The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-05

9I Jhelr emauclpated slaves
The yellow fever is at Pensacola. II
IS unusually early for this dreaded man
'testation. In some of the most de-
Sastating yellow fever seasons the dis
ease has not shown itself on the gulf
co st until Sept mber.
THE plague, or Back Death. has
Swaked from its thirty years sleep in the
east, aud Is reported to be spreading
with rapidity in Asia. About eighty
live years ago, it desolabed RUSSIA. and
one hundred and fifty years have passed
since 1T ravaged and almost depopu-
Bat come parts OF Europe,
FoR young Children New York is at
present one of the deadliest cities at
40 time do they thrive there overmuch.
but last weeks mortality among them
was exceptionally great. Under five
years of age they died at the rate of
eighty six per diem, the main trouble
being diarchmal disease.
TIE postofiice department has sent
20 the department of justice the names
of thirty mail contractors who are
TO be prosecuted for failure to perform
service after their bids were accepted.
The contracts were relet by the gov
ornment, and tho difference between
the amount paid and the bids, for the
thirty-nine routes, was $417, ,O87. which
IL the amount of damages claimed
4
The German minister of finance re-
ports a deficiency in the Budget for this
year Of 50 600, 600, and the tax on beer
is to be raised-a proceeding which will
be Immensely unpopular in Germany,
where everybody consumes largely of
the ruby liquid. Such large deficiency
as 81, 600, 900 would seem singular, with
the millions which have been paid by
France, were it not apparent that Ger
many hns been putting all her money
into her armies.
The Boston journal of Chemistry re-
grets that the millers use all their |
finest, soundest wheat for fine -four, and |
the poorest for Graham or brown bread, |
a general name given TO mixtures of |
bran and spoiled -four. "What we
need is good, sweet, whole wheat flour
finely ground, and put up secure
ly for family use, and any western mil
Ter who will give his earnest attention
20 furnishing such flour will realize a
fortune speedily; securing the most
nutritive principles the Creator has
stored mp for mans food"
THE substance of Jno. d. Lees con-
fession is that thirty Mormons, with the
assistance of a large number of Indians,
decoyed emigrants from their entrench-
ment by flag of truce; that all were
murdered except seventeen children
that the deed was done under orders of
the leaders of the Mormon Church
that he took news of the massacre to
Brigham Young, who deplored the
transaction, and said it would bring
disaster upon the Mormon people. The
statement of Lee, so far as known, only
confirms preAious reports in regard to
the massacre.
SINCE the first of June, wheat has
advanced thirty-three cents in the
Chicago market. If the reports at hand
are reliable, the wheat crop of Europe
will be almost an entire failure, and
consequently the demand upon our
products will be unprecedented. This
will ensure the producer good paying
prices for the products of his farm for
at least year to come. While Great
Britain and the continent may suffer,
the people of America will be greatly
benefited. Just when the advance in
prices will cease it would be hazardous
to predict.
THE clerical newspapers in France
speculate on the causes of the great
flood with some asperity. 1t appears
that the municipal council of Toulouse
recently refused to erect a statue to
'the glorious and miraculous shep-
herdess of Pibrac," and one of the coun-
cjlors said, "We prefer fountain"
Whereupon the Gazette de Mines now
remarks, "God has fulfilled the wish of
these honorable councillors and sent
fountain to the capital of Laguedoc
which they little expected. Had the
town voted the required sum Divine
Providence" says the editor, would
mover have treated Toulouse so Sc
verely." It is understood that the
bishop of Chartres is OF the same
opinion.
THE committee appointed by the
Delaware Fruit Growers convention to
confer with the steamship companies in
regard to the shipment of peaches to
Liverpool have reported that they called
upon the authorities of the American
steamship company, aud they favored
the project. The company would allow
the growers TO fit mp the steerage for
ward cabin with their refrigerators,
which can be done with five hundred
dollars for each vessel. This portion of
the ship would hold 1000 or $4,000
baskets, and compartment immedi-
diately underneath could be fitted up
which would carry 5000 additional.
They would charge the growers for the
shipment of this amount of fruit to
Liverpool about two thousand dollars,
and give them the privilege of sending
out an agent free of charge with each
conslgnment
The July returns to the department
OF agriculture shows that the acreage in
corn Is about three per cent. greater
than last year. New England has in
creased her acreage about eleven per
cent. and the Pacific states about one
per cent All the great corn growing
regions have increased acreage-Mid.
ele states two per cent, South Atlantic
states three per cent Gulf states, in
land southern states, twelve per cent,
states north of Ohio seven, west of the
mississippi fourteen per cent. The
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