The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-10

IHE government has forwarded 9 600
improved Springfield rifles to the state
armory of Texas for militia purposes
and possible use on the Mexican border
THE Knozvillesnd Charleston Railroad
has been finally disposed of to Mai.
Thos. O'Connor & Co., the difficulties
IN the way of the purchase having been
satisfactorily settled.
OUR national debt is 50, 131, ,OOO, 600 :;
the total of state debts, 1890, 900, 900 /;
county debts, $3.50, 600, 600; city and
town debts, S57O, 900. 900; total, 1911, -
900, 600.
The principal object of Vice President
Wilson's trip to the south at this time
is said to be to visit the spot at Auctin,
Texas, where his only son, an officer in
the regular army, died.
ACCORDING to recent report from
army headquarters, over 1,7OO men
have deserted within the last ten
months, being a proportion of one in
a.
A. J. Alexander, ofaWoodburn Farm,
KY, has sold to Mr.. Fox, of England,
the oath Duke of Airdrie aud the Doth
Duchess Of Airdrie at $4,000 for the
two.
Coz. ROBERT M. AND STEPHEN A.
DOUGLASS, sons of the late Stephen A.
Douglass, receive an award for 1,457
bales of cotton, or about 1858. 400,
seized in the state of Mississippi on the
maternal plantation.
THE terrible fires which have been
sweeping whole districts in Pennsylva-
mia are attributed to the great drouth,
arising from the reckless telling of tim
ber, which diminishes the rainfall and
opens an inviting field for the flames.
THE Inman line of steamships, which
for some years has been plying between
New York and Liverpool, intends to
transfer some of its ships to Baltimore,
with the expectation of establishing a
line between that city and Liverpool.
THE luxury of calling a lawyer shy
ster in st. Louis il so cheap that no
newspaper need practice self denial or
economy in this regard. The Republi-
can has just been assessed one cent
damages AS the result OF a protracted
libel suit.
No woman can wake up at o'clock
in the morning and listen TO the cease
less Growing of IA dozen neighboring
roosters without an emotion of thank
fitness TO a merciful and all-wise Provi-
dence for denying man both the genius
and the inclination to crow.
Now it is Queen Victoria who is again
threatened with assassination. O'Con-
nor, who, some time since, made an
attempt to shoot her, was found stand
ing in the identical ppot, the other day,
whore the former affair took place, OBJ
serving the queen. OF course he was
packed off TO the insane asylum.
THERE is noticeable falling off in
the importation of iron, according to
recent commercial statistics. Seven
hundred and fifty thousand tons were
imported from England alone in 1871.
The imports Of this year will hardly
exceed one hundred thousand, and this
decrease has been gradually effected.
PRoF. l.. II. JENKINS, superintendent
of the deaf and dumb asylum at Olathe,
Kansas, and others, have tested thel
qualities of grasshoppers as an article
Of food, and pronounce them, after be-
ing boiled in water TO clean them, and
fried in butter, to be quite palatable,
and even good eating, like small fish.
GAIT. LAWSON has astonishod the
geographers by discovering a mountain
ak miles high, ON the island of New
Guinea. This mile higher than
Mount Everest, Of the Himaiayan range,
hitherto believed to be the highest
mountain in the world. 1t is rather
singular that such protuberance has
not been seen before.
The girls Of Warsaw, KY, have unan-
imously resolved to pun chase no dry
goods costing more thsn twenty-five
cents per yard for the space Of one year.
Here is womans reform movement
which, if carried into effect throughout
the entire south, would do more TO cure
the ills of short crops and high rates
than any plan we have yet seen sug-
gested.
THE San Francisco jockey club has a
big bonanza for four mile races, as it
offers $50, 900 in gold as premiums for
a four mile-and- repeat race, 70 be run
next November. OF this sum the first
horse viii receive $4,000, the second
$4,000, the third 81, 900, and the fourth
$4,000. Special expenses will be
allowed 10 all horses coming from
Europe or east of the Rocky mountains.
CAnDmAn MANNINa has prevailed up
on the Pope to allow English historians
to search the private archives of the
Vatican for historical information.
Hitherto none but ecclesiastics have
been allowed to have access to these
precious manuscripts, Protestants being
hardly able 10 see single document
they could name. The newly obtained
privilege is expected to yield some
highly interesting results.
ONE Of the most recent of the sick
ening st. Louis sensations rs that which
tells of the discovery OF the putrefy-
ing body of smallpox patient in the
bottom Of we'll, from which a num-
ber of families had been getting water
for some time. Strange to say, the
people did not detect any popularity in
the taste Of the beverage They will
henceforth be proof against the small
pOx,
A YOUNG man left w ALA WlsIla several
weeks since for the purpose Of making
general tour of Northern California.
Before starting, he solemnly promised