The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-10-28
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The wife of Il man named Even
Thomas was shot and killed in her
garden at Chattanooga, Friday night,
by apOtatO thief. .=-
The Davis mansion in Richmond
will be sold to the highest bidder at
public auction on the 25th instant for
municipal purposes.
DR.. Payne, Of Newberry, S. G., was
aecidently shot a few days since by
the discharge of his own gun, from
the effect of which he died in about
four hours.
Whipping for minor Offenses, it.
seems, has net becn abolished in MIR
ginia, -Four negroes and a white
man were sentenced to be imprisoned
and. whipped at Norfolk last week.
Governor Wise, in testifying before
the oyster committee of the Virginia
House of Representative said,
amongst other things, that the spawn
of single female oyster was capable
Of producing from one to three mil
lions of oysters. $50
James Bradbury, wealthy and
highly respected citizen of Fayette
county, Ga, was killed last week by
one Daniel Spikes, also a white man.
He was shot with q rifle charged with
seven buckshot. a-s = asa
A jury in the Supreme Court at
Americus, Ga, on Wednesday last,
rendered a verdict of $4,000 in favor
of A. B. Greene vs.. the Southern Ex-
press Company, for false imprison-
ment. a motion for new trial was
heard before Judge Harrell. as ~
tits presumed that the present pop
ulation of Virginia will be between
twelve and thirteen hundred thou-
sand. This is about the same as was
shown by the census of 1850. Pitts
ylVania is the most pOpulous county,
and shows a population of 81, ,000..
The StauLton river was more sWoI-
len than the Dan in ule recent Vir-
ginia freshet. lis waters poured over
the banks and inundated the low
grounds along its borders, destroying
or damaging the corn in many fields.
The losses TO the farmers are very cor
siderable. -a sf--ta
A white woman with nursing
child was brought to Richmond from
Henry county, Virginia, last Saturday,
and lodged i'll the ponitentiary, having
been convicted OF murder in the Sc
'cond degree. She is tie only white
woman now in the pcnitentiaIy, and
the first received there for many years.
The Synod OF Virginia is to meet in
Fredericksburg on Tuesday, the list
day of November, at ~ O'clock, p. m.
A large attendance of ministers and
elders is expected. The proverbial
hospitality Of that spirited town is ac-
,1V-o ~ 4 FOr a
cOmmodation-of the expected visitors.
1t is believed the body of tho lady
found in the river, near Richmond,
on Friday last, was that of Mrs. Ran
som, who was drowned near Lynch
! burg during the. recent flood. Mr..
Ransom has left for RichmOnd TO as
certain whether the remains be those
| of his late wife or no. ....
The Jacksonville (Fla-) Union dis
cussesf at length a plan to reclaim
much of tie rich cotton land along
the st JOINS, now useless from be-
ing below the level Of the rit CT and
subject TO- oveEdOWs. z A system OF
! dykes and levees are suggested similar
to those on the Mississippi. - (L /
AN immense cataract, which rivals
Niagara, has been discovered or the
Pota-a, a. tributary of the Essequebo
in British Guiana, South America
/ The breadth OF the river at tlEe top d
! the cataract is 100 yards, and tie vol
FHme of water 10 feet in depth. The
fah has ia5eleaF descent eOfiz50 feet il
/ this repectvezeeeding the falls Of. Nj
agara, which descend 164 feet. ON tht
q American side of.the river, and only
Z I50 on the Canadian side. -s-ssss -
{ = The chufch OF Long Run, --EPresby
|, .teI'y of RedstOne, las : purchased ;
i tpaEsonage1for S., SEQ as lis eoatEibu
. tion to the sFive Million . MemOria