The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1883-08-04

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4 day NJ lwo ago NJ j. Brown,
WIN lives n SHIRT distance above
Columbus, Gns Killed n snake and
threw II uut ia ftnht " biz gate
The chickens aftorward ate " the
snake, md soyon Of them died on
the spot.
jefferson Davis and his daughter
were seen by q reporter who visit.
ed q sca-shore eamp.moetina, near
Biloxi, The other day, sitting bafc-
headed under a pine tree listening
to q sermon Both father and
daughter joined in the singing.
A Dakota paper uses this argu.
ment by way II assisting immi-
grafton to the Territory at costs
$1,000 for q man to get n moderate
outfit in Iowa, but all n woman
needs 10 run 4 homestead in Dako-
ia il an oil-stove, three hens and q
rooster
Consumption, DR.. Felix Oswald
says, is more easily cured than
any other chronic disease. He
claims that all but the last stages
Of the disease ran be subdued by
outdoor exercise.
Justice in Minnesota sometimes
operates quccrly. a man at Me-
Pherson bought a revolver and was
going TO kill his family. His wife
took the weapon from him and
gave him a licking, and n country
justice fined her s25 for it.
One hundred and sixty carloads
Of watormclons are received in
Cincinnati daily. If there were
none rcshipped there would be
halfa melon daily for every man,
woman and child in that city. II
is estimated that half the melons
go on to points to the North and
East.
The city Of Dallas, Tex, is said
TO be built over n graveyard Of
mastodons, and for five or six years
past excavations for buildings
have seldom failed to bring up
their bones. A large number Of
these mastodon remains were un-
eartbcd recently, and some Of the
bones were Of enormous size.
The oil record of a Baptist
church in South Carolina contains
mention Of a woman being exclud-
ed from the church for "doing too
much talking in the neighborhood,"
and the Columbia Register tx
presses the fear that such a rule
universally applied now would
thin out the churches very much.
But perhaps the Register is talk
ing too much.
An old operator thus tells how
cable messages are received: ~
don't suppose you know how the
messages are received over the c.
bles? No. Well, it is altogether
different from this tick, tick, tick.
The operators there sit in dark
rooms. The messages como as lit
tie electric sparks the letters arc
known by the length Of the fash.
These men go blind Mt the end of
fifteen years, and are pensioned in
England, but nothing is done for
them here. They are not paid
any better than we are"
The following account Of one Of
the most remarkable characters on
record is taken from the Maury
CTenn.) Democrat: "a most re.
MAJ kable character was brought "a
Columbia afew DAYS ago and placed
in jail, All, The Warrior m
idiotic colored boy. This boy has
been 10 the habit Of catching
snakes and ground squirrels ant
eating them raw. When brought
TO Jail and stripped to put on 1
clean suit Of clothes nine snak,
heads were found on his person
and several dead snakes were wrap
ped about his body. lie dislike,
very much to give up his snakes
He was placed in Jail to keep hin
from getting any more such food"