The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-31
THE NEWS.
Such as ! Have Give I Unto Thee.

w. y. l.. Holland, editor OF the
Holly springs Reporter, is dead.
Kearney, the blatherskite, met
with a rotten egg reception in
Boston.
Tamany Hall has nominated Au-
gustus Schell for Mayor of n. Y.
Whittier improved by the Buffalo
Express for Massachusetts uses:
"Of ali sad words of tongue or pen,
The safest these, We must have Benz"
Three coloIed men will be elect
ed to the Legislature on Nov. 8, by
the Democracy of Charleston, ). G.
VIM. F. Prosser is the republican
candidate for Congress in the sixth
Congressional district.
Clarkson n. Potter has declined
the democratic nomination of the
18th congressional district OF n. Y.
Nashville has annulled her con
duit pipe contract with Leliyet, and
has brought suit for the recovery
of the money paid him.
Redfeld says among ali the
Presidential possibilities of the
Democratic faith, A. G. Thurman is
head, neck and shoulder in advance
of all competitors IN Virginia.
The Maury county democrats
have nominated John NJ. Grove for
the Senate and Jas. H. Dew for the
Lower House OF the next Legisla-
ture.
Some of the farmers in Young
county, Texas, have raised the sec
ond crop of corn this season. some
of which will make thirty bushels
per acre.
Birmingham, Alabama's mining
town, has population OF 1928 PEG |
pie, all but 754 whites. Voters, 426
whites and lO6 colored. Females
exceed males 176. Population has
increased 1000 in two years,
The Cincinnati Gazette confesses
that the Republican majority in
Ohio in the late election was only |
about tour thousand five hundred. |
Not much of victory after all.
Three of the officers elected at
the August election in Shelby coun-
ty, have fallen victims to the cpl
demic in Memphis---Chancellor
Kortrecht, Criminal Judge ScFuggs, |
and Sheriff Anderson.
Whenever a man begins to feel
that he is so great that the country |
is standing out in the middle of the
road waiting Tor him to come by, it
is about time for his friends to look
up some soft place in lunatic asy- /
lum to lay him down in Cleve-
land Banner
The Legislature meets in Mont
gomery, Ala, on bhe 18th of No |
vember. Under the constitution of
the State, no bill of local or spe-
cIal character can pass into law
until notice of It's intended intro
duction shall baye been published |
twenty days i'll the locality to be af-
fected by it.
An old gentleman has just died |
in Illinois who held the office of
postmaster in . small town for |
more than thirty years. He said
he thought he might have worried
through another summer if there
hadn't been so many postal cards
to read.
Some negro boys organized a
mock court in Baldwin, Ga, con
demned a playfellow to death. and
hanged him from a beam. They
supposed he would tell them when
to let down, but he only kicked and
they took that for sport. He was
ohoked TO death.
The Franklin Review and Jour
nal is now edited by DR.. w. NJ.
Clark, the Franklin correspondent,
Votre, of the American. He pos
sesses a rare faculty for newspaper
work, and the Review sparkles al
ready with the brightest thoughts
and paragraphs from his pen.
Large quantities of clover seed
are being shipped to Europe. Much
of the seed is used for dyeing cloth
and those in the uade SAY that the
American seed Is preferred by the
dyers 80 al others In the world, the
coloring quaiitiea being much
stronger than in the seed grown in
Europe.
The balance of trade in favor of
the Uaited States was seven times
as much in August. 1878. as during
the same month of 1877, and for
the eight months of 1878 ending
with August the excess of exports
over imports was 9S,5OI,OS7
against $3S,O54, 900 for the CORES,
bonding period of 1877.
Bell punches for use in liquor sa
looms were not distributed through
out Virginia until late IN the fiscal
year, yet the returns indicate an an.
nual revenue of $345.73S. 1t is {
said that. under a more perfect stat
ute and stringent enforcement of
The law, the bell punch ought TO net l
The State of Virginia 100000 a t
year.
Patience and ingenuity have been t
displayed by Arlin Evans, who lives {
lear Horse Shos Bend, Ala. He :
has been totally blind to. several !
years, caused from a fall received '
while erecting a building. This {
all be has erected q Clubhouse, cot .
on screw and the running gear of q
he gin, doing ali the framing and t
aging off of the timbers himself; a
Mr.. Charles Z. Robert 8 we'll
known journalist of Louisville, has :
a lecture which he pro-
poses delivering in a number of !
,itiee for the benefit of the yellow
ever sufferers, giving one-half the
gross proceeds TO tbst cause, and .
ievoting tue other half 60 preparing
himself for the ministry. The lee
ure is entitled the passion of the