The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-11-11


Mobile Is noted for miserable sidewalks.
They are now manufacturing ice in
Memphis III large quantities.
A lady of Richmond was burned 10
death by treading on parlOr matches.
The knoxville Iron Company recently
shipped ten car loads OF spikes to Ms
sissippi.
A child was sealded to death ina Pot
Of boiling coffee in Kansas City last FRI
day.
MnlliAs, the Tennessee Eagle, was 20
have delivered q speech at Eayettevllie.
Tennessee, last Saturday, but, as there
were no hearers, the thrOes OF ei0qucnce
were deferred.
In the City Surveyors office In Menu
phis there is & map Of North America
made in 1865. Virginia occupies the
place Of Ohio, Indiana and illinois, rad
Memphis did not then exist.
Several gentlemen from Pennsylvania
have recently been making q tour
through Fentress and adjoining counties
with view to purchase land. 'Eney
were Aighly pleased with East Iennessees
Nashville, knoxville and Memphis are
among the points designated by the Sec
retary of War as stations where storm
reports. meteorological observations.
etc., are to be made.
The broom factory or knoxville hsEs
been destroyed BY ire. Loss i&ss~as
The fire was the act Of aH inccndIary.
The laying of the e0rner OF new Az
ricultural Implement ManufaetOFy IL
Nashville short time since was attez-
ded with imposing ceremonies.
A.B, Long. United States District At-
tOrney, was tound dead in his Office, I'm
New Orleans, yesterday morning, with
his throat cut. Suicide is suspected.
4 negro named Frank GodhOid has
created 4 sensation ia BTookhnveu, Mis-
sleslppi, by marrying a white girl. one
Angeline A. WrOteE, aged sixteen.
The masks were removed from q couple
of ISluXes. few days since by the Otil-
cials of POntOtoc county, Mississippi;
when they turned out 70 be simon-puTe
negroes.
The Knoxville or East Tennessee and
Virginia route to the Eastern cities IS
again open aud in good order for travel.
the damage from the recent big fresh
having been fully repaired.
The wheat crop Of Giles county, Ten
nesSee, may be set down at 100000 bush
els, and the cotton at from 10000 20 IL
600 bales, while the corn, potatoes; and
fruits have never been better.
Large numbers of negroes from VIr-
=
see, Virginia and Georgia railroad, bound
for Chattanooga. They are TO work on
the Chattanooga and Alabama road.
The other day, as negro, who had
been convicted in the Criminal Court al
Knoxville, Tennessee, was coming out OF
the court room. he met witness who
had testified in his case and knocked him
down.
1t is proposed in the Memphis Cham
Der of Commerce TO discuss Che rates OF
charges defined by the Memphis aud
Charleston and Mississippi Central rOads.
and appoint q committee to inquire
whether the State may not remedy
wrongs committed by companies it has
enriched.
On Wednesday last j. Ii. White. Il
young man living at Milton, in Ruther-
iOrd county, Tennessee, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the head.
| No clew TO the cause has been found.
He was soon to have been married to
beautiful girl.
At the Georgia State Fair Il wealthy
bachelor saw beautiful young lady in
specting a new cook stove, sought an i'm
PRODUCTION, proposed, and was accepted
since which all the girls crowd about
the stove department.
The Memphis Appeal says that w. B.
Greentaw, and others like him :. full OF
! pluck aad energy" have undertaken to
complete the Memphis and Little Rock
/ road at once. Also, that measures will
/ speedily be adopted to. insure the COM
! pletiOn OF the Nicksburg and Memphis
Railroad.
/ Recently the dead body of a negro
+ man was found hanging to a limb ia the
neighbOrhOOd Of HazlegFeen, Alabama.
His crime was attempted violence uDOn
/ the person of white woman. A placard
was found pinned on his breast stating
I the crime for which he was hung.
! Last week little child of Mr.. Mc-Afee.
/ living in East Knoxville, Tenn. died
! from the effects of a bite inflicted by a
/ spider about ten days previous. 1t was
! bitten on the finger, which soon sweiled,
| when the swelling rapidly extended
| through the arm and whole body, which
assumed the appearance of having been
| blistered.
The Franklin Review says: Mr.. Geo.
! 5. NichOl, Il gallant soldier of the Lost
/ Cause, received a couple of wounds in
the head during thewa One ball struck
him in the mouth and terribly mutIlated
his whole face; the other entered hfs
right eye and the doctors could never
| tell Where it stopped. The other day
Mr.. NichOl was indulging in a hearty
laugh, wien, much to his surprise the
ball dropped down into his mouth, and
/ he was thus pleasantly relieved OF a ball
that had been an annoyance to him for
more than six years.