The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-07-13
NEWS SUMMARY.


Robert and Thomas Remover, charged
with numbering Sam Ellis, near German.
town, about a year ago, have been acquitted
ut Memphis. They were, on the first trial,
found guilty Of murder in the first degree,
but were granted a new trial, with the result
stated above.
In the superior district court, at New
Orleans, attorney general Ogden, and dis.
trict attorney FInuey filed information
against J. Madison Wells, F. c. Anderson,
Louis Nj. kenner and G. Casanave, charging
them, under section S33 of the revised stat.
utes, with uttering and publishing as true,
q certain altered, false, forged and counter.
felt record. Immediately after the filing of
the information, ~eapiases were issued for the
arrest of the parties named. The informa.
ton is very lengthy. 1t charges them with
having on the ith of December, 1876, falsely
and teloniously uttered and published as true
certain returns for presidential electors from
the parish of Vernon, at the election of No.
vember last, by adding 15S votes to each of the
Hayes electors and deducting 395 from each
of the Tilden electors. Bail was fixed at
$4,000 each.
State senator j. Henri Burch, of Louis.
lana, has been arrested under a writ of the
district court of East Baton Refuge, charged
with embezzlement of school funds, and re.
manded to the custody of the sheriff of East
Baton Rouge. Burch sought release under
a writ of hdbeaS corpus, but failed.
John Wigginton, Elias T. Haynes,
Edward Smoot, and Jordan jackson have
each been appointed revenue storekeepers
and guagers for the seventh district of Ken.
lucky. Smoot and jackson are colored
men, and the first that have received APP.
pointments of this character.
By direction of the secretary of war
the board of engineers, consisting of Colonel
}. ii. Simpson, Major c. r. Suter, and Cap.
tain W. II. II. Benyourd, have been ordered
to assemble at Vicksburg, Miss, on the 18th
OF July, to examine and report upon the
most advisable means of preserving the
waterfront of Nicksburg, and of arresting
the danger which appears to be apprehended
from the cutoff opposite that city.
A delegation of eight South Carolina
negroes are preparing to go to Washington
to insist upon the recognition of their race
in the distribution of federal offices in this
state. Ex-congressman Elliott is their
leader, and their special grievance is under.
stood to be not so much that colored men
have been ignored as that colored recipients
of offices thus far have been mulattoes, thus
showing q nraiudioa ua;nn H. l1u.I----
The New Orleans commission have
completed their preliminary report, and
have sent it to the secretary of the treasury. {
1t is reported that the reductions they rec. |
amount to nearly % per cent, both /
in cost and numerical strength, and will
effect an annual saving of $4,000, whilst q
the force amply sufficient for all the h
requirements. The commission confne their -
report exclusively to questions of economy !,
md efficiency of administration, reserying +,
or a supplemental report the discussion of ~
he general subjects submitted to them,
The Memphis and Charleston railroad or
las passed into the hands of the East Ten. ca
essee and Georgia railroad, under a lease ha
- '"'h'y years. Ii eloch Holuefs ala not W.
espond to the appeal of the committee ask. tri
lg for money aid. erl
John Stone Pullen, formerly a New
rleans sugar merchant and member of the OF
~ouisiana legislature, and colonel of the cor
'nfederate army, who loaned 100000 to Coz
army and was beggared by the con
suit of the war, died in a wretched tene. hey
ent in Grand street, Brooklyn, and was
we'd from burial at public expense by the
arity of his poor felIOw.tenants. A