The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-07-06
State News Boiled Down.

Politics are getting lively.
Watermelons, watermclons!
Hattiesburg wants a dog law.
West Point has a cotton mill.
Wcsson is having a big revival.
Newton needs a good shoemaker.
Jackson has a fire insurance trust.
Aberdeen wants a Board of Trade.
Hattiesburg wants a freight depot.
Natchez has a few ''black cappers.'
Tupelo boys have the base ball fever,
McComb City has had a $4,000 fire.
New Albany is soon to have a bank.
State Line needs a general cleaning
up.
West Points white population is on
the increase.
Newton wants to know why it can.
not have a bank.
Union Female College will remain
in Oxford.
Vicksburg is to have a Board of
Trade.
Natchez is to have a Republican
daily paper.
Many improvements are going on in
Brandon.
Yazoo City has a Baptist Ladies'
Aid Society.
Brookhaven claims to have the best
streets in the State.
A spiritualist is creating some en-
element in Meridian.
Mr.. j. r. McElroy has been APP
pointed postmaster at Meridian.
The colored citizens of Natchez have
built a Catholic church.
Jackson is soon to have a $500
school house for colored children.
More building is going on in Jackson
than in any other town in the State.
Ellisyille will soon have a Camp of
the Woodmcn of the World.
Crystal Springs is shipping daily
Is to 20 carloads of tomatoes.
Mr.. Lindsey, of Scott county, made
100 bushels of oats on Is acres.
The Scott brothers, colored, will be
hung for committing murder at Can
ton.
The Cato Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons will be moved from Brandon
to Pelahatchie.
A. M. Nelson has been appointed
treasurer of Kinds county.
The notorious Ida Wells was born
and reared IN Holly Springs.
The two new convict farms will cost
between 800, 900 and $3.50, 900.
Irish potatoes are better than cot
ton as a crop.
Most of the saw mills on the North
eastern road have resumed operations.
A railroad from Tuscanola to Will
liamsburg is a possibility.
Cotton planters of the lower Missis-
sippi will meet in V%icksburg, July Is.
Oxford is still entertaining burglars.
Stores are robbed every night.
The Orderof Woodmen of the World
is gaining strength in the State.
West Donegal is to have a new
church.
The school teachers will be the first
to handle the States new money.
A Meridian man has invented a
sclf-acting churn.
Shipping vegetables from Jackson
has not proved a success.
If you commit rape in this State,
you are sure to hang.
Jefferson county is trying to get up
a Farmers and Stockholders Asso-
citation.
Up to June Goth there were only 972
voters registered in Lincoln county.
1862 white and 10 colored.
The sheriff of Jasper county offers
$500 for the capture of the theft who
robbed his safe.
The Wiscasset Mills at Hattiesburg
have been purchased by Western
capitalists.
In Walthall county the colored
school children outnumber the whites
two to one.
Punches and Summers, the escaped
c%Onvicts, are said to be in the neigh
borhOod of Shiloh.
The Madison county grand jury re.
fused to indict Malcomb Cameron for
killing DR.. Roudcbush.
Five negroes were killed last week.
near Rosedale, by eating blackberries
which had locust eggs on them.
s. r.. Doolittle, of Raleigh, cuts his
oats with a mower. He cuts 8 to 10
acres a day.
The sidewalks and streets of Hat
tiesburg are being put in good con-
dition.
The Stonewall Guards, of Brook
haven, is the youngest company in the