The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-04-29
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Hanglngs are private In South
Carolina, and are brought on by
stealing horse or burning house.
Grasshoppers have appeared in
Dallas county, Texas, but no serious
damage by them is feared this sea-
son.
Nearly every republican county
convention in Tennessee has ap-
pointed Grant delegates to the state
convention.
Gallatin, Tennessee, had a $780,
600 fire last week. Supposed to
have been the work of tramps, to
conceal larceny.
Ex. Coy. Brown, of Georgia, has
given $4,000 to the Southern Bap-
tist theological seminary at Louis
vile, KY, to endow professorship.
At big sale of short-horn herds
in Chicago last week, the average
price obtained for bulls was SCI and
for COWS and heifers $685.. One
herd of twenty sold for 81, loo, or
$2O5 each.
The pastors of the Methodist
churches of Nashville intend hold
ing g grand revival meeting at the
close of the centennial ceremonies.
They will occupy the Exposition
building.
The Kentucky Legislature has
just passed the law forbidding the
sale Of whisky on Sunday. The Ii
quor men of Louisville are up in
arms about it, and have formed a
league to resist its enforcement.
Mr.. A. j. McKimmin, formerly of
Giles county, was elected secretary
of the Tennessee Trotting Horse
Association last week. 1t was de-
cided to hold a spring meeting on
May 11th, to continue four days.
In the Tammany convention at
Syracuse, N. Y, last week, Lieut.
Gov. Dorsheimer, the temporary
chairman, declared with emphasis
that Horatlo Seymour was the man
of all others to unite the party in
that state. This assertion was re-
ceived with deafenIng applause.
There has not been a death in the
old family of j. w. Mize,of Sumter
county, Ca, in sixty-three years,
and he has six uncles and three
aunts whose ages are $50 years.
His uncles, his cousins and his aunts
number, all told, 126, that live in
Sumpter county.
The House District committee has
appropriated $4,000 for the COM
pletion of the Washington monu-
ment. This amount added to the
$150,000 already expended In
strengthening the foundation for
the contemplated uperstructure
will make the total cost over
100000.
At Knoxville, last week, Yell
Eckle, while in q drunken fit,
struck his mother in the head with
slat taken from a baby's crib,
killing her instantly. The wretch
ed matricide is 26 years of age and
manifests but little remorse for the
awful crime he committed. He was
arrested
A most extraordinary hail storm
prevailed at Fayetteville several
days ago. Hail stones the size of
hen eggs fell thick and fast weigh
ing from four to six ouDces. Some
of them were spiracle while others
were fiat. Several panes of beau.
tiful stained glass in the windows
OF the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church were shattered.
The Grand Lodge of Ancient Or
der of United Workmen elected the
following officers in Nashville last
week: Grand master workman, T.
f. Perkins, jr.; grand foreman, E.
j. Read, jr., grand overseer, ID. w.
Hughes; grand recorder. L. II. Ev-
erett; grand receiver. j. M. Barnes;
grand guide, E. S. Gregory; grand
watchman, Sam Taylor; represen-
tatives to the Supreme lodge; G. o.
Thomas. S. S. Garrett, and L. r.
Cormick, jr.
The returns of April 1st to the
department of agriculture show an
increase in area sown in wheat last
fall of 13 per cent. more than in
the fall previous. In the area sown
in rye there is a decline of 6 per
cent. as compared with the year
previous. The condition is SO, the
same as last year. There was a
large increase in fall sown wheat in
those states that heretofore have
exclusively sown in the spring
The experiment was unfortunate,
and all, particularly Iowa and Ne
braska, report great disaster from
the winter. On the whole the
wheat crop thus far looks favorable
as in the spring of 1879. The con-
dition of live stock as represented
is very favorable, better than for
several years. No disease is re-
ported other than cholera among
the swine, and that is no worse, if
as bad, as last year.