The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-05-23

9uardediy made the remark in the
family circle recently that when
gentlemen eat warm maple sugar il
gets into their mOustaches and
makes them scratchy." Her father
is curious to know how she found
it out.
A gang Of burglars entered the
office of the Memphis Chief Of 20
lice the other night and managed to
carry of, undiscovered, n quantity Of
counterfeit bills, sum of good mon
ey, number Of captured burglars
tools and stolen articles, and the full
''rOgucs' gallery" which had been.
collected by the detectives.
The Griffin, Ca, Middle Geor-
gian, May IA, says: The drought is
creating some uncasiness amongst
the farmers, the cotton crop suffer
ing most. Corn is doing very well,
though it needs rain. Wheat, every
thing considered, is doing well, while
oats is suffering. Gardens are in :
parched condition.
4 Radical organ asks whether it
is possible for the American people
to do so foolish a thing as to eject
Horace Greeley President of the
United States. We think it very
likely it is; for since the election Of
Grant to the Presidency there would
seem to be nothing too foolish for
tn I'm to do, except that Of reelect-
ting him. Cour Jour.
a man has arrived in Raleigh, n.
g. who represents himself just from
The Joliet Barracks Prison in ILL
Hois. He was captured as a Confed-
crate soldier near Greensboro in
1860. lie gives his name as Henry
Bedford, and says he was a member
Of Company II, 31st \. {. regiment,
Clingman's brigade, Hoke's divis-
ion. He has been i'll prison seven
years.
A gentleman in Memphis has
made L bet of five hundred dollars
money put up--that the Greeley
ticket will carry the following States:
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tex
as, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania,
New York, Delaware, Maryland,
Nevada and California, making me re
than a majority of the electoral votes.
He would also bet q small sum that
the ticket would take Nebraska,
Oregon, Ohio and West Virginia.
Fashionable bellies have scarcely
recovered from the "Grccian bend,
and the luXuriance Of their present
Pompadour over dresses makes the
transitions to the tight bodice, low
bosom and bare arms OF Dolly Var
den rather sudden. Very young
ladies will doubtless expect to
double their attractions-if such a
thing be possible-in their Dolly
Warden costume. And ladies of
more mature age, who retain their
Youthful appearance, as many do,
may also appear TO advantage in it
ut homc.
The Galveston News thinks that
there will be n great falling off in
the number of cattle driven to mar
ket this year, as compared with the
number last wear, and the conse- |
quence will he an adv ance in the
market price of Texas beeves. The f.
severity Of the winter caused a loss
of probably one or two hundred /
thousand head; and most of those /
who drove last year were discourag- |
ed with the results, ON account of
the difficulties they hrd to encoun
ter, and The low prices they received. !,
Allen Redford, little son of Rev.
A. II. Rcdlori, Of Nashville. was
badly cut on the hand and wrist on
Wednesday night, the 18th, while
to make his way ont OF
the crowd in front of the Exposition.
The cutting was purposely done by
a brutal negro, who held a large
knife out as if To prevent the child +
from passing out Of the crowd. Mr.
Redford ran instantly to tile child
upon hearing him scream, but the
negro had escaped The leaders of
lie boys left wrist we're severed.
md severe cut made in the palm
Of the hand.
The old and time honored Metairie
course at New Orleans has been
sold, and will no longer he devoted
% the sports of the turf Gut become
4 depository Of the dead. Tt is a
.ad change. Here it was that Reel.
Miss Foote, George Martin, Josh
md Jim Bell, Lecomte and the IRE
)rOachahie Lexington won their
laurels, and here it was
hat Lexington made his celebrated
inc race, four miles in 7;I9&, which
las stood since 1888, and promises %,
o stand for long time to come, as
he fastest and most markable per
ormance of the American turf.