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


The letter-carrlers petltloD, sent to
congress from New Orleans, was l75 feet long
and contained 10000 names.
The Mobile Register says the naval
stores trade Of that port supports nearly
twenty thousand people.
The game law of Virginia does not
allow any partridge to be killed or sold in
the state before the LIST OF November.
Gov. Hubbard estimates the value of
taxable property in the state of Texas this
year at 1885,. 5000 0, against 100000 900
last year.
The female treasurer OF n Sunday
school in Jefferson, Texas, absconded last
week with three hundred dollars belonging
to the school.
The Methodisls OF Virginia and Mary
land are to be appealed to for contributions
to build a monument TO the late Rev. DR.,
Duncan. The sum wanted is $4,000.
The German steamer Hanover arrived
at New Orleans last week, cpllided with q
ship bottom upwards, and passengers saw
two other ships bottom upwards.
The city of Brunswick, Georgia, is
exceptionally healthy this year. Only one
white "a chilly has died in over n month
past, and very few colored people have died.
Charlotte On. c. Observer: Postum
hunting is the rage jus, now, snd NheD YOU
see two men engaged in angrf debate YOU
may know that il is about who has the best
'possum dog,
Guardian: Owing to the strict quar-.
antine regulations Tampa is dry, indeed, in
the provision line. We dom see the differ.
ence from dying with yellow fever and being
starved to death.
A proclamation offering n reward of
81, 900 for the recovery Of tie books stolen
and carted away from the auditors off q
was issued by acting Governor Wilt, OF Lou.
isisna, Tuesday.
The Vicksburg cut>ofr, which occurred
some months ago, has finally begun TO tell on
the river in front of that city, and the Vicks.
burg wharfboat will have TO be moved from
lt' present position.
A firm in Richmond, Va, has ready
a second steam %ire-engine for the city of st.
Petersburg, Russia. This same firm, Just be.
fore the war, built the first fire.engine used
IN the Muscovite capital.
The New Orleans Times says that
thousands of unemployed men linger in that
city while urgent invitations are being sent
to the people of the north to come and settle |
upon the fertile lands of Louisiana.
About two hundred and fifty Boston
mechanics talk cf locating in northern
Texas. Eighty-two of them had agreed to
Join a colony to settle there and take two
hundred acres OF land each. They propose
to start thi fall.
or the six negroes who burned the
town of Darlington, South Carolina, last
July, Jour have been sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for life and the other two for ten
and twenty years respectively. The iury
was composed of whites and blacks.
Coy. Porter has issued his proclama.
ton offering a reward of $3.50 for the appre.
hension and conviction of each of the bar.
ties engaged in the burning and shooting at
the Knoxville Iron Company's works, at
Coal creek.
Alamance IN. c. Cleaner Mr.. .Joseph
Wood and his wife, near the depot. had an
interesting family Of six children. Dinb.
liberia made its appearance among them.
Last week we recorded the death of two, and
this week we have to record the death of
three Others, leaving one of the xix.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: The mother
superior of st. Mary's Convent, sisters of
mercy. st, Patrlck's parish, of his CITY. has
offered Inc services OF as many of the sisters
as may be needed to attend the sick at Port
Royal. Sister Mary Nayier, Sister Mary Ann,
Sister Mary Joseph and Sister Patrick leave
this morning for Port Royal.
A railroad man says there is scarcely
any limit to the amount Of tobacco raised in
west tennessee, and that the shipment of
inc weed over the Northeastern road will be
greater than ever before known. As II will
bring not less than : or 7 cents, and proba. ,
ply more, according TO the estimate of Colonel
hlllebrew, Tennessee. s likely to realize n
good revenue from TINT product.
Natchez Democrat We hear MANY
saying that by the middle Of tbis
or the last of it at most, all the cotlon {
VII be gathered, and they generally agree /
Ihat because OF the worms and the stormsl
ne crop viii be, hereabout, from thirty 10 :
thirty-hye per cent, less than a full crop, 6
The Office of the Knoxville Iron Com. c
pany, at Coal creek, with all its contents. was d
SET on hre 0 few nights ago by mask ed in, O
ana totally destroyed. The chute
rom Their mine was fred, and durino ~ v
leAt night the guards we're fired upon nv a 4
lumber oil unseen parties from the MEM a
MIR. D. j. Blois, a volunteer nurse from &
has completed the census of Far .
1ahulhel and the following is the resuIt. =
resent population, t,632; adults, 1922: chill =
10 ooei classlhed as follows by sex: Males "
lensIes, SIS; by color, whites, SIS. col,
''55eeo' IdSo9j by condition, sick, 293; we'll +. Z
those now well $50 have been sick. n
new Orleans ~Picayune: The Lee q
memorial n D association will soon hold a meet. =
hss tI the purpose Of selecting a plan forl ",
~ proposed monument to be erected in ~
Won Circle, Nearly a score of plans have !,
submitted, so that it will be no easv ~
latier to make a selection. The amount n y.
ands on hand is $4,000, but il is tboucbt q
hat u VIII require but a short time 10 raise II
ne further sum of $4,000 required. !.
New Orleans Democrat: SATURDAY. tho
oth instant, was the first day OF the nsesent !,
eason that the receipts of cotton annaiad OF
Vi iast year. The backwardness of the r
iop, caused by the great storm of the 18th y,
i;.h no, mas been in a measure overcome. and e.
.Itn me line weather of the several weeks ~
olloWins that disaster, the picking has pro. r
nc great activity, and henceforw ard AZ
e may calculate on greatly increased re. -
elpts OF our chief staple. "
Knoxville Tribune. The south has W
az the Speakership of the House of n,
representatives. for forty-six years. in the ii
,,fty.-iour Congresses that have been held. m
ne incumbents have been Macon. of South 81
arohna; Clay, of Kentucky; Cheeve, of o.
Carolina; Barbour, of Virginia al
of Virginia Bell, of Tennessee; fr
OK, OF Tennessee; Hunter, of Virginia al
mite, OF Kentucky; Jones, OF Virginia
oyd, OF Kentucky Cobb, Of Georgia; and n,
RI, OF South Carolina. =,