The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1882-02-04
SOUTHERN tll.EAsINGs.

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wflfG ~ answered. N pifspi, thss ne
iioifd had aone MI 4 esnld 10 pfmeet Iow
lshds. bnt mneh i.gehds ~ Ne vigilance N
ihe faliet Iafes NJ parishes and NE people
whA live siohe me fHsfs. when ll.e flsfr
are loN peeple iecame esfFless snd aet = n
there wefr never aHF sueh thing ss hlfh
waief. u 4 ihes flee nnuins ara pai, wagon
fuad- sfe ailowed 10 IsesA diwn tlle levse.
places aFe wnfn by stock thai ~ down int Tho
fivsf 10 dflnkl In q wofd. thfta are 80 many
ways ~ which lha iesee. mas ba damaged
Without any blame attaching n aayhedy
lh,i II Il 10 wonder accidents cerur aud
damaging ctevasse. result. Tho Engineer
Hoard can only exercise general sHpefyias
ion. Hut for her letees, LpnIsIsna would
be ioa great extent unlnhablt,ble. Vast
areM of The richest lands would be
unreliable iur culilsAtlcn. and would doubt.
hiss be abandoned. A thorough levco sys.
tem with q sufficient fund 10 malnthia II
would accomplish ercst work. I, wenld
BE- burdcusnine nj first, bnt the burdens
would yearly decrsa.e unill finally the work.
OF maintenance would be comparatively
light
European capitalists have been pur.
chasing vast tracts Of Southern lands during
The pant few weeks. slrE. J. Reed, repre-
teulipg Engish Investors. and DE- Jncobus
Wcslheim, oi Amsterdam, representing
Dutch, have Just bought 2,OO0.00 acres IN
Florida, Whit Phillips, Marshall & Co., Of
London, havrbought III 49, 900 In Mississippi.
Nearly hall Of tho latter are lcvcc lands, ST.
uaicd 10 the Yaxoo delta, aud are line cot.
ton and timber lands. The object In both
these purchases has been 70 colonlzo and
cultivate the lands, aud the effect can hardly
fail 10 lie felt IN the future Of these states
when the cuilsaiors Of the soil have to pay
their rents 10 English capitalists.
A bill has been intro duccd In the
Legislature Of Mississippi to make prize
fighting pcnltentiary oifense.
Coal and Iron have been discovered
In Mississippi.
Speaking Of tho educational needs
aud progress Of the South, Raw DR.. Hast.
zell, Of New Orleans, says; "For 1880 iheic
has been an increase In attendance IN nearly
oil the States, among both white aud col.
orad children. In some towns whore for
two or three years local taxation for public
schools had been voted down with vim,
now good schools are supported at public
. expenses nihHf .Hif saHfasi AFn assn 80 al
A careful estimate Of the acreage
sowed to wheat In West Tennessee place,
the area at fully 70 per cent. greater than
the breadth Of land given to the production
| OF this cereal In lssi. 80 4s.si =. hgliw
rattlesnake measuring IS inches IN
diamelet and II IL feet In length, and hay
Ing 10 rattles, was killed In. Naichez, Miss,
recently. Whom shot the snake had largt
rabbit In III mouth. ~ .nar riit
One Of the objects Of the coming con
ventiou OF colorcd men at Macon, Ca. VII
beto organize aud hold grand Southern
fsF. nj whichtbc products Of colored mel
Will he exhibited slssrss sts,..ii,. .,-l.i
Joseph de Silva, aged IA, recent.
arrested al New orlean. at tho request o
the Cuban authorities for the abduction Q
Maria Duyox, aged 10, has been released
The mother Of DE Silva asserted that sh,
paid the parents OF Maria 5000, aud III
extradltion proceedings were brought .
enforce further payments. 2 80 ss
| A peculiar disease Is said 10 be afYiic,
Ing people on the Rio Grande, near Browns
vile, Texas. A pimple appears on tho fac,
the head swells up, aud Ina short tim
death cnsucs. lis said the disease In II
symptoms resembles the old Aslaiic plague
II n exceedingly fatal.
| The corner stone Of the new cotto
exchange building, northwest corner ofrCa
rondelct and Groves streets, New Orlaans
was laid, Jan. 23d, In the presence of city
siate, and Federal officials. representative
n foreign governments and eommsrcisf ID
stItutions, and large coneourse Of citizeni
Gov. McEnery delivered thr address.
Mr.. Kennedy, Of Blount County
Tenn. IL eighty year. old, has been mai
fled twice and has twenty-AIx children.
| A two-inch carp put In pond noa
Atlanta two years ago was caught fc'
days sincc and weighed seven pounds.
A Macon, Ca, wife-beater enterc
the novel plea that when he thra.hsd h
better half he was In somnambullsiIc stat,
and no, responsible. lie got $40 or thre
months In jail.
Mr.. james Williamson, aged seventy
ak, was married At JIawkinwIlle, Ca.
; few days ago, 10 Mrs. Polly Bnrnhsm, age
sixty..ix. The groom's son, who u hity yeai
old, performed the ceremony. sA
Every city in the South has mad
,, progress during the last year.
Fine veins Of marble hase been disco
cred In Union County. Arb. 20
In Mizsissippitberc arc los, $40 horse
1i5.ooo mules and I. ~. .0o hogs.
/ More grain has been sown In Soui
Carolina this season than any other sine
, the wsr. 4< t-i.
, Seventeen thousand dollars worth
) spsnge In one pile was recently soId at X
, West, Florida.
Pensacola, Fla, has voted against n
pudIa,ing her ante-belIum debt. aud y
ocntl, paid 800, 900 Of u. frti
The Baptist ministers Of Virginia n
! ends.yorinvso msr-hsi the clsrrymnn OF II
: State in opposition 10 the. bill now before Il
Virginia Assembly granting relicfto 10 persoi
who have fought dueis. The law disquAl
fies them 20 hold Office.
. Gold dust "A legal tender IN n