The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-11-02

NcnlDcf otn, anu VIII continue tOUr uiiyS.
West Point was lit up on Mond "
night for the first llme by electric lights.
Gov. Stone was present at the opening
of the local fair at WoOdvillc October
30th.
The New Albany Gazette calls the Cap.
itol bulldius at jackson a heap Of rub
bish."
The Capital Fertilizer Factory at Jack.
son was totally destroyed by lire last
week.
Capt l.. +. B,rdsong, one OF tho most
prominent c%itizcns Of C"plah county, died
Tuesday.
The North Mississippi Conference OF
the NJ. y. Church, South, will meet in
Surlis on Dec. 9th.
Henry l.. Cotton committed snicide in
Vlcksbury on Thursday morning last by
taking morphine.
The Oxford Globe says "Ihe southern
planter has solved the money question
lie has quit borrowing"
Clarksdale rs building a tram road to
the Mississippi in order to get cheap wa.
ter transportation.
The Acknowledgement decides that all
persons not assessed for poll tax, but who
have registered, can vote.
Fire destroyed IA large gln-hOnse and
three bales OF cotton uear Columbus Sat-
urday. No insurance.
Therea Dcdan, Il negro woman, was
struck by u freight train at Pass Chris.
tan Saturday and fatally hurt.
A virulent disease has K lied ueaIly
all tho cattle in Frias POint and no one
GEMS to know what it is.
Paterson, Downing Il Co., of Mobile,
are emitting Il log ditch from Green's
creek to the Chickasahay river.
Judge A. G. Mayors, of the 9Th district
will hold the fall circuit courts Of Han.
cock, Harrison and Jackson.
Several bullet holes can DO seen on the
old Presbyterian church., made during
the battle of Ripley, June 1864.
Tho editor of the Ripley Sentinel has
received the largest sweet potato of the
season, and it weighs 8 pounds.
Coons 'and 'possums plentiful, and of
course the colored brother is no longer
suffering fora little meat"
The Lnmberton Head Block saws when
the Pops get iutO power, they will issue
money until there is $50 per capita.
Viii the difference in the size of the
cotton crop this year make Up for the
difference in price received last ynari
Many farmers AFRO md Corinth declare
that they will not plant another cotton
seed unless the price advances.
The G~reenville levee board refuses to
employ the expert recommended by the
committee Of taxpayers convention.
All the Delta convict farms have been
favorably reported upon by members Of
the board OF control ut the penltentiary
The tax levy IN Bolivar county is IN
mills for county purposes, while county
warrants are selling for Is cents gu tue
dollar.
Jackson hasa rice cleaning mill, which
is Il great convenience to the rice grower.
of COpiah, Rankin aud other n%eighboring
counties.
j.. |. Hart, a negro, has been convicted
at Lumbcrton, for enliciug laborers to
quit work and 20 to Louisiana end work
on sugar plantatians.
Tobacco is grown in Bolivar county. II
was planted May 18th aud cut August
18th Three stalks weighed 81 pound,
and the leaf measured "a inches.
District Attorney J. II. Neville Is mix.
ing quite u reputation as speaker. lie
stands ready to meet all colners bearing
the populite ban"er.
The trustees of the State Univers ity
are having the portraits Of every one o.
the chance!lOrs Of the University puinte,
and hung in the choncetlor's office.
Jake Kilrain visited Richburg, re
Gently, the scene of his fight with Sulli
yau, and the mill where he worked ouI
his Mississippi sentence as IA convict.
!. II. Cleyelahd. of Newton county wa
arrested IN MERIDIAN last week charge,
with unlawlully and frundulentlv comm.
into possession of the State school ex
animation questions.
Two thirds of the electors of the tow
of Purvis have petitiOned the gOveruO
to be Incorporated under chapter 90 0
the code IN relation TO municipalities.
A company of Sweles arrived at Cen
tcrville last week and joined the colon,
already formed there. They are buyin,
small tracts Of land and arc buildin;
homes.
Magnolia has Il nan who announce
, that he il ready TO dig graves at cl,ea
rates. The Populists had better stan
him to work now to prepare HathJru
! resting place.
The Greenwood Enterprise says 18th
man who would prostitute a public ofic
To private advantage is u traitor TO III,
people who elected him." 1t would tax
too much time to count the traitors.
The Aberdeen Examiner says Jndg
. Niles Ut tho United States Court Is read
to render every assistance IN his power :
: break up the combine among the cotto
oil mills If ho can got the data to wor
: on.
The Natchez Democrat remarks thu
,, "the Pops ares popping aud will all y,
plode 10 November, but as tho ex plosio
will consist Of nothing but wind 1t wi
do no harm to anybody or anything NV
themselves aud their little ~nondeserip
party"
The Indiunola Index predicts, while di,
claiming to 10 u prophet, that five ecu
cotton with be worth millions Of dollar
to Mississippi Ia the future, because
a will compel the farmers to diversity thei
! crops, raise hogs, corn, potatoes, hoy
" more independent.