The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-11

awarded to firm in the latter city at
100 currency. At the present price OF
| gold, this is tintamourt TO 96 per cent.
"a pretty good figure for five per cent.
bonds, and showing how solvent states
can reduce their rate of interest an the
consequent burden, even when capital
is most timid.
AN English authority of eminence,
in comparing the cost of government
in the United States and in England,
puts the national expenditures of the
former at " e75, 45O, 600, against Ell, :
900, 600 in the United Kingdom. It's
local expenditure q. e., county and
town expenditures is about e59, $50, ,O0O
against e27, 500, coo, in the United King
dom. The entire pnblic expenditure
of the United States is put down at
e134, 5000 against EOS. 500, 600 in
the United Kingdom.
The transit observations on the South
Pacific appear to have been generally
successful. Professor Peters party in
particular succeeded in making all the
observations that the scientific heart
could desire. We shall know before
many weeks precisely how far off the
| sun is, and whether the esrth is ap-
proach ng the sun or receding from it,
as the frost bitten people of Europe ard
America are just now ready to believe.
THE committee appointed to examine
the Georgia state treasury find that the
accounts OF Treasurer Jones are def
cient some S68, 900, and that he has ille-
gally paid S152, 600 old bonds. The
committee recommend that Jones be
reque sted to resign. They do not at
tack the integrity OF the treasurer, but
condemn the loose system of book
keeping and general admins ration OF
affairs.
THE Georgia Legislature has declared
unconstitutional, null and void, the
second series of six hundred thousand
dollars in bonds endorsed by the state
in 1870, issued to the Macon and Bruins
wick railroad, said endorsement having
been declared binding by the legisla-
ture of 1872. FIRST series bonds, $685.
OOO, are declare valid and binding on
the state
THE commander-in-c chief of one OF
the corps of the French army has Issued
an order condemuing suicide in severe
terms, aud deciding that every soldier
who commits suicide shall be buried in
the night without military honors and
without am escort. He says that " the
soldier who puts an end to his life is
guilty of an act of cowardice."
IT is reported in New York that ne
gotiation is on foot between a body of
wealthy Cincinnati men and the United
States rolling stock company to secare
the equipment of the latter company,
recently removed from the Atlantic and
Great Western railroad, and with it 10
operate the Cincinnati Southern as soon
as completed.
THE New Orleans Republican con-
tains an elaborate article claiming that
the Eads' bridge at st. Louis, while it
is Sp obstruction to tie upper COM
merce, is an engineering failure, and
that the Eads' jetty scheme is one to
delay the permanent Improvement at
the rivers mouth, in the interest of the
bridge stock and the st. Louis local
railroad rings.
THE sultan of Turkey has an income
of ten millions of dollars ear, and
he spends it with amazing rapidity on
the peculiar oriental luxuries, while
Il ousands of his subjects are actually
dying Of starvation. A subscription is
now being taken up in England to re-
lieve these poor devils, while the sultan
is lUxuriating in his barem.
In Illinois the courts have just de
cjded that sleeping-car companies are
not responsible for a, ticles stolen from
passengers. In New York a jury has
Just found railroad company guilty of
negligence in the case of bonds stolen
from a party on their cars, and gave a
verdict for plaintiff for SIG, 6S5.
THE new law If military service il
Russia is much more liberal in the
m after of exemptions than tie French
aud German regulations. Not only
sons of widows, but all so called sup
ports of families, as brotBers whose
sisters are unprovided for, ETC., are
exempted.
BRIGHAM YOUNG owns 5000, 900 of the
first mortgage bonds of the Utah Cen
trail railroad, which, although only
thirty eight miles long. does business
of 500, 900 per month. Brigham's IA
v,lite son John controls the Utah West
ern railroad.
THE Methodist cnurches, north and
south, have appointed a commission OF
nine from each body, with power to
submit terms of union to a general
convention. The convention will meet
in Abingdon, Virginia, on the first
Monday of May, 1875.
THE number OF bales of cotton seized
/ in the south under orders from the
/ treasury department after the close of
the war was 33.63S; gross proceeds,
81, $50, ,676; total expenses, 81, ,16O, 48I;
proceeds released, S6OS, $40; proceeds
in the treasury. 81, $50, ,672.
/ IT is estimated that the new revenue
bill will realize S34, 900, 600. as follows
SI2, ,OO0, 600 on whisky, IS. 900, 600 on
sugar, 81, coo, 600 on tobacco, 81, 600 600
on cigars, and ss, 600. 600 on restoration
! of the horizontal tax.
THE Sioux City adventurers who in
va led the Black hills country few
months ago, in defiance of ali laws and
treaties, squatted comfortably down
| among the goli-nusge.s, and from all
accounts are making good head-way
/ into tl.at remote metslIic bonanza.
IT is stated that Earl Derby has ac-