The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-22
TIMELY TOPICS.

L@A LII L vi lNJkO.
CYRUS FIELD wants the modest snm
OF ten million dollars from the British
government for his Pacific cable. and
the probabilities are that he will Get IL
sooner or later.
The United States has now beoome
the greatest silver producing country in
the world, taking precedence of even
Mexico, which has heretofore been sup-
posed to furnish two-thirds of the total
supply.
a WRITER in Blackwood's Magazine
Oonciusively calculates that if the pub
ilc debt OF the civilized world goes on
increasing at It's present rate, in a quar-
ter of century the entire revenues of
ali the nations will be insufficient TO
pay the interest thereon.
FoR some reason, best known TO them
selves. the English rihemen will not let
the American team compete for the
Elcho shield at Wimbledon. The dis
patch says they are willing TO have
special match, to be shot between the
Americans and eight selected from the
three English teams.
THE government of the little kingdom
of Greece, being without money. has
hit upon an excellent means of defrav-
ing the expenses of it's foreign diplo-
matte service. It has sent a letter to
each OF its legations abroad, informing
the heads of those legations that thew
are at liberty to continue to manage
affairs as heretofore, provided they do
1t at their own expense
FRENCH journalists maintain that
England must raise bigger army if
she wants to exert any influence in
European affairs. A hundred thousand
regular troops are a mere bagatelle
compared with the immense armies of
the present day. England is too near
the continent, they think, to be indif-
ferent to complications in European
politics.
ANOTHER American shootist is loose
in England. We refer to Bogardus. of |
Illinois, the champion pigeon slayer.
He yesterday beat an unhappy English |
man matched to shoot with him, and |
now, of course, he challenges all Eng |
land, twirling his double-b barreled shot |
gun in the face ard rubbing it under /
the nose, as it were, of John Bull. We |
wish Bogardus would come home. He |
is rather rubbing it in.-C Cincinnati
Commercial.
THE Guelphs and Ghibbelines of the
Cherokee nation have succeeded in pet |
ting up twenty-seven murder cases.
which were recently tried before the
United States district court at Fort
smith, Ark. As a result of the trial,
seven OF the semi-civilized will be
hanged in a batch on the third day of
September, This will be the largest
Wholesale hanging since the execution
of the thirty y-three Sioux Indians at
Mankato, Mimi, in 1862.
PROF. JENNEY, who is prospecting the
Black Hills for gold, under instructions
erom the government, has sent in another
report, fully confirming his first impress
sion that there are no deposits of the
metal in the region around Harney's |
Peak that will pay for the mining. He
proposes now to explore the supposed |
deposits in the bed of the Cheyenne,
and will report the result. The pro- |
fessor is apparently doing his work in a |
thorough and conscientious manner, |
and, until it is completed, the best ad- |
vice that can possibly be given to per-
sons who entertain the idea of going to |
the Black Hills is" Don't"
THE recent abrogation of three |
articles of the constitution of the Ger |
man empire which brings the Roman |
Catholic church in Germany in COM
plete subiection to the government, and |
the severity of the Falck laws passed |
in 1873 are showing results in the flight |
of German ecclesiastics to the United |
States. The telegraph announces the |
arrival in New York of large number |
OF priests and nuns, who propose to |
settle in Illinois, where Bismarck and |
DIR. Falck can not curtail their ecclesi- |
astical freedom. The Prussian ecclesi-
nstical bills, in effect, Danish every
Roman Catholic from Germany.
The ravages of the small-rox are in
Creasing in New York, and it is also re-
ported that there is greater danger than
usual this summer of visitation of
yellow fever. This disease is said to be
raging with great virulence throughout
the West Indies, and many cases have
been taken to Key West, Fla. The
season has been peculiarly adapted to
the spread of yellow fever in Cuba, as
there have been none of the usual cold,
heavy gales called "Northers," which
have acted as a check to the spread of
the disease. Vessels are now due at
New York from ports where yellow fever
is known to be raging.
THE San Francisco Chronicle predicts
heavy italian immigration into the
United States, and consequent acces-
sion to the number of organ grinders
and plaster vendors. Hitherto the
Italians have been pouring into Uruguay
and the Argentine Republic, tine italian
population there now numbering balf
million souls, and constituting the chief
business element. The unsettled state
OF affairs, however, in these countries,
has led the emigrants to turn their at
teution to the United States. And the