The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-06-10

who have infested every county in this
State, as the diminished pockets OF
many farmer will attest. In their
operations, money has not been their
object, but the II e prOmissOry-
notes of response have been.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
Macon and Brunswick, Ga, are uni
ted by telegraph.
One cigar factory in Atlanta employs
twenty-five hands.
A new town hall and Masonic hall
are to be erected in Washington, Ga.
The Good Templars of Jackson,
Ala, want a dispensation to drink Ia
ger.
The President has nominated Chas.
G. Grove, of Alabama, for Secretary
of Utah.
Peyton Lyle, an old citizen of Mon
roe county, Miss, died suddenly one
! day last week.
The poor house farm of Prairie coun-
ty, Arkansas, was sold rCcentlS lla0saHI'
an execution.
The Bainbridge (Ga.) San says q
least forty additional houses are neeG
to complete that town.
An accident on the South q
Railroad, on Saturday last
smashing four carload Sc
The coffin business is Wfecenedly
at Macon, Ga, and undeTtakers ia
emigrating.
Canton, Mississippi, saloon kee
charge two bits per charge for rife.
whisky.
A woman near Corpus Christi, Tex
as, gave birth recently to one male and
three female children! All are doing
as well, etc.,
The Virginia House of Bs9egates has
passed bill providing artificial limbs
for citizens Of the Commonwealth who
lost their limgs in the late war.
The Grenada, (Miss.) Sentinel bases
it's prOgnostics of the future greatness
of that village, on the fact that there
were four burglaries perpetrated with
in it's limits last week.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, is in daily
expectation of the arrival of two dis
tinguished visitOrs-Jim Fiske, Jr., and
Heenan, the Benicia Roy. How is
that for high?
The steam mill Ot Messrs. Eskridge
and Dale, one mile east of Charleston,
Mississippi, was destroyed by fire
Gently, and is q total loss. The
was the result of accident.
A convention of all the counties
terested in what is called the Boz
Road is called to meet at BentOnv
Ark, on the 9th of June.
The Gate Citg laundry, in ATTAIN.
Ga, was destrOyNd by fire on Tuesday,
involving a loss of Sc, 900. The con-
Germ had just been put in operation.
An alligator-gar seven and q half
feet long, and weighing one hundred
and fifty pounds, was caught in the
Bigbee river, near DemOpOlis, last
week.
Policeman Hester shot and killed S.
NJ. Mccoy, of Howard, in Calvert,
Texas, on Thursday last. The citizens
think it a cold-blOOded murder.
Rev. Father Ryan, the distinguished
Catholic divine, preached his farewell
sermon in Augusta, Ga, on Sunday
last, and will leave on Saturday for
Europe.
The cultivation of fruit in the vicini-
ty of Norfolk, Va, has become almost
entirely limited to Strawberries. The
extensive peach-Orchards of former
years have died out and no pains taken
to replace them. The number of acres
in Strawberries this season is represent
ed to be about twelve hundred.
The West Point (Ga.) Shield says
there is great complaint among the
farmers on account of poor. stands of
cotton, it having failed to come up on
account of the dry weatheA The
stand of corn is pretty good, but it is
suffering for rain. The Oat crop, on
aGc&ht of the drouth, will prove q
failure, even should rain come imme-
diately. Wheat is also suffering.
The coIored people OF Richmond are
much disturbed by their failure to hear
from their brethren who have emigra-
ted to the South to work on railroads
and in the cotton fields. They imag-
inc all kinds of dreadful things. The
cOlored churches have taken the mat
ter in hand, and it is proposed to send
a commission through the Southern
country to discover what is the real
fate Of the lost tribe that has .ndered
away.
Mr.. J. B. Jeup, President of the Ten
nessee Homestead Association, has
! bought, in the aggregate, $4,000 acres
of land I'm Tennessee, settled fOrty-ffVe
! families, and made provision for three
| hundred German families altogether.
! The immigration comes from the farm
ing districts Of Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nOis, and sOmo Of it from Europe di-
| rect. The settlements are chiefly in
Lawrence, Lewis and Giles counties,
and the pursuits Of the immigrants are
mainly fruit culture and raising OF
! stock.
Peter Shine, sable representative OF
the colOTed aFistocFacy OF South Caro-
lima, was arrested in Savannah on Sat
urday and committed to jail by Justice
Jones upon n charge of cheating and
i swindling. Peter was very indignant
at such treatment, and suggested that
such an outrage would not be tolerated
hy the loyal people of South Carolina,
and said that the Militia would make
short work in such case. Peter halls
from the Beaufort district, where he
holds the important position of County
Sheriff.
1--WE need" says the Huntsville
! (AIa.) Democrat, "at least one cotton
. and wool factory here in Huntsville, {
paper factory, a factory of cOOper's
ware, shingle factory, an establish
lnent for seasoning wood by kiln-dTy
: ing for the various purposes of cabinet
! work, hOuse-building, and carriage anC
r wagOn-making. For these and every
, one of these enterprises there is ~
: opening the raw materials and facili-
2 ties of manufacture are at hand or ca,
) SHY available, the demand for the fab
e RIGS great, the markets certain ant
S easy of access"