The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-06-01
NEWS SUMMARY.


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Recent reports from twentr I've or
thirty counties In Tesss III r1uiels no dspfs.
d.Uons by The ~gfasshoppsf'
Both confederate and federal graves
wsf. decorated under The same ceremonies
NJ Columbis, s e on the 10th
The wheat crop IN that portion Of VII.
GINA between Richmond snd Winchester i'
unusually promising aud is considered an
avemse of that product in the state.
Nashville il the nineteenth city in The
Union in It's relation TO mail service. Mem.
phis the eighteenth and New orleans seven.
teenth. Augusta, Gs Is the fifteenth
A number OF bids for building I've
locks on the Muscle Shell Shoals canal, Ten.
nessee, we're handed in the 18th, the lowest
being si53,36O, and the highest 1921 100.
A man living near san Antonio, Texas,
cut 1900 shingles from one cypress tree,
which he sold for $500; enough to pay for
the whole tract Of land upon which the tree
grew.
New Orleans Democrat Was ever a
corporation or individual SO harassed, ham
pered and bedeviled by law suits, claims,
doubtful titles and every other form of vexa'
ton to which our complicated legal and
political system exposes every member of
our society, as this corporation of New Or
leans now is?
The French mining engineer, Slmolis,
SAYS: "The silver mines OF Colorado and of
northwestern Texas give undoubted evi.
dence of great wealth the ores are true
silver ores, and the mines are identical with
those of Mexico, of which they are a con-
tinustion."
Work will be resumed at the Norfolk,
Va, navy.yard as soon as appropriation is
available. The system Of job work by con-
tract is to be abandoned, and the govern.
ment yards will be devoted to the building
of national vessels, a point in favor OF Nor
folk.
The auditor of Virginia has contracted
for five thousand or more liquor registers,
designed to facilitate the collection OF tax :
on drinks sold in saloons. The dial plate I
will be of porcelain, and register up to =
l 100000, which large number will prevent
dishonest saloon>keepers from running out
the register and fixing a number at will.
The pOstmaster-general has issued pro-
posals for several important mail routes in
among them the following; From
Cedar Keys via St. Marks, Apilachicola and
Pensacola to Mobile and back once a week.
From Cedar Keys to New Troy via offices
on Suwannee liver and back once a week.
From Tampa via Manatee and Punta Rassa
once a week.
The recent hail storm in South Caro-
lima followed the Greenville and Columbia
railroad to Ninety-Six. Numbers of the
have Ieplanted their cottOn.helds,
some with cotton and others with corn.
Some nave even been blowing up their
wheat.felds, which were beaten to pieces
by the hail, and planting corn to make a
crop upon their lands. 1t is impossible
even to approximate the injury done ty the
storm, but enough is known to say that it
enormous.
Little Rock Gazette: Perhaps the most
advantage possessed by Arkansas,
aside from her climate, is in her forests of
The collection Of Arkansas timber
at the centennial excited the admiration of
all who visited our state Duildlng-its variety
and excellent quality standing without a
rival. The oak, the ash, hickory and walnut
of the boundless forests Of north Arkansas,
and the pine and cypress OF the south, will
yet be a source of untold wealth to the state.
Mobile Register: We need actual help,
in the shape of government aid, bestowed in
a safe and prudent manner toward putting
Us on our legs again, and overcoming in
some degree the mOnstrous inequality in
government appropriations for the benefit
Of the two sections. In 1874 the secretary Of
the treasury made an official report to con-
gress OF all congressional appropriations for
works of internal improvement from 1889 to
the date of the report, by which it appears
that out of S16i,007, 745, $97, 035, 762 were for
the benefit of the northern states, and but
$6,982,S 5 for the southern states.
Austin Statesman: If a New England
factory can make a profit of one per cent on
a pound of raw cotton it has done well. A
southern factory has an advantage of at least
one cent, some say more, on the raw material.
Has it been considered h this means?
This, in fact, has been done generally by the
factories in Georgia and South Carolina, a
factory that cost $4,000 in the south will
make as much clear prtt as one that cost
$l00,000 in the north. A factory in the
south will make twice the dividend of one
in the north. Can our capitalists find a
better place to put their money than in such
factories?
A most wonderful occurrence is re-
ported from Princess Anne county, Va, to
the Norfolk Virglnian: A few weeks ago
there appeared in the Virginian the report
of a horrible murder in Princess Anne
county, of a negro man murdered by his
wife assisted by her childenl, dragged down
TO a creek and thrown overheard. His body
was seen afterward, by some boatmen float.
ing in the creek consequently the woman
der son and daughter were arrested and
carried before q magistrate. The woman
and boy confessed the murder and were put
IN jail TO await trial. All kinds of runners
are in circulation about the murder. A few