The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-12-16
Southern NEWS ITEMS.

Capt. John n. Maffatt, Of the Con-
fcderate cruiser Florida, was married
at Wilmington, North Carolina, last
week, to Miss Emma II. Martin.
The fire at the Varieties Theater, New
Orleans. burned up all the WardrObes
of the actors, besides the $1,000 cos
tunes for the Christmas spectacular.
There is an agency in San Antonio,
Texas, for the Introduction of agricul-
tural laborers and domestic servants
from the British isles.
There are five hundred and twenty
natriculates at the University of Viz
ginia, being greater number than ever
matriculated at any one session before
or since the war.
The North Carolina Conference of
the NJ. Z. Church South, which met in
Greensboro on the Esd ult., had very
harmonious session, and got through a
good deal Of work pertaining TO the
GOOD of the church in the bounds Of the
Conference.
The Austin (Texas) Journal learns
that from Waco to Dallas continuous
stream of immigrant trains is rolling
forward, chiefly to Johnson, Hill, Bell
and adjoining counties. Many had To-
Gated in Collin county. Six hundred
and fifty wagons We're recently count
ed between Waco and Dallas, and du-
ring a three days stay at the latter city
recently a gentleman counted more
than three hundred and fifty passing
through, making total of 1000 Wag-
ons, mostly freighted with families in
search of Texas homes.
The New Orleans Pickayune says:
1.-THE experiment by Gen. Beauregard,
President of the CarroltOn Railroad
IF tho traction evafnTg1 for
propelling street cars was satisfactory.
The car ran to and fro very smoothly
indeed, being made to go fast or slow at
will. 1t remains to be seen whether
the system will work on long line
with large number of cars"
California is the only State that re-
ports an increased acreage in hops.
Ohio claims an undiminished acreage,
but all the other hep growing regi-
ons show decline of five to fifteen
per cent,-Wiscohsin ten, Michigan
fifteen. The condition at date Of re-
porting was generally five to fifteen
per cent, below all average.
An enterprising Yankee, living in
Arkansas, having an eye to the future
gives the following account of his agri-
cultural plans and actions: 81 I am
planting 100 acres with Walnuts. What
will they be worth in twenty years
Each acre will have at least $50 trees,
making %, 000in all. For lumber, ties,
fence posts or fuel, three dollars pei
tree may certainly be called a very
small figure, which will give nearly
100000. Can anything be planted on
that same land which will pay as large
a return? And all the labor required i
breaking up the land and planting
What is said of the Walnut is equally
true of the pine, which in fifty years
will be 100 feet high and three feet il
diameter"
Mr.. English, the keeper of the Yves
tern pike toll-gate leading from Alex
andria to Fairfax, in Alexandria coun
ty, Virginia, who was bitten last sum
mer by a dog supposed to be suffering
with hydrOphobia, and upon whom
that terrible disease was recently de
Veloped, died last Wednesday evening
about six o'clock from exhaustion ate
the most intense suffering. The deceas
ed was bitten in August last through
the hand, and at the same time hi
wife and the children were also bittel
by the dog, which was a pet in tn
house. Mrs. English and the children
were bitten in portions of their person
under their clothing, and thus far the.
have shown no symptoms of the dis
case. lie pnyslCldilS lllet6IOIG llllu
it probable that the clothing thrOugl
which the dogs teeth passed IN thes
cases may have renewed the poison
and preventing them from contraetin
the frightful disease. Mr.. English die
in the most terrible agony. In his luci
intervals, feeling the spasms comm
on, he would notify all to leave him
The united efforts of four men weT
required to control him, and they wer
finally compelled to chain him to til
floor.