The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-09-13
State News Boiled Down.

State News Boiled Down.
vossburg is putting in a telephone sys-
ten.
The p~ersimmon crop will be tremen-
duous.
Quitman county is full Of wolves, deer
aud bears.
Quitman county is threatened with a
water famine.
Several cases of smallpox are reported
In Amite county.
Mrs. sallie Rush died at Canton Thurs
day Of lust week.
Mississippi is solid on the question Of
'hOg aud hOminy."
The Little J. will run daily morning
trains into jackson.
Meridian Is to try to support another
afternoon daily paper.
English sparrows by the thousands in.
fict Crystal Springs.
Five of the State Democratic nominees
are farmers by profession.
New corn IN selling IN Jackson ut IS
and 40 cents per buslel.
Tho Prohibitionists Of Lincoln county
have a full ticket in the field.
Kinds county paid out last year for Cd
nsatiOnal purposes $Sj,255.74.
Tom Wood. Of Algona. had his thumb
bitten of recently by y horse.
A man ut Columbia is about to die from
the bite Of u ''blue gum" negro.
Contracts have been ut Grceuville for
over 100000 yards Of lSvee work.
Every available dwelling and store
house IN Lexington is now occupied.
A contract has been given ont tor rover
brick houses he erecteL in Green w0od.
Mrs. A. j. Jones, wife Of Rev. A o
Jones, of DE- Soto, died on the 8th inst.
Eramns McGehee. u prominent citizen
Of Pike, died in that county last week.
There are IA applicants for appoint.
ment rs clerk Of the Railroad Commission.
The negroes If the State will get up q
creditable exhibit ut the Atlant. Exposl.
Four blind tigerites have been indicted
by the grand Jury Of Pike county with
more to follow.
1t IL reported that Miss Hattie McPher.
son, Of COpiah county, IL to 20 to China
rs u missionary.
Vlcksburg people are taking active
! atAna Tn IlrinsP Oaup0uao avknrfs.u. In.c,r..
the next Legislature.
Abe Jones, u lifetime convlc, from Yal.
lobusha county tor murder, has been dis
charged for good conduct.
ton. This is certainly y rebuke 10 the
whites who have made no effort and will
not he represented there.
DR.. Noble, Of Fannin, has u Poland
China pig five und u half months old
which weighs 200 pounds.
The Lexington postmaster, W. +. Fritz.
who sued Congress. nan J. ). Williams for
= 5000 fer libel, lost his suit.
Prof. J. G. Dupree. Of M~is,isnippi Col
lcge, has boon elected superintend INT Of
the city schools Of Meridian.
Brookhaven shipped Is. 500 bales of cor.
ton up to September lst-t.6W bales in
excess Of tho previous year.
The yicksburx Herald has iutrodu Old
the type setting machiue, being the first
n newspaper in the State to use it.
The Lincoln county tax levy ia only I
mills, notwithstanding a handsome new
courthouse WAS built last year.
A YazoO City mar secured u Judgment
Tor $50 the other day against the city for
" hound killed by q policeman.
Mrs. Sarah Borden. died ut her home
Mosside plantation IN Bolivar county. re.
Gently, at the age Of 70 years.
!. Canton il soon to have an electric ligh
plant and u complete system of waite
. works to be owned by the city.
Capt. Geo. l.. Balfour, a resident o
Biloxi for many years, died in Texas
few days ago, aged about 75.years.
: The Baptis,s of Ellisville IRE just corn
pleting Il $4,000 church and the Methodist
are preparing to erect TO cost 5000.
+. r. Ratlif, of Monticello, and Mir
Beulah Rivers, Of Oxford, were marie,
Tuesday night Of last week in the latte
place.
j. Il. Mason, one Of the oldest an,
most highly respected ~citizens Of Canton
died ut his residence in that city ON til
9th inst.
Miss Mary A. Clark, of Biloxi, and Mr.
, Geo. Williams, OF New Orleans. wcr,
married in the Catholic church ut Biloxi
Oh the 4th inst.
A chicken was killed in Ripley a f.,
days ago, IN the gixxald Of which wa
found five guild rivSts abOnt 0ne.f0urth q
+. un inch In length.
A Perry comfy druggist WA fined $40
and sentenced to thirty days in jail b
= the Federal court 10, selling Jamaici
ginger as u beverage.
The Young Mems Business League {
Meridian have taken the i%nitiOry ste I
; looking to o representation Of Meridian
at the Atlanta Exposition.
/ P. Fulton. u white brakeman, was she
through the shoulder at Durunt a f.,
days ago by u negro tramp whom lie wa
trying to eject from the train.
Hon. R. H. Farr, a member OF the Le.
). islatnre and one Of the c0mmissiore rs |
= locate the penitentiary farms, died lyu
week ut his plantation In Holmes count I!
e Section Foreman Stevens was fatally !,
u jured one day last week at Laurel Will
= attempting to hoard Y moving eug,n,
Both legs were severed FROM tine body b
the wheels.
l.. The Ellsville New South q y the,
was . great deal Of drunkenness 10
q rodyism carried vt the camp useti ny nes
; Ellisville last Saturday night, Sunday au
. Sunday night.
=. Tax-collectors who have made tbs
settlement with the Auditor report yer
little lands sold to the State; that mo-
!, Of that sold for taxes wa bought 10 /
u private i~ndividuals.
The yonug son Of postmaster J. I. N
Leod, OF Perryville, Winston conn y, w
r. struck BY lightning and instantly k,lle
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