The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14

make ''their farewell bow" to the
public.
Rev. b. w. MCDONALD ID. d: late
" president OF Cumberland Univer-
sity at Lebanon, Tenn, has accepted
call from the Cumberland Presby
terrain church at Bowling Green
John Henry says that when, after
a night of restless dreams, his wife
asks him in the cool of the morning
what "ante up and see you two
better mean, he even wishes he
were dead.
State Superintendent Fleming has
forwarded to DIR. Sears. agent of the
Peabody fund, recommendation for
aid from that source to the amount
of about $4,000. The total allow
ance for 1S74-5 is limited. as has
already been announced, to $4,000.
A bill is now before Congress to
appropriate a sum not exceeding
twenty thousand dollars to erect a
statue OfZACHARY TAYLOR in the city
of Washington. Meanwhile the
grave of the President, near Lou
isyilie, is neglected and unmarked
even by stone.
If the times are hard, stop your
paper, but do not shorten your allow
ance fer whisky or tobacco. A
good paper in a family is a great
comfort to the wife and children,
but that's No reason why you should
provide them with a weekly luxury,
at the expense of one of your daily
necessities.
The inventory of James Fisk's
estate shows that he was virtually
bankrupt when he died and yet the
courtesan wlro was the indirect cause !
of his death has just succeeded in |
receiving a large sum of money from /
the widow of the man she helped to |
ruin and to murder.
Columbia Herald: We are told |
that there are agents in this counUy
persuading negroes to emigrate to |
Kansas, offering them hattering in |
ducements to do so. Some estimate |
the number that will go at five hun
dred. Col. Wade thought fifty of |
his were talking about going, and |
would probably 90.
In the North the people look with |
equanimity upon the subversion of
liberty at the South. In the South |
the people, grown used to violence, |
and grown desperate by poverty, be- |
gin TO feel that it would not he so |
ho6 "a oil 4 :
has reached their soul into the body |
of the nation at large.
Illinois romance: "Alpohnso Ba-
rett, of Otterville, married a second |
wife, handsome lady about twenty |
eight years of age, a year since, and |
died last July, leaving, among other
assets, a son aged twenty-five years. |
This young scion of the house of
Barrett celebrated New Years day |
by marrying his fathers widow, and |
the happy couple are now living at |
the old homestead" - Cour journal |
Gen. Banks struck the key note to |
our financial situation in his Boston |
lecture, when he said that it is i'm |
possible for the North to be very /
prosperous when a large portion of |
the country is in a condition of an
archy, and II millions of our PEG
pie suffer under the invasion Of |
their social and political rights. |
Republicans begin to realize the |
force of the old adage, THAT curses,
like chickens, come home to roost.
Last Tuesday our fellow-townsman,
Mr.. @. J. Coker, died quite sudden
ly. In his usual health, he was sit
ting at home, in front of the fire, |
waiting for dinner, his son Napoleon |
having just stepped into an adjoin-
ing room. When dinner was announ- |
ced, it was discovered that he was |
dead, his spirit having passed from |
earth without a struggle. Mr.. G. |
was kind man, good citizen and |
an exemplary christian.-DyersJurg
Gazette.
A contemporary says the procla-
nation of the President ordering dis
disorderly and turbulent persons in !
Warren County, Miss, to return to |
their homes within five days would |
appear to be a superhuity, consider
ing that perfect peace and order
reigned in that county at the time /
when the proclamation was issued |
But the fact that the citizens of
Vicksburg had combined to defend |
their city from an invasion of armed |
negroes offered Gen. Grant an op-
pOrtunity to manifest his earnest |
sympathy for official thieves too
tempting to be neglected.
Memphis Appeal: Miss Gertrude
Pillow, daughter of Gen. Gideon j.
Pillow, of this city, shot a bear near
Old Town landing, Arkansas, last
week. The young lady was attend
ed by youth named Chas. Mitch
ell, brother of Captain John B.
Mitchell. Bruin received two loads
from a double baTreled shotgun. |
and, turning over with a sigh, some |
what akin to growl, quietly breath
ed his last. He was of very large |
size, and the steaks were juicy and |
nice. Miss Pillow has the reputa-
ton of being skilled in the use of
the fowling piece, and has brought |
down many deer.
Colonel Newman of Lincoln says
that heretofore not less than 5000 |
bales of cotton have been raised in
that county. During the past seas
on only about l 200 bales were made. |
The distlliers were paying 80 cents
per bushel for corn, whereas in all
former years it. only cost them 40
| cents. But they were nevertheless
importing corn and making money
by the distillation of whisky. All
the farmers who planted cotton lost
money. To compensate for ali these
losses, however, the wheat crop,
which was now in a most fiourishing
condition, would in all probability
| be better than was ever before
known. There were prospects for