The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-11-30
MISSISsIPIi MEMS.

Buck Partridge beat TO dealt
Andy Mercy with a pine limb, ueaI
Meridian, last week.
A grey eagle measuring sever
feet rom tip to tip ~ Filled il
Pamela county last week.
A fire in Fayette on the 14ih d.
stroycd property 10 the Amount O
$4,000. The Standard Office va,
also burned.
Holy Springs Reporter: The Mis-
sissippi State grange will hold III
animal meeting in this city, the sec
ond Tuesday in d ccmher, which il
the llth day OF that month.
Kosciusko Star: An account of d
SAD accident reaches Us: Ga We'd
n"sdav week last a little child oil
Mr., b. +. Winters, Of this county,
while playing on the floor near the
fireplace got possession Of a vial o.
ct ychnine that had fallen, c~
d n ally, from the mantle piecD,
and swaIlC wed part Of the content 4.
It died in a short while IN great
agony.
Vicksburg Commercial: George
Walton, a negro murderer, regularly
tried anu convicted, was hanged al
Raymond, On Friday OF last week,
and a more horrible spectacle was
never presented in Mississippi.
The account Of the hanging, as pub
lishtd in the Raymond Gazette, is a
most fiykcuing recital. We do nor
know WHO is responsible for what
occurred, we only know that "s0me-
bod biunde ed"
Brandon Republican: For SIX
weeks past it has miued almost
necessarily, so that it has been IN
possible for our la mers to gather
their crops. The small streams
have all ovel flowed, and a great deal
OF cotton and corn on low lands has
been washed away, ani on up land
a great deal OF cotton has been
into the ground and ruined.
The weather has been unusually
tor the time OF the year, aud
we learn that the cotton eted is
.sprOuting in the bolls and the corr
IN The stalks.
Enterpiise Courier: At about |
o'clock a.. m the 18Th, a fire broke
out in the back room of the
luoCCu lied store-house belonging to
Mr.. A. Gordon, in DeSoto. and,
4 short Inn, he adjoining
''o"e~hons@ occupied by Belhra 6
Smi b, merchants. and Owned by d..
jeshea, wa~tnyelop d il A mcs, AID
D1tb hOnIH-, together wiIh a cpn-ldo
stock OF goods heiongil " 0
d smith. were totally
destroyed ltl~ nor known sheth,r
be fire was the act Of an iGcandi
Try, or accid Loss between
5000 ana $4,000.
DroOkhavcn Ledger, 22i: Yes
mrru}ng q negro hand IN
,umn shape "cnt 10 a gtnueman>
rouse abOu three miles southeast
u here, argl fndirg no person there
nut the gentirmaa'- wife, entered
he house abrublly, aad demanded to
who lived here. TIE lady
n orm"d The scamp, End he there
ipon ordered her in 3 very rud" and /
n-Olent mArnec to leave the house '
r he would blow her brains 0ui.
atlemped TO leave the house. l
nd the brutal monster knocked her {
own end outraged her person
lie alarm was given as soon as b
he recovered sufficiently from the I
'eatment Of the brutal negro, and !
er enrsged friends Instituted. n d
immediately for the scoun r
rel. Up TO last accounts he had not 3
cen found. For the lady's sake y
nd thar Of her friends, we withhold
er name.
Meridian Mercury: The respite OF 1
alter Riley, the negro condemned A
have been hung yesterday too
eeks ago, obtained extensive motor
ty, aud has been much commented
by the press and tie public. His to
cape from Jail. a very few days II
20 has been published abroad, and Of
any mtn had many minds about il, to
ho, from thi7 time forward. will "
ostly have bur one, we apprehend. 10
alter Rley was recaum ed m M
bOim's gia hooSr-aelI j.. We +,
jvplers OF nasal twang, whose II,
Elm have cua'terei a. the contem- III.
alton Of lie 29'h OF Apri-cap p
red il ChishoIm's g1n house, and A
e. or maybe two, o Chish0lms a.,
M there present with horses and SET
II le' barrel guns, no doubt TO pro o eM
It him. When they saw tho peo- Of
} coming, who had got on track, are
y took 10 flight, a sure evidence iiS,
their presence there with a guilty Ma
rpose. The door had to be bros -
a down, but while it was doing r.
raised q pl ok and attempted
escape by getting out underneath.
was useless; it was death or sur r
der, and lie gave up, but lot pro
il he had fred one shot, the hall oV