The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-07-27
NEWS SUMMARY.


lNTSt ludulltles VI Itti sltils W l. tTuhlulUd,
to be used in building concrete houses.
The watermelon season is at its height
in Key West, Florida, and one thousand of
this fruit are consumed daily, as it is cheaper
to eat than to ship them.
The publisher Of the directory of Au-
gusta, Ca, which has Just been issued, makes
the population of Augusta %, Festivities,
1916; colored, 1862.
Over two millions in back taxes are
due the city Of Memphis, and as yet but
little has been done TO enforce their collec.
tion. The two millions, If collected, would
relieve the city government of many clam.
orous and needy creditors.
There is a natural curiosity in Miller
county, Fla, nine miles south of Camilla,
known as the Glowing Cave" so called be.
cause it draws the air in the forenoon and
blows it out in the afternoon, thus there is a
perpetual alternate blowing Of wind inward
and outward.
A society for the promotion of emf
grafton to Liberia is laboring with success
among the colored people OF South Carolina.
Twenty-Five hundred persons in Charleston,
and about thirty thousand in the state, are
said to be in readiness to take passage for
the African republic as soon as transporta.
ton can be provided.
Litigants in Memphis, Tenn, are rails
ing the point that said city has no defined
boundary, the general council not having
established the lines since Legislative action
rep ealing the old charter of the city.
The confederate monument at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, will probably be completed by
the first of October. The fossiliferous lime
stone of Dickson Station, Alabama, will be
used. The monument will be thirty-three
feet high.
-Four large blocks of Knoxville marble,
aggregating one hundred cubic feet, have
been contracted for, 10 be converted into a
monument to the first governor Of I ennessee,
Willie Blount, to be placed IN the capital
building at Nashville.
A serpent thirty feet long, with a huge
body, carrying its head as high as that of a
horse" is spending the summer in Bradley
county, Tenn. 1t was seen there during the
war. The east Tennessee papers nave faith
in the accounts of it.
The Nashville American calls attention
to the mountain of slick near the Cumber-
land river, and within three miles of Harris
vile, Tenn. For the manufacture of glass it
is equal to any in the United States. The
American also says that even the white sand
generally used by painters of that city and
elsewhere iu the south is brought from the
north, when it lies at our very doors and is
ten times cheaper.
A mammoth fish, known as a granda-
core, measuring six feet and half in length,
and weighing one hundred and twenty-five
pounds, was recently caught in q seine in
the gulf, near Galveston. There is a con.
victiOn among all old fishermen that it is
impossible to take one of these fish with a
hook and line, owing to the great strength 8
and activity which they possess. They are t
known as the gamest fish that inhabit the c
gulf. +
The promoters of the LiDerian emf. u
scheme claim to have enrolled the
names OF 10000 cOlored persons in the state t
If South Carolina who consent to emicrate. ii
A bill for injunction has been filed in 5
he courts OF Savannah. Georgia, by certain y
ax-payers, praying that the city authorities u
e e%njoined from paying money in the dis. u
harge OF any bonds, coupons or promissory u
oteS, aGd asking the appointment of a p
ecelver to take charge Of certain property Z
t the city of Savannah, and to hold the same Ia
to the future direction of the court. nj
The Tallahassee Ella Immigrant says in
forts are now being made by parties living m
ear the mouth OF the st. Lucie river to ID
1pture specimens of the manatee frequent. OF
lg that section for exhibition in the north. Gu
IN states. Only three have ever been taken al
live the first, several years ago, died on vi
lie passage, the other two were taken to ~
Philadelphia last summer, and were de. ="
royed by fire on the second day of The ~
ambition. ca
capt, Booker Freeman, a prominent -
tizen Of Macon county, Georgia, committed ~
at his house six miles north of La sr
yette last week. He hung himself with a :,
Gee Of hickory bark. oc
The following new anecdote is told of ~,
governor Letcher, of Virginia Governor
.tcher, returning from a Baptist fair, was al
ked by a friend what he had been doinz. -
have been eating oysters for the Lord at V,
1ollar a Dozen was his reply. ~,
Mrs. Wimberly, of Otter creek, Fla, nj
IS netted 1912 SO on three.fourths of an lie
re of cucumbers this season. On the same M,
ece of land this lady has plan,ei sugar in
ne, upon which she hopes to make at least sir
% hundred dollars. r.
The Brookhaven miss Comet saws Di
sver a glass of whisky has been sold in the he
wn limits of Brookhaven, though it has a ca,
.~pulation of 800.
The Canton Miss Citizen says blind
IS in cattle is becoming alarmingly preva- en-,
ut in that section. The ANIMALS lose their po
int without any apparent cause, a film in
adually forming over the eye until the .
int is entirely obscured. r,o
Within the last few weeks several has
stern farmers have bought land in Madi. tiol
n county, Alabama. Colonel Stephen fee,
llins, who has been app tinted by Gov.
'uston assistant commissioner Of immi.
atom, states that large numbers of families Arr
Indiana and Ohio will com south before Jn 4
e close of the year. July
The 6gbt f,r a. Sept
-"' bhe loCdllOn OF the c3pl- Octs
Of West Virginia is warming up between H SsS.
narl'ston and Clarksburg; MArtinsburv gas,
SO wants it. There i. a good deal of abuse Nav
ing on. The negroes are interested in /. N.Y.
well and hold meetings on the subjest. Jun'
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