The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTH.

manufacturers.
A copper mine is worked within a few
miles of Marietta, Ga.
The fig crop in Florida which has been
SO much neglected, is attracting attention.
1t is said that pig-iron is made cheaper
in Alabama than anywhere else in the
country.
Petersburg is rejoicing V e the pros
pect of a permanent channel OF twelve feet
in her own Appomattox.
Col. P~ennypacker has been ordered to
transfer his regiment Sixteenth infantry
from New Orleans to the west.
The net profit from one acre of land
planted in strawberries, near jackson, Miss,
was five hundred and fifty dollars.
Down on the mainland of Monroe
county, Florida, they raise beets weighing
eighteen to twenty pounds, and measuring
two and q half feet round.
1t seems that the shad captured in the
Tennessee, near Chattanooga, were not the
true shad. Those found in the Ohio at
Louisville, KY, are all right.
st. Johns county, Florida, paid six
teen dollars last month for scalps of pan
theirs and bears. Florida wants to get rid
of the animals; they commit too many
southern outrages.
1t is estimated that the school fund of
the state of Texas will be 5 1,O00,CO) when
the school lands are all realized from. The
annual income to the school fund will be
about s., 100000.
Leonard W. Hooper, of the firm of
Hooper 4 Co., pork packers at Nashville,
was killed by Bell Nance, son of the presi.
dent of the White Greek turnpike company,
on the 3ist ultimo.
1t is rumored that Wade Hampton is
about to marry the widow of Gen. Pickens,
of South Carolina. The lady is a native
Mississippian, and was long a reigning belle
az Miss Lucie Patton Holcombe.
Horace F. Smith, general freight agent
OF the Memphis division Of the Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railway, was
drowned in the river nearly opposite Men,
phis, about 10 o'clock on the night of the
31st ultimo.
In New Orleans, the road to the lake
known as the Canal street, City Park and
Lake railway, continues to remain a useless
enterprise, and, while the engines and cars
are rotting, the general inquiry is, "what
will they do with it?'
North Carolina has paid for fertilizers
within the last twelve months three millions
of dollars; Georgia, two millions, Virginia
perhaps more. These figures appall some of
the newspapers, which suggest that the
manure "costs more than it comes to-"
From March 18th to May LIST there
were delivered at various points in North
Carolina ten thousand seven hundred and
eighty-three tons of guano. The Raleigh
News is discouraged at the extravaganza,
and calls cotton ''the poorest crop on the
face of Gods earth"
The Methodists of North Carolina cs-
tablished an orphans home in 1870. The
institution has been kept up mainly through
the instrumentality of a few. A mechanic
OF Atlanta gave eight thousand dollars to it,
and now works, barely reserving enough to
meet necessary expenses, donating the re.
mainder to the same noble charity. (
DIR. J. F. Grant, of Pulaski, Tenn, is
engaged in collecting together specimens OF
all the fishes that roam our waters. He has
already a large variety. His object is to
have the collection complete and at Nash
vile by the LIST of August, at the meeting of
the American association for the advance.
ment of science.
In South Carolina much interest is
taken in volunteer military organizations.
The uniforms are various and striking. The
Charleston Hampton Ritiemen have a fatigue
or summer uniform, consisting of black pants,
linen jackets, with palmetto buttons and
green trimmings, black felt hat, with green
cord and tassel and green feather.
The Robert E. Lee Monumental As
ISOLATION of New Orleans has succeeded in I
obtaining funds nearly sufficient to erect a
monument in that city to the memory of
that illustrious general. 1t is proposed to
erect the monument in Tivoli circle, which /
is the center of the city, and the most prom.
ioent aud conspicuous place.
The canal around Muscle Shoals, in
the Tennessee river, will be fourteen and
one'haif miles long. The size of the locks
is three hundred feet between mitre sills,
sixty feet wide, ten feet lift; large enough
to pass a first class Mississippi river steamer.
Something less than a million dollars in
to the amount already expended
be necessary to complete the work.
DR.. J. Marion Sims wants the medical
profession to unite in asking congress to
appropriate one hundred thousand dollars
for the families of Drs. Horace Wells. W. T. |
Morton, Charles t. jackson and Crawford !
Long, the rival claimants for the dis. {
covery of anesthesia. DR.. Long is prac. l
at Athens, Georgia, old and poor. !,
About two weeks ago, while a son of b
silas Wright, near Troy Alabama, aged il
about sixteen years, was seated on a log, "
fishing, a huge moccasin glided across his y
ap, which frightened him to such an extent VI
hat he became completely paralyzed with y
error, and remained in that condition m
everal days. He is just recovering speech. nj,
Correspondence of Richmond Dispatch; nj
The grand estate of the family of Lenoir III
Huguenot family which a from North pr
is in Loudon county. The estate "
as been kept we'll together in a body of in
thousand five hundred acres, and is a an
rand sight to the agriculturist. The prop. op
rty is carefully and successfully managed. th
turing the war Burnside's command found SUI
way 20 the Lenoir estate, and the general iDi