The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-03-22
State News Boiled Down.
Measles are in Starkville.

Measles are in Starkville.
Greeuville wants more factories.
Business is getting better at McComb
City.
Senatobia has a new Presbyterian
church.
A negro was killed by lightning at
| McComb City last week.
The business men of Port Gibson have
organized a hoard o. trade.
Frost is reported from several portions
of the state Sunday morning.
John Temple Graves, the renowned
lecturer, is again touring the State.
All the State papers are full of M
nouncerieu. of candidates for office.
The business portion of Iuka, vas al
most entirely destroyed by tire last Sun
day.
Wind and rain storms did considerable
damage in portions of the State last
week,
lin Wier. a Grenada county farmer,
was killed last week by IA tree falling
upon him.
The cotton acreage in Rankin county
is expected to be less than for several
years past.
Mad dogs are appearing IN portions OF
the State. Look out fer them rs sum,
mer approaches,
Burglars took advantage of the recent
eclipse of the moon and did some robbiug
at Port Gibson.
No State in the south offers greater in
ducemeuts, or advantages to cotton mills
than Mississippi.
East Mississippi is selling and shipping
large quantities of corn to the North
western States.
The Bulletin. a Populite paper pub
lishcd at Lexington, has suspended for
want of patronage.
The Monti1ore Literary Society of
WooLville, gave then annual Purim ball
at that place last week.
Indications of n great movement of
immigrants to Western Mississippi are
multiplying daily.
L. L. Rowell aud Miss NJ. V. Drinkard,
OF Clarke county, were married in the
public road near Vossburg, Sunday.
The coming of a cold wave is made
known at Crystal Springs, Miss, by the
firing of IL large cannon which can be
heard for "A long distance.
G. w. Crawford, white, was convicted
of bigmy at Kosciusko last week and sent
to the penitentary tor seven years. He
had a wife in each OF three States.
The youngest prisoner in the Jackson
peuitcntiary is only 10. He is Il negro
boy from Pamela county and sent there
for numbering three small children.
One night last week near Anding.
forty miles west of Jackson, Tom jones
shot his father, Charles Jones, four times
with Il pistol killing him instantly.
One hundred and ten dollars reward
has been offered for the arrest of each OF
the thieves who robbed the ~postofice
and store OF W. E. Wallace, at Dumas.
The Winchester family of Natchez
have fallen heir to a large part of a ST..
600, 600 estate left by II. X. Winchester, Il
relative who lived at Santa Barbara, Cal
%ifornia.
The Yazoo City Herald says: "Finan.
cially Yazoo county is in good shape. 1t
owes not a cent and has $40, 900 in the
general, and the same amount in the
school fund.
John J. M Donald, late of Memphis
and a very extensive cotton buyer. has
purchased the old Planters Warehouse
and Cotton Yard at Aberdeen aua will
erect a cotton compress this INNER
The finding of IA newborn white infant
at Meridian last week, in a pool of water
near the Union Railroad Depot, with q
piece ofiron tied to it's neck aud a la"gt
bullet hole through its heart. caused
SnmeM hat of a snnSntinn.