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The ut most duration - fash from
beginning to end is estimated rot to
exceed the sixtieth part OF a second,
though retained upon the retina SO
much longer. This may be proved
during a storm on PeffSctly dark night
by setting a wheel TO work 50 rapidly
that in a steady light It's spokes appear
to blend and become individually in
visible. 1t being dark, and the wheel
rapidly revolving as above, when q flash
of lightning occurs the wheel will ap-
being distinctly AID separately visible
and still. This was first observed by
Wheststone, and is recorded by him, in
conjunction with other similar expert
ments, as conclusive proof that the
duration Of the fash is excessively brief.
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. Jail. or Die p"

On Saturday night the pursuers of
Dave Land, the murderer of Craig,
came up with him while asleep at a
friends house. He was taken and
bound across his horse, feet and neck
being tied together, both extremities
downward, carried about ten miles
from the place where captured, and
asked his choice "J Jail or die ?" he
chose the latter, and got a handsome
send off. He was left in the woods
completely riddled with buckshot. He
was to have preached a sermon on Sun
day. He remarked that il he had been
awake he would have made two more
bite the dust Galveston NelOs.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03
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THE LAST WALTZ

II rose and fen IN the dusky room
And died on the purple night outside,
Like the tremulous swell OF the oceans calm
And the steady sweep Of the coming tide.
And we st0od there together, hand in band,
With faces a-srnile but with hearts -a-quiTer,
With q love that rebElled ct a masters law,
As gse moved to tia strains OF At The Beautifu
River"
What If for once your cheek touched mine
And felt the play Of your breath on my face?
Love cannot always be fettered down
Nor rise to a sin in 4 last embrace.
For held you then but as others may
But held on to wake with terrible shiyer-
And the air grew faint and the world grew dim
AS We foated along :" The Beautiful RiYer.'
On the swelling aoR Of Its feFyid tide
We bufied the past with bitter pleastre;
Forgetting tht future-a bopel6ss lofe
And bte burned out to its golden messjire:
touch Of the hand and look OF the eye,
2 One burning word and We parted forever.
Parted to sight, but still heart to heart
In a passionate clasp which naught can sever.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

grave. ?" ''1t's nohe Of your business; .
responded the countess; I'm married
again, anyway" "I'u make it my
business" and she sprang like a tigress
at her late brothers, wife. The war
whoops of the Amazon brought the
police. The matter was settled in court,
but both, being noble ladies'. were of
course discharged. In the meantime,
the nonament is not to go up, for the
countess asseverates that ga whisky
bottle at the head of his grave would be
the most appropriate thing for him. -
foreign Correspondence
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

THE Schiller disaster recalls the fact
that IN October, l707, an English
sqaudron, under Sir Cloudesly Shovel
went to pieces off these same Seillv
Isles' oeeasioning loss of two thou.
sand lives. The troublesome rocks off
these Islands are called, very properly,
The " dogs of Scilly."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

CAPT. EADs has examined the ietty
ground at the mouth of the Mississippi.
and thinks in twelve months he wiz
have twenty feet of water there.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

STANLEY found Livingstone, but now
Stanley himself is lost in the wilds of
Africa, and nothing has been heard
from him in a year.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

1t is said that one of the leading
intellects of this country dates his
marvellous powers of reflection from
an incident in his childhood when he
spent half a day up an apple tree con-
sidering the fine points of a farmers
dog that was laughing at him from the
ground below.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

TRE state tax of New York this year
IS u mills, or about double that Of
Tennessee. An effort is being made in
the assembly to reduce it to 6 mills.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

"A French butcher who was on his
death-bed said TO his wife If I die,
Francoise, you must marry oar shop
boy. He is a good young mans and
the business cannot be carried on with
ont man to look after it " !" have
been thinking about that already" said
his wife.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03
Russia and England in Persia

The correspondent of the Indepen-
dence Beige sends some interesting IN
formation from Teheran. It is to the
effect that soon after Reuters conces-
sion of monopoly of Persian railroads
fell through, a Russian, one NJ. De
Falkenhagen, appeared on the scene,
who, taken up his residence at the
Russian legation in Theran, presG ntly
put in claims for a somewhat similar
concession, which were warmly sup
ported by the czar's representative.
NJ. Falkenhagen demanded and OBJ.
tanned a concession for a railroad from
Arax, on the Caspian sea, to Tabriz,
otherwise called Tauris, which is the
capital of the great northern province
Azerbijan. Tabriz is about hundred
miles south of the Russian province of
Georgia, which, up to 1900, belonged
to Persia 1t stands on the banks of
the Ali river, and was formerly very
famous for its splendid houses of en-
tertaInment, ,caraYansaries and mosques.
The great mosque at Tabriz, with the
exception of the Alhambra, is probably
! the most complete and beautiful speci-
men of Moorish architecture extant.
| In spite of all its decline, Tabriz is
still an important place, with pOpula-
! ton probably not less than seventy
| thousaud-at least before the famine
two years ago. Meanwhile the author
! ity we have quoted describes this con-
cession to Russia as having caused
| doubts to arise in Great Britain as to
whether England had done wisely in
failing more actively to support Baron
Reuter- IN his Persian schemes. and as
counter display of energy she seeks
to obtain from the shah the right to
establish commercial settlement-ihe
government of which would, it may be
presumed, be administered by British
officials - at Mohammerha, which is
situated below the junction of the
Tigriz and Euphrates, close to the Per.
sian gulf, and not far distant from
Bussorah. MohammeFah is close tC
the Kareon river, which is represented
as being navigable TO ShusteT, towT
one hundred and seventy miles west by
south of Ispahan, which offers greai
advantages for trade. These schemes
will, if carried out, no doubt ret OunC
to the advantage OF Russia in the nOItl
of Persia and of England IN the south
but we have some misgivings as to tn,
ultimate value of the shah's share il
such advantages. The proverb is com
mon to east as we'll as west about tn,
thin end of q wedge.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

PAoHIc-CoAsT sailors say that the
winter in Alsska has been as balmy as
m Florida.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03
Planting Forest Treeg.

The Forestry Annual of the Iowa
Horticultural society, prepared by Prof.
Il. H. McAfee, Of the Iowa agricultural
college, has the following directions for
planting trees designed for forests
Two systems sre used IN planting for
estry trees, that is by furrow and spade.
The furrow system may be described as
follows a furrow as deep as roots are
to go is ruu where the row is TO stand,
and trees are set at desired distances IN
the furrOw and GOV red IN partly by
hand, after which a light furroW is
thrown toward bus not upon the trees,
and tramping completes the process.
The manipulation is generally thus
The party carrying the trees sets and
holds the tree erect, and another with
hoe brings on the earth and packs il to
the tree with his loot.
With this method there is more OF
less probability thst the roots may be
placed in dry earth, which Is generally
disastrous 10 the tree, so the writer has
a decided preference Tor the spade sys-
tenn In any but very damp spring. To
plant by this system the trees should
be small, not over two feet high, and
young enough to have few lateral roots,
The ground being marked both ways
| If check lows are preferred. or one way
/ for drill Planting, the planter armel
with hedging spade "a sort with rathel
narrow and 1ong blade ending IN aI
obtuse aDgIe) thrrsts the spade hal
way down, then bears the handle for
/ ward, and so opens a space bel ind the
/ blade for the tree roots, an attendant
putting IN the tree and holding It erect
I The spade is withdrawn, and q steI
/ urop the earth in front of " here thi
: spade stood completes the planting
/ Hands soon become accustomed to ia.
requisite movements and planting pro
/ ceeds rapidly. The danger Of trees IL
/ dry earth is avoided, ana the tree stand
frmer than if planted by any otne
method
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

THE ladies of Richmond have received
$4,000 for the erection of a monument
to General Robert E. Lee.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

A boy, who will yell like "a Tartar
% drop of water gets on his shirt band
is hen his neck is being washed, can
crawl through a sewer after ball and
think nothing of it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

The baroness Of Gorlitz met her
sister-in-iayy, Silesian countess, Oh the
streets, the other day, and violently
demanded OF her F: Why didn't you
put a monument over my brothers
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

TwENTY-THREE carloads of oysters
arrived in San Francisco, the other day.
from the east. The oysters were to be
planted in San Francisco bay, to supply
the citizens with the luxury. Several
Intellectual attempts have been made to
start oyster-beds there. Most ef the
oysters consumed come from the At
Iantio coast.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

The spelling mania does set
people to thinking common sense. It
is found that the best educated people
can't stand a stream of words played
from an old fashioned spelling book
hose for half an hour. Culture yields
to knack, and some little schoolgirl
snatches the prize from bachelor of
arts. And this leads people to think
whether the trouble is not with the
spelling rather than the speller The
English orthography is barbarous.
One third of the words have blind let
ters In them, or some letters that is
not revealed in pronunciation. The
rules have more exceptions than ex-
amples, and it is a sheer waste Of time
and mind to try to learn how to spell
from thirty to eighty thousands words
and do the work of an average human
being. Nobody cares for the honor of
being q good spelling machine, as II
would prevent his being good for any
thing else. Mr.. 7. @. Mohatt, of New
Haven, has written an elaborate paper
urging a reform of the English method
of spelling, by adopting phonetic mOdi-
fications approximating it TO the
methods of other European languages.
It is a good suggestion, but it is &
declaration Of war on all the dictionaries
that il is hardly to be thought of.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

"A hltle girl upon her return from
a eniidren's party, being asked # she
had good time, replied @ Yes but
there wasn't much boys there"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

THE BgFFALo GNAT.-The buffalo
gnat, which is causing so much destruc-
tion among cattle in the Southwest, is
a small insect, not more than half the
size of the house-hy, which suddenly
appears in the air by millions and
settles upon all four-footed animals
within reach. A horse or COW viii be
literally covered with them at night; IN
the morning the animal will be found
dead and swelled to an enormOrs size.
The bite is very poisonous, and the
wound quickly testers. Cattle owners
find that the most effective way of pro-
tecting their animals is to cover them
with a coating Of diluted tar, but if that
cannot be done fires are b1ilt and the
smoke drives off the insects. Amongst
the wild animals, especially the deer,
on the Arkansas side of the river, the
ravages of the gnRt are everywhere
apparent. Without any protection, the
deer fall victims in large numbers to
this poisonous insect, which, however,
does not touch man.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

DO You remember the fellow who
used TO come around at noontime and
tease you for part of your dinner, when
you were a boy at schools Well, If
you viii trace them up, you viii find
that they are the came chaps-only
grown up-that now spend their time
hanging around, teasing to be elected
70 some Office, that they may eat free of
the public bread.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03
A Large Mass of Native Conner,

A few days since, a mass of native
copper, said to be the largest ever dis
covered was brought from Lake Supe-
riOr to st. Louis, Mo. The mass is
hearS-shRped, and weighs 5000 lbs,
exceeding nearly double the weight of
the famous copper boulder which wss
transported many years ago from the
same region to the Smithsonian Insti-
tute. The new specimen exhibits the
pure copper to the eye, and contains SO
per cent of the metal. 1t was taken out
from an ancient digging, sixteen and q
half feet below the surface, by a Mr..
Davis, who had spent twenty-five years
in copper mining. The mass, when
found, had evidently been detached
from its bed by the ancient miners. A
number of pieces of copper were found
besides the mass, weighing from l OF.
to II lbs, which were evidently clip
pings by the old miners. Stone ham
mers weighing from ten to thirty
pounds have been found in cart loads,
several specimens of which were
brought away with the copper.
These were the primitive tools with
which these ancient miners had to do
their work, and are found either per-
feet or broken from use, and the frag-
ments are found scattered through the
debris. It has b en- computed that two
hundred of these old miners with their
rude methods could barely be equiva-
lent to two of the skilled miners of the
present day. Who, and to what race
they belonged, and at what time these
people Hourished, is not satisfactorily
known, and can only be the subject Of
conjecture. The only plausible as.
sumption is that they belonged 10 the
ancient mound builders, and worked in
metals, anterior to the Indian races, as
evidences of their occupancy were seer
by the early Jesuit explorers, and spec.
linens which they clipped from the
copper rocks are found scattered ovel
| the whole continent.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

PLAIN TALK ON PLAIN SUBJECT. -
The Rev. DR.. BartOl, of Boston, gave
expression to these emphatic views on
Sunday last, wi en- referring to the case
of Jesse Pomeroy elf we would
have no monsters about rs in the COM
munity, let not idiots or insane pair, or
scrofulous or consumptives, those
soaked in alcohol or conceived in
lust, entering the world diseased in
body or mind, or overweighed
with any propensity or passion, be
allowed to marry, any more than we
would have a nursery for wolves and
bears, or cultivate poisonous ivy, dead
Iy night shade, or apple-fern in the in
closure of our houses, our yards and
fields. Society, by righteous custom,
if not by statute law, has a right to pre-
vent, to forbid the multiplication OF
monstrous specimens of humanity.
That mewling, puking, droolng, waiiug G
baby ought not to exist; it is no bless
ng, but curse of nature and God on
he misdoing of men and women"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

THE outflow of specie is now at full
tide, the exports during the past week
having amounted to 50, $40, 352, making
the total since January 1 S26. .62O, ,327-
the largest amount on record. The
nearest approach to this total was in
1871, when the figures were S25, ,143, ,O55,
and in 1868, when they were S25, $685.
S4S. Last year we had up to this time
in the year sent out only S13, ,229, COS,
and in 1878 SIS, 23s, ,O97. Tho chief
cause of this heavy drain is the calling
in by the treasury of so many fve-twenty
bonds. If the European holders of
these bonds were taking, in equal
amount, the new fves, or, for that mat
ter, any other kind of American securi-
ties, of course there would be no neces-
sity for sending gold to Europe to pay
for -A'm. Meanwhile, the price of gold
naturally continues to exhibit a strong
upward tendency.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

ONE reason why King Alphonso can
not fight Don Carlos and the Cubans
very long is a financial one. The rev.
enus of Spain is only $50, 900, 600; her
debt is $2,R5O, 900, 600, and the interest
'on it as'rorbs the whole revenue. Then
tho war is costing more than the entire
revenue. 1t looks as if Spain would
soon be hopelessly bankrupt.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

ETve.-A large flash Of lightning, dis
tfneilg ftsn often ianve8 urcu the mind
an impression thgt it has lasted fully 2
second or more, but it ~ proved that
such Is not the fact It's velocity Is e
the rate Of 268, 600 miles per second.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

The detectives connected with ii
capture of Lawrence say that the 8, k
combination to defraud the revenue was
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

CARDINAL MANNING, in answer TO an
address of the Irish members of Par
Lament, took occasion to say: "The
material prosperity of Ireland was never
greater than now. The people of ireland
never possessed so wide an extent of its
soil since the day in which they pos
sessed it all. They never yet possessed
such abundant wealth."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

SHARKEY, the New York murderer,
has escaped again. The vessel on
which he was being conveyed to
New York stopped at Charleston to
coal, and ShaIkey got away from the
detective who has been for weeks trying
to secure him in Havana. The Span
ish government had given him up of
their own accord, as no extradition
treaty exists with Spain, and Secretary
Fish bad made no demand for Sharkey.
Such a demand would have been fol-
lowed by a demand on the part of Spain
for the surrender of the Cuban ref
ugees now in this country. Sharkey is
gone again, however, but may possibly
be caught on American soil. He is a
desperate, brutal character, with fear.
full reputation in New York.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

hooPMANscHAP, the famous coolie
importer, has turned up in New York
on his way to Europe. He has a con-
tract to supply Brazil with several ship
loads OF Mongolians, and thinks that
Chinese labor in the Southern States
has proven o failure. He firmly be-
heveS that his business is one of the
hghest kind of philanthropy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

PROMINENT army officers express much
dissatisfaction with the Memoirs of
Gen. Sherman. Some of those who
were most intimate with him here insist
that he has been very unjust to the
generals who rendered him most SER
vice. and has gone ont Of bis way TO
satisfy personal pique. 1t is even stated
that Gen Grant oontemplates collecting
materials for memoirs of the war, and
that Admiral Porter viii reply to some
portions Of Sherman's bool
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 most extensive ram
ifcation of tho system were in England
and Oh the continent, agents being
Kept in nearly every large port
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

THE Northern Pacific railroad is to
be sold, as was to have been expected.
According to Gen, Hasen, the country
through which the railroad was to run
is parched up by heat of 1O5 degrees
IN summer, while in winter the ther-
mometer falls to 40 degrees below
zero, hardly any rain falling at any
time in the year.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

The postmaster general has issued an
order modifying postal regulations bv
striking ont that part providing that no
subscription to newspapers for less
than three months should be considered
regular subscription as the written
meaning of the law. The effect of this
oruer Is to allow newspaper offices to
SEND papers to subscribers at regular
rates whether for one week or three
months who have had to pay transient
rates.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

They have a hard time getting a
mayor in st. Louis. The last incum-
bent died few days after his election.
Another election was held on Saturday,
and Col. BrittOn was elected. Now
comes one 0Yerstoltz, who ran against
him, and serves a notice of contest, on
the ground of intimidation and illegal
voting, claiming that he beat Britton by
over 900 votes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03

ENGLAND has 80, 2,461 sailing vessels.
with tonnage of 1878, 600; the United
States 7,O49 vessels, tonnage 2, lac, ,586;
Italy l9, 4SS vessels, tonnage / ,O31, ,9O7
Germany 2,263 vessels, tonnage ]. las.
$40; France 1851 vessels, tonnage 9O6 :
1O5. French commerce is complaining
because German traders have been rap
Idly getting ahead since their last war.