The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08

ObAOh LACluc threatens q war
against the express companies, propos-
ing to run the cars and do the business
itself. III some of the profits on express
sage wele diverted to modify the
charges on freight and passengers, the
public would bid This new movement
God-speed.
CHoAGos rev directory is out at
last. A comparison of names with ST.
Louis and Cincinnati shows CHICAGO
10000 in the majority st. Louis has
100. .70l names, Cincinnati 1O6, OFT, and
Chicago 146 1873. The latter CITY had
the advantage, however, being the last
to show up.
LONDON adviceA indicate that the
huaEcial breeze is over, and attribute
the late crisis to over speculation, par
ticularly IN teas, silks and opium, and
an excess of discounted paper. It may
ne remarked that in this country also
the tea trade threatens to be overdone.
as IL now comes round the world to us
both ways, from the east as of old, and
from the west via San Francisco.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL ex-
plains that the increase in the rate to be
charges for registered letters, FROM
eight to ten cents, has been made neces-
sary by the fact that this branch of the
service has not been paying expenses.
The law leaves the rate optional with
the postmaster general, and Creswel re-
duced it from fifteen to eight cents
There were 4,50O,O COO letters registered
last year.
SPEAKING of the crops in Louisiana,
the New Orleans Picayune says reliable
accounts from every quarter concur in
representing the crops of this year as
exceptionally fine. A better mutual
feeling prevails as between emplover
and employe, and there has been be-
nehcent concurrence Of circumstances to
reward the courageous energy with
which, despite the many reverses and
dlscouragements of the past, the plant |
ers have labored to secure the present
and propitiate the future.
THE United States steamer Plymouth.
which is to go to the mouth of the Rio !
Grande to assist in preventing Mexican |
raids. carries twelve guns but as the |
river is not nRvigRble on account of |
sand and shoals, the eservices of the vessel
can probably not extend beyond the |
protection of Brownsville the capital
OF Cameron county, which is only |
thirty five miles from the Gulf. Boats |
may ascend, however, to a considerable |
distance, provided they can be of any
use.
The new system of prepayment of |
postage on newspapers by stamps |
seems to promise satisfactory results |
in the way of revenue The weight of |
this class of matter from the New York |
postoffice during the first quarter of the /
present year aggregated BIAS, ,357 |
pounds. The postage collected amount,
ed to $50, 1853. At this rate New York
city alone will pay during the year
much more than it has ever paid be-
before, or abont one quarter of the en-
tire receipts throughout the United /
St.tes from this source.
The strike that has Just come to an
end IN the Pennsylvania coal regions is |
estimated to have caused a loss of at /
Toast ten millions of dollars to the CD |
orators and workmen. It was all about a |
reduction of ten per cent. in the pay of |
the workmen. AS they have resumed |
work at the rates proposed by the op-
orators, it will be seen that they have |
gained nothing, but have lest their |
wages for three or four morths. They |
are, no doubt, glad to get work now,
even at the reduced rates, for many of |
them we're reduced to the verge of star
walton by their prolonged idleness.
The homHest women in the world are |
said TO live in the valley of Spit, twelve |
thousand feet above the sea, in the |
Himalaya mountains. Their faces are |
horribly repuIsive, and they wear high |
leather boots clear up to their bustles, |
which they fill with -four to keep their !
extremities warm. Yet, nevertheless,
travellers say that the men of Split are
Just as apt to get "looney and lose
their sleep over these ridiculous crea-
lures as are the men of more favored
tANAAH ONNA bINAA ONAl uGdubl6ts luGI6
is Just as much signing in Spiti as
there is anywhere else.
The project of the st. Petersburg
conference on the international laws
of war seems to be kept in allegiance
As yet only Austria, Germany, France,
Italy and sweden, have siRnitied their
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these powers hav given in simply their
adhesion, while Germany has, at the
same time, sent in the amendments
which she means TO make to the prelim-
mary stipulations of the protocols
signed last year in Brussels. England,
as it is well known, has decided to take
no part in it, while rome of the smaller