The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-02-02

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distress.
The hog crop Of south Alabama !
heavier this year than " has been sine
1851.
There's \ move In the Georgia legisla
turs 10 reduce the salaries n their supfsm'
court Judges from 5000 to $500 Pc
year.
-Four car loads Of cattle are cent every
day, on an average, from Nashville to New
Orleans where they are preferred to Texa
cattle.
Virginia has n national hank capital o
&3,590,9f3 and pays an internal revenue o
t,3i3,7so. The sir New England state
have n national banking capital Of s16O. 5l7,
ESQ and pay only s6,575,75i revenue.
The factory at Columbus, Ga, las
year consumed a daily average Of $50
pounds Of cotton, and $3.50 yards Of sheet
ing total Gotten, 7t5, 662 pounds sheet
nag. 1~,3l5.Sss yards; shifting, 5O9,4c7 yards
Galveston News: A special car con
tanning $4,000 in silver bullion arrived YES
terday from Omaha, Nebraska. The valra
Bile metal is guarded by six men, and bounC
for the New Orleans mint, whence some o.
1t may return to Galveston in shining halve,
and quarters,
Thirty-two hundred and seventy-twC
white and 1921 colored persons failed to pay
their poll tax in Richmond in 1875. In Nor
folk the delinquents in this regard amounted
to 1857 white and 1921 colored Petersburg
955 white and 2.107 colored Albemarle, SS7
white and 1900 colored; Goochland, 90
white and S32 colored.
The cotton factory at Augusta, Ga,
cleared within the last six months, a little
over $4,000. This fact, tax en- into consider.
alton AT a time when the market for cotton
goods is depressed, and when most mills at
the north are either stopping or running on
short time, gives proof that the south is the
place to employ machinery and labor to ad.
vantage in the production of cotton goods.
A singular bill introduced in the Vir
gina legislature provides that any person
found guilty OF carrying concealed deadly
weapons shall be Ened in the discretion of a
justice not exceeding $20-one half to go to
the informer--and shall likewise forfeit to
the informer his weapon, in default of which
to be committed to Jail by the justice for one
month or until the same be paid or delivered
up.
The southern and western immigra-
ton society will hold its second annual con
ventlon at Little Rock, Ark, commencing
on Thursday, March l, 1877. The following
states are entitled to representation: Louis
lana, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mis-
sissippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Kansas, Minnesota and Nebraska.
Since the year 1860 Virginia by dis
membership and from other causes, has lost
In population 370,651, loss in n~ersonal prop.
erty (taxable) SIG, 8s9,O16; loss in taxable
real estate, 1921 $4,000; internal improve
ments, $50, 100, 1862 loss on banking capital,
$l5,52o,55O; loss on circulation, $500, OOO;
loss on the states interest in banks, 1880.
020; loss on dividends and bonds from
banks, $S6S,823 total loss, $306, l64, 702. To
which may be added slaves and other prop.
erty not taxed, $116,55 900; total, SAP
700, 7O2.
Mrs. Mary Conner, of Memphis, a well
known, hard working, honest woman, while
carrying some things home on a wheel.har.
row, last Friday night, was brutalIy assassi.
mated by an unknown man. As she passed
along Washington street, near Market. and
within a few steps of a dozen or more mon
the murderer stepped up behind her, seized
her ny the hair, drew her head back and cut
her throat. He ran into a lumber house and
thence into a dark bayou, and was gone
The affair is shrouded in deep mystery.
Charleston News and Courier. Tho
vessels in this harbor on Saturday last were
about eighty-hve in number, of which three
were steamships, eight ships, ~ffty-one barks.
twelve brigs and schooners. Twentv.two
were under the flag of the United States
thirty-one Of Great Britain, fifteen If Nor,
way, eight OF Spain, FIVE of Germany, two
OF Russia and one of Sweden. Twenty were
loading for Liverpool, seven for the emit :
nent, TOUR for Havre, four for Barcelona. E
TWO orthe United Kingdom, one for Amster- t
uain, ana the balance for domestic ports. c
AS an indication of the valuable trade !
'na' awaits New Orleans by an effort on the ]
part OF her merchants to utilize the adys. {
tAxes oil direct railroad communication with {
onlcago, we may mention that that CITY re-. ,
oeiVed the past year 1857 1870 bushels Of c
corn-an increase OF $1,000, 900 bushels ove,
the previous year. Having the corn she ,
commando the hogs, toe. She shipped SIS, !
4'S barrels Of pork last year and 7s,O4s ]
dressed hogs. Altogether, her produce =
trade amounted to 1896, 800, 900 81. 600 600 n
more than the previous year. She has hand. 9
led ana sold twenty per cent. more goods q
New Orleans Register: Cant Cow !
den's arrival in this city, as the representa-. q
1--WE Oh a reliable company organized in O
memphls to open and develop The Barrata. n
III route TO the sea, marks the beginning of S
d ne" era In this important enterprise. :
OIL is before congress to grant the necessary
franchises to enable the company to do the y
WORK 1t asks no money from the govern .
menI II does not interfere with any i'm. q
p'oVements at the mouth of the river. 1t ia 7
al enterprise that stands on its own merits, :
ana can succeed without breaking up any :
,i'A enterprise, or receiving any subsidy :
inOm Tue government. II this enterprise !
meets with any opposition we propose to l
Aeep an eve on the spectators who array I
themselves against what we consider the ,
most important Improvement in the great /
'ahey-the opening of the Mississippi river {
to the Sea. !
Charleston News and Courier: A pri- !
fste letter from Mr.. Corley, a~clergyman who /
mas moved 10 Savannah since the epidemic. i
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