The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-01-05
CONVERSATIONS OF NEWS
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About 200, 900 young salmon have
been distributed 10 me Virginia streams.
Twenty-Five thousand young salmon
have been put IN the Colorado river ut Aus.
tin, Texas.
The adjutant general Of Virginia now
gets the magnificent salary Of 500 per
annum.
Tramps are committing all sorts Of
depredations on the railway trains la Ar.
kansas.
A number Of coIored people are emil
grating from Henry county, Tennessee, to
Illinois.
The machine-shops of the Mississippi
Central and Tennessee railway will be erected
at jackson ut an ea,ly day.
An organized band of colored cotton
hieves has been discovered at Charlotte,
Nsrth Carolina.
The number OF cotton gins burned in
Georgia this season is placed at about sixty,
with but one conviction Of an i~ncendiary.
The Florida state fair, to be held in
February, offers a premium of five dollars for
the biggest alligator exhibited.
The Rock City paper mills, at Nash
vile, were sold at chanceryS sale TUESDAYS and
were bought by the bondholders for $4,000.
Hon. f. j. Warren, of Washington,
N. c., a Judge OF the supreme court, and sew
eral times presiding officer of the senate, is
dead.
Two carloads of marble for building
purposes will be shipped from Knoxville to
San Francisco, as soon as it can be q~uarried
to fill an order from that city.
Two Tennessee ex-Convicts are now
pastors of Methodist churches out west.
they reformed while in the penitentiary and
became teachers of the c~onvicts' Sunday
school.
The exhibition hall and stables on the
fair grounds at Selma, Alabama, were burned
Monday night. Loss, fifteen thousand dol.
lars insured for half the amount. Incen.
diarism.
Mr.. Rosenborough, living near Sardis,
Mississippi, has been digging a most extra.
ordinary well. At the depth of seventy-fve
feet a large gum or walnut log was struck.
The next morning an Irishman and a negro
were sufocated in said well.
Nashville Banner: b. ). Corey and
j. J. Stewart arrived in this city this morn
ing with thirty thousand young California
salmon, Matched at the government hatch.
ing-house at Worthwhile, Minnesota, and
which are to be deposited in the Alabama
river at Montgomery. This is but one of
many shipments to be made into tne gulf
state this winter.
The steamers White, Check and Hi
nois, of the well-known Cheek line, have
been seized by the United States marshal to
satisfy claims of libellants fled in the United
States district court. For some time the
boats have been running under the man.
agement of Mr.. n. NJ, Jones, who was acting
as trustee for the benefit OF the creditors of
the line.-NemphiS Ledger.
Newport (Ark.) News, con Tuesday
night last fifteen tramps, on the south-bound
freight, broke into the i%ce.car,
opened beer.keys, and helped themselves to
sll the beer and other things on the train
hat they wanted. At Walnut Ridge the con.
durtor tried to put them off, but they drew
!hsi pistols on him, and virtually kent
charge of fnSvtzatpto BircIa, where they got
Of"
Jas. J. Waring, in his third paper con-
to the state board OF health on the
of the yellow fever in Savannah says;
1t is useles to discuss the real causes of this
epidemic so long as our people are willing to
take for granted that the disease was, and
any time be Introduced by some acct.
dental case of yellow fever on shipboard es.
Gaping the vigilance OF quarantine. What
ever may be said Of other epidemics, the vel.
fever epidemic of Savannah in 1876 was
not introduced by any vessel coming from
West India or South American ports. The
Yellow fever zone is the zone of filth and bad {
and bad drainage. In the last cen.
ury New England towns were decimated
~ the dis Boston, New York and Phil
.delpbii were constantly and terribly Wis
ted. They are now said 10 be out of the zone.
towns are the dirtiest in all the
iorld, BUT were Cubl 10 fall into the hands /
Il an English-speaking people it would {
be out of the yellow fever zone, like
Philadelphia.