The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-27


mint director, estimates the product of
the Comstock mines in Nevada for this
year at thirty five millions of dollars.
and next years product at fifty millions.
A WASHINGTON telegram estimates
that the government has been defrauded
out OF two and half millions of dollars
during the last three months by illicit
distillation.
THE lumber of passengers saved from
the iltfaed steamship Schiller was
only hfteeL out of a total of two nun
ored and fIvr. The loss of life. all
told, will reach fully three hundred
LATER advices swell the number of
lives lost on the steamer Cadiz to go.
The Cadiz was out of her course in con-
sequence Of a misreckoning of her cap
tain. She struck a rock and sunk almost
Immediately.
The southern memorial association
has adopted a resolution that all sol
diers of the federal and confederate
armies be cordially invited to Join the
memorial association in decorating the
graves at Arlington the 1st of June.
"
Two valuable dogs tried to eat up
little Atlanta girl the other day, and
one of the Atlanta journals expresses
the mild hope that she may recover.
The dogs, meanwhile. are looking for
another small girl to lunch on.
New YORK city sends through it's
postoiiice $50, 900 letters in dav It
pays forty per cent. of all the newspaper
postage of this country $50, 900 against
Chicago's SIS, 900, Boston's sic, 900 and
Philadelphia's Sl2. 600.
The tobacco outlook is that the crop
OF tobacco will be very late in being
transplanted; that it will not much, if
any, exceed, from this cause, an average
crop, and that it will necessarily be one
OF the most inferior, immatured crops
ever raised in the west
THE French papers have received On
lntimation from the minister OF the in
terror to abstain from discussing mill
tary matters. Such an order savors of
state of war, when journals are forbid
den to note military movements lest
Information be given to the enemy.
THE latest assertion of the historical
i'onoclasts is that documentary evi-
dence exists to prove that the Boston
patriots of 1773 emptied nothing but
painted oats into the hnrbor, the Brit
ish tea being taken ashore and economi-
cally used in the ordinary way
Thrift thrift, HoraHo"
The total revenue receipts from JulyI.
1873, to April 30, 1874. were SsI, ,S45,-
6i2.0l. The receipts from July l. 1874.
TO April 80, 1875, were $50, ,758, ,871 %;
increase, 1913, ,259 "a. If. to the re-
ceipts for the first ten months. is added
the receipts of May and June of the last
fiscal year, the total will be SllO, O,274,-
SoTOi.
The passage of what is known as the
l'Peace Preservation s. ct, " and which is
reality an oppressive law akin to the
Curfew law imposed by the Norman
conquerors in England, has been 80
obstiuately resisted in the EagIish par
lament by the Irish members that the
business of the government has been
seriously obstructed.
ANN ELIZA, the sevente enth Mrs.
Brigham Young, has come to grief
Chief justice Lowe has practically re-
versed the decision of his predecessor
Keeue which awarded her $500 per
month alimony. The new judge de-
cided that as there could have been no
legal marriage, there could be no legal
divorce, and hence no alimony.
The Russian government, it is re-
ported, has become convinced tbat
Turkey has neither capacity nor right
to exist any longer as a state. This is
no novel conclusion. All the great
European powers feel the same way,
but not one of them will dare become a
Turkey gobbler, because it means a
general European war.
CHINESE cheap labor is not all that
koopmauschap has painted it, "Tbe
Chinese tailors of San Francisco have
struck, and have posted bills through
o"t the Chinese quarter. Offering a re-
ward of S4OO for the killing of any boss
TAILOR who won't pay the wages de-
manded, and au additional reward of
S'OO for the killing of any tailor who
consents to work for less money"
IHE American Rifle Team has a
enSth been selected for the coming in
'e'n"tional contest in Ireland. The
tuecesstul candidates are Major Henry
ration, Colonel Jno. Bodine. Colonel
II. A. Gildersleeve, General r =
Dakin, G. W. Yale and l.. L. Hepburp
the reserves being Messrs. Coleman
Nante!d, Jr., and Jewell. The Irish
mea will have to look to their laurels
when they meet such band Of exper-
fenced uarksmen. .-NC1O York Herald
CHICAGO Is badly swamped financially.
The delinquent tax list foots up Sc. 75O.-
600, aud the city is borrowing money to
meet the cchcits in its treasury bv rea-
son OF the shortcomings of tax-ravers
But worse than that, it is Acknowledged
that if all the delinquent taxes were
collected they would not be sufficient 70
pay the outstanding liabilities OF the
aty not provided for IN the funded
debt
FURTHER details of the sickening dis