The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-09-11
State News Boiled Down.
Forest wants an arrcsiau well.

Cotton Is being held for n better price.
Hog cholera is prevailing in Jasper
county.
District Attorney Filley, of Tupelo
died on the 25ih ult.
The Natchez Cotton Mills resumed
operations last week.
A military company has been organ
lied at Holly Springs.
Gllouls have been desecrating the
graveyard at Charleston.
The drouth has been broken In nearly
every portion Of the State.
Brookhayen has organized II sound
money club of rs members.
The Ellisville New South offers to sell
a halt interest to u printer.
A. W. Kearley, of Armory has been nut
up by the Popnlites for John Allen to
beat.
W. D. Frazee was nominated tor Con-
gress in the first district by tho Repnbli-
cans.
The Mary Holmes College for negro
women will soon he completed ut West
Point.
The %turpcntiue still of Hand Bros. at
Quitman, Clarke county, was burned
last week.
All effort il on foot 10 lave a bicycle
meet at Enterprise sone time during
September.
Although there will he 4 great scarcity
of both cotton and seed, the latter only
sells for Is per ton.
Capt. j. c. Rietti, for many years night
clerk at the Spengler House, Jackson,
died u few days ago.
Mr.. Philip Huff, an old and respected
citizen Of Smith county, died II. his home
at ~Sylvarena recently.
The Vicksburg Post notes the curious
fact that the cookie burr plant has yield,
ed no seed this season.
The teachers of Smith county organ
lied II Teachers Association while the In
stitute was in session.
Some Of the papers of the State look
upon the National Guard Of the State as
an aggregation Of rowdies.
logger head turtle was recently cap
tured near WaynesborO which measured
eight inches across the head.
Col. Thos. Spight has announced HIM
self as an independent cand date for Con.
gress from the second district.
A new postofice has been established
at Boud, Harrison county, ono of the new
stations on the G.. & ). l. R. r.
j. W. Baily, of Lauderdale is tile pros
pective nominee of the Populists for
Congress from the fifth district.
The people Of Marion county want a
bridge over Pearl river at Columbia, and
in all probability they will have it.
B. McKenny, D telegraph operator at
Hillhouse, this State. shielded last week.
No cause is assigned for his rash decd.
The Jackson News il being sued for
ibel. Suing a newspaper ~ like cussing
Il miller for taking toll. Ho just grinds
along.
Two men loved the same girl in jack
son. She suggested a bicycle race to de-
eide the question, and is now happily
married.
Prof. J. G. Deupree, of tie Meridian
graded schools, has been elected to the
chair OF pedagogy in the University of
Mississippi.
Fralk Lee, a six-year-old boy OF Vicks.
burg, was fatally injured on the Goth nit.
by falling twenty-five feet from u gallery
to the street.
The West Point Leader favors calling a
mass-mceting Of the First Congressional
district and tender John Allen a life ten
ure of Office.
Dick Montgomery, n desperate negro,
was killed near Indianola last week, but
before this was done he killed Deputy
Paris, one of a party of three who went
to arrest him.
Near WuynesborO last week Lightning
tore to, pieces o chair Oh which a man
was sitting without injuring him beyond
II slight shock.
A ninc-year-old negro girl of Holly |
Springs was sentenced to the peuiten-
tiary for ten years for killing hel two
year.o'd niece. a.,
The oyster industry at Mississippi City
is said to have been ruined by the yora-
clous couch, which have eaten all the
luscious bivalves.
The formal opening of the g. 4 s /.
r. X. will be cele brated by q two days
excursion between Hattiesburg and Cult
port on September 10 and 90.
Clarke county recently voted au addi-
tIonal p mills for school purposes. This
will give the county q term of eight
months public SCHOOL,
A horticultural and Truck Growers
Association has been organized at Brook
haven. An effort will be made to largely
increase the truck acreage another sea.
A free will offering Of $263.43 to the
Orphan Home, located at Wa.
Valley, WAS made by those attending
tho Crystal Springs Campmeeting last
Sunday.
A Choctaw county negro boy stole q
half dozen eggs and the last term Of Cir
cult Court tried him. The jury found
him guilty aud his fine and costs aggre-