The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-29

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THE Indian commissioner throws a
the trouble about the Black Hills bust
ness on Gen. Clusters expedition last
fau, which he says was utterly uncalled
! for and unnecessary. He further ac-
cuses the war department OF having
little or no respect for the rights of the
Indians, affirming that nothing would
have been done toward keeping intrud-
ers from the auriferous reservation, if
the Indian bureau had not made the
most strenuous appeals for justice to
it's charges.
THE postoffice department, a few days
since, placed upon sale three cent. post
age stamps, manufactured upon an en-
tirely new principle. They are made
of two kinds of paper, one hard and
the other porous. The purpose is to
prevent the possibility of the washing
of stamps. This end is accomplished
by the new stamps, as the porous paper
absorbs the ink. The greatest difficult
ty is that the stamps cannot be made
properly adhesive, and it is doubtful
whether the experiment will prove sue
cessful.
ONE result of the raging railroad war
between the northern trunk lines, is a
marked depression of the shipping in
terests on the lakes, and the indisposi-
ton of ship owners to open up for the
spring business with their customary
energy. The reason assigned is that
the railroads are transporting grain to
the seabonrd cheaper than the vessels
can carry it. Owners content them
selves, therefore, with such repairs as
will keep their vessels afioat, while a
large number will necessarily be laid
up permanently for the summer, if the
railroad war continues.
TEE multitudinous adaptations of In
dia-rubber in the manufacture of useful
and ornamental articles may be sudden
ly checked by the limited supply of the
original material. The ever-inereasing
demand has led to a thorough explora-
ton of the forests of Darien for eout-
chouc. The Indians resist tie move
ment, but the collectors of the oozy
liquid are furnished military escorts by
the government of New Grenada. The
present rate of consumption is likely to
make India rubber much more costly in
a few years, or perhaps lead to the dis
,overy of some substitute.
IF the people of Kansas and Nebraska
had but known it, they might have made
fortune Instead of coming to grief on
the gTasshopper invasion. The depart
ment of agriculture announces that it is
now prepared for the beast. It will lay
for him with high trenches, viii catch |
him by the million, will squeeze oil out !
of him equal to the best fish oil, viii |
purge his crushed and mutilaled body
and sell it for food, and the rest will be
made into fertilizer and spread thickly
upon the soil. If the grasshopper
crop this year is as good as it was last
season, there will be millions in il.
THE pCtentates of Europe are very
friendly and courteous to one another
these days. Austria's emperor and
Italy's king are hob-nobbing together.
The king of Sweden is abont to visit
the emperor of Russia, somewhat to the
concern OF the king of Denmark.
Wales, brevet king, will soon visit the
princess of India. Alphonso won't per
NIT a visit from his mother but is re-
eeiving loud call from Carlos. Viii
liam of Germany calls on the Belgian
king to stop that sort of thing and,
| altogether, if the game was poker,
there couldn't be more calls with kings
full.
IT is quite likely that the deplorable
financial condition of Spain will shortly
bring about another revolution. The
government is running on credit and
has not got much of that. The daily
outlay for the civil war is $3.50, 900,
mostly disbursed to foreign countries
for materials, and with $4,000 men
under arms, the borrowing system,
coupled with general dissatisfaction and
the slaughter of industries, the crash
can not be.far off. Spain is in the con-
dition of a merchant with a large note
to pay at bank at o'clock "no funds"
The national debt has increased in ten
years from $500, coo, 900 to 81, ,875, OOO,-
600.
ONE Major Calhoun has been for
many years pension agent in Philadel-
phia, and a shining light in the union
league. He had lost a leg in the war
and his sufferings for the union cause
were supposed TO be his chief claim to
Office. He defauIted recently, and the
powers that be are Mortified to discover
that he did all his fighting on the wrong
side, and shortly before the war closed,
was put in Libby prison, Richmond,
dressed as a federal, to oct as a spy ani
report any plans for escape. Thus
found when Richmond fell, he passed
for a boy in blue, and has made the
most of it.
The Chicago Times of last Saturday
contains page of special kilograms
from leading towns in the northwest
concerning the wheat prospect. These
reports embrace 80 counties in Illinois,
10 in Wisconsin, Is in Iowa, IL in In
diana, in Missouri, in Michigan,
in Minnesota and in Kansas. Their
general tenor is that the fall wheat was
badly winter killed in places, and in
others the farmers, discouraged at last
years low prices do not look with favor
ON this crop. In many places, however,
where the deep SHOWS lay undisturbed,
the growth is thrifty and gives promise
of an abundant harvest. The indica-
tions are good in nearly all the spring
wheat districts, and, reviewing the en-
tire field, the production in the north
west this year may yet come mp to the
average.
The French government can't get
along without the column Vendome,