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The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-21

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1T makes poy hearI SICK as the
WINTER woo1 peglns W ioohh upih steadi-
ly-growing Ples. III 'ne oaoA.yaru' ana he
sees MS mo,nel in"Aius PioPa.el'ohs lr
organizing MN iu'o "o'A'ns'mans
party -Ho""eye'
In the Mount Auburn cemetery, BOs,
ton, is a lot containing hVe stones, one
al each corner anu ohe III sbe center
Inc iatteT Is lnsclloeu: Ou u nus
Dand' ana Vne oGaers fesPecV,uay Dear
MY l. we Wy "he' NY III
Wlfe' "MylV "ne.
The gala days at Savannah, Ga, are
on the occasion OF the review of the U.
:. troops. There are at present three
soldiers there, by which the city IL gar.
rlsoned, ana "hen they aiess up and
come out ior a sh0" a thrill ol excite
ment runs through the CITY,
ACCORDING to the most recent stats
tlCs, Ine lundDlIduIsOH VIC car VII hulnUtT
1923, 917 900, or twenty-eight persons to
every square mile of surface. London is
the most densely packed spot of popula-
ton, containing 3,4S9,42S souls, more
than ssme continental Kingdoms.
UNTIL lately it was not uncommon for
the excited and delighted Cubansto throw
doubloons in place of FLOWERS to a favorite
actress or danseuse, upon the stage.
Miss Adelaide Phillips was thus greeted
at the Tacon theatre on a certain coca.
sion so were Lola Monies and Jennie
Lind.
TT was very careless leaving the parrot
in the parlor Sunday evening, but she
never thought any thing about it until
Monday morning, when he aroused the
whole house by making A smacking noise
and ewing. HDarling Susie Darling
Susie He kent it no all day, too, and
the old folks are much interested in the
case.
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ooo two l;ttIa airIs in The vest filed tbeip
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MiSCELLANEOUN.

Spencer, the Ascending president of
the Chicago State Saving institution, Is re.
ported to have sailed from Quebec for Eu.
rope on the first.
Tsylor, the acting president of the
Mormon church, is a most bitter and bigoted
religious fanatic, a Salt Lake dispatch saws.
The Shakers at Enfield, n. H., have
lost four girls lately by marriage, and are
trying to prevent further defamation bv
having one of the husbands prosecuted for
abduction.
Spencer, the defaulting president OF
the Chicago savings bank, which went under
with several millions of the hard earnings of
the poor working people, has been tracked
to England, where, it is expected, he will be
and brought back.
The apostles of the mormon church at
Salt Lake have arranged that a quorum of
apostles next in order to the president shall
assume control of the church. John Taylor,
the first of the apostles. is now virtually the
head Of the Mormon church.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 18th
says Fung PAX, a %proninent Chinese mer.
chant, leaves for Hong Kong to-day bv the
steamer City of Pekin. He goes to carry
a request made by Colbe, and endorsei
by Chinese companies, to visit the districts
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The Rights of Witnesses.

Both before and since the days of Ser
geant Buzfuz, lawyers in court have. at
least occasionally, asked witnesses imper-
tinent and not pertinent questions and
especially when cross-examined, have
these indispensable allies to the admins.
tration of justice seemed sometimes to
possess no privileges which legal acumen
and brow. beating considered worth re-
specting. The rights of witnesses at the
present time are by nc means either de-
fined or secured /; and many persons who
suffer wrong in quiet rather than suffer
long in the witness-box, or who know bv
smarting experience the misery of both
conditions, will I've pleased perhaps even
elated-to learn hat a Mr.. Billion. a
London lawyer, has been publicly re.
buked for ~endeavsring to cast a stigma
upon the reputation of a witness by
him an Impudent question.
" Have you ever been convicted of Der
jury? ?" inquired the lawyer. Never"
warmly responded the witness. "IfI
there is not sufficient ground for il" in
terposed the judge, "the question is a
improper one to put. Have ven
to the witness) ever been
with perjury" "Never." was
he quick reply. al think" resumed
he Judge. with the f~aintest tinge of
arcasm in his tone, 81 think that an
dvocate should make some inquiry and
ave some proof be ore him before he
'uts such questions 10 a witness" We
hink 50, too.-M Y. EUeaing Post.
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The Mexican Situation.

People with Mexican schemes, who
want to see that country precipitated into
a war with the United States, are prophe-
sying that the recent movement of 800
troops from Vera Cruz to the Rio Gronde
border has been made by Diaz with the
intention of satisfying the revolutionary
spirit at the Mexican capital, who feel
incensed at the instructions gwen to Gen..
Ord. They assert that with such a
general indignation at his capital, he
would not have dared to send troops to
the border with the open and avowed
purpose of helping the Americans carry
those obnoxious orders into effect. These
notions are generally discredited by state
department officials and army men here.
1t is thought Diaz, fully recognizing the
necessity of diplomatic relations with this
government, has taken the reins in his
hand, and intends to force the issue on
the revolutionists and have the question
settled one way or the other. This pres
ent movement toward the Rio Grande is
significant. No president of Mexico has
ventured to draw troops from his capital
and send them direct TO the border since
Santa Anna dispatched his regiment to
meet Gen. Taylor on the Rio Grande,
and it argues that Diaz has plenty of
nerve and independence. While Diaz,
Lerdo and lglesias were in the field to-
gether the Mexican army numbered fifty
thousand men now it is down to a peace
of sixteen thousand, only two
thousand of this number being perfectly
armed and equipped. 1t is plain, there
tore, that in detailing fifteen hundred
men to the distant border, Diaz is pre-
on the popularity OF his govern
ment with the people at large.-Cincin
lati Commercial.
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TIE NEED Or LEYEES.


The st. Louis Republican says: APP.
proximate estimates of the cotton
crop for the year ending September
|, 1877, show a falling off OF
ga 900 bales from the proceeding
year-the figures being, for the year
ending September |, 1876, 4,699,000
bales for the year ending September |,
1877. 4,425, 900 bales. 1t is further esti-
mated that 230, 900 bales OF the deficiency
was the result of the overhows in the
lower Mississippi and its tributaries in
the spring and summer of 1876, and Of
this 1000 bales are apportioned to the
lower Mississippi, $4,000 bales of the
Arkansas, and 81 900 bales to the Washita
making 1877, 900 bales, together, lost by
high water on these three rivers. Esti-
mating cotton at ten cents a pound, and
$50 pounds to the bale, the loss was as
follows 81, 1000 bales on the lower Mis-
sissippi, So, 1865, 900; 5000 bales on the
Arkansas, S14S5, 900; 81, GOO bales on the
Washita, $3,005, 900 total, 1880, 000---
nearly 50, 000, 900 lost to the country by
foundations that effective levees would
have prevented. The expenditure of
half this sum would probably provide
the three rivers named with the levees
needed to protect the plantations from
overflow, and guarantee the country
such losses in future. The cot,
ton crop is one of immense value and
Importance it constitutes much the
single item in our table of ex-
ports, our cotton shipments abroad having
been 1892, $4,000 in 1876, and Sl7l, u.s.
300 in 1871, while our exports OF bread
3tuns, the next largest item, were $751;
in 1876, and $1lS, 1874, OC0 in
Whatever can be done to increase
the cotton crop ought to be done--not
Tor the benefit of the south and the cot
ton planters, but for the advantage of
.he wh4le country--since the mi
of the east and the grain and
neat growers of the west are scarcely less
Interested IN the matter than the people
If the south. The most productive cot.
districts are those bordering on the
,hree rivers mentioned as the scene of
hese devastating foundations, the lower
Mississippi, the Washita and the Ar
and it is these districts than an
heightened national policy suggests
hould be effectively protected by levees,
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Praying and Flowing for Rain.

A very interesting ceremony, quite
novel in character, was held on the 10Th
ult., lat Indore, at which all the folks of the
town, from the Maharsjah down to the
humblest peasant, joined together. Early
in the morning the whole town, led by
his highness and the royal family, wendell
their way to a village called Bangunga.
two miles off from Indore, where they
were to pass the whole day, it being
strictly enjoined that no one should light
his kitchen fire, but enjoy a general pic
mic in the fields. Men, women and chill
dreu all were there to the number, it is
said, of $4,000 persons. The gathering
to invoke the gods by PRAYERS and
poojahs to send down rain. After the
poojahs were over, the Maharsjah took a
pillow in his W hands and titled a Dor
ton of the grounds, and her highness the
Maharani, who played the part o; the
peasant wife, waited on her lord in the
fields with his daily meal wrapped up in
the folds of her cloth. The gods were
really moved by such a pathetic scene.
Tor Immediately afterward showers came
down, and the crowd dispersed amid great
'ejoicings.-- Times Of India.
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THE WAR.

Prince Gortschakof has declined al
mediation.
The Russians in Asia Minor are con.
fniug their themselves to a defensive atti
tude,
Nicsics surrendered on the 9th. The
garrison and inhabitants withdrew to Cat
schkO.
Further accounts of horrible atrocities
have been sent out by Russian and Turkish
authorities.
On the sixth Eyoub Pasha's corps de-
fcated the twelfth Russian corps, which res
crossed the LON in disorder, abandoning
their fortified positions near Kechlowa. The
Russians lost 8 1000 killed and wounded.
A Russian official bulletin, dated Pore
din, IA, says, w made no further attacks but
bombarded the Turkish Notifications and
the town of Plevna at short range. Towards
four p. M. the tow began to burn and two ex.
plOsions were observed within the f~ortifica.
tlons. The Turks made little reply to our fire,
and directed all their efforts against our lett
wing, which threatens their rear at this point.
General Skabeloff repulsed five furious at
tacks, but was compelled in the evening, az
ter the sixth attack, to evacuate the fortif.
cations, which he captured Tuesday. Dur
lllS "tuhCshuS hlShh oul tIODDs tHlFtHCntu
themselves in their positions.
The experienced military correspond
ents of the Times and Daily News, after wit
Messing the attack on Tuesday, arrive at the
conclusion that Plevna must be taken by
gradual approaches. The former, writing
from the Russian headquarters, saws the
" Emperor and Grand duke Nicholas were
on the battlefield until nine o'clock last
night. The emperor returned to headGuar.
tiers here (Poredin) late last night. The bat.
tletield of the last five days is silent this
morning, and there is talk of submitting the
Turkish position to q regular siege and sap
ping up the redoubts, while a close blockade
is is instituted, with intent to starve Osman
Pasha's forces. The villages enclosed with.
in Osman Pasha's lines are full of supplies
for the simple wants Of the Turkish soldiers, |
and the fields groan with heavy crops of
Liaize. The losses this morning are spoken |
of here as being about five or six thousand,
but there are no details. The emperor, this
went back to the battlefield to visit
his soldiers. Unless this position of affairs
is shortly changed by a decided Russian
success, the events of the campaign will turn
on the movements of Mehemet Ali and SuIie.
man Pasha, rather than on the fate of
but information concerning these
is of the most meagre description"
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THE RUSSIAN PROGRAMME.
Valuable Tinie l.os,-Tbe Campaign 10
assume u New Phase.

ssum ~ New Phase.
The Osmanli have fought well on the
defensive. viii their offensive move
ments be equally successful? | think
not. Their generals are losing much
valuable time. At present their numer,
ical superiority over their adversary is
immense, but each day this advantage is
being diminished, and, should the grand
duke succeed in staving off a general en-
gagement until the arrival of all his re-
endorsements, the campaign may yet be
terminated by a very unexpected coup
de theatre. The Turks will resist like
devils behind earthworks, however in
significant these may be, but they can
not maneuver in the open field, where
their deficiency in cavalry will make it.
self particularly felt, and whenever the
imprudence and want of sound military
experience of their generals shall risk a
battle in the plain, their defeat is GER
tain, although it will not be decisive, for
their lines of retreat are, in the case OF
each OF their armies, admirably secured
But the campaign will assume a new
phase; other elements will enter into the
struggle, and, while Greek and Servian
fanaticism will vie in cruelty with the
fanaticism of the Moslem, the Russians
will go Systematically to work, as with
their ignorance of the art OF war they
should have begun at the investment and
reduction of the fortresses of the Danube.
Such is, | think, the winter programme,
for even in the event of a great victory
at the end of August, the season is now
too far advanced to hope for the prosecu-
ton of any regular operations beyond
the Balkans, where every pass, except
that of the Shipka, is strongly held by
the elite of the Turkish army. do not
look for the unfurling of the prophets
standard before the feast of the Bairam,
but if there be no British troops at Gal
Iipoli at that time, and if the army of
Serdar-E krem should sustain a crush
ing defeat, the situation of foreigners
at Constantineple will be terrible,
rs neither merchants, consuls, nor en-
oassadors will escape the massacre.
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from whence his people immigrate to Cali.
f%ornia, for the purpose of checking or limit.
ing any further immigration.
A circular was issued by the apostles
OF the Mormon church at Salt Lake on the
10th, saying that They held a meeting and
waited upon the Lord, who blessed them and
revealed the steps they should take. John
Taylor is sustained as acting president of the
twelve, and a quorum OF the twelve apostles
is the authority of the church. j. W. Young,
II. II. Wells and g. f, Cannon are ordered
to assist president Taylor. II is claimed that
the last days are at hand, and that all saints
must be faithful in building temples and
paying tithing.
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Other Disguised Americans.

Although Osman has been so unaccom.
mOdating as to be born in Hungary, and
not in Clay Crawford's native country,
the Western press ought not to be dis
eouraged. There are several other Turk.
ish pashas who may be Americans in dis
guise. Mehemet Ali. for instance, may
turn out to be Col. Blanton Duncan. OF
Kentucky, formerly chief Of staff, camel
driver and pigeon-tamer to Gen. Beaure-
gard. This suleiman who has been ham,
mering away at Montenegro and Cossack,
may prove to be the ~flag-bearing Sergt.
Bates. Then there is Private DalzelI. of
Ohio, who hasn't written any letters to
the papers for some time. Is it possible
he is masquerading in Armenia as
Mukhtar Pasha?
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NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTH.

Mississippi has seventy-four counties
OF SSi022 inhabitants,
The growing zane in Louisiana gives
promise Of a fiue sugar crop.
Not a drop of rain fell in Austin
tfexas) during the month Of August just
past.
There are 1,025 convicts registered on
the books Of the Tennessee penitentiary.
The southern papers generally express
hopeful views of the trade outlook.
An excursion party of Pennsylvania
and New York land,buyers and capitalists
are visiting Texas.
Sora, a little black swamp.bird OF the
snipe family, is now the ~favorite game OF the
Virginia sportsmen.
The Memphis Avalanche estimates the
loss by cotton WORMS as having been some
years as high as $25, 100000. 1t thinks a
free use of Paris green the best autidote yet
found.
Horses are dying along the coast near
Rockport, Texas, from an accumulation of
san in the stomach. 1t is supposed they
get the sand in cropping close grass in the
dry, dusty season.
The Charlotte On. c. Observer says a
rich pocket of gold ore has been discovered
near that city. The first bucketful taken
out is one.half gold, and in the ore are strata
of pure gold the size of a mans finger.
The Charleston News and Courier
published a letter from a Virginian, saying
he wished to purchase a desirable farm in
South c ~rrolina, and in ten days two hun
dred answers were received.
Some of the Tennessee papers are
agitating the question of Withdrawing the
c%onvicts from competition with honest labor
and putting them to work upon the public
roads. Many CONFLICTS are so employed in
Virginia.
A gentleman who was sent by the
authorities of Savannah to examine and re-
port upon the fever at Fernandina, Florida,
his telegraphed back: "Do not find any
yellow fever here. The other fever is of a
mild form"
The Advertiser says that vast swarms
OF yellow flies, about four times as large as
the Ordinary fly, and whose tails hurst off
when they alight, congregate about the street
lamps in Montgomery. Ala, and in the stores
at night. They appeared about three days
ago. In 1875 they were very numerous.
hNAb StbNi'I ~ blt NTtOTEld ltUlS- |
lature will elect a United States senator to |
succeed General John B. Gordon. Among
the candidates mentioned are Gen. Gordon, |
Gen. Toombs, exGov. Brown, ex-senator
Norwood, Gen. p NJ. B. Young, Mr.. Julian
Hartridge, present member of congress from
The LIST district, Gen. A. r. Lawton, Gen. l..
=. Gtrtrell, ex>GOv. Smith. Hon, Thomas
Hardeman, Hon. W. E Smith, Gen. W. T.
Woford and even Mr.. Stephens.
The New Orleans Democrat saws that
a colored woman living in st. Mary became
much inceEsed against her liege lord, and
while he was standing thinking over their
last quarr,I }, she came behind him, and with
one Grand sweep with that formidable and
%iavorlte weapon of the race, the razor, cut
his throat from ear to ear. He dropped dead
on the instant. On her being taken prisoner
she seemed much astonished at the turn
affairs had taken, and expressed much grief,
ana said it was all done in play.
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COTOPAXI
In Eruption-Twcnty- Five streams Of
water Pouring from All the Cra-
ters-One T%hou.nnd Persons
and Two Thousand Head
az s,uius DeytrOged.

WIZ '@
and Two Thousnnd Head
Of cattle D%c,trosed.
A letter from L%atacunga, Peru, gives
the story of the eruption of Cotopaxi,
which took place on July 18th. Streams
of water poured from all the craters at
once, on the Callao side, sweeping away
everything in their course. Another
irresistible torrent followed .he course of
the Saquimal river. The hacienda OF
Signer Donosa is in ruins the very soil
is gone. OF the place of Signor Larrea
nothing is left the river carried off five
hundred head of cattle at pasture in the
fields. The A.aques river overAowed
and caused great damage. TheC utuchio
overlowed, carrying everything before it.
A splendid m~achine,shop went down like
a card-house at the first rush of the
waters 50 did various mills. The ehtire
district was like a sea, and the %inundation
would have destroyed the city had not
the course of the floods been timely
diverted into the river channels. The
total loss OF life will reach, lift does not
exceed, one thousand persons. AT least
two thousand head of cattle have been
destroyed, and of smaller animals the
loss is much greater. In the midst OF the
roar of the waters and the crashing Of
houses, the volcano poured out enormous
quantities of cinders, which gradually
darkened the whole face of the heavens,
and left Latacunga in the profoundest
obscurity from one o'clock in the after
noon until ten at night.
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POLITICAL,

The state democratic convention r
New York will be held at Albany, Oct g.
William l.. Banning is the greenbac
candidate for governor of Minnesota.
The workingmens' party of Baltimor
has nominated Joseph Thompson for MAYOR
The latest returns from the Californi,
election show that the democrats will have
II maj 'rity in the legislature.
1t is announced from Washington that
turing the campaign Secretary Evarts will
deIlver a political address in New York city
on the Administration and its Policy"
The vote in Maine on the 10th was
'ome $4,000 less than last fall, Connor,s
(Rep.) majority is about 5000. The demo-
rats elected 4 of 81 senator's, and The repub.
,'canS have an overwhelming majority in the
house. The greenback vote for governor
was about $500 and they elected two mem
beers of the house.
The Independent greenhack party of
Massachusetts, held its state cOnyentio11
Boston on the 9TH, about one hundred deles
gates being present. Wendell PbilIips was
nominated for governor. The resoIutions
detnahd the repeal OF the specie-resunption
nct, restoration OF the silver dollar as a full
HNNi oh'pbdEt Oh IHe further 1ggup
OF gold bonds for sale in foreign markets and
reduction of public expenditures, and recon-
meni that all money issued by the govern
ineht should be full legal tender, convertible
lnto government bonds bearing a low rate
of interest, i"'e
n Wisconsin republican state con-
veht,oh on the 18th nominated William E.,
omitn Tor governor. Resolutions were
cents purposes and patriotism; demanding.
II the hoped.for results from his southern
poIicy DO not follow, other measures which
VIII secure to all citizens their rights; an
proving the efforts to improve the civil SER
VICE; faVorlng the restoration of the silver
noi'ar 10 lts former place as money express
ing sympathy with the unemployed working
men, ana favoring a congressional appro.
pria,ion to assist laboring men to SETTLE on
pubic lands; opposing further land grants
70 railroads., and urging the establishment of
roads. '"i
On the 9Th a conference of free-traders
was held at Saratoga. David A, Wells nra-
.lhed. Resolutions were adopted-attrib>
n'ing the present depression to the erroneous
financial and commercial policy pursued bv
toe government since the war, which makes
u IsPossloie Tor us to dispose of the surplus
products OF our industry to other nations
uhltss we accept In return the surplus pro-
ducts OF their industry; charging that Amer
,,can shipping has been swept from the sea
ny imposing taxes for other purposes than
demanding a thorough revision of
.AIs'lng tarlns and commercial treaties with
other nations; advocating a reciprocity
.'ta'y with Canada, and urging the forma,
non OF local organization.