The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-03-02
NEWS SUMMARY.


The demands made by Germany
on France have produced a pain
ful impression in the Cabinets of
London, Vienna and st. Petersburg.
Patrick Roper, of Memphis,
crushed the skull of J. J..Carrol Of
that place a few days ago by strik-
ing him with a heavy weight.
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At st. Louis, not long since, a
couple of rural individuals we're
walking along the lcvee. Some of
the scwer-mouths were exposed,
and a few Of the smaller ones were
broken down, so that they looked
like natural springs One of the
countrymen, who was walking in
front of the others, suddenly called
out, Look here, Jim, here's anoth-
er spring" "Well, gaul darn it, >
replied Jim, "if the water is no bet
ter in this one than in the last one,
don't want to drink from it."
Ben Seaman, a former resident of
Nashville, and at one time a cap
tain in the Federal army, was muir
dered about ten miles from that city
a few days ago. He was carrying
to his home a stock of goods, and
on the way had an alteration with
a negro, who, it is supposed, is the
murderer. The murderer threw the
body OF his victim into the Cum
berland river.
Mrs. Maria GLENN, who died in
Baltimore on the 18th inst, at the
age Of eighty-one years, was the
mother-in-law and aunt of Edgar
A. Poe. It was to her that, after
the death of his wife, he addressed
the sonnet, ITO My Mother" which,
with the exception of an obscurity
in the last line, may be regarded as
one of his most exquisite compost
tions.
Rev. j. r. Graves, an elder in the
Baptist Church, in a recent sermon
at Brownsville, Tenn, denied that
there has ever been such a thing as
a priest. He stated "that man to
be priest must be utterly without
sin and have immortal life, and be
always in the presence of God, and
therefore there never could have
been but one priest, viz: Jesus
Christ, and that all others were, per
consequence, miserable imposters."
They have had a great snow in
Texas. The Paris Examiner says
of it: "A snow storm of unheard
of magnitude and violence began on
the night of the 18th inst, and last
ed until last Saturday evening, COW
ering the earth to an average depth
of some six inches. The greater
part of the snow is still (l9th) on
the ground, and the cold, with but
brief intervals, has been intense all
the time. The memory of the old
est inhabitants cannet recall a sim
liar spell of weather"
The Memphis Appeal says: "a
regular system of annoying, and
of robbing planters has been inau-
gurated, it is said, by persons living
here, Cotton shipped to merchants
is attached by negroes, bogus bonds
are given, and writs of replevin are
issued, the cotton is nabbed by con
stables, costs are emptied into the
Justices till, the cotton is spirited
away, and the spoils are shared by
the plaintiff and shysters. Such
is the story told by the planters
from below, who say they can't send
cotton to a place cursed by the
presence of such administrators of
public Justice
4 man was bitten by e mad-dOg
in St. Joseph, Mo-, a few days ago.
and a maidstone applied to the
wound. On being placed within a
couple of inches of the patients
flesh, the stone, seemingly attracted
by an irresistible magnetic inau-
ence, attached itself at once to the
flesh, and could not be removed un-
Isl it was completely filed with 4
substance supposed to be poison
The patient at the same time com
planned of singular tinglihg sen
sation of the skin. which finally ex-
tended throughout the system. The
stone, on being tested on other per
sons. seemed to have no effect what
ever.
The Gonzales. Texas, Enquirer
says: For the year ending Dec.
u. 1870. the number Of cattle ex-
/ ported from Gonzales county to
foreign markets was 2,S64 The
revenue realized by our citizens By
the sale CT this kind of stock alone
has been fully IS much as from the
entire cotton crop Of the county,
although the latter was the best we
have made since the war. Indeed,
when we consider the revenue arts
ing from the sale Of horses, hides,
wool. etc, in connection with that
from onr beef cattle. the great sta