The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-10-04
State News Boiled Down.

Yazoo City has another bink.
The Sorgum crop is enormous
Thieves are reported all over the State.
The A. &. NJ. College opened wi h 265
The cry for better roads is general all
over the State.
Col. ID. N. Moody, of vicksburg, died
in that city recently.
Recently 81 negroes applied for license
to teach in Lincoln county.
Simpson county has had but one term
of circuit court in II months.
Meridian is to have u cotton factory,
built on the cooperative plan.
Jas. II. Carradine, a popular citizen of
Natchez, died on the Both ult.
Columbus woman is suing the mar
derer OF her husband for $4,000.
A farmer of Alcorn county sold 1000
bales of hay to a Coriuth merchant.
A herd of l33 cattle sold in Yazoo City
Mt an average price of SIS per head.
1t is reported that a rich vein of gold
has been struck in Marshall county.
Six families from South Dakota have
purchased homes in Madison county.
Amory has nineteen a~rtesian wells aud
claims to have tire best water iu the State.
The bite Of u rattle snake caused the
death of Geo. Doykin in Warren county
recently.
Meridian citizens are greatly disap-
pointed in noL getting the electric street
Car service.
The Yazoo City Herald says: "Never
did the people seem more happy aud
hopeful than now"
Architect Tor,ensen, of New Orleans,
declares that the capitol at Jackson is an
unsafe building.
Mr. James A. Orr, manager of the Hotel
Arnold, Greenwood, Miss, died Tuesday
night after IL long Illness.
A negro barn burner by the name of
VIM. Pippin was killed in Noxnbee coun.
ty while trying to make his escape.
Applications has been made to the Iu.
sane Asylum Mt Jackson for the admission
Of five year old boy from Rankin county .
Maude, wife OF Joseph W. Swetman.
the well known druggist Of Biloxi, died
in that city last Sunday, aged twenty.
Eve.
The Carroll hotel IL! Vicksburg is now
IN the hands of the new ~lessces. the Cali
roll Hotel Co. G. B. Day is the manager
of the hostelry.
An attempt was made to blow mp Il
colored barber shop and blind tiger liar
at Brookhaven kept by Lum Philips one
night last week.
At Canton u few days ago John Leone
had one of his arms so badly crushed
while coupling cars that amputation was
necessary Just below the shoulder.
The wrecking of d freight train IN the
NJ. 4 .. Il. r. near Lumberton Wednes-
day of last week cansed the death Of
brakeman James Smith.
"
On the 23rd ult. at Purvis Prof. Q. d.
Sanls aud John Caraway each lost Il gold
watch and Adolphus Davis, deputy sheriff
at that place, had $2l IN cash stolen.
The Wathall Warden say the checkers
craze has taken such Il bold upon the in.
habitants that church and sunday school
ara neglected for the tacination Of the
game.
A Leland firm raised 1865 barrels Of
Irish potatoes on sixty-one acres this sea
son. They have the land planted u SET
ond time and expect to get forty barrels
per acre.
Willis Simmons. cOlOred, Of Sar1is has
been licensed to practice law. In sending
him the license Chancellor Kimbrough
wrote him a complimentary letter on his
examination,
Hou. c. NJ. Williamson, chairman o
the State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, says that il will require about 81 ,OO'
to pay the expenses of the present cam
paign and he calls upon the County Com
mittees to set about raising the money.
The store and stock of general mer-
chandise, mills and gin of E. A. Simmons
ut Kewanee, IL miles north of Meridian
on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad
were totally destroyed by fire last week
Loss $4,000. The loss is partially covered
by insurance. The origin of the lire !
unknown.
He'll has broken loose again in Snlli
vans Hollow. The Raleigh Reformer o
last week says: Qnite a sensation wa
created at the Methodist church in thi
county neal Bunker Hill last Sunday b.
C. Sullivan. Jr., shooting Wilson Sullivan
son OF London Sullivan. He shot him il
the forehead with u pistol, the ball pene
trating just above the eyebrow. Tn
opinion is that the wound inflicted vii
prove fatal.
While making molasses on the plan:a'
ton Of W. W. Wilkinson, ten miles south
of Holly Springs, his little eight-year-ol
son was burned almost to death. Tit
GOALS and hot ombers from the furnac
were thrown into an old we'll near by
until it was filed several feet with burn