The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-10-21
PERSONAL MENTION.

The Oneida community pays $40 TO $50 an
acre for sweet corn, for canning.
Texas sheep men are buying cotton seed to
prevent tho starvation of their hocLs.
Theebaw's regalia has been sent from Man
dalay to London, and placed ON exhibition.
NJ. Bartholdi win sail from Havre for New
York by the steamship La Bretagnc, Oct 16.
Mr.. John Boyle OReilly dedicates his hook
of poems, "In Bohemia" to his -four little
daughters"
Stanley, the African explorer, who is about
| to return to this country, is said to be of
Welsh descent
Mime. Adam got, as editor of La Nouvelle
1 Revue, $4,000 year salary and 81, GOO year
more for entertainment expenses, etc.
The volcanic peak, PabloR mountain, 800
| miles southeast of Kodiak, ON the Alaska pen
insula, is reported in state of eruption.
A Montana stockman has standing offer
Of 1000 to any one who win insure his
range cattle this winter and make good all
losses.
Among the regular attendants at the camp
meeting which lately closed at Ocean Grove
were Mrs U. S. Grant and her two sisters,
Mrs. Cramer and Mrs. Potter
Five hundred million dollars were repre-
sented at the wedding of Miss Rita Armstrong
and Mr.. A. J. Drexel, the bankers son, at
Elberon, the other day. Among the presents
were $500, 900 to the bridegroom.
Joel G. Harris (SUncle RemusrD, who has
had a months vacation, taken because of his
health, does not improve, and has gone into
the mountains for another month He has a
nervous affection which has SO far resisted
medical treatment.
Mrs. U. S. Grant is desirous of selling her
cottage at Long Branch Housekeeping oil
the year round tells on her strength, and with
the cottage out of her possession she could
she thinks, obtain a beneficial respite from
household cares by travelling about in the
summer.-New York Letter.
The Empress Eugene has been recon-
mended to try the italian climate during the
forthcoming winter, as she is desirous of liv-
ing very quietly. Pisa is the spot which will
probably be selected. Inquiries have already
been made as to which of the many palaces
at Pisa would be obtainable.-New York
Post.
NJ. Meissonier has left Paris for Venice to
complete on the spot a large canvas he COM
menced last year, in which nearly 300 figures
are represented. He paints every morning
in st. Marks, sitting astride ON chair at the
foot of pillar, with his box of colors on the
floor beside him The painting will represent
a corner of the chapel of the Madonna, one of
the artistic gems of the famous basilica- Paris
Letter
Governor Porter, of Indiana, finds himself
embarrassed in writing his history of Indiana
from the fact that so few, comparatively, of
the public documents of the state have been
preserved. Nevertheless, by searching the
federal as well as private records he has been
able to obtain historical data of great value
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the printers early in 1S87.-Chicago Times.
Andrew Carnegie is building on the sum-
NIT of the AIleghenies, near Cresson Springs, |
house, or castle, which will cost $1,000, 900. |
The entire walls will be built up altogether
of the undressed surface stone which is to be |
found on the place, and they are not to show |
in any place single mark of the chisel or |
hammer. Mr.. Carnegies orders are positive |
on this point, he having expressed a wish to |
have, as far as possible, even the moss on the |
rocks used in the walls undisturbed, Chicago |
Tribune
Mr.. John D. Lankenau, president of the |
German hospital at Philadelphia, has begun
the erection of the Mary Drexel home on the |
grounds of the institution as a memorial to
his deceased wife. 1t win be a Gothic struc-
ture of stone, three stories high, with three |
towers-one 200 feet high and the Others $50;
feet wide and extending back 195 feet, It will |
take nearly two years to complete the build |
ing, which will be furnished with a picture |
gallery and a library. Boston Transcript
The Chevalier John Sartain, Of Philadel- |
phia, long distinguished as an engraver is |
almost 80 and very vigorous. he introduced |
into America, established maga-
zine, fed and clothed Edgar A. Poe, received
decorations from half a dozen European DO
tentates, managed the art department of Che
Centennial exhibition, still occupies the house
to which he brought his bride from England
sixty years ago, and next spring win proceed
to London to take charge of the art depart
ment of the forthcoming American exhibi-
tion.-Harper's Bazaar.
Gen. Adam Badeau, author Of "Aristocracv
in England" !" is short and heavy set He and
Tom Ochiltree have the same stocky build,
only the Texan is somewhat taller. The gem
aral in his everyday attire might be taken
for prosperous farmer. EIe wears q sack
coat of dark material and trousers to suit
He has full sandy colored beard cropped
off as smoothly as grass in q well cared for
parterre. He walks with brisk quick step,
and has a sharp eye. In conversation,
though he doesn't 'shoot pigeons as Donn
Piatt said of President Cleveland, but looks
you straight in the face. His writings about
sen. GfanI ana "AriSCOcracy IN England"
nave made him a snug little fortune He is
aid to be always busy writing, having
plenty Of material ON hand to draw FROM
New York Mail and Express.
With his detective camera under his arm.
% disposed as to suggest a gripsacl, and thus
% disarm suspicion, Mr.. W. Hamilton Gibson
'aught on the fly hundreds of characteristic
attitudes, costumes and facial expressions dur
ng his recent trip south. Among his instan-
aneous photographs are several that illustrate
he process of telling the huge expresses Of the
louisiana swamps, views of the cypress re-
,eiying its first blow from the aswamper'sn
*, or Just beginning TO swerve from the per-
oendicular, or falling with grand splash into
he water, or abandoned by the 'swamper" in
lis flight from danger Some of the old slaves
Il the wharyes OF New Orleans-nen and wo-
nen-are extremely picturesque as Mr. Glib
on took them, and he knows how TO use his
material in the production Of artistic pictures.
So pen or pencil sketches could have pre-
erved q hundredth part Of Mr.. Gibson's pho
ographic collection of vital facts.-The Ar
,onaut.