The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-12
CONDENSED NEWS.
Queen Victoria is q colonel in the
German army.

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Queen Victoria is q colonel in the
German army.
Levi p. Morton was formally no
,ified Saturday of his nomination.
Walt Whitman, the venerable
poet, is not expected to live long.
The Macon, Miss, Sun has two
little girl typos aged ten and twelve.
Gov. Taylor went to East Ten
nessee Saturday to be absent q few
days.
A great number of comparatively |
short railroads have been built this |
year..
Eighty public buildings, costing |
the government $22, 900, 600, ARE now
in course of erection.
The rumor that smallpox pre-
vailed in the Nashville penitentiary
proves to be unfounded.
1t is expected that vote on the
tariff bill will be reached next
Wednesday and passed.
The prohibitionist of Davidson
county have ticket out for trustee,
tax assessor and sheriff.
Two hundred car loads of water
melons are received and shipped
from Chattanooga every day.
General Sheridan arrived at Sun
quit Sunday and is now resting
under his own vine and fig tree.
The total strength of the Russian
army, including reserves, is $780,
905 men, the largest in the world.
Maude SIS fastest trotting time
was mile in 2:08aa, made at Cleve-
land, Ohio, July 80. 1885.
j Hon. Creed F. Bates was endors-
ed Saturday by the Hamilton coun-
ty democratic convention as the
nominee for congress.
| Warrants have been issued by the
secretary OF the treasury for the
payment of $13, 767,O S9 on account
of pensions.
John W. Judd OF Tennessee has
been nominated by the president to
be associate justice of the supreme
court of the territory of Utah.
/ Mr.. Wiley B. Dortch, the we'll
known banker and tobacco broker,
died in Nashville Monday morn.
ing.
They have twenty public vac
cinations in Nashville and the vac
cination of unprotected persons" il
compulsory.
i Myers beautiful and costly opera
house at Ell Paso, Texas, costing
about 100000, gave way Saturday
aud is now a mass OF ruins.
Gov. Taylor has during his adj
ministration extended executive
! clemency to PIT persons. Many OF
these were for carrying pistols, etc.
and were never in the peEitentiary
/ Two hundred and eighty.one o.
Il the salaried admirals of England d.
T absolutely nothing, while 100 gen
erals receive their support from thi
, government without dong thing
H. W. Moon, managing editor Q
> the st. Louis Post-Dispatch, and I
lnaa OF family, has eloped with th'
w;fa 81 ;. s'rsaaipeat theatre man
| ager.
|. E. j. Acosta. a prominent bust
ness man of Birmingham, COM
mitted suicide Monday morning BY
shooting himself through the head
He had been drinking heavily.
/ The Tennessee Chautauqua was
grand success in every particular
The guarantee fund was not touch
ed, and the assembly came out $500
ahead.
i West Nashville dedicated it's first
church Sunday night. It is a Bap
fist church and the dedlcatory ser
mon was preached by Rev. C. H.
Strickland.
! The storm of last week did grea,
damage to farmers about Charlotte
| N. G., sixty five farmers of that vi
entity loosing all their corn, oats
and cotton.
Malone and Riddleberger have
shaken hands across the bloody
chasm. They were both snubbed
at Chicago and there is a sort OF
fellow feeling between them.
John j. Mahoney, retired book
maker, bet $4,000 to $4,000 Sat-
urday with Frank T. Huntoon, oil
the Hoffman Club, on Cleveland
re election.
The lend forfeiture bill which
passed the house Friday would, il
1t were to pass the senate, restore
54,323,996 acres of land to the peo-
pie. The republican senate, how
ever, will never pass it.
| A general drop in freights-to 80
cents in first class, Is cents in sec
ond, 20 cents in third, Is cents in
fourth, IA cents in fifth, and l3
cents ia sixth-is reported from
New York.
The Kentucky Wagon Manufac-
turing Company, of Louisville. has
bong BIT out the firm of Cherry, Nor
row d Co., of Nashville, makers of
the Tennessee wagon.
One hundred large moccasin
snakes, more than fifty alligators,
besides one bear and q panther were
killed by engineers who were run
ming line recently through South.
east Georgia into Florida.
Gov. Taylor has written and
forwarded letter inviting the
National Educational Association.
now in session at San Francisco. to
meet in Nashville to hold their
next session.
A bloody ARRAY occurred at q
meeting house in Whitley county,
KY, Sunday morning in which two
persons were killed outright, four
fatally wounded and a dozen more
or less injured.
The new duchess of Marlbo-
rough { Mrs. Hammersly) arrived in
London the 9th and was cordially
received by her mother-in- law, La.
dy Randolph Churchill and other
members of her husbsnd's family.
j AdoIph Dintz shouted "Hurrah
for anarchy" In Chicago street,