The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-01-11
State News Boiled Down.

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Not u Christmas tragedy has been :
,rought to light in Amite county
Thomas II johnson, formerly of Bran /,
Ion, died ia Richmond, on the 4th inst. '
st Johns DAY was pretty generally
celebrated by the Masons it, Mississippi. c
At Flora n gin house aud ten bales of ,
cotton burned on the 18th ult. ,
Quite n number of business failures
have been reported the past week.
A drove of mustang ponies sold ut anc-
tion last week at Ripley at Sl3 to 81
each.
The northern part of the State was
with snow four inches deep last
week.
The Christmas contributions to the
Natch,z Orphan Asylum amounted to
$4,000.
Rev. D. A. Little. formerly Presiding
Elder of the NJ. +. Church for The Meri-
dian District, is dead.
On last Saturday Mr.. L. II. FArchild
was elected mayor Of Wavcland, without
opposition.
A.. S. Harper, a druggist at Wesson
made an assignment Wednesday. LA
bilities, $500; assets, $500.
At Wayside, near Greenville, last Sat-
urlay. w. G. Clinton shot aud killed his
fnther.in law. Judge G. w. Scott.
A Jasper county farmer made a profit
of $50 per acie on land cultivated 10
sugar cane last year.
Senator W. W. Heidelberg, of Jasper
county, killed q hog week before last
that weighed 6i5 pounds.
The Warren county grand jury gave
the Vicksburg officials a severe ceusure
in its reports Tor NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Hickory Flat. M in Union county. has
:! broom factory that turns ont from Il to
Is dozen brooms daily.
Father McEacheu. one of the oldest
citizens of West Point, died on the LIST
inst in his S9th year.
The Nut, Lock and Rail brace Com
pany. with q capital stock of 500, 900,
has been organized at Meridian.
"Yankee dinner" was heartily enjoy
ed on Christmas day by the northern peo-
pie residing in Brandon.
The Quitman quill is responsible for
the story that Il local sportsman killed
two wild hogs and two deer at three
shots.
j. b. Fondren was shot five times aud
dangerously wounded by 4 boy named
Edwards at Stur is, Miss, ii few days
since.
The Hon. Charles Scott, of Bolivar, en-
joys the distinction of having forbidden
the use of his name in connection with
the gOvernorship.
Rev. Father VIM Power. a noted evan
geliSt in the Roman Catholic Church.
has been holding a Mission all the week
at Holly Springs.
Joseph Mcbride, Il stran ger in Green
vile. was fOund dead ut the Travellers
hotel, in that town, last Monday morn
ing.
1t is said that fcur scores of patriotic
Miss %issippians have already decided to
enter the field for the several State Offices
to he filled this year.
The Mississippi Womcn's Press Club
will meet in Jackson On Tuesday, Jan.
nary % Kate Field, of Washington,
will probably be present.
VIM Sanford was waylaid and ~assassi.
mated last Saturday nioht. near Kells
Kempcr county, by +. 4. Balkman, with
whose daughter, it Is stated, Sanford was
too intimate.
Mrs. f. D. Lang, of Biloxi, died in that
city on last Sunday morning. The de.
ceased was Il native ct Alabama, but II
resident OF this coast for about forty
years.
Gen. John G.. Black, cS- commissions,
of pensions, and Il native of Lexington
Miss, has been appointed United States
attorney for the northern district of Hi
nOiS.
Miss'ssippi'S State, county, municipal
and school debit is only 81 66 per c%anita.
West Virginia ald Utah are the onl>
States which have a smaller per capita
indebtedness.
A telephone line will soon connect
Columbia with Purvis, the Marion coun
ty Telephone Co., having been organize,
, 10 build it and sufficient funds hayin.
been subscribed.
+ Miss NJ OAlice Campbell eldest dangh
terJ Mr.. Il. w Campbell of the Vicks.
burg Commercial- Herald, was married to
| Mr.. W. A.. Crockett, a prominent planter
ct Shnrkey county, in Vicksburg on tn,
3lst OF December.
James Harrington, a Young whito man
of West Point, was brulally assaulted b,
iootpads one night last week and has
e since died from his injuries. Three ne
sroes are in jail charged with the crime
I A curious Christmas casualty tool
, place at Holly Springs. A tree was igni.
ted by fireworks and in emitting it down
, to save . house the TX slipped, strikin.
I Adam Preher IN the back of the head
%wounding- him seriously.
, Several drovrs of Western horses hnv,
recently passed through Senatobia, being
/, offered on the market at prices ranging
, from Sl5 to $50. Horses. mules, AND
, stock of all kinds are cheaper than know
/, there for years.
S Rev, J. W. Poston, of Holly Springs
has invented Il car coupler. A gentle
man representing some Philadelphi;
, capitalist Is in Holly Springs examining
e INFO the merits of the coupler.
The indications throughout the Stat,
} are that during the Year '95 the great
body of farmers will conduct their bust
ness on the cash basis, aud make their
J crops on the cheapest possible plan.
, The boiler in Robinson's saw mill a
!, Chester, exploded last Friday, kmilll,;
Aaron Tnrler, colored, demolishiny
, portion of the bnilding.