The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-09-03
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AEaaHNa AAts
"A gentleman at Stamford, Conn is
said 10 be raising a small crop OF cotton
with every prospect OF success.
Fall River claims 10 be the largest
and Oldest manufacturing city Of wooden
aud cotton goods In Massachusetts,.
The Central Pacific, California and
Oregon, Oakland and Alameda, and the
San Joaquin Valley railroads have con.
solidated under the name Of the Central
Pacific.
The Berlin CouTaHt says three cult
vators in that section will market 5000
barrels Of cranberries the present season,
according to present prospects
Man must have occupation, or bemis-
cradle. Toll Is the price OF sleepand ap.
petite of health and enjoyment. The
very necessity which oYercomes u
natural sloth is o blessing.
There have been 2,4s6 new houses
built in Brooklyn during the past year,
the actual value Of which is $l2 100000,
and the assessment on which is $685.
200.
The farm at the Maine Agricultural
College, at Grono, contains 375 acres,
about half being woodland. About 80
acres are In pasture and meadow only
" acres are under the pillow this season.
The new hammer in the Bessemer
Steel Works at Harrisburg, weighs $4,000
pounda, and cost $92, 900, and is the largest
in the United States, The company soon
expect to make $4,000 tons of steel rails
per month.
"A one armed newspaper carrier in
Everett, Mass, has at odd times built him
self a two-story FreEch-rooied house, 20
by 80. All the work was done by him
except raising the frame, setting the door
and window frames, and the plastering.
"A correspondent of the journal Of
horticulture says that California has five
peach trees to every voter-about S00,0 00
in all. They yield enough for more than
100 pounds for every person. The crop
is profitable. The chief cause of loss is
bad management. When well cultivated,
California peach trees sometimes bear 100
pounds Of fruit each the third year from
setting out.
A correspondent Of the Country
Gentleman, who writes from ST. Lawrence
county, N. Y, states that the past spring
he set out 100 apple trees, part of which
he mulched with about four inches OF
coarse hay and raw, and the rest he kept
nicely hoed. OF the 100 all are living ex'
cept one, but those not mulched have
made the beet growth, more than q foot
Notwithstanding the drought.
Foreign Gossip.
--Bazaine entered the army as a pri
vSte.
Another submarine cable between
: France and England has been successful,
laid.
An Irish s~tatistician estimates tina
weeds cost that country nearly 100000
a year.
"A Paris paper estimates the cost Of
|, ball given by M. Chevreau, in that city
, st 210,0l5 francs
Comic singing is on the decline
England, and negro minstrelsy is said I
, be losing Its popularity.
f DIR. Nelaton, the famous French su'
b geon, has turned into an outdoor milltar
|. hospital the private gardens Of the Tuil
ries.
The Daq6lad Of the Hague states TIL
r the Prussisn soldier who fired the fr
shot at the French received a present
fifteen hundred thalers. The name OF th
e soldier was Krauss, and he belonged to
d Hohepzollern regiment. 1t is not stat,
whence the present anne
The Brazilian Government has orle
ID cd that all cemeteries hereafter laid o
l. sball reserve q corner for the burial
le Protestants, ~unbaptized infants, suicide
s. and other infidels; also that, with Il
same object, a corner in the principal e
20 isting cemeteries shall be protaned or u
80 blessed.
T. The London Times thinks that t
lie English people are very slow and patiel
is from the fact that eighteen years ha
I'd ELAPSED since the death of the Duke
wellington, and yet no monument b
liz been erected to his memory, notwi,
standing the sum OF 100000 was app
d. priated for the purpose four years aft
r. his death.
he Statistics in reference to the santa
he condition Of the London needlewom
have been published, from which It
N, pears that the mean age of m gen
an ally Ia Sal years-that Of needlewomen
S. only S64 Out Of 1000 needlewomen, 4
ug die Of consumption, and 1905 Of
yers; out Of 1000 shopkeepers, 1917
on Of consumption, aud 81 OF fevers-
we 1861, il is stated there were 1s7,13l
- = 49, 49, l.. ~.~At4