The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
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powder mouse.
Haywood, North Carolina, boasts of
tobacco leaves one yard long and twenty and
one-half inches wide.
A pear tree at Newbern, North Caro-
lima, is in bloom for the third time this sea-
son. 1t has grown two crops.
There were ten thousand persons pres
ent recently at a meeting at Lebanon church,
near Hillsboro, North Carolina.
A narrow-guage railroad has been
chartered, running from Denison, Texas, to
Sabine Pass, by the way of Lawrence.
Two thousand dollars of the Peabody
fund, awarded to San Antonio, Texas, lifts
that place out OF a strait in school matters.
A rattlesnake with genuine horns an
inch long is on exhibition in Charlotte, North
carolina. The snake is a native of that
state.
Mr.. S. P. Williams, of De Soto parish,
10 ~Ilslana, killed in one week, with twenty.
eight successive shots with a rife, twenty.
eight deer.
The state g~eologist estimates the flow
OF water from the Alum Springs, Onslow
county, North Carolina, to be two thousand
gallens per minute.
of one hundred and thirty-seven col
ored people baptized at Ridgeway, near
Raleigh. N. c., ~fifty-one were baptized face
downward.
There are but five sound legs and three
good arms on the battle-scarred tickets of
the democrats in the present Virginia cam.
paign.
Bolton, South Carolina, boasts of the
most elaboratelv adorned public well in the
up country. 1t cost $3.50, and is quite a
feature of the town.
Richmond, Va, shipped 5000 barrels
OF flour to Rio de Janeiro last week, This
was enterprising enough, but it went in a
British vessel.
The receipts of cotton at Norfolk, Va,
for the year ending September /, 1877. were
509,6l2 bales, an increase of 81, 614 bales over
the previous year.
Eight daily trains arrive and eight
daily trains leave Spartanburg, :. c.. every
day except Sunday, making sixteen trains
arriving and departing daily.
There are twenty-five species of oak il
the state of North Carolina, eight species of
pine, nine of spruce, five of elm, five of birch,
eight of hickory and seven of magnolia.
The board of managers of the Lee
monument (~Richmond, Va has extended
the time for receiving models to the first of
November. None of the models already re.
ceived will be exhibited.
yellow fever, nrsooJea bpno 49, ny tia'
yailine for a considerabie iimo Tbat Pr.
expresses some anprehension i, yiew II ttbe
winds now nrevaiing in sontborn Taxoa 49,"
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Inc Llttle hock ARK Gazette thinks
Memnbis snd 9itt IL p ,noh MGunaaLh u ana lne
to the con strnction If , naw hridno naaL III
at the Point of Rocks foot Of PP oo pto n
I..Lo 80 ~, ,'
~ 'ne 'dnu Oh the fapapat they also
catch stingaree. One was at the Barnes
dav that weighed one bnnJrdpdP and are otnet
two pounds. "''
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MeSsis. Ieofge W. f1aseltine n
Owens' OF Lagrange, Georgia, have given
Sl,ooV TO the fund for establishing a free
negroes h bav .n rai neSt abou 81 a. Ih nao pace: Inc
puYpose, ~
"A man III thaItahooga mas a genuine
pearl, when was taken with five Others of
various sizes from a muscle from the Ten
irons ana mTe' lear Ihat cfty. ~ Is very lus-
r f
Lieutenant Armstrong has received
rom me texas state government SIS, sos. as
reward Tor me capture OF John Wesley Har-
uln, Inc Dalance, Sl94, Will be paid as soon
as an appropriation can be made for that
fu,p
rive years ago the weekly Shipment
Oh beer to Vlcksburg was about sixty kegs
per week, nut now the shipment amounts to
al least SIX hundred per week, a considerable I
poruon OF which goes to the surrounding ,
country.
savannah News Florida item The
Tune has come when the competition as to
the prize for the regular Florida yams, some
tlmes called "nigger killers, is active. Or
landa leads of with a specimen weighing ten
pounds. 7
Miss Florence Pitman and Miss Mary l
Nelson, of AIbemarIe count Va Iii |oay S
Japan in October as missionaries, Two young +
LADIES from the sam county, Miss Lottie and =
MISS Eoole Moon, are already in China in the
capacity. n
Two boys in the course of their stealing t
TO get awav with a ono ,rorth - p
books from the library of the ocademyo Of e
sciences in New Orleans A nnmhor ~ H. n
goost we're recovered from a shop where
T oiu w Ii pounu' a
Inc Dalton (Ga.) Times tells OF a b
rather remarkable sycamore tree in Walker e
county. 1t was planted in 1868 when not h
more than eight feet high. tits now seventy. ii
ave feet high, and measures nine and n half Il
eet IN circumference Many of the limbs
IRE forty feet long. G
me New orleans lines says that the is
snSI Ias. on sne saieol onIteu ota.es puoIc 81
o. Nc, ~ anountto 10 9o'o9z Of, II
u hot suIncleht 10 pay Tor keeping up the d
.aIous onces necessary Tor their disposal.
'nu sno"Ins Una. tne government would %
The city council of Charleston. South u
,~aroIina 1ronosa 70 ereo,a a - agu.I "a
hose dntv + sboli ba az ot;s ohciai 81
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