The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-06-24
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SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.

The colored Masons OF Newbern, n.
c., are building Lodge.
Water in Indianoli, Texas, is worth
dollar bucketful.
The rolling mill at Rome, Ga, IS en-
gagged in making railroad spikes.
The trade of Raleigh, N. c. has in
creased one hundred per cent. since the
war.
The Marion, Ala. Comm cR1ge"'th,
boast of subscriber who has paid for
his paper thirty years ~ ady ance.
The depot at Durant, Miss, was set
on fire by tightening the other day, in
the Telegraph office.
With three thousand citizens, Col
umbus, Texas, has but one church
building, and not an ordained minister
in the town.
The winner of the piano, lie Nash
vile Confederate orphan Concert
gave $50 to the COnfedea ms and
$25 each to the Catholic estant
Orphans Asylums.
There are over hundred and fifty
applications for admission to the GeOr-
gia Lunatic Asylum, and not a spare
room in the house.
Jacksonville is now the largest city
III Florida, having about nine thousand
inhabitants. At the close of the war
it contained about two thousand.
Charles MOsely, who was charged
Yith an attempt upon the life of Geo.
Beck, some weeks ago. has escaped
from Jail at ScOba, Miss.
The Memphis and Charleston Rail
road Company has commenced the
construction of cOmmOdiOus depot at
Chattanooga.
The corner stone of the first Jewish
synagogue in Texas, was laid in Gan
weston on Thursday, by the Grand
Lodge of Free masons.
Colonel Egbert, formerly chief of
police of Richmond, by military ap-
pointment, has received an appoint-.
ment in the secret service of the Trsa
ury Department.
An adjourned meeting of tIle~r4ef1-
bers of the 18th, 10th, 10Th and 4Sth
Mississippi regiments Ofinfantry, which
composed Harris brigade at the close
of the war, was held in Vicksburg re-
Gently.
At a meeting recently held in Gala
tin, Mo-, to make arrangements for
soldiers reunion on the 4th of July, it
was agreed to have q general celebra-
ton, open to all citizens, irrespective of
past political affiliations.
The act defining the duties of the
Commissioner of Immigration, Just
passed the Mississippi Legislature, al
lows a salary of s., 500 and 81 Geo trav-
cling expenses.
It is understood that the committee
appointed by the Memphis Ge .eraI
Council to consider the subject will re-
port in favor of a subscription of $780,
600 to General Forests road.
A lady named Mrs. Brown, near
Huntsville, Ala, gavehe sick mother
dose OF poison III mistake, which put
such sudden quietus on the old lady
that the daughter died from the neI-
YOus shock.
A fatal difficulty occurred in Pollard;
Escambia county, Ala, recently be-
erly OF ConecuA county, in which L D.
Johnson, eX-sheriff, found his death by
the hands Of Major Bill Loveless.
A mad dog passed Trough Warren
ton, Va, few days SINCE, and bit sew
eral other dogs, Whereupon the Mayor
of that town issued his proclamation
ordering the immediate destruction of
every animal of the canine species
which has the temerity to make its ap-
pearance on the street without a muZ-
zle.
One hundred and twenty one dollars
were rooted up a few days ago in a pig
pen near Sparta, Buchanan county,
Mo-, which proved to be the property
of Samuel Gam, who buried it during
the war. He thus invested about 81
200 in gold, and is still out about 500,
of which he has forgotten the locality.
The celebrated pacing horse Wyan-
dOtte Chief, died in st. Louis a few davs
ago. The Chief was one of the noted
PAGERS OF the West, having in his time
beaten Ace-of-Diamonds and DilIy
BOyce, to wagons, in two minutes and
CWenty-nlne seconds. He was ten
years old and valued at So, 600.
DIR. Thomas Smith, of Charleston, S.
Carolina, was deprived of the power Of
speech about three months ago by q
paralytlc stroke; but, with character
istic energy and determination. he
! commenced Immediately to train Ghis
vocal organs as if he We're a child learn
ing for the first time to speak, and by
dlnt on severing effort, he is now
able to express himself intelligibly in
private.
Governor Senter of Tennessee, has
informed the editor of the CHATTANOOGA
LINES, that any law to repudiate any
OF the bonds of the State will have to
be passed by Il tWO-thirds vote over his
veto. He also says he has never issued
bonds to any railroad without first hay
ing the opinion of the Attorney Gen
era1 of the State as to the legality of
| issuing them.
/ The house of r. w. Phillips & Co.,
/ OF Macon, Miss, was entered on Thurs
day night last, by boring the shutter OF
a back window, the safe opened and
/ PIG abstracteu, about half of it be-
! ing. gold. A pistol belonging to the
! Junior proprietor and a gold watch
/ placed there on deposit were also taken,
and, strange to say, a considerable
amount Of money on the shelves of the
safe was untouched. There were no
marks of violence about the safe, the
lock apparently having been easily
opened.
A correspondent furnishes the Knox
! vile (Tenn.) Press and Herald with
! the following piece of natural history
Z" One day last week James NJ. Lay
nance and his son were making rails
OF a large Spanish OAK, about four feet
through; when opening the butt cut a
toad frog was found in the heart of the
log, and about five feet from the stumr
end. A perfect bed was formed in the
/ log where the frog lay, but there was
no hollow, wind shake or worm hole
in the log, which was perfectly sound
and very hard.
1t has just cost a man months i'm.
/ prisOnment in London to walk the