The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-10-19
NEWS SUMMARY.


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shipped from Knoxville last week,
The Georgia state fair offers a pre-
MUM of 500 for the best fire company in
the state.
The famous Dummitt orange grove,
on the Indian river, Florida, has been sold to
R New Yorker for $4,000.
Jack Hunt, for the cold-blooded muir
der Of his wife in Monroe county, Tenn, is
TO be hanged on the 10Th prONimo. =
Colonel Holiday, conservative can
didatc for governor Of Virginia, declines to
canYsss the state, as there is no opposition.
Two Sisters of Mercy have died Of
yellow fever at Fernandina, and two others
have gone from st. Augustine to lake their
places.
Twenty-Five Judges are to be sp-
pointed to examine the models which may
be submitted for the Lee monument in
Richmond,
Hartsville (Tenn.) Sentinel The to-
bacco crop of the state now being housed is
vastly superior to any that has been raised
for many years.
In Virginia and North Carolina the
acreage planted in tobacco is fifty per cent.
larger than last year; the yield promises to
be better in the same ratio.
The Columbia Is. CT Phoenix says that
there is enough material before the legisla-
tive investigating committee to keep them
at work at least eighteen months longer.
Hon. Washington Leonidas Grice has
been appointed circuit judge in the Macon
ga district vice Judge Hill, who died on
the bench at Knoxville a few days ago.
Waco (Texas) Register The pecan
crop is reported good in this section this
year, and hundreds of bushels of the nuts
will likely be shipped from this place.
Black Horse and Left Hand, the Ia
dians who have been i'll at Fort Maron, ST.
Augustine, are convalesoent and regaining
their usual health and natural savageness.
Four little girls, the children of Mr..
Jacob Musselwhite, of Robson county, NC,
died lately Of diphtheria so near together
that they were all buried last Sunday, at the
same time.
Samuel G.. Reid, Esq, has made his
bond, received his commission, and taken
charge of the United States marshals office
for the middle and southern districts of
Alabama.
Greenville Is. c. News: Work was
commenced on the Greenwood and Augusta
railroad last week, one hundred penitentiary
c%onvicts being employed under Superin'
tendent Bailey.
A Georgia negro preacher said to his
flock: Owe have a collection to make this
morning, and, for the glory Of heaven, which
ever of you stole Mr.. Smiths sheep, don't
put anything on the plate"
A picket-line is kept around Jackson
vile, Fla, night and day, to keep out yellow
fever refugees, but one Of them knocked
down a colored picket the other night and
got in.
The demand for cOttOn-pickers is on
the increase IN Natchitoches, La, and the
price has reached 75c. per hundred pounds.
This would be $1S 80 per bale for picking,
or q per cent. of its entire value,
The first official returns from Rich
mond under the Mofat law are for the last
seventeen days of September. In that time
there were registered 1880 malt and 49,
go alcoholic drinks. The tax thereon
amounted to $3.50.
According to the Columbus tGa.) En-
quirer one Of the strangest things in the
world Is to tinl southern planters buying
tons Of northern hay, while the heavy and
g~rievous task the whole year round is to
keep the fields clear OF grass.
wolf that had killed over thirty
sheep in Gadsden county, Florida, was killed
the other day, after an exciting chase, in
which there were forty dogs and Il regiment
Of men. It was five feet long and two and a
half high.
Carpe, who killed his daughter, her
child and himself in Bradley county, Tenn,
q few days ago, was an avowed atheist, and
was frequently heard to remark that his
family and himself might n well be killed
by his own hands.
Savannah News: About fourteen hun
dred head of cattle and the same number of
sheep passed through Quitmau last Saturday.
They came from Colqultt and Mitchell cOun-
ties, and were on their way to fernando
county, Florida, where they will run in the
wilis during the winter.
Several letters, received by a promi-
neDt cotton firm in Mobile from parties in
the overlooked district, represent quite an
encouraging state of things relative to crop
prospects. Reports from this region indicate
that, perhaps, not 3 tenth Of the damage at
first anticipated will be realized by the
planters.
From November /, 1876, to August 81
1877, the foreign exports Of Pensacola have
been 5,3i0,29i cubic feet of hewn timber,
1901 ,S26 cubic feet Of sawn timber, 20,541
cubic feet Of oak timber, 2S,92l, 900 feet of
lumber, 1907 bales Of cotton, employing $50
vessels, with a tonnage Of 2l5,460 tons,
Rev. 7. ?. Bishop, of San Mateo, one
oi the largest Ordnge.grOwers in east Florida
states that the present crop OF that delicious
fruit Is most promising. In his opinion, the
value Of wild orange groves has been in
crea-ed over one thousand per cent. within
the last nine years.
In Sumter county, Alabama, there are
two sherifis one by appointment of the
$3.50. -. ILL., IL. Z. t..,, af nAsna
does not expire until November; the other
by virtue Of the recent election. The circuit
CLERK and other officers recognize the elected
one the solicitor the governors appointee.
The same condition exists in Green county.
Fifty one buildings have been built or
remodeled during the present season at
Jacksonville, Florida. This does not in
elude the improvements in the seven suburbs,
comprising La Villa, Oakland, East jack
so%nyille, Brooklyn, Riverside, Springfield
and Hausontown, where there has been
probably double the number of buildings
erected.
The late severe storm in the gulf states
has not as severely damaged the sugar cane
rs was feared a week ago. Reports from the
e ,sst line Of Louisiana state that the canes
are r%esumiug their perpendicular position.
They VIII thus escape sprouting at the eyes,
which was the chief danger. The only effect
of the storm will be to slightly increase the
price Of cutting the cane for the mills, owing
TO its being bent and twisted.
Atlanta Constitution: "Here, take the
PENCIL were the dying words Of Mr.. VIM.
A. Shorter, late editor of the Rome Courier.
Hou. Edward Shorter, his father, relates that
on the death of his son in Rome, his wife, at
home in Eufsls, Ala, awoke him, asking the
time n night saying, Willie is dead: /
ieel thst Willie is dead" He looked and
found II Ills by this time. Our young friend
dled at lilo by the time at Rome. Mrs.
shorter knew of her sons illness, but never
tnele,s y Is very strange that the impression
should have been vivid enough lust at the