The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-01-01
THE PAPERS SAY

The Tennessee general assembly viii
meet next Monday.
Vanderbilt is said to be worth $780,
100000 less than he was three years
ago.
Every visitor to Washington should
| carry with him a return ticket and a
fat pocket book.
There never was a Christmas in this
| country when dollar would buy SO
much as it will now.
Mr.. st. John reads with peculiar
pleasure that Mr.. Cleveland has declin-
ed demijon of rum.
London society has declared late
dances obsolete. The music now stops
promptly at II p. N.
Charles Dickens did more for Christ
mas than any man that lived during the
last seventeen centuries.
The New Orleans exposition wants
but one thing to make it a success-an
| attendance of 10000 day.
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, says
the south will be prohibition before an
other presidential election.
Since 1923 cholera has visited Euro
pean Russia three times, attacked four
millions and killed 100000 people.
Give the tramp the cold shoulder one
day, and he will come back the next
Tor gravy and potatoes to go with it.
Hog cholera in Nebraska has caused
a loss of probably 100000, the loss in
Sarpy county alone amounting to $751;
900.
A new republican paper, Blaine or
gan, is projected at Portland, Me.
] Some people say Blaine is out of poll
| tics.
The friends of President Arthur say
that his chances of success in the con-
test for the senatorship are better than
those of anybody else.
The Alabama legislature has passed
bill appropriating $4,000 to the pub
| lie school fund. The vote stood, in the
senate, 30 to 3; house 81 to ,.
A Georgia man has paid for a farm
with the melons off it, to say nothing
of the struggling young doctors he has
firmly established in business.
The total number Of hogs slaughtered
annually in the United States is estima-
ted at 100000, the average dressed
weight being 175 pounds each.
Mr.. Blaine has eight gold-headed
canes as mementoes of his candidacy.
The club which Burchard knocked him
out is not included in the collection.
The crowd of female base ballists
that are woI king the south are poor
farce. They can neither pitch, catch,
bat, nor run, says Vicksburg paper.
elbow shall we treat Bismarck ?" is
York World, We think that if Bis is
/ lilo Of hio
would do.
1t is said that one of the large insu-
rance companies in New York has Of
to Gen, John A. Logan, with salary
of $4,000.
In the English chanCery court there
are now $685., 100000 of unclaimed
funds of suitors and OF unknown heirs,
aud the amount is increasing at the
rate of $5,000,000 year,
On Christmas morning the Rev. Bur-
| chard found nothing in his stocking till
he put his foot in it. And that
was nothing n1w-malicious people
aver that he has done it before.
1t is now claimed that the ''Rum, Ro-
manism and Rebellion" remark or the
Rev. Mr.. Barchard was clerical error,
but the New York board of canvassers
refused to go: behind the returns.
The New York Freemen, the organ
in that city OF the colored race, sug-
gests fund of $4,000 for Gen. Grant,
to be contributed by the colored people
of the country. in 81 subscriptions.
A Canadian infidel, while denying
the doctrine of eternal punishment, was
struck dumb. A lecture tour in Cana
!. + III ID L.
gersoll by all good church people.
Col. Colyar purchased twenty pounds
Of bear meat, which will be dished up
for Hon. Sam. j. Randall during his Sc
journ in Nashville. 1t was thought be-
fore this Col. ColyaT was bulling Ran
dali.
The Widow Butler has at last been
heard FROM Her campaign trousseau
ran her in debt, and to raise little
ready money she has mortgaged in
Washington her house-not the White
House.
Lilly Langtry has returned to Lon
don from Paris with a trunk full OF
gowns, which will enable her to appear
in several OF the best dramatic pieces
that man-milliner Worth ever put on
the stage.
ut OdChSOn 1llOuuO duu OuH Sdl6s
"The fellow who climbed up in the loft
to see how the fight would go between
his wife and the bear is leading Il
Cleveland procession now in the direc-
ton of post Office"
The Baltimore Sun notes that despite
the tendency of a matter of fact and |
busy age to permit the festivals OF earli- !
er times to fall into disuse, Christmas
maintains its place in the popular heart |
1t has even extended the area of its in
fiuence.
Philadelphia Inquirer: According to |
a number of southern newspapers, j.
Wilkes Booth is still alive. and is mas
querading as an Episcopal minister in
Atlanta, Ga. The vivacity of south
ern journalism is only equaled by |
its originality.
Joaquin Miller is an intimate friend |
of Buffalo Bill, and the two rode to-
gether in the same carriage on the
opening day of the New Orleans expo
sition, affording the delighted populace
the chance to see the two lions in one
shew, and for nothing.
Over 100000 women and giIls, it is
said, make a living on the streets
Paris. They are licensed by the govern
ment and sell different articles. Thirty
i've thousand of them are under eigh
.een, II 900 under fifteen and 5000 o.
hem little girls under thirteen years o.
age.
The total amount of revenue paid
INTO the state treasury during the last
TWO years was $2,194, SS6,9S. There is
over quarter of a MILL on
IN the state treasury, two hundre d
dollars of which will be re-
luired to pay off the January coupons
IN the new settlement bonds.
eyes, sir; came rightly by my til
.le,n said the "Hon." Russell Sage the
1ther day. Observed in congress for
,wo terms, from 1853 to 1857. Ever
made any speeches? Why bless your
soul, yes, several great, very great
speeches. I have them at home. /
will show them to you. What are
hey about? Oh, have forgotten. 1
5hink one of them was about Bunker
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