The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-03-09
NEWS sUMMARY.


other day there was an insurance
Of $l15950
A girl Of only twelve years of age
gave birth to a child recently in
Yadkin county, n. C.
The discovery Of a button from
his wife's dress in another mans
shirt was why a St. Joseph3 40.
husband shot her in the arm.
Con. Smith, Of n. Carolina, had
his arm so badly bitten by an en-
ragged Jack that it was ampututed-
Descendants of Indians who once
held lands in Tennessee have en-
ployed a lawyer in Memphis to sue
for broad acres in Shelby county.
JAS. Musselman, of Harrison CO.,
KY, was at the burial of a neigh
boris child the other day, sitting
near the grave, when he fell back
ward and died Immediately.
VIM. II. Hunt, a prominet ner-
chant of Memphis, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through
the heart, few days ago.
a young man named Geo. Rapp7,
Of Murfreesboro, shot himself thro'
the breast the other day, INJECTING
mortal wound. Disappointment
in love affair was the cause.
A State policeman named Bell, a
negro, arrested one Drew, a horse
thief, at Hearne, Texas, the other
day. While taking him from Hearne
to Marlin, anegro rode up by them
and quickly handed Drew a pistol,
who suddenly turned and shot the
policeman, killing him instantly.
An Austin, Texas, paper says
that Austin, situated in the great
est beef country in North America,
is nearly without beef What there
is is a little tougher than whit
leather; in the midst of a great corn
country, half the time without corn
meal and then at fabulous prices;
with cows rowing by thousands and
annually driven IN vast numbers,
without milk or butter; with endless
hog range, pork extremely scarce
and high; in a scmi-tropical coun-
try, without vegetables; in short,
with scarcely anything to eat save
what is produced by those inhabit-
ing a less favored soil and climate.
1t is said that there is now the
largest tide in the Kentucky river
that has been known for a number
Of years. Iron, coal and lumber
have passed down in immense guam
titles to market within the past four
weeks. Since the present heavy
rise thousands of logs have been
swept out Of the creeks where RATS
men had them lying to put togeth-
er for rafting. Numbers Of these
Woodworking men have lost, in a
single day, the work Of a whole
winter. It tells heavily on them,
as it Is their only way Of making a
livelihood.
A Georgia negro debating society
was lately discussing, (Which is
best for the laboring man, to work
for wages or part of the cropY' An
old uncle spoke the sense Of the
meeting when he thought ''bofe was
de best if dey could only be brung
.togedder somehow.
A n. Y. Sun correspondent, after
giving the names of nine CORES
pondents accompanying the San
Domingo expedition, says: "Of the
above named gentlemen, six to my
certain knowledge will report in IA
vor Of annexation; they will state
that the island is a paradise, that
the Dominicans desire to be annex
cd, and some will go so far as to as
sert that the white man can labor,
thrive and keep his health here
OF the others, I am inclined to think
that before the return of the expo
dition two, or perhaps even three,
will be converted to the annexation
scheme