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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19
EDIsoN's LABORATORY.
The Wizard Of Malno Park and His
Electric Lamp.

New York Truth: Pros. Edison
is stall engaged perlecting his cleo
trio amp. and has not lost faith IN
his carhCn horse shoe burner. He
is experimenting with various ma
teriai and fabrics for the burner.
aud when called on yesterday it was
ascertained that the one which has
thus tar given the .s-c-t-~.
tion is a diminulive square made Of
bamboo. These bamboo burners
will be inserted in the large nun Der
of small lamps at the laboratory,
from which the air is being drawn
by the mercury" pumps These
lamps, it is expected, will be in po-
sItion and lighted on the night of
October lst.
1t is alleged that the bamboo
burners Will burn for I,Sz5 hours,
and supply a flame equal to sixteen
candles A generator of one-horse
power will. 1t is estimated, keep ten
lights going. To relieve the mo-
nOtony of necessarily working at
the electric lamp, the inventor pass
es an occasional hour in improving
his electric motor.
His railway is an interesting sight
for visitors, but few possess the
courage to accept the invitation to
take the half mile ride over the
tracks at the rate of forty miles an
hour. The rails, ordinary looking.
are the c. nductors of the electric
current, and on these rest the queer
looking engine holding the electric
machine and the car with its leather
banded wheels, by which the power
generated by the machine is com
municated. The train is controlled
by ordinary brakes.
The Professor anticipates increas
ing the speed to 200 miles, and has
new rails, intending to
his track to a mile and
half. He will, in a few months,
make a trial trip over a portion of
the Pennsylvania road. The ad-
vantage of the new motive power is
,he absence Of dust, smoke, cinders
and noise, and the ease in passing
over heavy grades. There are at
present sixty five workmen engaged |
II the laboratory.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

Commissioner Raum has official
ly notified the secretary of the
treasury that during the past fiscal
year l23,9S1, ,9I6 in internal reve-
nue. taxes was collected, and the
entire sum paid into the treasury.
The salaries and expenses OF the
bureau were about SIS. .929, 900, or
a little more three and Une-half per
cent. upon the amount collected
The commissioner pays a high com
pliment to she collectors, and adds:
During the past four years well
sustained efforts have been made to
suppress illicit manufacture and
sale of VIII sky and tobacco in a
number of districts in the southern
states, where, for many years, these
practices had been rife. During
that period 1874 illicit stills were de-
stroyed, 770S persons arrested for
illicit distilling, several officers and
employees were killed and 55 wound
ed while enforcing the laws. 1t is
gratifying to be able to state that
frauds upon the revenue have been
greatly reduced, and that violent
resistance to the laws has practic
ally ceased.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19
An Historical Review.

London Telegraph: DR.. Tanner
is not the first who has imagined 1t
possible to live upon air. Long
ago there was a savant who declared
the nitrogen in the atmosphere to be
fully equal to the needs of mankind,
and looked forward hopefully TO
the day when, from the gaseous en-
velope of the earth, beet-steRks and
chops would be as easily manufac-
tured as cream from milk or paper
from Esparto grass. His scheme
was never carried into effect, and,
as a rule, ii has been observed that
abstinence from solid nutrIment for
ten days has been followed by
death. 1t is true that in times
when they were not very particular
as to dates, and as Barham has it,
"Saints were many and sins were
few" St. Anthony took credit to
himself for living on twelve ounces
of bread and water daily for one
hundred and five years in a similar
ly abstemious manner; but then
they were semi celestial persons of
whom no rude scientific account
can be taken. Later days failed TO
produce any such marvels, though
many attempted to gain the honor.
One Anne Moore, who was known
as the fasting woman of Tutbury,
did indeed declare that she had
lived for twenty months without
food in the years lS07-0S, but she
was detected by a DIR. Henderson
and denounced as a cheat. Then "A
German woman pretended to main
tain vitality for eight years, from
1920 to 1928, by simply wrapping
wet blankets round her frame, but
failed to convince her friends, and
came near being stoned as witch.
Barney Cavanagh, the celebrated
Irish faster, ended his performance
in a Jail in lS41, where he was in
carcerated as an impostor; while
Sarah Jacobs, the Welsh fasting
girl, who was said by her father to
have lived in bed more than Il year
without food, on being closely
watched in July, 1870, died from
exhaustion in about q week. SO
that altogether the experiments in
this line have not been very sue
cessful. 1t is, however, affirmed
that certain classes of the Indian
fakIrs have at various times been
able in some way or other TO sus
pend animation in such a manner
as to be TO all appearance dead,
and so subsist without food. Yet,
although stories are rife Of their
being buried in this condition. and
after remaining underground while
the sown corn over their bodies
grew, ripeDed and was cut, being
dug up again and restored TO full
life, evidence on the point is far
from complete, and the legends
must be received with more than
very large grain Of salt; still there
are species OF even warm blooded
animals which live for long periods
without so much as an atom Of pfov-
ender. The alternating bear which,
as winter approaches, climbs TO the
top OF a hollow trunk, and letting
himself down into the interior OF
the tree, sleeps there until the cold
weather has disappeared, exists as
heartily as does man when In pos
session of all his faculties, while
the dormouse, which can enjoy It's
food in the summer with palpable
and evident relish, dozes away
month after month without scarcely
any diminution of tissue or strength,
so that it is possible for life TO con
tinue without active nourishment
when no exercise is taken.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19
A Tale Of Mid-Air.

r n cottage in the valley of Sal
r lanches, near the foot of Mont
~ Blanc, lived old Bernard and his
s&S three sons. One morning he
lay sick in bed, and, burning with
fever, watched anXiously for the re-
furn of his son, Jehan, who had
gone to fetch physician. AT
length a horses tread was heard,
and soon afterwards the doctor en-
tered. He examined the patient
closely, felt his pulse, looked at his
tongue, and then said, patting the
old man s cheek: at will be moth
ing, my friend, nothingr' but he
made sign to the three lads, who,
open-mouthed and anxious, stood
grouped around the bed. All then
withdrew to a distant corner; the
doctor shook his head, thrust out
his lower lip and said: "'Tis a Sc
riOus attack-very serious-of fe-
yer. He is now in the height of the
fit, and as soon as it abates he must
have sulphate of quinine."
"What is that, doctor|
"Quinine, my friend, is a very
expensive medicine, but which you
may procure at Sallenches. Ee-
tween the two fits your father must
take at least three francs worth
will write the prescription. You
can read, GuillaumeP'
"Yes, doctor"
"And you will see that he takes
it?'
"Certainly."
When the physician was gone,
Guillaume, Pierre and Jehan looked
at each other in silent perpleSity.
Their whCle stock of money con-
sisted Of a franc ana half, and
vet the medicine must be procured
Immediately.
Listen said Pierre, "I know a
method OF getting from the noun
tain before night three or four franc
pieces"
"From the mouutain?"
81 have discovered an eagles nest
in cleft of a frightful precipice.
There is a gentleman at Sallenches
who would gladly purchase the Gag
lets; and nothing made me hesitate
but the terrible risk of taking them,
but that's nothing when our father :
life is concerned. We may have
them now in two hours"
81 will rob the nest," said Gull
laume.
"No, no; let me-" said Jehan, 81
am the youngest and lightest."
II have the best right to ven
ture," said Pierre, "as it was l who
discovered il"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19
Breathing Snake Poison.

Lexington [Ky.) Gazette.
About three weeks ago q youDg
man named Walton and a compan-
ion, while working in the harvest
field, discovered a snake coiled up
in a shock of wheat. Walton ad-
vaneed near the shock and was pre-
pairing To aim a blow when tue rep
tile darted at him. spIinging near
his fac with a kissing sound.
Walton fell fainting % the groun /,
and it was thought be had been Bit
ten.
Young Walton was carried TO his
home and remained weak and slight
ly unwcll for a short time. bnt vas
soon sufficiently recovered TO re-
sumo his usual duties.
II was then thought that il was
only a bad case of fright. and that
his encounter with the reptile had
Injured hin to no extent. However,
after remaining in apparent health
for several days, on last Thursday
be was suddenly taken sick. He
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19
District ELECTORS.

First District-CHARLES r. VANCE.
Second District-W.L. DGERWOOD
Third District-(To be appointed by the
district convention).
Fourth District-JOSEPH +. WASH
INGTON, of Robertson.
Fifth District-(To be appointed by the
district convention).
Sixth District-W. A. THOMA, Of Da-
wilson.
Seventh District-EDWIN Il. TALIA-
FERRO, of Giles.
Eighth District-A. G. HAWKINS, of
Carroll.
Ninth Distrlct-T. E. RICHARDSON,
of Dyer.
Tenth District-R. J. MORGAN, of
Shelby.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

In New York, last week, Quimbo
Apo, son of the notorious Chinese
murderer. drau x. gambled and quar-
relied with a young man named
John Collins Thursday night.
Apo is an expert at cards and won
all Collins money. The latter said
he was cheated and the Chinaman
plunged a knife into his abdomen,
ripping his victim open in horri
BILE manner. Collins is now on his
death bed. Apo is noted des-
perado and has served a number OF
terms in prison. His father cut
open the heart of James Keeley in
1876. Sixteen years ago he assas-
slnated his wife. He is at present
undergoing a life sentence IN Sing
Sing.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19
Round Shoulder.

Mothers are often perplexed as
TO what to do with a round shoul-
dered daughter. Shoulder braces
are not effective in curing the de-
fOrmity. Neither is the advice, so
generally given, "to sit up erect"
to walk with the shoulders thrown
back, satisfactory. It is followed
only for u while, for the effort it re-
quires is fatigning A correspont-
dent OF the New York Tribune sug-
gests the following remedy:
suspend two ropes with ring
handles attached from doorway
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

Francis Fontaine, state commits
sioner of immigration for Georgia,
has made contracts with one hun
dred German families to work at
Cedartown and vicinity. He thinks
they will be worth 10 the state at
least $4,000, besides their value as
settlers and laborers. One hundred
more families are expected in
short time.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

The Louisville and Nashville
company now operates seventeen
hundred and two miles of road,
which will be increased during the
year by the completion of lines un-
der contract, to eighteen hundred
and forty miles. This makes the
Louisville and Nashville system
at present the ninth in point Of
mileage in the country.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

The sensation in the racing
world now is, of course, Maud S
Her wonderful race with TrInket at
Chicago surprised Capt. Stone, her
manager, almost as much as it as
tonished every one else. At C-eve-
land, Friday, in a trial trot of half
"a mile, she oUtdid even her own
brilliant record of the week before,
and made the half mile in l :04 J.
1t is the great question now wheth-
er she can beat St. Julien or not,
but It seems probable that she can
do her time in 2:lO, but equally as
many think that the son of Volun-
teer can also get his record down to
that. A race between them would
be the greatest event tt at could be
organized, and would draw such a
multitude as never before assem-
bled on any trotting track.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

1t is now thought that tue census
will show a population n-the Unit
ed States of about forty-eight mil
lions five hundred thousand. These
figures give US data for comparison.
In the last ten years our rate of in
crease has been twenty seven per
cent. From 1860 to 1870 it was
twenty-three per cent. From 1850
to 1860 it was thirty-five per cent.
The average rate of growth from
1870 to 1850 in each recurring ten
years, was a little less than thirty
five per cent.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

TRY DR.. c. 2. Duncan's celebrated
Vegetable Liver Pills-a sure cure for
headache, swimming in the head, bad
taste in the mouth, pains in the side,
back, chest, and limbs. Nothing better
for constipated bowels, sour stomach
and tenderness over the region OF the
stomach. One box will go further than
two boxes of any other pill. VIII act
on the liver as well as blue mass or eal-
Om'I- (Warranted). Try them.
For sale by Grigsby & Anderson, south
side square, Pulaski.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

Our consul at Vera Cruz reports
that city as healthy aud verv clean.
-.f.,; tifat not case G. yellow fever
or other contagious disease has oc-
Cured there this year. In Havana
there are at present two hundred
cases OF yellow fever.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

or tree-iimb, and compel the child
10 swing by the arms ten minutes
each day three minutes at a time.
She viii straight ten up in three
months. This is often demonstra-
ted in the converts. The elastic
exercising-tubes are better stiIl
hung in the house, and they are a
delightful pasJime.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19
A WRONG THING.

Independent Times.
The preacher murmured, "Let us prayrr
She kneeled as if impelled by duty,
But not sentence did she say,
The Irreligious little beauty.
Above the pew heI roguish eyes
Peeped, conscious of my admiration,
And filed me with more paradise
Than any in the congregation.
1 heard, with half-attentive ear,
The serrnon, soporific, stupid.
And though in church, my soul, fear,
Was PROSTATE at the shrine of Cupid.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

At Mckinney, Texas, colored
woman named Sukey Hunt, re
ported to be 140 years old was
buried Sunday. She was the
mother of nineteen children.
While nursing her sixteenth child
she sucked Mrs. Hart, of Weather
ford, who is said to be in her sew
enty eighth year. Aunt Sukey
died on the premises of Judge
Andrews, of Mckinney, on whose
charity the old forsaken colored
woman has lived for the past ten
years. She was SO bent with age
that she was buried, as it were, in
sitting posture, it being impossible
to straighten her back and limbs.
She was in full possession of her
faculties to the last.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

The Medical Herald for August
contains a circular letter addressed
by Secretary Evarts to all the pow
ers owning ports likely to be infec-
ted with yellow-fever, cholera or
other contagiousi diseases. asking
for. an international sanitary con
ference, with the view of estab-
fishing an international system OF
notification, as to the actual santa
ry condition of ports and places.
The powers are requested to send
authorized representatives to the
conference in Washington City, on
the first day of January, 1881.
The Herald will also contain 8
memorandum of points proposed
to be submitted to the conference.
Secretary Evarts circular is in
obedience to joint resolutions of
congress, passed the twenty-iourth
of May, authorizing the President
to call for conference of the
different nations interested.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

Ex-senator Pool, of North Caro-
lima. who ever since The war has
been a Republican and labored and
voted for Hayes, now announces
himself for Hancock, aud viii! make
speeches during the campaign for
the Cinclnnati ticket.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-19

The !ocusts have destroyed the
wheat crop in the six governments
of Russia thst are justly considered
to ce the 2 anary Of the empire.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-31
~ a QUICK TsIr. 04W
From Bombay, India, to Philadeiphia H.
side of Thirty Days.
4. .r... 1Philadelphia Press

side of Thirty Days.
ra.f lPhiladelphia Press.l
DIR. Edward II. Williams, of the Baldwin
locomotive works, has just returned from a
business visit to Australia and New Zealand,
and has made the home trip from India to
this country in probably the shortest time
ever recorded. He left Bombsy by the
Ps2i?sular and Oriental Steamship COM
pany's mail steamer Surat, which carried the
India mail, at IL 80 o'clock p. m, January 81,
the SDrst being the first steamer under the
new controct between the British Govern
ment and the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
ship company, which increased the speed
from 10 to u knots per hour, including all
stoppages. The Surat touched at Aclen on
Friday, February 6, arriving at Suez at noon
on the 18th. He left Suez by the special
mail train at p. m. on the same evening.
reaching Alexandra. distance OF 226
miles, in 10 hours, including two and half
hours OF stoppages, occssioned partly by
colliding with freight train, in which both
engine drivers were killed and several
carriages broken, but no passengers injured.
Alexandria was reached at p. M, February
IL, and at $50 p. m. the doctor Left that port
by the Peninsular and Oriental mail steamer
Pera, arriving at Brindisl at 10 D. m. Sunday,
the 10Th, which city be left at IL AS D. N. in
the Pullman palace car Plemonte for Bologna
Italy. where he change to a Mann sleeping
car. FROM bologna the train passed through
the Mont Cents tunnel, reaching Modane,
the first French station at the end of the
tunnel, at a. m. on the 18th. Thence by
special train on the Paris, Lyons and Med
Iterranean railroad, arriving in Paris at
10 O'Clock p. m. He left the French metro
polls via the Northern railroad at u mid
night, arriving in Calais at q. m. Wednes
day. the 18TH At noon the same day he left
for London, which was reached at 5:45 p. m.
Leaving London on the 10Th by the Irish
mail for Queenstown via HoIyhead, he took
passage in the steamer Germanic OF the
White Star line. He departed from Queens
town on the evening of the Goth. The first
part of the Atlantic trip was extremely
rough, but the latter smooth and fine. DR..
Williams arrived at New York on Saturday,
February 20. and reached his home in West
Philadelphia on the evening Of the same day,
having accomplished the entire distance
from Bombay to philadelphia in the I'M
precedentedly quick time of barely 80 days.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-31
what Kearney said.

Here is a specimen brick from Dennis
Kearney's speech for which he has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment:
I'll tell you who the 200 h-l-b-n h-l-bouud
villains are who are meeting In secret In this
city. They are your deadly enemies, these DO
lawless assassins and incendiar1es, who are
meeting now TO decide who shall be hung and
who shall escape. There Is Claus Spreckles,
the biggest - thief who ever went unhung,
and - him, am man enough to tell him so
to his face. He Induced his men to take oath
70 club Kearney, but they don't dare TO do II.
tell you right here that II hear of any man
plotting to kill me, by - will Kill him so
help me -! III they Kill me, then the tnsur-
rection will commence In earnest. They tell
me must shut mp or leave the city. propose
10 stay here and follow the same course which
began two years and five months ago.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-31
WILLIAM A. LOWE, Attorney.

CTATE OF INDIANA, Marion county, SIS:
= In the Superior Court of Marion county,
in the state of Indiana, No. 26,26l. Room
2. Computation divorce.
Abner w. Bunnell VS.. Sarah A. Bunnell.
Be 1t known, that on the 30th day of March,
1870, the @bove named plaintiff, by his attor-
new, fileu in the office of the clerk of the
Superior Court of Marion county, in the State
of Indiana, his complaint against
the above named defendant, and the said
plaintiff having also filed in said clerk 8 office
thu affidavit of competent person, showing
that the defendant, Sarah A. Bunnell, Is not
a resident of the state of Indiana; and where
as SAID plaintiff having by Endorsement on
said com plain required said defendant TO APP
pear In said court and answer or demur there
TO- on the I'D day of June, 1880.
Now, therefore, by order of said court, said
defendant above named is hereby
notified of the filing and tendency of said
complaint against her, and that un-
less she appears and answersor demurs thereto
at the calling of said cause on the I'd day
of June, 1880, the same being the 18th judicial
day OF term of said court, TO be begun ana
held at the court house in the city of Indian
apolis, on the first Monday IN June,
1850, said complaint. and the matters and
things therein contained and alleged, will be
heard and determined in her absence.
DANIEL NJ. RANSDELL,
mar3l-3w Clerk.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-31
The Onion.

Few people dream of the many virtues of
onions, and those few are enthusiastic for
the beneficent bulb, and believe il q panacsa
for every i'll. Lung and liver complaints are
certainly benefited-often cured-by a free
consumption of onions, either cooked or
raw. Colds yield to them like magic. Don't
be afraid of them, especially If you are
married. Taken at night all offense will be
wanting by morning, and the good effects
will amply compensate for the trifing an
neyance. Taken regularly they greatly
promote the health OF the lungs and the
digestive organs An extract made by boil
ing down the juice Of onions 10 a syrup, and
very we'll, but fried. roasted or boiled onions
are better Onions are q very cheap medi
cine, within everybody's reach, and they are
not by any means as ''bad to take the
costly nostrums neglect of their use will
neceksitate.