The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-11
News Boiled Down.
The epizootic is raging among
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Nashville has been so far compile
ted as to admit of services in the
basement.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler is elected
to Congress from the Sth Alabama
district, defeating Lowe, his green
back competitor, by 43 votes.
The Nashville Sun. a Wilson or
gan, after checquered career of a
month or so, turned up its toes and
peacefully expired the day after the
election. No tears.
Fourteen female missionaries
have gone out to work among the
Utah Mormons. 1t is hoped they
will not marry the same man and
thus contract their usefulness.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and
st. Louis railway has endorsed the
bonds of the Sewanee (TenD.) Fur
mace Company to the amount of
$4,000.
Hayes called on Garfield at the
latter's home il Mentor last Thurs
day Sweet smiles of recognition
were exchanged. and then Fraud
and Corruption mingled in one fond
embrace.
There will be five colored men
in the egislature-three from Shell
by county, one from Upton and
one from Davidson. Sykes, the
Scion elect from Davidson, was u
mem Der of the North Carolina leg
islature.
At Madison, Ind, the day after
the election, George Glass hur-
rahed for JEFF Davis. After that
his voice failed him, for Fred
French, patriot living in that land
Of free speech, shot him through
the heart.
The inventor of a new flying ma
chine Launched his bark" from the
top of the Patent Office, Washing
ton, one day last week, and it was
dashed 30 pieces on the pavement
below. Luckily for the inventor he
remained on top of the building.
The Louisville and Nashville
Railroad will receive within the
next 80 days, 700 new box cars and
6 new Mogul engines from the
Rogers Locomotive Works. This
rolling stock is badly needed and
will greatly facilitate the movement
of freight.
a Louisville colored Republicans
views: "Gyarfield's 'lected, and
there'll be wah. ond we'll all go to
fghtln'. I'll have me big knife
and 90 cuttin' round; and when
ever 1 see a white child I'll say,
You'll be a rebel when you get
big;' and I'll cut its g--ts open :"
Up to Saturday last, the people OF
the remote parts of Sumner, Wilson
and Trousdale counties had not
heard the election news and were
offering to bet $50 to 500 that
Wilson would beat Wright. Nash
vile men sent money up there and
took advantage of their ignorance.
James Gooch, in a church at
Rock Hill, n. c., had no money for
the contribution box, and attempted
a
to him. The man refused. Gooch
then took a pistol from his pocket
and offered it as collateral. The
man took the pledge, and while ex-
aiming it the weapon went off,send-
ing a ball through the brain OF
Gooch, killing him instantly.
The Legislature elects the Treas
urer, the Comptroller and the Sec
rotary of State. Hawkins will have
the appointment of the State Super
intendent of Public Instruction,
Commissioner of Agriculture, Su-
perlntendent of the Capitol, Super
intendent of Prisons, Warden and
Deputy Warden of the Penitentiary,
and Of course the present Demo-
cratic incumbents will have to 90.
The sensational account pub
lished last week of desperate fight
between Mr.. J. w. Brown, editor OF
the Gallatin Examiner, and a party
of tramps, in which the former was
robbed and badly beaten, turns out
to be q wretched canard invented
by a fellow named Mulhattan, who
imaglnes that he is doing some
thing exceedingly smart when he
hoaxes the public in this way.
Brown is alive and well and we are
sorry to say that Mulhattan is ditto.
The Q. ;. Fish Commission have
notified Col George +. Akers,
Commissioner for Tennessee, that
they arc prepared to distribute
a fine lot of German carp in Middle
Tennessee. Col. Akers will receive
the fish IN a short time, and he no
titles all persons desiring the same
70 make application to him at
Nashville, either in person, or by
letter. Fifteen pairs viii be the
limit for each person and the fish
must be kept to themselves in the
pond or stream in which they are
placed.
Says the Henrietta (Texas) Jour
ual: BY some mistake a horse was
hitched to al apple tree near eighty
stands of bees, in Hunt county late
IL, and the bees became enrsged
and attacked the horse, stinging
him so badly that he died within
few hours. An aged gentleman. in
attempting to loosen the horse. was
severely stung, and, in running
away from them, fell, and was
dragged into the house in an IN
conscious state. Some fifty or SIX
" stings were picked out of his
head and face. A copious solution
of alcohol prevented any serious re-
suits.
The management of the Louis
vile Il Nashville Railway have com
pleted plans for the erection of a
Union Depot at Nashville, to con
sist of q large shed, 100 by 400
feet, which will contain four tracks,
baggage rooms, dining rooms, ex-
press office. etc. The structure will
cost see, 900, and front, on Church
street. a new building, three stO
ries high, with mansard roof and
highly ornamental front viii be
built for the officers of the Nash