The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-10-12
NEWS SUM


Memphis received nine hundred bales
of cotton on the list instant.
Hen. A. II. Stephens has educated
more than sixty young men and boys.
Two Cherokee Indians have been sent
TO the penitentiary in North Carolina,
A stalk of cotton with four hundred
bolIs on it is on exhibition at Augusta, Ga.
Colonel J. /. Thornton, first secretary
of state of Alabama, died at Eutaw recently
James Magee killed two of the men
who took him into the woods TO hang MN,
xaescs, and in Texas, and escaped.
W. G. Meadows has been sentenced to
death in Arkansas for throwing a tram rom
the track and killing q fireman.
Judge Mackey. of South Carolina,
saws: "The condition of the public roads
measures the civilization Of a country"
Only five hundred and seventeen con-
victs in the South Carolina peniten;iary, but
the doors are yawning tor many more.
Miss Matte Davis, aged twenty.one,
blew her brains out with a pistol in Wynnton,
Georgia.
General John b. Gordon entered the
confederate service as captain of the Rae
coon Roughs."
1he grape crop OF Florida is unusually
ItdNNY ahu Nv pioA5N SaN'| "N
n fine condition.
John Neely BRYAN, the founder of the
town and city of Dallas, died in the asylum
Tor the insane at Austin, Texas, a few days
since.
From August Goth to September 22d,
there were forty.four deaths from yellow
fever in Fernandina. Six were cOlOred
children. s...
Red river land that has been in cult
yation one hundred years, produces ears OF
corn eight inches long and ten in circum
ference.
The production of the Alabama and
Georgia m Us last week exceeded thato OF any
previous week, being nearly 1901 900 yards
of cloth.
Horses are decidedly cheap at Austin,
Texas, at the present time. Good horses can
now be bought at from $50 to SIS, and 500
will buy a fine one.
General L0ring, the commander of the
Egyptian army, is expected to meet with
his old regiment, the First Tennessee, a
Nashville, on the 25th.
The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says tina
a farmer near that place raised ninety.thre'
bushels of corn last year per acre, and say
his crop is better this year,
If South Carolina carries out all tn
railroad projects now agitated, future map
OF the state Will look like they had beef
struck in the face with a big g%ridlrOn,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee
and Kentucky have nearly the same humble
OF convicts in their respective penitentiaries
not varying ten from nine hundred and fit.
each.
New Orleans Delta A body of thirty
four white farm la5orers arrived here tw'
days ago from Minnesota and Wisconsin oil
their way to a sugar plantation on the Teche
twenty miles from Morgan City.
The Augusta Chronicle learns frCn
Governor Hampton that hayes has promised
to make a southern tour during the winter
and will visit Savannah, Augusta, Charleston
Columbia, New Orleans and other cities.
Texas has 1850, 600 people, and Louis
lana only about 100000. When the wa
ended Louisiana was the more populou
state of the two. Three years from nov
Texas expects to have twenty congressman
Montgomery Advertiser: The cottoI
men are in high dudgeon at the report tina
the late rains will cut down the quantity t.
anominal figure. 1t is all moonshine tina
thirty thousand bales have been destroyed
in Alabama, although it is not denied tina
much damage has been done.
Liberian immigration meetings are
fashionable now in many of the southern
states, and the Raleigh News talks the occa
sion to remark 1t is probable that the meet
ings will be held ten years hence just as al
present, but it is extremely doubtful whether
any one will reach Liberia unless he pays bis
own expenses.
From the Shreveport Times we learn
that tee people of north Louisiana, east
Texas and south Arkansas, who are depend.
ent on the Red river as an outlet for their
products, intend to ask at the next session
of congress for an appropriation of 100000
to secure low water navigation in that river
all the year round.
Mesilla New Mexico) Independent
A number of emigrants passed through town
this week en- route from California and
Arizona to Texas, Among the party was a
burly old backwoodsman, his wife and q
dozen tOw-headed children, who have moved
back and forth over the road from western
Texas to California three times within the
last thirteen years.
An Augusta lawyer says OF the tele-
phone: "No doubt after a while it will be
perfected to such a extent that a lawyer
can sit in his Office in Augusta and argue a
case before the Supreme Court in Atlanta
without the trouble and expense of going to
that city, and at that distance you can say
what you please without being liable for
contempt"
AND INDUSTRY.
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