The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-11-23
Nora KukInx 0utraeas.

Lawrenceburg, in that State, about
a year since, therefrom, with the
supposed intention Of lynching him.
Check knocked the first man in the
cell down, taking his revolver from
him, and defended himself bravely.
Many of the mob were hurt.
The Jailor, in the meantime, cs-
capped and rang the fire alarm, bring
ing some citizens to his aid, where
upon the mob scattered and many
were recognized. Check has been
granted a new trial, and it is feared
his sentence may be light, or be dis
missed.
Let martial law lie declared at
once in the rebel State of Indiana.
The North Alabama Conference
of the n. E. Church has just closed
its annual session at Florence.
Savannah shipped 1863 bales of
cotton, valued at $41o,4l8,G9, to Liv-
erpool, on Saturday.
Hon. Rcvcrdy johnson has been
retained to defend the Kuklux pris-
oners arrested in South Carolina.
The Mississippi continues unusu-
ally low, and navigation by first
class steamers has been almost aban-
doned from st. Paul to Memphis.
There is an effort being made in
the Legislature toreduce the pay Of
jurors from two dollars to fifty cents
per day.
The Decatur railroad made a net
profit on the past year of $I44, 00c,
and the directors declare they made
bargain Of 100000 by the pur-
chase from the State.
Gen. n. B. Forest, president of
the Memphis and Selma railroad,
is pushing forward tire work rapid
". He has adopted the narrow
gauge, and will soon have It in sue
cessful operation.
Capt John C. Brain, the last pris-
oner of the war, who was re-
leased from his place of imprison-
ment in Brooklyn by President
johnson in 1869, is occurring in
Georgia.
At the recent election in Holmes
county, Miss, james Sumner was
elected sheriff by 10000 majority.
The newly-elected officer was born
and raised in Nashville, and is
son of VIM Sumner a well known
colored man, and an old citizen Of
that place.
Tom Scott and his Pennsylvania
Central Railroad have gobbled up
nearly five hundred miles Of rail-
road in New Jersey, to say nothing
of canals, ferries and so on. This
Pennsylvania Central Railroad ana
conda is winding itself all over the
country.
There is nothing whatever in the
shape ofexcitemcnti in Utah. Dead
calm everywhere. The prisoners
at;Camp Douglass are having a good
time, and saints and sinners chat
together on the situation like old
friends.
An exchange tells us that 90
years ago Leland Stanford arrived
in California with only one shirt to
his back. Since then, by close at
tention to his business, he has con
trived to accumulate over ten mil
lions. What the deuce can man
do with ten million shirts2
In q recent speech in Baltimore,
Gov. Whyte, Of Maryland, said tru
~. peace was Grants promise to
the South, but cruel and relentless
war was in his heart He can send
the peaceful followers of Penn with
words of gentleness, soft as a moth
er's smiles, to the red men of the
forest, but he knows no law of kind
ness for his white brethren Of the
South"
The Washington organ of the nd
ministration, after abiding to the
late elections in Che Southern States
which resulted adversely to its par
tv, says; ut will not require less
than 10000 regular troops, judi
ciously distributed throughout the
Southern States, to insure a full and
fair election in those States in 1872.
It may be necessary that Congress
should increase the army"
/ State rapacity rules (says the
New York Express) at Columbia,
5. c. while Federal bayonets pro-
tect this rapacity in several coun-
ties Of the State. Between the rule
of rapacity and bayonets the people
are we'll nigh ruined. In the histo-
~ Of the civil war, or in the events
which have since transpired, there
has been no parallel TO this state OF
things, and the people of South
Carolina are mC st sincerely to be
/ pitied for the double fire they re-
ceive-first from the State capitol.
Relief must soon come, or the State
viii be beggared through State
+ frauds, taxes, and Federal dcspo-
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