The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-04-17
State News Boiled Down.
Water Valley has a loafers club.

water Nalley has Il lpilerS cluo.
Bay st. Louis Is to have an opera
house.
The small pox scare throug hout the
State is still on.
Judge Fcwell is doing up the blind
tigers In Meridian.
Hon. Luther Manship is to make
Il tour Of the State as an i~mpersOnator.
No new cases of smallpox in Hat
tieSburg within the last twelve days.
L. o. Sykes, OF Aberdeen, is booked
for the ~judgesllip Of the first district.
Meridian has begun preparations
for entertaining the Press Association
in May.
Scnat0bia had an entertainment re-
Gently in which old maids were sold at
auction.
Kinds comfy has a half witteG
negro boy only IL years old who
draws beautifully.
Hon. II. n. Miller. OF Copiah. is an
nounced a. Il candidate for Congress
in Mr.. Spencer's district.
Jones county postponed the spring
session OF circuit court on account Of
the small pox in Ellisville.
The city council Of Yazoo City ap-
points and pays a nan to keep its
cemetery in good condition.
Meridian is so infested with thugs
and robbers that 1t is not safe to
travel the streets in the night.
In the prohibition election neld in
Monroe county last Monday the ants
won the fight by f%orty-One majority.
Thos. f. P~crrault, one of the Oldest
clothiers in Natchez, has made an AS
signment, for the benefit Of his cred
itOrS.
Mcridian's electric street car system
was put in motion Saturday. and a
large crowd celebrated this suspicious
event.
DR.. Wood, health officer at Ellis
vile, Is sick with small pOx and Dr.
Williams has been employed to take
his place,
Two young ladies and a young man
were arrested in B%rOokhaven the other
night for riding on the sidewalk on
bicycles.
Ex-Governor John NJ. Stone has
been prominently mentioned for the
second place on the national Demo-
cratic ticket.
Dan Stewart was in some way
thrown from his wagon at Clinton one
day last week and was run over. He
died next day.
The health officer OF Monroe county
has ordered Il general vaccination
10 that county, incident to the appear
ancc Of small pOX.
Financially Copiah county is in good
shape. At the end of the last fiscal
year it did not 0wc Il dollar and had
$50. 600 in the treasury.
The YOcona cotton mills of Water
Valley has recently filled an order for
1000 pounds OF wrapping Irvine for
export to Amsterdam, Holland.
A darky who willfully exposed him
self to small pOX and carried the dis
ease into DeSOtO county, was severely
whipped by white cappers on the LIST
inst.
The West Point spoke factory sils.
pended last week. Among the largest
creditors is an Oktibbcha farmer who
is now sorry lie spoke to the tune Of
$500.
The Bank Of Ellisvillc on the It'll
inst. declared a scmi-annual dividend
Of five per cent. out Of earnings for
the past six months, payable on de-
mand.
Crystal Springs shipped a carload
OF radiSllcS last Saturday and two car.
loads Tuesday. w. W. Mathis, it is
reported has 100, 600 tomato plants
ready for the field.
The Warren county board Of super
visors have made an appropriation OF
81 900 for the purpose Of having their
county represented at the Chicago Tx.
position, and promise To supplement
this amount with 300 later on.
Hon. A. A. Kincannon, State super.
intcndent Of education, was so badly
burned a few days ago with melted
sealing wax while sealing some ex.
press packages that 1t will neccssitatc
the canccling OF his appointm cnts
over tho State.