The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-23
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1872.
oSnr nine families out OF its former
population OF ten thousand remain at
Pithole City, Pa
RHODE ISLAND has passed the law Civ
ing discharged oonvicts One-tenth OF
their actual earnings.
THE first vessel of g new line of steam
ers between Liverpool and Galveston re-
Gently sailed from the former port.
Mr.. PIoHARD, Frenchman. living in
Leon county, Florida, has imported
worms, and Is engaged in raising silk
TIE Dowager Duchess Of Richmond
| is dead. She led an uneventful life,
but was passionately fond of boiled
salmon.
/ TN England a Afr. Galton has had the
looldness to publicly assert that the te-
male mind IL incapable of sustained
scientific study.
WIEN the Indians catch q d-headed
man they cut of his ears to compensate
for the loss Of scalp, and its about as
well to be scalped.
THERE is a prejudice in human kind
against large ears. As the poet says:
" Man wants but little ear below, nor
wants that little long.
THg Supreme court of Indiana decides
that negro children must be admitted to
white schools where no separate schools
/ equally good are provided.
LAST year was a bad one for marine
| teen ENGLISH companies lost So, GAO, 600,
not one realizing any profit.
A NEw JERSEY tobacconiat, with COM
mendable frankness, advertises: ''I shall
continue to keep on hand imported ci-
gars of my own manufacture.
The municipal authorities Of Yeddo,
Japan. have written to the mayor OF
New York, asking him to transmit cop
les of the municipal laws of the city.
TIE New Orleans Picsyune wants
some of the female crusaders TO visit
thfs city, and try and remove some OF
the bars from the mouth OF the Missis-
sippi.
MrcnaAN is happy. A resolution
has been passed by the legislature,
that in view Of the large balance in the
state treasury no tax shall be levied for
this year.
IS a recent trial in Baltimore It was
shown that patent medicine men cas-
get almanac certificates of the wonder
ful virtues of their medicines for fifty
cents per head.
An Oswego paper describes a fire by
saving that sthe red flames danced in
the heavens and flung their fiery arm
about like black funeral pail until Sam
Jones got on the roof and dOused them
out with pail of water.
TIE surgeons of the Confederate army
and navy are to hold convention at At
lanta, Georgia, on May 90, for the pur-
pose of embodying in permanent form
the important medical and surgical facts
brought out by their war experience.
The senate committee on postofilces
will shortly submit a bill to establish
the postal telegraph system, from which,
they promise, viii be omitted all the OBJ
iessionable features Of the original bill
which the committee has been consider
ing for the last three or four months.
THERE was an increase of . 40 in the
area sown with winter-wheat last fall in
the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio, according
TO the National Crop Reporter. In Illi-
nois the increase is % per cent. Iowa
shows a decrease of 10 per cent, to be
attributed to the severe drought of last
summer.
THERE is a small community of Eng
lishmen in Patagonia who are thriving
most prosperously. Not only is land
offered free 20 the settlers without capi-
tai. but it is said that South American
capitalists make all advances for twelve
months of provisions and implements,
the only drawbacks being a scarcity of
hands and the occasional risk of ioousts,
and, il might be added, the fact that it
is PatagOniR.
THE observations of q married man
have led 70 the conclusion that money
put into mirrors is good investment,
as they afford n marvellous amount OF
qualification and comfort to woman.
He says his wife thinks just as much Of
consulting her glass when she ties on
an apron as when she ties on a bonnet
and while no goes 10 the door at once
when there is a rap, she e1elainis,
Mercy Joseph, who is that 2 and
dashes for the looking-giasa.
PERHAPS love Is never 30 potent as
when it seizes upon these who have
passed the prime of life. The choice
made is then likely to be thoroughly
suited to the nature Of the man and
any intellectual gifts on the part Of the
woman are likely 70 be more attractive
10 a man Of this age than to a younger
person. Besides. there is feeling that
as life is not likely 10 be very long, this
late love is the last thing to be olung
10 and that after Il, should Il be lost,
TIE real nesalliance is that Of souls;
and even, as more than one young man,
without home, or birth, or fortune, il
marble column which sustsinB a temple
OF grand sentiments and grand ideas,
40 Won NAV find a satisfied and opulent
man of the world, with poiisbed boots
and Vanished speech, who, II you look
not at the exterior, but the interior
] that is to say. at what Is reserved for
the wife, Is nothing but q stupid iOist,
dRrkly haunted, violent BY impure and
debauched passions the sign-post OF
tavern Victor Hugo.
A WRITER Of the last century relates
/ that Mr. Won b, envoy At st. Peters
I burg, went one morning 20 pay q num-
I Der Of visits. Among other houses &c
which he called there was one whero
/ the servants did not know him, end
consequently he was under the neeessi-
/ ty Of giving his name but this be found
! he had entirely forgotten. Turning
round to q gentleman who accompanied
| him. he said, with much eaFnestpesa,
I - For Gods sake, tell me who / am =
T This odd request excited laughter, but
he insisted on being answered, adding
that ne had entirely forgotten his name.
A coeRFgrorDEEr at East Windsor
peoples republic OF Liberia, IN Africa,
I and wonders II the coloFed people kniJW
/ that for SlG0 ono may have passage 20
/ Isiberia, six months board, and 25 acres
Of land. As pictured by him, the H5sle
republic is quite an Utopia. The soil Is
I rich valuable crops, coffee, suEar, palm
I oil, etc, flourish finely, aud End s ready
sale; the climate Is pleasant aad health
/ fnl for Africans; schools and churches
are numerous, and the government is well
established and wholly IN the haRds Of
( Africans.
The Superb, the latest monster yes
vel Of the British navy. Is en- iron built
broadsids ship. having load displace-
ment Of 8, 800 tons, and engines eaPaplo
OF working up 70 5000 horse power.
Her estimated first cost = - tsito,vg0.
/ ion,ebe5 "a October next, las 4 lead
/ s;srIecemecf of nearly IL .O0G tons. and