The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-04-24


vas on the afternoon OF ehe 4th Of March.
about half past four, almost without warming.
that great part Of tho city was reduced to
little more than ruins. The ground heaved
as a ship in a gale Terrific thunderings burst
from undsr foot. Walls sottered and we're
rent in many places with wide crevices. Roofs
sunk and tiles, etc, were precipitated to the
ground Lamps. pitchers, basins. glass. etc
we're overturned and broken Three violent
shocks followed ~ succession, and the ser
sants commenced 70 scream piteously and
could not oe pacifed. Wild birds few to the
houses. Horses grew frantic in stables, and
dogs howiing skunk for protection Every
few minutes shakings Of less violence occur
red The scene beggars deseription-the
ruined houses. the panic-sticken people, men,
women and children, fleeing 70 the fields with
yaluables hastily collected then the ringing
Of the alarm bells and the beating of drums,
calling all the soldiers under arms, for in Sal
Salvador murder and pillage accompany the
confusion OF great earthquakes, and as he
frightened citizens leave the town, the duslky
Indians from the forests rrowl for prey into
it, only checked BY the bayonets of the gov
ernment troops. These y ere posted in squads,
at short distances. all over San Salvador.
Paris "A desperate fight occurred a few
days ago in Glonne. department of the Stem
dee, between two companies of strolling ae-
tors. Nine we're killed and several injured.
The HeFald's Havana special says the
Captain-General has ordered O'Keley to BE
sent to Santiago for trial, notwithstanding the
intercession of tho United States Consul.
General ForbeTt, who, at the prisoners re-
quest, asked that he be brought to Havsna.
Developments made in the Bank of Eng
land forgery case which was before the Lord
Mayor again last week. conclusively establish
ing the fact that the forgeries we're committed
by Austin Bidweil, now under arrest at Hav
ana and whose surrender has been ordered by
the Spanish govern nent George Mcdaniel
held for extradition in New York; George
BidweI, whose arrest in Edinbnrg has already
been announced, aud Moves. the alleged clerk
OF the parties who was the first person taken
into custody here. George Didwell and Moves
we're both before the court to-day, and after
examination remanded TO Newgste.
One hundred Engl sh farmers, bound for
Minnesota, have arrived in New York. George
A. Rogers, Of Somerset shire, is president of
the colony, which will settle on track twen-
ty-four by twelve miles, and situated twelve
miles east OF Glyndon, twenty east Of More
head. and two hundred and thirty from Du-
luth. Two thousand farmers are expected
during the present year in the same section.
"A letter from Sonoma county, in the San
Francisco Bulletin says that an important
change has taken place in the geysers recent
". and that they now exhibit greater display
OF fiery activity than has been known eesin
1859. "A real geyser is now shot up from the
Witches Caldron to height of about forty
two feet above the surface, and it is said that
it would rise much higher we're it not for the
overhanging rocks which are in its way. The
water in the caldron maintains temperature
of 292 degrees Fahrenheit; dense volumes Of
steam are continually ascending into the air,
and warm work is going on all through Geyser
Canon.
1t is announced that the new Turkish
loan Of ESQ. .0On, 900 is meant of cover ali pay
ments for the construction of new railways,
and the large deficit in the budget of this
year, now expected to amount to ES, 600 900.
The Herald's Havana special says the
Captain General states that two letters from
Cespedeo were found on its correspondent
O'Kelly, and he will be treated a spy.
Tho Committee appointed to report on the
column of the Place Vendome, in Paris, has
decided to re-erect the monument as it stood
when it was destroyed, and to record by two
Inscriptions the date of its demolition and
that of it's reconstruction. The work will be
carried on so as to terminate at the time of
the total evacuation Of French territory.