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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19
New Era for the south.

a new and promising era has daWned
upon the States where once King Cotton
held undisputed sway. Southern plaht-
ers have experimental in the way of di-
versity of products, and the experiment
has proved a wonderful success. II il
had been predicted ten years ago that
any of The cotton-raising States would
in the year 1875 have a surplus Of cereals,
the existing facts and prospects of the
times would hardly have bOrne out the
prophesy. Yet such is the fact. The
States Of Tennessee, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, and Alabams will this year have
enough and to spare, and the southern
farmers are proud and happy. In addi-
fion to this unprecedented grain yield,
the old staple, though reduced in acre
age, has BY q more thorough system OF
cultivation rewarded the planters as
never before, and they boast Of an indie
pendence that has heretofore been un-
known TO that portion of the country.
They claim that with their surplus Of
breadstuffs they can obtain the means
by which they will be enabled 10 hold
their cotton, take advantage OF the mar.
ket. and sell for cash instead Of follow
ing the practice that has almost uniyer-
sally,obiained Of mortgaging their crops
early in the season at ruinous figure S.
How far this state of facts will infiu-
enee the prices of grain in the West re-
mains to be chicago Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19
An Eccentric Judge-Lawyers Should
Not be Asses,

Judge Underwood, of Rome, Ga to
four young lawyers who had Just passed
an examination in his court "Young
gentlemen, I want to say a thing or two
to you. You have passed as good an
examination as usual, perhaps better ;
but you don't know anything. Like
those young fellows just back from their
graduation college, you think you know
a great deal. That is a great mistake.
If you ever get to be of any account,
you will be surprised at your present
Ignorance. Don't be too big for your
bre6 ches. Go round 10 the justice s
court. Try to learn something. Don't
be afraid. Set off upon a high key.
You will, no doubt, speak great deal
of nonsense, but you will have one con-
ISOLATION: nobody will know it. The
great mass of mankind take sound for
sense. Never mind about your case
pitch in. You are about as apt to win as
lose. Don't be ashamed of the wise
looking justice. He don't know a thing.
He is a dead beat on knowledge. Stand
to your rack, fodder or no fodder, and
you will see daylight after while. The
community generally supposes that you
will be raseals. There Is no absolute
necessity that you should. You may
be smart without being tricky. Law
yers ought to be gentlemen. Some of
them don't come up TO the standard,
and are disgrace to the fraternity
They know more than any other race,
generally, and not much in particular.
They don't know anything about sand
stones, carboniferous periods, and
ancient land animals known as fossils.
Men that make out they know a great
deal on these subjects don't know much.
They are humbugs-superb humbugs.
They are ancient land-animals them
selves, and will ultimately be fossils.
You are dismissed with the sincere hope
OF the court that you viii not make
asses of yourselves.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

How ARE DIAMONDS Found ?-The
geological occurrence of the diamonds
of South Africa has been often described
but some new points Of interest are
brought out in a recent paper read be-
fore the Geological sCcietJ OF London
by Prof. Maskelyne and DR.. Flight.
They have found the rock az Du Tots
Pan and other similar diggings 70 have
q soft, decomposed character, consist
ing Of sospy, steatite like magma. with
a hydrated bronzite, crystals of new
vermiculite mineral, called vaalite, opa-
line salica, and other non essential con-
stituents. This rock has been extern
sively metamorphOsed aud fractured,
and in many places broken through by
dikes of an ingenious diorlte. 1t Is
asserted that " the diamonds occur more
plentifully, IL not exclusively IN the
neighborhood Of these dikss, or near
them in the strata Of the hydrOus rock
through which the ingenious material
has been elected. 10 confirmation OF
this view, tine writer's urge the distinc-
tiye character Of the diamonds in differ
ent localities, and their sharp IN
branded character. How the diamonds
have been found can hardly be explained,
though it is point OF considerable IN
terest II it may be accepted that tha
metamorphosed bropzjte rock, possibly
at places of its cOntaos with carbonace.
ons shales, was the original home OF the
diamonds.
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The Famous Elcho Shield.

The Elcho Shield was presented in
1862 by Lord Elcho for annual compe-
tition between England and Scotland.
Ireland was afterward allowed to COM
pete for it. Since the competition COM
menced the shield has been won eight
times by England, four years by Scot
land, and now twice by ireland. No
eights from the British colonies or else
where were ever allowed to compete for
the ElchO Shield, the simple reason be-
ing that it is restricted to Great Britain
and Ireland nor would it be allowed to
go out of what is called the United King
dom.
This remarkable trophy is about forty
eight inches high, and twenty-six wide.
AS it stands in the exhibition tent on
Wimbledon coTumOn, supported on an
appropriate pedestal covered with Grim
son velvet, the beholder would scarcely
desire to look on a finer piece of work
manship. 1t is embossed solid silver,
and the workmanship is of exquisite
touch and finish. The surface has
dull tint, like oxidized silver-which In
fact it is, The shield is divided into a
number of compartments, each one en-
blazoned with some brave tradition of
British history. Queen Elizabeth and
the present reigning sovereign of Great
Britain are given prominent place among
the bold knights and fair danes of his.
toric celebrity who serve to illustrate
certain passages of English history. The
most artistic chiseling is employed to
bring out the details of battle pieces
which adorn the borders of the field, and
figures of men in armOr on horseback and
on foot are made as plain and palpable to
the eye as the artists cunning hand can
cut them. Battle and hunting scenes are
composed and executed with great fidel-
ity to nature. The price of this exquis-
ite piece of workmanship is said to be
$40, 0,0O0.-M y. Herald.
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learned trade, they were allowed 70
leave. If they began to beg, they were
brought back. The idea worked to
charm. The beggars OF Munich were
exterminated. The incorrigible ones
left for other cities, where they could
batten on charity; the corrigible ones
became industrious and self-suppoliiHg.
The latter category embraced nearly
all
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

Those PULL-BACK DRESSES. "A Sar-
atoga correspondent of the New York
Herald says anent the f'pull. back dress
es :" This year the woman is com
pIete. She wears less clothes than ever
and has more covering, less braid, but
there is more glory il her hair; no
more height, but she is excited more
colors, but what is like her own We
think we understand tit is currency
contraction, the stringent times rein
vigorating the species. Yet a very tall
woman by nature wears this sort OF
dress at her peril. 1 suppose you know
it is called the Nel inchen skirt. Yes
terday tall female came into the Grand
Union dining room with this dress upon
her. The twelve hundred people then
looked up and beheld in the middle
aisle an advancing &aypOle, a gorgeous
sunhower, q Ssaged beanPOle. Ode
Lord oh light" said Alexander, the in
sipuator, who waits at the next table,
sis dat one woman or de family tree p
Bot thc ladies, scarcely smiling OBJ
served to each other, MARY, what Is
my height ?"
To read, to think, to love, to hope
and to pray; these are the things that
make men happy. They have power todo
these things; they never will have power
70 do more. The worlds prosperity OF
adversely depends upon our knowing
and teaching these fow things, but upon
iron or glass, steam or electricity IN nc
wise. -RuSki5l.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

Money never can be well managed
If sought solely through the greed of
money for its own sake. In ali mean
ness there is a defect of intellect as well
SIS of heart, and even the cleverness Of
ayarice is but the cunning Of imbecility.
-BultUer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19
a MUssEL SHELL.
BY CELIA THAxrER.

Why ant thou colOred like the evening sky
Sorrowing for sunset ? Lovely dOst thou lie
Barred by the washing Of the eager brine,
At the SHOWS mOtionless and wind~carved line.
Cold stretch the SHOWS, cold throng the waves, the
wind
btings sharp,-an icy fire, touch unkind,-
And sighs If with passion of regret
The while mark thy tints with violet
beauty strange shape Of perfect grace,
Whereon the lovely waves OF color trace
The history Of the years that passed me by,
And touched thee with the pathos Of the skyt
The sea shall crush thee, yea: the ponderous wave
Up tho loose beach shall grind and SCOOP thv grave
Thou thought Of God What more than thou am 1 {?
Both transient as the sad winds passing sigh
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

Society is infected with rude, cyni-
cal and frivolous persons whe prey upon
the rest, and whom no public opinion
concentrated into good manners, forms
accepted by the sense of all, can reach !;
the contradictors and railers at public
and private tables are like terriers who
conceive it the duty of a dog of honor
to growl at any passer-by, and do the
hoRors of the house by barking him out
of sight Emerson.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

RHURARB was first introduced into
cultiVctio' in l735. 1t came originally
from China. The root, used medici-
nally, came to be called Turkey rhubarb,
because & get into Europe through the
hands o. -uI S'sh merchants, who pur-
chased it from the Chinese, among
whom it has been used for many CEN
turies. The first attempts at cultivat-
ing it were made in 176O.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

THE Chinese are going to eppage in
the foolish business of making war ON
kashgar. The dispatch states that
this movement is on account of "the
alleged discovery that the rulers of
that tributary state are preparing to
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

The people of Ffance, who fee
themselves obliged to suppress their
comic newspapers n Difference to sen
sitive Germany, have tried to relieve
their pent-up indignation by printing
ridiculous sketches of Prince Bismarck
on pOcket-handkerchie The youth
of France are thus to be Taught the
virtues of revenge by means of patriotic
pocket-handkerchiefs But the French
government, afraid of provoking the ire
of the thin skinned imperial chancellor,
has promptly cOnfscated the offensive
articles, and they promise some day to
become as rare and curious as reyolu-
tionary assignats are now,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19
A Man of Mystery.

The Chicago Inter Ocean says (: Ash
tabula johnson is q mysterious man,
and he lives on Aberdeen street. Ash
tabula is one of those eccentric indi-
viduals who buttOnhOles you on the
street, leads you carefully to the edge
of the sidewalk, and then looking about
him, says very cautiously:
"How's Spriggins ?"
"Spriggins, Spriggins," you reply !;
"what Spriggins ?"
"Lonzo |"
"Oh dunno anything about him."
Drawing you still nearer the edge Of
the walk the mysterious man says:
This is between yOu and me, now. "
d" Well I"
81 heard that Spriggins was going
into oats heavy. Now he's got reasons,
see" and he holds up his forefnger and
looks as wise as an owl. You get away
from the mysterious man, and presently
you see him collar Jones in the midst
of a large company and march him off
to whisper about an equally important
matter. AS near as can be calculated
johnson has no other business but this.
Well, the other day Ashtabula dropped
in TO see Philo MartinbeTgeT, who tips
back his chair IN front of livery stable
on State street. He found Philo in
conversation with some parties from
the country, regarding the sale of a
carload of horses. Taking the dealer
by the arm Ashtabula led him through
the stable, out of the back door, and
round the corner to q blacksmith shop.
Then he sat down on a box, took out
his knife, pried off a silver from the
box, and says he:
"Phil, I understand you've got a
COW to sell. Set down"
Philo looked at him a moment and
then said very quietly, 6 Oh, you heard
had COW to sell ?"
"Yes," responded Ashtabula, "sit
down and talk her over"
Philo looked at him q minute then
said he, " Come here, Johnson"
johnson came, and his companion
took him by the coat-sleeve and started
into the street. he went down to
where that six-stoTy unfinished build
ing stands between Dearborn and
State, and, crawling through the boards
that are nailed over the doors, led Ash
tabula up five flights Of uncompleted
stairs at the imminent risk of breaking
his neck. Putting and blowing they
reached the top, and Philo led the way
| over the piles of rough lumber to the
extreme east end of the building. Then,
after stopping to take a breath, he put
his mouth close to Ashtabula ear and
softly whispered: "I've sold her !"
It has been nearly week since that
occurrence, and Mr.. Johnson is still
| full of wrath but large circle of his
| acquaintances declare that Philo Mar
tinberger deserves q medal and shall
have one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

TRAArPs.-T east is distressed by a
multitude of tramps who roam from
town to town and diversity the some
what tedious journey by constant theft
and occasional murder. An eastern
paper relates how Count Rumford, the
American clerk who became an English
knight and German noble, once rid
Munich of its tramps. He hired a
vacant building and fitted it up with
kitchens, dOrmitOries, and work shops.
On a certain holiday, when the streets
were full of sturdy beggars, the police
seized 9, 600 of them and lodged them ID
Rumford' 3 building. They were washed,
deoently clothed, fed, and made 20 work
in the shops. As soon as they had
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

The duke of Sutherland's wicker
coffins, now attracting attention in Eng
land, where the undertakers have held
a meeting to protest against the use of
them, seem to furnish a solution of the
much-mooted question about the best
way of disposing of the dead. They
are simply coffin shaped baskets of
wicker, in which the dead are laid with
evergreen boughs, flowers, resinous
wood, or whatever else is liked, placed
about them. They readily decay and
allow the body to return to the dust
from which it came. Their cost is but
slight-not comparable with that of
rosewood collins and metallic caskets-
and the thought of death and decay be-
comes less repulsive when we think of
being buried thus. The objections
against vaults and Theoretically sealed
coifins are great: if their purpose is to
prevent dissolution of the compages Of
the flesh they do not accomplish it, and
the horrible scenes witnessed when old
vaults are Opened-where water has
come through or the bodies are found
in a loathsome deliquescenoe in which
they float-are infamous if they can be
prevented, as they can be by the use of
the wicker coffin.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

SPEAKING of the proposed direct trade
with Brazil, the st. Louis Trade Journal
gives a doleful view of the crops. 1t
says; I; "At the present rate wheat suffi-
oient to make 10000 barrels of flour,
suitable in all respects for the Brazil
trade, could not be gathered together
IN this market in three months. This
for the very simple reason that nearly
all the fall wheat now being received is
damp and in other respects out of con-
dihon." The Chicago Times, on the
other hand, says Throughout Ohio
and Indiana it is now generally con-
eeded that the first reports greatly ex-
aggerated the damage done, and that,
although both winter and spring wheat
are badly injured, there will be at least
half a crop"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

Two steamers are to be fastened
together, stern to stern, in San Fan
cisco bay for a trial of power.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

THE English having loaned the Turk
ish government several hundred millions
of dollars for the purpose of affecting
internal improvements" are now get
ting somewhat alarmed when they find
the sultan spending the greater part If
the money on personal luxuries. The
sultan in fact has entirely too much fam
ly, his wives numbering eight hundred
and the household expenses alone
amounting to S1O,OOO,OOO. This item
alone keeps him " sick, " and the sooner
England can induce him to settle down
with ono wife the better it will be for
all parties concerned.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

TWENTY. SIX crimes of various mag
nitudes, from countorfeiting to wife
murder, are the subject of twenty-six
special kilograms in a western paper.
There are forgeries, riots, incendiarism,
thefts, murders, embezzlements and
crimes of darker hue. This savory
mess is served up in a column by itself
so that no family need miss it, and is
garnished with startling and imagina
tive headings. With such diet as this
dealt out to the community every day
the New York Tribune thinks there
need be no wonder if crime "doth make
the meat it feeds on"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

THE Army and Navy Journal, COM
menting upon the ravages of the yellow
fever Mt Pensacola, very sensibly sug-
gests that, as the soldiers stationed at
the two forts there are really not needed
IN time of peace, the place should be
abandoned in the sickly season and the
troops sent to healthier locality, thus
avoiding the awful sacrifice of human
life which has characterized the summer
occupation of the Pensacola station,
and doing away with the danger to the
whole southern country and possibly to
several northern seaports through the
transmission of the disease.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

A COMMISSION of the architects of
Chicago has directed, after a close ex-
animation, that the work on the new
cUstom-house should be resumed, as
they find the foundations strong enough
and the Buena Vista stone good enough,
if carefully selected. Potter, super
vising architect, thought the walls
should come down, but the Chicago
people want custom-house, and are
willing to risk the present foundations.
II demolished, as proposed, 1t would
occasion a delay of three years and a
loss Of 81, 900, 900.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

WHAT remarkable strides we arc max
ing in the increase of our domestic ex.
ports of produce is shown by little
statement just issued by tho Statistical
bureau. In the fiscal year which ended
June 80, 1874, the last year of which
that bureau has made up full returns,
the domestic exports amounted in specie
value to over $500, 10000 For the
corresponding fiscal year of the previous
decade, that ending June 30, 1864, the
specie value of the exports were but
SAB, 100000. Here is an increase of
moro than three-fold in ten years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

revolt against the Chinese authority" !"
The Chinese conquered Kashgar, in
eastern Turkistan, about the year 1850
from the TaItars. In 1868 the Tartars
revolted, and under Mahommes Yakub
Beg drove the Chinese out, bag and
baggage. Yakub Beg has been &C
knowledged as the ruler of Kashgar by
Russia, to whom he pays tribute. The
Chinese may collect some tribute there,
but Kashgar is quite an independent
state and Yabug Beg Is a brave and
dashing warrior, who will doubtless
whip the Celestials again if they under
take to coerce him.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19
TIMELY TOPICS.

BRIGHAM You've has fled his amended
answer to the complaint of Ann Eliza
Young. He says his relations with that
lady we're 81 polygamous nature, and.
therefore, she has no claim on him.
This is a cool confession that all his
children are bastards, and his wives by
Mormon marriages concubines, which
would seem to be the fact.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

REPoRTs continue to arrive of the dis
assrous effects produced. by the recent
rains throughout the west, and especial
ly in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa.
Whole sections of country are flooded,
and the damage to grain crops not yet
harvested or standing in the shock is
immense. Railroad tracks and fences
are washed away, and in many instances
houses and barns have been destroyed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

SENATOR JONES, OF bonanza fame, is
making a great effort to create a sensa-
tion about his new town Santa Monica,
400 miles south east of San Francisco,
on the Pacific. He is building rail-
road from that point to connect with
the Union Pacific railroad, distance of
eight hundred miles, and he has ar
ranged with the Pacific Mail Steamship
company to allow their vessels to touch
at the new port. This movement of
the senator is not regarded with much
favor by the people of San Francisco,
who see in Santa Monica a possibly
successful rival for commercial supre-
macy on the Pacific coast, as che harbor
at that point is an excellent one. It is
said that there is strong probability
that the establishment of Santa Monica
as a seaport will lead to the division of
California into two states, as the people
in the southern districts are growing
tired of their dependence on San Fran
cisco and the grinding monopoly of the
Central Pacific railroad.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19

AN almost incredible story of cruel
ties to prisoners in the Texas Peniten-
tiary is verified by a report to the war
department. A variety of tortures
worthy of the fendish ingenuity of the
middle ages has been inflicted upon the
unhappy inmates. Those selected espe-
cially to undergo such treatment were
mostly convicts who had been employed
by contractors for railroad building,
and by owners of plantations who were
also lessees of the penitentiary. The
crime of the unfortunates was their in
ability to endure overwork, hardship,
and bad food. The result of the cruel
ties and the general bad management
was a large proportion of deaths among
the convicts. The circumstance that
some United States prisoners were con-
fined in the Pepitentiary has served to
bring to light the horrible facts, but
there is reason to fear that no change
has been made in the system, and the
cruelties are continued at the present
hour.
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TIE committee appointed to count
the funds in the treasury on the retire
ment of Mr.. Spinner are about ready
to make their report. They have been
engaged for the past week il an investi-
cation of the SAT, 900 robbery, and after
taking a mass of testimony without
inculpating any single individual, ex-
press the opinion that the money was
taken by an employe of the cash-room
and, further, that it is possible for such
robberies to occur at any time.