The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-03-30
State NeWSB Boiled Down,

Natchez has dipthera.
Bonneville wants a baker bad.
Mississippi City wants to be incor'
porated.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in sever
al towns.
A local option election is probable
in Kinds county.
Port Gibson quarantines Natclez on
account OF diptheria.
Circuit court at Quitman sent five
c0nylcts to the ~penitentIary.
Fruit trees have been seriously in
jured by the Easter cold snap.
Hon. T. A. Wood, attorney at En-
terprise, has moved to Mobile.
The two Natchez papers advocate
different candidates for Congress.
Hon. j. ]. Williams, editor OF the
Grenada Sentinel, is so years old.
Frank Burkitt is likely to be a can
didate against Congressman Money.
The demand for Il chang. in the jury
system is still cried by several papers.
Will Seiferman, a boiler maker at
Corinth, was killed recently by Il fall
ing boiler.
Okolona citizens are determined to
have reform in the financial affairs OF
their town.
Thieves at Jackson entered a hard
ware store and stole. $50 worth OF
pocket knives.
Waynesboro petitions Congress to
appropriate mere money for the Chick.
asahay river.
A new paper will soOn be started at
State Line, in Greene county, by Mr..
Ollie Williams.
Capt. f. p. Thompson, a former ed
ltor Of Aberdeen. has been appointed
postmaster at that place.
j. w. Owen, the town marshal at
Canton, shot and killed j. W.. Rich
ards, last week. Self-defense.
Nobody need be surprised, says the
Clarion-Ledger, IL every county in the
Seventh District furnishes Il candidate
for Congress.
The Bay st. Louis postmastership
may yet put a candidate from Han.
cock county IN the Congressional race,
says the Progress.
The populites have called a mass
meeting at Houston to consider the
Congressional rae against Mr.. Money
in the Second District.
Miss Maud Jeffrics, a Coahoma
county girl, is the leading lady in the
Wilson Barrett's Dramatic Company.
now travelling through the South.
L. T. Brawner, late editor of the
Columbus Index has moved to Texas
and is associate editor Of the Green
vile Morning Herald.
President Fitzhugl, has rendered
his resignation as president Of the
Whitworth College, at Brookhaven.
and will open a new college at Jack
son, this year.
Almost every available man in the
First Congressional District has been
mentioned" for the race against Mr..
Allen. The politicians are electing
Congressman now.
j: B. Luck, a Vicksburg tailor, and
Miss May Beard, Of Kentucky, were
married In Jackson last week. The
match came about through the agen-
cy of an eastern matrimonial paper.
The two negroes in the penitentiary
Singleton and Smith-to have been
hung on Good Friday, appealed to the
Supreme Court and thus have a few
more months to live.
Fl. c. Moore, who left Corinth a few
years ago, a poor boy, has returned
from Africa where he has accumulat.
ed a fortune of over two million dol
lars. He is to settle down for life at
his bOyhood home.
Tho Senatobia Democrat reports a
baby parade" numbering thirty-two,
in baby buggies, that had accidental.
" formed a line on one of the streets,
propelled by as many nurses.
A negro who had been in the employ
of the Mobile and Ohie road and who
knew something about running an
engine stole an engine out of the yards
at Columbus and went to see his girl
at Artesia. He is now in jail.
A Prentiss county mail carrier car.
ries the mail between Bonneville and
Burton, making the round trip OF for
ty miles three times Il week, on foot.
He gets only seven dollars Il month.
JAS. Hill. the well-known colorcd
Republican, is educational and finan-
cial agent for the A. NJ. Z. Church in
this State. He is raising funds for a
college, under the auspices of the
church.