The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-08-09
State News Boiled Down.
Magnolia has a bank,

magnolia has u bank.
j. B Adams, Il grocer OF Water Valley.
has assigned.
The Postal Telegraph Co. has opened
80 new Offices in this State.
Wild cat stills and blind tigers are num-
erous throughout the State.
1t cos: Columbus $4,000 to entertain the
State National Guard.
A new cotton mill is to be erected at
Stonewall, Clarke county.
Alcorn county has an independent can.
didate for the Legislature.
The Populists and Prohibitionists have
combined in Lincoln county.
There are three church houses in course
of construction at Bay St. LOUIS.
Monday of last week the Thermometer
stood los in the shade at Ellisville.
Choctaw county has 800 Democrats who
will vote in the November election.
Tom Guy was struck by lightning and
killed near Ellisv'lle n few days ago.
Chambers have broken ont among the
horses and mules in and around Lexins-
ton.
The citizens of Jackson have subscribed
5000 for open air concerts during the
summer.
j. X. Moore, treasurer of Prentiss coun-
~, committed suicide last week by cut
ting his throat.
Mrs. NJ. J. Anderson, committed suicide
by jumping into a well at Holly Springs
recently.
The whisky men are making an effort
to set aside the late local option election
of Jackson.
Mormon elders are in Copiah county
seeking converts for their church. They
have been ordered to leave.
The revenue agents captured a 6O.gal.
Ion still and destroyed it in Pon.otoc
county last week.
Mrs. NJ. l.. F,ncher. wife of the assist
ant postmaster of Meridian, died in that
city on the Both ult.
The large lumber and planning mills of
W. G. Albertson at Tuscanola was de-.
stroyed by fire last week.
The planters in the Delta region are
experimenting on Il small scale with
broom corn and tobacco.
Miss Nettie, the only daughter of j. i.
Langford, editor of the vicksburg Demo-
crat, died recently at Greenyille.
Sidney A. Jonas, of the Aberdeen Ex-
aminer, has been appointed to Il clerkship
in the government printing Office.
A man who got very happy at a relis.
lous meeting at Norton cried: "Oh, Lord,
what a fool | am. Glory to God
A saw mill of Lumberton will furnish
100, ZOO, 900 feet Of yellow pine lumber to
a manufacturing firm in st. Louis, Mo.
Rev. L. S. Jones, presiding elder of the
Natchez district, and Mrs. Hattie Cole.
man, o. Carton, were married last week.
Bill Dominic, a b~rickniason. fell from a
second-story window of his boarding.
house at Canton last week and was killed.
He was drunk at the time.
The repeal Of the election primary law
seems to be pretty generally demanded
by the press Of the State, says the Mag.
nolia Gazette.
Miss Florence Blackmore, of Franklin
county, aged Is, enjoys the distinction Of
having climbed the volcano Of Popocate.
pei and looking into the crater.
Telegraph Operator West at Potts
Camp. Marshall county, was shot and in
stantly killed at that place Thursday
night Of last week by Joe Gatlin.
Some unprincipled persons pried open
the corner stone Of the Masonic lodge at
Trenton some days ago and scattered the
papers aud other relics to the four winds.
Norman Gholson seriously cut James
Mcdowell at Holly Springs Oh the 3lst
ult. They are both prominent young so.
ciety people Of that place, and u woman
was the cause Of the difficulty.
;. Candidates for Speaker of the Lower
House of the next Legislature are crop.
ping out lively. They are up to date,
Capt. r. E. Houston, of Monroe j. A
, Glover. Of Coahoma aud J.F. McCool, o.
Alta LA.
The Catholic boycott of the Knights Of
!, Pythias will not effect the order in thi,
State Us there are few Of that faith IN th.
lodges. Large numbers are giving ur
their church rather than this great order