The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-12
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LOCAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

crops of every kind are looking
well all over Giles county.
No trouble to get up a rain now
at any time on short notice.
We will soon have plenty of
home'raised melons and apple cider.
The cotton crop in this county is
growing rapidly and promises well.
Judge Martin of Fort Scott has
been nominated for governor by the
Kansas democrats.
The freight bills of the people of
the United States amounts to the
snug sum of 100000, 900 year.
Louis G. Mumford of GAINESVILLE
IS spoken of as the probable prohi
bltion candidate for governor
Let every democrat in Giles coun-
ty form himself into a club of one
and go to work for the party this
year.
The young people had delight
ful picnic at Buford's last Thurs
day. Several couples went up from
town.
Not one dozen of the one hun
dred and fifty labor organs IN the
United States will support the re-
publican nominee for president.
The Americans in London did
not forget their native land on the
4th. They had public demon
stration.
Virginia's state agricultural So
ciety will give $4,000 for trotting
and running races at it's fair, 10 be
held at Richmond in October.
This is said to be the first time
in sixteen years that Indiana has
been deprived of the nomination for
vice president on the democratic
ticket.
Keep it in mind and don't forget
it that Giles county is to roll up a
bigger democratic majority this
year than she has before in a de-
cade.
The assessed valuation for prop
erty in Knoxville, including the i'm
mediate suburbs, is $10,193,0O0.
The city proper last year was as
sessed at about $4,000, 900; the city
and suburbs at about 100000.
A gentleman in Rutherford coun-
ty has a calf six months old which
gives milk same as a cow. The
Free Press has been shown samples
of butter made from the milk O!
this calf.
The Duke of Marlborough, who
recently married Mrs. Hammersley
of New York, has a brother, Lore
Randolph Churchill, who also mar
ried an American lady.
During the fiscal year ending tn,
30th ultimo, $4,000 persons arriv-
ed at the United States ports seek
ing employment and homes, num-
Der exceeding by 10000 the immi-
grafton of the previous year.
There are fifty one prisoners IL
the Fulton county, Ga, Jail. Nor
than half the number are unde
twenty.one years of age. The old
est inmate is sixty-two years of ag
while the youngest is nine years old
1t is said that Kaiser William
spent two years in learning to Sc
type. The average American bo
would in his mind learn the whol
art of printing in half the time an
be editing patent.outside countr
newspaper before the two years ar
out.
The Tnllahoma Guardian, "wit
unfeigred chagrin," announces th
total failure of the blackberry GRO
ia that county and that tie whortle
berry crop is also short. COTE
county will have to get her ration
from some other locality.
1t is not Dragging to invite CON
parison of THE CITIZEN with an
country paper, far or near, as tn
best local and general newspaper fC
home people and as the best medi
um for advertisers. No paper ha
or ever had anything like the circl
lation The CITIZEN has in Giles.
Every now and then inquiry
made concerning the Blair educ'
tional bill and information obtaine
is to the effect that the education
committee can never get quoruI
In answer to question from g r
porter, on the goth, Mr.. Chandle
chairman of the committee, said tt
Blair bill was dead.
The difference between the pa
ties on the tariff is real, says tt
Free Press. The republicans wis
to tax the people as much as poss
BILE to raise a given amount of rev
nue., and the democrats wish to Is
them as little as possible. This
the whole thing in nutshell al
the presentation Of such an issue b
them is an insult to the Americ:
people.
We editor has been braggil
about ether peoples big potatot
&C. and now has an Early Ro
from his garden which weighs O
pound and one ounce and measur
9 inches around and Is inch
around the ends. Who can beat
Sparta Expositor. Expect /
Perkins could.
The CITIZEN will take pleasu
in doing anything to forward t
interest of the Wheelers and all a
ricultural organizations in Gil
county and in announcing the tim
and places of such meetings VIII
furnished. The CITIZEN is work.
for Giles county all over.
The Courier-J ournal says
Baltimore convention of democra
clubs adjourned Thursday. I
convention has been all that 60
democrats could have desired, a
the delegates return with renew
determination to fight the 60
fight for revenue reform and hon
From all reports from Cent
and South America and from
Old World, the Memphis App
thinks that the danger of the int
duction of cholera into our pc
this summer Is passing away or II
idly decreasing and now, instead
greater cause for apprehension th
during the preceding summers,
have much less reason to dread
introduction of the terrible disea
Fayetteville is again stirred