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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-10-09
Science aud Industry.

Cactus leaf is to be used i'm the
South in paper-making as a substitute
for rags.
The English farmers are doing bet
ter with their hops than with SD Tie
rest Of their productions together.
Never has the state, county and
district fairs in the We. been ~ So.
cessful as those Of the pre,el; ye4-
The Lake Superior mine. ~
1856 have yielded nearly 7,py.,pl- sons
Of iron.
-Thirty-fve tribes contribute stock
and specimens Of industry to the Indian
exposition at MusgOkee, |. 7.
A sweet potato plantation Of 100
acres, near Atlanta, Ga. Is expected to
yield 10000 bushels Of the favorite ed
ible.
The rice crop of Louisiana amount
ed to only 5000 barrels in 1863, but the
yield of this year will reach POO. 600 bar
rels. One planter has $500 acres Of it.
Sorghum mills and evaporators are
in full blast all over the West, turning
out hundreds and thousands Of gallons
tbis $500 1orno,. O tbin C"re Sio"n
80 J 49, 20 '""n al! 0ioP ever
=,
- ne" OBSERVATORY l0r a'tTonomlca
physics Is 70 De erected at tontenay,
neal Paris, the site to which a few wears
ago it was proposed to move the old
National Observatory. The new institu-
~ n -
.
Inferno Is the appropriate name OF
q great sulphur mn IN humboldt
Couhty' Nevada IL Is near the rail-
Ioau' anu more 'aiua0Ie that a silver
NINE Nearly TWO car day are
1hlPP,ed' mere Is one lump at the
IluihooiuI House winch weighs over
lVo pouHuS' II Is 70 be shipped to the
centennial
1t appears, according to Populdr
Science ReUiew, from a report supplied
TO the French Academy, that the most
e~thcaciOus remedy for vines attacked
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bosom. .aI 20 smother pII.ss Der rlr.
Mrs CHIHH's hIs great ilal- Vt
Der Hl-#aHIs military power. fHr
tHr lHgf-. .Its she, " Boo was 70 IIuu-
tenant iu fNa hursH-mHriHps. HferWh..H
De- Hl- promoted tu 'he eapfuIuey 81 70
regular squad uf -ap-head, and minor.
-uisrIeIi. the great English israelita.
says be- owes whatever literary reuufl-
ton De- has very largely Go the people of
the United States. Now, what IS be fish.
ing for over hcrp2
~ lady the other day meeting q girl
who had lately left her service, inquired.
- Well, Mary, where do YOU live now 20
" Please, ma'um, / don't live nowhere.
now rejoined the girl "l,m mar
ried!"
A Cincinnati corpse rose in It's coffin
and quietly remarked: Il feel very
queer The two young men who were
sitting up with it had important bust
ness down town the next moment, and
did not hesitate to pass out through the
window to attend to it, either.
-" Sarah, you're Il good gal, but
there amt no gal agoing to call for two
plates Of ice-cream on me and keep me
for her fcller?" were the closing remarks
Of a young gentleman upon parting with
his inamOrata.
A few nights since as a Chinaman
was going up Elizabeth Street East, he
walked against a rope which some bad
boys had stretched across the walk.
:" john fell on his head, rolled over.
lost the clean shirts in the gutter, and
sadly home. Since that night
every Chinaman in town walks in the
middle Of the street and steps high, and
when asked to explain they reply, "NoI
hip-hop on this man!"-Dctroit
Free Press.
Down the river road, when a boy
of five or six leaves the house, his
mother asks: "Going away, Bill?"
"Yas." "Where?" clown to play
on the saw-logs." "Well, young man,
| want to tell you in advance that if
you 90 down on them logs and fool
around and fall in and get drowned III
lick the life out of you!" "Yum,"
answers Bill, and he wanders away
Free Press.
"A certain French gentleman, hay
ing been but a very little while in Eng
land, was invited to Il friends house.
when a large bowl Of punch was made
compound he had never seen before,
and which did not at all agree with
him; but having forgotten the name of
it, he asked a person the next day,
" What dey call dat liquor in England
which is all de contradiction-where is
de brandy to make it strong and de water
to make it small, de sugar to make it
sweet and de lemons to make it sour?m
&" Punch" answered the other, 81 sup
pose you mean" SAY, ponch, begari"
cried monsieur. "It almost pOnch nv
brain out last night"
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-10-09

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Fag $50
wa H @T H"..
Province NJ HI F
eight were I.Fal
~ German carpenter. HHm-I f.. q.
kHHiHEa. while H' H.#a H| t.#HH.
o.. aH fH. ltH. faI fam fa fourth
sflrF Il % hl IIHg a.i wac instantly
kIIrI
The body az Fr1Hk % Fountain. %
Young hIrs.fHIIa ~ Monroe. N....
uID mfs'araHsIg Disappeared slu.
three weeks lll, wIs Recovered Sept
L- IH B corn field near Detroit. ha HIT.
ing kilei himself With @ revolver
AT Grand Rapids. Mich. aa the
goth " september as !. O.. FITZGERALD.
q turner, vrs FOO the act ~ putting 900
more pressure o. DOB. machine. the h.It
broke, throwing che pulley with great
force. striking him on the head and
fractuFiH- bis skull.
BY an explosion II IN. iu the An
Choir c1IIiery at Heckchcryille. Penn.
On the 51th, James Adams and Arthur
Hunt were killed, and Isaac Wilson
probably fatally wounded. Several
other. were severely wounded.
The first accident to the limited
mail train happened to the section
which left Pittsburgh. Penn, at &
O'Clock on the evening Of the 2ith. over
the Pittsburgh. Cincinnati and st. Louis
Railroad Edward Mckinney, q passen-
ger --- Dayton. wa, thrown from the
s- rE u @ car, near Lock Seventeen.
- U-. and fell under the wheels, the
lrl- passing over him. crushing the
u4s E4.- If Ei, head, and injuriug him
So .-at h cannot recover.
The following were a few of the sui
cIdes committed the past week: limo
thy Titus. afarmer residing neag Worth
ingtOn, Ohio, committed suicide by
shooting himself with a shot gun. An
unknown tramp was found dead, with
a revolver by his side, in a fence corner
near North Platte, Neb. Near Sidney.
Neb., Charlie Stone shot himself while
intoxicated. Mrs. Rosenbaum commit
ted suicide at Pulaski, Tenn, while Ia
boring under a fit of mental alteration.
Miss kird suicided at Lebanon, Ohio,
by taking poison. Mr.. Nathan Nernum,
a prominent citizen of Bowdoinham,
Me, and Mr.. Jas. Maxwell, aged Ct, of
Lewiston, Ne, hanged themselves.
Among the railroad accidents the
past week were the following: \ man
aged about 80 was killed while walking
the track Of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy road, between Earl and
Meridian, His, Sept. 70; supposed to be
Isaac Bowers, Of Roaring Springs. A
mail train on the same road was thrown
an embankment on the 26th, near
W]oodburne, Iowa, and James Powers,
a section foreman, killed, and about
fifty passengers injured. On the 2Sth.
the Peoria express, on the Hamilton and
Dayton road, was run into by a freight
train at Hamilton, and Andy Wertz
and John Schuler killed, and Henry
Deemer severely wounded. At
Philadelphia, 10Th, an excursion
train returning from New York on the
Pennsylvania Railroad ran into a dunn
my car on the Fifth and Sixth Streets
Railway. The dummy, which was filled
with men, women and children, was cut
in two by the train and demolished.
Two persons were instantly killed, and
six dangerously and ten slightly injured.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-10-09
school and Church.

-Thirty-one young men of much
promise are attending the Methodist
Theological Seminary in India.
-Lok Laisun, a son of the Chinese
ex-Commissioner of Education, has en-
tered the sophomore class at Yale.
"A single contribution made recent
ly to the support of the Church of Eng
land Temperance Society reached the
sum of 5000.
A Christian chapel for the Chinese
has been built in Virginia CITY, New,
by the labors of All Foo, a Chinaman of
the Moody type.
The Spanish and Portuguese Syna-
gogue in Amsterdam has celebrated its
two hundredth anniversary. 1t is a
magnificent building, and the ceremony
was very impressive.
The French and Swiss Methodists
have held their twenty-second confer
ence. They report lS3 ehapels and
other places of worship, q evangelists.
SO lay-preachers, 4,9OS communicates,
So Sunday-schools, and 1859 habitual
hearers.
A special meeting has been called
OF the Protestant Episcopal Bishops of
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-10-09
A Novelty in Billiards.

NJ. Adrian liar, who is known AZ ,ho
champion finger billiard player OF lno
world, astonished and interested a@,S7v
number of spectators who hau ,ho
cred to witness his m~anipulations 0, ,s snS
balls at Carriers billiard room' ~
Broadway, last night. The entef'a eHo
ment began with a carOm game ~ IN
points. between liar, who played VIII
his fingers, and Joseph Dion, VINO us hs
a cue. The finger-player flnlsheu qG0
score in twenty minutes, mahII in
points in five innings, and lncluulnsb
the performance a run of lO6 ana anu IL
or of 165. Dion had only began On nD
string when the finger player ran Oos,
The remainder of the evening was IN ~
cupied by lars exhibition OF MS Ia
full and ingenious fancy sho'' n;cest
made shots which required tle az
Judgment, and yet were eXecu.eJIres
carelessly as if they played theli ~ nm.
He made shots which could not os Snt
derstood if described or explaineG, y.
must be seen to be appreciated; made
ING figures on the table-cloth ne "nd
the 61per-ball retrace the draugn .;ns
execute a difficult shot at the sann stteen
Placing a row of ten or twelve 81 he
balls a few inches from the cusn i
sent his ball behind them, tou.i ~
first a ball and then a cushion III ~ mt
whole line had been traversed. ne
goblets where the balls had been ~1
made his ball run around n O In A
each without touching hem, halls
word, he seemed to inspire the u.ed
with instinct and intelligence a any
them as he pleased. The enaning
ment was interesting from NJ
TO end. and marvellous at times-
York Graphic.
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IH" WfIH'Hfs Hni NdHi iH ihE
Top hHHu fIr hHHf tnf buIiing
tlia I.tif rtNihIfinn Hffitrf thf squire
'InlNl NF tHlI street, E1si
broadway 1ui HuiErrf Street
uurlWiurtHnIJ crowded Among
ihc more prominent spectators wrfr
Ni- dl hrrsrlf lud Mr. White. ihg
former Secretary 90 che Fire Depart
mnI', who httIg thought thHt ihe} we're
tH WitIH ihg drIth ui thren human Dee
hF means which they hIi kiuiIy
provided ior the city. aud after having
made % comfortable pile ~ money uut
tHD operation. When the ladder wits
put together aud raised 81 70 height uf
iS feet Captain McElwainc noticed that
10 would fall upon the spectators IN ease
VI an accident, and therefore ordered
men tU push the crowd back, re-
moving them all from the possibility of
danger. Had this not been done,
and the crowd been allowed to remain
falling space, the loss Of life
have been terrible. ~ the num-
Der Of women and children were very
considerable.
Nash, the chief Of the Fourth Battal-
on, gave the order to ascend at u quar-
.er TO eleven o'tlock' the putting To-
Sclncf Oh tne olght sections ana raising
the ladder having consumed much
ime. The men, however, were some
what uneasy, and seemed to be unwill-
ng TO execute the order. "N ny, there's
danger!' exclaimed Nash, and he
lightly mounted the ladder and began
% ascend 1t with great rapidity. The
whose names have already been
glyen above, were sufficiently encour-
lged to follow him.. Alas! il was their
courage and pluck which plunged them
nto destruction, Tor 1t was only the first
wo who followed him quickly who met
\aslis cruel fate. These two were
and Hughes. When the latter
had passed above the third section,
Wash, who was n wonderfully rapid
Timber, was already on the top of the
adder and calmly looking down upon
he spectators from the giddy height of
8 feet, and the five Others were away
'ehind below the third section. {
1t was Just above this section of the
erial ladder that the break occurred. {
he spectators were admirinU Nash's
o~olness and skill on the top of the lad {
er when, to their great horror. they l
uddenly noticed a dangerous swaying
, and fro Of the light wooden structure !
hat was standing there SO feet high and ,
'ithout any support whatever to insure .
ne safety of the eight precious lives {
he wives or other relatives of the men .
n the ladder, gave IA loud shrek, and '
.hief Bates, taking in at a glance the '
situation, instantly shouted the U
rider, "Come downin The men start =
/ to execute this order, and their pale =
ices and trembling figures were easily Il
iscernible from the ground. But it 6
too late. There was suddenly a II
,ud snap, the ladder broke at the third !,
,ction and precipitated the three men !.
no were still above it down to the =
round and into eternity. 1t was m y
yful spectacle, and for a moment !,
7ery body stood aghast, almost petriiied, :
though they could not realize this l
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-10-09

OF GIeneove. L. l.. on the M.
the 2sth, a boat containing nj ~ sopis
Geo. b. Proletus. late pastor oi min
Church. Of BROOKLYN, Lewis peI-d.
and three other gentlemen SaPrned.
and the two first named were dro"
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-11

The senate committee on foreign rela-
tions have reported joint resolution, au-
thorizing the appointment of commits
sioner, to represent the United States, in
the information penitentiary congress, to
he held at Rome during the coming year.
that the governor of certain state, or any
of several ex-state and territorial governors
that might be mentioned, may not apply
for the commissionership under the misap-
prehension that it is an international PEN
tentiaiy TO which they are to be accredited.
We freely admit that quite number of
these governors ard ex-governors would
find fitting home in such an institution,
and we are not so sure that they would not
make good representatives to the pcniten-
tiary congress. The object of this con-
gress, if we understand it, is to reform the
penitentiary system, correct abuses, and
ameliorate the condition of the inmates. 1t
is said that a man will work the best part
for that in which he is the most interested,
and going upon the truth of the PROPOSE
ton, we could name any number of these
officials who, if they received their just de-
serts, would be deeply and personally in
terested in ameliorating the condition OF
pcnitentiary convicts. How would Moses
or Shepherd, for examples, do for commits
soncrs? We don't say that they arc not
perfect men, we don't say that they ever
received any pecunary benefits from jobs,
we merely suggest their names as suitable
candidat 3 for commissioners, from their
well known characters for honesty and fair
dealing. the total ah+, nee of all seliishness
in their disposition >, and their deep and
abiding interest in the reform of prison dis
cipline and the amelioration of the condi-
ton OF possible future penitentiary lu-
mates.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-11

There does not appear to be good foun-
dation for the rumors Of disagreement
between the president and Postmaster
General Jewell, and that Senator Chandler
would take his place.
Kelley has introduced his favorile three
sixty irter-convertible bond scheme in the
house. The bill proposes to repeal the act
prohibiting an increase of greenback circu-
lation, passed in June, 1874
The total legal tender notes deposited
with the treasurer for the purpose of re-
firing national bank notes since the passage
of the act, Jan. l4th, is SO, 274, 900. The
total of additional circulation issued since
the passage of the act is 1908, $50.
Nothing final As to details has been de-
vel0ped from the sessions of the ways and
means committee rs yet on the new revenue
bill. A subcommittee was appointed Tues.
day to examine and report whether it Is ju-
dicious TO increase the rates on whisky and
tobaccO
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-11

house, two-story wooden structure, was
occupied by the family of Nicholas Haber-
land. The upper fiat was rented by John
Gibson, whose family were composed of
his wife and FIVE children. A sudden
crash about nine o'clock was the crack of
doom for the inmates of the house, who
were all in qed. The enormous masses of
snow poised on the almost perpendicular
face of the cliff came down with furious
force, and the house was wrecked in
flash, and its unfortunate inmates buried in
living grave. The neighborhood was
speedily aroused, and few minutes after
the wreck there were hundreds busy trying
to extricate the bodies of the inmates of
the house. The Haberland family--father,
mother and three children-were taken out
alive and well. Further search revealed
the dead bodies of the Gibson famlly--the
husband and wife and the poor little chill
dren, the baby next TO the mother. In
spite of the crushing suffocation, 1t is sup
posed the little ones were fast asleep, and
suffered no pain, while the parents APP
peared to have made fearful struggle
with DEATH
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-11
AnecdOtc OF President EiucOta.

There have been many anecdotes pub
ished on President Lincoln, and the fol-
lowing is among the latest
After he had sent the name of the Rev.
Mr.. Shrgley TO the Senate for confirmation
as hospital chaplain in the army, a self
constituted committee of the Young Mems
Christian Association called upon him to
protest against the appointment. After
Mr.. :. name had been mentioned the
President said: ooh yes, have sent it to
the Senate. His testimonials are highly
satisfactory, and the appointment will no
doubt be confirmed at an early day" The
Young men replied "But sir, we have
come not to ask for the appointment, but
to solicit you to withdraw the nomination,
on the ground that Mr.. s. is not cvangel-
cal in his sentiments"
"Ah !" said the president, ''that alters
the case. On what point of doctrine is the
gentleman unsound 2"
"He does not believe in endless punish
ment." was the reply.
"1cs, added another of the committee,
"he believes that even the rebels them
selves will finally be saved and 1t will
never do to have man with such views
hospital chaplain"
The president hesitaed to reply for a
moment, and then responded with an en-
phass they will long remember ''If that
be SO, gentlemen, and there be any way
under heaven whereby the rebels can he
saved, then, fer Gods sake, let the man be
appointed !"
He was appointed.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-11
Presidents Message ON Arkansas
Affairs.

The following is the presidents message
on Arkansas affairs
To the Senate of the United States Here
with | have the honor to send, in accord
ance with the resolution of the senate of
the 3D. inst. all the information in my pos
session, not heretofore furnished, relating
to affairs in the state of Arkansas.
will venture to express the opinion that
all the testimony shows that in the election
of 1872 Joseph Brooks was lawfully elect
cd governor of the state that lie has been
unlawfully deprived of the possession of
his Office since that time; that in 1874 the
constitution of the state was, by violence,
intimidation and revolutionary proceedings,
oyerthrown, and new constitution adopt
cd and a new state government established.
These proceedings, If permitted TO stand,
practically ignore all rights Of minorites
in all the states also. What IL there to
prevent each of the states recently read
mit,ed to federal relations on certain con
dllons from changing their constitutions
and violating their pledges, If this action in
Arkansas is acquiesced in respectfully
submit whether a precedent so dangerous
to the stability of state government, ii
not of the national government also, should
be recognized by Congress. | earnestly
ask that Congress will take definite action
in this matter to release the executive from
acting upon questions which should be de-
cidcd by the legislative branch Of the gov
ernmeni. (Signed) L. $. GRANT.
Executive Mansion, Feb. 8, 1875.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-11

Major Ben Perley Poore, IN an interest
ing letter to The Boston journal INDUCES
in "reminiscences of some of the former SEN
ators, which he classifies as follows:
THE oLD-sCHooL SENATOR'S.
Twenty years ago, when Mr.. Wilson en-
tered the noble old senate chamber, 1t con-
tanned many of that generation OF public
personages who had broken down the Wing
party by their subscrviency to the slave
power, with those who, under the name of
Democracy, imposed upon Kansas the ter
ribe sway of mcrclless despotlsm.
James NJ. Mason, who had been told so Of
ten by Virginia oilice-bcggars that he had
inherited the cnnobling traits of the Eng
lish cavaliers that he believed it was so :;
Hunter, dark haired and saturnine, of
thoughtful mind and ripe experience, who
was the best of Southern financers Lewis
Cuss, who already displayed signs Of cner-
waiting mouldiness; Toombs, a man of in
domtablc pride and bouncless ambition,
who afterward came within one vote of
beating Jeff. Davis in the election for Pres
ident of the Southern Confci,cracy Doug
las, untitled by nature 10 play Il ;ubordi-
nate part but just then shackled 10y the
South Benjamin, dapper little attorney
of the Plaquemine school; Houston, who
sported leopard skin wai,tcoat, and gen.
orally sat whiting bits Of pine wood and
Shields. who had brayely stood where the
angel of death Tapped its wings over bloody
contests, were among the Democrats who
voted squarely and soldly in the defence
of slavery and in favor Of its extension
THE REPUBLICAN rIoSEERs
In arrayed opp osition to these democrat
ic magnates were Chase, whose brilliant
capabilities for action and influence were
years aftcrward clouded by his insane am
bition to secure the presidency; Ben
Wade, who so stoul'y wiclded the great
Northern hammer" against Southrri,
oppression, with an aggressycncss ro-
claiming that he was ever ready rr tie
Tray llullltOil l. ISL '''ti II = l.iSS ~ stt-
rotary Of state been stau cA. scrvioeahlc and
staesmanlike Seward, who when hc had
successfully found that neither anti-.na, ~
ny or whigism could carry him into the
presidential chair, reluctantly became re.
publican, with the hope that in that livery
he might obtain the coveted place Fessen
den, that model senator. whose claim tc
public esteem was based not only on his
great ability, but on his dignity Of de
meanor, his rectitude Of life, his scorn OF
partisan jobbery and his honorable heart
Foot of Vermont, ever dignitie and decor
Gus and among the new corners. but tow
| ering above many veterans, Charles Sum
ner, who needs no word of praise. .Johr
p Hale of New Hampshire who ever wore
his armor mantle of coed humor, ant
who used TO poke the CID Southern Don
in the ribs while he bore aloft the banner
of freedom, had previously been member
of the senate, but did not take his seat unit
the following December.