The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-05

Henry Martin ROule, agent oIF@oht
Montgomery and Mobile railroad, is
dead. S
TIE yield Of Wheat in portions of the
She -landoah Valley, in Virginia, is
light.
The examination of J. J. Clayton
for killing S. M. Myers in Aua lsta still
progresses.
The Natchez Miss Gymnasium So
/ ciety has formed itself into military
company.
Norfolk, Va, has voted net to sub
scribe a miIliou to the Norfolk and
Great Western road.
1t is proposed by a southern pIanter
to have a convention of planters in Oc-
tober or November, in Memphis.
The people of Cross Plains, Alat,
have met and deplored the hanging of
Lake and others there.
General Lee and his daughters are to
spend part of the summer at White
Sulphur Springs.
Thomas Arkwright has purchase
the Savannah Theatre and will improv
it for next season.
Governor Bullock was too i'll to Ikk
the negroes to celebrete the Fitteel
amendment in Atlanta.
On Monday last, Isaac Herrir
Stanley Valley, Hawkins cot
Tenn, was killed by lightning.
Captain Chas. A. Grice and David
Doddridge Fiske, Ian old editor ofi
Portsmouth, Va.,J are dead. -,
The Masonic Temple in Savannah
was damaged to the extent of fifteen
thousand dallars by the recent fire.
already gone to Washington to mis-
represent the hanging affair at Crof
Plains, Ala. -
A young man, near Center, Alan
was bi ten several times in his woodeHE
leg, the other day, by a snake, whicl
was subsequently killed.
Rev. @. w. Deems, of the Method
Episcopal Church South, father of Rd
DIR. Deems, of New York, died recent
in Baltimore.
San Antonio, Texas, now raises, not
more than mile -rOm its center, fruits,
such as peaches, apricOts, pears, straw
Oerries, figs, grapes, melons and ban
anas.
VIM. Clark, Esq, one of the oldest
and best citizens of East Tennessee,
died at the residence of his brOthe in
law, Major w. S. McEwen, on Tues,
day, the 18th inst.
JudgeCC ;hran, of AlbemarIe county,
Va, on Tuesday OverruIed the motion
for new trial, made by the counsel of
John II. Salmon, convicted of Murder
ing his mother and brother
The Tuscaloosa, Ala, Observer, says u
movement is on foot in that city, look
ing to the organization of q company
for the purchase of steamers to ply reg
ularly on the Warrior river, between
Tuscaloosa and points south.
Nearly all the Florida women substi-
tute palmetto work for knitting, as an
employment for leisure hours, and the
palmetto hats, baskets, etc, of st. Au-
gustine, are quite celebrated. A hat
which sells for 81 so may be braided by
slzillful fingers in less than one day.
Twenty acres of land, just below AU-
gusta, Ga, which was cleared and in
cultivation forty-four years ago, while
the Indians We're there, still produces a
bale Of cotton to the acre.
New Orleans wants some enterpris-
ing man, who knows how TO keep q
hotel, to take the st. Charles Hotel,
which is now vacant, and keep it first
class.
Stones patent tobacco rolling ma
chine, late invention, is now on eX-
hibitiOn at the factory of Mr.. Geo. a.
Burks, i'll Lynchburg. This machine
makes from 1000 to 200 70 5 of to-
baccO per hour.
John w. Hale killed a hundred
pound panther on Denton creek, Tex
as, and the Indians recently stOIe two
mares and colts from the widow Ross,
three ON Mr.. Pierce, one from Mr..
Pierce, one ON Mrs. DOdsOn, one
from Mr.. ChristiaI and two ON Tim
Moore.
The San Antonio (Texas) Express
reports Indians within q short distance
of that city. 1t says that on Monday
morning the news was brought tOtOwn
that Indians had been seen only seven
miles from there, a little way off the
CastroVille road.
Mr.. H. G. MoseIey, of Charlotte
county, Va, was burned to death on
Saturday last by the explosion of bar
rel of kerosene oil, which caught fire
from q lighted cal die he was carrying.
Mr.. MS little daughter, who was with
him, was also seriously burned.
General J. BanE'~ ad Magruder has
been appointed | MT of the d" La
dies Memorial A, alton of Freder-
icksburg, Va" for Texas, to solicit
SUI CIlpIIOLS LOIeI1O We anu ICiIlI0L INC
remains of the Confederate dead i'll
" 'ginia; and Bishop Gregg has ad-
dressed q leo,er to the different EpiscO-
pal pastors recommending the move
ment.
The wheat has been harvested in
Northern Texas and the yield is large {;
| the corn and cotton are much better
| than last year, while vegetables, grapes
and '.IitS are abundant Two hun
| dred thousand head of cattle will go
! from the counties of Northern Texas
this year. Northern Texas has export
ed during the season, produce to the
value of 10000.