The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-07-08
assEERN NEWS ITEMS.

Exec0s1Se.- he subordinate officers to
be elective.
A negro woman has been appointed
postmaster az Jackson, La.
A great religious revival is going on
in Jefferson, Texas.
The number of cattle going North
ward from Texas is enormous and in-
creasing daily.
The report of yellow fever in New
Orleans is erroneous, and is contradict
ed by the press and Board of Health,
of that city.
Whiskey sold at Waco, Texas, is so
bad that even MeXicans refuse to drink
it.
Augusta, Ga, has been sued bya firm
in that city for damages incurred by a
mob, amOuntiya< in the aggregate to
$43, ,727 40.
The real men of Memphis,
Fem, see busier than any other
class o. nercial community.
A old mine has been dis
cover land of Mr.. Harvey, in
Appel unity, Va. Several hun
dreZr b of gold has been ta-
ke1fq
Hon. gfall, of Texas, has
bought No. 8, est of the Seaton lode,
in Colorado, and gone to work. He is
putting up residence, and boarding.
house for his miners.
Col. George w. Brent, of Va, once
Bragg's A. A. g., has recovered from
the injuries received in the late Rich
mOnd courthouse disaster.
j. G. Stanton, Superintendent of the
Alabama and Chattanooga railroad,
has ordered fifteen hundred Chinese la
borers to work on that road.
The largest cotton sale Of the season
for Galveston, Texas, was made on the
l4th inst, reaching 5000 bales, and
selling upon basis of lie for good or
dinary.
Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, offers
to give five hundred dollars towards
the fifteen hundred needed to establish
a new parish in Atlanta, Ga.
The Selma (Ala.) Argus mentions
Colonel Hiram Hawkins, of Eufaula,
who was Colonel of the Sixth Kentucky
regiment, for Lieutenant Governor.
Judge NJ. Q. Lane, Of GreeDeville,
Ala, who has been ill for more than q
year, has resumed the practice of the
law, his health being perfectly restored.
The late showers have reached near
iSly all parts of Louisiana, deluging some
places and dealing out rather sparingly
to others. The crop prospects are fa-
vOrable.
The prospect of a railroad from
NatcheZ to Jackson was never brigh-
ter. The Natchez Committee has COM
! pleted its work uDder the most auspi-
! cious circumstances.
A bill has passed the Virginia Iegis-
lature for the benefit of the bank of the
Old Dominion. The amount of notes
now outstanding of the institution is
about $21 600.
Lieutenant General A. p. Stuart,
who commanded corps of JOhnstOn's
army, is in Montgomery, Ala, on bu-
sineSS.
David Pound, indicted for the muir
der Of John D. Harrison in February
last, has been tried in the Wilkes cOun-
ty superior court, of Ga, and a verdict
of guilty rendered. The counsel for the
| defense have moved for a new trial.
The Jacksonville (Ala) Republican
says: "We were shown yesterday, by
| Wallace Woodward, a head of wheat
| containing twelve mashes on d side.
| the majority containing five grains,
and one from which six perfectly form
ed grains were carefully counted in
| presence of several witnesses"
The crazy woman who has so long
haunted Hollywood cemetery, Rich
mOnd, Va, has been taken by the Su-
perintendent Of the Asylum there. The
! poor creature had dug a hole in the
! grave of her lover, and night after
nigh: made her bed there, and resisted,
with all the strength of madness, all
attempts to remove her.
r. S. Morse, the proprietor of the city
and st. James hotels in New Orleans,
is feeding his guests on the refrigerated
beef brought from Texas, much to their
satisfaction. He says that it keeps
longer and better than beef slaughter
ed and treated in the ordinary way i'll
New Orleans. AS for juiciness and ex-
cellence of flavor, he says it is superior
to New Orleans slaughtered meat, and
worth more to the consumer.
The mother of Tom Bee (coIOred, of
| Corpus Christi, Texas, died last week.
| She was born in Virginia in 1877, and
was one hundred and sixty~three years
| old at the time of her death. She was
! a servant of Washington's mother, but
had never "nursed George" and had
only lived in Texas fifty years.