The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-27
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Now York great deal Of uneasinesa
prevails in nearly all circles Of trade ia view OF
the propAhls recurrence Of . strike. Many
dealers, especially In the various branches Of
tho furniture trade, believe the strike immi-
nent, and the general impression is that IL a
strike occurs 1t win be for eight hours work
aud an advance OF 25 per cent. for piece work
j. y. Hopkins, OF Baltimore. has given
two million dollars for the maintenance OF
hospital FOR sick and INDECENT orphans, to
which purpose he some time ago decided thir-
teen acres OF land in that city. The buildings
are to be built next year.
1t IA now publicly stated that Mrs. Put
nam received fifteen Thousand dollars IN con-
sidoration OF her appeal to Governor Dix to
have tho sentence OF Foster, the carhook
murderer, oommuted to lesser sentence.
number Of gentlemon, cognizAnt Of the facts,
have poiuoned tho Governor - decide the
case only ON its merits.
New YorlS-Tho impending strikea In the
various trades seem 70 be near at hand The
Eight-Hour League claim to have one hundred
thousand dollars in their treasury, and say
they have doubled their means since tho strag-
gle Of last year. Tho carpenters, plastererp,
stone masons. krioklayers, stair builders,
plumbers aud house smiths, arc now working
ON the eight-holw system and though saHs-
fed with their present wages, win strike
against the contemplated return 10 ten hours.
The piano manufacturers. upholaters, var
nishers and cabinet makers are working ten
hours, hut are holding secret meetings to dis
ouss tho oxpodiency OF another eight-hour
strike, Over fifty different trades unions in
New York are committed to tho eight-hour
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branches OF Manufacture viii be disorganizod
this spring and summer.
The B,ision marble cutters OF the burnt
district have struck, demanding twenty.one
dollars per week, instead OF fifteen dollars.
tho present wages.
FORlTGN INTELLIGENCE.
1t costs ak cents pound to grow cotton
in India
The King has appointed Amadeus Lien
tenast-GenoFai In tho Italian army
The Atlantic cable Of 1865 has failed
again.
--PEris--Presidont Theirs and Count Won
Arnim, the German Ambassador, have signed
convention, on tho part OF their respective
governments FOR tho payment OF the hgth
milliard % francs OF tho war Indemnity by IN
stallments. The anal payment is to be made
on the 9th Of September next, when all the
French territory occupied by Gcrnsn troops,
including Boilort, b 10 be evacuated.
Tho Portuguese journals say that AZ no
time in the hstory OF the country, have such
efforts been made to orgauiza a republican
party, as are now making. They compare
Englands dalay in recognising the spanish
Republic, with hex speedy recognition OF Ma
oleons government IN 1851
IA dispatch from Berlin says ere German
apers rdioaie aud sharply orideise the I'M
augaral address Of President Grant The
papers ask whether Monarchia States ought
70 keep up diplpmatio relations with power
whose Executive thus insults then.
The prospectus OF the company which has
organized 10 lay a cable frcm Plymouta, Eng
land, to Ryobeach, New HAMPSHIRE, = pub
hshed All the money necessary fer carrying
out the project has been secured and contracts
ioF the construction OF the cable have been
eoneludod- The company il Forbidden By ils
articles of agreemont from Rnalg alnating
With any iiko enterprise.
Tho CITY Of Mexico toisErams stets Nat
General Parilero Diaz has been elected cg,lef
Justice Of the supreme Court Of Nsxies. and