The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-04-29
SUNDRIES.

4 600.
4 New Hampshire has now eight daily
= papers.
Savannah sent 7O, ,OOO shad North thi.
, season.
Almost every college in the country
now has its newspaper.
Ohio has twenty-five different female
suffrage associations.
Nearly 700 Philadelphia girls were
married to foreigners last year.
The aggregate debt of the cities AID
towns Of Massachusetts is nearly S35,-
100000.
Napoleon calls the 10 ysaschoolmas-
ters in his Empire " tn c army
of France
One hundred and fifteeh-y0nlen are
at present sutors for divorce in the In
diana courts.
Farmers in North Carolina are plan
ting corn with view of making
b cad by the first of August. -
Alabama has 9I6 miles OF railroad,
the total assessed value of which is S11,-
/ 095, ,701.
About twelve hundred persons visit
the New York pneumatic tunnel un-
Sder Broadway, daily.
The Odd Fellows in the United States,
according to a late enumeration, are
somthing over 250,0 strong.
There is a stone house at Dunsback
/ ferry, Saratoga county, \. Y, now Oc-
cupied by a family, which was built in
1717.
a hotel building i'll Meadow Lake,
/ Nevada county, Cal, which cost Origi-
nally $4,000, was sold at auction a few
days ago for s..
The Chinese laborers on the Tex
Central railroad drink no water dur
/ the day, but keep one hand busy Hsdti--
/ ing around tea.
There were recently confined in the
/ Ienitentiary at Joliet, ILL.,, 1872, con-
victs, the largest number that had ever
been cOngregated there at one time
Reuben Miller, of Springfield, Ohio.
who is seventy-five years old, has kent
a diary in verse for the last half centiI-
ry-and it contains over eighteen thou
sand items.
\ maiden lady, ninety-three,year
old, appeared as defendant in Sfassa-
chusettsl Court a few days ago, and
when it was decided that she must paw
Il servant Sl1, SO, claimed as wages due,
seemed not all disconcerted.
One of the passengers on the Golden
City at the time she was wrecked on
the coast of California, has sued the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company for
$4,000 for the privations he endured in
consequence of the disaster
An Eastern paper says that the verb
" to interview, y denounced by purits as
an American, was so employed in En-
gland III the EliZabethan era, and can
claim higherantiGuityt than themoun,
which Is used without hesitation.
"A Cincinnati paper insinuates that
the officers of feTry-bOat made. no eff
fort TO save man who fell overheard
the other nigh until they found out he
had not paid his fare. They made a
desperate dive for him and the two
cents, then.
Your milk 80 asked a Pittstield, Massa- /
chusetts, man of boy who delivers I
milk on one of the milk routes. We !
don't put any water i'll it," replied the /
boy. =" What do you put in it, then ~ /
lee" said the candid youth. - /
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist /
Episcopal Church, gave the following |
advice to class of deacOns ordained !
by him in Philadelphia on recent /
sunday; Don't eat late suppers. [ /
have found that nine out of ten minis .
ters who eat after preaching die early" .
\ man in England, named Gilman. /
has been fined $50 for kissing a widow. /
He admitted that he had often kissed |
her. This, however, he averred, could /
mean nothing, as he had kissed the /
daughter at the same time, and had /
been in the habit, indeed, of " kissing /
the family all round"
The English Society for the Suppress
sion gt Vcc has destroyed 129, ,6S1 indie |
cents prints, 1920 illustrated books, !
five tons OF letter press of the same |
sort, 1905 sheets of songs, besides cop /
perplates, printing presses, &c. The
funds OF the society are contributed by /
private individuals, and each pr0secU- |
tiOn cost $50.
TheN4Enneapolis Mimi Tribune /
says a shoemaker of that city, ''has re- |
ceived an order for pair of boots, the |
measure sent being - inches in length !
by u across the slab of the foot. If
made up, in size, they would be about /.
No. p. The dealer was unable to fur
uish them from the store, but is negO-
tiating for a contract"
The Detroit Jrib,uc says; - \ very
important suit has just been decided in
the Circuit Court at Adrian, Mich. 1t !
is the recovery, by the wife OF drunk I
ard, of the money paid by her husband,
during tie past SIX years, to a saloon
keeper, Judgment being entered against
the unlawful seller under the prOVis-
inS Of PrOhIbitary Liquor Law of the
state. This is the first suit Of the kind
that we TecOllect of, but, under the law,
the recovery Of all money 50 paid by
the parties to whom it originally be-
lOnged is UnqueStiOably possible, the
ground being that it was paid without
consideration, liquor not being proper
ty.'
The San Francisco 4Uu is response
ble for this statement Z" y crab, meas
uriug thirteen feet from point to point
Of claws, and weighing some forty
pounds, has been brought to this city
from Yokohama, by the last steamer. I
1t was obtained by a gentleman from
some Japanese fisherman, who cap
tured it last month upon the wreck of
the United States corvette Oneida, re-
Gently sunk in the Bay of Kanagawa,
by collision with the steamer Bombay.
The formation of the legs claws, cara
pax and mouth presents marked differ
ence from those of the common crab,
having prOtruding tusks, and the ends
of the claws being armed with rows Of
teeth
Rev. y. G. Bycrs, Chaplain Of the
Ohio Penitentiary, in Il sermon before
the cOnvicts on a recent Sunday, gave
the following interesting statistics of
that institution: "!Since October 9, IS
81, ,, 120 persons have been received ut
the penitentiary, and /, ,3S4 discharged
2l2 were pardoned, and 81 had died p
per cent. of the men received We're un-
der Il years Of age; % per cent. We're
( glnaf{I1so tod % ganf
who as boys, had run away from home
Il nnr cent had never Iearned a trade