The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-28
NEWS SUMMARY.


taking wood on trains without their stopping.
Captain McNally, the celebrated Texas
scout, was but twenty eight when he died.
Diphtheria in a malignant form has
made ITS appearance alens the Tennessee
border in Lee county, Va.
The Tredegar works, at Richmond, Va,
are building three hundred cars for the
Atlanta and Charlotte Airline.
Five persons have been hanged in
Abbeville, S. c., during the past four years,
and still the murderers follow their business.
The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says that
German miilet is being used as rice in lower
Georgia, The husks are removed and the
grain is palatable food.
DR.. Kenilworth, a celebrated physi-
clan of Jacksonville, has given one hundred
dollars toward the trial of Col. Hardee's
theory OF conclusion, as destructive OF the
germs of disease.
jacksonville has formed a military
Gordon around the city to prevent the ingress
of refugees from Fernandina. The military
and fire companies have volunteered to do
this service.
The city attorney of Galveston has
given it as his opinion that the city is not
liable for $2,250 worth of scrip issued to pay
the expenses of entertaining the Kansas
delegation in 1875.
A colossal statue of the late Andrew
johnson is to be set up as a monument TO
his memory near his old Tennessee home. 1t
is of white marble, and is being carved in
Philadelphia.
Hon. NJ. J. Crawford and Miss Selmon,
of Gainesville, Ga, were riding in buggy
a few days since. Miss Selmon raised her
parasol suddenly, and the horses ran away,
throwing both out. He was killed instantly,
his neck being broken, INT she was fatally
injured.
The New Orleans Picayune says John
Wesley Hardin, the Texas desperate, is a
very finely organized person. One OF his
victims he killed for snoring. He did not
like to be disturbed in his sleep, so he arose
in the silent night and slew the snorer.
The Danville Express learns that Col.
&. Samuel and Representative Barnes
have sold their large estate IN Charlotte
county. Va. (Barnesville6 comprising be-
tween 1000 and 5000 acres, to Philadelphia
Catholicl colony. The sum realized from
this sale is $7l 600.
A Corpus Christie special says: As a
bridal party were returning last evening
from church, Mexican men drove up near
them in a carriage and opened fire upon men,
women and children with six.shooters. One
of the groomsmen was shot through the back
and will die. The groom fed.
The Vicksburg Herald states that the
planters near that city are suffering from the
depredations of thieves, who steal their cot.
ton in the seed and take it to the city, where
it is eagerly purchased by parties who ought
to know better than to encourage the thieves.
Under the Mofat bell-punch in Vir-
g;nia saloons, the price of liquor has gone
up, but the law really seems to be enforced.
The penalties are severe. A failure to turn
the crank entails a fine OF from 500 to 800
for the first offence, and forfeiture of license
for the second.
Steamboat navigation of the Suwannee
river, Florida, has been resumed after a long
suspension. This Is one of the bodies OF
water that would be utilized in the construc.
ton of the proposed Atlantic and Gulf ship
canal, and the extent Of its navjgable ca.
pacity is an interesting question.
A young fellow in love with a widow
got SO jealous at a ball in Houston, Texas, |
the other night, that he got a license and a |
preacher, and, going to the widows home a I
little before day, informed her that she must
him instanter or he would make q
lead mine of the other fellow. She married
him.
The statistician Of the department of
agriculture at Washington reports the con-
dition OF the cotton crop the first week in
as averaging the same as at the
time last year. The worm is reported
in all the gulf states, but has done but little
damage, except in Texas and several parishes
Louisiana.
The Savannah News say outside of
ny special call, Savannah has gone to the
elief of F%ernandina. Her physicians and
nurses only await the demand when they
vail be forthgoing. The disease is epidemic
n Fernandina, and it is the grand self sacrl-
ics that prompts the departure of physicians
md nurses to our afflicted sister city.
The Lancaster IS. g. Ledger says eve
earn that Ezekiel Mayhem, a colored man
With som little education, and formerly a
teacher in Cane creek township, left
or Liberia on Monday last. As we under.
itand, he is sent out to view the promised
and, and is to return and report his observ.
'tions by the first of next year."
The Ashevllle IN. c. Pioneer saws
hat last week, while a number of colored
both male and female, were digging
or medical roots in the Bee Tree range of
,raggy mountain, one of their number,
named Elvira Seneca, better known as Vira
Iytle, was struck by a rattlesnake upon her
light leg, just below the knee. She died,
four destitute children.
The Charlotte IN. c. Observer says
t is a surprising fact that there were four
nortgages upon crops of 1873 lately recorded
n the office of the register of deeds. The
of course, will not be put into the
until ext spring. 1t is a bad show
ng for the farmers that they should be mort.
that which they themselves have not,
Will not haua for fualya n1ontbe IN co
ure supplies for the present.
The Asheville IN. CO. Pioneer a y
at the last term of the court Alexander
,aaft was tried and convicted of fornica-
ion and adultery, and sentenced by Judge
'urches to six months imprisonment in the
ounty Jail. At the first meeting of the
of county commissioners thereafter,
n application of Shafts wife, he was hired
ut to her at SIS per month.
Prof. JAG Bull, of Dallas, Texas, says
lie arsenic in Paris green, used to destroy (
le cotton worm, Injuries the cotton and ruins {
lie land, The ground, after a number Of
sars. will be impregnated with arsenic more '
less, and after a time unfit it for all cult.
And, more than all, this poisoning
the soil can never be counteracted or '
medied. q
A Corpus Christi, Texas, special to the
News says the preliminary trial of a
r~ancisca Lopez, wife of Martin Rodriguez, u
rs in progress when she made confession d
at her husband killed Shaw when they got n
{ of the buggy to light cigarettes. A t.
rilliDg scene occurred in the court room
day. The mother Of the murdered Shaw d,
and tbrottled the woman Lopez, and u
t for her sons would have straDgled her "
open court. 10
The Galveston News says that the Pl
estion of prohibition continues to be a it
ding issue in some of the northwestern in
mites, where the local option law is still Sc
lore the the people. The papers quote a gr
lteBee from the charge of Judge Clark to in
grand jury of Hopkins county. as fol- hi,