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Show THE OYSTER IN DANCER. Tho Virginia oyster war is again raising rais-ing its horrid head. This will also raise the price of oysters. Washington Post. The Maryland oyster industry is declining. Still this need not excite so much surprise, as the oyster has been going down for centuries. Philadelphia Philadel-phia Press. Another war has broken out. North Carolina has sent a steamer and troops to drive out the oyster dredgers from Pmnlico Sound. There will probably be more sound and furp about this war than battling and blood. Pittsburg Times. It may be of interest to oyster pirates to know that four men have just been found on the North Carolina oyster beds with bullets in them, aud that the governor of the state, judging from the tone of his present remark to the governor gov-ernor of South Carolina, is preparing to shoot with heavier guns. Washington Star. The governor of North Carolina, after a concedeely bng interval!, has resumed communication with the governor of South Carolinia, but, instead of suggesting sug-gesting the customary courtesies he intimates in-timates blood-thirstily that ho wants to borrow some camon with which to shoot oyster pirates. Washington Star. The oyster pirates wait neither for the navy nor next week, and while the navy is getting ready to move they are stealing oysters by the thousand bushels. bush-els. It is too bad that the great states of Marylapd and Virginia cannot project pro-ject an industry that is worth millions of dollars to them; but they have failed signally, so far. Perhaps it would pay them to turn the whole busiue-s over to the general government. Wheeling Register. |