The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-06

TtO,OOO O1 Gue SoO,OOO5 on account OF
the Virginius affair.
ATTORNEY GEN. WILLIAMS has ten
dered to the president the resignation
of his Office, to take effect the 18th Of
May.
PRINCE BIsAIARK Is about to place
several gunboats on the river Rhine for
the protection of his forts. He IN ans
to hold fast to the Rhine.
GEN. JoHN G. BREcKENRIDGE, is quite
low at his home i Lexington, Kentucky,
but it is hoped that the advent of mild
weether will bring about his recovery.
THE blockade on the Union aud Cen
trail Pacific railroads has been broken,
and the delayed trains and passengers
are coming through to Omaha.
CARDINAL MANNING considers himself
entrusted with commission of war
fare" for he believes the Catholic
church is approaching a crisis, the
most fiery for three hundred years."
THE state board of immigration of
Missouri is about publishing a map of
the state and hand dbook for distribu-
tion in European countries, to induce
immigration. Ten thousand copies of
the work are to be printed.
LATER reports to the Courier Journal
give more favorable information as to
effect of the recent unreasonable frost
upon the tobacco plants throughout
Kentucky. 1t is not now believed that
serious injury was done.
COMPLAINTS are being made to the
treasury department by New York
bankers, that the coin disbursed by the
sub treasury at that point is under
weight. Much of it averages from one
quarter to one-half per cent. below the
standard.
A PHYSICIAN in Maine has been in
quIring into the statistics of infantile
narcotism with soothing syrups, and
states that the sale os these dangerous
nostrums annually disseminates 15,-
600, 900 grains Of morphia among our
nurseries.
A RESIDENT of Milledgeville, Ga, who
saw the recent whirlwind strike the
Oconee river, says the water went mp,
he thinks, 100 feet in the air, and for
few moments the bottom of the river
where the tornado passed was laid bare,
and the mud and soil was blown into
the tops of the trees.
ADvICEs from the west and northwest
indicate wido-l pread damage TO crops.
Winter wheat and small grain sown
early in the spring have suffered severe
ly. In many cases fields will be resown |
in corn, and this cereal promises to be !
the main dependence of farmers this |
year.
Gov. STAMFoRD's $50, 600 horse, Occi-
dent, and his companion, St. James,
have arrived safely in Philadelphia, on |
the luxurious equine palace-car pre-
pared expressly for them. The horses
are stabbed at Point Breeze, and are
now undergoing training for the great
eastern races.
A NUMBER of prominent Louisianians
have resurrected the old railroad scheme |
of building line from New Orleans to
Shreveport, and bill incorporating the |
company has been presented in the leg |
islature. The road is designed to con-
meet with the Texas Pacific railroad, |
with a view to divert the trade of Texas |
to New Orleans.
IT is stated that the old Spanish fort |
at st. Augustine, Florida, is to be con-
verted into a military prisca, for the |
reception of a number of rebeilious |
Indians from the western reservations,
now in custody of the United States |
army. The cells formerly occupied by |
the Seminole chiefs, Osceola and Tiger |
Tail, have been put in order, and others |
are undergoing repair for the Rccommo-
dation of the red men of the forest.
The manufacture of alligator leather |
has now become an important branch of |
industry. The skins come chiefly from |
Florida and Louisiana, and the hunting |
and skinning of the animals for their
hides is extensively pursuSd. About |
10000 skins are tanned every year.
They are manufactured in various parts |
of the United States, and number is
exported to England and France. The |
French, owing to their superior meth |
DDS of tanning, are formidable competi-
tors.
AN investigation into the condition of |
the winter wheat by the statistical di-
vision of the department of agricul-
ture, the crop as a whole much below !
the Status of that of last year in April. |
There is an apparent increase of about !
Z per cent. in round numbers to mil !
lion and half of acres. Though that |
portion winter killed and to be re-
planted in other crops may be equal in
the west to the enlargement of the
planted area, this increase is small in
the middle states, considerable in Hi
nois an Missouri and proportionately
the largest in the Gulf states and Kan
sas, reaching 80 er cent. in the south
west.
THE southern railroad lines have not
mp to this date joined in the general
war among the northern roads. 1t
having been announced that the New
Orleans and Mobile railroad, known as
the coast line between New Orleans and
eastern cities, had cut its rate very
largely, the Jackson route. in connec-
ton with the Louisville, Nashville and
Great Southern railroad have an
nounced a reduction on rates to Louis
vile, Washington, Baltimore and New
York of from one-hfth to three tenths
OF the regular rates. It is expected
that the competing route will make
still another reduction, to be followed
by a further reduction by the jackson
route. The fight between the two lines
promises to be a warm one.