The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-30

Capt. James b Eads has received
from the government 81, 800,0O0 for
his work at the mouth of the Missis-
sippi.
The hub and spoke factory al
Tullahoma is so crowded with or
ders that it is running day and
night.
Four thousand barrels of potatoes
have been shipped from West Har-
peth- Station in Williamson county.
this season.
Capt. J. D. Rhodes, who propos
ed to swim the Niagara rapids
where Capt. Webb lost his life has
recently given up the idea.
Let the judge at the fair remem-
Der his responsibilities and do the
fair thing. The burning eyes of ex-
hibitors are fixed upon him.
Eleven police Justices in New
York draw salaries of $4,000 each
or nearly as much as the judges or
the supreme bench at Washington
DR.. Garrett, of Washington, who
performed the final surgical opera
ton on Judge Black, was JEFF Davis
family physician during the civil
war.
There is a penny savings bank il
Philadelphia that has $500 deposit
ed by 600 depositors. They are al
children, and the largest sum pos
sessed by one is SIS.
A recent computation gives Chat
tanooga, this state, $1,000 popula
ton and Birmingham, Ala, $4,000
with 1000 in the suburbs. Manu-
featuring built up both cities.
According the United States
Commissioner of Education, $751;
475,O00 has been given by private
individuals for educational purpo-
ses in this country within ten
years.
The number of immigrants that
arrived in this country in July was
56,27S. The number for July, 1882
was 65,O1O. OF last July's arrivals
13,2O3, were Germans and 5,2SS
Irish.
The prevalence of suicide among
farmers has never had its cause ex-
planned. May not the strain on the
mind while acting as judges al
county fairs have something to do
with it2
The Lebanon Herald says: The
irrepressible propensity of the am
ateur correspondent to use the ed
itorial 1--WE" when he refers to him
self, is one of the most melancholy
signs of the times.
The announcement is made that
the next congress will attempt to
increase the national militia to 200,-
900 men and have them we'll armed
and drilled and always ready for
service ON short notice.
A negro woman living near Sa-
vannah died of superstition a few
days ago. She failed in turning
back to make a cross mark, and it
so preyed upon her mind that she
died in twenty-four hours after.
At Granville, North Carolina,
five wronged wives inflicted a terri
able beating with hickory clubs on
three mountain cyprians who had
gained the affections of their hus-
bands. The gang was thus entire
ly broken up.
Spark arresters have been patent
ed without number, but still the all
is filed with incense from the smok-
ing meadows along the railroad, fires
rage in the forests, and snorting en-
gines rush and spread terror
through regions of drouth.
The city Of Augusta has 1873, SOC
spindles actually turning. These
are set in ten mills, which have q
capacity for 10000 additional
spindles. Besides these, the King
Mill, with a capacity of 10000 more
spindles, is now being built.
The organization of societies and
unions is the order of the day.
What a formidable institution the
Society of the unhung Murderers OF
America might be made to be! 1t
would rival the League Of Runaway
Bank Officers and Country Treasur-
ers.
The Methodist ministers of New
England receive an average salary
of $3.50 a year, the Babtist trife
more, the Presbyterian $40 and the
Episcopalian 5000. These facts
may possible have something to dc
with the dearth of young men en-
tering the ministry.
During the year ending June 30,
1883, the amount of gold and silver
coin and bullion imported was $685.
4S9, 391, but the amount Of domestic
and foreign, exported was greater
by SO, 330,642. In 1882 the excess
of exports of gold and silver coin
over imports was $6,945,0S9.
Mr.. James J. Brooks, editor of
the jackson, Tenn, Wing, is pro-
noting a scheme to connect the
Tennessee and Mississippi rivers by
means of the Forked Deer river and
a canal ten miles long. A commits
sion of prominent citizens have
been formed to take all necessary
steps toward forwarding his plans.
Under the Mexican plan of Guilt
walton. three crops are taken off the
land every two years-one crop of
wheat and two crops of corn. The
average wheat yield of Mexico now
does not exceed twenty bushels to
the acre. Corn on irrigated land
runs about fifty and on dry land
about thirty bushels to the acre.
4 cyclone swept the town of Ro-
Minnesota, Wednesday,,
destroying 500 houses, killing 25
and wounding 80 people. a train
on the Northern road was blown
from the track and % persons kill
ed and 80 injured. Storms did i'm
mense damage all over Minnesota
and Wisconsin, and many lives
were destroyed.
Coming! Coming!
Prof Alav 10 AnnuinOs is comm o.