The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-01-12
NEWS URINARY.
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ACCORDING 10 lht EnNCfupI Wts4iEr
ibe debt Of Mississippi on tho first 81 DO
ssmbef last, was only lG,tC0O. Gpj.22
Oranges are selling At q cent apiece In
Tampa. IN savannah they bring three cents
apiece by the hundred.
The number Of prisoners in the Vir.
ginia Psniientiary has Increased Ia the past
year from ggS 10 La.
The court house and all the county
records Of Cooke county, Tennessee, we're
destroyed by fire Saturday.
Nearly the entire business part Of
Crockett, Texas, burned recently. Loss S75..
coo or 100000.
A number of counties in Texas have
recently voted in favor Of prohibition, and
many more will soon take a vote under the
local option law.
Mr.. McAdoo was elected speaker of
the Tennessee legislature, Mr.. John T..
Helms, clerk of the senate, and Mrs. Cook,
engrossing clerk.
Dennis Williams presented the Oxford
IN. g. orphan asylum with a Christmas
gift of sixty pair of shoes and forty-eight
shawlS.
Mr.. J. Citron, of Shreveport, having
been burned out of house and home, pumped
the water out of his wooden cistern and
moved in. He rather likes the change.
Eleven boats, carrying nearly 10000
bales of cotton, are lying up Red river UNI
able to come out ON account of the low
water.
Captain Eads and Colonel Andrews
have left New Orleans to receive the first
payment on the %ietties. They report a clear
channel of two hundred feet wide and
twenty feet deep fIom deep water in the
river to deep water in the gulf.
The contest over the United States SEN
atorship in Georgia is growing interesting.
Senator Norwood, the incumbent, Gen. Col.
quit, governor elect, Col. Thos. H~ardeman,
Hon. b. II. Hill, Ex-Governor Herschell, V.
johnson, etc, etc, are all spoken of, and
several of them anxious for the honor.
South Florida Journal: General San
ford is going to engage extensively in the
culture of pine-apples on St. Gertrude place,
one mile west OF here: He will plant over
five thousand this season. He has Just re.
ceived an importation OF plants of a rare
ind superior quality from Caraecase, Vene.
zutla.
The following are the schools statistics
of Tennessee. White-Male ,167, $40; female,
14S,01S; total. 325, 32S. Colored-Male, S.
212; female, 55,56S; total, los, $50; grand to-
tai, 534, los. Increase over scholastic popula.
ton of 1874, 1895. Number of school-houses,
3. l56; estimated value of school.houses 1858.
443.74. Number of teachers employed, T..
210. Average cost of tuition per pupil per
month, $50.
A trader got the contract for furnish
ing the government post at San Antonio,
Texas, with five hundred northern horses at
SIP per head, and the Herald says of the
stock: The horses received by the military
board for the use of the cavalry are such
very fine animals that 10, the poor Indian,
will not have much of a show to get away
with colored scalps,.i if Sambo only gets an
even start and can hold on.
Brownsville (Tex.) Democrat: The
frequent shooting of cannon and musketry
over the rlver, nightly, is getting to be a
frst-class nuisance. 1t is simply disturbing
the peace of both sides of the Rio Grande,
killing nothing, making asses CT themselves.
and, withal, becoming the laughing.stock OF
the whole world. One Thousand cannon
fired, ten thousand cartridges exploded, and
no one killed.
Fort Worth special (27th) to Calves
ton News: N. n. Brannan, of this place,
has just arrived from-s-frontier trip and
brought with him an Indians outhN He
says that he and three buffalo hunters sur.
prised a ~thieving band of five Comanchey on
the Colorado, about seventy miles from Con.
enc, and killed them all. They slipped IN
on them while cooking, and killed all bpt
one the first round and finished him with a
second volley.
The New Orleans Times, in an editorial
headed, THE Jetties Certified as a Success y
says; At last the official survey has been
made, which declares that at least twenty
teet OF water for a width of two hundred
feet, throughout the entire length of the ie,.
tles' is to be found. A certificate has been
given by General Comstock, United States
engineer In charge, to Captain Fad. in proof
OF this fact, and Captain Eads ba, left for
Washington to claim his first instalIment of
hye hundred thousand dollars"
Charleston Is. O. News and Courier.
The three Eucalyptu trees which wore
planted some time ago by Mr.. Daniel Horl.
Deck IN the yard of the United States court-
mouse, and which have been SO mueb sd.
mlred, have all been killed by the recent
irosts' One of the trees lad been D. uted
three years, and had attained a height of
neatly fifteen feet; the other two were about
a year old, and were about three feet in
height The trees had been very tepderly
nur5ured, and their death is regarded by the
united states courthouse officials as a great
loss.
Lampasas Tex. dispatch For nearly
Two years We have not had rain enough 10
thoroughly wet the ground, or 10 raise the
water 10 the creeks and branches, or to Gil
up the wells. Unless we have some good
rains this winter, we fear that the crops for
the next year will be exceedingly short,
During the last year or SO, we have had occa-
sional, light rains, just enough to wet the
surface and make it sufficiently seasonable
to give US a reasonable crop. We need a
good, old fashioned, soaking rain, one to fill
ks, to saturate the earth, and to
trash.
lorida Banner gives the fol-
OF the recent severe freeze:
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