The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-12-14
MISSISSIPPI NEWS.

q Tie hotel at WcSson station 'oi
the Jackson road was burned Oh
4 the 9th. Loss about $4,000.
IS Thos. D. Greenwood, assistant pro
L fessor otchemistry in the University
> of Mississippi, died at Oxford last
Wednesday.
i A party Of gentlemen from New
Jersey have been prospecting IN
u Panola couaty with Il view OF pur~
o chasing large tracts of land.
Starkville Times: We hear it re-
IS marked by men Of truth and good
Judgment that nearly o%ne.lourth OF
, the cotton crop in this county will
= be lost in the field.
Mr.. Joseph Wilder, employed in
/ q saloon in Grecnville, was set upon
Il by a crowd of rowdies last Wedncs-
day night, who had been kicking up a
scandal in the place. He opened
t fire and fatally wounded two, when
J the others took to fight.
4 A fire occurred in Water Valley
On the 1st inst, by which property
to the value of $4,000 was des'
D trCyed. 1t caught in the Simmons
Hotel, and destroyed that and eleven
other houses. 1t is supposed that
, the disaster was the result Of incen-
diarSm.
The Vicksburg and Nashville
railroad was sold at Okolena on the
3D. inst, by Deputy U. 5. Marshal
Bell, and was purchased by Mr..
Nc Willie, acting for Hamilton u
Hebron, lessees of the Mississippi
p%enitentiary, who will Immediately
put a force to work to complete the
road from Okolona to Grenada.
Brandon Republican: The radi.
Gals, assisted by a few Independents
ore-head-democrat5, are making an
effort to establish another paper in
Brandon, for the purpose, we under
stand, of advocating the farmers
ifteen.cent cotton movement, and
cementing the negroes in favor OF
the independent anti democratic po-
litical movement.
Vicksburg Herald: A planters
meeting was held in Lowndes coun-
ty the other day, that took measures
to attempt the passage of a law that
will make the obtaining Of money
or goods under false promise of
labor a penal offense; also a law
that will prevent the hiring of any
person who has contracted for a
specified term Of service until said
service is rendered.
Chickasaw Messenger: A terrible
accident occurred at the residence
of Mr.. W. A. Hill, near Red Land,
on the 22d inst. His little child,
about two years old, vas sitting on
a chair near the fire, upon which
was a pot of boiling water. BY
some accident the chair was upset,
prccipitating the child into the fire
and Upsetting the water. Before it
could be rescued, although its mother
vas near by, the little fellow 8uifo-
eIted.
Aberdeen Examiner: Guss Brock,
who was tried on Friday as party
to the conspiracy to murder Dick
Beckett, WAS convicted and sent to
the penitentiary for life. He vas
ably defended by MessrS. Geo. G.
PANE and T. A. sale, but the evil
dence was 80 strong that those who
heard it felt fully convinced that
the arguments and analysis Of coun-
sci would be unavailing. 1t vas a
triumph to his young counsel to have
saved their client from the gallows.
Summit Sentinel: W. learn, from
reliable authority, that Rodney
Green, COL, who was confined in our
county Jail under sentence Of death
fol murder, and who made his eS>
cape therefrom not long since, was !
captured at China Grove last Sun
day, by another colored man, who
was compelled to knock Green
down six times with a fence>rail Ee-
lore he would submit to being ar>
Green now lanGuishes in G
durance vile.
F4yette Chronicle: Report has l
come to town that Mr.. Hugh Farley,
who lives in the neighborhood of
Union Church, is missing. Mr..
McCaa parted with him late Wed.
lesday evening about a mile from I
ais (Fairley's) house, both returning J
rom Fayette, but up to l O'Clock C
Thursday, Mr.. Farley hadn't been a
,ound. His mule reached home b
Wednesday night, and on search o
lis hat and pipe were found in the b
Dad three-iourths of a mile from "
lis house. 1t is said that Mr.. Fair II
ey had a small amount Of money on il
lis person. "
Summit Sentinel: We are in b
ormed that, during the last session a
# Lawrence county circuit court, "
which has just closed its labors, Mr.. III
!. l.. Traube, of Magnolia, was sem r.
enced to seven years in the peni- III
for The killing Of Mr.. Abe g