The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-08

RETAIL cigar dealers are to be afflicted
with a patent cigar-box, which the
commissioners of internal revenue has
invented in order to keep them from
swindling. The box has perforated
coupons on the inside edge, correspond
ing with the number of cigars in the
box. The coupons are furnished by the
government in place of stamps, and
when a cigar is sold a coupon has TO be
destroyed before the purchaser. The
design is to make the smokers detect
ives.
JUDGE BLATcHFoRD, of the United
States district court, n. Y, has given
his opinion that notary public has no
authority, under the recently adopted
revenue statutes of the United States.
to take affidavits to be used in United
States courts, except proofs Of debt in
bankruptcy and depositions le 6ene
esse. Other affidavits must be made
before a United States commissioner or
register in bankruptcy.
FORTY thousand coal miners of Penn
sylvsnia have suspended labor during
the last three months rather than yield
to a reduction of wages proposed by
their employers. There seems to be
little probability of a compromise being
effected SO long as the striking miners
shall be able to draw slender pecuniary
supplies from the associations by " hich
these labor movements are directed.
Itappears that the late John Mitchell,
who was elected a member of the
British parliament from Tipperary,
Ireland, as a subject of Queen Victoria,
States, as appears from transcripts of
the records recently made in the office
of the clerk of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia for the British
minister.
THE supreme court of the United
States has affirmed the decision of the
supreme court of Missouri, denying
Mrs. Minor, of st Louis, the right to
vote, holding that the constitution of
the United States does not confer such
a right upon any person, and that it is
therefore,. a question solely fer state
regulation.
GERMANY, with population of 49,
600, 900 souls, graduated 66O physicians
last year, rejecting 1O8 applicants. The
record of the United States, with its
100000 population, for the same
year, is 5000 graduates, and few, if
any, reflections. Is it strange that the
medical profession is over-crowded in
this country?
NEW CALEDONIA is not a good prison
house for communists. A Melbourne
dispatch states that twenty more cf
these willy fellows have built themselves
boats and escaped. Some of them will
doubtless turn up in this country.
In addition to his hotel, Florida
letter says that Astor will erect twenty
villa cottages in Jacksonville, which
will cost about $4,000 apiece, and it is
supposed they will rent for abort ST.
500 each.
Gov. KELLOGG has issued call for
an extra session of the Louisiana leg
islature, to meet on April II, to carry
out the adjustment, and to enact laws
necessary to the changed condition of
affairs.
Navigation in Canada is not expected
to open before the 18th of May. The
canals are solid in many places, and
the ice in the st. Lawrence river is un-
ususlly thick.
THE citizens of Augusta, Georgia,
have contributed Sc 900 to the suffer
ers from the tornado, which desolated
several counties in the state from Chat
tahoochee to Savannah rivers.
"CoNTRABAND whisky is quoted reg
ular in the New York papers. It sells
FIVE and six cents per gallon below the
stuff upon which taxes are paid.