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

TIMELY TOPICS.
PAoHIc-coAsr sailors say that the
winter in Alsska has been as balmv as
IN Florids.
THE ladies of Richmond have received
$4,000 for the erection of a monument
to General Robert E. Lee.
CAPT. EADs has examined the iettv
ground at the mouth of the Mississippi.
and thinks in twelve months he win
have twenty feet of water there.
IRE state tax OF New York this year
IS n mills, or about double that of
Tennessee. An effort is being made in
the assembly to reduce it to mills,
STANLEY found Livingstone, but now
Stanley himself is lost in the wilds of
Africa, and nothing has been heard
from him in year.
THE Schiller disaster recalls the fact
that in October, I707, an English
sqaudron, under Sir Cloudesly Shovel
went to pieces off these same SeilIv
Isles, oecasioning a loss of two thou.
sand lives. The troublesome rocks off
these Islands are called, very properly.
The " dogs of Scilly."
TwENTY-THBEE carloads of oysters
arrived in San Francisco, the other day.
from the east. The oysters were To he
planted in San Francisco bay, to supplv
the citizens with tho luxury. Several
Intellectual attempts have been made 70
start Oyster-beds there. Most Of the
oysters consumed come from the At
Iantio coast.
ONE reason why King Alphonao c5n
not fight Don Carlos and the Cubans
very long is a financial one. The rev.
enus of Spain is only $50, OOO, 600; her
debt is $2,R5O, 900, 600, and the interest
'on 1t ae'Horbs the whole revenue, Then
tho war is costing more than the entire
revenue. 1t looks as if Spain would
soon be hopelessly bankrupt.
CARDINAL MANNING, in answer TO an
address of the Irish members of Par.
lament, took occasion to say 4: "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 DOS
sessed it all. They never yet possessed
such abundant wealth."
ENGLAND has 30, ,461 sailing vessels.
with tonnage of . 1878, 900; the United
States II, ,049 vessels, tonnage Q. LAG. .586;
Italy 10, 4SS vessels, tonnage !. OBJ. .9O7 !:
Germany 2,263 vessels, tonnage !, ,143.-
$40; France 1881 vessels, tonnage 9O6.
7O5. French commerce is complaining
because German traders have been rap
Idly getting ahead since their last war.
The largest contribution ever made
70 the conscience fund was received at
the treasury department., last Saturday,
from BaltimOTe-29.4 AGO. Received so
SOon after the exposure of the whisky
ring, it is suspected that the money
comes from some dealer in ''crooked'
spirits. or government official who ae-
cepted this amount as a bribe.
RooPMANsoHAP, tho 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 thaP his business is one of the
highest kind of philanthropy.
THE Northern Pacific railroad is to
be sold, as was to have been expected.
According to Gen, HaRen, 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,
They have 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 OYerstoltz, 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 l 200 votes.
The enormous whisky frauds have
not been without their trngic features
For the purpose of guarding against
the possibility of detection by the reve-
nue. officers, a ST. Louis distinery firm
constructed secret vat, unknown tc
their workmen, one of whom fell in and
was drowned. OF course the funeral
like the cause of death, was private.
PEssAwUE, which the telegraph re
ports as half destroyed by fire, is a city
of some 10000 inhabitants near tn,
northern frontier of Afghanistan. 1t i
we'll paved town, furnished with waite,
and occupies q commanding commercia
position, being surrounded by a fertil
country, which, with the aid of irriga
ton, produces two crops every year
consisting of wheat, barley, pulse an,
the finest rice in the world.
THE grasshoppers in Kansas hav
Just been re-enforced by hordes of bui
falo gnats, and the two pests togethe
are making sad havoc among the farms
Every leaf in some counties has bee
eaten off the peach trees early veg
etables are destroyed and large areas @
wheat have been gobbled up by th
insatiate hopper" while the cattl
are in a fair way to suffer seriousl
from the gnats.
IHE postmaster general has issued a
order modifying postal regulations b
striking ont that part providing that n