The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-10-26
NEWS SUMMARY.

full tide Of business.
In North Carolina the penitenti-
airy is popularity known as the Union
League Hotel
The stockholders Of ths Nash
vile aud Decatur railroad viii hold
their regular annual meeting II
Nashville November Is.
Let the youth who stands with
glass ofHquor in his hand consider
which he had better throw away
the liquor or himself
The Commercial Advertiser states
the total loss of insurance compa-
MES by the Chicago fire At so, 74o,-
600.
The Chicago Journal has a list,
nearly a column. long, of missing
persons, nos Is women and chill
dren.
A Pottsville, Pa, hen has hstched
two eagles. The eggs were found
by a man in the woods, who sup
posed them to be turkey eggs, and
placed them under his hen.
BIr. Cowles the publisher Of the.
Chicago Tribune, says that a fire
proof building is a humbug, which
it certainly is in a fire hot enough
to melt great masses Of iron.
Gen Banoch of the Freedmen 5
Bureau has stolen some two hun
dred and fifty thousand OF the peo-
pies money. He is ''loiP' Lower
or, and It is all right.
Intelligence from Yorkville, S. G.
is to the effect that quite a number
OF the prominent citizens Of that
section have left the country, os-
tensibly on business, but really to
escape martial Law.
Robert Beatty col. will be hung in
Columbia, on the 10th day of No
vember, for numbering his wife
The Nashville Banner says it will
be the first legal hanging in that
county for thirty years.
The business of the Chicago
Board of Trade has been fairly re-
sumed; the purchase and sale OF
grain is going on as if nothing had
happened, and the receipts and
shipm ents of grain are very heavy.
equal to any previous time.
The crops on the Texas frontier
are very fair, an abundance OF
bread. tufts having been gained
the people are now busy putting in
4 heavy wheat crop. Were it not
for Indian disturbances and high
taxes, the people on the frontier
would be in a very good condition.
In the Circuit Court of Knox
county some time ago. verdict
was rendered in the libel suit oi
John Baxter against Sanders &
! Clark, newspaper publishers, fol
| $27, 900 damages for publishing the
speech of General Mabry denunci-
atory of Baxter, the Supreme Court
now in session at Knoxville revers
Is the decision and remands thC
case for new trial.
! Leading Republicans attribute
their defeat in Texas to bad roads
Having only four days in which tC
| trar sport their voters from on5
precinct to another, they were un
able to vote often enough to win
If the election had lasted another
week, they would have shown :
different result; but four days was
/ to short, especially as military trans
portation is VIGOROUSLY slow.
The Wilmington n. c. Star, Con
sentative, says of tn, Presidency
Common sense and patriotism viii
nominate and elect a Groesbeck, :
Gratz Brown, a Hancock or al
Adams. But tits by their platform
and not so much by their nominee
that the Democracy will triumph
No such platform must be made a
that Of '6S. 1t wonld be so rickety
aud heavy, that it would fall anl
bury the Democracy and Con
sevatism beneath its ruins in one
red burial blent.
The English have been for some
] years sadly worried by estimates
that indicate the exhaustion oil
their supplies of coal within a cen
fury or two. And now some pro
fessor of hard facts comes to tn,
front with the assurance that ever
the vast extent Of our American
forests cannot long hold out against
the enormous consumption Of wood
More than one hundred anC
fifty thousand acres OF our hes
timber, he says, are devasted every
year to supply the demand for rail
way sleopers alone; and the loco
motives now in use consume tn
product Of double that area.