunken row ut Meridian.
The Coahamian Says the greatest med
OF Mississippi is more hogs aud cora.
Road agents held up a train at New
Albany Nov |. They got very little cash.
Two hundred and twenty five scholars
are enrolled ut the Brookhlven sralol
school.
Thu Californian truly says that the
men who run into debt come out slow
enough
Six tenement honses belonging tn the
cotton factory at Columbus, burned
down recently.
A citizen of Holly Springs raised II
sweet potato in his ytHlen which weighed
nine pounds.
Five steam power corn shelters in lee
county, shefliny thousands Ut bushels of
corn for export.
Three circus companies are taking in
the State at present, Notwithstanding
the $3.50 license.
Mr.. W. I. shumnn, IL young man from
Terre Han'r. lud., dica at Stafford
Springs Nov. ,.
There is some talk of Gov. John NJ.
stone making The race next summer for
thesU. ). Senate. I.
The West Point Lralnr comlla MS that
lots OF christians in that town are too
lazy TO ATTEND church.
The anniversary of the HERMAN So
ciety of the University of Mississippi.
was held at Oxford, November I.
The Ripley Sentinel says: There are
plenty Of terms on Muddy creek TINT will
average from 40 to 80 bushels OF corn per
acre.
Two negro churches. have been de-
stroyed in Adams county by inccndialies
recently. and the destruction of others
are feared. "a
Oxford is about to Experience Il water
famine. If it .lon'trniu, b water will
have to be hauled tom streams to snp-
PLY the town
Ellfe Patterson. Il deaf and dumb man
who lived not far from Cotton Plant,
was run over by the cars and killed at
Bonneville last week.a z.
Acotton picking machine was success
fully tested near Jackson. Miss. the
other day. lttakrs four mules and fonr
bands to run the machine. Int it will
gather from ten to twelve bales ner day.
Judge A. X. AIKEN. a prominent citizen
of Bay ST. Louis, aud an old resident of
this State, died Suddenly NV. 2 H.
was Master Mason. and was well and
favorably known all over this county.
Three cars loaded with coal, Il box car
and Il car of iron water mains plunged
over the stern of the transfer boat al
Vickshurg. aud landed ON the l"ttom of
the Mississippi river eighty feet below
the surface, Oct. 81.
A letter addressed to "Capt. Thomas
y. Hall. Commanding Co.. A.. Boylts'
Regiment, Okolnna. Miss..' was rr%crivpl
at The Okolona postotice last week. The
letter as shown by stamp. WAS mailed
June ~. 1853. at Mobile. Ala., and had a !
l0-tent Confederate stamp upon it.