The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-03-09
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There was "a 800 insurance On the s25
Wo ioss BY ibe burning 81 he opera snd
msrkstb house waco, Texas.
Tho members Of the house of repre.en
tHiiges n the legislature n ArEaasas receive
milstgs on ~ 1872 miles.
Judge W. g. Farley, Of Georgia, died
m The night d NE 18th. the identical time
that be predicted sS weeks before that be-
would yield up the ghost.
Jesus, whose sirname il Santi.tevan.
murdered his wife, Nsria de Je.u, MARTINEZ
by shooting and beating her with o pistol, AZ
Taos, Idaho Territory.
The area OF the public domain Of Texas
is now j7,632,320 acres, out Of which must
come the l3,691,OOO acres Of the Texas and
Pacific railroad reservation.
\ stem Of orange, fourteen inches in
length, holding fourteen oranges Of large
size and fine quality, received attention at
the Jacksonville, Florida fair.
\ little girl in Savannah, Ga, was bit
ten on the finger by a playful dog, and died
IN nineteen days Of h~ydrophobia; still moth
ing was ever seen wrong with the dog.
The Confederate Memorial Associa-
ton" Of Chattanooga, Tenn, has 81, 800 in
the treasury, and co~ntemplates erecting the
monument at an early day. 1t will be thirty
feet high with a cubic base six feetin dimen.
sions, and will cost $4,000.
John r. Bynum, a jeweler of Bolivar,
Tenn, and leader of the Bolivar brass
band, was locked up in the calaboose of that
town on Friday night, the 23d, and the key
carried a mile away. During the night the
calaboose took fire and was consumed, burn.
ing the unfortunate prisoner before relief
could be obtained.
Raleigh Observer: We learn from Mr..
Dumont, the attorney for the Massachusetts,
c%Olonists who have been prospecting in west
ern North Carolina, thatthey have negotiated
for the purchase of shout SIX thousand acres
Of land lying twelve miles above Morgan
ton, in the region of country known as the
Dinville valley, and that they are making
efforts to secure additional tracts adjoining
this.
Resolution That we, the Florida
fruit growers association, in convention as
sembled, would most earnestly request the
legislature, now in session, to appropriate a
sum of at least 5000 per snnum for the
purpose of disseminating a knowledge of the
inducements for immigration to our state,
this sum to be placed at the disposal of the
board of immigration, lately created by this
legislature, for that purpose.
The Picayune states hat in Louisiana
there is a very wide disposition on the part
of planters to cultivate this year those neces.
saries Of life tor which they have heretofore
been compelled to draw upon the west. The
growuh of grain promises to be more exten.
sive than it has ever been before, and the in.
creased raising of hogs and cattle is very
marked.
Florida, if all reports are true, has had
a nice streak of luck in the sale of state
lands, A party of English and German cap.
italists have purchased 8, 200, 900 acres of the
Florida state lands, and are organizing an
emigration company. The money paid for
those lands, it is said, will pay off the
state debt and leave a balance ia the treas.
ury.
Cotton Prospects, 1877: In the general
result of our crop, considered in respect of
pounds, "Sea island" makes a very insignif.
figure. The largest crop grown since
1926 was that of 1886 when Florida pro.
duced 1885 bags, Georgia, 1869, and South
Carolina, lS,S0l-altogether 52,413 bags.
Since the war the condition of things has
been SO wretched on the sea islands that the
whole crop has dwindled down lin 1890
TO only 1895 bags; or Florida, $3.50; Geor.
gia, 1913. and South Carolina, 1888.
In the matter of our late sugar crop,
which the planters have not yet tired talking
about, two facts are singulsrly suggestive.
The first is that the amount of sugar
raised to the acre is unexceptionally large,
aud much larger than in ante bellum crops.
In st. John, for instance, the crop averaged
/ 1914 pounds TO the acre, in Iberville 1,60O
pounds TO the acre, etc, showing that, in.
of retrogrqding in the matter of sugar
we have learned much by hard
The second fact is that in most par.
Ishes the sugar product is larger to the Ia
borer than in old slave days, averaging
nearly a hogshesds TO the field hand, a proof
that, in the sugar parishes at least, the ne
yroes are working earnestly and laboriously.
-NeW Orleans Democrat.
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