The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-12-04

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the people will vote on an amend
ment striking from the State Con
stitutiOn the clause prohibiting ne |
groes and mulattoes from voting. |
During all the years OF republican |
rule this prohibitiisn has been re-
tanned on the statute book.
A cheap and simple piece of ma
chInery has just been invented and |
is in operation at Westchester, S.
c., which spins seed cotton into
thread. 1t Is claimed that this in |
vention will add 100 percent to the
profit Of the planter, as it saves him |
him the expense of ginning, baling,
bagging and ties.
An Exchange says: Dreadful |
times are at hand. In 542, 100, 900, |
900 people persisted because three
planets were in perihelion, accor
ding to Gibbon, and in 1865 a SINH
lar perihelion produced the London |
plague and the death of millions in /
Europe, Asia, and Africa. In 1881 |
five planets will be in perihelion.
What will become of us?
A French statist has come to the |
conclusion, after a very laboriOus |
examination of the number of |
deaths from railway accidents in all
parts of the world, that if a person |
were to live continually in a rail
way carriage and spend all his
time in travelling, the chances IN ia
vor of his dying from railway acci
dents would not occur until he was
760 years old.
Springfield Record: Robertson
county manufactured in the month |
of October, 1879, eleven hundred
and twenty SIX barrels OF whisky, |
containing three hundred and two
gallons of proof whisky, which at
ninety cents per gallon tax, will
pay the government the neat sum
of forty four Thousand three hun
dred and seventy-one dollars and |
eighty cents.
The stockholders of the Nash
vile, Chattanooga d st. Louis rail-
way have endorsed the action of
President +. w. Cole and the Di-
rectory of that line in regard to the
extension of various railroads and |
the purchase or lease OF others, and |
have empowered them to take what
ever action may be necessary to |
protect and foster the interests of
the company.
At last the official vote of the /
late election in New York has been |
received, which gives HoskiDs, Re
publican candidate for Lieutenant |
Governor, a majority of 1SS votes |
over Potter, the Democratic candi
date. With the exception of one,
the entire Republican State ticket |
was elected. Seymour, Democrat,
was elected Engineer by majority
of Il. G51.
Chattanooga Times: A farmer of
McMlnn county was arrested Sat
urday by a United States revenue
officer for selling seventy five cents
worth of tobacco of his own pro
duction. He was found guilty and
thrown in prison where he must
remain until the Federal Court con
venes in Knoxville. about a year
hence. He will then be fined, per
haps 800. Verify, the way OF the
is hard"
At the meeting of the American
Health association at Nashville,
Tenn, on the goth, papers were
! cad on Cotton as FOmite,"
Rotten Wood" THE yellow Fee
yer Epidemic in Memphis in 1878"
The question of quarantine for rail
way trains was fully discussed, and
the same question came up before
meeting of the Southwestern rail
road managers. Legislation was
called for on the subject.
West Point { Miss.) Echo, 21st:
A tornado, accompanied by heavy
rain, struck Muldon last Saturday
night about ten O'Clock, demOlish
ing the storehouse of Murphy, and
a saloon, unrooofng the station
house, tuning over two cars loaded
with cattle. A negro is missing,
and is supposed to have been bu-
ried in the ruins. 1t seems to bave
been confined to a narrow sphere.
We have heard of no other damages
in its path"
Gen. Gordon was asked by
Times correspondent if ever he saw
the bayonet used in the war. He
replied that be only saw one man
killed by a tayOnet in battle, and
that was at the night attack on
Fort Stedman, when the sentinel
bayoneted an assailant. At Get
tysburg, when the advance of the
two armies ran on each other, on
the lst of July, he saw two oppOs
ing standard bearers rapping each
other over the head with their flag
poles.
The holders of Tennessee bonds
have been lately trying to induce
the Government authorities to
bring suit against the State, in Su
preme Court, to compel payment Of
the interest which is in default
The ground on which these holders
base their request is that the Gov
eminent holds 100000 of these
bonds in the Indian trust funds
The matter has been referred to the
Attorney General. 1t is understood
that he holds that the United States
cannot bring suit against State.
Fifteen thousand Irish sympa
thizers held meeting in Liverpool
on the 29th, and the speakers en-
dorsed the sentiment expressed by
those who had been arrested, and
condemned the government Reso
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