The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1881-09-17

slnile and is having = lafge silr
llh Ohio.
| The lntctOrchn aAys GuItcm
Iias man.devil, hut Mt " Nill
puts u 10 lhc old way, "l'm q
stalwar ~ lhc StalwsfisI'
The Nashville American sayl
the drouih iu Tennessee his been
largely oycroshmliod. although II
Is bad enough without any crag.
gefation.
a dye-siory French fiat, to coit
/ St,om.ooo, 10 being erected .
/ New York. The American db
who is building It ought to be
looked after by his lrieod..
The axact amount Of Lieut.
l'lipper's dcfalcation is $500.
The young man was inexpeH-
enced, however, and had never
been in the signal service.
Mrs. John Brown has received
gin Of nearly $1,000, contributed
by those who wished to show their
admiration and reverence for tlg
good old man whose "soul y
marching on
The State Board Of Tax AS
SCISSORS have assessed railroad prop
erty in Tennessee at 100000
against $Io,ooo,ooo last year.
Thore are over 1000 miles OF rail-
roads in the State.
a cynical ministerial member of
Parliament, on bcind asked what
he thought Of the Irish land bill,
replied: ut is like the Athan-
asian creed we all believe in it,
though we do not understand it,"
The wheat C. op Of Minnesota
will not be so large this year by
five or six million bushels as il was
last year. Nevertheless, the esti-
mated aggregate is 3377Looo
bushels, which represents a very
comfortable degree Of agricultural
prosperity.
1t is calculated that the world
contains I,455,923,ooo people, oi
I6,77S,ooo more than it did q
years ago, divided as follows
S34,7o7,ooo in Asia, 3ts,979'ooC
in Europe, 2o5 $4,000 in Africa
oa,4o5 900 in America, 4,Iai,ooC
in Australia, and 2S,oooin the polat
regions,
Dictator Pierola, Of Peru, is ;
good traveller, and determined
one. During period of five
months he has made a journey
chiefly on the backs Of mules anc
over rough Andean roads, ofmo
: than $50 leagues, and for nearl!
one.half that time he was stationed
: at Jauja recruiting an army.
! Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston ha
written a letter expressing regre
. that pressing business engage
! mcnts will preventhim from attend
ing the reunion Of the Mort
Carolina ex-Confederatc soldier
at Raleigh during the approaching
:, = State fair. He says he "coul
;, find few qualifications in the worl
:, equal to that Of meeting again III
" North Carolinians with whom h
served in the most trying time
= that this century has ever known:
Ig The St. Louis Advance, an oI
ID gan Of the colored man in this pa
I'd OF the world, is disposed to TAX
10 this view ofrecent events; "Lieu
he Flipper is charged with stealth
ry 81 100, and at the same time Cap
er Howgate steals $l7o,ooo. Bo
he are army officers, one black al
n the other white, but the white m;
DC steals 100 times more than The n
n gro and escapes, while the poe
cd lonely, defenselcss black man
re caught. and the press CONNER
ey on the unhtncss Of the black mi
cir for the army"
ell Governor Gear, Of Iowa, h
er- occasion to deliver an address
Of a 'har7est home" in that State
he few days ago. When the ira
, that took him from Manches
reached point on the prai
he' nearest the grounds the Cover
'ns was disappointed TO see that
Q. grangers had failed to send
him. |, was a mile and half
the picnic grounds. and he
incumbered by a heavy satct
Again he cast his eyes over
g. waving sea Of grass. TO which
9th rays OF the MONDAY sun gave
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