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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-10
Great Guns.

1t was thought by our government,
not long ago, that q 10 inch cast iron
gun, able to throw a 800 lbs. ball dis
tance of three miles, was about as big
a thing in the way of armament as
would ever be wanted And so the
forts in New York harbOr and other
places we're supplied with them at great
expense. The visitor at Forts Hamil-
ton and Tomplins, down the bay, will
see long rows of these grim monsters,
arranged in battle line, vainly waiting
for employ ment against floating enc
miles, Compared with more recent
guns they are now mere pigmies, of no
sort of consequence, and the quicker
they are broken up and removed the
better.
Mr.. Menelaus, new president of the
Iron and Steel Institute, England,
says: Mr.. Longsden informs me
that they are making at Essen, at the
present time, II inch guns of steel,
which weigh, when finished, 573 tuns,
carrying a shot OF 8 cwt. ct English
miles. using a charge Of 2lO lbs. OF
gunpowder. They are about TO make
steel guns of the following capacities
and weights: I5i inch bore, 30 feet
long, weighing 50 tuns. using 300 lbs.
of powder, with a shell of l 300 lbs.
weight guns of IS inch bore, 30 feet g
inches long, weighing 125 tuns, using
40 lbs. of powder, with a shell OF
,2SO lbs. weight. Mr.. Longsdeu de-
murely adds: II is calculated. for
the present, that these guns will be
heavy enough to destroy any armor a
ship can carry In gloating over the
destructive properties Of these weapons,
he is leaving out Of his calculation,
perhaps, the fash Of lightning ships
which Mr.. Reed is about to build, and
which may, under smart management,
be able to get out Of the way of sucn a
conspicuous object as a shell weighing
over a tun, even when fred with about
a quarter of tun of gunpOwder."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-10
The Summer Exodus for Europe.

Eight steamers carried ont nearly
$500 passengers, yesterday, for .Eu-
rope. Il quiry at the respective steam
ship offices showed that the steamers
we're nearly all full, and it is probably
no exaggeration to say that at least
1000 land probably more) people left
this port for Europe during the past
week.
At this rate some 10000 people will
leave New York for Europe during this
summer, and estimating the average of
their expenditure on the trip and in
the Old World at only S400 (although
it is probably higher, we have total
of S2S, 900, 600 of which this country
will be drained this summer. To this
must be added the loss resulting from
the withdrawal of the industry of so
many thousands for several months,
| and the aspect of these summer ex-
| cursions to Europe becomes quite a
| serious one to the political economist.
Probably the most curious feature
among the passengers yesterday was
the large number. How curious that
would seem to the staid French or
German damsef who is not allowed to
cross the street without being properly
escorted But these young ladies were
all Americans, who cared but little for
the manners and customs of the Old
World, but a great deal of their own
enjoyment, and were bound 70 have
the latter. Some of them were going
to the confines of the civilized world,
and they evidently did not dream of a
male escort.-N. T. Herald.
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A French Solomon TO His Son.

Women love but onoe-shun that
once.
Women hate in proportion to their
love.
Most women retain their virtue, but
many like to Tisk IT,
Not al women lie, but no woman ever
tells the whole truth.
Hatred il at the bottom Of love, as
death is at the bottom Of life.
One always thinks be is IN love when
going up st irs; coming down he IS not
50 sure Of II.
You cannot impede a woman in hey
love; you cannot recall the arrow shot
into space.
A woman is q fortress which can al
ways be taken-by him who knows how
TO make the assault.
Mans vanity is irritaisd by defeat
and cOnsoled with rapture. Womsn's 3
vanity acts III an inverse sense.
Ask not a wOman's heart; she has but
one end may give it. OF all fatal pres.
ents wOman's heart is the most deadly.
Do not love a romantic woman. She
vii make an ideal of you which you
cannot realize, and which it VIII grieye
you 70 destroy. Paris ChfaVaFi.
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A Bone Gave.

The migratory nature of certain ex-
tinct animals may safely be assumed
from their affinities with living species (;
but direct proof of this, of some value,
has lately been obtained in England.
In quarry near Castleton in Derby
shire is n fissure, called the Windy
Knoll fssure, which has been ascer-
tained to contain the bones of great
number of bison, reindeer, grizzly bear,
wolf, fox, hare, rabbit, and water rat.
These were confusedly mingled, and
the crevice has been filed partly with
stalagmite, but mostly with loan.
From the relation of the fssure to the
drainage of the surrounding country,
1T has been suggested that the animals
fell into it when they went to drink
and we're washed in by floods. Prof.
Dawkins thinks it may have lain In the
path of the bison and reindeer, in their
annual migrations, the carniYerous AMI
mails being caught as they followed the
herds to run down stragglers. From
an examination of the young teeth of
the bison and reindeer, he concluded
that those animals passed the crevice
ut different seasons of the year, some
falling in on their northward trip, and
some on the home journey. The fssure
was open in the newer pliocene, but
whether before or after the glacial era,
cannot now be determined.
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A Hero Of the Porest Pires.

The worlds greatest coal region has
been visited by calamity more strik-
ing, if less destructive, than the miners
strikes Of the last few weeks. FOrtu-
nately, the loss of life so far has been
very small, though hundreds of lives
have been saved only by desperate and
daring endeayoTs. There have been
few more heroic deeds IN American
history than that Of the engineer who
ran his train for four successive mile
trips over ties orumbliDg to ashes, Oh
rails melting away, and between tgo
blszing treea- Had it not been for
him. nearly the whole population o.
the little town Of Osceois must have
perished. The Ere was all around
them, and theig homes we're burning.
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JOHN JONES AND I
By CHARLES G. AMEs.

We had a tiff: John Jones,n said 7,
" You shouldn't leave your COW at large -
You mend your fence :" was his reply:
And 50 ran charge and counter-charge.
tTihIng thing the COW had crcpTed
Some blades Of grass, some heads Of grain
And yet for this friend I dropped,
And wrought for both lasting pain
I knew that had played the fool.
Yet thrust my better thought aside,
And when my blood had time to cool
Became greater fool through pride.
Upon two kouses o shadow safe;
Two cordial wives grew shy and cool
Two broCds Of children learned to hate,
Two parties grew in church and school.
John Jones's pew was next TO mine;
what pleasant greetings passed between
As sacred as the bread and wine
Had our cOmmuning friendship been.
Oft had our voices swelled the song;
Oft bad we bowed in silent prayer,
And shared the worship Of the throng
Who sat in heavenly places there.
But how shall souls in exile sing
The LOrd's sweet song ? The holy notes
OF fellowship, ana joy, and peace,
And pardon, stuck in both our throats.
Some lossened relish for all good,
Made life Tor DUtII TO uEaucu uowL4,
And nature darkened to her mood,
And answered back our settled frOwn.
One summer eve I sat and smoked;
Good Doctor Deane came riding by;
lie said in voice a little choked,
John Jones is hurt, and ike to die"
sudden FIRE shot through my brain,
And burned, like tow, the sophist lies;
And on my heart a sudden pain
Fell, like bolt from hidden skies.
I stumbled DER the threshold where
My shadow bad not passed for years;
felt shudder in the hand
A woman gave me through her tears.
When he no more the pulse could feel,
saw the doctor turn away;
Some mighty impulse made me kneel
Beside the bed as if to pray.
Yet not the Makers name called
As one who plunges meath the wave,
A swimmer strong and uhappalled,
Intent drowning life to save;
So all my souls up-gathered dowers,
In anguish Of desire intense,
Sent that departing one a cry
That leaped the abyss Of broken sense.
Back to the dim eye came a ray,
Der the white face a faint smile shone
felt, as 'twere a spirits touch,
The stiffened fingers press my owl.
o, resurrection power Of God,
Which wrought that miracle Of pain
From buried hearts tore of the shrOud,
And made dear friendship live again.
Beside one grave two households stood
And, weeping, heard the pastor say,
80 That out Of death He bringeth life,
And out Of darkness cometh day."
Was I chief mourner in the train ?
All, who could guess Of all the throng
The strange, sweet comfort in the pain
OF one who mourns forgiven wrong?
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into hole in the creyices of rock and
thinly sprinkled with earth. Family
story says that her sons regained it, and
that her ashes are now resting with
those of her husband, who lived but a
short time longer, and of her children,
in the little enclosure which may be
visited to day, in South Danvers. If it
be true, these sons mus have come,
heavy-hearted and by stealth, at mid
night, and borne it home, to gather
about and weep over and then bury the
remains, when they could seize upon
some favorable moment for their pious
offices of affection. on.-GdLarH
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judge of the veracity of an Indian, but
he is making himself ridiculous in try
ing to impress upon those who will con-
sent to be so bored by him that Red
Cloud is a truthful, reliable man. We,
in Wyoming, know this distinguished
Indian to be a treacherous murderer
and treaty breaker, and harborer of
Indian murderers and thieves.
THE surveying porty sent out by the
Government To locate the line of the
proposed ship canal across the IsthInus
of Panama, having completed the work,
have returned. The expedition was
subjected 10 numerous hardships and
dangers to health, but no loss of life
among the officers or men. The earliest
estimate, $50. 900, 600 for the compile
ton of the work, is not now regarded
as sufficient. The Napipe Atratro route
is the shortest, but requires five and
half miles tunneling,
JnHE II. STRER, an aeronaut, who is
said to possess the experience of 315
ascensions, is now in Chicago, in charge
of a mammoth balloon capable of hold
ing 100, 600 cubic feet of gas and sup
porting a weight of three tons. He in
tends making a trial trip to Philadel-
phia Jnne 10, preliminary to an attempt
to Cross the Atlantic in August. On
the latter trip full rugged boat 80 feet
long is to be taken among the luggage
for use in emergencies. The expenses
are borne by Farty OF. scientific gen.
kIau,aD
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Many of them lay. half senseless, in
the shallow waters of Moshannon
Greek, waiting for death. Strong
hands pulled them out, crowded them
iuto bOxcars. and gave the daring
engineer the signal. Away went the
train, running a race with death. It
ran over fire, between fires, through
fires. Nearly every car was burning
when PilEpsburg and safety, four
miles away, were reached. The living
freight was speedily unlosdeS, and
again and again and yet again the
engineer made the round trip until
over a thousand lives were saved. Such
a deed deserves to live.
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The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriptiOr is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone VIII pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
81 We enter no new names on our
books without the money in adv1"ce.
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Jay Cookies Million-dOllar Palace

The sale of Jay Cookies million
dollar eountry-seat, "Ogoutz," near
Philadelphia, was postponed on Tues
day, as no bid was made, the auctioneer
started at one million and getting down
to $3.50, 200, no one Offering to buy at
that figure. "Ogoutz is one of the
most beautiful places on the continent.
The great banker lavished his money
upon it, and gathered everything beau
tiful in art which his money could
buy. The mansion itself is 400 feet by
1877 feet in dimensions, four stories
high, with towers, the whole being con-
structed OF granite and iron. Oonser-
vatOries, fountains, exquisite works OF
art and tropical plants adorn it, making
a veritable palace of the place. Billiard
rooms, bathrooms and every known
luxury are among the appurtenRnces,
while the park surrounding the palace,
of immense extent, is laid out in ex-
quisite style. While Jay Cooke lived
here he as a princely entertainer, and
the house was full of distinguished
visitors continually. No one could live
In such place without a fortune equal
to that of jay Cooke and when 1t is
remembered that he commenced the
construction of this palace in 1864, Just
four years after he ventured, in an hum
BILE way into the banking business in
Philadelphia, some idea may be formed
of his vast success as an accredited
agent for the sale of government bonds
and as a railroad Spectator. 'Ogoutz"
will never pay the trustees of the es-
tate of Jay Cooke a moiety of the cost.
Whoever pays the $3.50, 900, however,
will have an elephant worth a million,
of course, but difficult to handle. The
$3.50, 600 last named by the auotiOneer
included the pictures, costly wines and
all the other appurtenances.
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Sex In Education.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps disroses of
DIR. Clarke as follows He calls our
consideration to his list of cases, argu-
ing detachedly, by the way, and IN
Reniously constructing for our benefit
very much such a syllogism as this:
Sumption All women ought to
be incapable of sustained activity.
SubsumptiOn Some women whom
have known are incapable of sustained
activity. Miss Y. became an invalid
soon after leaving school. Miss Y. was
injured by gymnastic exercises, fell
under my care and will never be well.
Miss u. became an invalid soon after
leaving school, and being some time
under my treatment, was sent to an
insane asylum. Therefore,
Conclusion: All women are in
capable of sustained activity, but
proved especially incapable Of brain
activity; and co-educatiOn is a chi
mera." She further says:
Almost every fact brought forward
by DIR. Clarke, goes to illustrate the
exact opposite of his almost every
conclusion in respect TO the effect OF
mental labor upon the female ply
sioue"
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The government has forwarded . 600
improved Springfield rifles to the state
armory of Texas for militia purposes
and possible use on the Mexican border
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The Dividends of California Gold
Mines.

Nothing pays better than prosperous
gold nil 9, and nothing pays worse than
an unproftabla one. Nearly ali the
gold of the Pacific states comes from
about dozen mines, all the others prov
ing sources of loss, and even OF ruin, to
the owners. The following is a list Of
the earnings Of few of the successful
mines in April
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TIMELY TOPICS.

ABOUT one hundred and thirty bodies
have been recovered from the wreck of
the Schiller, including the Leon hardt
family of Augusta, Ga.
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The Ootton outlook.

The Memphis cotton exchange crop
report for May, Just published, gives
the following aggregate from 166 re-
sponsss from West Tennessee, North
Mississippi, North Alabama and Arkan-
sas, north of the Arkansas river.
l. All answer that cotton planting is
completed, save replanting.
2. The acreage-There has been q
per cent. less acreage planted in cotton
than last year.
8. Stands-95 report good stands of
the cotton planting; 7e, report lacking
IL per cent. of an average, 2-5 of which
will be replanted.
4. Weather-The weather thus far
has been more favorable in that there
has been less rain, but less favorable in
that it has been too cold. The average
is much more favorable than last year.
8. Labor-94 report a very material
Improvement In the morale of labor; 81
report a moderate improvement; 36 no
change, and report not so good.
6. Cotton stands-115 answer that
cotton stando were obtained earlier this
year than last; 10 report about the same
time; fl report later, averaging six days
earlier.
z. Work stock-22 report work stock
seasons 50 same condition % report
not so good. The general tone of our
correspondent indicates fully 10 per
cent. worse condition.
8. Condition of cotton crops-45 re-
port it in very good condition; 70 in
average condition 40 report not in so
good condition as 1874 SO report the
plant suffering seriously from cold
weather.
9. Commercial fertilizers-The uni
form answer is none used.
CORN AND SMALL GRAIN.
10. Corn crops 122 report corn
planting complete A not completed.
Increase of acreage II per cent. Ninety
eight report the crop in superior con-
dition 80 average, and Is in bad con-
dition.
II. Small grains-83 report the con-
dition of growing small grain in supe-
rior condition SO good 8 moderate,
with but one reported in bad condition /;
15 in bottom lands report none sown.
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HEALTH AND FAsHIoN.-The Science
of Health says: Not until we deal con-
scientiously with nature as we do with
tradesmen shall we, as individuals. be
entitled to rewards of merit. We ask
for a load of good wood, pay the market
price for it, get the worth of our money,
and have the satisfaction of warmth
from the fire it makes. Suppose the
dealer knew We would not pay for it
He would not be likely to give full
measure of the best quality. The dainty
bits of lace, jet ornaments and plumes,
rose-bUds and velvets, composing hat,
are very becoming to some faces. The
dressy hat has a price it takes money
to pay for it. The little lacy wishes to
look stylish, pays the price, and is salts
fed and happy until the fashion changes.
She desires health and elasticity of step,
buoyancy of spirit. Gould they be pur-
chased at Stewards or of Worth mil
lions of dollars would roll in to the
credit of tbeir bank accounts. Alas,
poor child of fashion Gold cannot
buy for you the dewy freshness of a
vigorous life. The sunshine and rain
drops are gifts. Roses in cheeks, cher
ries in color of lips, come from within.
The price is service, and faithful ser
vice, too, under the direction of the most
generous and exacting physician, Moth
er Nature. Her rewards are sure her
punishments certain. There can be no
appeal to a higher court-no amend
ments to her divinely-appointed con-
stitutiOn." Will you enter a willing
student2 Are you willing to measure
your life by her rule and compass and
square? "No?" Then there is little
hope for you.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-10

THE Knoxvilleand Charleston Railroad
has been finally disposed of to Mai.
Thos. O'Connor & Co., the difficulties
IN the way of the purchase having been
satisfactorily settled.
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The Care of Chickens.

A correspondent of the Country Gen
Jleman gives the following excellent di-
rections for the management of young
chickens.
Last year I raised seven hundred
chickens very successfully, losing very
few. To prevent chickens from getting
lousy, I dust the hen and nest at the
time of setting, and again in ten days
after wards, thoroughly with sulphur
This will keep lice from the hen, and
when the young chickens are two days
old 1 grease their heads with mixture
of one part sulphur to three of lard, and
repeat this if any lice appear after
ward ;. I feed sulphur twice a week IN
their feed, about one ounce to two
quarts of meal. 1 always use small
yards to raise chickens IN, and never
allow the grass to get tall enough to
wet their bodies. One hundred In each
yard il enough. / shut each hen and
brood in her coop for three or four
days, and then let her have the whole
yard. The chickens In each yard all
eat together after they are allowed to
run, and this saves considerable time.
The hen should run with her chickens
about seven weeks. do not make the
chicken yards and coops rat proof, IN
less rats are plenty, for the broods need
the fresh air.
BUSINESS DEPRESSION IN EUROPE
Accounts from Berlin, Vienna and othe r
cities represent that business still con-
tinues to be very much depressed In
some branches of industry there Is an
improvement, but the great manu!ac-
tories are still very low, and the work
ing classes suffer from the consequences
of this fact, as well as from the tardy
a4sf fsaf
manufactory of Krupp, In Essen, was
obliged to dismiss some thousand work
men, and the largest mandatory of
engines, that of Bofsig, In Berlin, has
met with similar fate. A week ago
the largest Austrian manufactOry Of
engines, Sigl, announced the dismissal
of 1900 workmen, because 1t had
neither sufficient orders nor sufficient
working capital. This latter danger
has been happily sIIrmounted by the
aid of the Government on a petition
backed by the Lower Austrian Land
tag. That the great mandatory
! might have work to do, the Govern
ment caused some railway companies,
whose rolling stock is some what de
fective, TO give 1t extensive orders.
A NEW IsD1CATTos OF DEArH.-Is the
patient really dead or not is at times
a very anxious question. A medical
practitioner Of Cremon2 proposes a
simple method by which the question
may be answered with certainty. II Is
10 inject a drop of ammonia beneath
the ekiD, when, if death be present, no
/ effect, or next to none. Is produced ;
/ but If there he life, then a red spot
appears at the place Of the injection
A test so easily applied as this should
remove all apprehension Of being
! buried alive.
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Our national debt is 50, ,131 200, GOO
the total of state debts, 1890, 600, 900
county debts, $3.50, 900, 600; city and
town debts, s57O, 900, 600; total, 50, ,271,-
900, 600.
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yHE Cheyenne leader evidently lacks
confidence IN the veracity of Red Cloud.
1t says: 4" "Prof. Marsh may or may not
be as good fossil sharp as he is q
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Consoiidated Con- Virginia silver Mining

Next month it is expected that the
dividends of the Consolidated Virginia
company, which amounted to a million
dollars last month, viii be increased TO
a million and half. DR.. Linderman,
director of the United States mint, has
authorized the construction of a new
refinery for separating gold from the
sivler bullion received at the San Fran
cisco mint from the CcmstOck mines.
This refinery viii have a capacity OF
81, 500, ,OCO per week. 1t is claimed in
San Francisco that, IN a short time, the
bullion produced by the silver mines on
the Comstock lode viii be Rt the rate OF
$50, 900, 900 per Rnnum. The Utah
mines produced half a million dollars
Iasf month