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OF which we make Special
~. These Silks are spun from
the finest and pureSt materI-
ais; are manufactured in
Lyons, and are woven by
skilled WOrkmen, on looms
at their own homes, thereby
giving the Hand Loom SILK a
superiority over all other
makes, for their richn ess and
durability. Prices as low as
in any city I'm the Union.
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Forty ears has tested the value of
Dr. 4. y. TOdd's Anii-BiiItOHs ana
Liver Pills

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PROPRlETOKS.
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Worse Than Here.

It may perhaps be a slight comfort
to those who are disgusted with this
inclement spring to learn that there is
not part of the northern hemisphere,
from Siberia round to California, which
has escaped the climatic influences that
have bestowed on us nearly half a year
of cold winds, with their attendant mis-
cries. OF all the countries of Europe,
however, ROUmania appears to have
suffered the most, Letters but lately
received at Paris, though dated, some
of them, early In March, describe the
last visitation of frost and cold winds
as perfectly terrible, especially through
out the latter part of FEBRUARY. The
thermometer at one time fell to As de-
grees below the freezing point, and
storms of snow, drifting before the
northeRsterly gales, rendered the cold
uncomfortable. Numbers of persons-it
Is not yet ascertained how many-are
known to have perished in the country
districts in their efforts to seek food or
fuel. Wolves, rendered fearless by
hunger, came into the suburbs of Bu-
charest itself, and stood before the
doors of the houses. Innumerable
roofs gave way under the pressure of
the heavy snow, which thus forced its
way into and choked the upper floors.
All open spaces, such as market places,
were filed by drifts, and were only
kept cleared in Bucharest itself by the
labor of the garrison of some 1000
soldiers, who were assigned to this
duty. Fuel and provisions, of course,
reached famine prices, and trade in all
other comnodIties entirely ceased.
The mails became so few and uncer-
tain that merchants ceased to attempt
to send remittances by them, and bills
of exchange were thus left by some OF
the best houses unhonored for weeks.
Hardest of all was the fate of the rail-
way passengers who had attempted to
take advantage of the short opening of
the lines before this second winter
came upon the land. The trains were
stopped by the snow, and in some
cases abandoned by the engine-men
and the passengers, brought with diff
Guilty on sledges to the nearest stations,
were there left in a sort of state of
siege, with scanty supplies, and in
some cases were reduced almost to
starvation before the thaw arrived to
save them,
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HoltuIn.
An American Samson Who stops q Cam
non Ball with HIS Fist.


A very singular exhibition was given
ye sterdsyat the Jardin Mabille. There
has been performing here at the Folies
Bergeres, a man named Holtum, an
American, who has a cannon fred at
him and catches the ball in his hands.
The prodigious feat was Witnessed
nightly, and although the actors pres
ent RYowed that there was no trick,
Pierre Veron, of the Monde IIittStFe.
would not believe it. He said that the
cannon ball must be thrown to Holtum
from the stage. The latter made a bet
of FIVE thousand francs that he would
perform the feat under conditions
which left no room to doubt, and when
the bet was taken, Veron designated
MRbille as the place for the trial. All
the journalists of Paris were invited,
and they found Holeum there before
his cannon. It was examined with
minute care, and the heavy ball was
passed from hand to hand. d" am no
longer in my own house, said HOltum;
yoU are master here, and you must
watch over all the arrangements. Aav
ing carefully aimed and la he'd his can
non, 1t was charged, and HOltum took
his place against plank target some
ten yards away. This was to show that
iAC DtHAA was SO4ANl5 anu bA4O AOACC VI NIC
powder great enough to send it through
the plank. Hultum got the aim of his
gun, and then placed his head In a
certain position against the plank, Civ
ing the command to fire. The ball
just grazed the hair and broke through
the plank, rolling some twenty yards
further on. The same ball was picked
up by the journalists, who again
charged the cannon and sent home the
ball, and this time Holtum caught the
ball in his hands as neatly as he does
nightly upon the stage. He won his
bet, and no one seemed disposed to ac-
cept his offer of 3, 900 francs to any one
who would perform the same astound-
ing feat. The physical force required
must be enormous, but Holtum showed
his strength by tossing up cannon balls
as If they we're SO many oranges. The
only precautions taken are very simple;
he wears very thick leather gloves, and
covers his breast with many thickness
of thin paper to form a sort of cuirass.
This looks to me like a very dangerous
feat, and particularly the first part of
it, where Holtum places his head against
the target half an inch below where the
ball will probably strike. If the pow
der should chance to be detective, some
day there might be an accident. 1t is
like the fOolhardy trick of putting ones
head into lions mouth. One day /
fancy that ball will snap his head very
neatly Off.-PdriS Letter,
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Frog Eaters and HippOphagistg.

Very often my American friends, when
they first come over, ask me where they
can get a good dish of frogs. My an
swer is that London is about the near
est place, but next to that the best
place is New York. It is a common
idea that the French are great frog
eaters, but the first frog ever ate was
in New York, then in London, and 1
have never seen above two or three
dishes during many years residence in
Paris. Some restaurants have them,
but only for their English and Ameri-
can clients, as they assert. So wit hip
pophagy-we were under the impress
sion that the idea was French, but we
find Englishmen claiming the honor of
having introduced il, of propagating it,
of getting up the society, and at the
annual dinner of horse-eaters, two thirds
of the persons present are English.
Let me add that this meat is not bad
when you can get nothing else. During
the Virginia campaign OF 1868, ate
very nice mule steak, and during the
siege of Paris ate horse meat every day
for some six weeks but 1 must say that
In normal times my preferences are de-
cidedly for beef Shall / give one rea-
son why? The horse sweats the OK
does not and the meat of the horse
seems impregnated with an odOr of
perspiration. Ardent hippOphagists,
however, will 81 that this IS nothing
but prejudice but with all due defer
ence to their more advanced opinions /
will still say that I incline to beef
Paris Letter.
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The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriptioP is out or unpaid, and that
You are requested to pay mp 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 viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such q
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
- We enter no new names on our
books without the money Ia advarce-
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THE HERON.
BY JAMES MAURICE THoMPsos.

Wnefe the water-grass grows evergreen
On damp, cool fats, by gentle streams,
Still as ghost and sad Of mien,
With eyes half-clOsed, the heron dreams.
Above him in the sycamore
The flicker beats a dull tattoo;
Through papaw groves the soft airs pour
Gold-dust OF blooms and fragrance new.
And from the thorn it loves so well
The OriOle fiIDgs out it's strong,
Sharp lay wrought in the crucibe
OF lis hame-circ'ed soul Of song.
The heron mods. the charming tunes
OF natures music thrill his dreams.
The joys Of many Mays and Junes
Wash past him like cool summer Btreams.
What tranquil life, what joyful rest
To be thus swathed in fragrant grass,
And dose like him while tenderest
Dream-wayes across my sleep would pass.
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mel, if they make the trip in two hours.
Boynton, the swimmer, crossed in a
much shorter time than the Bessemer.
THE imposing ceremony of placing
the red hat on the head of Cardinal
McCloskey, took place in st. Patrick's
cathedral, New York, yesterday. The
novelty of the event-the frst of the
kind in this country-attracted large
number of ecclesiastical dignitaries
from far an near, and probably not
one-twentieth of the people who desired
to witness the ceremonies were accom-
modated.
THE newspapers in California evil
IDENTIFY do not lack faith in the bonanza
of silver. "Our bonanza" is still their
theme, and they point with pride to the
fact that since January 1, the sum of
81, 484. 600 has been paid in dividends,
all of which was taken out of the ground
in two months. This is said to be the
yield of the consolidated Virginia -
mine alone, so there must be millions
in it,"
NUMEROUS lumber-yards, ,framehouses,
careless use of fire and high wind did
the business for Oshkosh, Wisconsin,
on Wednesday. The loss is over $2,-
100000. This is the second great fire
which the Oshkosh people have expe-
rienced. Last year a sudden confagra-
tion licked up six hundred houses and
other property worth $500, 900. This
last catastrophe is overwhelming, and
much suffering will result.
IT requiresno profit to predict a cold
summer as long as .the North Atlantic
is filed with immense fields of floating
ice. The effect of this glacial propin-
quity will be sensibly felt throughout
this country. The steamship Nova Sco-
tia, which arrived from Liverpool at Bal
timore few days ago, reported expert
encing great difficulty in getting
through, and a large number of ships
were seen frozen solidly in the ice-felds.
The presence of such great quantities
of ice in the North Atlantic at this sea-
son of the year is unusual, and it will
perceptibly affect our climate for several
weeks at least.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the quaker poet
who wrote Barbara Frietchie, is out in
a letter against the savagery of war be-
tween nations. He thinks the centen-
NAL a good year to inaugurate a new
civilization in this respect, and settle
disputes by arbitration. The peace of
the world is now threatened by the
churches, and he says it is high time for
the Christian church to awaken to full
sense of its awful responsibility. If,
after the dreadful experience of 1,8OO
years, it fails to perceive the necessity
of shaking itself clear of the barbarism
of war, it has small claim upon the
worlds respect and confidence.
Col. DE WALLER, head of the Swiss
school of artillery, figures out the an
nual cost, on a peace standing, o4 the
armies of Germany, Russia, France,
Austria and Italy at 81, 321, 100, 600
This is allotting only 10000 to Rus
sia, her Asiatic forces being excluded,
as not likely to participte in European
war. The aggregate force of the five
powers named is $500, 900 men. The
annual expenditures of Russia, Ger
many and France for their maintenance
averages $3.50, 600, 600, while those of
Austria and Italy are $133, 900, 600 per
annum. What horrible drain on the
productive industries of an overcrowded
continent.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

THIRTY-sEvEN million dollars worth
OF petroleum leaves this country every
year.
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The Oshkosh fire depleted the in
surance companies to the extent of
S9l7 900, so far as heard from.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

Elk SENATOR NYE, of Nevada, is in
the Bloomingdale asylum, affected with
softening of the brain, and it is thought
will not recover.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

NEWS from all over Arkansas is to
the effect that the prospect for a fine
wheat crop was never better.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

QUEEN VIC. will be fiftv-six on the
24th OF next month. Fat, fair, and
ifty-siz.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

The president having rendered the
position OF attorney general to Judge
Edwards PierrePont, of New York, that
gentleman has accepted it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

The statistics show that there has
been a steady decline in the manufac-
ture and use of lager beer in this coun-
try during the past two years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13
Rules of the Road.

The great leading rule is that no one
has the right to be in the middle of the
road, except when no other person is
present to claim his right to the use of
one-half the highway, which claim he
has precisely the same right to assert
when travelling in the same direction
that he has when be meets another.
This is the Law of every state in the
union, and, so far as We are informed,
of every civilized country; and all per
sons violating it are liable for all dam
ages resulting from their conduct.
When teams meet, the American law
is that each, turning to the right, shall
give half the road The custom and
the law of England require teams to
turn out to the left-9s expressed IN an
old dOggerel:
The rule Of tbs road is a paradox quite
In riding or driving along
If you keep to the left. you are sure to go
right,
II you keep to the right, you go wrong.
In passing, the person IN front is re-
quired to turn to the left, go as TO allow
the person IN the rear, who is travelling
at a more rapid pace, to pass by on his
right.
Where teams approach at right an
giles, or intersecting roads, it is the
duty of the person who, by turning to
the right, would pass to the rear of the
other team, to pull up, and allow the
other to pass.
In wide streets in towns and cities,
these general principles should always
be observed, though, from the necessi
ties of the case, persons are less strict
In keeping on the proper side of the
street, being frequently obliged, with
proper care for the rights of others, to
pass to the other side to avoid a crowd
or other obstruction.
A person with a light vehicle meeting
or desiring to pass heavily-laden team,
especially if the latter is going up a hill,
will generally turn out without requir-
ing the loaded wagon TO give half the
road, but the law imposes no such obli-
CATION in any case, and under all cir
cunstances requires each to give half the
road, unless by accident or some OBJ
structio1 it Is found impossible to dc
so.
If a person happens TO be in th'
wrong place on the road or street, per
! son coming in collision with him is not
| entitled to damages if, by the use o
| ordinary and reasonable diligence, h'
have cOuld avoided it.
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The King of BuTmah wants "eom-
petent english editor" to conduct the
FIRST journal started in his dominione.
He offers q salary Of one thousand rupees
per month-aboutS S5O0-but the incum-
bent has to follow strictly the kings
policy and forbear foOling with any
novel propositions. He can not expose
any rings or write up any scandals or
record any drunks or suggest improve
ments. de is simply to be the engineer
of the kings organ. II he devlate q
hairs breadth, his head viii come Of at
once. All copy has 10 be submitted to
his majesty. A courageous young man
might apply for the position.
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THE New York Herald gives the value
of the cotton exported from the United
States IN 1874 as S244, 233, $50, or ST.
32l, 1886 less than the value of gram pro-
ducts exported, if we reckon pork, lard
and bacon as a condensed form of In
dian corn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

TICKET OF LEAVE MEN.-The New
York Assembly has enacted a law which
grl nts liberty to conyicts sentenced to
Imprisonment for life, at the expiration
of fifteen years of penal servitude.
The condition of good behavior is, of
course, made precedent TO the opera
ton of the Law. When the news of
this legislation was received IN Sing
Sing, the convicts made all sorts of
demonstrations of their exultation.
The provisions of the law are also eI-
snded to convicts under sentence for
twenty-five years. The immediate
effect of the law will be to set free but
two of the inmates. One Is q negro
nonogen3rian, sentenced for life for the
commission of a burglary somewhere
back IN the infancy Of the Republic,
and the other is a murderer. The law
Is an adoption of the ticket-of-leaye idea
and il is thought will tend to render
the couvicts more submissive.
in Providence, the other nigh,
just as Lucy Stone had hurled at the
crowd the conundrum, ''shall women
leave their children at home and neglect
them while they 60 10 vote ?" a sium-
bering infant swoke and gave vent to a
prolonged yell.
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mel, if they make the trip in two hours.
Boynton, the swimmer, crossed in a
much shorter time than the Bessemer.
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of all the slanderers of Boston wo-
men the Rev. Mr.. Lsthrop, of Amherst,
Mess, is the most fragrant. At n wo-
mans rights meeting held in the very
city upon which he cast opprobium, he
declared not only that the Boston wO-
men were In the habit Of chewing to-
baceo, but were more welded TO this
vice than the man. He could get ten
Of the male sinners to reform where he
could induce Que woman 70 throw aside
the demoralizing weed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

SUMNER travel to Europe commenced
on Saturday. Five steamers left New
York for England and France, carrying
AT cabin and 5S5 steerage passengers.
The stoerage tourists were mostly re-
turning immigrants, however, going to
take look at fatherland.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

THElNew York city postofice is sell
ing over $1,000 worth of newspaper
stamps alone a day, and the postmas-
ters say this is a sure barometer of a
revival in business.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

1t is said that Gustave Dore is 10
receive $50, 600 for series OF designs
for a new edition Of Shakespeare.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

OK the 2lst ult. twelve car loads of
silver coin ore were received at the st.
Louis reduction and refining works,
from Old Mexico. From a single local
ity in Southern New Mexico there comes
to or through st. Louis nearly $50, 900
a month in silver bullion-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

DANIEL O'LEARY, of Chicago, has ac-
complished the feat of walking one
hundred and sixteen miles in twenty
three hours and eight minutes, in Phil
adelphia. He had undertaken to walk
one hundred and fifteen miles in twen-
ty-four hours. The time he made is
said TO be the best on record.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

The Rome (Ga.) Commercial states
that n merchant of Resaca employs a
number of children to collect bullets
from the hard-fought field. He pays
them five cents pound, and has already
shipped to Baltimore sixteen thousand
pounds at good profit. He has on
hand two thousand pounds more.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

In responding to the toast, ''The
Queen" Jolly Englishman at the Mas
sachusetts Centennial celebration said ::
81 wi sh 10 express my satisfaction in
being with you here today, and my equal
satisfaction in having beeL absent a
hundred years ago"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

A BILL substituting license for pro-
hibition in respect to the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors has just passed both
branches of the legislature of Michigan,
which is the fourth state where similar
legislative measures have been adopted
within few weeks.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

The New York Bulletin learns upon
the best Washington authority that the
government will not put in circulation
any of the silver coinage, in pursuance
of the redemption act, until gold has
fallen to about 10, as with gold rang
ing above that quotation, the coin
would be bought up for export.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

THERE appears to be a sharp contest
between the cities of Cincinnati and
Louisville as to which shall have the
western connection of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

JUDGES Brooks and Dick, in their
charges to grand jurors in North Caro-
lima, declared the criminal features of
the civil rights act unconstitutional, as
no law could say men are socially
canal
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

A NEW ORLEANS correspondent of the
New York Times stated that if affairs
IN Louisiana become settled, foreign
company, with a capital of $40, 600, 900,
is ready to come and purchase 400. 600
or 100000 acres of land in the state and
settle upon the purchase industrious
English and German agriculturists.
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THE time between New Orleans and
Vera Cruz is to be shortened to two and
a half days, by emitting two or three
stops of the steamers. This is done to
encourage traffic between Mexico and
the United States.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

IN the great fire at Oshkosh, Wis,
the other day, ,sixty-nine business houses
and about five hundred dwelling houses
were destroyed. The total loss is put
down at $4,000, 600, and the insurance
will amount from $500, 600 to 81, 900, 900.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

The Florida season has closed and
the visitors are coming home to get out
of the way OF the swamp fever. It is
said that 33, 600 visitors have wintered
in Florida, spending there at least 49,
OOO 600.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

AT present the aggregate volume of
the United States foreign trade is, ac-
cording to the New York Express, less
than it has been since the year 1871,
with no immediate prospect of recovery.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

SUITS for damages, to a considerable
amount, have been brought against the
Baltimore and Potomac railroad COM
pany on account of the recent terrible
accident in which o many persons were
manned.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

The English arctic expedition is
nearly ready to start on the dreary
voyage to the north pole. The amount
OF the appropriation to equip the two
vessels was about S5OO,OOO. The
Swedes are also fitting out an expedition
for the same purpose. There have
Deen thir'y-two arctic expeditions,
British and American, since 1919
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1T Is not much to the credit Of the
new Bessemer steamship, which is de-
signed to prevent sea -sickn sss, that on
her recent trial trip between England
and France she only made a speed of
twenty miles IN seven hours, Most
Peopl" would not object to be little
7e"-H'ck, in crossing the English chan
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13

The patrons of husbandry have a re-
markable predominance in the legisla.
ture OF Oregon, seventeen of the thirty
senator's and fifty-four of the sixty rep
resentatives belonging to the order.