The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-25
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! DR.. j. G. NJ. Ramsey, Tennes
sees venerable historian, has re
signed the Presidency of the Stat
Historical Society, on account 0
feeble health.
A nephew of John G. Calhoun il
insane, and labors under the hallu
cination that he is Jesus Christ
A wound received in the late war /.
The cause of his arrangement.
The sentence of Lizzie Gass
white, to two years Imprisonment
n the penitentiary for marry ing /.
negro was affirmed at the recent
session of the Supreme Court a.
Knoxville.
Nashville, Chattanooga d St
Louis Railway stock advanced 81
cents in New York last THURSDAY
and 8 cents on the day previous
Forty-one thousand shares were
sold in the two days.
Fifteen Mormon converts passed
through Nashville last week, en-
route to Salt Lake, Utah. They
were to be joined at Huntingdon,
Tenn, by sixty more. All were
poor and ignorant people.
O'NeaFs saw-mill, ore mile west
of Stevenson, on the Memphis &
Charleston railroad, blew up Friday
last, killing two white men and two
negroes. Three other mill hands
we're badly injured-one fatally.
The Department OF Agriculture
reports the corn crop slightly be.
low that Of last year. There is q
heavy decrease in tobacco and pc
tatoes, although the area planted
~as about equal TO that OF last
year.
The Alabama legislature, on Tues
day last, elected Hon. James L.
Pugh United States Senator to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death
Of Senator Houston. The place is
being temporarily filed by Hon.
Luke Pryor, who was appointed by
the governor.
1t is said that Gen. Grant has
lost heavily in recent mining
speculations and that the property
remaining to him barely yields him
an income of $4,000 a year. A
subscription for his benefit has
been started and Victor Newcomb,
late president of the Louisville &
Nashville Railway, gave $4,000.
Hon. James E. Bailey, Hon. John
VI. Bright, Gov. Marks and Gen.
w. B. Bate are prominent aspIrants
for the u. S. Senatorship. If, as it
said, the low-tax men will not sup
port Bailey and the state-credit
members refuse to support Marks
or Bate, the odds will be In favor
of Bright, who is enthusiastically
supported by the low tax and state
credit democrats of his own dis
trict.
The Minnesota Insane Asylum was
destroyed by fire on the 18th inst.
and 80 of it's inmates were burned
to death The scenes during the
fire were appalling and heartrend
the crazed patients refused to leave
The building and ran about the
halls and corridors screaming like
Some were half naked
and in this condition rushed out
into the bitter cold air and hid in
alleys and dark corners. The build
ing cost one million dollars and
was ten years in course of erection.
AT the time of the fire 1t contained
500 patients.
Gov. James D. ("Blue Jeans
of Indiana, died Saturday
last of Inflammation of the bladder
He was a plain. straightforward
man, with but little capacity for
public affairs; but the sterling
traits of his character, especially
his incorruptible integrity, made
him exceedingly popular with the
great mass OF the people in Indi-
ana. Men of his stamp, while they
may not shine in high places, more
than atone for any lack OF lustre by
he solid and substantial qualities
of their character and the rugged
honesty and fidelity with which
they discharge a public trust.
John Booth, foreman of section
8. Cd the Nashville d. Decatur di-
vision, was shot and almost Instant
ly killed by negro named Eman
uel johnson last Thursday AT
Campbell's station, Maury county.
Booth had discharged the negro
from work on the road and thus
incurred his i'll will. The latter
came 10 where the hands were work
ing and after insulting Booth drew
pistol and shot him Just above the
heart before any one could inter
tere. The scoundrel was arrest d
and placed in the Jail at Columbia.
The people about Campbell's station
are greatly excited over the murder
and tor awhile there was talk OF
gong to Columbia and lyDchIng
the negro.
A man named Knox, one night
last week, obtained lodgings with
Mr.. i G. Hulsey, at Chattanooga.
There was but one room in the
house and Hulsey gave his guest,
whom he was entertaining free of
charge, the bed, while he and his
wife occupied a pallet on the floor.
About II O'Clock at night, Hulsey
awoke and found Knox standing
over his wife, steslthily removing
the covers and preparing to commit
"A nameless outrage. He seizeo the
scuundrel and would have killed
HIM if better counsel had not pre-
vailed. AS it was, he kicked him
into the street in his night clothes,
and the fellow wandered about in
that condition until morning, when
he was arrested. He pleaded SOM
nambulism-said he was in the
habit of walking in his sleep and
was unconscious when he attempted
to commit the outrage. He was
formerly a Methodist preacher and
has very respectable family connec-
tons in Marion county. He gave
bail for $1,000 and was released.
Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, and