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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-07-11

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The Mobile Register" contains o
letter from q correspondent dated
Houston, June 9Th, on extract from
which we copy. IL will be g that
tho Real Estate Git Concert Scheme
which VIC advertise, Is highly en-
dersed
ATTRACTIONS FOR THE EMiGRANT
The people here are always glad TO
see the new conner, and readily afford
him all the assistance necessary 10
getting q start. The poor man with
out money can get a place to live on,
and rovisions sufficient to do him
until he makes bis first crop, provided
only that he gives some show Of being
Industrious and worthy Of help
Good citizens are wanted here, while
and is SO plentiful that it is easily
obtained. Indeed, the people are
coming 10 believe that it pays to give
away a portion Of the land to get
people to come and settle upon It.
A novel immigration enterprise
founded upon this idea, and having
for its object the inducing Of q large
portion of the tide Of emigration to
this section, has been set on loot at
Houston. There will be a land dis
tribution on the goth Of next July, in
which about one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars worth of property,
consisting Of houses aid lots. in the
city, and plantations and unimproved
lands in the country, will be given
away to those who will either come
here to live or send some one. The
enterprise is fathered by the Mayor
and City Council of Houston, and
the distribution will be uuder their
immediate supervision. Mr. Il. W.
House, the Oldest and wealthiost
merchant in Texas, and who takes q
great interest in the growth and sue
cess of Houston, has volunteered to
act as Treasurer, while Col. j. e.
Foster, a gentleman thoroughly
vorSed in Texas real estate matters,
has been appointed to superintend
the arrangements for the distribution.
with his Office at Houston. Tickets
OF membership, emitting the holder
to be enrolled in the list Of appli
cants, a be had BY addressing him
and enclosing two dollars, or circu'
lars giving a description of the prop
crty and Information about the dis
tribution can be had by enclosing
a return stamp. | have receive
letters from different portions of tie
country enquiring about this matter
and for that reason have looked
into it than | would have done
otherwise, and | find it what it pur-
ports to be. Indeed, it could hardly
be anything else and be under the
direction, as it is, of the city authori-
ties. 1t will bring many a new citi-
zen TO this already rapidly growing
place. Il. B.
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Tbs hoard md on Monday We are
sIsd 10 state tha The suggestion ~ The
sfAh was acted pppp and u appearing TO
the satisfaction VI abe Board that there IL
registered against tls county Treasury TO
the amount of Fort .hse hundred dollars
aud that the builhhg Of ansuisE fire.
proof Clerks aud shsrifr's office would DO
a hardship upon Tho tar payers, at this
dime. ~ vas ordered that saoh building be
suspended for the present scar. SOC
copy Of official order ordered to be pub
lished Ia the STAR
Wesley Terrell rendered his resignation
as Delinquent Poll Tax Collector which
was accepted He filed his Report and
said list Of delinqnents amounted to SGjL
Kimball, Raymond & Co allowed Sil 0O
for stationery not heretofore allowed
also $50 G5 for Records furnished Chance
ny Clerk offic..
Albert @. Il. Ravens was awarded the
contract for. building the bridge over
Bluff Greek Tor $50, he being the lowest
bidder and it was required that he should
enter into bond for $500. for faithful
performance.
Ordered that q contra ct be adv, rtised
in the STAR for building q bridge across
Rock Greek.
DAVID Reid, "a appointed County
Auctioneer and is permitted TO enter upon
the duties of the same upon filing a bond
in the sum Of one thousand dollars.
O.dered that license for retailing be
issued to Eugenio CIstanera in thirty
days if no counter petition be filed.
The following amounts were allowed
payable out of country Treasury.
To G. II. Alley, Clerk 9 days services
per diem 1877 90 issuing AZ Road Com
missions $40 5O,; ex oficio services for
6 mos, 1873. S25 90 do. for last 6 mos,
$25 90; expenses, charges on books 81 %.
E. N. Ramsay, sheriff. days per diem,
$1S 90; ex-oficio services last 6 mos,
S25 90, II. sc,rborough-4 days per
diem and 276 miles, S33 so. Juo. NJ.
Goff-4 days per diem $50 miles, S27 80.
Austin Johnson-4 days and "a miles,
S22 40. johnson Ware-5 days and 80
miles $50 80,
Gustave A. Raby fled his personal as
sessment roll, which was received and
ordered to be filed as required by law (for
thirty days, until lst Monday in August
for examination and correctioD).
The Board ordered the folio wing rate
per centum be levied upon the state tax
for the current fiscal year 1874
For a County tax rs per cent. IN the
state tax. one-third Of the sumo to be
collected in currency for special purposes
in defraying current expenses.
For a Bridge tax Is per cent OF state
tax. For Poor tax, 8 per cent on the
state tax. For Court House and Jail tex,
40 per cent on state tax, For a school
house and contingent fund, 3 mills III tho
dollar on tho taxable property.
The report Of the County Treasurer
filed at this term was continued until
next tenn for cause showing,
sheriff Ramsay allowed $50 for victual
lipg prisoners. And Board adj ,urned
till term in course.
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MAKE THEN TOE THE MARK"

MAKE THEM TOE THE MARK
Tine negroes Of Bullock comfy, Ala.
have made the Civil Rights bill a
test OF party fealty. They will al
low no mar to ally himself with the
Radical party who does not support
the provisions Of that bill. "That's
right says the Eufaula "Times, "
make those white skinned, treach-
erous trick sters who want the negroes
vote but not his company, toe the
mark. They can't be white and
black at the same time, and if they
will go to the black man for sup
port, sheer justice demands of them
that they should stand square upon
the black mans platform ; and if the
Civil Rights bill is one Of the
strongest planks make them stand
on it or kick them out Of ranks"
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We acknowledge the receipt Of a
complimentary ticket from the Inter-
collegiate Regatta Committee and
Saratoga Rowing Association to q Re-
ffatta on Saratoga Lake, July 18th and
18th. The Colleges included we see,
are Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Will,
liam, Trinity, Wesleyan, Cornell,
Columbia, Dartmouth and Brown.
Thanks for the courtesy. but a pre-
vious engagement to attend the
Regatta at Ocean Springs to-day will
prevent us availing curself Of it.
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The Third Term.

Since zen. SENATOR, GOrd0nS re-
turn home he has been "interyiewed",
and confirms the general belief that
Gen. Grant is pulling the wires for
q Third Term. And it seems as if
the Southern States are first to be
cajoled into an acceptance of this un-
precedented suggestion. Again, it is
whispered around that the Democrat.
ic party will take up Gen. Grant as
its candidate. In regard to these
propositions. we extract paragraphs
from able Editorials in the Mobile
Register and 1T. Louis Republican,
which we think "hits the nail on the
head"
From Mobile Register.
If Gen. Grant wants to try his
hand for a third term, let him run on
his own strength, or let the Radicals
carry him if they can. Conservative
men of all parties would simply dis
grace themselves in the eyes of com
mon sense and common justice and
propriety, who undertake to support
the most selfish, unpatriotic and un-
principled chief magistrate who has
ever sat in the chair OF Washington,
Jefferson and Adams. Let the South,
of all sections, beware how they are
scduced into this monstrous folly.
From st. Louis Republican.
II. the Presidential contest of 1876
he between President Grant, sup
ported by the traiu-bands of the Re.
publican party, on one side, and
somebody else supported by a deter
mined, aroused and compact popular
sentiment in the North, on the other,
it would be far better for the South.
ern whites to be found on the latter
side than on the former--for they
would in that case he the sharers in
an inevitable victory, and would have
a right TO claim their reward.
The people of the South cannot, it
is true, avoid an intense interest in
the next Presidential election ; but
their proper position for the present,
and Gp to the time when the issue
in it shall be thoroughly defined, is
one of attentive neutrality. The
third term dispute should be left en-
tiely to the North, or rather, to the
Republican party. Whether the |
party leaders will dare to declare
the project. or whether the
formal announcement of the project
would arouse the whole party against
It, and thus overwhelm it. are CUES.
lions which it is impossible to deter.
nine in the present ~undeveloped con-
lition of Northern opinion. 1t is q
act of some significance, however,
hat while the third-term suggestion
to have made q rather favor
lble impression in the South, it is re
.eived with suspicious silence at the
North. If the third term is not q
mere chimera, but a matarely deter
mined enterprise, there is no telling
vhat political notifications and shift
ng of party lines-what desperate
forts for victory and defeat, and
that exhaustive bids for Southern
clip, it may lead to. 1t were better
DR. the South to wat and watch. and
OF to give its decision until its de-
can have the greatest possible
feet. t-t ksf .
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We are just informed hat Elder j.
B. Hamberlin, (whose monthly ap-
pointments we announce e~lsewhere)
late President of Meridian Female
College. sojourning mainly at Ocean
Springs this summer, for his health,
has been appointed for the time being
as Missionary along the coast by the
Mission Board of the Mississippi
Baptist State Convention ; and are
glad to learn that his health is rapid.
ly improving.
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The white people of Louisiana are
uniting upon a strict race platform,
aud are organizing leagues throughout
the State. Mississippi will be forced
to that extremity sooner or later
Corinth Common wealth.
POUNDS! Here's another "ferce
editor" and a long ways from the
SeacoaSt.
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INV AUvthTlsENrNTS
Tan BrArn - Miss,sa'r1

1un BfArn - Mis-isairr
jackson Co.nty.
lizard u slpefviaovs, Jnly Tenn, ia,l
n appearing W The Satisfaction u lLo
Board that there u already ssVjst, ,aS
against the county Treasury pspey ~ M
amount of Forty Five Hundred DolIs,
10 be l%iqnidsted Ivy q levy Of ter On ma
tar. payers of this county, and By reason
Of such outstanding debt, aud The fact Of
the immediate necossitv NJ buiidjns /,
Cour, house, q heavy tar will have h, ba
levied TO meet such demands. aud Ina
Board being satisfied that the building oi
genuine fire. proof clerks aud sherifs
Office, 10 be paid out u the present lev,
Of county taxes, would produce = hardship
on the tax .payers Of the county Tor lhe
present year.
IL il therefore ordered that The build
inc Of a iire.proof clerks and sherifrs
Office he suspended for the present year
aud until a further order In sbe premises
And II IL further ordered that the Clerk
Of this Board publish 9 copy Of this order
one time in the ''sTAE OF Paaca0oula."
@. II, ALLEY, Clerl.
Scranton, Miss, July 9th, 1874.
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The COMET. Thereby hangs a
tail, which shortly, will be the only
part seen of it, as it is announced
that by the 14th inst. the head of
the comet will have reached the no.
rison in the northwest at the end
of twilight, so that it will not be Wis
ible after that date, but the tail will
extend nearly to the pole star.
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The Wilson Shuttl g Sewing, is PAR Ell
CELLKNcE H Machine, which every
amily sho uld have. We have used one
in our family for nearly one year to our
entire satisfaction.
Wehave an order for one, 10 dispose Of,
deliverable st New Orleans, (new from the
msnufactory) and any one desiring to pur-
chase will find it to his or her interest to
the STAR OFFIcE. tll.'N q. 2
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OF THsREGATTA AT OCEAN SPRINGS.
to come off to-day, the N. o. Bulle-
tin speaks as follows 4oo
"The regatta to take place at
Ocean Springs has been eagerly
looked forward TO by thousands of
our citizens who take on interest in
aquatic sports. We understand that
a large number OF boats have already
been entered. and more expected, and
that the race will be one OF the most
interesting and exciting that has
taken place since the war. Ocean
Springs has been of late greatly i'm
proved, and, as q place Of resort, it is
considered n OF the most attractive
and desirable on the Gulf coast.
Visitors viii find there ample and
reasonable accommodations o
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Shocking Affair at Enterprise.

An Enterprise special Of the fourth
instant, to the Meridian Mercury, re.
ports the following:
Quite early this morning. Mrs.
Atkinson was attracted by the
screams of her little four year old
daughter 10 the stable near the house.
She went out to see what was the
matter, and found a negro boy,
Amos Kidd, about l6 years old, try
ing to ravish her. She gave the
alarm to her husband. who ran out
with his gun and marched the imp of
darkness over this side Of the river.
and delivered him to the officer in
the guard house. He did not stay
there very long.
The citizens being 80 much enraged,
they assembled. demanded the keys,
which was OF course refused, where,
upon q scufle ensued, the key was
procured and the policemen put un-
der arrest. The door was soon open.
ed and Amos marched off to the
forks of two rivers, where stands o
beautiful tree with q limb extending
out as though made for the pur-
pose. He was put in a beef cart, UNI
der the limb and rope. He had not o
word to say /; refused to stand up or
could not. He was lifted up and
the rope placed around his neck, and
it is thought he was dead from fright
before the wagon drove from under
him.
Mr.. William Atkinson the father
of the victim Of the brutal outrage is
a worthy and esteemed mechanic of
that city, and we 1T L iprised that
he did not at once kill the wretch
and thus save the community the
trouble of doing it for him. Such
cases are occurring st~artlingly often,
and they are cases which know no
law. We learn that the people en-
masse, old men, Young men, and boys
and negroes Joined to viIdicate lu
Eanity against this outrage upon it.
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oMMIssIoNER RS SALE,

"
In the Chancery Cont OF JAcKsos
COUNTY, State OF Mississippi,
April Term. A. ID. lS4. vr
ARMAND Fl, 'DELMAs, Executor
of the last will and testament of #er
JoUs s. HOWE, deceased. rss-g
vs.. No, 8.
MAIDS. A. THOMPSON. Bill to
Foreclose Mortgage. -
1,domor, 40 e71 "a md Coasts
c,-.
The Undersigned Onancery olsfk % te
County aud state Aforesaid, py virtue
OF a Decree or ssiH On"ncerv ooart IN
the above stated cause, rendered April
22nd, A. ID. 1874 as Oomm'Ssiohef In
Chancery, viii proceed 70 sell on te
premises at puniic ootcry' ioS Ossh. TO
the highest bldder on, Satnrnay the 18TH
day OF July A. y 1919, the ioiowing
describ, d lands ana personal prOpe'ty or
so much Thereon as may Do suhhoient 70
satisfy the amount OF said drcree'
IA tract of land on the Eas. side OF
P~ascagoula Klver. D on tne East SIDE
OF Choctaw Bayou pounaeu Us id'ows'
to'Wit Commencing nj tns South
WeSt corner OF land now owned 10y 3. v.
Mckay, and running In an eastwardly
direction along the line OF said
land eighty eight chains 10 the line
OF b land OF Joseph ltaoy : thence
along said Raby's line south t~enty-nine
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CHURCH ORGAN OR PIANo.-Parties
desiring to purchase Q Piano or Church
Organ will find it to their interest to adj
dress the Star Office rs we are willing to
make liberal discount on the Agents pub
ished prices.
N. B. As We learn that some persons
have supposed that il is a secondhand
piano we wish to dispose of, We desire to
state that we have no such piano or
. RAN NEW ; now at the Salesroom Ia
No bile and subject to u order. If.
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The French news is exciting. The
ministry is defeated by t~hirty,seven
majority. Civil war is thought to be
imminent.
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The Meridian Mercury of Wednes>

The Meridian Mercury Of Wedness
day last says
Col. Lowry was shot and painfully
wounded, at Morton, on Monday
evening by a Mr.. Porter. At this
writing we are IN painful anxiety for
particulars, but have q belief. from the
little We have head Of the affair,
that TIE wounds. while painful, are
not dangerous. Gen. Robt. Lowry,
bs brother. came down yesterday
from Brandon 70 see lin.
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There is to be a grand Grange
Pic Mic at Enterprise on next
Monday. Adams OF the Courier
is to deliver an Address.
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II AZ l. E s.

Ia " n
A large, handsome, commodious. threesioy
residence, containing twelve spacious room. n
the main building, with CRATES and marble Dsn'ss
in every room. wide halls, and gaiiers'
front and rear; first story Of brick slate rool'
and brick cisterns with capacity Of 4O,VV 90
Ions out houses furnishing every conyenienes'
orchard. gardens &c.. .situsred immediately "
ON the Psscaeoula =. yer, at lie mourn 80
handing a line view Of the bay bath house ~ y
40 feet wharf with nine feet water At end. ~ N
yard is shaded by grand old live-oaks. ana y
grounds are beautiful and attractive. Conne0''
with the place is ,s~, 49,
with grounds cleared and uncleared, which VII WI
be sold with the place or. not as desired, vi
will he sold in divided tfacts. upoa whhs my
are handsome and eligible building lots. ID
Az an elegant Residence, n frst-class fsmny
Boarding House. q MilitRry School, an Acsoe~.
or Seminary this place offers unsurpassed suasa.
tons and inducements. For fnll informA'V-
of
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NJ o g E8Ai t
John X. WatIeworth IL my antbsrizsd
agent during my Temporary absence from the
Stste.
Iy2t CHAS. WATLLEwORTH
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The vomito is reported epidemic at
.av ana.
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REAL
OCEAN SPRINGS COTTAGES AND LOTS
" FOR SALEl

Two hundred and thirteen ,2i3) lots, rangingin
price from $25 to $50 according TO size and loca'
ton, in the beautiful village Of Ocean Springs
which abounds in mineral Springs, situated i'm.
Orleans and Mobile railroad, IS miles from GIG
former aud IS mites from he latter. eli ~; on<
third cash, balance on time 10 suit purchaser,
or If a sale amounts TO five hundred dollai 9, one
fourth cash and balance, one, two and three
years IA =
Also, a number Of new and desirable cottages
for sale Oh same terms Splendid Opportunities
are here offered TO procure n home ut low prices
and ON reasonable terms, at one Of the pleasant
est. and most healthy Of our Sea. side Resorts.
Apply for further Information 10 the
jcl3 If. STAR OFFICE
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10 N
y HH.E
Two very desirable Residences al Ocean
Springs, for rent Inquire Of
iy 4, STAR OFFICE.
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In the Chancery Cont OF JAcKsosl
COUNTY, State OF Mississippi, :
April Term. A. ID. 1874.
ARMAND H. 'DELMAs, Executor
of the last will and testament Of
John s. HOWE, deceased. s
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1874-05-19
Rig ALEC. FLEMING.

\ great many Eurekans will re-
member Big Alec. Flemming. who
used to keep the saloon on the corner
now occupied by Thomas Douglas.
Alec. has been out on il prospecting
trip for some time, and writes his faith
cr, who lives in Gold Hill. the follow
ing letter, which the .NeWs is permitted
to publish: The letter is daiel Man.
COS i've Colorado, April ~. The
writer says: 1--WE arrived AT this beau-
tltul stream April list; we had Il rough
time getting here. Our rou.e was
from Nisalia through Walkers Pass of
the Sierra Nevada, thence across Death
valley to lvanpagh, thence to Los Va
gos. Skirting Arizona we struck the
Colorado river at Colville. thence we
Travelled to st. Thomas. From thence
up the Rio Virgin river to ST. George.
Crossing the Colorado river at Lees
Ferry we travelled southwark Il dis
lance OF 100 miles. l came near drown
ing III the San Juan river, but was res
cucd by my companions. Since my
arrival here have occupied my time
i'll building houses and hunting. |
have located Il farm of 80 acres, and
nave built myself il fine log house; am
very much pleased with the country:
right here are some Of the finest stock
ranches i'll the world. We found
plenty Of gold in the san Juan-it all
m from the La Plata, .Animus and
o'hcr branches. We are commencing
to saw ont lumber for sluice boxes:
will ommenc sluicing in thirty days.
We find an abundance of game, such
"a deer, bear, beaver, California lions,
elk, wild turkeys and the like. All Of
the people in our parry are in the best
of spirits. Will write to you again
very soon.'
ALEXANDER FLEMING.