The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-12-04
State News Boiled Down.

Greenwood continues to grow.
The county of Wayne has purchased
a convict farm.
The assessment Of Yazoo county was
increased S9l, 226 this year. !
r. I. Scherck, a Brookhaven iner.
chant has failed for over $4,000.
The telephone will soon be com.
pleted from Waynesboro to Mobile.
MARSHALL county has q Farmers
club organized on business principles.
r. F. Ford, for many years editor of
the Ripley Advertiser, died on the
Oath ult.
A white tramp was killed at Canton
by aitralu on the oath ult. Name un-
known.
The Port Gibson Oil.works is add
ing another addition to their already
immense plant. g.
Judge LOnginO granted thirty ap-
plicatiOns for divorce during a recent
term Of court In Tallahatchic county.
Rev. J, B. Hutton, formerly OF Lex.
ington, has been formally installed as
pastor OF the Presbyterian church at
Jackson.
The Williamsburg Waterman says:
MOlasses making Is all the 90 in these
diggins' aud the mills are running on
full time.
!, The Governor has commissioned G..
j. Balm as brigadier general of the
reserve militia Of Mississippi, a COM
| r1iu,apf Whrf htlv hocfnuo1
w. NJ. Crane, a Jackson letter-car-
rier, accidentally shot himself with a
shotgun on Saturday last, ~infiicting a
very painful wound.
Carrollt0n might be considered a
lucky town. 1t has no board Of alder
men or mayor, all OF them having
moved away or resigned.
91Tte State Colored Normal.school OF
Holly Springs sent a Thanksgiving
Offering to- the amount Of $40 for the
Natcliez Protestant Orphan Asylum.
Jake Dupree, a "bad Niger" Of
Starkville, attempted to aSsassinate o
young man named Ellington on Fri
day Of last week. Dupree Is in jail
and Ellington is convalescing.
A telephone line from Donald
Springs to Vossburg was completed
recently, which connects with Pauld-
Ing, EucutEa, Stafford Springs, Weems
Station, Howells and Heidelberg.
:. Tho Thanksgiving offering at the
Methodist church, jackson, for the
} Natchez Orphan Asylum amounted to
t $33. Al, which has been forwarded by
, Secretary OF State Power.
P0nt0toc county boasts OF an empty
Jail. The Sentinel, in conveying the
: Information, doesn't say whether 1t Is
+ on account OF the strict observance of
1.-the law or a lastitude in the admins
trati0n OF Justice.
The Louisville Journal is trying to
!. arouse its citizens to action in regard
y to taking steps towards getting the
: Gulf and snip Island railroad to come
: by that town.
w. r. CaFraway, a farmer OF Lauder
dale county, loaded up his ncighbor,
VIM. YarbOtOugh, with squirrel shot
: recently. They fell out about the di.
\ vision OF the crop. ,
! The Am0y Argus says Illicit dis.
S tilling is carried on very largely In the
wild country bordering on Monroe and
e Itawaniba counties and near the Ala.
bama line. Forty gallons OF moon.
( shine whisky was sold in AmOry ia
one night recently.
: The last term of the Lincoln county
circuit court was a source OF revenue
! to thatcounty. The total expense Of
$ the court was 81, 1888 and the amount
of fines assessed So, $50. =
, Am. Petty, a Masonic fraud who
= gave Deputy7SherIff Chilcs, Of ,Hinds
!. county the razzle-dazzte and succeeded
! in bunc0ing him out of SIS, has been
= arrested In louisiana. VI
? Eight or TN gentlemen from Iowa
landed at WaynesbOro last week for q
n beaE hurt 0nyEhOmps0n's creek. BE
q Ing informed hiat7t the last bear wal
n killed twenty years ago, they ex
pressed great disgust and at once re
turned to l0ywa. ~, -
n The Uniop. Female College at Ok
It ford temporarily suspended last weel
Il on account ". the prevalence OF SLOW
fever amongthe students. The Gauss
IS has been located and r~emOved-im
pure 'cistern water-and operation!
will resume next Monday.
10 NJ. P. Brown, q prosperous merchant
OF Meridian, was found dead on biz
! back gallery one day last week. HI
: had been carried to his home In ;
u hack the night before In Al intOxi
! Gated condition., and II Is supposed
= that this very bad case OF alcoholism
!. was responsible for his death.
q Tunica countHhas put up a bricl
a wall around lier Vbrders, so to speak
to keep out transient hunters. Here
after only residents OF that county
can kill game within her borders.
' Mr.. Thos.;s Jemison, q highly re.
' spected citizen Of Lauderdale county,
was killed In sstreet duel In Meridian
last week bydWallace Smith. The
difficulty IL said. t0ybc the result Of q
squared over d, game Of cards played
the night before.
: Considerable cxcitemcnt has recent.
d ~ occurred in LOwndes county 0veI
9 the outragcs committed by white
caps upon the person and property 81
c an inOffenSive negro, and the subSe
Queht resistance made by the outlaws
y to arrest by thesauthofitles, In which
. one Hicks, thNleader IT the gang, WA
killed and. j deputy sheriff seriously
wounded. The Yogt Of the gang havt
/. hepn hut In fhl1 And oYAfvh064tlR nov