The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-31
NEWS SUM-
rRE SOUTH,

lN'N'NH'' Wv AlA1'A " oiAbh
b~ull-hghting in the city.
The new watcr-works company OF New
Orleans mas about procured its necessary
subscription of 100000.
Syrup made from watermclons is
ickling the palltes of the people OF Match ez,
Mississippi.
LII the intention of the naval authori-
ties to arm all of our best vessels with rited
ordnance as fast as it can be made.
An alligator, fourteen feet in length,
which was killed near Pensacola, Fla, is the
sensation there.
A fruit canning establishment on a
large scale will soon go into operation in
Culsm, Alabama.
The land assessments of Tom Green
county, Texas, shows the largest in the
state-4,o00 900 acres.
This is a memorable year in Texas, on
account of the absence of c%ircuses, kept away
by the high tax.
A Galveston, Texas, hotel has in its
employ as porter a man who vas at one time
the possessor of 5000, zoo.
The Alabama Town and Land Asso-
citation of Chicago" has bought 1000 0 acres
OF land in Cullman county, Alabama.
Hide dealers in Galveston county,
Texas, are indignant that they have to sub
NIT to the present inspection of hides, which
costs ten cents each.
The brandy crop in North Carolina is
simply immense. Over three hundred dis.
~tillerles are registered in the division Of the
collectors departments around Statewide.
The shops Of the Virginia Midland
railroad have been removed from Lynchburg
to Charlottesville The removal takes away
forty families connected with the road.
Tho ofice-seekers of Jacks county,
Texas, have sent a petition to Justice James
Perrett, asking him to resign on account of
old age.
The Alamo property at San Antonio,
Texas, is offered for sale at $4,000. The
Statesman thinks the historic spot should
be owned by the state.
In boring for copperin Sherman, Texas,
q peculiar formation at a depth of thirty.six
feet has been struck, which resists the best
tempered drills.
Talbotton, GA, is getting to be a
dried.fruit center. One firm in that village
paid out in one day -four hundred dollars
for dried fruit.
In the town of Waysville, Ala, Mr..
Hiram Hutton lost his life trying to rescue
his son from the poisoned air of a well.
Father and son were ~lifeless when taken out.
The new city bonds of Memphis, Tenn,
which arc issued in exchange for the old,
will relieve the city of much debt. Creditors
are expected to give two for one.
The Tennessee historical society intend
to make "A display of its effects for the bene.
fit OF the American association for the ad.
vancement of sciences, which shortly meets
at Nashville.
There Is a %cOcoOnery in Raleigh, North
Carolina, and it is claimed that the climate
of that state is well adapted to the growth
the silk worm, indeed superior to that of
many silk.growing states.
The refrigerator enterprise in Denison,
Texas, is now under full Roadway. About
forty beeves are killed daily and stored in
the refrigerator. About twelve persons are
kept employed by this enterprise.
Chief Engineer Morris, Of the Nash
Tille and Chattanooga railroad, has approved
md received the extension of the Jasper
branch road to Victoria, and regular trains
will soon be run between that place and
Bridgeport.
The total amount of state taxes in
for schools per annum is $55O,OO
he counties levy a tax ~aggregating $45O,OOO,
the total amount of taxes collected
or school purposes 81 100000.
The Charleston News and Courier saws
Governor Hampton did not borrow
for the state on his visit to New York,
tut obtained all that was needed within the
Units of the state, and could have borrowed
hree times as much more.
The New Orleans Democrat a that
stalk of Egyptian cane, in Assumption
grew twenty-one inches in seventeen
lays, the past few weeks. One could almost
zee it growing. This is the cane imported a
years ago by Mr.. Lapice.
The lessees and hands on Linwood
plantation, near Natchez, Miss, have organ
zed a vigilance committee, composed of
'olored people, for the purpose of suppress.
ng crime. This committee has already
and lodged in the Natchez Jail two
charged with cattle stealing.
The break in the levee which carries
If fve-slxths of the water into Tones BAYOU.
hereby rendering the Red river unnavigable.
$ exciting attention in New Orleans. Gov.
'leholls has not yet decided whether he can
esaliy devote any money on hand to the
emedy needed.
A waste paper man, Davis, has been
rrested in New Orleans for the sale of
'ashed internal revenue stamps. His pro-
ess has not been discovered and is per. {
the government agent. The color
Il the stamp is not changed, and they look !
S good as new. ,
In San Antonio, Texas, c.. j. Woodsop. |
'rmerly of Montgomery, was killed by Sam
umpkln. Woodson killed a brother of I
uInpkin's in Chattanooga last March and :
ed t1Texas, where he was tracked by the !
iurlered mans brother with the above /,
atal result. ;
In accordance with the act of the last g
legislature, the levee bnar1 of the Vieksburg {
'is'nct has ordered its collector to assess U
ma collect three dollars a bale on cotton
from the lever ~''-trict on and after
w iN' olS'ptembsr for the crop Of 1877. y,