The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-03-20
State News Boiled Down..


for ten years.
The Legislature has developed a fond.
ness for ire olutins."
The House has appropriated $4,000 for
Confederate pensions.
Greenwood wants the Yazoo river
bridged at that point.
In the second district there are three
candidates for Congress.
The State tax levy for 1896 and 1897
has been fixed at 6 mills.
The Methodists Of Bonneville will build
4 brick house of worship.
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, was
once II resident Of Mississippi.
Speaker McCool has been critically III
for two weeks past, but is better now.
Hon. Monroe McClurg declines 10 enter
the race for Congress from the 4th dis.
trict.
A spoke factory Is to DO located at
Jackson oon and Is or 90 hands cm-
ploycd.
Enterprise has Incorporated u truck
growers association. aud will soUn have
a bank.
Holly Springs has issurl bonds to the
amount Of Sla,OOO 10 gravel and improve
her streets.
The Senate's million dollar State-l"nse
ILL has been coolly knocked out in the
lower house.
Four inches of snow fell last week in
the northern part of this State. Fruit
trees damaged.
Tho Lexington Advertiser has just
passed the 18Th mile stone Oh the jour.
n~alistic highway.
The Wayncsboro Times says that nearly
all Of The public Ian Is in that county
have been taken up.
Meridian will sopn discard the present
horse car system and adopt the more
modern II Of trolley.
Long Beach is about to have the largest
hotel on the coast. 1t will be erected by
New York capitalists.
Tie citizens of Jackson are working
hard for another railroad. the Mobile,
Jackson aud Kansas City.
The Natchez Democrat has introduced
the wonderful Thorne typcsetting ma
chine in its composin. room.
Rev. Elias, Il prominent colored Bap.
fist minister of Walden, was arrested last
week charged with adultery.
Rev. T. B. Malone, pastor of the Meth
cdisr church at West Point, Miss, died
last Tuesday after a sbolt illness.
Many of The State papers are criticising
Governor McLaurin quito se> ercly for
appointing his brother To a jndgeship.
The Crystal Springs Meteor says the
tomato crop therealonts will be rs large
IN that OF last year, which broke the rec.
ord.
The ~offenses that predominant above
all others in the federal court ut Mcri-
dian are selling wlliskey and timber dep.
relations.
Prof Knowles, principal Of Lake Como
Institute was seriously stabbed by u stu
dent, whom he had ieprimandcd for dis
orderly conduct.
1t is proposed to erect a monument at
Meridian in memory o fthe late Rev J.W
Rozeman. A movement looking to this
end is alrea d or foot.
Doc Sutherland, an old citizen of Mad.
ison county. started to Canton one day
last week and was struck with ~apoplcxy
and died IN his buggy.
Dr., p. s. Henson, Of Chicago, will
preach the commencement ermon at
Clinton college May 81. Dr.. Henson IS a
man of national reputation.
The Postal telegraph company's office
at Holly Springs was set on fire on the
9th by lightning striking the wires. Con-
siderable damage was done.
Two Milwaukee brewers who have re-.
Gently bought 6 $4,000 of delta timber land
and having used the timber are going to
luild industrial schools for colored chill.
drea.
A case of smallpox has made IFS ap-
p%earance ut Poplarv,lIe. brought there by
a negro section hand from New Orleans
where the loathsome disease is increasing
ut II frightful rate.
Peiahatche has the cham pion egg
eater IN the way ola boy who ate 81 eggs
and drank eight pints of beer. We are
not advised as to whether his funeral was
stlemnizcd afterwards or not.
W. C. Ellis of Terry, has broken the
worlds record by paying 1851 for "Coun.
ellis Beauty SOW farrowed October 3,
1894. This is 500 more than was ever
before paid for brood SOW. 1t pays to
raise good stock.
In the YuzOo circuit court last week n
whole family was convicted-all the bows
of Monroe Robinson being sent to the
%penitentiary for burglary and the old
man and bis wife TO the comfy Jail for
receiving stolen goods.
The law class ut the University at
Oxford have gotten on their warpaint.
They burned the flag Of Spain and Gen.
Weyler in efigy last Saturday night.
Fiery speeches were made denoupcing
Spain and commencing the Cubaus.
Hon. J.. +. Rainwater, of Pamela. has
been appointed deputy grand master Of
Masons Of Mississippi in place OF r. II.