The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-10
NEWS SUMMARY.


cattle at Puua RsSSa, Fla, awaiting ship.
meut TO Cuba,
The sale Of cattle on the gulf coast
from Tampa to Hunta Rssss, Flsr smoupts
to about $4,000 per month,
The city council Of Galveston hiss
ordered q FIRE alarm telegraph 70 cost six
thouSsni dollars
Nstohez Is going TO turn the old grave
yarl hack al the Catholic church into a
public park.
Mex wears tuition in the university
o. Mississippi viii he free. The state ap-
preparation is $4,000.
The state convicts in sonth Florida sire
nov employed in widening lake Griffin
canal
Hon Alexander II stephens appeared
10 a Justices court in Crawfordvillo the
other day IS the attorney Of q blind colered
man.
"Shsdwell,' the birthplace Of Thomas
jefferson. in Albemsrle county Va. is sd
vertiSed for sale.
The conviction Of q number Of cattle
thieves in OuachiB. La, at the late session
OF the district court, has had good effect on
the embarrassing business.
The Henrietta Texas Journal SAYS
tina; il is no uncommon sight in Clay county
for cattlemeu 10 see lunches Of wild horses,
But ne efort Is made TO capture them,
A tract containing SIX thousand acres
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seven cents an acre the other day. The most
Of the land is river bottom, and could not
have been bought Tor less than five dollars
per acre some time ago,
A. N. Bartlett, residing near Red
river, in CLAY county, Texas, has killed two
hundred and seventy-eIght head Of deer
this season in 3 circumference Of two miles
from ms house. In addition to these, he
has Killed countless numbers Of antelope
ans other smsll game.
At Alexandria La, watermelons are
sold tFo for a nickel, and ripe figs can be
bought Tor 81 cents a busbel.
North Carolina j. taxing commercial
fertilizers to such sn extent that the business
i declining.
The United States snagboat 0. G.
Wagner has been engaged in removing
snsgs aud distractions from the Ouacbita
river, in Arkansas, and will begin on the
Louisiana portion of the river as soon as
tBe water is low enough to get to work.
The farmers OF Wilson county, Texas,
are in a quandary how to utilize the enor.
nous acorn mast this fall. Not more than
ten per cent, of the yield could be consumed
by the hogs of the county.
Mr.. j. I. Hogane, of Bowie county
Texas, has a genuine Chinese tea tree, which
was exposed to all the rigor of last winter,
and which has, nevertheless, retained robust
life and grown eight inches this season.
A Rev. Mr.. Neill is stirring up bad
Cor rather good) blood in Virginia by trying
to prove Captain John Smith a fraud.
The proposed extension of the Clinton
railroad to Baton Rouge has been postponed,
as it is found impossible to complete it in
ime to take off the present crops. 1t will
be pushed forward doubtless during the year,
as the people of Baton Rouge seem deter.
mined to have it built as a matter of public
convenience.
The Montgomery Advertiser and Mail
says that Montgomery can boast of largest
compress in the south, the largest cotton oil .
factory, a mill that turns out a barrel of flour d.
every four minutes, and an ice machine that !.
in one day can give every inhabitant in the :;
state a pound of the cooling material. :,
Mrs. VIM. Ford, of Cheatham county, b.
Tenn, was about dropping into a slumber 81
he other night, when she felt something is
and clammy encircIing her feet. A W
opperhead snake had wrapped itself snugly DC
round her foot. She was bitten by it be. be
ween the toes several times. She is in a du
air way to recover. mi
Clark Mills, the American SCULPTOR.
as been to st. Augustine, Fla, to procure
bltcts of interest for the Smithsonian in.
itute. He secured casts of the Indian Se'
hlefs confined in the fort a large sword. W
eighteen feet in length, and two and a ND
feet across the middle, and other curl. W
TIL Indians seem to be contented s'e
it'll their lot. lev
tn,
Mr.. Kirkland cut open a hollow log ~,
catch a rabbit the other day, and on draw. So
lg the rabbit out he also drew out an i'm. r,
tense rattlesnake that had partly swallowed n.
le animal He struck the snake upon the II,
cad, when sixteen young, furious rattle. -,
lakes ran out of the pouch under the BODY l.,
the mother snake. The little snakes were -,
! very bellicose, but were all killed. There -
ere seventeen rattles on the old snake, and do,
measured about five feet in length, so saws 90,
e Hamilton Ca Herald.
The New Orleans Democrat saws that mo,
e most tiattering reports come from all the the
eat sugar plantations of Plaquemine parish egr
regard to the prospect of a full crop of ma
gar and Taolasses. Cane is everywhere afr
owing most vigorously, though slightly
edward for the season. The stand is said '
be more regular and even than usual, and col
e ground in splendid condition and up. Ut
mmonly free from grass and weeds. The ua'
pPly OF labor is abundant, and the labor. tse
more efficient and active than ever, their Vcr
nds being more concentrated on their tne
'rk and their own well. being and material VIII
than on the great political Loi
oblems of the day. the
The Louisiana state insane asylum, at 70
ickson, East Felieiana parish, is in a de- a.
oraoie condition. The New Orleans Times -
Is only the simplest fare, such as is fur. w.
the ordinary field hand, is provided; ~.
e building is BADLY ont of renair the f,x he'