The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-09-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Pennsylvania Central has
leased the Atlanta and West Point
railroad.
Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons meet on the first Tuesday
in November, 1874, at Nashville,
Tenn.
Eighty-five rum mills are in sue
cessfuI operation at Raleigh North
Carolina.
Ofthe fifty-eight persons in Jail
at Montgomery, Alabama, only two
are white.
Pensacola, Fla, is blessed with a
negro police. When these eolored
officers arrest a white man, they
let him know who they are by whaek
ing him on the head.
There is said to be good indica-
tiOns of large quantities of petro-
leum near Rogersyille in Hawkins
comfy.
A rich tin mine has been discov-
cred in Utah. This is a most val
liable discovery in view of the i'm
mense amount of tin used in vari-
Gus ways, aud its consequent scar
city.
The United States Grand Jury at
Salt Lake, it is rumored, intend to
indict several ofthe Mormon priest
hood, including Brigham Young.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows
at Chicago, has amended its con
stitution so that only free white
males of twenty-one years and over
can become members.
A North Carolina paper says
A gentleman who was in attendance
at Guilford Court on Thursday of
last week informs us that he was
greatly edited by seeing Judge
Tourgee playing base ball with ne
groes during the noon adjourn
ment or the court. The negroes
ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Won Moltke is reported as having
siad that he hadn'tread any account
of the late civil war in America, be-
cause he did not like to have his
mind confused tn what wiwas real
" but the doings of a mob.
The remains of President Lin
coin and his two deceased children
we're removed from the temporary
vault to permanent one just com
pleted for their reception at Oak
ridge Cemetery. There were no
cerimonies at the removal.
A despatch from Raleigh says
that ten KukluX prisoners have
been convicted of an assault before
a Justice and sentenced to six years
imprisonment and fine of $4,000
each. The other terms ranging
from six months to five years with
fines in proportion. Five members
of the Ku-klux confessed their
guilt.
One result of the speculation in
the gold market is to bring specie
here from Europe, partly for the
sake of the high rate which gold
loans have been earning, and partly
in exchange for merchandise, com
merce being reduced to its elemen-
tai character by the interruption to
the usual settlements with bills OF
exchange.
The recent storm in the Bahama
Islands appears to have been very
terribly Obstructive in its effects
Wrecks were strewn all along the
coast, the orange and banana crops
were destroyed, the Island of AbacC
was rent in twain and completely
divided into two Islands, and {
number of people were swept out
TO sea and destroyed.
The Chicago Republican says
We do not believe that Grant is the
choice of a majority of the peopl,
Of the United States. There arc
large numbers of persons, unim
peachable as republicans, whC
would greatly prefer another mar
for President and who would be viii
ling to see their party beaton-h
being the nominee, provided it weru
done in behalf ofsome one in who's
integrity and good intentions the,
had reasonable confidence. Wit
such a person for a candidate, Gran
can be defeated.
The New York Express says: =
Each tick of the clock for the las
ten years has added IS IS to on
National debt, and every time Tia
second hand has made eomplet
revolution, sass SO have ae6umula
tedto chat already wcighty incuml
ent, at every inhalation SIG SO ha,
been put upon the debt side, and j
the little time we take to consum
our dinner, at least $o,336 hav
been consumed by the Radical pa
" at Washington.
An exchange says: IAN A frica
giant eight feet high, is coming I
New York" we smell this prod
isy afar of and advise the sanitar