The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

one OF the greatest conspiracies ever
formed. 1t numbered about Eve hun
dred members, many of them beng
men OF wealth and position both here
and abroad. The mort extensive ram
i6cation of Tho system were in England
and Oh the continent, agents being
Kept in nearly every large port
FRANCE now sees4s 20 be the reservoir
into which The gold of the world is pour
ing. In the first three months of the
present year the.imports of the precious
metals exceeded 9s0, 600, 600 francs, or
seventy Raillton dollars, an5 almost four
ttths OF the whole was in gold coin or
bullion. The sources of this supply
were much more various than may be
supposed, for much less than one-half
was sent from England. The United
States contributed about ten million
dI-i.
Mrs. LINCOLN has been adiudged in
eano by the Cook county court. For
several years her eccentririties IN Chi
cago have been the subject of much
commesst Her belief was that Chicago
was to be burned up again, and she re-
Gently drew $57, 900 worth Of bonds out
of bank and carried them on her person
for safety. In this act she might possi-
bly, be judged eminently sane, but her
limitless purchases of articles she did
not need and many strange hallucina-
tions gave evidence of her falling
mind.
THE western distillers whose estab-
lishmeuts were seized the other day,
have fOrpacd combination for the pur-
pose Of testing the constitutionality of
the revenue laws that permit the seizure
of property in such summary manner
Would it not be good idea for these
gentlemen 60 form a combination for
the purpose of promoting honesty in
the conduct of their business, so Is TO
obyiate the necessity for such seizures ?
They viii 10 well to consider the sug-
gestion, at any rate.
In eastern Kansas and western Mis-
souri, a grasshOpper panic already pre-
walls. The pests are already up and
doing, and have started on their line of
march, destroying everything green in
their way. The route lies in a north
westerly direction, and the only hope of
the farmers is that the grasshoppers
may disappear In time TO save the corn
crop. In several counties in Minnesota
the eggs are Matching fast, and warm
weather is expected to bring with it a
renewal of last years devastation and
ruin.
CHARLES E. LAWRENCE, ex-revenue
inspector, who was brought back from
Europe the other day, charged with
smuggling silks into New York. is suf-
fering under the weight of $50 indict-
ments, upon which he viii require $780,
900 to secure his release from Jail. His
frauds were perpetrated by entering
cases of valuable silks as corsets. Tho
cases of cOrsets were sent to the public
stores for appraisement, and the remain
ing cases, which contained the silks and
AbSCHs were QollNSE6u TO Lawrence ana
his partners. 1t is estimated that by
their arrangements over 81, 500, 900 were
lost to the United States treasury.
In a letter written by Mai. Wn. ].
Sykes to John H Oberly, one of the
directors of the Cairo and st. Louis
narrow gage railroad company, after
showing the advantages of that road to
Cairo ne urges upon the capitalist who
built that road the Importance of ex-
tending it down the Mississippi river,
through Memphis, as far as Vicksburg,
and perhaps TO New Orleans. He as
sumes that it can only be done by cap
italists who Will undertake it as an in
vestment, because, as he says, a road
from st. Louis through Cairo to Mem
phis would pay much better according
to its cost than one merely from st.
Louis to Cairo.
SHARKEY, the New York murderer,