The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-03-23
State News Boiled Down.

Meridian is to have Il new hotel.
West Point has a chicken-eating
calf.
The Meridian Daily Commercial has
been revived.
Lumberton reports a double horse
back wedding. "
Port Gibson wants n of the Pea
body summer normals.
The cotton crop will be light this
year, so reports indicate.
Colored Baptists are raising funds
for a university at Winona.
Yazoo county will erect a tire-proof
record room costing 81 600.
Kyle downed Uowry in the fight ov-
er the Oxford ~postotice.
An attempt to rob the county safe
was made last week at Poplarville.
Most of the business portion of Sid
on was destroyed by fire last week.
Frequent robberies have caused Du-
rant to have a night Waterman.
The Corinth Sub-Soiler and Demo-
crat has passed its 2lst milestone.
Port Gibson struck plenty of artes-
ian water at a depth of l75 feet.
Fruit and truck around Edwards
have been injured by hail and wind.
New Orleans people have begun
looking for coast homes for summer.
The State Sunday School Conven-
ton meets in Columbus next month.
Summit merchants are making a
vigorous kick against high insurance
W. Il. Scott, editor of the Eupora
Progress, has been elected mayor of
bis town.
At present the State has leased out
10 conyicts. The total number on
hand is 500.
An exchange says that Pri yate John
Allen is the most intelligent monkey
n the world.
Congressman Money has knocked
nut all the Republican otfice-holders
n his district.
Too much whiskey caused Fl. r..
an Alabama lawyer, to sui.
ide at Meridian.
Capt. Wiley Lister. conductor on
he Columbus branch NJ. e. O. road,
led Il few days ago.
Editor e. p. Johnson, of the Kosci.
Sko Star, and Miss Aida Allen, were
larried last week.
There are 1904 pensioners of the
tate roll, and they have been paid
his year $40 IS each.
Mormon elders in some parts of
county receive so much en-
Engagement that a church is contem- +
lated.
The Populite chancery clerk of Pom
'toc county is charged with issuing
a!rants to himself when in need of .
lnds.
The editor of the Alderman Plain
'aier, Bro. Seawright, has been an.
'lhted treasurer Of Choctaw county.
west Point is to have an agency to
" all the sorghum molasses in that
ctlon and ship it to Chicago to be
Inverted into a finer article of syrup.
The cattle industry is tlourishing
efy"here in Mississippi, and is GER :
IN, ere long, to represent our most
'portant farming interest, says the !
Derdeen Examiner.
Miss Ruth Roudebush, long connect
with the |. |. & c., at Columbus.
view of her long and faithful work. C
S the permit of the trustees for an
tended trip through Germany and ,
her countries of Europe during the
esent year.
The Bay st. Louis Progress says,
I may be that Gov. Stone will be a
noldate for Congress from the First
'trlct, and if SO, then Private John
len VIII have to hump himself to be
'eiected.' Gov. Stone will not be a
ldidate, and any other man who
ms against Allen will do the ''hump-
!" act.
The Greenville Democrat gets off
IS good one: THE Hill and Horp
animation won't work. The fact
Hill is %contending in the Senate
a high tariff on collars and cuffs to
ld Troy, N. Y, in the Democratic
umn, is sufficient to estrange for
the shirt-tail Democracy of Tex
,, .
[he Senatobia Democrat says: "It
sad commentary on the condition
the country to have such an array n
candidates for Office. Men turn to +
tiles actuated by different motives. =
the least infrequcnt of which is
ans of livelihood. If this were the
consideration a stranger might
er from her long rolls of aspirants
u Mississippi, industrially, had
|e to the demnition bow-wows.