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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-01-23
THIRTY CENTURIES OLD.

The oldest relic of humanity extant is
the skeleton of the earliest Pharaoh,
encased in his original burial-robes,
wonderfully, perfect, considering its
age, which was deposited eighteen or
twenty months ago in the British Nu-
scum, and is justly considered the
most valuable of its archaeological
treasures.
The lid of the coffin which contained
the royal mummy was inscribed with
the name of its occupant, Pharaoh Ny
kerimus, who succeeded the heir of the
builder of the great pyramid about ten
centuries before Christ. Only think of
it the monarch whose crHmbling bones
and leathery integments are now ex-
citing the wonder of numerous gazers
in London reigned in Egypt before
Solomon was born. and only about
eleven centuries or SO after Mis1.aim
the grandson of old father Noah, and
the Pharaohs, had been gathered to his
fathers. Why, the tide-mark of the
Deluge could scarcely have been OBJ
liberated, or the gopher-wood knee tim
bers of the ark have rotted on Mount
Ararat, when this man of the early world
lived, moved and had his being. His
bones and shriveled skin are contem-
porary with the nineteenth century, and
the date of the crucifxion is only about
midway between this era and ours.
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INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

SPIKE making is about to be carried
on extensively iE Allentown, Penn.
VIRGINIA City, Nevada, recently re-
ceived one consignment of quicksilver
weighing about 16, 900 pounds from San
Francisco.
The Danish Government recently in
vited tenders for 10000 tons of rails,
and the New Zealand Government for
2, 900 tons.
THE portions of the great steel works
at Essen, Germany, liable to suffer from
fire, were recently insured for the inn
mense sum of 81, $40, 900.
The British Society of Arts has offer
ed large gold medal for the best sPeci-
men of steel in next years Oondon)
international Exhibition.
TWENTY-FIVE bills authorizing the
construction of tramways throughout
Great Britain are to be submitted to the
British Parliament at its next session.
The San Francisco sugar refiners are
endeavoring to break down the two beet
sugar factories, because the latter not
only refine their own beet sugar, but
also foreign cane sugar, at a time when
the refiners usually suspend work.
A COMPANY is organizing in England
to construct and run between Dover and
Calais line of steamships fitted with
Mr.. Bessemer's suspended cabin, and
possessing other improvements which
will, it is expected, prevent sea-sickness.
The American Railway Master Me-
chanics' Association offers premium Of
s75 for the best drawing of machinery
for removing snow from railroad tracks,
and $50 for the best drawing of apph-
ances for supplying locomotive tenders
with water or fuel The drawings are
to be submitted before May 13, 1873.
Mn. SAArURLsoN, a British iron mas
ter, who recently transferred his inter
est in iron works making 90, 900 tons per
annun, allowed 800, 900 Of the sum
due him to remain as a mortgage at SIX
per cent. per annum. This transaction
indicates the lower rates Of interest
manufacturers pay in England, eompar-
ed with those current IN the United
States.
CRUSHED bones are compressed in
Melbourne, Australia, into cakes six
inches square and three inches thick,
in order that they may be exported
economically. The cakes or tiles thus
formed are Just adhesive enough 70 adj
nit Of their being handled freely, and
vet, when required for use as manure,
they can be readily crushed or melted
by the application Of a little hot water.
This novel plan has been devised 70 turn
20 account the large quantities Of bones
which the new meat-preserving opern-
tions accumulate. 1t may possibly be
employed with advantage in Texas and
/ south America as a means Of utilizing
the bones and other animal refuse -
plsniifsl = Ahags pisces
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-01-23

THERE is a nice little bit of romance
of the good old-fashioned kind just
come to hand. Miss Matilda Philips,
sister of Adelaide, has lately rescued a
young man from drowning at Genoa
1t seems to have been a very brave
deed, and in writing to her sister she
says We are great friends ever since,
and he can scarcely do enough for me.
I have had beautiful letters from his
mother and sisters, and feel so happy
to have done something to bring so
much happiness to any one" She
speaks of the grateful youth familiarly
as Walter, and the consequences are
evident.
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ONCE IN EIGHT YEARS.

NJ. Paul Janet, a French writer, has
shown that since the year 179S there
have been twelve different governments
III France, the average duration of
which has been from seven to eight
years. What is curious in this eonnec-
ton is that none of these governments
has been the expression of the free will
of the people, but all have been usurped.
Every eight years therefore force in
France overthrows the regular authori-
ty, and creates a new regime of chance,
which is itself in time destroyed by the
same weapons that had raised it. Wheth-
er the government of NJ Thiers will
survive the allotted eight years remains
to be seen.
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OFT WEST


The st. Louis Republican has taken pos
session Of it's new building, costing 1850, 600,
aud said to be the best appointed printing of
fee in the world.
"A Tremendous wind-storm, accompanied
by electrical phenomena, passed over Nebras-
ka and Northern Iowa last week
-Abil has passed both houses Of the Mich
igan Legislature increasing the salaries Of the
Chief Justice and each Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court Of Michigan, from %, 500
to $4,000 annually
-deneral Grierson has been transferred
from the Indian country to st. Louis. where
he Will have charge Of the recruiting service.
The Pennsylvania State debt was reduced
last year two and n half millions Of dollars.
The Circuit Judges of Michigan have
agreed ON rule that counsel for the defs ise
shall open their case Immediately after the
plaintiff, before evidence is taken on either
sds.
The Governor of Minnesota inncts on the
Legislature message longer than the
Presidents.
The money clerk Of the Adams Express
at Cincinnati is under arrest for embezzling
$4,000
Twelve soldiers Of the war OF 1879 gather
Cd in Philadelphia last week and celebr tied
jackson = victory Of New Orleans.
The Atlantic and Great Western RdIwnv
have purchased the Petsoleum Railroad in oro-
cess of construction by the Pennsylvania Roll
road, and will complete it as soon as poss bic.
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REMEMBRANCE

No longer mourn for me when am dead
Than you shall hear the surly, suIen bell
Give warning to the world that am fed
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell,
Nay, II You read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it for love you 90,
That IN your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
o, If, say, you look upon this verse
When I, perhaps, compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
Aud mock you with me, after am gone.
ShaksDeare.
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YIAGARA FALLS WITHOUT WATER.

MA CARA FALLS WITHOUT WA TER.
On the 26th of March, 1S4S, the river
presented remarkable phenomenon.
There is no record of q similar one, nor
has it been observed since. The winter
had been intensely cold, and the ice
formed on Lake Erie was very thick.
This was loosened around the shores by
the warm days of early spring. During
the day stiff easterly wind moved the
whole field mp the lake. About sun
down the wind chopped suddenly
around, and blew a gale from the west.
This brought the vast tract of ice down
again with such tremendous force that
it filled the neck of the lake and the
outlet, SO that the outflow of the water
was very greatly impeded. OF course
it only needed a very short space of
time for the falls to drain off the water
below Black Rock. The consequence
was, that when we arose in the morning
at Niagara we found that our river was
nearly half gone. The American chan
mel had dwindled into respectable
creek The British channel looked as
though it had been smitten with quick
consumption, and was fast passing away.
Far up from the head of Goat Island,
and out into the Canadian rapids, the
water was gone, as it was also from the
lower end of Goat Island, out beyond
the tower. The rocks were bare, black
and forbidding. The roar of Niagara
had subsidized almost to moan. The
scene was desolate, and but for its nov
city and the certainty that it would
change before many hours, would have
been gloomy and saddening. Every
person who has visited Niagara will re-
member beautiful jet of water which
shoots up out of the water about forty
rods south of the outer sister in the
great rapids, called, with a singular con-
tradiction of terms, the "Leaping
Rock"
The writer drove buggy from near
the head of Goat Island out TO "a point
above and near to that jet. With log
cart and four horses he had drawn from
the outside of the outer island a stick
of pine timber, hewed twelve inches
square and forty feet long. From the
top of the middle island was drawn a
still larger stick, hewn on one side and
sixty feet long. There are few places
ON the globe where person would be
less likely to go numbering than in the
rapids of Niagara, Just above the brink
of the Horseshoe Fall All the people
of the neighborhood were abroad ex-
ploring recesses and cavities that had
never before been exposed 10 mortal eye.
The writer went some distance up the
shore Of the river. Large fields at the
muddy bottom lay bare. The
singular sincope of the waters lasted all
the day, and night closed over the
strange scene. But in the morning our
river was restored in all It's strength,
beauty, and majesty, and we were glad
/ to welcome its swelling tide once more.
MISS TEMPERANCE ANDERSON, n resi-
dent Of Baden, Beaver County, Penn
sylvania, has hair six feet and half
long, Il il quitg shiok and fine, tlHhde
/ IL tclcr,
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News of the Week.
DOWN EXT

Several Quarter-Tnasters Of the steamship
Denmark have been arrested for smuggling in
York.
Boston reports Sc deaths from smallpox
the past week.
-oswego, New York, reports s1s5, 900
fire.
The tstal deaths in New York city last
year we're s2. G47, and increase Of 5.67f over
the year previous.
The debt Of the wealthy State Of Pennsyl-
vania is only SIG, ,521, ,O39.
The discovery made in New York last
week that Mr. Kidd, twine merchant on
Murray street, had a train Of fuse connecting
his promises and adjoining property whereby
they could be set on fire. Kidi was arrested.
and his Office boy testified to seoing him max
ing the fuse. Three large warehouses were
involved IN this attempt, and but for the L.
covery, heavy conhagration could ave eu
sued, as the trains Of fuse were nearly all laid
IN the upper stories, and from roof TO roof
-Acouple Of new steel steamships, built in
England, are now at the port Of New York,
They said to make sixteen knots an hour.
or upwards Of eighteen miles. Steel has de-
cided advantages over IRON it is believed, for
hipbuilding.
"A panel Of one hundred jurors has been
summoned in the trial Of Boss Tweed.
The trial of ex-Comptroller Connolly. of
New York, for frauds, takes place this month
at Albany.
The New York police pickea l. o. in desti-
tuto condition, child that had been hdnap-
pen from the Barbadoes
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LOST.
By T. d WILKINS

By T. d WILKINS.
Lost LOST Lost!
thousand jewels rare;
A thousand gems Of priceless cost,
thousand visions fair.
Lost treasures we can ne'er regain,
Lost joys, that viii not come again
The weary heart will weep
Ger hopes that could not last;
Ger well beloved forms that sleep
Within the clouded past,
The hopes that once We're bright are fed
The Summers blooming flowers are dead.
We have lost some gem,
Which to our hearts dear:
Some flower broken from the stem
That we had cherished there.
We wept, but all our tears were vain;
Twas gone to ne'er return again.
The stream of time rolls on
Along its misty shore,
And watts load Of pleasure gone
That from the past it bore.
1t bears them to a boundless sea,
The ocean of eternity
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NUMBER 4.
SONG.

We sail toward evenings lonely star
That trembles in the tender blue;
One simple cloud, dusty bar
Burnt with dun carmine through and throUgl
Slow smouldering in the summer sky,
Lies low along the fading west;
How sweet 10 watch its splendors die,
wave-cradled thus, aud wind-caressed,
The soft breeze freshens leaps the spray
To kiss our cheeks with sudden cheer.
Upon the dark edge Of the bay
Lighthouses kindled far and near.
And through the ws-m depths Of the SKY
S al faint star-clusters while We rest
IN deep refreshment, thou and I,
waSe-cradled thus, and wind-caressed.
How like dream are earth and heaven.
Star beam and darkness. sky and sea;
Thy face, pale in the shadowy even,
Thy quiet eyes that gaze on me-
o realize the momentAs charm.
Thou dearest. . We are At lifeis best,
Folded in Gods encirciing arm,
Wave-cradled thus. and wind-earessed!
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THE MAN REVIVED.

As looked upon this lonesome au-
tumn Virginia scene, and the deliberate
and warning poem of Whittier came to
my mind, with its too truthful ending,
O, more than all thy dead renown,
We're now one hero living,
I endeavored to believe what manner of
man might this have been who in our
day would be an impossibility in public
life. For nearly thirty years he was in
Congress. Like Thaddeus Stevens,
who possessed some of his power of
scorn, he was a bachelor; for years he
was Chairman of the Committee of
Ways and Means, and jefferson habitu-
ally consulted him. Benton-a cold,
dignified critic-says that for thirty
years he was the political meteor of
Congress, and often the planetary
plague, and, as the scourger of preten-
sion, meanness, vice and demagogery,
the benefactor of the House.
And on that hilltop he lies, like the
Indians of whose blood he boosted
felt upon his fellow-sinners. Il am the
victim, " he wrote, ''of my own uncon-
trolled and uncomfortable sensations. -
He was the inheritor of a decimated
and artificial gentility, which had run
along in Tidewater Virginia, like the
friable soil, steadily toward barrenness,
for nearly two centuries; and he could
not distinguish between the affectations
of this social inheritance and the simple
sympathies of a new Republic. With
out a slave TO own, he might have risen
10 the radicalism of fanatic, and been
the monster of that conservative age, in
stead of its curiosity; for the few mean
things that he did were not the emana-
tions of a mean nature, but the fruit of
provincialism and fury. With all his
toadying for Old England, the Throne,
etc. he could write, when the prints
burlesqued his mission to Russia: The
warnings of my heart after home have
been stilied by the monstrous and ma
lignant calumnies which have been
heaped upon my unoiiending head. y
Thus Il was with the archer, when an
arrsW asteh ralght ~ ki- aniFuf ssstAs,
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JOHN RANDOLPH
VISIT TO HIS HOME-HIS NEIGH
BORHOOD REPUTA TON PERSONAL
CHA RA CTERISTICS.

VISIT TO HIS HOME-HIS NEIGH
BORHOOD REP UTA TION- PERSONAL
CHARA CTERLSTICS.
[Gath in Chicago Tribune.l
"Yonder is the house of John Ran
dolph. of Roanoke, said an engineer of
the railroad, who sat at my side. 'Wood
Bouldin, of the Virginia Court of APP
peals, lives there now. He is no kin to
Randolph that I know of. Bouldin's
father, Tom, succeeded Randolph in
Congress and died of paralysis in his
seat, as he rose to announce Randolph's
death, in 1884 Yes, sir, this is Ran
dolph's country, and Patrick Henry
died here also. The land is worth $15
an acre"
looked up and saw on a high hill-
top, among large forest-trees, and back
ed by dense and extensive woods, the
hermit-like home of this celebrated od-
dity and human riddle. The place had
been altered by its later proprietOrs, but
there still remained the small clump of
negro quarters, and the two wooden
houses separated from each Other-one
of logs, the other clapbOarded-where,
in sort of savage lawn, the great slave
holder passed so MANY years. 1t was
hardly more than Indian comfort as it
seemed-lOw buildings, only one-stOry
and a garret high, with few and small
windows, and on one low, log porch.
How different are the ideas of comfort
in different ages What American states
man now would live like Randolph for
his land? And yet he merited the re-
spect of widely different types of men.
The Quaker poet of New England sang
of him with mistaken ideas of the geo
graphy:
There, where with living ear and eye
He heard Potomacs flowing,
And through his tan ancestral trees
Saw Autumn's sunset glowing,
He sleeps, still looking to the West,
Beneath the dark wood shadow,
As if he still would see the
Sink down and meadow.
The second line ought to be: &" He
heard the Staunton's flowing, if it is
meant to denote his resting place; for
Randolph's ashes still rest here, in the
midst of the forest near his log-cabins,
a tree by the grave, and formerly also
an unmarked stone. He was the last of
his race
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ABSENCE or FEAR IN Wild -CREA-
TURES

In letter from the Galapagos Islands
the writer remarks the wonderful tame
ness of the wild creatures that have
hitherto been unmolested. The seals,
he says, seemed to be fond of crawling
under bushes, just above high-water
mark, and sleeping two or three in a more
place. Under one bush lay a mother
and her cubs, and so fearless was the
old one, thGt when one of the officers
held piece sf cracker to her nose she
smelled at it as fearlessly as if she had
been a pet dog. The tameness OF many
of the birds was also surprising, for the
fingers might be put within half an
inch of little yelloV-birds, aud within
~ inshes % nsooAiss, i5irtis.
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PERsoSs having occasion to drive IN
the dark win find the advantage Of 80
curing lantern beneath the body Of
the carriage, and not inside, a. is geaer-
ally the case. The light is thus thrown
several feet In front Of the horse. aud
the usual EsfTousl dnosrtaiIl sssp q the
sl'isaal is a Eesssd.
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FORETGN TNTELLTGFNCE

An Aepinwall letter statos that the steam
~ Edgar Stuart, which had received a new
crew from New York, sailed FOR Cuba with her
largo cargo OF arms aud ammunition for the
t"volnuonlsts. She il under command of
ecnora NJ, Aguors. Out Of some sixty OF a
grow forty are recruits for the Cuban army.
The British government declines to sup
port the proposition of the Royal Geographical
tocioty for the sending out Of am Arctic eNpe-
fiuon partially at the public expense.
In tho PruHsisn Diet an Interpolation
Signed 10y large uumbor OF the members. has
Been introduced, asking the Govornmont bv
ehat authority or law public journals had been
3rosecutcd for publishing Papal allocution.
The Liverpool Post states that the fearul
character Of the recent gales may he partially
Ioslizod from the fact that during the first
twolvo days OF December no fewer than 4ag
3aSscngors aud sailors are known TO have per
shed at sca.
The Swiss Federal Council has Threatened
lhe use OF vigorous measures against the Cam
pom Of Nitaus because Jesuit masters have
been tolerated in schools
A dispatch from Bombay savs A rcrort b,.
rcachod that city that terrible earthouake
occurred at Looughur, town Of India in a
miles north OF Bombay. Fifteen hundred per-
sons arc said to have been killed In the town
alone. Nothing has been heard from the sur
bounding countries, hut it in feared that there
Mas much additional loss OF life.
1t is reported that the Prince Imperial has
already assumed the title Of Napoleon ".
ihis report is doubtless incorrect, but 1t In
rue that the Prince il now addressed a.
Airo by an visitors AZ Chielhurst. The inn
,esHion is gaining ground that the Emperor
p'ea from the eject Of chloroform administer
- to assuage pain
dispatch from Paris says numerous Off
cers OF the fronch army have applied for leave
~ absence TO attend the funeral. but they
hANe In all oases, been refused, excepting
thero tho applicant was formerly connected
7th the Emperor's household
-heno-Ihs huuicpel Ccctetl hsys sdopt-
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UNDFRNEATH ~.

Nature appears to have gifted him
with the melancholy talent of perceiv-
ing the wrong that he himself did, and
of generalizing the tortures which he
among the naked trees, a man without
a monument as he never created any in
stitution or public measure. Night he
arise and look around his country now,
it would seem to deserve less of his ter
ribls excoriation forty years ago. ''Pov-
erty stalking through the land, while
we are engaged in political metaphysics,
and, amidst our filth and vermin, like
the Spanish and Portuguese, look down
with contempt on other nations. We
hug our lousy cloaks around us, take
another char Of tUbbackcr, float the
room with nastiness, or ruin the CRATE
and fire-irons, where they happen not to
be nasty, and try conclusions upon con
stitutional points. Poor cid Virginia :
Poor old virginia.