The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-17

ihe Afkahsas Central railroad, narrow
gauge, was sold by United States master in
chancery, Nichols, for $4,000 to J. II.
Hornor, trustee.
The commissioner of agriculture of
North Carolina has established an agricul.
tural museum, to exhibit the resources of the
state.
The colored Baptists are going to edu.
cate their preachers, and have established an
institute for that purpose at Natchez, Mis-.
sissippi.
The North and South railroad, of
Georgia, is advertised for sale by the gov.
ernor on the first Tuesday in September.
Columbus is interested 100000 worth.
The Louisiana planters annually lose
about one.third of their cotton crop by reason
OF insufficient labor. They call for laborers,
Ho! ye idlers of the north.
The railroad war at Little Rock goes
on as before. The st. Louis and Iron Noun.
tam road has made no reduction, and the
Memphis and Little Rock road gets all the
travel at its reduced rates.
The office of the Catoosa Courier ot
hlnggold, Ga, was burned recently, together
with the entire block. Solicitor.general
haekett lost his books and papers, and DR..
fowler lost his medicines and his library.
The close season" for deer HAVING
expired in Louisiana, the Calcasien woods
no" resound with the music of the koru,
mound and gun. The penalty for shooting,
killing or capturing during the season is
30. The game law protects turkeys until
September LIST.
A young man named Phillips was the
unfortunate murderer of his brother a few
oaYs ago, at Lauderdale, Miss. the brother
was quarreling with and cursed his father
whereupon the boy struck him on the head
with a billet OF wood, fracturing his skull
from the effects of which he died in about
an hour.
The following constitutes the military
force now in Texas: The Sth cavalry regi. {
ment, consisting of twelve companies: the ,
ioth cavalry, twelve companies two compa. u
MES oil the 4th cavalry; the 10th infantry, =.
Ten companies; the 25th infantry, ten com. -
panles, and one company of the 10Th in "
fantry. pr
Inc Fernandina (FIa.) shippers of M
"atermelons, in a recent cargo, lost ST. G. to
IN freight. The freight was twelve cents an tr,
each melon. The melons were stored in = tn,
it.box. 1t is difficult to get cam. bp
'"'"'ioh from snip owners. hun
Inc insurance company of North | h
\ herlca has entered a suit in the federal in
'ourt at savannah against the Central road Eur
or SIS 600 worth of cotton burned at their in
lspot in that city on the 18th of Novemba, ask
asst The case will be tried at the November mer
erm of the court. whe
Inc flrst case tried under the rent lien dan
Nv in Madison county, Alabama CANA mn wet
snort time ago, and Joe Bib, colored, repl
armed that to remove a crop on which the oeei
nal9rd has a lien is a costly proceeding, Visit
e was fined $3.50 and costs, and the valna IN e
'he property, the total being 1927, 100"
Eplcures say the best pan or fry fish
me New Orleans market is the brim q
hsh, of the size and form of the ~
'aker, but exceeding that fish in fairness c.1
''hess and flavor. Brim is not a common ~;
1T is dlihcult to get and amo
- market perfectly fresh, and the oils.
akers having a shorter distance to come her
Tally arrive tresher. mot
Hon. H. w. Hilliard, of Georgia re- sym
,tlv anno;,to1 mt-: '" "eoi8la, re- Ebe
appointed minister to Brazil, was an her
'iine wing, commanded a legion in the man
'heril army, was in congress several times the
ported Greeley, was defeated bv 8 ooo out
Iorlty as independent candidate for CON. 900
by the regular democratic nominee amt
ldes, since early life he has been a min cent
r of the Methodist FnisoonaI | OrdiI
til. '""ich desol
to 50
iugtsta, Ga., had to abandon the old nora1
EN- OF giving a reward of fifty cents for meet
~ dog caught at large. The dos. cotcbors classe
lef"lly young negroes) got into such bad now
) and were so unma,cifru 49,, y" that
o"hefs' That the dog-catchers grew anl
&C. Now 1T is the tin badge and ono 6aL
incense. There are five or six bprdro 49,
iSeu dogs baying the moon now IN distriI
"" Ill G,,
he columbus (Ga.) Enquirer gives and ?
f'ouIars OF an outrage in Russell -.
~ winch should bring down severo 80.
Aoonn H'"u Oh the brutal parties distric
a convict about nineteen years of age. of bah,
passed counterfeit money, escaped she sec
1o'e a morse to facilitate his fiebt where
'oiusoo' the owner OF five or sir do,s for life
~ pursuit. OF him, and allowed the ana a
" i"cerate him in a horrible manna, nau 10
allowed 10 continu. n"nhef' their
at least tuontu { WORK on ming.
Charleston Is. O. News and
'r says there was considerable ,o1k - Befol
ee's saturday among the black neonle was re-
ing the exodus tn Iibo.i. n teries G
'ine prominent black men, who have n-;,
y Ho concerned themselves much in fantrv
~ are now openly advocating the FencibI
> as, what they declare, a measure of ments
u tor 'nelr race. 1t is hardly pos army sc
so INTO a small shop, kept exclusively or 5,Oy
4 men, without hearing of "the land which
holasses tree" spoken of in terms of are eacf
intatuation of the
men. :
Mobile Tribune says that, not ~re-enfor
iulng the extreme and constant heat foot, am
we are glad to announce that foot, eaC
no sickness in Mobile that is not the rank
ly of the season. In New Orleans of troop
no sign of the approacb of rorou men. COZ
ID from elsewhere, wbera ~ a." lery, fol
al. there is No uiseaSe seven ba
Tbsre 'nati IL mas a detachm,
sbal1 tS;s reason TO believe aud arm
10 h.ua year escape it entirely British
:. -" y return rarely in the flu. MediterrI
II Is now becoming Nc, II rn5ou..- ocornia5