The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-09-27
State News Boiled Down.

Amory is longing for a hank.
The Sewerage question is being sgita-
ted at Jackson.
Work has begun on the Gulf aud Ship
Island Railroad.
Biloxi is to have another ice factory.
A 5 ton machine has been orlsrsd.
The Biloxi ire companies are ut wal
with each other.
The Jews Of Brookhaven contemplate
building Y synagogue al that place.
Misses Smith killel E. Roberts At Pearl
River Thursday Of last week.
Carroll connty's pork crop is the lars est
ever known.
West Point votes Oh the water works
question October 18th.
Monroe county has beeu very successful
IN growing tobacco.
The cotton wsigher and burglars try
the patience of the l'e.ryitos.
A telephone line is being put up be-
tween Columbus and Aberdeen.
Hon. Martin Marshall, u distinguished
lawyer Of Vicksburg, died Wednesday.
The grand jury Of Msuroe county IT,
jec:cd 81 applicants for Confederate pen.
siOns.
The Jewish New Year Was generally
celebrated by the lsraelitish citzens o. the
State.
The uncOllectcd poll tax Of Claiborne
county amounts to between 5000 and
5000.
Thirty-six men are IN Jail in Wayne
county for depredatins ou government
ii mber.
The Wesson mills have il complete fire
department oi their own, and IL Is said
to be Il good Ous.
Hon. A. e. MsNair. of B%rooknaven. is
being urged as circuit court judge to sue
ceed Judge Chrisman.
The game law, as Tar as concerns birds,
expired Oh tho 15th, and all other game
may bs killed after October |.
Moses Evans, an Ellisville negro, was
killed ut Sandville Oh the morning vi tho
18th inst, by u freight train.
According to the Vicksburg Herald,
Warren county has several haunted houses
well equipped with ghosts.
The Jackson Clarion Ledger says that
Armour " Co, will SOON open IL branch
house iu that city.
The Citizen Of BrookhLven says tho
negroes Of that place won't work when
they can get it..
In the bicycle tournament ut J acksol
last week, II Yazov county III IN made II
mile in 2 minutes and II seconds.
Three hundred and eighty p1mpano
were caught At one draw ing Of ii sciue Al
Pass Christian recently.
The fremen of Biloxi celebrated their
l2Il, anniversary Thursday Ut last week
by u street parade aud ball at night.
The 44th animal session Of tho Univer.
sity Of Mississippi opened IN the l2tl
inst. The attendance is reported large.
Miss Adce Whitaker was accidentally
shot and dan gcrously wounded in Clai
borne county last week by her brother.
Mr.. j. +. Knox, Of Liverpool. brought
in II bale Of l IL inch cotton this we I'll
weighing 450 pounds, which sold for S15.
N.-Yazoo Sentinel.
There is avariety Ofcorn around Centre
vile. known ~ the Whitaker corn, which
yields from four to Dine ears per stalk and
from 90 to 100 bushels per aero.
The only Office in the State tn which
women are eligible IS that Of State Ii.
b~rarian, the salary Of which Is n thou
sand and eighty dollars per annum.
George Dickens, o la-year old bay. was
killed neal Durant list week Nv a null
which threw him. His foot caught in til
stirrup AMI he was dragged over a mile
The municipal election for Bay 81
Louis does o take place until April, bu
there are ,lrsady six candidates for may
or and eight fol MARSHAL in the field.
Hon. Edw. Mayes, OF Jackson, has com
pleted u biography Of the lats lanentet
L. Q. c. Lamar. MI. Mayes is also en-
gagged in Meparing u volume Of Mr.. LII
mars most famous speeches.
Ellsville New South: Capt. B. 7
Moss, Of lower Jasper, last Monday in
formed us that his wife presented hin
with another pair Of twin boys. whic
makes him by Two marriages the fatht
, of % children.
:, The Oxford Globe tells OF a ~treasur,
seeker IN that county. 1t says: "Th
descendants of old chief Tobba Tuba ~.
!. still digging for gold out in tho northsr
. portion Of the county, near the Tallahat
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