The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-07-01
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


The crops throughout North Carolini
have suffered great injury by recent
heavy rains.
Judge Touley, of Little Rock, Ar,
kansas, is urged for u. S. Senator n
place of Mcdonald.
} The soldiers of I" the Mexican war u
!. living in Jackson, Tenn, have formed
an association.
, Lynchburg should be the paradise OF
tobacco planters: Eleven pounds sold
there, the other day, for $137 so.
Two mules were stung to death by
bees at the residence of Mr.. Brown, a.,
near ThOmastown, Miss, a few days
since.
The new Methodist church in Allan
ia, Ga, is designed to seat 1000 per-
I sons, and will measure 96 by 81 feet.
Its estimated cost is $50, 0,O00.
Three Pennsylvanians have made
arrangements to- b in Savannah,
Ga, large man for the MAX
ing of chemical every descrip-
ton and quality
A young lady Of high standing in
Savannah, Ga, the other day entered
a drug store and purchased and swaI-
lowed dose of strychnine. Remedies
were. instantly applied and her life
| saved.
The proposition Os the City Council
of Mobile, by vote of all the members
of the two boards except three, to vote
! the bonds of the city to the amount of
$4,000 for the purpose of laying Mic
olson pavements has been defeated by
the popular vote.
The Cleburne Chronicle of johnson
county, Texas, says: "The number of
cattle driven from Texas this spring is
almost beyond calculation. Our friend
COltharp, living seventeen miles north
of this place, informs US that ONer -20O,-
600 head of cattle have passed his mouse,
this spring, going north"
Mrs. General Gaines has gained,
the Louisiana Federal Court, all
was conceded by the Supreme Co
the United States, and she Is
ing placed in possession ~
of the local Federal 'Coc.ls
There is quite a scramble for ths
sl1On of postmaster of Alexandria
There are seven principal con
tors, including the present incumbeIfe5
besides host OF smaller applicants tool
numerous to count"
There were killed on the plantation
of Samuel Cox, near Bainbridge, Ga,
on Sunday last, two rattlesnakes, one
of which measured in lengtla. nine feet,
weighed fifty pounds and lad sixteen
rattles-the other had thirteen rattles
and was seven feet long.
. The Augusta, Ga, canal is to be
thoroughly dredged and otherwise i'm
proved. With a sufficient supply of
water assured, the Augusta Factory
Company will erect an additional fac
InTGoU Ct
templates doing the same. The engi-
neer thinks the use of dredging ma
chine on the firstlevel of the canal will
increase the capacity of the factory
about five thousand spindles.
A writer in the Southern Cultivator
says: :" We need a Texas botany. Ney
species meet the eye constantly of
the leading orders. Sc Veral nat
clOvers (trOfOli1GD1), Oneof them bea
tiful pink, of which the bees are We
fond. IfsRpy knowledge of the scie4
were varied enough l would be tenn
ed to undertake the preparation of =.
botany myself'A
The proposition to build a great air
line railroad from Columbus via La
Grange and Rome, Ga, connecting at
Chattanooga with the great airline
from Cincinnati and the Northwest,
thus making the shortest route from
that section of the country to the sea-
board, extending down by Bainbridge
into Florida, is creating unbounded in
terest among the intelligent people
and capitalists along the whole line.
Two big Middle Tennesseans, the
other day, started off tn Xenia, Ohio,
with a few hundred dollars in their
pockets to purchase young shOrt-hOrn- |
0I ut Oh a.
near that town. The calf they fixed |
eyes on was put up at two thousand
dollars and knocked down at four. The |
Middle Tennesseans gathered up their |
mouths for a whistle, thrust their enOr-
nous fists into their breeches pockets |
and sloped. They arrived home with !
out a shOrt-horn. -
a ssl1ti tiemans named Sattewhite, y
yestIz1s J1as in Columbus, s. the !
other assy ,Sand stated thsses1s Wien he /
was tWenty-siX years old he formed
one of an escort of regiment of 200
cavalrymen to General Lafayette when
he passed through Columbia, South !
Carolina, and thence to that pleee the !
ground over which Lafayette walked |
was. cor p1etetK 15z4sF 4essFered with carpets.
sessfuI fair closed at San Anto
Mo, Texas, last week. The express Of |
that city has a glowing Occount of the |
display. Potatoes, three to the pound; |
ca6bages, four pounds each; onions,
nearly a pound each; pine-apples; to-
bacco; Norway oats; Texas hams; pre- |
served fruits; clover-seed; wild flowers;
beautiful necdle-work pictures; boots, |
shoes and saddles; gold and silver I
work, very fine; Guinea pigs; silk |
worms in every stage; hedge-grass and |
lager, and thousand other articles"
were on exhibition.