The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-10-26
NISCELLANEOUS

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MISCELLANEOUS.
Cincinnati consumed ftty-two thou
sand barrels OF beer during August,
The present product of the oil countr
is estimated at over forty thousand barrel
per day.
1t is announced that the order O
Orangemen in the United States has a mem
bership.
Russia has $4,000 hereditary noble
and $4,000 who are not hereditary, an,
thousands of both classes are very poor.
Some forty persons were poisoned il
Camden, Maine, though not seriously, iron
drinking milk which had been standing il
new jars with porcelain Innings.
Texas might be cut up into five state,
as large as Illinois, each containing owe
$4,000 square miles, and an early movement
toward this end is now predicted,
If one saw how macaroni was made by
dirty Italisns, in filthy SHAMELESS in south
Fifth avenue, nobody would eat il, says q
New York paper,
Land owners along the Sacramento
river have, in a convention, resolved not TO
employ Cinnamon, and to induce others to
cease giving them employment and selling
| them land.
The nation is a great creditor as well
as debtor. The six Pacific railroads-UniOn,
Central, Southern, Kansas, Sioux City and
Western-owe it $92, $50, 75l, which pays no
interest until maturity in 1897.
One steamer is ready to sail from New
Haven, Connecticut, for Constantinople, with
twenty-one hundred and fifty tons of ammu>
milton, valued at two millions of dollars.
Another steamer is preparing to load.
The special session is not likely to
prove a specially short one. There is a dis
position manifested among the members now
on hand to take advantage of the cool full
weather and plunge into general legislation.
The saloon men and the Mexican
population of Colorado voted solidly against
woman suffrage at the late election. The
whisky men naturally believe thatthe women
OF Colorado, with ballots, would vote a law
through for the suppression of their traffic,
and the Mexlcans were afraid they woul
run dry,
From various portions of the northwest
there are evidences Of n steady stream of
immigration to the southern and south.
western states, and indications that this cur.
rent will become stronger and wider during
the present fall and winter season. The Chi
cagO Journal reports that many families are
leaving that city daily for Texas and Florida,
and the number OF inquirers and seekers
af'cr information is steadily on the increase.
James Berry, the Pacific railroad rob-
Der, died at Mexico, Missouri, on the 18th in.
slant, from wounds inflicted by Sheriff Glass.
cock, while attempting to arrest him. His
dying confession is to the effect that he was
one of the men who robbed the express car at
Big Springs, and he said hat Collins, who
was ki led in Kansas, planned the robbery;
that the name Of the other men were correct
as. now known by the express company, and
that they all travelled two hundred miles to.
gether, and then separated in squads of two.
9erry's partner came here with him and went
to Chicago, Berry leaves a wife and xix
children. He was very respectfully con.
nected in Galloway county.
The expectations of cattlt and beef to
which started up SO suddenly a few
ago and expanded so rapidly, is
on the decline. The large firm Of
Brothers, in New York, who made
the first shipments OF live cattle, failed the
other day, and they declare that the business
is a losing one, owing TO the inevitable losses
" oh Nv Nol"SNs iNSh DNtl I Jul
little better than live stock, owing to the i'm.
mense difficulty experienced in keeping it
fresh and sweet while on the water. Another
finn, however, in the same city, claims TO
have done fairly well at the trade.
For the first time in five years a cargo
of coal has arrived in Boston from Newcastle |
been sold at a profit, and more is on the
way. The Gas company is the only purchaser
as yet, but there will soon be a large market |
English coal in Massachusetts,, unless the |
price OF Pennsylvania coal is reduced. The
reason OF this trade phenomenon is plainly
forth in the American Gas Light Journal. |
lays the blame upon the railroad
companies and their stud:ous interference
with .he coal companies. The freight agents |
dictate the price at which coal is sold, |
the markets to which it is sent, and other |
matters which have heretofore been con.
solely at the discretion of the coal
operators. The price has thus been fixed
above the cost of coal in England, with the
added; and the shrewd Boston men
ire seeking the cheapest market,
The secretary of the treasury, in a
communication TO the speaker of the house
)f representatives, says estimates of appro-
required for military establishment
or the fiscal year ending June 80, 1878, as
by the secretary of war, together
With special estimates of other deficiencies
md appropriations required by the sew.
raj executive departments for the current
nd past fiscal year is as follows: War de.
'srtment, 1874 764; library of congress,
22,s00; court of claims, S1.206,4 54; treas.
Try department, s27s,s91; postofice depart. |
nent, 100000; navy department, 81, 0OS,s6f: |,
judicial, S962,535; total, 36,906, 306 Sc. Ac-
ompanying these estimates are the follow
ng, submitted by the secretary of war with.
ut recommendation: Forts and forti6ca-
ions, $2,07S,o00; rivers and harbors, $751;
An estimate of 81 ,031, 453 for a per-
lament annuala appreciation is also submitted
Or the information of congress, but is not