The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19
NEWS BOILED DOWN.

NEWS BOILED DOWN.
A farmer named Jackson, living
near Savannah, has over $4,000 tea
plants on his farm.
II. w. Curlee, of Limestone coun-
tp, Texas, claims to be growing
with success the Chinese tea-plant.
Wise county, Texas, last year
grew two bales of cotton, worth $40
per bale, to each inhabitant.
The Episcopal churches in North
Carolina report a large gain in
membership during the past year.
He:e is the vote of jackson coun
ty, Tenn, as it has stood for several
years; Democratic, LOO, Republi-
can, one.
Stephen c. Spence, of Kingston,
n. c., was sentenced to jail for
thirty days for kissing the wife Of
q man named Waller.
At Chattanooga, Tenn, q negro
boy only twelve years old has been
sentenced to the penitentlaly for
horse-stealing.
A wild cat, weighing twenty-five
pounds and measuring thirty five
inches in length, was killed in
flower garden in Savannah.
Lloyd w. Welch, principal chief
of the Cherokee Indians, in North
Carolina, died in Cherokee county,
of consumption, recently.
A British ship has sailed for Tex
as with $500 barrels OF oil, made
for the purpose of preserving rail
road and bridge timbers under a
new process.
There is great distress in some
portions of Kansas, because of the
entire failure of the crops. 1t is
said more than 10000 people in
Western Kansas are in need Of
food.
Tom w. Sparman and Jube Koen,
each about twenty years of age,
have been arrested for the murder
of r. L. Edwards, the preacher and
schoolmaster, who was murdered in
Ennis county, Texas.
At San Antonio, Texas, colored
girl, seventeen wears old, while in a
religious frenzy, in the African
Methodist church, fell dead The
coroner's jury rendered a verdict
that she came to her death by con-
gestion of the brain, caused by
great excitement.
Near Cleburne, Texas, a single
highwayman, apparently not over
eighteen years of age, attacked
stage, secured the mail and robbed
the only passenger of $l25 in
money. He then rode off on horse
back and eluded the officers sent in
pursuit.
The gross earnings of the rail
roads of the country for 1879
amounted to $529,OI2, ,999-larger
than ever before reported-while
the increase in the number Of miles
of road built was greater than for
any year since 1873. And this re-
port contains the operations of 81,
232 miles, out of a total of S6,497
miles.
At Dresden, Tenn, a team at
tached to a wagon containing man,
two women and a child, backed off
the Obion river bridge. wagon,
mules and people falling IN a con-
fused heap a distance of twelve feet
The child was badly hurt, while the
p,a,, and furo rop,an oorroyuly
escaped death. One OF the mules
was so badly injured that 1T was
thought it would have to be killed,
In Richmond, a young white wo-
man, about twenty two years of
age, accompanied ty a handsome
and bright little boy about three
years old, was found staggering in a
drunken stupor through the streets.
She had fallen in the cutters sever
al times and badly cut her face and
head. The police took her TO the
Second station house, and though in
a beastly state of intoxication she
could not be made TO give her name.
The first conference of the Gar
uGAh elZCAis " 10 a feAoNCs a ny
met at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, TO consider the advisability
of sending men and money to some
of the southern States-Elorida,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Louisiana. The whole field was
surveyed, and many expressions of
view were had, the predominating
one, as our report of Sunday
showed, being in favor Of letting
the southern States take care OF
themselves and concentrating the
power of the party in the doubtful
northern States. Senator Conkling,
who was in the hotel at the time Of
the conference, did not put In an
appearance.
In Atlanta, Ga, a few days ago,
Mr.. NJ. T. Thornton was attacked
in the rotunda Of the Kimball house,
by Mr.. Frank Gordon, son OF Gen
eral John b. Gordon, and received
a severe cash on the head by a
strske with a heavy hickory stick
Thornton is journalist, and is
charged by Gordon with the author
ship OF an article rejecting on the
iatter's father. and tased on a re-
port 20 the effect that Cyrus w.
Field paid General Gordon twenty
thousand dollars 70 help carry the
Georgia delegation for his brother,
Judge Field, at Cincinnati. and that
instead Of advocating Field, Gen
erGl Gordon urged the Georgia del
egation in caucus TO support Bay
ard. 1t Is also said that the attor-
neys Of Mr.. Field are endeavoring to