The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-14

kept n, home in the service of the state,
This is a remarkable exhibit, and il is a cor.
rect one, for a state that never gave but ll2,.
COZ votes prior TO the war IN any election.
The Monroe (Ga.) Advertiser says il
is really astonishing that from a source al.
most entirely neglected for many years past
our people can derive a net income equal to
that derived from king cotton. The moral
OF this is, take care OF your orchards il you
nave any, and il you have none, lose no time
in planting choice and well.selected fruit
trees.
The Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeal
says that Hon. Judah p. Benjamin, of the
Queens counsel, in reply to a letter written
to him by an expectant heir, says he knows
nothing whatever of the s0called Jennings
estate, nor does he believe in its existence.
He further says that he would not give a
penny postage stamp for the free use Of all
the rights of the claimants.
In Houston, Texas, lately died Dick
Roger, a potorious negro character. He was
well known in police records, and was the
perpetrator OF many petty robberies. He
frequently appeared in female apparel, and
having a woman's voice easily passed himself
off for a female of the colored persuasion.
One of his latest villainies was the robbing
of a st. LOUIS man out OF several hundred
dollars.
The Girod asylum donated to the city
of New Orleans as a refuge for the orphans
of French parents, and erected several years
ago at an expense of one hundred thousand
dollars, is now uninhabitable, owing to the
miasma which is constantly arising from the
swarnps of the immediate y~icinage, 1t takes
a diurnal dose of quinine to keep them
straight. A new building in a new locality
is suggested. The terms of the will may
prevent a change.
We would like to have the afidavits
on the snake question. The Wilmington
IN. c. Star gives an account of one killed
near BurgOn, Fender county. The account
says his snakeship is supposed to be a spe-
cies Of the anaconda, being about thirty feet
in length and larger than a mans body.
When discovered it was in the act OF swal.
lowing a y~earling deer, about one.half of
which had disappeared in his capacious
mouth.
The Palatka (Fla.) Herald says that
the prospect for a large orange crop this
winter is encouraging, Among fruitgrowers
the only thing to be dreaded is the possibility
of a gale in September, or it may be sooner,
which sometimes visits the south Atlantic
coast. The gale of 1871 thrashed off about
one-third of the oranges but that was very
severe, and another such may not occur in a
long time: The young orange groves are
very promising to those who have been toll
lag and patiently waiting for a return for
their labor.
The Petersburg (Va.) paper chronicles
the advent of a new tobacco bng, Wherever
their hills nerforate the loaf II at once wiIts
and dies. The bugs are abont the size of an
ordinary chlnch-bug, and have a small bill
similar to that seen on the musquito, only it
is longer. When bruised, the bug emits an
odor similar to that OF the chinch'bug, while
its color is a dark red. 1t is said to BE very
tenacious OF life, and is found in large num-
btrs in some Localities.
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The savannah News says Lincoln
county, Georgia, flows with honey. Mr..