The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-23
NEWS BOILED DOWN.


dren has passed through Dalton,
> Ga, going west.
The new Mormon temple is to
cost $27, 100000. That doesn't look
much like the saints intended to be
f put down by the government.
Three counties in Tennessee
furnish the penitentiary more than
, hundred convicts each-Shelby
49, Davidson 127, Madison lob.
a movement is on foot to make
Grant President of the Adams Elk
press Company, with a salary of
$25, 600 year. This is better than
being peRsioned.
Judge VIM. B. Wood. just APP
pointed to the Supreme Bench, lives
in Atlanta, Ga, where he Las fine
residence. He is about fifty years
of age, and has wife and two
children.
1t is said that more emigrants
passed through Chattanooga last
week than during any previous
week on record. The number is es-
timated at 1000, and may perhaps
exceed that.
Capt. Jim Davis, the noted reve
nue. officer, who was so badly used up
/. by the moonshiners recently, was in
Nashville last week. He is recOv-
ering from his injuries and expects
to 90 to the mountains again soon.
The Alabama Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
has appointed T. o. Summers, D.
D. Ii. d., book editor, professor of
systematic theology in Vanderbilt
University and editor of the Quar-
terly Review.
People in the Tennessee river
bottoms, above Savannah, who had
not finished picking cotton, have
been pulling up the stalks and car
rying them to the hills and strip |
ping them of the cotton by freight,
on account of the high water.
As soon as the projected narrow
gauge road from Chattanooga to |
Lookout mountain is built, mag
nifcent hotel, capable of accommo
dating 1000 guests, will be erected
on the mountain, and the entire
point will be converted into a beau
tiful park.
The Nashville Banner says the
Confederate cemetery at Murfrees-
boro is fast going TO wreck. The
fences are down and the cattle in
the vicinity are allowed to roam
at will over the sacred spot. The
Banner justly characterizes this as
a burning shame.
Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, Congress
man elect, says that in 1876 this
country will have a population of
300,O0O,000, and proposes to divide
it into three Republics, with one
head to serve fifteen years. Now,if !
We could only get Grant to wait and
take in his thlrd-term then.
The Dresden Democrat wants the
legislature TO pass law making. it
a crime for any man who cannot '
show that he Is a regular graduate t
of some medical college to practice .
medicine. The State is flooded
with bogus physicians who have
been compelled to leave Kentucky
and other States.
DR.. Turney, physician of the Ten
nessee penitentiary, reports the
hospital connected with that insti-
tuition in very foul condition. He
says it is wholly without veDtila-
tion-hot and noisome in summer;
cold, dark and cherries in winter
and, upon the whole, a sad common
! tarv on our civilization.
Mai. Gen. Schofield has been re-
lieved from the command of West
| Point, and Maj. Gen. o. o. How
ard. of Freedmen's Bureau fame,
appointed in his stead. Schofield's
report in the case of the colored ca
Diet, Whitaker, indicated that he
had no special affection for the
down trodden African; hence, his
removal. Howard, his successor,
affects great tenderness for Sambo.
The Vermont nuisance bill, one
of the most stringent liquor prohib
tory bills ever passed in that
State, has received the sanction OF
both houses of the legislature. 1t
declares any place in the State
where liquor is sold or given away,
or where gambling is allowed, a nui-
ssnce, and provides that it shall be
/ closed. 1t also makes the keeper liza
/ BILE TO a fine of from $50 to 5000 and
Imprisonment for three months.
Ia Scott county, Ind, is a most
remarkable pigeon roost. 1t covers
| hundreds of acres of forest, and du-
ring the fall millions of pigeons
visit It nightly. From O'Clock
until midnight flock after flock come
| in, remain until morning and then
| lly away. Naturally this roost at
tracts many hunters, who. with
shotguns, long poles, torches and
sacks to carry the game in, assem-
bic and create scene very much
like that described in Cooper's
"Pioneers," when Leather Stocking
protests against the merciless, sense
less slaughter of the birds.
Courier Journal: The old debt
of the city of Memphis will be paid. :
Its citizens have no desire TO repu
date a dollar of their indebtedness.
All they want Is time and a fair,
Just compromise with their credit {
ors. The opinion of Judge John
Baxter that the creditors OF the
city could come IN and mercilessly
sell out and hopelesslv bankrupt
the town was wrong. The opinion ,
of Justice Strong, of the Omitted ,
States Supreme Bench, setting aside {
the opinion of Judge Baxter and
holding that the Legislature could
make provision for the adjustment
Of the debt is a legal and compre- ]
hensive. not to say merciful, view
of the question.
Among the curiosities OF the cen s
sus, which has developed no end of
curious things, is native Of Arkan-
SIS, who was never 20 miles from
his birthplace, and never saw 10 I
connective, yet is still 4 citizen OF Z
France, having been born in Arkan I
sas, three years before the session
of that territory to the limited