The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-01-13
NEWS SU8EEARY.E


derers. were arrested and imprison-
ed by the citizens, but subsequent-
Is band of armed men took them
from Jail and carrying them to the
scene of Stephen murder. shot fwo
of the seoundrels, and the remain-
ing three escaped.
The Home Fire Insurance Com
pany, Of New Haven, Conn, has
failed and made an assignment
Gov Vance, recently elected Z.
S. Senator from North Carolina, as
serts that if he is not promptly ad-
mitted to his seat he viii resign and
give some other Conservative a
chance who has no disabilities.
The Supreme Court of California
has decided the 18th amendment
invalid.
J. b. Killebrew, Esq'r, of Mont
gomery county, an accomplished
scholar and successful farmer,
viii hereafter conduct the agricul-
tural department Of the Nashville
Union & American.
The American Express Company
was robbed of 50, 259 on the Hud-
son river, last Saturday, while the
train was leaving Albany, n. Y
The Express Messenger was shot
twice before the robbers got the
money.
John White, a wealthy banker of
Okaloosa, Iowa, committed suicide
last week by hanging. It is said
he dreaded future poverty.
1t is thought that Gen. Frank P.
Blair's chances for the c. S. Sena-
torship from Missouri are excellent.
Mr.. Sam Pointer, near Spring
Hill, Williamson county, sold his
farm near that place the other day
to a Mr.. Hill, of Georgia, for $40
per acre. and the payment was made
in cash and its equivalent.
/ An entire block of business hons
es and dwellings were burned in
Plattsburg, No, last week. Loss
immense,
The Roman Catholics all over the
United States are vehemently and
angrily protesting against the Occu-
patton of Rome by King Victor
Emanuel.
It is reported that Mr.. Bancroft,
United States Minister to Prussia
will soon be recalled, and Congress-
man Orth, of Indiana, viii succeed
Eihin.
The wife of the rebel President
Cesbedes, of Cuba, has been captur-
ed by the Spaniards.
The New Albany, Indiana, rolling
mills consume, annually, $4,000
bushels of coal.
Governor Clayton, of Arkansas,
was elected United States Senator
by the Legislature of that State on
Tuesday last, by a vote of 81
against II.
J. r. West was elected United
States Senator from. Louisiana, on
Tuesday last. He lisa radical.
On Sunday last the residence of
10. B. Smith, near Tullahoma, Ten
nessee, with nearly all Of its con
tents was burned down. The fam
lily were at dinner and on account
of the high wind saved but little.
Loss $4,000 No insurance.
Henry Ward Beecher's church
insists on his receiving $4,000 sal
airy this year.
Father Ryan, so well known as the
poet-priest, has become editor of
the New Orleans Morning Star.
a poor wretch by the name of
jeremiah Taylor declared from the
gaIlows in Missouri, the other day,
that his habits Of drinking and car
rying weapons had brought him to
his dreadful doom.
The basis of cottage rent a month
in Memphis is $40 per room of 10
feet square and nine feet high.
Governor John C. Brown has
gone to Little Rock, Ark, on per-
sonaI business.
The biggest cotton factory in the
world is now being built at Macon,
Ga. The engine is $50 horse pow
er. and the internal machinery is
being manufactured in England.
The Tennessee Legislature pro-
! pose to lift the State out of debt by
taxing ali the whisky imported into
Tennessee 81 per gallon.
1t is stated ON very fair premises
that Sec. Fish viii retire from pub
/ lie life in March next and that Sen
ator Morton viii succeed him.
Wilson county is reported to be
in a nourishing condition, with plen-
ty of ehog and hominy" and no cry
Of hard times from raising cotton.
In this they are sensible and Others
might follow their example with
| pleasure and profit.
. Mrs. Nyra Clark Gains passed
I through Knoxville on the 4th on heI
way from Washington to New Or
leans. It viii be remembered thai
she has a suit before the Supreme
| Court Of the L. 5. involving title tC
| several million dollars in real estat,
! in New Orleans. The suit was de
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