The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-19
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city, is failure. One of the main
reasons is that it didn't belong to the
donor.
The conductor of the train which
carried the Iowa editors from LeGven-
worth was robbed of his memoran-
I dun book and money.
1t is said that the excuse of the
! murderer of General Buell. at Leaven-
worth for the deed was that the Off
Ger had kept HIM i'll the sweat-box for
nine hours.
A piece of lead ore from point OH
the Georgia railroad, about fifty miles
from Atlanta, has been analyzed and
found to contain 50 per cent of the
pure metal.
The cotton crop in Southwest Geor-
gia, it is said, will fall far below an
average. The weed is small, diseased,
and poorly fruitful. The army worm
is creating great havoc.
There is a young gentleman in
Knoxville who wishes to form a mat
rimonial alliance, but is deferred on
account of the expense he imagines
attaches to q state of double, blessed
ness.
A COrnCraCker, at q LeaVenwOrth,
Kansas, hotel the other day4ate green
corn until the cobs place6bwith the
ends together formed string as long
as himself. The burial expenses were
paid by the county.
The tournament exercises are alb
sOrbing considerable attention from
the young men of Atlanta. Fine hor-
ses and sabres are in active demand.
One day last week a man named
Black, residing at Gallatin, Mo, had
made his arrangements to go out hunt !
ing; and, taking his gun down, was
handling it, when his foot in some4
way pulled back the lock and the wea-
pom was discharged. The load went,
directly into the unfortunate man
mouth, passing out at the DactS Of m
head. Buried next day. ~
+ A very sad accident occurred near
{McCOw6n's Mill, in Monroe county,
Georgia, last Monday. An old lady,
Mrs. Cochran, was being moved to
her sons house. In going down a
very steep hill, the cart ran into Il
rut in the road, and threw her out--a
part of her clothing catching over the
holding her Immediately
under the wheel, which ran oyer aud
killed her.
On Friday last Blythe Barlow, one
of the mlrderers of old man McClos-
Ky, paid the penalty of his awful
crime at Griffin, Ga. He was private
ly hung at noon by Sheriff Connell,
assisted by 4 deputy aPd. assistants.
He died very hard, it beng one hour
and ten minutes after the drop fell be-
fore the heart ceased to beat. He OBJ
stinately refused to make any con-
tfessiOn.
An old murder has come to light at
/ Norfolk, Va. The journal of that
iplace says: During the war n soldier
was murdered near the old race
course, on the road to Peddle's Rest,
and robbed of about $3.50. A letter
has been received in this city, giving
n full account of the murder, which
says that detectives have been put
upon the track of the guilty parties"
It appears that the party murdered
was of good family, but wildly dis
posed, and his relations are determin-
ed to do all in their power to bring
the guilty parties to justice, whoever
they may be.
Au amusing incident occurred at
circus exhibition at Knoxville the
other night. The elephant got loose
OH the side devoted to the colored
people. The sudden darkness, caused
by the great chandelier lights being
eXtinguished, did not tend to lesson
the fear which had seized the audi
ence, who were hurrying helter-skel-
ter out in the torrents of rain, any
where away from the dreaded ele-
phant and the danger. One young
fellow cut his way out through the
canvas, and suddenly found himself
i'll the creek up to his neck, His
shouts, after awhile, attracted the at
tentiOn of some passer by and he was
rescued from his perilous condition.