The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-03-30

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rtr f'af may he stated ttat persons af char.
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cartiaI.
Under the new incorporation act 81
Ilerida, no city cr town can levy o. tat
greater than ono per cent. for general pur.
poses. and an additional tax to meet interest
and provide for sinking fund to meet princi
pal az maturity.
Mitch. Pearson, of Bedford county,
Tenn, who has been before the courts for
twelve years for murder, and who has been
sentenced to death, &C., has finally been
sent to the penitentiary for ten years.
In twenty-one Louisiana parishes
heard frem the yield OF sugar in 1876 is
2o,6O0 hogsheads, more than the yield Of
1875. The crop Of 1876, estimated on this
basis, will be 10000 hogsheads, against
10000 hoCsheads in 1875, in round numbers.
Mobile (Ala.) Register: Farmers liz
form us that there is no doubt that a great
deal Of the fruit in North Alabama, both
north and south of the Tennessee river, has
been killed in the bud. 1t has not happen.
ed more than once before within the mem.
ory of man.
The Thieves Own association is
the name OF a new society in New Orleans,
which is composed entirely of colored
females. The object Of the society is to hire
out as servants and disappear suddenly with
such "~uuconsidered trihes'' as they conven.
icntly can.
The average price of land in a few
counties in northwestern Georgia, where |
they raise grain and hay, is as follows: Bur
tow county, per acre, $3.50; Chattooga,
Sc 50; Polk, f6.9s. The average price in
southern Georgia, the best cotton region in
the state Dooly county, per acre, s2.7l;
Lee, S2.99; Macon, 1885; Randolph, 1854.
The soldiers at the United States
arsenal, Summerville, Co, had a pet monkey.
1t concluded to fire a salute with one of the
cannons and touched fire to the fuse of a
loaded one. 1t didn't go off Immediately,
aud he ran and peeped into the mouth to
see what was the matter. AT this i~uncture
it went of-so did the monkey.
\ case was tried in Henry county,
Ala, last week. which commenced before a
justice of the peace and amounted to 1915.
1t was a disputed item in a long account. 1t
has been postponed in the court a number
OF times, and seventy-six witnesses sum-
moned, last week the jury gave a verdict for
S.. The cost of witnesses was $24S.5O. The
cost to the county was five times the verdict.
A Florida correspondent of the Pc
~tersburg (Va.) Index and Appeal says there
is a lemon tree of one hundred and five feet
in circumference at the top. Upwards of
10000 lemons were taken of that single tree
a few days ago, and it is estimated by com
petent judges that there were still 20,00)
emcns remaining on the same tree. 1t is
creditably stated that the average lemon tree
will bear from $500 to 5000 lemons.
The boundary-line question between
the states of Virginia and Tennessee,
which was thought to nave been settled in
1908, has recently been brought mp in the
Legislature OF the former state, under an act
of the legislature of 1872, giving The gov.
crnOr authority to select a committee to con-
fer with a like committee from Tennessee to
take up the matter and locate the line, but
Tennessee positively refused to touch the
matter at the time of the act OF 1872.
Acts for the removal of the political
disabilities of the following persons were
signed by President Grant: John NJ. Hadcn,
Of Texas; Theophilus II. Holmes, Of North
Carolina ?. J. Quattlebaum, of Georgia
w. 7. Darlington, of Virginia William But
Ter, of South Carolina; r. G. Gatlin, of Ar
kansas; S. p. Moore, NJ. D., OF Virginia; d.
II. Hill, of North Carolina NJ. l.. Bonham,
Of South Carolina; John S. Marmaduke, j,
l.. NJ, Curry, of Virginia; Catesby i.
Jones, of Alabama; Wade II. Gibbes, of
South Carolina, and VIM. II. Jones, of Texas.
Savannah (Gs.) News, 18th: The
Central railroad company have transported
during the past thirty days, from Savannah
alone, over 10000 bags OF commercial fer.
tIlzers. In the transportation of this stuff
200 cars have been required, and allowing
twenty cars to the train, at least one hun
dred aud thirty-fye trains, or FIVE trains per
day, were necessary for this work. These
fertilizers are landed from the vessel (which
bring them from northern ports ut the
Central railroad company's wharf, and are
hardly cold before they are moving rapidly
10 the interior to either make or break some
n EAST.
-Four brothers, hand-cufed two and
two, left Ney Canaan for the Connecticut
renitentiary a few days ago. They had
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