The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1881-10-01

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blmbof Of hours 70 wteh in Up.
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against 10 IN q German gymnasium
and ~ Nv q French lyesc ln
boston as hours % week during.
the months when the schools nfe
10 session, ave paascd by each
pupil,
The trunk line war increases
rather than diminishcs business.
not only In passengers, but freights.
The reduction In rates. II seems.
has not rs yet worked any very
serious damage to Eric. The net
earnings for the fiscal year ending
with this month are estimated nj
over $1,000, 900, or about $1,000
900 over fixed charges.
Two years ago the banks of
New York City held $2o,ooo,ooo
in gold and there was in the
United States Treasury, say,
$4,000, 900. According to the
latest returns our banks now hold
SOS 900, 900 and the Treasury
$4,000, 900. This shows what
has become Of sos ,ooo,o of the
$a65 900 900. The rest is sup
posed to have been absorbed by
the West and South.
The different Departments and
the White House are preparing
mourning paper and envelopes for
official business. Tho official pre-
cedcnt is that such paper shall be
used for six months. That used
after the assassination ofPrcSident
Lincoln has been taken as a sam
pie. The etiquette prevailing at
the deaths Of other Presidents in
Office will be adopted upon this
occasion as far as consistency will
allow.
The widow Of Mr.. Singer, Of
sewing-machine fame, some time
ago married a certain Viscount of
Easternburg, OF uncertain nation
atty. M. Gaillaudet states that
the american colony" in Paris is
now in q ferment because the Wis
count has suddenly been promoted,
or has promoted himself, into a
duke, at the ridiculously small ex-
pense, it is said, of $4,000 francs.
There have been seven vice
presidents from New York Burr,
Clinton, Tompkins, Van Buren,,
Fillmore, Wheeler and Arthur.
There have been three presidents
from New York-Van Buren,, Fill
more and Arthur. lie is the
twenty-first president Of the United
States. General Garfeld's adj
ministration was the seventeenth
administration, and four vice-prcsi-
dents have reached the presidency
by the death Of their chief.
The cotton crop in Texas, ac-
cording to Senator Maxey, who
so stated in St. Louis the other
day, will be cut down TO one-third
Of what it was last year. lie an
ticipates no suffering, however.
from the decrease in any crop, for
the reason that there is railway
building enough going on in Tex
as to keep all the working people
OF the State employed for the next
six months.
There is a remarkable coinci-
dence in the deaths of three gen.
erations Of the Garfield family.
Thomas Garfield, the grandfather
Of the President, died suddenly
while a young man, leaving a
widow and babe. That babe was
Abram Garfield, who died as sud-
denly in 1888, leaving a widow
and four children, the baby James
Abram Garfield, whose untimely
death the nation mourns.
Buffalo, formerly one Of the
hoallhiest OF cities, is now agitnted
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