The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-10-26
State News Boiled Down.

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Meridian is having an occasional fire
No prisoners in the Jail of TippaI
county.
The Democracy all over the State seer
TO be on top.
State University football team has a
expert trainer.
The leading hotel at Pittsboro WA,
burned last week.
The News srys Jackson must have
sewerage system.
Grenada has fstarted Il new industry
1t is an opossum farm.
The Pops will take to tue woods ate,
Tie November election.
y ion county farmers are selling corr
at forty cents u buslel.
Marrying Is quite common around En-
tclpriso and McComb City.
Tupelo shipped ten car loads of corr t,
| the West in one week.
The people 10 Jackson are kicking a
increased insurance rates.
The Bonneville Baptist people viii
build IA new BAPTIST church.
Wagon loads of sorghum itor shipment
are rolling into New Albany.
O'pOssnms and pelsimmons are ript
enough at Elli,ville to pull.
Stmkville shipped during the month OF
August s,2?9 pounds of butter.
A dozen handsome new buildings have
been erect5d at Greenwood tins fall.
The Prcsbyterians of kOscIusko are
talking of building ii new church soon.
The Argus is Il new venture ut Am ,ry
Monroe county. 1t Is "A ''mtent inside -
Kinds county is financially in good
condition, being about $4,000 ahead.
The State Board of health granted g
Medical licenses out of 80 applications.
The animal shipments Of butter from
Oktibbeha county by express is SEQ ,000.
The late Clarke county grand Jury eX-
amined 10? witnesses aud found ~ true
bills.
The Catholic Priests are being well
treated at their Natchtz retreat this
week.
Many prominent Populltos of Choctaw
county are returning 10 the Democratic
party.
The Gulf Coast Progress says lIuthorn
will go TO Congress ''whcn chickens have
teeth"
Rankin county convicts are working
on the turn pike between Brandon and
Jackson.
The Enterprise Times says there is
more money in ~pinc trees than in five
cent cotton.
The Boonv lie Plaindealer receives a
liberal patronage from the business meu
of that place.
Nj. inave Morrow, OF Monroe county,
will make 400 gallons OF molasses from
ribbon sugar cane.
Meridian is being worked up along
religious lines by the noted evangelist,
Rev. b. Caradine.
There has been just frost enough in
the northern part of the State to make
cotton open rapidly.
Hon. JamesA Barksdale, an ex legis-
tor of Yazoo County, died at his home in
Yazoo City last week.
New Albany is fast coming to the front
as the largest manufacturers of lumber
and slaves in the State.
Mr.. W. l.. May, f,rmerly of the Coast
News goes to Rhyme, La, to engage in
the newspaper business.
The Gazetto says if you would locate
in Il live town THAT is destined to be Il
city como to New Albany.
Qlite Il number of towns in The State
have secured u course Of lectures this
season from the lecture bureau.
Holly springs Is to vote at an early
day on the question Of accepting the
code chapter on municipalities.
W. +. MARSHALL, of Union county,
claims to have made l37 gallons Of sor-
ghum from one-third of an acre.
The Mexican Gulf Hotel, at Pass
Christian, has changed hands, Mr.. S. f..
Heaslip being now the proprietor.
Carl Sticky, of Rankin county, picked
3Oo pornds of cotton in one day, recently.
He averages over 200 pounds per day.
Monticello and B%Iookhaven are now
connected by II telephone liue. The
former place. is % miles in the interior.
Vlcksbui 8 is in receipt Of 1000 candle
power electric street lamps to supply
the place of worn out ones now on hand.
Thc,Ripley Sentinel gives an account
OF one Robert Decauter being shot il the
back. They shoot them in the neck zen.
orally
Mr.. james II. Heard, of Raymond, has
brought suit in the U y. court of Claims,
for nearly S1OO,0OO worth of cotton, su.
gar. &c.
The old Whitfield cotton factory, in
which had fallen into d,suse,
was destroyed by fire on the night of the
Both ult.
One planter in Surflower has already
gathered six bales Of cotton from five
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