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A Co,ossal.specuiator Ruined.

The details ofthe ruin of the great Ger
man speculator, Strousberg, utterly dwarf
into inSignficance the speculations Of Jay
Gould, the unfortunate Ralston, Jay
Cooke, and other American tinanciers,
whose operations We have been &C
customed TO look upon as colossal. The
record of his life and his schemes
reads like chapter taken out Of fiction
Herr Strousberg was first known as
teacher of languages in the United
States, from which humble station he
rose to place where he dealt with hun.
dreds Of millions of money in every part
Of Europe. His visit to America was
short, and he next appeared in London
and afterwards in Berlin, but it was not
until 1870 that he began to attract public
attention as a colossal speculator. At
that time he had immense sums Of money
at his disposal and almost unlimited
credit. lie was a railway contractor in
several European States; an engine manu-
lacturer and proprietor of three of th
largest iron works in Europe; a heavy
proprietor in lands and mines; and the
owner of the cattle markets and slaughter
houses in Berlin At that time he was
dealing with the almost fabulous sum Of
S350,000,000i "a, Franco.German war
dealt him a severe bow in the general
depression Of securities. The Roumani-
an Government also refused TO pay the
interest it had guaranteed upon the rail.
ways he had been constructing for them
and S.roIsberg had to pay it himself.
This gave him another staggering blow,
and for two or three years he was tossed
up and down on the ocean Of finance, now
iaulcAing on: into speculative schemes
and again contracting to meet the preas-
ure upon him. Last year he ben. al
lis energies, applied all his rSourees, and
stretched his credit to the utmost TO re-
treye himself, He established immense
manufactures in Germany and Russia, re-
covered all his old mines and iron works
and bought new ones, aud took large
number Of new railway contracts in
various parts Of Europe. lie obtained
adNauc from every bank and every
Ssible quarter, but at last the CONNER
eel Bank of Moscow refused him an ac-
nmodation Of two millions Of roubleS,
and the catastrophe of ruin and bank.
ruptcy followed. Strousberg is in prison
and his property has passed into the
hands of the law 60 be disposed of for the
benefit Of c editors all over Europe.
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washing tom GOSSIP ou the Presiding
OFFICER at Ihc senate.


There is considerable talk among the
Republicans at the narrow escape yestcr.
day from the election Of Senator Thur
man as presiding officer of nc Senate
Il Is SAID that senator Eiwunds offered
hi, resolution declaring senator Ferry the
President without q consult ton with his
colleagues, and without polling the Sen.
ate TO see whether enough Republicans
were present 70 pass IL. by sending
messengers hurucily through the Cap'.
t5l aud summoning the absent Rcpubh.
cans The resolution was passed by three
majority. For few minutes the kepubl.
cans were greatly alarmed, AS the Demo.
Gratis had % least two majority Of the
Senators present MIR Fdmuuds object
in ,ubm tting the resolution was, that IS
"A doubt had been expressed In the Senate
as to whether Mr. Ferry was the perma.
nent President, ii would not do to leave
the question unsettled during the recess
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in the Democratic party to urge upon
Kerr the claims of men whom he could
find more ready to do his bidding and
more seryile in the interest of the ring
SO far as the subsidy people and the
ha1gers-on give an expression, the hegra
from the city is the strongest possible in
dication of their opinion Of the new dis
ncngation
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1 Philadelphia, Dec. IS, Correspondence New
York Tribune

lhih lElhuA'J
Mr. JAY Cooke. who still takes warm
interest IN the affairs OF the Northern Pa
cite railroad, says that there will be no
effort on the part of that company 10 Sc.
cure aid from Congress 10y joining hands
with Col. Thomas SCOTS Texas Pacific
'ojcct. u appears thai Cot. Scott is
confident ofhs ability to push his scheme
through on It's own merits, and that the
Northern Pacific managers, while no, OPP
posing h, arc not seeking an alliance. Mr..
Cooke Is lust as coniiSeAt as ever q the
future success, OF the railroad which Swal.
lowed up hi> great fortune and brought
him TO bankruptcy. lie says It nov oc.
clpies the proulest position Of any road
no the coultry. being entirely f'es from
debt, is bonds having an bscn converted
INTO preferred stock. Both ends Of the
road earn a monthly Surplus over run.
mig expenses which amounts to about
100000.
The value Of the eompany's land grant,
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sign prohibited II Ana ! was Just IN
the act OF throwing a stone over to aston.
iSh and pulyerize such parties as might
be picnicking below. when a sign have
just mentioned forbade that. Even that
satisfaction was denied me. and was a
iriendleSs orphan.
There was no resource now but 10 seek
consolation from the flowing bowl. |
drew my flask from my pocket, but il
was an in vain. A Sign confronted me,
watch said:
NO drinking allowed on these prem.
iscs.'
On that spot might have persisted Of
thirst but for the savage words Of an hon.
ored maxim that fitted through my
memory at that moment; ".All signs rall
IN dry times. Common law takes pre-.
eedeucc OF the statues. Nv saved.
The noble red man had always been a
darling Of mine | loved u read about
him in tale and legends and 70 nance.
loved 20 read Of his inspired sagacity,
and Of his love Of the wild. free life Of
mountain and forest, and his grand truth.
fulness; his hatred Of trcachery. and his
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old woman
coat, and SAW
her aud her : !:
time.
\ writer in KIM j.
upon the results Of the late -
says. "rhe fall Of corruption has ---r'
dispclled, AMI the wheels Of the State Gov.
eminent will no longer be tramelloi by
sharks that have besct the public prosper.
ity like locu,ts" That vas what the
Citlzin was trying 20 say last week, but
the editor could not think ofall the words.
4 clergyman Of Bangor Me-, on a recent
Sabbath climbed up the long. narrow AMI
winding steps leading from ~. basement
Of the church TO the pulpit, ~
the audience room. began his -
lesson with the wotds. "Ncrily. vrriIv.
say unto you be that cutcreth not D, the
door into the sheep fold. bat ciimbeih un
some other way, the same is thief and
robber."
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MARK TWAIN AT NIAGARA.

lures in the world. have been visiting
this fayoritc watering-place recently for
the first time, and was well pleased.
A gentleman who was with me said it
was customary to be disappointed in the
Falls. but that subsequent visits were
sure to set that all right. He said it was
so with him. He said that the first time
he went, hack fares were so much higher
than the Falls that the Falls appeared in.
significant. But that is all regulated
now.
The hackmen have been tanned. mum.
bered, and placarded and blackguarded,
and brought into subsection to the law,
and dosed with moral principle till they
are meek as missionaries
They are divided into two clans now,
the Regulars and the Privatcers, and en-
plov their lille time in warning the peo-
pie against each other. The regulars
are under the hotel banners, and the Pri-
vateers prowl darkly on neutral g'ound
and pick off stragglers at half price.
But there are no more outrages and
extortons. That sort OF thing cured it.
self. 1t made the Falls unpopular by
getting into the newspapers, and when
ever public evil achieves that sort of
success for itself. its days are numbered.
1t became apparent that either the
Fails had to be discontinued, or the hack
men had to subside. They could not
dam the Falls, so they did the hackmen.
One can be comfortable and happy there
now.
drank up most of the American Falls
before | learned that the waters were not
considered medicinal. Why are people
left in ignorance this way! might have
gone on and ruined a fine proper "
merely for the want of a little informa-
zion.
And yet the sources of information are
not meager at Niagara Falls. YOn are
something in doubt what you ought to
do, but you are seldom in doubt concern.
ing what you must do. If an infant can
read, that infant is meaSurably safe in
Niagara.
II you room at the hotel you will find
your course marked out in the most con-
venient way, by means Of placards on the
wall, like these:
"Pull the bell-rope gently, but don't
jerk"
bolt your door,"
Don't scratch matches ON the walls
or furniture.
"rurn off your gas when you retire"
"Tie up your dog
IF you put your boots outside the
door they will be BACKED, but the house
will no. be responsible for their return
This Is confusing and tanglesome
proposition, because it moves you to de.
liberate long and painfully as to whether
it sill really be any object to you to
have your boots BACKED unless they are
returned.
Give your key to the omnibus driver
if you forget and carry it off with YOU
Outside the hotel, wherever you wan.
der, you are intelligcntly assisted by the
signs. You cannot come to grief as long
as YOU are in your right mind with
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who is supplemented by the strongest IN
that belief in the party, Blaine and Kelley
on the Republican sidg representing thc
old tariff an protection line of though.
The committee giving the most sausCoc
ton is That on the District of Columbia.
people here taking Buckncr's appoint.
meat IS cuatnu &c Of an overwhelming
&c the ring and the substitution ofhunr &
men iar rastal> In tho municipal ot,r>
~. Bu 'kucr, the chairman. although
% e>eut from Missouri, was bora in Nr.
mia. educated at Georgetown, aud Is 90
some extent familiar with Washington
ways and the DISTRICTS needs his fcl.
lnw.v arkcrs are above aupr, N
on fue part Of tho RIM h r.,
which had hoped for an entirely d1u.
ent poutment. shepard himself
going SO far as to solicit personal friends
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13
LYNN CREEK.

We have been waiting to hear some
thing about the war ending. We are
cut off up here in the 18th, not repre-
scented in the Pulaski courts, nor any
were else, nor have any of US been
even a witness since the Indians left.
Our boy down at the mill the other day
heard an old negro say that the war
was over-which is why we are sur
prised. He said Congress had sent
them their freedom and made many
good provisions for them, and lie
was at the mill his last time, as he
would soon get some town victuals. lie
said they were about to get up another
war. This put us to inquiring and we
found out thai it would be between the
Tenn. Dem. Leg. and the dogs. We
hear they taxed the dogs and that the
dogs were all mad, claiming exemption
under the Constitutional phrase, "NO
representation, no taxation" We
think that we have the dogs on their
own proposition, for of what stuff were
these our SOlons male? Uncle DaYy
Waldrup says lie don't know whether
it's the owner or the dog that is taxed.
If it is the dogs they will have to vote,
and in either case both owners and dogs
will poll votes at the next election that
will make these SOlOns feel sOlon-Iy
! Uncle Dave don't understand why they
taxed gentleman dogs 81, and sow dogs
So unless they are plugged, but it's all
just to help the hardware men 10 sell
speying knives and needles.
Those lawyers of yours are treating
us badly. Why don't they give us a
chance to tell what we know in the
| court house and help hang scOundrel:
on juries, (the criminal not the jury
men, We have some professional wit
nesses and juTymen up here, if they
! just had a chance. Our farmers ar,
working with will. Wheat is prom
/ Using. Fruit is short, with only a hall
crop of apples and some peaches, cheer.
ries and plums. 1t is better i'll som,
localities.
Mr.. Bumpass' school at Kelley
Chapel is very well patrOnized. Mr.
Bumpass himself is clever nice gentle
man, and he is patronizcd too by thu
ladies, who give him constant smiles
occasional bOquets and few hearts
Pap's store is doing a splendid bust
ness. He sells everything cheap am
buys all you have to sell high, an
treats his customers like lords.
Yours, B. & w.
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LYNNVILLE.

The fly has made its appearance in
some parts of this community, and is
doing a good deal of damage. We
learn that the crop of Mr.. George
Knox, for one, is ruined by it.
With each successive day almost, our
farmers are finding or thinking they are
finding, that the injury done to the
wheat by what will be known to pos
terity, as the great April freeze, was
more than they at first supposed. At
ter making due allO - ances for crOak-
ing, which some seem to- regard as "A
religious duty, we think the prospect
is for short wheat crop
The earlier corn is coming up so ir-
regularly that some are talking of plOw-
ing up, and planting over. We think
this is but talk, and that few days of
warm weather, will bring up both corn
and spirits. 1t is not necessary tn say
that these spirits to be made by the
new corn have nothing in common with
those got from old rye.
The health of the country is gen
rally good, and our doctors have little
to do except in connection with the
accidents which are liable to occur in
the best regulated families. So that
they are turning their lancets into gar
den hoes and pill boxes into seed pack
cts.
The meeting held by Mr.. Sewell OF
Nashville, at the Christian Church at
Old LynnVille, was attended from all
parts of the country, and was kept mp
for several days. Even those who diff
fer from the views nf that gentleman,
are constrained to admire his mental
and Oratorical gifts. Mr. Hensley
holds a meeting at the depot beginning
the eighth. Mr.. Stone OIL the same day
begins at Elk Ridge. If the people
would only come out to preaching, in
proportion to their opportunities, what
a pious region we would have!
The correspondence pointed out by
Mr.. Darwin, to exist between ourselves
and the brutes, is noticeable in many
respects. There is nothing in which it
is more striking, than in the careful,
impressed, busy manners of hen
when she has made up her mind to
keep house, and the manners of a
young man when he is about to do the
same. Several of our young gentle
men are evidently thinking of setting,
we mean settling, and the world
would not know it much better if they
took to clucking. If we name MIR.
HOyt Fleming, Whitney Fry, and HO
race McClaurin, we would by no means
have il inferred, that these are the on
ly ones who will probably 90 to house
keeping i'm the fall, or will well nigh
perish in the effort.
IT N I
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Bill Warden to r.. H. Wynne.

Dill al W He H. w y hhCs
Mr.. EditOr:-The CITIZEN of May 9th
contains an article headed "RilI VS. HAP
and signed r. Ii. Wynne. The people
of the Eastern portion of Giles county,
of ElktOn, Bethany, Bunker Hill and
other small places, were well prepared
for it, and judging from its Ortho-
graphy, they needed some preparation
to enable them to stand up under its
depressing influence. Before he wrote
it, he told every body he saw and sent
word to every body he hadn't seen, "he
was going to reply to Bill Warden" after
he wrote that famous article which has
doubtless caused Webster to turn in his
grave of envy and wink his eyes, he
showed it to every man woman and
child he could meet, in other words,
published it before it was printed. As
he ATTEMPTED to prune my laurels, it is
nothing but justice that 1 should re
ply to him.
We stumble at the head, 'Bill vs.
Hail." but pass it over as one OF his harm
less frothings. Hal is not named in
the article. Who ever heard of an au-
thor having his nom de plume at the
top and his real name at the bottom !?
His first leap is in behalf of the people
of Bethany, he declares them wide
| awake, &c, and his good intentions ale
appreciated, he seems to fairly Lore
| them.
| He spoke to me in soft melodious
| tones and called me g friend Bill" and
! then emphatieally declares he has no
acquaintance with me whatever. If
he means to become thicker on longer
acquaintance with me, l never wish to
see him again. If he will only turn
to my former article, he will find l did
not name lockwood blossoms as pro-
ducing anything, l only said, that 'with
the return of lockwood blOssOmeS,
questions of the greatest Importance
have come up" he has things wonder
fully tangled. What little brains that
chinch left must have been cobb-web-
bed. He next pitches into my remark
about the effects of the dog law and
stumbled at the word spirit" This
is not the first time spirits have caused
him to stumble. He acknowledges his
love of sausage, which settles our We
racity on that point, and winds up OF
what he knew about the Warden family
which, (as Josh Billings says,) is ''Kus-
sed little" He acknowledges that it is
prescriptions for him to write for the
press. We are inclined to the Opin
ion that it is time for him to stop. He
reminds us of the old fellow, who in
eating a bowl Of soup, swallowed bal
of Irvine, Feeling it tickling his throat
he seized one end and pulled it out by
degrees. Calling to his wife, he eX-
claimed, 'I'm raveling OUT" From hi
style OF writing, we think r. Ii. w. i
about TaVeled out.
Bethany, May Z. BILL WARDEN.
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BETHANY.

Mr.. EditOF:-rhe weather has
changed again, this time from cold to
warm the blades of the corn and wheat
have UNFINISHED, cotton is breaking the
crust, and natures banner is again wide
IL unfurled to the warm and gentle
breezes from the South. The brows OF
our farmers have cleared, and they
have gone to work with their sleeves
rolled high, singing merrily the old
songs they used to sing when they
were boys, about "the bees, the birds
and the breeze" Thus you see we are
getting along swimingly down here.
Nothing disturbs the placid serenity o.
our order of things; we pay five dollars
per barrel for corn andS say nothing
about it; we meet the constable with
bold front, and pointing exultingly to
our emerald fields, tell him to tell Mr..
so and so to ''hold on \ while - We
attend the grange and pay our dues,
we take the CITIZEN, read the news, we
say what we please on things general,
we occasionally meet at street or fence
corners and exchange opinion on the
dOg-law, fence-law or any other law
Some of our citizens are down on the
last Legislature and its doings,
ana others praise it to the skies.
We are scarce of rail timber and
we like the fence-law, scarce of sheep
and we like the dOg-law, scarce of fish
and we like the iSh-law. We think
the L. 5. Senate scarce of sound mem
bers, and would be glad if Gov. Brown
were there. He was born and raised
here, and we have a right to be proud of
him, moreover we think Bethany de-
serves good deal OF notice on that ac-
count. We must see that he gets what
* dine him fine
But We will let things political alone
and say something about our lovely
young ladies. We still continue to see
mysterious events transpiring, one or
two more are about to cross the matri-
mOnial RubicOn, and that causes all the
others to get into a fiutter, they all
seem to be busy, they fly about like
butter flies dispensing their sweetness
as they 90, and causing the hearts OF
the boys to beat pit-a-pat too hard and
too often to make them feel easy. They
will conquer us all after awhile, and
then we will have something else to do
besides writing for the papers.
Bethany, May 10th. j.
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Columbia District, Tennessee
Conference

THIRD ROUND OF QUARTERLY MEETINGS.
Culleoka Station at Mooresville, May S, g..
Lynnville Circuit, at Salem, May Is, 10
Prospect Circuit. at Trinity, May y, %.
Duck River Circuit, at BigbyFille, June 3, 6
M, Pisgah Circuit, at Forest Grove, June
u, 10.
Marcslla Falls Mission, at Stones Chapel,
June 10, 20,
Nebc and willamsport Station at Viii
Transport, June % 81
Mt. Pleasant Circuit, Mt. Peasant, July
s. 4.
District Conference at OGvet Church, Rey-
nolds Station, Nashville and Decatur Rail
road; May 81, 80. Bishop E. NJ. Marvin viii
preside. Opening sermon Thursday night,
by Rev. R. G. Linn. Preachers and people
invited. Will every officer of the church in
the district make it a matter Of conscience TO
attend. WE-LBoRN MOONEY, P. E.
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LEATHERWOOD.

You invite correspondence from each
pOst-Office in the county. We have no
pOst-office here, though we ought to
have one, as it would be a great con-
vcnience TO shis community, and would
cost the government nothing to supply
the mails, as the post route from Pulaski
TO Fayetteville lies through this neigh
bOrhOOd. Please agitate this subject
for us. We can get a good and reliable
lady to keep il Tor US. Our wheat crop
is looking very well just now. Our
farmers are working with a will that
knows no opposition, and if kind Prov
idence smiles on us this season we will
not have to go to Egypt to buy corn
next spring. There will be considerably
more corn planted here this spring
than usual, and we have much more
wheat in cultivation than usual. Prof.
Holt says the orthOmania has reached
here at last. | asked what he meant by
that. He referred me to Mr.. WINES
communication in the CITIZEN of last
week for an explanation. 1 examined
the article and told him that failed to
see it. He told me was like the boy
who, when he had gone to town with
| his father for the first time, was asked
| by his mother if he saw the town, said
no, he could not see the town for the
houses. He says Wynne had a very
bad spell when he wrote that article.
Prof. Holt says he thinks the disease
/ will eliminate in his school about next
/ Friday. 1 now remember that there
/ is to be a spelling match at his school on
next Friday, admission free TO every
body ana everybody invited; and this
may be what Holt means by orthO-
mania, but please do not tell anyone
that | said so, for l may be mistaken
AprOPOs of our school here, am happy
to report that it is steadily increasing,
and has now reached seventy students
Can any country school in the county
beat this: if so let them speak. The
fact is we are determined to keep up q
good school here, and we think that we
have the teacher to do it. Our Grange
Is fiourishing The newly elected ofli-
GERS were installed on the 18th of Apri
by Past Master L. W. Holt. 5. II
Strickland, Master, and J. Cruchel
Young, Secretary. LEATHERwoOD.
= e.
. ~- The Sunday-school picnic is t,