The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-15
TIMELY TOPICS

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TIMELY TOPICS.
The internal revenue receints TO-. L.,
fiscal year were S1O9, ,7s6, ,39s. an exces,
OF nearly $4,000, 900 over the estimates
The customs receipts rere SI57, 500, 4Os
or less by 81, 409, 592 than the estimates
ard 50, ,466, 7l5 less than last year.
ONE of the many good points OF the
new constitution of Arkansas, adopted
less than year aao. is the provision for
the payment of The state debt. This
provision iR Low being carried out upder
the means provided by the last legisla-
ture.
Jared r. Buell, of Indianapolis, and
Susan d. Gilbert, Of Athol. Mass. have
married" themselves by a written con-
tract, which is TO ''be in force during
our physical lives, provided our mutual
love natures ever blend as now-but to
terminate without prejudice by the wish
of either party, if love shall ever cease
to be mutual"
In 1870, New York city had popuIa-
tion of 942, ,292, and municipal debt of
1922, 500, 78O. In 1871, London had a
population of 1856. 987, and city debt
OF S25, ,91S,000. These figures are i'm
posing. The city and county debts of
the whole union are estimated TO be to
day $35, 600, 900; but as this estimate is
only for those having one million and
over Of Liabilities, the total may be set
down at thousand million. Add the
state and national debts and there re-
suits heavy load for posterity.
1T Is quite discouraging to know that
the importation of fire crackers for
fourth of July purposes this year will
amount to 300, 600 boxes-a large excess
over the receipts of last year, owing
doubtless to the centennial typhoid,
The Chinese and Japanese make a good
tmIg out of the squibs, as they alone
can manufacture such explosives, the
attempts to reproduce them in this
country having failed. The invention.
however, is deemed by many people,
not highly creditable to Johu China
mans civilization.
The inundations in Southern France
have called forth the ready sympathy of
the French people, for the sufferers.
and relief funds, so familiar to Ameri-
can ears of late, are being raised every-
where. The city of Toulouse, which
has suffered so terribly. is very ancient,
having been leading city of the Gauls
when the Romans conquered their coun.
try. Massive walls of Roman WORK.
manship have been broken down by the
recent floods from the river Garonne,
on whose banks the city is built. The
loss Of property is now placed at $780,
100000.
LATER advices from France confirm
previous reports of the frightful charac-
ter OF the inundation along the river
Goronne. Many towns have been sub
merged and whole sections of country
overflowed. More than thousand Ii yes
were lost, over two hundred dead bodies
being found in one village. Twenty
Thousand people are homeless and suf-
feriug. President MacMahon has de-
parted for the scene of desolation TO
render such assistance as may be nee
essary. The Garonne rises in the
Pyrenees, on the confines of Spain, and
is subject to overflow, on account of the
general fatness of its banks.
People see things differently. For
instance, the terrible earthquake that
recently destroyed San Jose Ge Cucuta,
in Columbia. When the catastrophe
began, most OF the inhabitants went
down upon their knees and prayed for
relief and mercy. Yet, in the midst of
the scene, when the earth was heaving,
buildings falling, and the dying groans
and shrieks of men, women and children
filling the air, wild horde of demoni-
acal thieves and robbers swarmed into
the towns, sacking houses, pillaging
bank vaults, and plundering the dead,
and even numbering. II an earthquake
VII not quicken mans conscience,
there is no telling what will.
THE New York World makes the
establishment of geological garden in
Philadelphia the occasion for the pre-
sentation of some interesting facts con-
oerning the famous London geological
gardens. The Lcndon collection in
1873 included $50 quadrupeds, 1927
birds aud 225 reptiles, and was at that
time, as yet, the largest in existence.
The first IhinOceros cost e1, 600; the
four giraffes e7OO, and their carriage an
additional e7OO; the elephant and calf,
es0O. and the hippopotamus, though a
glft, was not brought home and housed
for less than GI. .OO0 The cost of
maintaining the London gardens is very
great, but the receipts are ample to
meet it.
TIE American rife team has achieved
great victory in Ireland over the crack
shots of that country. A match was
shot last week between the two teams.
In the first bout, at eight hundred
yards, the Americans were beaten by
me point, but in the two succeeding
bouts, at nine hundred and thousand
ards respectively, the Americans came
out ahead, thus winning the match.
The victory of the Americans was re-
ceived with tremendous enthusiasm, and
they were the recipients of the most
distinguished honors from the populsce
and their competitors. The contest has
been marked by the most fraternal feel
ing on all sides. The American rifle
men have been treated with the utmost
cousiderat;o,, b,- 4I,a;- Iosts and avar,