The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-10-21
! SOUTHERN NEWS iTgAs,

"a ifsR 80 alRU taN 81 HEa 81 as
E A huge wildcat has been eaughtnear
Greensboro, Georgia. a.7 - So h' q"
Rome, Georgia, is doing q lively
real estate business.
Several large bears have recently
been killed in Craig county, Va. selr
The ~Chattanooga Times threatens to
suspend for want of paper. ThesSouth=
ern mills are OveTTUn with orders. Esss'l
Jacksonville, FIorida, still hopes for
a direct line of steamers with New,
4OFk. r..fr aaai--.1-lzs trs e5a7t - sruf@a
- The buzzaTgis are feeding on the ear
eass OF a mule ia the capitol yard of
Jackson, Mississippi. = = ~ -s
One establishment lin Ohio has sent
sixteen thousand pounds of machinery
to the Mississippi State Fair. bate
There were between twelve and fif-
teen houses taken of from Columbia,
Va, by the flood, and five lives lost
two negroes and three white men. c..
20 Kinds. county, Mississippi, has to pay
under the new order Of things, 500, O,0O0 +.
fore.
r Judge AHgOod, of Floyd county, Ga,
raised 112 bushels of Early Rose Irish /
potatoes on less than one-fourth of an
acre. They are AIl-good.
Veins of coal are struck in digging
wells in San Augustine county, Texas. /
There are in the county eight grist and
saw mills run by water power.
A large piece of gold was found in
well near Fredericksburg, Virginia, re-
Gently, and parties are now negOtiat-
ing for the purchase of the property.
It is thought the low price of cotton
ducing planters to devote more land to
the cereals and less to the great staple.
A Texas scattIe-trader was decoyed
into house of ill-fame, by q woman
ia Kansas City last Tuesday, where
three men seized him and robbed him
of 81 500. Fs~ Ls e7't'
The Richmond merchants did not
lose ;sosmuch by the flood as was at
/ first supposed. Investigation proves
that they reported thousands instead of
hundreds. a - t-.s ge -<
Some eight hundred colored people
| fronls N orth Carolina have applied for
| passage to Liberia, in expectation to be
sent out by the American Colonization
| lSocietyson the 1st of November next.
The town of. NatehitOches,- La, has
contributed. 1900 toward the erection
Of telegraph between Alexandfia,
passing through Natchitoches, to-
shreveport. Only 81, 900 more is need
ed to start the enterprise. -5.-..... 81.
= The negroes in Holmes county, Mis-
sissippi, puffed up with the advice of
i their loyal league leaders, have held
meetings and resolved that they would
not work for White people next year on
any account or in any capacity.
II The Newbern, n. c., Journal of
4 lCOmmence. says that a woman of that
village recently gave birth 10 twins
fWhicb, though dead, had each COM
lplete set of teeth. aai = boo .t-af .f
There. were three hundred and
twenty students at Washington Col
lege, Virginia, on Friday last, thirty
more than were present at that time
| last year. 1t is believed there will be
/ four hundred matriculates the pres
: nt-sessiOn. st y u ..e .,.z q --..fl 3 .ss
# On last Sunday night, while. Mr. -Pil-
grim and family were at church, some
negroes entered his residence, at Mari
eta, Ga, and distracted from the
trunk of Mr.. Wheelan 81, 200 of reve-
nue. fund, just collected in the upper
lcOunties. - -...--. .-.,.-, :. s.
A negro girl, employed as servant by
Professor WOodfin, at Penefield, Ga,
was shot and killed on Monday night
by her gay LOthario,. David McWhor-
ter. He escaped to the woods, although
the shooting IS supposed to have been
| accidental. -sa-r-l. .. -ss
Sunday, as James Watson, d coIored
school teacher in CuthbeTt, Ga, and
! Lewis Maxwell, also cOlOred, were sit
ting together in a small house on the
/ premises of john Rhodes, from some
cause, the former shot the latter through
} the head with pistol, death sensuing
r almost instantly.
, General Chalmers, of Austin, Mis-
, sissippi, planted about forty acres oi
: broom corn after the hail storm l1iIIt d
out his cotton last spring, and now
says he will make a splendid crop. He
, believes that the culvation of broom
. corn i'll thai county will pay as we'll il
not better than cotton.
The appOrtionmento of the school fund
/ for the parish of Orleans, Louisiana
< shows 99,S93 to be the number OfschOOl
: children, and the census returns give
i the population of the parish as only
t lS4, ,6SS. According to the usual meth.
a DDS of calculation, this number of selloo
Il children would indicate that New Or
{ leans has a population. of at leas
: 100000. -.
+ 1t is the opinion of many -persoA
- that the late unprecedented freshet il
4 the James and Shenandoah rivers wa
h not caused by a continued rain, but b,
!. something like the bursting of a wate
n spout on or about their head-waters
t. and their sources are not a very grea
h distance apart. The flood came dow
in the Shenandoah in great waves sue
d ceeding each other rapidly.
u u About sundown on Friday evenin
AZ of last week two young men of AIex
n andria, Va, in order to settle a diff
v Guilty that had arisen between them
q armed themselves with knives, anC
le accompanied by some of their respet
N tive friends, repaired to the ground
I" around Lockaber, across the, can;
+. locks, where, having dotted their coat
er they fought according to the rules
force in Western Texas previous to tt
ly war. After prolonged conflict, durin
Ks which both were cut and slashed to a
tn extent that satisfied their friends, the
were separated and carried to surgeon
to have their wounds dressed. Neithr
g of them was MORALLY hurt. w
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IL THE OLD-FAsHIoNED MoTHER.-Th
le' old fashioned mother lone in all Il
o world, the law of whose life was 10y
II one who was the divinity of our infanc c
II II and the sacred presence in the shrine
~ our firstearthly idOlary one whose hea
llu is far below the frosts that gather
a., quickly y on her brow; one to whom =
III never grow cid, but in the 9Ilumed tro
% orin the grave eOuncil are children sti
81 one who welcomes our coming, and ne
er forget us-never. And when, IN sol
'iA closet, some drawer, some corner, s
y ! indsa garments or a toy that once W
- ours, how does she weep as she thin
"a "a we may be suffering or sad, Does
a a battle,Of life drive the wandeFer to {
I'm old homestead at last her hands is up
"a his shoulder; her dim and fading ey
me arc filed with something of the light
ID other days as she gazes upon his we
'be and trOJ1bIe1 fSrf-s . TSs ,1p sfo7lf IssS