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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-31
LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT sun.
within the Arctic Observation-Disclosures Of
The Norwegian Coast and of the
People.

The Rochester Union makes the follow
ing extracts from a private letter dated
at Tromsoe, Norway, July 3:
We steamed into this pretty Arctic
town night before last, and shall make
our home here a week longer while a por-
ton of the party finish their northern
trip around North Cape to Vadsoe. We
crossed the mountains by means of horses
and carriages, using 100 for our ride of 200
miles. The law requires every station
from six to ten miles apart to furnish
travellers with fresh horses within half an
hour of their arrival. We are now two
days into the Arctic Circle, and where
we now live the sun shines brightly at
midnight from May 20 to July %.
Even two days before reaching this point
the sun was so strong at midnight that
the ladies wanted shades. This coast is
perfectly beautiful, or, | should have
said, grand, as well as wonderful. For
nearly 1000 miles the islands are 50
thick--so close together--that it is like
sailing up a river which expands into
lakes. The whole distance is over
Swallowed with snow-capped mountains
from 5000 to 5000 feet in height, rising
abruptly from the water, while in the
distance are to be seen those which are
much higher. We were exposed only
once or twice to the open sea, and then
only two or three hours at a time.
The air here is very exhilarating.
Yesterday the children picked wild
flowers as we were walking, and within
a few feet made snowballs. 1t is a
wonder that in so short a season anything
can be grown in this latitude, and yet
grass springs up rapidly, often growing
an inch in "A hours, They have but
two seasons ~really--ten months of winter
and two of summer. Although the
season is so long yet the fords never
freeze, and l think we often have as
cold weather in New York. The occtl.
patton of the place is fishing, mostly
herring and Goldfish. All are well to do;
no rich and no poor. The people are
intelligent, the masses receiving a fair
education. But what a queer place and
what queer customs! From the belfry
of the church between the hours of eight
at night and six a. m. a man shouts the
time of night through a large tin horn
at intervals of every half hour. The
clergymen wear large wide ruffs. We
have just been to see the Laps, some
three or four miles from town. They
were notified the day before, and for a
small sum spent the whole day among
the mountains gathering their reindeer,
which they drove down for us to See
some 400 of them in number. 1t was
such a novel sight to see them coming
down the steep mountains. They will
not live low down, as they eat only rein
deer moss which grows where it is very
cold. Cows will not eat where they have
been as the scent of the little hair they
shed is very offensive to them. We 20
from here to the fords around Mode
and Bergen and purpose spending a few
weeks there; from thence we go to Ham
through Germany TO Geneva,
reaching Nice about the LIST of Novem-
Der. The trip so far has been one of
great pleasure"
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How the Gallas XIII the Black Panther.

Wonderful stories are told of how the
Gala hunters canture IL. for thew dare
NOT meet If face TO face With their spears
and therefore resort 10 strategy II il
said that when the Gala hunter has dis
covered the haunt of a black nanther. he
dips a round hole in the ground some
six feet deem and inst LARGE enouph for
him 70 stand unright in. He then gets
into his hole. and. placing his round huff
falo-hide shield on the Ion of il. so as to
cover him entirely, calls 10 the panther
in a knocking voice. daring it to come
ont of the Jingle where il is concealed
The panther, who is naturally n yerv
passionate beast, on hearing this defiance,
Immediately rushes out and tries to get
at the hunter by gnawing at his shield,
which covers the ton of the hole where
he is ensconced; but the Gala holds
tight, and then ensues a dialogue. or
rather a monologue. for, though the
panther is supposed to understand Gala,
he only answers by prowIs. The hunter
first abuses the panther, and then ridi-
cules it, calling it all sorts of names.
until the unfortunate panther gradually
works itself into such q frenzy that it at
last fairly dies with rage. and The hunter.
emerging from his hole, secures its skin,
In confirmation of this story. the Abys-
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-31
School and Church.

Next years tuition in the university
of Mississippi will be free. The state
appropriates $50, 900.
The English House of Commons has
refused, by a vote of two hundred and
four to one hundred and forty-three, to
abolish church rates in Scotland.
The plan of an international Catholic
league has been sanctioned by the pope,
and is now in course of elaboration at
Vatican. Rome is to be its headquarters.
Archbishop Bailey, of Baltimore, an
nounces, from Vichy, France, that
Bishop Gibbons, of Richmond, has been
appointed his coadiutor, with the right
of succession.
The Baptist church of Manchester,
Va, has solemnly resolved to exclude
from its membership every member that
is able and refuses to help pay the ex-
penses of the church.
Shuje Isawa, a young Japanese, lately
graduated at the Bridgewater (Ct.) Nor
NAL school. In his graduating essay he
gave statistics showing the condition of
education in japan and thanked Ameri-
cans for efforts made in that direction.
There are over 20, 900 common schools,
100000 children receiving edu-
cation in them, and 1896 instructors in
Japan.
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Doctors do not flourish in Servia. Up
. a very recent date their place was sup
piled by e wise women,' called " babas.h
These "babas" profess to have an intu-
tive knowledge of medical plants but
that intelligent being, the Servian peas.
ant, placed much less trust in their med
ical man than in their magical skill.
Their performance in this line was re-
markable, and their rustic patients had
every faith in it. The most commonly
fatal diseases in Servis are consumption
and congestion of the lungs. The staple
remedy for the latter ailment is TO adj
minister three apples grown OH the same
bouglL If, after eating these apples,
which are supposed to have some mystic
rious connection with the Trinity, the pa
tient feels no better, then, but not till
then, the wise woman adopts more vigor-
Gus measures. The unfortunate malade
is laid on the ground on his stomach; the
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-31
The Dangers of Ether.

1t has always seemed to us the height
offolly to declare there could be no danger
in any anasthetic. The lesson taught BY
the late death from nitrous oxide has. it
is to be hoped, been well learned, and we
shall in future hear less of the absolute
safety of any agent capable of depriving
a person of all sensation. Some cases in
which ether has been followed by alarm
ing symptoms haye lately been accorded.
They have been termed syncope, but the
word IS not appropriate, as the heart con-
tinued to beat after respiration ceased.
This is what should have been antici.
pated. When death ispreduced by ether
the animals heart continues to beat long
after the arrest of respiration. The pulse
is quickened by ether and maintains its
force through a long state of ~annthesia.
In these facts lies the safety of ether.
But it should never be forgotten that
there is danger at a certain stage, and the
danger is from the side of the respiration,
which at length ceases. S~tertorous
breathing proceeds from paresis of the
muscles of the palate, and should lead
to the ether being suspended. So respi-
ration growing more and more shallow
and less frequent is a warning and should
not be overlooked. 1t is very rare that
the heart fails-perhaps never, Pallor
is rare, too, ard should excite attention
if it cur. But, we repeat, the danger
is from the side of respiration that of
chlorofIrm from the heart and this fact
goes far to explain their relative safety.
In chloroform narcosis the danger is
much more sudden. Ether gives warn
ing.
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Gov. HamptOn's Speech at White Sui
pher.

"Now, thank God she is no longer
| the PROSTATE state, but the Palmetto
state of old !" 1t was his pride that the
| victory was won without appealing to
force. 1t was the result of the harmonl-
Gus union of black and white. Governor
| Matthews has told us that in the regi-
ment before us ate men who wore the
gray and others who wore the blue. | am
glad to see this spirit Of fraternity. l am
glad to see them here, shoulder to shout
der, under one flag and one constitution.
Cheers.
"The conservative feeling of the south
finds fit illustration in the union of the
brave boys of the north and south. / am
reioiced to know that while riot and
bloodshed had ragged ut the north, the
south had remained peaceful and law
abiding, looking not only to the preserya-
ton Of order in her states, but expressing
in an unmistakable manner her solicitude
for the safety of the national capital, and
her desire to be of service to the national
government. Applause. Thousands
Of men in South Carolina indicated to
me their willingness to go north and
render the president any assistance in
their power. They would have been
glad to have gone, and stood shoulder to
shoulder with the men they NICE fought
this time to protect a common country.
"Let the people of the north remember
this; We recognize that the union is
restored we recognize the constitution
of the United States. And when | say
that | mean the constitution with all its
amendments. Applause. We have
surrendered in good faith. The southern
states now ask for equal laws. Let
Maine be put on a par with South Caro-
lima. Regard Louisiana as you do
Massachusetts, and you will find no men
in the union who will stand by the
constitution of the United States more
Loyalty than the men of the south.
[Great cheering.
"Soldiers and citizens of the north,
will you forget the shout of victory
while we extend the hand of fraternity?
We propose to uphold the laws in every
southern state. We do not want a strong
standing army. [Cheer. We want ne
standing army in times of peace. We
can commit our interests to our soldiery.
We want union and piece and fraternity.
As states, let us be as distinct as the
pillows; as a country let Is be one as
the sea-all people striving alike for the
happiness and prosperity of the whole
American republic" Cheers.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-31
INSURANCE MATTERS.
An Interesting Letter On iiie Subject from
"a Victim.

victim.
New York, May 81, 1877.-Mr.-,
Vice President, etc.-Dear Sir: | I'M in
receipt of a postal card advising that my
next annual premium (pollcy No. 43, 1863
is Sl47 90. Thereby ] am reminded
that the life insurance business, as man
aged by your company, is, like the prov
idence Of God, "past finding out" |
began paying $50 cash and $52 note on
this policy in 1867. 1t seemed an mex
pensive luxury. 1t would have been if
| had died. ] unhappily survived, and
and now for ten years have been
struggling as much to keep the policy
rs myself alive. But the appetite of the
policy, | observe, does grow by what it
feeds on, and the danger is that it will
shortlylexceed its demands and my ability
to answer, and | shall see it die on my
hands. The steady and constant increase
in the amount of premium on this policy
began to excite my curiosity, not to say
my admiration. several years ago. The
agent to whom | applied for enlighten-
ment---1 have passed through the hands
of five or six, each,of whom have amassed
a fortune and retired--s9 overwhelmed
me. with In lthematics of the most
mixed and abstruse character that | fell
back from the investigation greatly hui
inflated at my own ignorance, and pro-
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A $500 900. 900 Bonanza in Peru.

Specimens of silver taken from the
Cerro de Pasco silver mines in Peru
show that the submerged portion oil me
mountain is very rich, and a rough estl-
mate shows that a body of ore will De
exposed by the new tunnel, which Henry
Meiggs is to build, worth from s3OO,.OoO,-
900 to $500, 500, 900. These mines nave
laid under water for fifty years, are
scarcely known to the present generation
though they had been worked $50 year,
when the miners had to stop on account
of the water. Peru has now discovereu
that a tunnel can be built that will drsls
the mountain completely, by dHining9n
the lake from which the water IN tue
mine comes, and she is so much in earn
est about it that the first loads OF inc
now submerged ore are expected to reacI
Lima in four months. 1t is predleteu
that within ten year, more silver VIII oe
taken out than from the silver mines III
Nevada.
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where even the fruit trees have been
chopped and hacked simply because they
were once dear to the Moslem. | don't
think That this wanton destruction of
property caused me any very painful
feelings; it brought its own punishment
with it, for these unreasoning brutes
might have occupied the comfortable
dwellings of their old tyrants with no
one to say them nay; and the soldier,
ever of the most civilized people, is
inclined to 3" loot" when the lighting is
over. But it was sickening to gaze upon
the shattered and upturned tombstones
around the desecrated mosques, for there
is something sacred in the repose of the
grave, and respect for the dead is written
in every conscience.--N Y. Times.
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The L~yuchburg (Va.) News says tn
sumach trade of Petersburg sometime
amounts as high as the handling Of 10000
pounds per diem, on which occasions not les,
than $1,000 are paid by merchants to thu
sumach gatherers. Two large mills are In
operation, and the industry is really of large
and growing dimensions.
A. NJ. Ramsey sends the Lampasas
Barrett county, Texas Dispatch a soft-shell
almond grown on his premises, aud says he
is satisfied almonds can be as successfully
grown there rs in California. He has one
dozen trees growing, aud with him they grow
fully as rapid and are more hardy than the
peach. They bloom the third year, but are
not likely to bear mnch before the fourth
year.
The watering places in Texas are
pretty well patronized this season. The
Lampasas Dispatch publishes long list of
arrivals at the springs, and says that more
than fifteen hundred persons drank at the
Bannock Springs on Sunday, the 10th in
ssant, and nearly as many at other springs
about Lampasas. Here the large springs are
decidedly the best patronized.
Many old citizens of Louisiana who
went off after fresh fields between 1865 and
1876, are said to be returning to their former
homes as the best place for them. Under a
home-rule government, wisely and honestly
administered, Louisiana promises to again
become what she was acknowledged to be
before the ar-on OF the wealthiest and
most prosperous states of the union.
The governor of North Carolina has
issued a pardon to James r. s.. Chapman,
convicted in 1857 of the murder of Martha
Pinnis. Chapman escaped a few days before
the time set for his hanging, and is now in
California. From the confession of Paris
Stewart, who committed suicide some years
ago, and other evidence, it appears that
Stewart, and not Chapman, was the muir.
derer.
The New York Tribune states that
from Jacksonville to Enterprise, Fla, a
distance of two hundred miles, there are
only about two hundred acres of orange
producing trees. 1t takes years of toll,
outlay and patience to procure a growing
orchard. However, a tree that will pay $40
a year, and one hundred trees to the acre, is
fascinating.
The bodies of three men were found
hanging to a tree in Red River county, near
Sulphur Springs, Texas, last Tuesday, with a
plaCard pinned to one of them bearing all
the information that is known of them. 1t
read as follows: "Here is where we found
them, and here we left them. They stole
horses in Arkansas, and we are from there
and strangers here"
Both edges of the railroad wal between
the Memphis and Little Rock and st. Louis
and Iron Mountain railroads have begun to
cut. The latter now carries people by way
of Poplar Bluff, Mo-, and Columbus, Ky,
without change of cars, and rates from Little
Rock to Mckenzie and Humboldt are re-
duced to S., while to other points in the
vicinity and beyond are reduced pro rata.
The Little Rock and Memphis road continues
to take passengers from Little Rock and
Louisville for So, aud to points beyond as
cheap in proportion. These rates will be
popular with travellers, but damaging to the
roads.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

And now it appears that the specula-
ton of the United States in investing 5000.
600 in the Dismal Swamp canal has resulted
in obtaining $136,OOO in cash dividends, in
an increase of its interest in an enlarged and
improved work from two-tfths of 1886, 900 to
two.ffths of 81, 100000; in other words, from
nearly $500, 600 to nearly 100000, besides
the incidental saving for its naval supplies.
This concern is said to be the only internal
improvement in the United States which has
'ver repaid, ia whole or part, the aid granted
by congress.
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Breaking 1t Easily.

A miner whom we will call Hughes
fell down a Wine in one Of the COmstock
mines several years ago and was killed.
His companions gathered up his remains,
and, putting them in an express wagon,
started for his home. Another miner, a
fine, good-hearted fellow, was sent on
ahead to bear the sad news to the
bereaved family. All the way along he
was discussing with himself as to how he
should tell the terrible story so as not to
crush the unfortunate household but
be reached the house before having set
tied definitely upon his plan. Meeting
Mrs. Hughes at the door he accosted her
in the usual manner of an acquaintance,
and then said
Where's George to-day, MIS-.
Hughes ?"
Hes at work in the mine, as usual,
thank you sir" replied the woman
How is be feeling to-day ?" was the
next question. The news bearer was
becoming desperate. He was a brave
man who would not have feared a caving
drift or a delayed blast, whose heart was
so tender that he did not know how to
tell a woman of her husbands death.
With some show of surprise Mrs.
Hughes answered the last question
About as well as he generally does, |
believe"
The man was desperate, and, not
knowing what to say, he blurted out:
"IH bet you ten dollars he's dead, and
here comes the body in a wagon"
He swallowed a big lump in his throat
and wiped a piece of porphyry out of his
left eye with his shirt sleeve. Afterward
in talking over the matter with his COM
rades he said it was the greatest trial he
had ever experienced, and that thereafter
when a Ia was killed they might call on
SOMEBODY else to tell the news.-GoLd Hell
(Nep.) NelGs.
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RetaIiation-Scenes in Sistoya.

Every other house lies open to inspec-
ton, for the Bulgarians finished the work
of destruction commenced by the Musco-
vite soldiery. 1t was natural enough, too ;
the latter came in with their blood up
from the fight, and the ravaps, as libe-
rated slaves, sought to vent their fury
upon their former masters. The negroes
did ii at San Domingo, and there is no
negro fresh from the shores of the Congo
whom | would insult by comparing him
socially or intellectually with a home
bred Bulgarian. There were some horrid
scenes, they tell me. in Sistova on the
morrow of the assault, and for days after,
and Turks were hunted out of their
hiding-places aud shot down like dogs,
and rape and murder and pillage and
every foul deed which lust and brutality
could imagine was pe~rpetrated, under
the eyes of the Russian officers, until
there was nothing left wherewith to
reproach the Osmanli for last summers
atrocities, except, it may be, in the
number of the victims. But this was
not the fault Of the Bulgarians, and they
will do better when the field for the
exercise of their reprisals shall have
become more extended. And when
human victims w,re wanting to their
vengeance, they wreaked it upon mani
mate things every house, from cellar to
roof, has been Quilted chimney places
and walls have been demolished. floors
torn up in search of concealed treasure.
Handouts of wool, bundles of rags of
every sort and color, the accumulations
of generations of Osmanli for the stufiing
of their traditional d~ivans, are scattered
shout the rooms like a thick carpet, or
lie in heaps in the streets and gardens,
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QUESTIONS of importance by a four
year-old: "How do they get our souls
out of our bodies when we die--cut 'em
out?" "Why don't we see the yellow
eInbelopes the telegraphs con in goin'
long the telegraph wires?" IF the
Bible calls bad old folks goats, bad chill
dren are kids, amt they?" SIS it too
late for me to have a twin brother ?"
ANY rate, me and Billy Green is twin
cousins, amt WEI" "Tf you was me
when you was a man, would you drive a
hearse or join a circus?"