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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-07
OLITICA

The state convention of the independ-
ent greenback party Of Pennsylvania has
been called to meet at Williamrport, on the
10th of September.
The New York prohibitionists have
nominated a state ticket and resolved that it
is the duty of all to e~xtirpate the crime of
selling intoxicating drinks.
The central Ohio executive committee
of the Workingmen's Industrial union have
of principles of the workingmen's party,
and recommending that conventions be held
in the several counties to nominate county
officers, and establish industrial union clubs
in every township and voting precinct.
At a m~ass-meeting of the workingmen
held in New York, resolutions were adopted
sympathizing with the late strikers. The
meeting was held under the auspices of the
furnlture-makers, who are agItating the
question of an increase OF wages to the ex.
tent OF twenty-five per cent. Their present
wages are from six to twelve dollars per
week.
The New York state central commit
tee has issued a call for a state i~ndedendent
convention to be held on the 18th of Septem
Der. The call demands the immediate con.
sideration of the platform adopted at In.
dianapolis in May 1876 d~enounces the re.
sumption act and asks its repeal stigmatizes
the issue of A per cent. bonds as a bare.
faced robbery of the people to the extent of
$751; 900 900. 1t also calls for laws to sustain
labor and control railroad and other monop.
olIes.
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PERSONALITTES.

Secretary Evarts will introduce to
Washington society, the coming winter, his
eleven beautiful daughters.
Gail Hamilton is out with another
and a final Letter, in which she pitches, right
and left, into Joe Medill, Sam Bowles, Carl
Schurz and Others.
Herbert Spencer has neatly finished
his system Of synthetic philosophy. By
putting causes and effects together he ex-
poets to give plausible form to his liberal
views,
VIM. B. Astor is reported by a Florida
paper as having bought a plantation there.
This looks like a shrewd investment.
Ex-Presiden Theirs, in receiving re.
publican Populations Friday at st. German,
said that the republic was the only govern.
ment possible in France,
General Sickles has returned to New
York and settled down to his old business as
a law practitioner.
Stewards hotel for women will be
opened in October. A former h%otel-keeper
has been selected to manage it.
Lucca is an open enemy TO beer,
Nilsson cannot endure cofee, and Patti
almost faints at the sight of a potato.
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LEAVE ALL AND FOLLOw ME-

Leave all and follow Thee o blessed Lord,
Fain would | leave the cares and tolls OF life,
The ceaseless worry, and the endless strife
Fen the scant Joys my earthly days afford.
1t we're a pleasant task to follow Thee
Up to the heights OF Heavenly calm ana peace,
Where pain and discomfort forever cease,
And all from grief and sorrow aIest free.
But, Lord, Thou once did'st say, II we would tread
The narrow path, we too must bear u cross,
And serve Thes well, counting all else as dross,
Remembering, when sad, how Thy heart bled.
1t is by doing that which we Should do,
We follow aleng the blessed way.
Thou bid'st US all work well while yet IT'S day,
And not the smallest duty to eschew.
We cannot serve Thee well through Idle days,
Fen though our hearts he filed with love and prayer.
Labor is worship"-we must do our share,
And do it faithfully, to meet Thy praise.
Leav We all and follow Thee Yea, all the sin,
And all the paths which lead away from Thee;
But from OUR labor we shall not be free
Until our haryest.sheaye to Thee we bring.
And, nothing 10th, | turn my eyes away
From far-of heights which know not toll or care.
Duties well done Thou dost accept as prayer:
In Thine own mansions we shall rest some day.
Faith Walton.
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THE WAR.

The sultan has issued an imperial de.
cree calling to arms all hitherto exempted.
1t is said that the Russians have con.
tracted with an engineering firm for the
construction of a bridge across the Danube
capable of withstanding the ice.
1t is officially announced that all the
great powers and Belgium, Holland, Sweden
and Portugal have agreed to the German
protest against Turkish cruelty.
According to Bucharest kilograms of
the 18th, the fever epidemic in the Russian
army was rapidly increasing. The troops
were also suffering for the want of suitable
food.
The Russian official report, published
in ST. Petersburg on the 2lst, admits that the
losses at Plevna were between 5000
and 10000 men. OF the two hundred per
sons attached 10 the Red Cross ambulances,
were killed while gathering the
wounded.
In Armenia, on the 18th, the Russian
Iorces, numbering $500 infantry, ten regi-
nents of cavalry and one hundred and ten
yuns, attacked the Turkish forces commanded
BY Mukhtar Pssha. The battle lasted all day,
Ind the Russians were compelled TO with
iraw with the loss of 200 The Turkish loss
vas stated at one hundred and sixty FIVE.
The Russian newspaper Verdermoste,
liter an elaborate review of the sums already
expended In the war, draws the conclusion
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Courtesy in New York.

The great want in New York is %civility
in trade. Stewart, a short time before he
died, said that one of the great plaques
of his life was to find a salesman that
would be civil to poor people who wanted
q few needles and some tape. To ladies
that trade in satins and laces men would
be polite. But the same salesman would
snub a small buyer. 1t is the universal
complaint that officials are impertinent.
One can hardly get a civil answer in
trade. One of our car conductors came
up the other morning to the Grand Cen
trail depot. His car was stopped two
blocks below. The train left at twelve.
A dozen people were in the car who
wanted to take the noon train. Some of
them were aged and decrepid. Instead
of announcing that his car would be de-
tanned ten minutes, he jumped of, bought
a paper and an apple, came into the car
and began to eat and read. When asked
if the car wss going to move he simply
shouted, "If you want the twelve train
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Who Osman Pasha Is.

The Army and Navy Journal, On Fri
day, published the following:
IT is confidently asserted in England
from private information that Osman
Pasha is none other than that celebrated
fugitive from French prisons, Marshal
Francois Ochilre Bazine. This intelli-
gence is by no means improbable. Ba-
zaine was always an active and stirring
man, and the circumstances of his puplic
trial in France were such as to shut him
from a career in any army in Christ
ian Europe. Like most French officers of
rank, he had served in Algeria, and in so
doing acquired considerable knowledge
of Arabic and of the Arabs. Besides this
mand of the Foreign Legion, and after
ward as French governor of Sebastopol.
During that period he naturally made
many Turkish acquaintance, and there
fore there. is nothing more natural than
that he should go to Turkey in the hour
of his need. 1t is no secret that Bazine
was a strong Bonapartist, and that his
treason to France in the interest of the
late emperor is indulgently looked on by
the imperial government.
in Turkey, where Bazaine's master
was the best friend of the sultan, Ba-
zaine would be received with open arms
by those of his frieuds who knew his value
in any capacity of a trained soldier.
That he should have concealed his iden-
tity with the utmost care is equally as
natural, and had not war come it is
possible he might have concealed it till
his death, but war with Russia, his
antagonist of twenty years ago, could not
fail to bring Osman Pasha in contact
with the people who knew General Ba-
zine as governor of Sebastopol. Whether
the secrect leaked out through some
Russian officer, prisoner in his hands, or
some English or French attache who had
in the Crimea, and recognized
Osman Pasha, is uncertain, but the
character of his fighting at Plevna, a
stubborn, defensive battle, is curiously
like the first day at G~ravelotte, through
difference of force on the enemies
side led him to a happier issue"
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A writer in the Tribune, of Salt Lake
City, Utah, says: Some years ago /
listened to the story of one of Brigham's
dupes as he was escaping from beneath
the yoke. Born in Sweden, where he
espoused Mormonism, he started for
Zion with his young bride. Reaching
Cleveland, Ohio, his funds, he found,
would only bring one of them to Utah,
His wife stayed there with friends,
while he came here, went to Provo,
where he found employment with a
bishop of the church. Money was earn
ed and given to Brigham to send for his
wife. Months passed and no wife came.
Again money was sent, with like result,
until the husband had sent money four
times through the same course. Be-
coming, at last, very much disguised,
he announced his intention of going
after his wife, still serving the bishop
until he thought he had funds enough.
Applying for his pay just after har-
vest he was told to 60 to the stubble
field, where almost every head of wheat
bad bean carefully collected, and to
"glean his pay there" He came to our
city followed by spies, and finally
reached Ogden' and a friend there con-
cealed him, and with the aid of kidd
hearted railroad men he found his way
into liberty again. l saw him trembling
with fear while hiding from his pur-
suers; and, again, after he had passed
their reach. How great was the
in his department and looks.
Dur valleys no doubt contain thousands
vEo are receiving no better treatment,
md vet most of our visitors come here,
ook on the best of Mormon society, and
70 away and proclaim this a great,
prosperous. happy and free people.
They know just as much of the true
Mormon life as if they had never visited
salt Lake City.
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The Charleston Is. CO. News and
Courier says that the frat cargo Of wheat
which has been cleared at that port for many
years, was that on Saturday, the 18th of Au.
gust, by the Spanish bark, Conception, by
Mr.. Henry Gard, for London, which amounted
to ,565 quarters. 1t is important that every
facility should be given here to the handling
Of grain, as the time is not distant when
Charleston must be an important grain
market This cargo was taken in from the
Savannah railroad Immediately from their
wharf, and saved all incidental expenses.
In Lexington, Tennessee, there lives
an old negro man who claims to be the
father of one hundred and ffty.seven chill
dren. He says he was at New Orleans when
General Jackson met Packenham, and that
he then had a wife and one child. He has
been married thirteen times, and twelve Of
his wives bore him all his Legitimate children,
one hundred and fitty-seyen IN number. The
last one claims mont of the honor of ma.
ternity Of this numerous progeny of her
prolific husband. He says most of his
children were born in triplets, and the
increase of his family alone before the war
made his master rich.
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The CAPTURE OF MIR. DAVIS.
A Statement from His Colored Coacbman,
Who Was Present.

who Was Present.
Soon after the close of the civil wal in
1865, when Generals Lee and Johnston
had surrendered to tie United States,
forces, a good deal was said-much of it
false-in regard to the capture of Jeffer-
son Davis, president of the c~onfederacy.
Soon after his capture, James Fl. Jones,
a colored man who vas with Mr.. Davis
or his family during nearly the whole
time of the war in the capacity of coach
men, and who was with him when he was
taken prisoner in Georgia, furnished a
statement of the capture. Recently a
request has been made to gentlemen of
high standing in this city to procure from
James II Jones, a statement of the whole
matter, which he has given, and which
we are permitted to copy as below. But
before giving the statement we will take
occasion to say that the author is a ma
tive of this city, and stands as high as
any colored man in the state for truth
and integrity. He is and has been for
ten years captain of the Victor fire COM
pany of this city, and was, until his re-
signation, captain of the Raleigh rifles, a
colored volunteer company OF this city.
The statement is given as briefly as pos
sible to be ineligible, and is as follows
:" was coachman to Hon. Jeff. Davis
nearly all through the war, and was with
him at the time of his capture, which
occurred on the 10th of May, 1865, be-
tween three and four O'Clock in the morn
ing, some fifteen or sixteen miles from
the county seat of Wilcox county, Geor-
gia, while in camp OIL the public road, |
federal soldiers, as they were approaching
the camp, and awoke Mr.. Davis and told
him the Yankees were nearly on us. He
and his wife had been sleeping in their
tent. When | went in he got up, and by
the time he got his clothes on the soldiers
were in the camp and ten or twelve of
them were standing at his tent door with
their guns. No one could pass in or out.
Mrs. Davis and the children had not had
time TO dress. Mr.. Davis went to the
tent door and was ordered by the soldiers
to surrender. He replied that he would
not that he would die first. At this
Mrs. Davis pressed to her husband and
put her arms around his neck, begging
the soldiers not to kill him, both she and
the children were crying piteously.
"It has been stated thatMr. Davis had
on a hoop-skirt, and was otherwise dis
guised as a woman. This is wholly false.
He was dressed in his ordina,y clothing,
with cavalry boots drawn over his pants,
a waterproof owe his dress coat, a shawl
thrown over his shoulders, and on his
head a broad-brim white or drab Texas
hat. He had not an article of female
wear about. his person.
"The following gentlemen were in the
camp aud were captured at the same
Gen. Reagan, postmaster general;
Mr.. Harrison, private secretary to Mr..
Col. Lovett, of Texas; Col. Joseph
Johnston, of Kentucky; Col. Joseph
Wood ESCAPED next day.; Mr.. William
brother to Mrs. Davis, and many
all of whom | doubt not will cor
oborate what | have stated above."-
(N. c. Mews.
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The Longest Rivers in the World.

The following are the largest rivers,
with their extent The Amazon. in
South America, falls from the Andes
through a course OF 1900 miles the
Mississippi, from the Stony Mountains,
runs $500 miles; La Plata. from the
Andes, 2,2l5 miles; the Huaugho, in
China, from the Tartarean chain of
mountains, is $3.50 miles the Yanptse-
kiang runs from the same mountains,
and is 5000 miles long the Nile. from
the Jihel Kumri mountains, courses
$3.50 miles the Euphrates, from Ararat.
is 1920 miles long the VoIga, from the
Valdais, is 2,l00 miles; the Danube,
from the Alps, is 1870 miles in length
the Indus, from the Himalayas, is i,770
miles; the Ganges runs from the same
source, and is 1850 miles long; the
0rinoco, from the Andes. is 1,500 miles
in length the Niger, or Wharra, is 1909
miles long; the Don, the Dnieper and
the Senegal are each over LOCO miles in
the Rhine and the Gambia are
eight hundred and lightweight miles in
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FOREIGN.

The specific charges upon which Gam.
beta will appear before the tribunal of
Lille is that Of insulting MacMahon and his
ministers.
The British privy council has forbid.
den the landing of leaves or stalks of pota
toes grown in the United States, Canada, OF
Germany.
A republican conspiracy has been dis.
covered and frustrated at Madrid. Numer.
Gus arrests were made there and throughout
the provinces.
Despite the energetic attempts of the
government to stamp it out, the Colorado
beetle has spread over a field of twenty-five
acres at Langenreichenbach, in Germany.
A London telegram says that owing
to the depression in the cotton trade, the
Nuneaton cotton mill, which employs over
five hundred operative, will be closed.
In the pampas of Buenos Ayres there
are u 900 COWS and 10000 900 horses that
have owners, while there are also great
numbers of wild herds.
The Peruvian government wants to
borrow 1924, 100000 for a few years, and will
secure the lender with a bank of guano one
hundred and fifty miles long and q mile
wide.
The London Agricultural Gazette of
Goth, in its review of the crop prospects of
Great Britain, predicts a general failure of
crops. The potatoe crop, which, until then,
had promised to be productive, was very
generally threatened with disease.
On the Goth, the Paris conservatory
papers united in announcing that there was
no choice there except between a coup d'etdt
and revolution, and that a republican victory
in the coming election would not be submit
ted to. 1t was believed that France was on
the verge of a p~erilous crisis.
Adelina Patti, has brought, SAYS a
PARIS dispatch, for a nullity of marriage
the Marquis of Caux, alleging that
the Rev. Mr.. Plunkett, who performed the
ceremony in England, had no license from
his archbishop, but acted simply as delega'
ted by the parish of st. Phillip du Rule in
Paris,
Sir Stafford Northcote, in a speech
delivered at Plymouth, declared that the
iuty of England at the present moment was
o pursue a policy of the s~trictest neutrality.
Occasion might arise in which a definite
policy would be necessary, but under present
circumstances the duty of the government
vas to keep in view and maintain in every
possible way, the position and influence of
England, so that it could be of assistance in
this miserable, disastrous, cruel
nd barbarous war to a close.
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JOHN WESLEY HARDIN.
The Captured OatIaw for WHOM the Re-
wards Aggregate sac, 900.

His father was a preacher who lived in
southwest Texas. As a boy he was re.
markably quiet, and gave no evidence OF
the terrible passions which, in after life.
made him thirst for blood. When al.
most sixteen years of age, and while the
state was under military rule, a darkev
on his fathers place provoked him, and
ne shot him. For this he was arrested
vnd placed under guard of some soldiers
who started to Huntsville with him. As
he was only a boy they did not watch
him very closely, and at night lay down
to sleep. Hardin arose in the night
and killed every one of them. This out
lawed him. The next act was the muir
der of Jack Halem, out of which grew
the Sutton and Taylor troubles. Har-
din siding with the Taylors. His
father and brother got mixed up and
were taken out and hung in western
Texas. From this time on he was a des-
of the worst order. Missouri and
Kansas became the field of operation and
before he left them he added many more
to the death list. In those states there
are at present large rewards offered for
From there he came back to Texas,
and kept the border in a state of terror.
ism. His last murder was the killing
Of Webb, the deputy sheriff of Brown
at ComaDche. 1t is estimated
hat in various sections of the county
here are over twenty thousand dollars
If rewards offered. Harden is a young
nan, about twenty-seven or twenty.
light years of age, FIVE feet eight inches
md one-hslf in height, weighs one hun
lred and fiftv pounds, has laxen hair,
'lue eyes, and not an unpleasant counte-
lance.-DaRas (Ter.) Herald.
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Growth of Human Hair After Death,

DR.. Caldwell, of Iowa, states that in
1862 he was present at the elimination
of a body which had been buried two
years before. The coffin had sprung
open at the joints, and the hair protru-
ded through the openings. On opening
the coffin the hair of the head was found
to measure eighteen inches, the whiskers
eight inches, and the hair on the breast
five or six inches. The man had been
shaved before being buried. In IS47 a
similar circumstance occurred in Mercer
county, Pa. In digging a grave, the
workmen came upon the skeleton of a
that had been buried ter years. The
hair was as firm as during life, and had
grown to a length of eleven or twelve
inches.-NedSodt Record.
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you had better be lively" All bis load
lost that train through his logged Incl.
Witty. | saw a lady ask for a bunch of
tickets at one OF the ferry offices. A
mere lad threw down two b1nches. The
lady said she wanted but one package.
The boy flew into a passion, as if the No
man had committed some great crime,
because the lad misunderstood her. He
really abused her 30 that the woman left
in tears. During the centennial season a
little of the old.time courtesy would be a
healthy Infusion. -Burieigh's New York
Letter 10 the Boston Journal.
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Attention has been called in the Ga
zette n number of times TO the serious
losses, caused by the strike on the Balti-
more and Ohio road, to nearly every
industry and branch of trade, wholesale
and retail. 80,
II Is Of ourse impossible to estimate
with absolute accuracy the amount OF
loss, in dollars and cents Inquiry by
the Gazette into this question makes IL
certain, however, that it does not iail
short of several million dollars. Ihe
railroad company itself has don ITO
freight business, its passenger tIaihc mas
fallen off to a mere nothing, and freight
of all kinds, detained at various points.
has suffered more or less damage, some OF
it having been rendered utterly worthless
The railroad property near Mount Ciare
DESTROYED by FIRE vas alone valued az
about $50, 900 and the loss by other
causes has been at least $50O,OO0. The
petroleum trade has been n OF tne
greatest sufferers. The loss to this
branch of trade may be put down at
800, 900, the loss to the grain tradea az
$50 900, to the coal trade at $25,O00,, 10
the wholesale liquor trade DIT 100000 les
timating that tie 500 saloons made an
average of only $40 3ey)' to the cattle
trade at $50, 600, and to otter trades az
100000. Besides these items are % De
considered the cost of burning of the
sash factories near President street depot,
$50, 900; the maintenance of the troops,
S25, 1000, and of the special police, $751;
600. There are, furthe' more, to be taken
into account the stoppage of manufactur
ing, and consequently of wages, the
effect of this upon the retail trades, and
another item is presented of not less
than $500. 900. This makes a grand to-
tai of nearly $1,000 900, a sum that will,
it is believed, come within the actual
figures could they be positively ascer'
tanned. The following table will show
more clearly an approximate estimate OF
the losses incurred by the various trades
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FACTS AMI rANCIES.



COL. GIBBos TO GOV. POTTS.
We've had a hard fight,
And I'm sorry TO say,
They've whipped us out quite,
And the DEVILS to pay.
/ wait at Big Hole
For an answer from you,
And confess. on my soul,
don't know what TO do.
GOV. PoT1s TO col. GIBBoE.
Licked AGAIN. Your command
Nearly turned inside out7
Did Chief Joe take a hand,
Or was Howard about?
Your dispatch, trttsty soul,
answer this minutR
II You're near a big hole,
You'd better crawl in II.
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A MAN owning q house overlooking a
railway depot, recommended it for its
gay outlook, becaue Zone sees all the
people that miss the train"
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THERE are upward of $4,000 coats-of.
arms in use in London,