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


rnE sOUIu.
Fred. Terrence, a colored man, VIII,
took an active part in the last election an,
gained quite a reputation by his funn,
speeches at the Tilden and Vance clubs, re
Gently died near Charlotte, North Carolina
and was buried on his former masters plan
~tation, honored by the presence of a larg,
number of whites and blacks.
The water. works in Dallas, Texas, have
reduced the rate of insurance there at leasl
$4,000 per year.
The colored schools of Mississippi are
reported to be in lourishing condition.
The latest assessments of property
in Knoxville is 1902 Oh less than that of
1877 rs.
Turtle eggs are retailed in Wilmington
n. c., at 10 cents per dozen,
Fayette county, Texas, is out of debt
and has $40. 600 in her treasury.
A forty-eight pound watermelon sold
in Key West, Florida, at auction for So.
The century plant at St. Augustine,
Florida, about to bloom, has reached a height
Of twenty-one feet, and is still growing. 1t
has twenty.four branches.
A whale thirty or forty feet in length
Was recently seen off Santa Rosa island. This
is said to be the only specimen ever seen in
Pensacola bay.
The peach crop of Marion county, Fla.
promises an abundant yield. The trees are
now so heavily laden with fruit that they
have to be propped up.
The Charleston g.. c. News and
Courier says; At the recent fire at Union
twenty-seven boxes of confederate archives
were destroyed. The papers were brought
to Union by the train which followed close
upon the retreat of president Davis, who,
finding the enemy pressing hard upon his
rear, ordered them 10 be left with Col. Young
Of that place. Col, Young had faithfully
preserved them, and was upon the point of
sending them to the Southern Historical soei.
ETY. at Richmond, when the fire came aud
destroyed them. The valuable historical
flcts which these papers would have divulged
are thus lost to the world.
The reyenue officers raided illicit dis.
f~illelies in Putnam, jackson, White and
otner mountain counties of Tennessee, and
broke up fourteen, and got into a fight and
killed an Illicit distiller named Sam John.
son, and badly wounded two named Morgan,
and captured twelve prisoners, recently.
The southern bound freight train on
the st. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
railroad, ran over a man lying on the track,
near the old arsenal, June %, and killed him.
The mans name was subsequently, learned
to be John Duffy, recently from Galveston,
Texas. He has relatives in Lynchburg, Yir-
ginia. 1t was on the same day and at nearly
the same place, an old man named Henry
Hoffman threw himself under an express
train and was instantly killed.
A GAINESVILLE special to the Courier
journal reports that Major J. 2. Flood, edi.
tor OF the Stewar county (TennD Record,
attorney at law and postmaster in that sec.
ton, has confessed having stolen several
thousand dollars from registered letters.
His reputation has been the very best and
his popularity the very highest. Flood was
elected vice.president of the Tennessee
press association, recently. The discovery
the crime produces quite a sensation,
United States Marshal. Waldran, of
Memphis, has received from the president a
full pardon for Esquire II. c. Brewer, con.
Tlcted of conspiring with NJ. Coombs, a ella m
'gent, to defraud the government, and sen.
enced by the United States court to the
'enitentiary. Brewer is quite old, almost !
blind, and unable to perform any y
abor, and has served eighteen months in ~
l
The Nashville Merchants Exchange o.
as formally opened for business June q.
feature of the occasion was the first grain ,
'ansaction, being the purchase, after spirited =
ompetition, of the first receipt of Tennessee ~
heat for 1877. VI
At a special election of members to
lie legislature for the Charlest N district, -
re republicans put no ticket in the field, ~
I'd the democrats had q walk.over, ~electipg
.urteen white and three colored men. ~