The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-17
ODDS and ENDS.

The MeCoy-IIstficld feud has
broken out afresh in Kentucky.
: strange disease is killing the
cattle in Lewis county.
Mormon elders were driven out
OF Wilson county by white caps.
Ri Rev. Thomas L. Grace, OF
St. Paul, has been appointed an
archbishop.
A fast mail train will shorten the
time between New York and Chi
cago four hours.
Another substitute for coffee has
beaa discovered. 1t has no
grounds for existence.
1t is said that the passage OF pro-
htbition IN South Dakota will be
contested on technical grounds.
Mrs. Ruth M. Wells, of Fort
Wayne, Ind. has bequeathed $25,
600 to establish blind asylum at
that place.
Sowing "wild oats" is always q
perilous matter; there is an added
danger when they are mixed with
rye.
faThey say that cranberries are
good for corns. But what the sui
ferer wants is TO know something
that is bad for cOrns.
Cattle men, who ought to know
all about it, estimate the decrease
in the United States Tor the past
year at $l4,5oo,OOo.:l
The negro man Starks, suspec.
red OF firing the church at Moss
Point, Alabama and killing a man
was overraken by hunting party
and riddled with buckshot.
There Is the statement published
that legal proceedings which were
begun in 1870 IN Poland TO decide
the ownership of forty acres o
land have just been concluded.
| 1t is calculated that $4,000 Amer
lean visited Europe this SUN mer
If they each spent $500 and the,
averaged more than that, the,
will have left $40,O0O,OOO in Eu.
rope.
M. A. Pledger. a prominen. col
ored man of Georgia advises tn,
colored TO hide from the ceneus Ia
ker IN order to cut down represen
tatlon unless their rights are ro-
spected.
The Indian population 81 les
than 100000. OF these 1851:
live in houses and 9,612 familie
are engaged in agriculture, ant
among these SO called savage,
there are 1868 church membe 8
A young lady of Southport puts
the most deliberate method Of sui
eide on record. She walked int
the water and sat down. After
while she lay down, and the It'd,
rose and carried her off.
So far General Malone has sig
nally failea in pleasing the Vinginis
democrats with his methods of car
rying on his campaign. AS usual
their howl is the most convincing
indication Of the situation.
| New York has a vigorous way Of
Treating The Christian Science in
quiry. The cranks that pray ed
over a young woman until she was
dead, refusing her medical atten-
dance, are under arrest for muir
der.
There is talk of transferring the
pension bureau to the war depart
ment. Much of the evidence
needed in pension cases is found in
the records of the war department
and it is urged that economy of time
and money wonld be prom oted by
the change.
The Detroit Tribune makes a
senter shot in remarking that the
Bourbons will never be satisfied
with pension commissioner who
does not seek every means in his
power to have the rulings go
against the soldier. For this rea.
son they will have to remain dis
satisfied
Norristown Times: The demo:-
racy with microscope in hand, are
scanning every republican gather
ing, convention and candidate to
discover IT possible, any evidence
Of republican discomfort.
Rhode Island abolished capital
punishment about forty years ago
and Governor Howard having ex-
amined the statistics of crime In
state, says the experiment has been
very satisfactory. He finds that
capital crimes have not increased,
and punishnents has been as GER
tain as under the old system. Tri-
ais are prompt and there is but
one appeal 70 the supreme court OF
the state.
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