The daily Panola star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1871-1872, 1871-11-02

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whsst 70 The exclusion of almost sll other
crops.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tucker. supposed 10 10
one hundred and eleven years old, died IN
Rockingham county. Nerth Carolina, lately.
She was The last Of the Revolutionary pen
sIoners Of the county.
The Cofaederaie powder mills property
at Augusta, Georgia. were sold at auction
on wednesday, the lo.h Inst. The property
consists OF over one hundred and thirty
acres OF land and numerous buildings.
The report Of the death Of vandcnhoIr,
the clocuiionist, Is incorrect.
Cold has been discovered at Huaeho, six
ty-three miles east of Callao.
The New Mexico elections have given an
other success to the Republicans.
The Americans In London have contribu-
ted over $4,000 to the relief Of Chicago.
Three feet Of snow fell In recent snow
storm, near Rawlings, Wyoming. Trains
were delayed twelve hours.
The cases against Brigham Young and
Mayor Wells, at Salt Lake City, were conf
menced on the 18th. Both defendants
pleaded not guilty.
The next session Of the Methodist Profess
tant conference of Virginia will convene In
Norfolk on the first Wednesday In Nevem-
Der.
The case of the Gayoso Gas Company at
Memphis, against the sureties Of the Men,
phis Gas Company, involves damages to
the amount Of 100000.
Cincinnati is rather apprehe nsive of a coal
famine, on account OF the low water in the
river, by which the usual fall feet of canal
boats is detained above.
A little boy at Louisville, named Hogan,
only seven years old, died the other day in
coal shed, and quart of stolen whiskey is
supposed to have been the cause of his de-
cease.
AT the United States land office In Sioux
City last week thirty-one homesteads were
entered, and October promises to be the lar
gest in that line that was ever known at that
office.
The Jackson, Mississippi, fair has been
postponed till November 18th.
A church was blown down on Sunday at
New York, just alter the congregation had
left.
The report that Canadian cutter Is in
Massachusetts, waters is not confirmed,
though the revenue officers consider 1T well
founded.
Indications in the South are greatly against
good cotton crop, drouth having been the
greatest cause Of the short crop.
The Kansas City (Mo.) Exposition amphi-
theater will seat 10, 900 people.
Mexico, Mo-, |, the happy home ola coupe
who have been married twice and divorce
ed twice.
The Nashville Chief of Police has made
up his mind "to suppress those vile dens
known as houses Of assignation" in that
city. SO says the Banner.
The jackson Tenn Democrat has chang
ed Its name to the West Tennes see Plandeal-
er. The paper.is conducted AMI edited by the
same proprietor and editor, and its politics
remain the same.
The Jasper (Texas) Newsboy learns that
over one hundred families from Arkansas
and Alabama are either on the way or pre-
pairing to move and settle in Jasper this
fall.
A new paper is to be started at Tampa,
Florida, and its proprietors expect to make
a big thing Of advertising the property of
men too poor to pay their taxes. They ex-
pect to live on alligator-meat until they get
start.
A national police convention met in st.
Louis on the Goth.
The grand jury of johnson co ounty No.,
found one hundred and seventy six indict-
ments at its last session.
A piece of meteoric iron, weighing about
three pounds, was found near Troy NO.,
recently.
Prairie fires are still raging. The district
west of Dix creek NO., to the Kansas line
has all been burned over, and the fire is now
destroying great deal Of property east OF
Lamar.
The citizens Of Holden Mo object to the
tolling Of the church bells in that place as
public announcement Of deaths, on the
ground that it has bad effect on the sick.
The Missouri corn cropi eight per cent
above the average, and her crop of wheat
three per cent below the average in quantity,
as reported by the d Department of Agricul-
ture.
At the recent jail escape in Mexico, Mo-, a
young man from Charlton county, confined
on the charge Of murder, refused to leave.
He protested his innocence, and wants to be
indicated by the jury.
Mr.. Frank Mokabee, resident Of Jackson
county, was found hanging to a tree, dead,
recently. 1t Is the impression that he was
murdered for his money, the thieves hang
ing him to avoid suspicion,
Aheft arc IL, 40 UermanS In hanSaS. In
Illinois there are los. .73s, and in Missouri
I136lS
Two brothers named Anderson, who had
jnst arrived at Manhattan from Iowa, were
burned to death by prairie fire last week.
The board of trustees of the agricultural
college Of Arkansas have decided to locate
1t In Washington county.
The first business house re-erccted in Chi
cago, was that Of w. D. Kerfoot, real estate
agent, on Washington street, whose shanty
was up six hours after the Are.
Professor Agassiz is about starting on a
decp-sea survey OF the ocean bordering
America, with dredging apparatus capa-
bic Of working at depth Of three thousand
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