The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-09-30
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

Under the new charter of San An
tonic, Texas, ali species of gaming is
forbidded.
The drinking public of Montgomery
3 starving to death-nOt a drop of
lager III the city.
The census reveals the fact that
there are great many more marriage
able young gentlss2en than voting la
dies in the Bluff City. .a.s.s
Atlanta, Ga, is in trouble over the
proposed sale and cl0sisg up of the
Railroad Park in center Of that city.
The new Raleigh, IN. C.) market
house cost the city some 100000 It's
rents amount to about $4,000, 2,l00
Of which goes to pay the market
officers.
On the 9Th INST the infant child of
Mr.. r. L. Trice, a prominent merch-
ant of Verona, Miss, was thrown in
to a cistern and drowned by its nurse,
who had become tired of her charge.
During the last commercial year
25,000 bales of cotton were shipped
from Memphis to Liverpool direct, by
the National Steamship Line, the
agent in that city giving through bills
lading. A large increase is expected
this year.
On tho morning OF the Sd, two fish
ermen caught III the river, near IIaw-.
kinsTille, GA, the largest sturgeon.
that has ever been brought to that
town within the memory Of some of
its oldest citizens. This huge fish was
thought to weigh considerable over
300 pounds.
There was a cat in Kansas City that
gave gratuitQus screnades toe sCnti-
me- people and then took its pay
from the laFdcr of its disGustcd audi
tors. a man the other night killed
it, its owner killed the man, and now
the law is about TO sIay the owner.
New Orleans hasa street-sweeping
machine which was tested on Thurs
day afternoon on Canal street, on that
part of the main thoroughfare where
It reaches from sidewalk. 1t cleaned
about ten feet at a time, and by re
peated sWeepings collected the dirt at
each end of the street.
T. W. Evans, the jailer and deputy
sheriff at OpelOusas, La, was summar-
lily executed by citizens, o fewldays
ago, for numbering Col J. c. Hays in
the Jail at that place. Hays was fire.
quently. warned against Evans, who
was showing much apparent kindness
ito his prisoner, but refused TO enter
tain any suspicious. .-f
The fair Of the State Agricultural
Society of Georgia will be held at
OglethrOpe Park, Atlanta, beginning
Wednesday, October 18th, and-closing
Saturday, OrtOber, 2Sth. The society
have taken great rains and expense to
make this fair at Atlanta eclipse all
former ones. and from the many in
,ducemeuts held out we anticipate as
much.
While playing.pozer in New Orl-
cans, Mr.. O'Neil got four aces and q
king, and bet hundred d0fiars, and
because Mr.. Smith g called" him and
showed five aces, the former gentle.
man carved him with knife. Most
, all the gamblers attended the funeral
and by their, presence showed thai
they approved of having nine aces il
a pack Of cards. ..
Isaac Bull, one of the defenders o.
Baltimore in 1914, died at his resi-
. dence, near ChestertoWn, Nd, on thu
I1th inst, aged seventy-eight years
He had been in the habit Of dining
! with his brother veterans on the 12tl
of September for years past, but abou
the time the remnant Of the gallan
band were dining on Monday the re
mains of the deceased were being con
signed TO the tomb.