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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-22
PETRIFIED BONES.
Eighty Acres Of Fossil Remains Near Nil
yer Lake, Oregon.

For several months past we have heard
some OF the stock men of this valley speak
of a bonevard some thirty miles east of
here, on the edge of the desert. Rufus
Dillurd, Jack Parton and Andrew Eos
ter, stockmen, came in from there last
Monday and brought in a large quantity
OF teeth and some large bones. | will
give you their description as near as |
can recollect it. These bones are found
in low volcanic sand ridges and alkali
flats, and extend over a distance of four
or five miles in length and about n
mile in width. The bones can be found
on top of the earth and sticking up
through the drifting sands by hundreds
and thousands, from the size OF a mouse
upwards. My informant has no knowl-
edge of what lies buried beneath the
sand and aIkali flats, and all the speci-
mems were taken from the top OF the
ground. They say there is a small
alkali pond at the edge of the
main deposit of the petriied bones,
and over an area of about eighty acres
those bones lie on the ground.
The largest bone measures thirty
inches in length, with no sign of the
knuckle on either end, and from the
shape of the ends we judge must have
been twelve or fourteen inches longer.
1t is perfectly straight and nearly round
in the middle. The circumference of
the large end is sixteen inches, and the
smaller is twelve and a half inches. The
next one is slightly curved and rather
fiat, and has two knuckles on the upper
end. We judge it to be in length,
straight across from tip to tip, twenty
four inches around the curve, twenty
eight inches. This bone is as perfect as
it ever was, and it is petrifed. Now
comes the incest fossil of the whole, a
part of the under jaw bone, thirteen
inches long, six inches wide at the widest
end, and four inches at the other. One
side of the bone has been split off and
shows six perfect teeth, firmly set in the
jaw and beautifully petri6ed. They
measure across one and one fourth by
one inch. There is another tooth, though
a Jaw tooth, that measures two and one
halt inches one way, that has been split
open ! could not get the size the other
way. 1t is five and e.haIt inches long.
Now comes one of the strangest of this
bone deposit, Vast quantities
OF stone arrow heads, such as were
used by Indians, are found through
these bones. 1t looks as though these
animals were surrounded by water, and
perhaps got poisoned by the water, and
persisted by the thousands then some
chemical properties in the water or
ground petrifed them. There are thous-
ands of benes that are o petrifed.-
San Francisco Chronicle.
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n.

The neutrality of England in the
present war in Europe has assumed such a
shape that the foreign office has decided
that any British officer in the service of a
power which enters into hostiIities against
another power with which England is at
peace, must resign either his foreign ap.
pointment or his commission in the British
service.
Reports from Erzeroum say that the
Russians continue to make determined at.
tacks on kars. Continued fighting at that
place for three days resulted in the repulse
OF the Museovite troops with great slaugh-
ter. The S~ukumkaleh rising in Caucasus,
which had been %languishing, has suddenly
immensely revived.
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eroscope and find it an organism, a loricated
ih'usofia' From the average seen in one
u'oP the number must have been immense
inueed' The inclosing jelly is perfectly
transparent, except a little coal dust and
paint from the roof. Each animalcule is
ihcloSed IN a case or shell of silica and all
are aIike, OF the same family. One drop
contains about fifty or sixty, and they have
plenty OF room to float around. They are
about one f~our.hundredth of an inch long,
Where they came from | cannot say; posi-
bly, from the decaying heaps of kelp in the
Gulf of Mexico, or, as the winds have been
from the north for some time, they may
have come from the lakes.
The proposed drill for the champion.
ship of Tennessee, by the Porter Rifles, of
Nashville, and the C~hickasaw Guards, of
Memphis, at Huntsville, Ala, was brought
to a dead lock by the refusal of the Rifles 10
proceed with the exhibition unless they
were allowed to include the bayonet exer-
c'se and skirmish drill. The friends of each
claim That their respective company is right,
as the match was intended to decide a
tie existing by reason of previous trails, at
winch the bayonet exercise and skirmish
drill were not allowed, the Memphis CON.
pany claim the championship. The ex-
pected match caused great enthusiasm in the
state, and this sudden u~plooked.for break.
up causes much outspoken disgust.
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Surprising your age to be Is or there
about. You have 100 bones and 500
muscles; your blood weighs 25 pounds,
and your heart is 5 inches in length and
8 inches in diameter, it beats 70 times
per minute, 1920 times per hour, 100,-
800 times per day, and 36,772,2 200 times
per year. At each beat a little wei 2
ounces of blood is thrown out of it and
each day it receives and discharges about
7 tons of that wonderful fluid. Your
lungs will contain a gallon of air, and
you inhale $4,000 gallons per day. The
aggregate surface of the cells of your
lungs, surprising them to be spread out,
exceeds $4,000 square inches. The
of your brain is 8 pounds when
you are a man it will weigh about s
ounces more. Your nerves exceed TO-
900, 900 in number. Your skin is com
posed of three LAYERS, and varies from
yo-4 of an inch in thickness. The area
IF you skin is about LOO square inches.
Each square inch contains $500 sweating
or respiratory pores, each of
which may be likened to a little drain
lie / of an inch long, making an aggre-
rate length on the entire surface of your
,ody of POI, 166 feet, or a tile ditch for
training the body almost 40 miles long.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

There will be two hundred and ninetv-
nine new money-order offices established on
the second of July, and one hundred and
sixty additional on the first of October.
General c. n. Henningsen, well known
in years past in connection with the Walker
expedition to Nicaragua, died at Washing
ton, aged sixty.two years.
Several delegations from different parts
Of the south have visited the President and
have assured him of the hearty acquiesceuce
of the people of their respective sections in
the policy which they understand is guiding
the administration, in so far as relates to
the control of Offices in the southern states.
Mr.. Linderman, the director of the
mint, expresses the opinion hat at the next
session a plan for the reissue of the silver
dollar will be agreed upon. He says that
all are agreed that it would be desirable to
issue the silver dollars, but nobody wants to
do so in a way that would affect unfavorably
the price of our bonds. He thinks the plan
agreed upon will answer the demands of the
silver men, while it will not iniure the value
Of the bonds. There will, therefore, be in
his opinion a limit to the legal.tender
of the silver dollar, but he believes
it will be a liberal one.
Mr.. Wyman, treasurer of the United
States, and Mr.. Mcpherson, superintendent
Of the bureau of engraving and printing,
who were appointed a committee to prepare
l report on the fractional currency, will
soon complete their report. 1t will show
he total amount in circulation in any one
rear and the amount az present outstanding.
total issues We're in round numbers
S1S2,O)0,O00. This currency is coming in
or redemption at the rate of about SSOO.OOO
month. Years must elapse before it will
ease TO com in. 1t is found that at least
of the whole amount, or more
han two per cent, has been lost or DESTROYED,
nd the government is, therefore, a gamer {
Y that amount.
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THE C0LORED >IsrER's CHOICE

am one of the eolor'd sisteiin.
And can't tell whar I'm gwine,
For ls troubled bout my ligious faith,
And don't know what chuIch to line.
NY on Try on, this poor old heart says try.
FOR want TO be an angel white
win the good Lord when | die.
Zach tells ne theirn's the only church,
And theirn's the christian band,
lhalH take me STRAIT TO hehen's gate,
Ana 10 the promised land.
Try on, try on, this poor old heart says try.
Oars de Meiodist-I like their shout,
But the s~prinklin will not DO,
But they lubs we sisters mighty well.
And our good fried chicken too.
Try on, try on, this poor old heart says try.
Oars de 'Piscopals- says they is right,
And they all seem mighty intent,
And tells me | will go to heben,
II only die in lent.
Try on, try on, this poor old heart says try.
But then, they says-for forty days,
Dis niger must fast and pray,
So I'll give them up as hard old case,
And try hebeH an udder Way.
Try on, try on, this poor old heart says try.
Now de Prcsteriaus-ls de stocracy church,
And they are mighty quiet and still,
They mOut let me jine their little band,
For ! cont live on "The Hill"
Try on, try on, this poor OLD heart says try.
De Hardshell Baptist-they comes next,
The best people ever born,
They will wash dis humble nigger's feet,
And let her take a horn.
Try on, try on, this poor old heart says Try.
But they is opposed to the mission cause,
And oppose TO de sunday schools,
Then what would beCOms Of my Li2er Jane,
Aud her books and de Ieticule.
Try on, try on, this poor old heart save Try.
DE Missionary Baptist-still is left,
For this poor soul 10 Try,
Their good lord went down in the rising stream
And as | think will !.
I'll try, I'll try, this poor old heart says try.
So Baptist Baptist is my name,
And will be till | die:
I'll be baptized in the Baptist faith
And eat Of the Baptist pie.
Now shout, yes, shout IN shout til | die,
For now Ill be an angel white
Wild de good Lord in de sky.
Macon telegraph and Messenger.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-22
THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE.
Experience of "a Steamboat Captain.

Capt. Charles Mclean, of the
steamer Geneva, sunk at Hugunillos
in the great earthquake on the
Pacific coast, on the 10Th inst, re.
Gently arrived at New York, and
tells the story of his experiences. He
says, though apparently safely anchored,
his ship became ~entangled with Others
near as they tossed wildly about crush
ing against each other, sinking almost
Immediately in fifteen fathoms of water.
On the first alarm he cam up from be-
tween the decks. 1t was about eight and
Il half pm. There had been several
shocks in the previous twenty days, but
he had completed his cargo of guano and
was expecting to sail next morning.
Aside from the frightful rumbling sound
his attention was arrested by the extra
ordinary phenomena on shore, the NOUN
tains above being so much agitated that
great rocks become detached and rolled
down toward the sea, resembling balls of
fire. Furthermore, the water at the an-
chorsge suddenly receded so that the
ships in eight tathOms touched bottom.
At the same time it was observed that
lne SulIS WeIe SuIgluB IOuHu anu iouhu
and in opposite directions, and the an
Choir chains became e%ntangled beneath
the copper yards and interlocking, while
the air ~resounded with falling spars and
crash of the bulwarks. The water came
surging in like a maelstrom, causing the
Geneva to swing round at the rate of
eight or ten fathoms an hour in great cir
Giles until she struck againsta rock, which
tore out a part of her bottom. The ship
was forced in an opposite direction and
went down. The other vessel were as
violently driven ashore or went to the
bottom, as in the case of the English
ship AvonmOre, Capt. Garfield, which
took down with her the captains wife,
three children and several others. Capt.
Mclean says it seemed to him from the
.sulphurous or electrical appearance of
the mountain that the volcano was burst.
ing out its sides. The rocks were tumb-
ling about with frightful noise, and
everything was lighted up. He thinks
damage to shipping was caused not
so much by the tidal wave as the upward
of the water and rotary currents
driving the ships repeatedly against..each
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-22

There seems to be race out west as %
which of the two parties will be tie first to
get on the silver platform, 1t is clear
now that the democrats will be the first
in the field, and are determined to pre-.
sent the silver issue as the controlling
n in the fall elections. 1t is notable,
however, that the leading republican
organs of the west, the Cincinnati Com
mercial and the Chicago Tribune, are
strongly committed to the old silver dol.
lar, and it is an open secret that Presi-
dent Hayes is profoundly convinced of
the uuwisdom of paying the public debt
in a dearer currency than that in whichit
was contracted. Senator Thurman, of
Ohio, n of the most high-minded and
conservative democrats in the country,
come out in a strong argument in
favor OF this "old silver dollar" 1t is
as certain as any event of the future,
that when congress meets, there will be
scarcely any effective opposition to silver
as well as gold, being recognized as a
legal tender for all debts, public as well
as privately. N. GraDhic.
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Ages of the European SOyereigns.

Queen Victoria has just attained her
ffty-eighth birthday. Only twelve
Others of the reigning soveieigns of
Christendom tout of thirty-eight in ALL
have attained to this age. The Oldest on
the list is the Pope, who was eighty. five
on May 13. OF temporal princes the
German emperor has seen the greatest
number of years, his eightieth birthday
having been reached a few years ago.
The car is older than the queen by
about a year, having been born on the
10Th of April 1918. The king of Italy is
some ten months younger than the queen,
the date of his birth being March IA,
1920. The emperor Francis Joseph is
not yet forty-seven. He was born in the
year of revolutions. 1880, and assembled
the throne in the year of revolutions,
lS48. The Youngest reigning sovereign
is Alphonso XII, of Spain, who is not
yet twenty.
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-22
A Bride and a Corpse within Three
Hours,

We have never had a more painful
duty to fulfil than that which we per
form to-day in chronicling the death of
Mrs. WalpoIe, wife of our esteemed
friend and confrere, Mr.. James NJ. Wal
pole. The simple notice which appears
in another part of this paper, announcing
the marriage of Mr.. WaIpole to Miss
Monnie NJ. Pritchard, of this city, at
half past five o'clock, and the death of
the bride at half past eight the same
evening, will tell the sad story, and
awaken the sorrowing sympathy OF many
who are strangers to both. The engage
ment had been announced some months
since, and the wedding day had been
fixed for the 10Th of the present month.
But a few days ago, the future of these
two seemed bright with the promises of
a happy welded life, and their friends
looked forward with pleasure to the
event which was to celebrate the union
of two hearts already united in the most
loyal and devoted affection. But an
overruling Providence, whose DEGREES
man may not fathom nor question, had
willed otherwise. Wednesday night the
deceased was attacked by a sudden illness,
and its fatal course developed so rapidly
that yesterday the attending physicians
pronounced the case beyond the reach of
human skill. The marriage ceremony
was solemnized in the death chamber,
while the hue of life faded from the fair
face of her whose earthly existence had
seemed but a few short hours before so
full of joy and hope, and in barely three
hours afterward death had claimed the
bride at the hands of the grieEstricken
1usband.-NCr Orleans P~icdyuRc.
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How virginia's Whisky Law Works.

1t may interest some to know Just how
a late law enacted by the Virginia lepis-
lature regulating the sale of liquor in
bar-rooms operates. What is called a
registering apparatus was provided for in
the act, and is described as follows by the
L~ynchburg Virginian Son one side is a
crank, and on another dials like those of
a gas meter. The bar-keeper turns the
crank round at every sale of a drink. a
bell strikes, and the dial registers enc.
The object of the device is to determine
the amount of tax to be collected, at the
rate Of one cent on every drink. All.
though a heavy fine may be imposed for
to use these machines properly,
for t%ampering with them in any way
and there are officers whose duty II is
to detect such offenses-the belief that
they will not answer the purpose, because
drinkers will generally c%onnive at lviola.
Of the law.
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Journalistic Amenities.

The war correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune slipped on an orange peel while
walking down Clark street yesterday, and
was SO injured by his fall that he was
unable to furnish a cable dispatch for
this mornings paper.
The reporter who sends cable dispatches
to the Chicago Times from Turkey was
detailed to report a dog fight at Bridge
port yesterday. As a consequence the
war news of the Times will be a
light crop in the mornings issue.
The rumors of a possible peace between
Russia and Turkey seriously disturb the
war correspondent of the Inter- Ocean.
This thing of sitting in a Madison street
saloon and writing special cable dis
is the most comfortable situation
he has had. He wants the war to proceed.
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Cold Iron.

DIR. Shepard pointed out to me the DO.
sition of Gen. Gilmore's Swamp angel"
battery, and said that only recently his
w%orkmen dug up one of the unexplcded
shot in the medical college yard. 1t was
rather large for a war souvenir, and about
as dangerous as a rattlesnakc. The cap
was set already for the light tap that
would explode it. No Soaking would
ruin the powder filling, and after looking
it over he had it carefully and deeply re.
buried, hoping beyond resurrection. A
some time ago found one of them,
and thought he would destroy it and sell
for old iron. He got a sledge hammer
and struck it IN the point. 1t exploded,
blew the house roof off, and dealt de-
struction in every direction, butstrangely,
Sambo wasn't injured beyond being
by the conclusion. He reused
himself looked wildly around, and ex-
claimed; "Lordy, massy, whar's dat
ron ?"
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POLAR
Capt. HOwgate 90 Start an EN-
peditiOn in July.

In anticipation of the next congress
apporpriating the $4,000 recommended
by the committe on naval affairs of the
last congress, Capt. Howgate, of the sig
nal service, Washington, proposes this
year to send out a small vessel to the
northern seas about July !, under the
command of Capt Tyson, of Polaris fame,
to gather together during the present
season Espuimaux, dogs, sledges and
clothing for the regular expedition,
which will start next spring, the supplies
so collected to Re transferred 20 the
regular vessel at Disco in August of 1873,
and the little one to return then to the
United States. This will insure good
material for the colony and prevent
delay. To do this without delay, money
to the amount of $4,000 or $4,000 must
be raised by subscription.
Capt. Tyson has made a rough estimate
of the cost Of this advance guard, which
amounts to $3.50. To this small expe-
dition a whaling outfit is provided for.
Thr object of this is to fill up proftably
the otherwise unoccupied time of the
crew, and it is believed that the catch OF
oil-whale and seal-will repay the whole
cost of the expedition, if only average
success is met with. Capt. Howgate aP-
peals to the business men of New YORK
and elsewhere to help him to raise the
sum needed for the outfit. Only s9,4OO
n cash is wanted. Five hundred dollars
Vt this amount the captain himself sub
Merchants having casks, boats,
gear, bread, -four, pork, etc,
an subscribe these articles in kind.-h.
Y. World.
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Salt Used In France.

The first number of the new menthly
Statistical Bulletin of the French min>
istry of finance contains some interesting
tables showing the annual consumption
OF salt in France from 1916 to 1876.
The lamentations seems TO have been
due principally to changes in duty, al
though the tendency has all the time
been toward a gradual increase Of con-
sumption. In 1916 the amount of salt
consumed in France was lis pounds per
head of the population. After that it
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The Coming Cotton CrOp.

The committee on information and
statistics for the Savannah (Ga.) cotton
exchange make the following reports for
the month of May:
Georgia.-One hundred and ninety re-
plies, from siXty-fOur counties. show the
increased area in land planted to be two
and a half per cent. The weather has
been generally more favorable than last
year. There was too much rain in the
early spring the nights have been too
cool. and l~atterly the weather has been
teo dry. The stands are good, but the
crop is two weeks later than last wear
Labor is about the same in number, but
improved in efficiency. Complaints of
want of rain are very general.
Florida.-Forty replies from sixteen
counties state that there has been but q
slight increase in the area ofland planted
in cotton. The weather has been less
favorable than last year, the nights being
too cool. The stands are generally coed
The crop is two weeks later than that of
last season. Labor is decidedly better
than heretofore. But little guano has
eve been used in this state. The plant
is very small, but has been well cult.
waited. There are complaints from some
sections of cutworms and lice.
South Carolina The Charleston ex-
change report, covering twenty-seven
counties in this state, says the area in
planted has decreased three per
sent. Weather unfavorable; stand in
most eases bad, and ten to twenty DAYS
alter than last year. Fields clean, but
plant small and backward, and, from
want of rain and cool nights, max
ng slow growth. Labor abundant and
.%ficient. Use of fertilizers decreased five
nd one-half per cent.
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The Canadian COMMISSIONS of internal
revenue has been making an analysis of
various articles of food entering into
popular consumption, and the result of
his Investigations is anything but pleas
ant. In the course of his inquiries the
commissioner analysed one hundred and
eighty articles of food, ninety-three Of
which, or more than fifty per cent, were
found to be adulterated. Coffee was not
only mixed with chiCkory but with roasted
peas and beans also. Out of ten samples
examined, but a single one was pure.
Tea was found to be adulterated with
various noxiOus weeds and with willow
leaves artiticially colored by drugs.
Twenty samples were examined, and but
four of them were found to be pure.
Two specimens were pronounced by the
commissioners to be "unft Tor human
consumption" Out of fifty-eight sam
pies of milk %thirty-four were adulterated,
and out of nineteen specimens of pepper
but two were free from foreign admix.
lures. All the samples Of ground cloves,
cinnamon, ginger and mustard were
adulterated. The last named article was
discovered to be composed Of turmeric
and wheat -four. Allspice had a large
proportion of roasted pea meal it its
composition, and ground cloves were eked
out with Glove bark, woody fibre and pea
meal. Cinnamon proved to be composed
cassia bark, pea meal, mustard and
buckwheat husks. The other articles
examined were found to be made up in
similarly fraudulent n Such de,
velopments go to show to what an ex-
.ent the ordinary every day articles of
God are tempered with by INSCRIPTIONS
and to prove the necessity for
.,requent inspection, to prevent the frauds
hus practiced on the public.