The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-18
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The business on the Nashville
system of railroads has increased
so greatly that | 900 additional cars
are needed.
General Garfield rendered his res
ignation as a member of Congress
from the Nineteenth Ohio Districi
on the 18th inst.
Sixty-two soldiers of the regi
ment stationed at Fort Townsend
Washington Territory, are legally
married TO squaws belonging to In
dian tribes in the neighborhood.
Brigham I. Young, grandson o.
the Prophet, wound up a drunken
spree at Salt Lake City few days
ago by taking fatal dose of NOR
phine. He left one wife and two
children. He was 80 years old.
In twelve of the Southern States
during the year 1878, wonderful as
it may seem, the statistics tell u:
that S6,000,O0 were spent for pub
lie schools, and more than 100000
colored children were taught.
OF the thirty eight States Han
cock received the votes of nineteen
and Garfield those of nineteen
The latter has twentyeight MAORI
ty of the electoral vote and the
former 10000 majority of the pop
ulsr vote.
The sale Of the penny Testament
the cheapest edition ever published
has already reached nearly 100000
and the publisher, Mr.. Elliott Stock.
confidently expects that 100000
copies will be disseminated in
twelve months.
Bills hsEe been filed in the Chan
Gerry Court at Nashville enjoining
the LOUISVILLE 81 Nashville Railroad
from increasing its capital stock
from 100000 to $4,000, 900. On
Monday last the Chancellor granted
a temporary injunction
The telegraph operator at Ozark.
Ark, reports that on the top OF
White Mountains, two miles north
OF Ozark, stones two pounds or less
in weight have been rising from the
earth and falling like hail, driving
families ous into the fields.
Hugh Martin, young man of
SweetwateI, East Tennessee, was so
overcome tV the result of the cleo
ton on the I'd inst. that his mind
became deianged, and he made sew
eral attempts to kill himself. 1t
required four men to handle him.
A mechanic at Beaufort, S. c., in
tent upon suicide by drowning, but
DESTROYS that his body should be re-
covered, fastened lead to his head
and a life preserver to his feet be-
fore leaping into the water. So he
was quickly drowned, while his legs
foated.
The partnership of the French
Rothschids, only one branch of that
oPulent family's business, has been
renewed. 1t having expired on No
vember L. The registration of the
deed of partnership cost $12,405.
The capital of this branch house Is
fixed at 100000.
The Democratic minority in the
House of Representatives will be a
strong one. Speaker Randall will
be its leader, and he will have able
Iieutenants in Carlisle and Black
burn. of Kentucky; House and At
kins, of Tennessee; Wood and
of New York, and Others.
William r. Grace, mayor elect of
New York, is the gentleman who
gave 100000 to establish the Irish
colony of Graceville, Bigstone coun-
ty, Minnesota, where each family
Of the 800 destitute Irish brought
over from Connemara last summer
have been given homestead of 160
acres of land.
Regarding scaling or docking of
cotton,a correspondent of the Mem
phis Appeal says the custom seems
to be entirely confined TO the Mis-
river. New Orleans scales
TWO pounds per bale, Vicksburg two,
Helena four and Memphis two.
Mobile weighs cotton for what it is
worth, and Galveston and Houston
both weigh the staple without seal
ing.
Senators Blaine, of Maine, Ed
of Vermont, and Governor
Rice, of Massachusetts, are men
toned in connection with the posi-
ton of Secretary of State in Gar
fields cabinet. Rice is wealthy
widower, a paper maker, with con-
elegance OF character, and
no doubt would make a good Sec
rotary of State. Like Garfield, he
was a poor boy.
A young woman. rather prepos-
sessing in appearance, but possessed
Of a considerable growth of beard,
is once week a visitor to barber
shop at Clinton, Ga. She takes her
seat in a chair just like a man, and
quietly submits her face to the
ather brush aud razor. Showmen
nave tried to induce her TO travel as
4 bearded woman, but she scornfully
,ejects their offers.
Memphis Appeal: Another con-
est is likely to arise over the cleo
ion of j. +. Norris, Republican
elect from this coun
y to a seat in the Legislature. It
s asserted that Norris was absent
rom this State in Arkansas for
our years, where he exercised the
lights of citizenship, and only re
urned to this city four or five
months prior to the election on the
ID of November.
The Chattanooga Times says the
york on Muscle Shoals Canal is pro-
crossing steadily, butts being embar-
assed somewhat by the great scare
ty of labor. Workmen are very
ifficult to obtain. At least five
hundred men can find employment
t the works. Planters in that To-
ality are Offering one-third to one
lalf the crop to pickers, and still are
nable to procure all they desire.
Eva Wilson was missed by her
riends in ST. Louis. A careful
earch was made without avail, and |
er parents gave her up as Dead be |
ause they would not believe that