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


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Fort Worth, Texas, has two -four mills
that use one thousand two hundred bushels
OF wheat every twenty four hours,
The San Antonio (Texas) Express
proposes the importation OF English spar
rows as a remedy for cotton worms.
The state of Virginia wants the scalps
of foxes at the rate OF one dollar for gray
and a dollar and a half for red foxes.
Two immensely rich black lead mines
have been discovered in B,rlow county, Ga,
on The Western and Atlantic railroad.
MIR. j. c. Dove, a bee-raiser of Darda-
nellie, Arkansas, received three Italian queen
bees, direct from lta Y, that cost him 81 SO
each.
The improvements of the Coosa river,
now actively in progress, will give u%ninter.
rupted navigation of seven hundred miles to
Mobile.
The Memphis Appeal gives a summary
oil the building done in that city within the
past two years. The aggregate is a million
and a half dollars.
The receipts of the street railway
company in Memphis, Tenn, at the ~tive-cent
fare are largely i'll excess of receipts under
the teu.cent system,
Belle Boyd, who figured 50 extensively
during the war As a scout for the confed.
crate forces, is now living at Calvert, Texas,
and supports herself and sister by sewing.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
fled by Robert n. Blakemore and John w.
Gould, firm of B~lakemore & Co, of Memphis.
Liabilities about $4,000; assets about $1,000,
The Nashville American of the 18th
instant contains a list of eighty criminals of
Tennessee now running at large, and for
whose arrest rewards amounting to $4,000
are offered.
Last week twenty. three tramps were
put off the train between Nashville and
Chattanooga, a distance of nearly $50 miles.
They would get on at nearly every other
station, only to be put of at the next.
A. Nj. Davis commenced b%ee-culture
three years ago with two hives in Shreve.
port, Louisiana. He now has seventy.fve
hives, and his sales of honey this year will
net him $4,000.
Among the inmates of the Virginia
penltentlary are a man and a woman who
stole one hundred dollars from the %latter's
mother upon which to get married and set
up housekeeping.
1t is stated that one farmer in Jefferson
county anticipates gathering seventy.fve
bushels of corn per acre from several acres
the present season. And this is the first
years experience at farming in Florida
Savannah NewS.
by contract with the authorities of
Memphis General Forrest takes the vagrants
aud tramps convicted in that city of its
hands, and pays therefor ten cents a day, !
working them on his plantation.
Frere D'Esti, the leader of the Murphy
movement in Nashville, Tennessee, caught
in the act of stealing, was held on prelimi.
nary trial in a bond of two thousand dollars
to answer. His brother Percy is at large.
The steamship Rio Grande recently
made the trip from New York to Galveston
IN seven days and seven hours. This is
claimed to be the quickest time on record,
ALTHOUGH two hours were lost in going in and
out of Key West.
Captain Malachi Corbel, keeper of life
station No. 5, on the coast of Virginia, near
norfolk, will receive a medal from the gov
ernment treasury department for saving life.
On one occasion he rescued seventeen of
the English bark Tinto.
There has been a dispute for some time
in Van Zandt county, Texas, whether the
county seat should be Wills Point or Canton,
ny. a decision OF the district Judge. Wills
Point has the best of it, and the county
records will remain there.
The pilots engaged on seagoing vessels
across the bar at Galveston say that the water 8
In the bay and gulf is clearer than they have t
seen 1t for many years. The anchors OF =
heavy ships which can not come inside can !
seen lying on the bottom in twenty-five +
of water. 7
A tombstone with a s~ix-shooter en-
5raved on it is to be erected to the memory 4
u one Tom Burns, who was killed in the d
natien last month. The Fort Smith f.
ARK Independent surmises that a six Z
hOOtpF was nrphahlv +ba 1oa. din n -
hence the novel design. r.
In the archives of the Tennessee his "
orical society is Gen. Israel Putnam's com. p
mission, signed by John Hancock, and that f
t Daniel Smith, first secretary of the terri. b
DRY south of the Ohio river, dated 1890, and al
'gned by George Washington and Thomas
~efferson.
The Vicksburg Herald says that Gin a
weeks there will be more labor needed II
u TINS state than can be procured. A vast "
rop OF cotton and grain is to be gathered. q
M cotton crop requires great labor in the
an and winter. 1t is first to be gathered, al
men TO be prepared for market, and then to al
transported to market. S,
The Savannah News saws that in less
han sixty days the Enterprise factory of hl
lugnsta, Ga, will be in the full tide of sue. p'
esstul operation. The building has been Pr
and the machinery has been VI
lsced. The mill starts out under the most
auspices-freedom from taxation, n,
$40 spindles and 1913 looms. +
The Memphis Appeal says: "During .
ne year 1876 our mortuary reports, kept p
and carefully, show that there 50
'ere 652 deaths among the white population m
nd oOl among the negroes-that is to say,
iere were nearly four times as many negloes Y
led during the year as white people, con- a
dering the proportion of the number of the
70 races.
Capt. Louis Parker, an old settler of HI
'e island of Galveston, died August 22d.
e was a soldier under General Houston, "
nd took part in the battle of San Jacinto, ~
nd subsequently during the war with Mex al
o he was the pilot that marked out the
ivance of General SCOTS army into the
exiean territory. Since the late war he
Is been engaged in the manufacture of sails.
Cotton worms are reported to be very
imerous in Coneordia and Tensas parishes, 4,
Louisiana. We hear that on the Fish 40
nd place, in CoEcordia, a tract of about 20
e hundred acres of large cotton is swarm
g with the worms. Reports also come
'm Morvllle and other places. Some re- gr'
rus oil worms also come from the hills in an
Isms county, Mississippi. pr
MIR. Clark Mills has returned to Wash II,
ton with casts of the countenances of the .nt
remarkably ugly Indian chiefs ar
o are prisoners at st. Augustine, Florida. nc
ese casts are intended for the Ethno. lou
icsl department OF the Smithsonian in.
ute. The chiefs objected to the perform in
e at first, but after Long Wolf had offered Ru
patrician visage 10 the brush, there was anC
further demurring. son
The northern settlers in Florida have ro,
ignt up most Of the land in the neighbor- =
ct advanced prices. AT Kingslev ~ fore
miles from Stsrka avarv,Ltnu - - men