The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-07-06
CURRENT EVENTS.

thing else.
The young ladies take degrees at Cor,
nell university
The public library of Boston now con.
tains 314, 265 volumes.
Rural Kentucky continues to clamor
for the w%hipping-post.
Germany is the principal buyer of
Kentucky bluegrass seed.
The Knoxville Tribune has absorbed
ten different papers in its days.
The attendance at the Philadelphia
permanent exhibition is very meagre.
Colorado is shipping wild sage to the
east, to be used for medicinal purposes,
A Genesee, n. Y, barber advertises
" Ecstatic Shaving and Phisiognomical
Hair Cutting"
jacksonville, Fla, has just been
forced by a mandamus to raise money to
pay the city bonds.
A Marshall, Mich, saloon bartender
made his three year old boy beastly
drunk for the amusement of his patrons.
The clipper Canterbury has sailed a
race from New Zealand to London in
sixty. five days, the fastest time on
record.
The San Jose (CaI.) Mercury says that
" the stubborn fact is presented that the
grain crop this year will not suffice for
horse-feed."
An unusual religious rite was cele.
brated at Alexandria, Va, the other
day, namely, a baptism in the Potomac
river by immersion, according to the
forms of the Protestant Episcopal church.
The neophyte was a lady.
Maj. Bolden, an English officer in In
dia, was hunting tigers lately. He was
mounted on an elephant, and, when he
was about to fire, the elephant bolted
and threw him. The tiger than sprang
upon him and killed him.
A mansion now building in New York
a Pompeiian room, the woodwork of
which is of ebony, with ivory inlaid fig,
ures, and panels of amaranth wood
by hand. The furniture is up
lolstered with raw silk of reseda tints,
Dordered with crimson velvet.
A Battle Creek, Mich, tramp was
riven a hreakfast at the house of Judge
Hall, says the Journal, but Mrs. Hall
noticed that he did not eat, and present
y he got mp flom the table. The host
rs asked him if he was sick. "No, |
int sick, but | am going to go where |
an get a decent breakfast"
OF the forty members of the gradua-
ing class at Williams cole &c, twelve are
0 be ministers, seven lawyers, four ply
three business men, three teach
RS, n a journalist, and the rest are
Undecided. Every man is a free-trader,
there are ten who class themselves
$ Independent in politics.
A statement published in the Globe
Democrat, shows that, while there were
1888 deaths in st Louis during the
eriod from Jan. 1 to June 20, there
ere only seven hundred and twenty
ight births for the same Period. This
a net los Of 2,160. st. Louis re-
es principally upon her directory
for gain in her population.
Torpedo balloons are proposed by q
.'rrespondent of the Scientific Amer
The idea is to float the balloons
yer the enemy, and drop the torpedo
7 means of electricity sent over a wire.
is calculated that a city could be
tally de troyed in this way by dropping
sufficient quantity of nitro-glycerine,
The other day William Kief, of New
k, N j, was cleaning his finger nails
tn a pair OF scissors, His young wife
gan teasing him to buy some furniture,
d he became angry and threw the
at her, The two'blades penetra-
'g her eyes just beneath the eyeballs,
physician said that the woman could
t recover her sight.
The Baltimore Sun says of the late
,llie Maguires: "The fact that such
N as these are of foreign birth and Of
eign descent is a startling illustration
the proposition announced by an En-.
sh historian that inthe centres of civ
alton of the old world there is a bar
ism among certain classes of the com-
nifty as wild and ferocious as any
Ong the savage tribes of the wilder
Grand Haven Herald reports
N seventy-three fruit places in that
my al VI Nultl were III " llbSl 6IOus
Among these fruit-growers
re are 10000 peach trees $500 ap.
trees 1000 and wei of cherry trees;
70 and over of plum trees; 1 900 and
r of pear trees rs acres of grapes; IS
S of raspberries 81 acres of black
les, and % acres of strawberries. In
township 5000 acres are set with
fruits. Many of the fruit-growers
his and other points along the lake
only small places-from ten to twenty
which are set out in fruit.
be German American matrimonial
society is a Philadelphia concern
h promises to give every member
on marrying; but the member finds
in initiation fee, monthly dues, snd
sments he is compelled to pay much
than he gets. The assessments,
are in many cases made on the pos
fictitious marriages of members in
mt parts OF the country. The COM
has sent out gorgeously iitho.
ned circulars, referring TO nineteen
merchants and cleTgymen
lorsers OF the scheme; but every
# them has, in a published state
repudiated il.