The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-30
THE PAPERS SAY.

Chattanooga beer dealers are cutting
prices.
Secretary Bayard is said to be capt.
tai amateur boxer.
Diphtheria, in a mild form, has made
its appearance in Franklin.
A Georgia lady has squash lis years
old, which is valued at 500.
Gen. Grant and family are to be in
vited to spend the summer on Lookout
mountain.
Queen Victoria is said to have,
mounted in silver, the ball that killed
Admiral Nelson.
The blowing of a ranch near Red
wood City, Col, by steam is shortly to
be undertaken.
Drunkenness in either the husband or
wife is now regarded as a sufficient
ground for divorce in France.
The war cloud in Europe which ap-
peared about the size OF a mans hand
now seems to be as big as a camp-kettle
The Virginia legislature will hold
an extra session soon, to consider the
United States supreme court decision on
the state debt question.
A water-spout on the Medicine river,
Kansas, caused the death of a number
of persons. In several instances entire
families were drowned.
A Vassar College graduate, Miss Ju-
liza Pease, is practically and profitably
cultivating IN Texas no less than 5000
acres Of land.
Senator Vance, describing the present
illness of his wife, says that she il "suf-
fering from regular old fashioned ten
commandment cold."
Mrs. Barrios, the widow of the late
President of Guatemala, and her seven
children are among the passengers on
the steamer Grenada, which has lust
arrived at San Francisco, from Panama.
John Jacob Astor lately submitted to
the New York Building Examiners the
plans for an Office to be erected at Wall
and Pine streets. 1t will be eight sto-
ries high, with an attic, and will cost
100000.
Mark Twain is said to have cleared
$50, 900 from his reading tour this sea-
son. This is doubtless the largest sum
ever realized by an author from read
ings of his own writings, since Dickens
made his famous American tour.
Gen. Middleton, who went up with
an army to crush the Riel rebellion, i:
confronting the enemy. Great anxiety
is now manifested throughout the do
minion to learn whether Middleton
will be the crusher or the crushed.
Some of the ti-English papers are
nsinuating most unkindly that the re-
ports of cholera in Egypt are for the
purpose of furnishing an excuse fol-
Withdrawing the troops from Africa
and backing out of the Soudan war.
'FThe only thing to mar the pleasure
of the OCCASION" wrote an Arizona edi-
tor of funeral, t.'was little difficulty
between the clergyman and one of the
mourners concerning the ownership OF
flask found in the carriage they had
occupied "
twill take at least $50 900 to foot ur
the expenses of holding an extra session
of the Tennessee legislature. This is
the direct result of the revolutionary
proceedings of the republicans. The
people SHOULD remember this, and
charge the hill up to that party.
James Andrews, "A years old, living
in the twenty fourth district of Maury
county, son of Polk Andrews, was
drowned Gin sDuck river recently
while running trOt line, His canoe
was upturned, and hook caught in his
clothes, pulling him under and drown
ing him instantly. A negro man with
him escaped drowning by swimming
ashore. The river has been dragged
but they have not found the body.