The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-07-22
News Boiled Down.

Macon, Ga, has 81 churches, or one
for every 40 inhabitants.
Every county in Texas is shipping
the first new cotton bale of the season.
The Virginia penitentiary contained
on the first of June exactly 1000 con-
victs, of whom 7S6 were colored.
Near Brentwood, Texas, four broth
ers quarreled and fought with knives,
and three of them were badly hurt.
1t is believed that the new census will
give Arkansas a population of 100000.
| The population in 1870 was 49,, All.
The census enumerators of Dyer
county, Tennessee, found a girl eleven
years of age who had given birth to a
child.
The Oglethorpe (Ga.) Echo says the
census books of 1880 show chat every
person in Oglethorpe county is put
down as black.
The Memphis Appeal makes the dis
gushing statement that many of the la
dies of that city are becoming ciga-
rette smokers.
Manager Ford, who prepared Mary
Anderson for the stage, has taken a
Tennessee girl, Carrie Walker, and will
tit her for the footlights.
The population of North Carolina in
1870 was l,O7I 1861. The census of 1880
will show at least l 300, 900, with a
prospect of the number being 100000
more.
1t is expected that 10000 Knights and
1000 ladies' will be in Chicago during
the Grand Triennial Conclave of
Knights TeInplar, which will be held in
that city next month.
The farmers in the Niagara district
of Ontario, Canada, are cutting their
wheat. Some of them began to cut it
on the last days of June-a thing never
before known in that section.
The representation of the south in
Congress VIII not be materially |
changed b. the new census. ANY |
changes that may be made will not
take place until 1884.
Nashville ranks as thirtieth among |
the cities of the United States in regard |
to population. With the exception of |
New Orleans and Louisville il is the |
largest city in the south.
Ex-President jefferson Davis has Just |
presented to the city of New Orleans, |
in fulfillment of the request of the late
Mrs. Dorsey, one of her pictures, repre- |
senting Anne of Austria exhibiting the |
POlLldib VI hSI sun W the fItIlCH peO- |
pie.
Mrs. Margaret Perry, of New Or |
leans, whose husband died four months |
ago, gave birth to triplets, two boys /
and girl, on the day on which the |
Cincinnati convention reached a nomi- |
nation, and called the trio Hancock, |
English and America.
A sunday school has been inaugural
ted at Augusta (Ga.) on a novel plan.
1t is for the benefit of the factory chill |
dren in that city, and is known as the |
''Pinafore Sunday School" Its plan of
working is to take the children in the |
little canal steamer "PinaiOfe" up the |
canal every Sunday afternoon, and on
the excursion the little ones are enter
tanned with religious teachings and the
singing of hymns.
Brownsville, Tenn, Democrat: DR..
Harris hoped, in the conclusion of his
sermon Sunday night, that the congre-
CATION would never get to a hotter
place than the church then was. Sew
eral persons we noticed, who locked |
like water would boil in their mouths,
gave sigh OF relief and famed them
selves over the insinuation. All talk of
a hotter place produces no impression
on a Brownsville audience on a July
night.