The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
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TIMELY TOPICS.
OHIcAGo's Mullet-built custom house
walls are so shakey that they will prob.
ably be torn down. Supervising Archi-
tect Potter is of this opinion.
THE Spanish press Is being treated
with unusual rigor by the new govern
ment. Not foreign telegram can be
printed which has not been examined |
at the ministry of the interior.
GEORGE @. CANNoN, Delegate in Con
gress from Utah, is on trial at Salt
Lake on charge of lascivious cohabi- |
tation, which is a new name for polyg-
amy.
LATE mail advices report the wheat |
and rye in eastern Europe as promising
fine yield this year. From Bohemia,
Hungary, Styria, Moravia, the reports
all accord. There is DO complaint of
frost except in Pomerania.
ACCORDNG to Comptroller Green's
monthly statement, the debt of New
York city, as represented in stocks and
bonds, had reached, on May l, the enor-
nous aggregate of $3.50, $50, ,191, an
increase of S8, 1926, ,433 in four months.
THE new trowel bayonet lately adopted
in the United States service is to be
habitually worn in the scabbard, unless
when fixed on the rifle for use as a
weapon. 1t is never to be used as an
intrenching tool fixed to the musket.
In letter received at Washington
from a naval officer at Port Royal, who
is in direct communication with assist
ant surgeons at Key West, he says
there have been two more deaths from
yellow fever at that port, AMI several
new CAGES have appeared.
BRITISH brig, the James Birney,
has been caught stealing men from the
Hawes group of islands in the Pacific,
under the American flag. The natives
have captured her and murdered half
the crew. The rest escaped in the ships
boats.
THE Nevada and California papers
are savagely debating the question {:
"WhO shall have the immigrant?" At
the rate immigrants are turning their
backs upon these regions, in disgust, it
looks now as if the Pacific coast bazoo
will be blown in vain.
SEVEN hundred immigrants returned
to Omaha from California last week,
not very well pleased with the result of
their Investigations. They stated that
California is flooded with immigrants
who can not get anything to do, and
their situation is a decidedly gloomy
one.
Ok Sunday last, for the first time in
fifteen years, religious services were
held in Pobick church, Fairfax county,
Va. 1t was built in 1773, through the
active exertions and influence of George
Washing ton. During the late war it
was occupied by federal troops as a
stable.
A CALIFORNIAN called "the Rev. Mr..
Hammond" an ecclesiastical idiot to his
face, because, during his revival preach
ing, the clergyman frightened his little
daughter by depicting the terrors OF
hell in a very dramatic way. Mr.. Ham.
mond bore the assault with Christian
meekness.
THE New York World says "Tht
work of the truant agents, charged
with enforcing the compulsory school
ing act goes bravely on. They com
prehend all vagrant boys, who are only
released on giving the number of tn,
house where they don't reside and
promise to attend school which they
have no intention of keeping"
THE issues of postage stamps of al
kinds by the postofice department
during the month of April last amount
ed to a little in excess of SO, 600, 600
This is an increase of about twenty pc
cent on the issues for the correspond
ing month last year, and is by far tn
largest amount ever issued in any on,
month by the department.
A DISPATCH from Muskogee, India
territory, says that water-spout burs
Friday near Honey Spring., which wa
followed by the severest rain storm fo
many years. Bridges and culverts wer
washed away, and the track of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad nea
Elk creek submerged aud undermined
No loss of life reported, but great dan
age to property.
THE English admirers cf Stouewa
Jackson have had constructed a brong
statue of that general, aud have write
to Gov. Hemper, Of Virginia, asking
the state will accept and place it in
conspicuous place in the city of RicI
mond. The statue is a standing on
of heroic size, cast in bronze, and Il
likeness is considered exact. OF cours
Virginia will accept
THERE's a communication in the dea
letter Office, Washington, d. c., for 90 h
eNcellency Jefferson Davis, Preside
G. s. A., to be left till called for" 1t W
sent from New York, May (, 1861, al
is from Conrad Brewster, upholste
No. 500 Broadway. 1t reads as follow
GAS soon as you take possession of {
White House. I should like to recei
the job of refurnishing the same, whi
I guarantee to do on the most libei
terms"
THE placing of mail boxes in I
Chicago street cars has proved a VI
successful and popular experimel