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


The Natchez people are talking
about bridging the Mississippi at
that place.
The amount Of property left by
the late David Sears, of Boston, is
about $5,OOO,O0O.
The passions are at once temp
ters and chastisers.
An aboriginal usurper has assum-
ed the crown of Abyssinia, calling
himself the Emperor Negus.
Nashville has commenced a war
on the dogs, and they are all to be
either taxed or slaughtered.
The deadest issues in this coun-
try are the newspapers" that are
trying to bring to life dead issues.
A Texas paper reports that since
September last 10000 people, with
1864 wagons, have emigrated from
Tennessee. and Georgia to the Lone
Star State That looks like Texas
was filing up rapidly.
Eight years ago Philadelphia
was a Democratic city, and its debt
was nineteen thousand dollars
Philadelphia has ever since been
under Radical rule, and it now owes
forty-eight millions. Truly '.loilty"
is an expensive. luxury. ,f
Two young girls daughters of
respectable parents, in Kansas City,
recently. disguised themselves in
dQQm@inos, went to a masquerade
ball at a house of ill7repute, were
suspected by the frail ones inside,
had their masks torn of, were sub
jected to every insult, and fipallY.
put out, wiser ifnQt better maidens-
The mammoth machinery-the.
heaviest piece at least-for the new,
cotton factory at Nashville still lies
at the depot in that city, being so
weighty as to defy all plans yet de
vised for its removal to the factory
One engine is upon the freight plat
form and the other down on the.
ground, where it had smashed
wagon.
Senator Sumner, who alleges he
has calculated the Alabama claims
account, says that England owes
the American people, in round
numbers, the sum of one hundred
and ten million dollars, on account
of the depredations ofthe Alabama
alone.
The Chattanooga Times says it
intends to bring suit against John
Baxter to recover $1,OOO,OOO DANA
ges for illusions to the editor in his
speech at Knoxville the other day
Many counties in the State, it is
said, are imposing a tax on dogs in
accordance with the act of the last
Legislature. Here is an item on
that subject: England derived Il
revenue OF G285,OOO ($1,33o,0oo)
last year by taxing dogs. The
is number l, 100000. Ireland, with
one quarter as many inhabitants,
supported more than half q million.
Colonel Ward, an old and much
esteemed citizen Of Clarke county,
Mississippi, a true and well educat
ed Southerner, is teaching a negro
school in the neighborhood Of En-
terprise. The Colonel says that
the State has made an appropria-
ton to educate the children of the
negro, and there is no reason why
Southern men should not become
their teachers.
Some years ago a young man Of
culture and good taste went to hear
a wellknown ranter preach, Get
ting disgusted before the. sermon
was half through he left. his seat
and was going on tip-toe toward
the door, when the preacher roared
out: young man had you rather
go to hell than hear me preach p
Somewhat startled at first, the
young man faced about, and, with
a graceful how, responded "0n the
whole, parson, I think 1 would, sa
Thenew bill TO cypress theSouth
provides that il persons IA the
Southern States refuse to1emplog a
negro, and he shall swearthat such /
refusal is onpolitieal grounds, they
shall be liable to go to Jail for one
year and pay a fine Of a thousand
dollars. The taking away gan
from a man is made a felony. Suit
may be brought against counties.
and the property Of innocent per-
sons taken to satisfy the wrong done
by negroes or Radicals disguised
as ku-klux.
The gouty old British Lion is get
ting more kicks than compliments
in the British Parliament. They
say in that body that EngIand's
hesitancy has lost the respect Of
the belligerents in the Franco-Ger-
man war, and that the "tight little
island may next be called upon to
defend her national existence. Nor
is there any telling what ''those
blarsted Prooshians'' may next be
after, inasmuch as they have limited
that they are disguised With what
Holm Pufi calls nentraIitv.-X. y