The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
TIRE sOUIn.

a. ~ buShCiy VI Nolbu Ndlolllid, mas
been appointed United States consul at
Leeds,
North Carolina has just sentenced a
man to four years Imprisonment for a crime
committed in 1854.
ID. II. Hill, of North Carolina, has
been elected president of the industrial
university, located at Fayetteville, Arkansas
An eagle killed near Swaynesborough,
Ga, measured from tip to tip Of the wings
seven feet eight inches.
Last years peanut crop in Virginia,
ST. los, $50. These states produced l6l7O,-
coo bushels.
In all probability the pension agency
for the district of West Virginia, North Car
DINA and Tennessee will not be removed
from Knoxville.
A mad dog bit two hundred and two
dog who were not mad at Sardis, Kentucky,
the other day, and the citizens don't feel
much like being out nights.
The business men of Nashville have
organized a Merchants Exchange, and
elected John C. Mcclure president. The
board of directors are: II. c. Hensley, Geo.
NJ. Jackson, John n. Sperry, Frank Moulton,
j. II. Wilkes, and J. W. MGavock:
The president has signed the commits
sion of Alfred v. Dockery, of North Caro-.
lima, as consul at Leeds. This appointment
fills the last vacancy among the salaried
consulates.
d. T. Boynton, former pension agent
at Knoxville, Tenn, has been designated
agent for the consolidated district composed
of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee.
r. A. Thompson, one of the editors
and prOprietors of the Avalanche, has been
commissioned postmaster of Memphis by
President Hayes. The Office is worth from
$4,000 to S., 900 per annum. Josiah Deloach,
removed, was appointed by President Grant
eight years ago.
Rafo Pelton, a negro, was hanged at
Marion, Arkansas, on June IS, for the MUIR
der of n white man named Lester, about a
year ago, He made a speech from the gal
lows, in a boisterous, naughty and defiant
manner, in the midst of which the sheriff
cut the rope, fearing a rescue by the excited
negroes present, and Pelton's soul was
jerked to Jesus. Owing to the rope being
too long, the feet of the culprit touched the
ground, but his body was lifted by the dep
,,.;ac onJ. Il,a rama gbnptapai Aftpr hnDu.
ing fifteen minutes life was pronounced
extinct.
Senator Spencer, of Alabama, has left
with an exploring party Tor the Big Horn
country
Selim Rinker, formerly editorof Flakes
Bulletin, and at the time Of his death city
treasurer of Galveston, Texas, committed
suicide in that city recently by shooting
himself through the head. No cause stated.
A rather severe wind storm visited
Memphis and vicinity on June II. Trees
were blown down, houses unroofed, and
several steamers on the river were driven
from their moorings, sustaining severe
damage. {
Another report of a meat shower comes {
from Franklin, Tenn. A scientist says, ! {
have placed the substance under a fair mi a
croscope and find it an organism, a l~oricated |
iniusoria. From the average seen in one S
drop the number must have been immense
indeed. The i%nclosing jelly is perfectly
transparent, except a little coal dust and
,,,s,t Frar, H., ~,nf INnaI n-s,n1,a1a tE
inclosed in a case or shell of silica and all
are alike, of the same family. One drop
contains about fifty or sixty, and they have
plenty of room to float around. They are
about one four.hundredth of an inch long
Where they came from | cannot say; posi-. i
bly, from the decaying heaps of kelp in the I
Gulf of Mexico, or, as the winds have been
from the north for some time, they may
have come from the lakes. .
The state debt of South Carolina is
given as follows by the Christian News and y.
Courier: "When the entire fundable debt :
OF the state shall have been converted into
consolidated bonds and stocks, the state ,
debt will amount to $5,976,917. This result 4.
is obtained by the reputation by the repub. !
licans in 1878 Of the $6,OOO,COO of spurious
conversion bonds, and by the scaling of the
remainder of the debt to so cents on the
dollar. The actual bonded debt Of the state
Oc'. 81, 1867, principal and interest, was So
522,576 To this must be added the bonds
issued to redeem the bills receivable issued
under GOV. Orr'S administration, making the
ante reconstruction debt $5,CO7,5 76, or $780,.
ESQ more than the debt under the consolida.
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