The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-07-15
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

ce are killing the cotton in Sum-
terscounty, Georgia.
Texas wishes that, like Georgia, she
was ".out in the cold"
Colonel Davis COckrelI, of the Pea
body Hotel, Memphis, has retired
from it.
The two gas companNs of New Or
leans are fighting for tn hight to light
the city.
General John B. Hood is now the
happy father of three girls; two of them
twins.
The cotton crop of Marshall county
Miss, it is feared, will not be an aver
age one. Too much rain.
Clarksville, Tennessee, had two
headed ba5 the OtheR night, eVhich
lived there only twenty minutes.
Germans sofSavannah, Georgia, have
formed a society under the name of
" The German Immigrant Aid Society
of Georgia."
A Huntsville (Alabama) fiddler fid-
died a queer looking snake out of his
hole, and held him down with his fid-
die. Fiddledeedee.
The trustees of Oglethorpe college
have purchased the Lyons house in
Atlanta, Ga, for the use Of the college,
at a cost of $50, 900.
The many friends of Hon. G.. A.
Henry, the eagle orator of Tennessee,
will be pleased TO learn that he is now
in fair way to recover his health.
From alf9hat can be learned an AL
exandria lady carried off the palp9 for
beauty at the late commencement eX-
ercises of the University of Virginia.
Gen. Loring writes to Gen. Lowry,
of Brandon, Miss, that he likes the
service of the VicerOy of Egypt very
much. Gen. Loring is brigadier gem
eral in the Egyptian army.
Two young ladies, daughters of B. f.
Johnson, living near Dallas, Texas, are
cultivating with their own fair hands
twenty-four acres of cotton. Their
crop is the best in the country.
The Pshola (Iiss.) Star, of th, th,
says theEield of wheat is proving "
fine. Pies and peaches v ,e
scarce tIISy season.
B. II. Higginbotham, a plant of
CatahOula parish, La, was murde
on the 4th inst, by some unknown
son.
By the new militia law of
cry man must.enroll himself eTCrer- -
the State palice.pr the militia, or pay
SIS exemptions
Mr.. Marion Baker, of the editorial
staff of the New Orleans PicayUne, has
left for a summer trip North in search
p. Anderson, who lived eigh-
rs from Danville, Va.Swas
nlufdered OIL Monday night by parties
unknown. The deceased was an old
citizen.
E.B. stricklq d, arrested on suspi-
ciOn of being tn party who shot and
killed Merideth ESberts, was tried at
Homer, La, the other day and acquit-
ted. -~--------
A Mrs. Gordon, of Norfolk county,
Va, died in Norfolk, a few days since,
from the effects of ch1Oroform admins
tered by a quaek doctor for the tooth
ache.
w. T. S. Pugh, an old citizen of Mad
isOn parish, La, died the other day
He served in a Madison company dur
ing the war, and was much esteemed
as a citizen.
In Franklin parish, La, DR.. w. w.
Lee and @. H. Dunn got into dispute
about the height of cotton, in which
Lee was shot through the breast, al
though not fatally.
Ed. Stapp and Tody Clifford, of Gal
weston, Texas, who lately went with q
party buffalo-hunting, were cut off by
the Indians and are supposed to have
been killed.
J. B. Stanley, living on the Big-creeB
road, near Memphis, found it necessa-
ry to shoot negro on Friday night al
his own house, whom he found in his
yard, and who tried to kill him with 6
stick.
An 'taffair of honor" between Col
John Forsyth, editor of the Mobile Re
gister, and Col. w. d. Dunn, very near
| ly resulted in q duel, but the matter
was amicabIy adjusted by Gen. Jone:
M. Withers and John J. Walker The
difficulty grew out of the Nicolsor
pavement controversy, which has rag
/ ed for two OF three months past in tina
city. e-