The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-07-20
State News Boiled Down,

Westville wants a livery stable.
Hot weather all over the State.
Moonshiners are in Carroll county.
i Westville is to have a brass band.
9 The Magnolia Gazette is booming.
n Port Gibson may establish a pottery
Meridian is to have Il Federal court
Nicksburg is quite a summer resort
Jackson has had a grand bicycl,
meet.
Natchc2 has organized a foot bal
club.
The hogs have the cholera in Co
lumbia.
The Fourth of July was generally
celebrated.
Pontotoc will soon haye a canning
factory.
New Albany needs another livery
stable.
You cannot sell newspapers in Win
ona on Sunday.
Vicksburg is proud of her late BIZ
cycle parade.
Grcenville has had a severe rain and
wind storm.
Meridian wants the encampment of
the National Guard.
Truck farmers have suffered by the
big strike.
Water Valley is fighting an insu.
rance combine.
The grand jury of Marion county
has returned 50 indictments.
Fifty Belgian families will locate at
Cleveland, on the Valley road.
All the cotton mills of the State are
paying handsome dividends.
Lauderdale county has a colorcd girl
who is living magnet.
An alligator weighing $50 pounds
was killed near Port Gibson.
George Hcckler, of Rodney, aged 10,
committed suicide last week.
The total personal assessment of
Kinds county is 81, S40,12G.
Wesson has 1000 white school chill
dren, and employs Is teachers.
The thermometer has reached 100 de-
grees in the shade at Senatobia.
Raymond is trying to add a Uniform
Rank to her X. of ?. lodge.
st. Catherine Creek, Adams county,
is to be spanncd by a steel bridge.
Port Gibson has been visited by Sc.
we're wind storms lately.
The Mayor of Terry is making it hot
for crap shooters and blind tigers.
The business men of Cofreeville have
organized a Sporting and Gun Club.
The Wayncsboro Times has on ey-
hioltlon a tomato that weighs q lbs.
The famous Coopcr's Well will soon
be owned by the Illinois Central r. r.
1t is estimated that Copiah county
alone has lost $4,000 by the big strike.
Chickens are selling at s to 12lc each
and eggs &c per dozen. at Prentiss.
Water Valley will remove the grass
from its sidewalks Us it spoils the
ladies' dresses.
The Ellisyille News contained a
handsome picture of the double hang
ing which took place there July u.
18th annual picnic of the Brother
OF Locomotive Engineers will be
held at lIeidelburg, July 2G.
Jackson's police have CAPTURED two
young fire bugs. They are colored
boys.
The Board of Supervisors of Lee
county will purchase a small farm for
paupcrs.
Hon. A. II. Whitfield, the new Judge
the Supreme Court, has moved his
to Jackson.
The capital stock Of the Water Val
electric light company will be in
creased from $4,000 to $l2, 500. :
A Chicago man who owns 5000
acres OF Mississippi pine land has re-
fused s. per acre for it.
The death sentence of Alex Turn
Orough has been committed by Gov.
stone to pcnitentiary for life,
The negro women of Ellisville are
IN a strike, that is, they arc striking ,
each other. !
VIII iurvis was not re-scntenced to
lang at the last term of the Marion
court.
An Elders and Dcacons' Convention ,
If Cllicasaw P~resbytcry will convene
1t Ripley, August. 9
Water Valley is said to be the most, q
prosperous and progressive town in {
he State. d
Inc negro men OF Brookhaycn have t
topped striking when they fight, and {
one to shooting. y
The lndianola Index says to hang o
he first anarchist who crosses the v
Jason and Dixon line, coming south. D
The Hattiesburg Invincibles have n
cen presented with a beautiful BAN \
or by their fair sponsor, Miss Mary Z
'ryor. \
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