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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

Col. JOHN O'NEILL.-The enquiry has
been made on every street-corner. for the
last few days, as to who is Col. O'Neill, the
leading character in the Fenian raid upon
Canada. Consulting papers abroad we were
told that he is from Tennessee. But for the
kindness of our distant friends we might
have lived for some time in ignorance of
the important fact. Thus we have another
verifcation of the old adage that ga prophet
is not without honor, save in his own
country. - Union ond american.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

Mr.. J. J. MCCANN, of Nashville recently
gave one hundred barrels of -four and five
hundred pounds of bacon to the suffering
poor of North Alabama, and said he would
give the last farthing he had before one of
them should starVe. The Alabama papers
say "Pass him roundI'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
The Fenians.

=
The long talked-of Fenian movement
begun. The news for the past week
been somewhat startling, but not alto
er unexpected. The Fenians have gone
5ork-blood has been shed-the Irish
docking to the border, and the war for
has begun.
sympathies of our people are with
but the Government is bound to
their operations from American soil
Fenians propose to arm and equip
elves and invade Canada from the
d States borders, and fight the battles
Bland in Canada, on British soil. They
already commenced the movement. A
force under Col. O'Neal, of Nashville,
Used over to the Canada shore, took
possession of Fort Erie, fought tw 10 battles,
and finding themselves about to be fanked
by a superior force, recrossed on the Sd
inst., thirty-two of their number being cap
tured by the British and the balance by the
U. S. forces on this shore. Strict orders
pave been issued by Maj = Gen. Meade, com
banding on our frontier, to arrest all sus-
icious persons, and permit no invasion of
anada from this shore. All parties at
tempting it to be arrested as violators of the
Neutrality laws of the United States. Some
ink these orders will leave the Fenians
bout base or supplies, and that the move
Mt will soon come to grief This is our
inion. Others think tie U. S. Govern
Qt is openly opposing the Fenian move
mt, but secretly aiding it, and that the
sh will be armed, sepplied and reinforced
m this country.
We confess that our sympathies are with
Irish, but if we had personal friend
ong them we would advise him to take
mart in the Fenian war.
stated by the friends of the Fenians
The late movement was only feint, and
It the important move will be made i'm
ediately from another point. We are at O.
s to imagine how the Fenian army is to
81 with hostile army in front
). forces guarding the rear, and
no supplies or men to reach it.
After the evacuation of Fort
ne Fenians, the U. S. Consul was
by mob of British soldiers. He
Rnded an apology.
aphic reports frOQPrrlASsH Yag =; Il -
that grand movement gusres place
l5lr5or . points soon; while dispatch from
Washington says the Government consid-
ers the invasion of Canada at an end. It
fuJ states that the British Minister has
be surrender from our Govern
captured Fenians, and that the
be complied with.
centre Stephens, in a speech at
Ee, on Monday night, said he had
eceived if not betrayed by both wings
nians.
nd Ae New York Herald's financial article
says the Fenian's raid upon the ruins of
Fort Erie failed to create the slightest dis
turbanoe among the financial community,
and an inglorious termination of the foray
into British territory is predicted
STILL LATER.-The President has issued
a proclamation forbidding all Fenian opera
lions in the United States, and ordered the
arrest of all suspected parties.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

AT a recent banquet to General Long
street, in Galveston, Texas, DR. VIM. G.
Smith offered the following toast: s'Robert
E. Lee-The greatest of modern Generals"
General Longstreet replied: That language
failed to express his admiration for Gen.
Lee, but he would be pleased if the General
could be so situated that he could give the
command: "By nations-right Wheel
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

A genious from the land of wooden nut
megs, says he has invented a machine,
which will, when set in motion--but that's
the dificulty-chase hog over ten acre
lot, catch, yoke, and ring him into "sasen-
gers, work ais bristles into shoe brushes,
and manufacture his tail into a cork screw.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
We learn from the Nashville Union nnd

We learn from the Nashville Union and
american that Elijah AllsOPp, citizen of
Lawrence county, Tennessee, confined in
the penitentiary of this State since June,
1865, by sentence of military commits
sion, on the charges of robbery and VIC
lation of the laws of war, was on Friday
released and set at liberty. He was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for fifteen years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

AT a bigamy suit recently instituted
against young woman in England, it
turned out that one of her husbands was
named Little and the other Long. One of
our funny contributors, on hearing the case,
said he could imagine the woman address,
ing her brace of husbands thus: Glove me
Little-loYe me, Long"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

THE South, says the Louisville Democrat,
complains that she is not represented in
Congress. She can be consoled by the fact
that large portion of the North is still
worse off. It is misrepresented.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

A crazy free negro woman has been re-
fused admittance into the Lunatic Asylum,
in Cincinnati-thus practically ignoring the
Civil Rights bill.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

HIGH Fenian officials say Gen. W. H.
Jackson, late of the Confederate army, has
accepted a commission OF Brigadier General
in the Fenian army. 1t is not credited by
his friends.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

A very distinguished statesman and ora
tor in New York is said to be preparing a
thorough ventilation of all the facts of ty-
ranny, oppression and cruelty of the Fede-
raj officers,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
Justices of the Peace.

JuSL1Ce5 OF inc FGaCe.
Dist. l JOHN A TRENTTIAM and / 3 CARTER,
g . J p REED and THOS j CAMPBELL.
" THOS HANNAH and J G EDMUNDSON.
q 4 WILLIAM SMITH and T II NOBLETT.
&" WIN WOOD and JOHN SANDUSKY.
" JAS T SMITH and THos A MAULTSBY.
% JAS / JONES, W II ABEBNATHY JNO
KOUNTS and DAN'I. G ANDERSON.
" 8 j NJ EDWARDS and JNo q ALTERNATELY
I" W II BAUGH, H 7 HUNNICUTT and VIM
2 STEVENSON,
{" 10 WILLIS WORLEY and II GRIGGS.
@ II W w BLOW and S A PARSONS,
{" Is JAS SAUNDERS and D H PARSONS.
@ IA JAS r DICKEY and w HEWITT,
80 Is JAS NJ w SGSTAFF, Jos NJ FARMER and
JAS NJ SHIELDS.
{" 16 @ w McMILLION and DAN II JONES,
20 II r L McCORD, JOHN RALSTON and P T
CHAPLIN
q Is LEVI REED and a NJ BIVENS.
" 10 J NJ PARKER and SAAI'L HAYS.
- 20 Z w MCLAURIN and ALE HOUZE.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

THE Jacinto Patriot says that one hun
dred acres of good land, lying in three
miles of Corinth, was sold few days since
at auction, being trustees sale, for thirty
five cents per acre.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

The Meridian Messenger thinks that with
sensible agents to be employed in its duties
the Freedmen's Bureau might become very
useful to both white and black.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

The Government authorities at Washing
ton and Sir Frederick Bruce, the British
Minister, belive that the Fenian furry on
the Canada border will not last a week.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

WASHINGTON, June 5-No decision has
yet been reached by the President in regard
to granting the application for the release
of Mr.. Davis on bail.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

The following funny advertisement of a
runaway wife was recently posted in town
in Northern New York:
"My nam OATS Peter Koville, my
nam dats Peter KoVille too He lev
house and no ak me, any man dat truss him
on my nam OATS loss for you"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

IT is stated by some medical writer that
cholera never visits the vicinity of Sulphur
Springs, and that an application of -four of
Sulphur to the feet is a preventative of the
disease.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
Sale of Town Pronerfu

M the 9th day Of June, 1886, viii sell. at the
cash, two Town Lots in Pulaski. bounded east bv
"a main street. north by shoal street. west By lot Of
W + Alexander, and south by lot no. -, estimated
20 contain each So feet front and lg5 feet back
being the same lots on which B. W. knight now re-
sides-and sold % satisfy execution in my handa
against HIM and others ia favor Of John G. Aber-
nathys from supreme court at Nashville.
may "th-7i g. n. PEbEN. SIfI
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

The Paducah Herald announces the re-
turn of the gallant Gen. Lyon to his home
in Eddyville, Ky. He has been for some
time past engaged in the service in Mexico.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

DISPATCHES from Richmond state the
counsel for Mr.. Davis intend making aPpli-
cation to the court there now sitting for the
release of their client on parole, and think
they will-be successful.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

The reports of the crops up the Arkan-
sas, near the river, are encouraging, but
the crops in the interior, it is said, will be
almost an utter failure.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
NEW ADVERTISEMN TS
sherifs Sale of Land

RY virtue Of a Venditioni Exponas in nv hands
u issued from the Circuit Court of Giles county in
the case of James Adkins y. J. Parton 4 OF hers
will offer for sale at the Court House door in the
town Of Pulaski, on
Saturday 18th day of July next,
to the highest bidder for cash. certain tract
in the 11th civil district in said county of Giles on
Pigeon roost creek, bounded by the lands of VIM 3
Samuel others, and containing 200 acres. Levied
and sold the lands of Meret Eslick, and is q
valuable tract Of land. Sale within usual hours.
June Is II PEDFN, Shift.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

EUROPEAN advices by the Hermann and
Moravin indicate no material change in the
situation. A conference at Paris proposed
between representatives of France, Russia,
England, Austria, Prussia, and Italy, IN
der the presidency of DrOuyn de L'Huys,
but Austria's assent to the proposition is
doubtful, and it is not believed the confer
ence could do more than temporarily post
pone the conflict.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
Ohicers of Pulaski LODGE No. no. F. 80. M
County Officers.

County Otficers.
B. It. PEDEN Sheriff.
R. L. EVANS, ALONZO PEDEN and BENTON
R EZELL Dept Shifts.
A. COX. @. d N. Chancery Court.
F. T. McLAURINE Circuit Court Clerk.
ED. W. ROSE, County Z"
DANIEL G. ANDERSON, County Register
THOS. S. RIDDLE, County Trustee.
II. H. AYMETF, State and Co. Tax Col.
G. a. HOPKINS. Coroner.
JAMES r. DICKEY, County Surveyor.
DANIEL G. ANDERSON, Chm, County Court.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

A list of uti-administration postmasters
for dismissal, is being prepared at the Post
office Department,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

A New York paper calls attention to the
fact that, Notwithstanding that there are no
Southern members in Congress, the scenes
which almost daily occur in both Houses
are far more disgraceful and frequent than
previous to their withdrawal. Scarcely
day now passes but one member calls the
other liar and scamp, and there the mat
tev ends. Pistols and coffee have gone out
of fashion, but the insulting propensities of
members continue.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

A convalescent soldier in hospital in
Paris, while stretching himself exclaimed,
Oh, God! A young and very pretty Sister
of Charity ran up and inquired: what
would you God to do to you? I am His
daughter" The convalescent replied:
accept me for His son-in-law."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
In Chancery at Luxembourg.

Thomas Martin James Mccall q others.
IN this cause it appearing to the satisfaction Of the
i clerk and master that the defendant, James
Metcalf is a nonresident of the State Of Tennes-
see so that the ordinary process of this court
not be served on him: On mOtIOnit is therefore or
dered that publication be made in the " Citizen"
newspaper published in the town Of Pulaski in said
State recurring said defendant 20 be and appear on
the first day Ct the next Term of the Chancerv
Court be held for the county Of Lawrence at the
court house in Lawrenceburg on the first Monday
in September next, and plead to, answer or denur
to compliments bill and amended bill, or the same
will be taken for confessed to him and set for
hearing eX-Parte.
june8- TIL. GIBBS, C. an
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

IT has been stated that Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee commanded the Feniau cavalry in the
Canadian invasion, but the statement is now
believed to be untrue.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

The cholera landed at New York by the
late arrivals is reported to be of malignant
type.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

THE Bankrupt act recently passed by the
House will come Rsgsf-5 the Senate in a few
days. The Sspate has been carefully can
Vassed, and, in view of an anticipated COM
mercial crisis, many who were opposed to
the policy of the Bankrupt Law have be-
come its strongest supporters. Edwin
James has forwarded to Mr.. Jenckes, thro'
whose exertions this bill was got through
the House, an able statement explaining the
complicated legislationin England upon the
subject, and showing that this blu is en-
tirelY free from those defects.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
Brevities and News Items.

"I'm very much pressed for time" as
the man said when his wife Rugged and
kissed him to coax gold watch from him.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
CITY OFFICERS.

DR.. J. A. SUMTER, Iayor
JNO. EZELL, Recorder, G.. W. PETWAY,
JOHN KOUNS, a. r. RICHARDSON,
ALLEN E. MAY, JOHN c. GORDON,
Officers of Pulaski Lodge No. IO1. z. & A. M.
Z. EDMUNDSON, W.M., s. J.ROGERS, 5. W,
JOB. CHILDERS, J.W., W. BATE, Tres,
J. L. JONES, Secy., IA. SUMTER, s. De'cn.
r. r. REED J. Deacon, +. W. RUDD, Tyler.
Meets first Monday night in each Month,
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NOTICE.
TO FARMERS AND OTHERS

4 Large lot Of cheap Bread-sluff for sale. Conn
u try produce purchased, and uncurrent Tennesses
money taken ia trade.
riI2g-tf FISHER d HARRIS.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

golden iruiC 20 that 1Qallan ApnroQlLe. our
Uncle Samuel knows these things, and all
SIGH, and he'll help you and Thaddeus il
this hour of trouble
Unkle Samuel got warm as he proceeded.
Says he, calvin, you and Thaddeus stand
aside little and let me have a little talk
with this learned Theban.'
"He Ault ov you whar eyou say,
'The same 1s-sssU reported among the jews
TIL yet.' Jest above he writes his self,
eve rise up from their perusal, &c. That
up is jest as bad as your still and VIC
lates the same rule.
He says, Whar you write, IF any worth
or merit are,' violates a plain rule ov
Gramar, and jest below he writes, Willis
the too frequent use ov abreviations, such as
I'd, I'm, e'er, tbs, &C., tend greatly to
lesson, &c. Thar that same plain plain
rule of Gramar goes under, in that word
tend, which should be tends, and little
piece ov spellin goes under in that word
lesson, which should be lessen.
''It seems Thaddeus wrote Love is mate,
conscience is mate and Concilium says,
innate, is it not? Besides, Kant and Locke
will pretty well satisfy you that there is no
such thing as an inmate idea -
Here Unkle Samuel Taft right out-"In-
nate!'
p "And he spells exist, enlist, with an h,
a little further on, and forty others if had
time to write 'em down. And Locke
that Locke was picked and busted more an
hundred years ago! His sensational
and mo idea doctrins eliminated in sich
as David Hume, Jeremy Bentham and SIGH,
and all ungodliness. Yes sir, all ungodli-
ness, except such a wooden God as can be
got into a man through sum one ov the i've
senses, which is wusser an no God at ALL
Locke, say Locke who tetohes him now
with fifty foot pole except infdels and
SIGH. It's readin SIGH books as that, makes
this ConcIlium say that conscience is the
child of Education, and don't know right
from wrong until taught by Divine Revela-
ton and the Church in what right and
wrong consists"
Unkle Samuel here took down a Greek
book-the Phedon of Plato-writ 400 years
before the Church, and read: "That there
is but one God, that we ought 10 love and
serve him, and try to resemble him in holt
ness and righteousness. That
there is nothing solid and substantial but
piety, and that it is the gift of God. + =
That it is crime to hurt our enemies, or
revenge ourselves for the injuries which
we receive. That it is better to
suffer wrong than to do it, and better to die
than to sin"
Unkle Samuel was going on to compare
what St. Paul, Justin Martyr and Clement
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
THE BOAT TAKES FIRE.

Immediately after the explosion, the
wreck took fire, producing one of the most
terrible scenes on record. There was a
number of kegs of powder in the hold,
which Captain Thompson, who had himself
barely escaped death, had the presence of
mind to have taken up and thrown over
board, thereby preventing further destruc-
ton of life. The flames soon drove the few
survivors into the river, each one impro-
Vising sort of life preserver out of any
thing within reacE
How many were f0stTozs as yet unknown;
but Mr. Clark, the clerk, estimates the to-
tai number lost and injured at sixty.-Er.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
Sherif's Sale.

DY virtue of two writs of Venditioni Exponas to
ID me issued from the Circuit Court of Giles coun-
offer for sale for cash, at the court house door in the
town Of Pulaski, on
Saturday the 18th day of July next,
the following tract Of land lying and being in civil
district No. II, in said county of Giles, adjoining
the lands Of L. Nassauer, on the North; West, by
/. B. Marks; East and South, by the estate of 4.
Jackson, containing by estimation Eighty acres,
levied upon as the property of L. B. Novels, to
satisfy said Venditioni Exponas.
June - b. II. PEDEN, Sheriff
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
Saturday 18th dav of July n.
Sheriff S Sale.

ID sued to from the Circuit Court of Giles cCun-
ty, viii offer for SALE for cash. at the court house
door in the town of Pulaski, on
Saturday the 9TH day of July next,
tract of land in the Goth civil district of said coun
ty, on the waters ofIndian creek adjoining the land
of Emily Hays on the north, East by A NJ Story,
West by Miller Bass, L Barnes and Mary Nc
Cracken, containing by estimation 12I acres. Lev
led on as the property of Peter Mays satisfy one
yendiloni in favor of Ihco Harris one in favor of
Stacy, Roy q Co. for the Of Thos Martin three
in favor Of Mason Ezell, one in favor otP Ezell,
one in favor OfB w Mason and one in favor of Wells
McLaurine all in my hands.
June IL B II PEDEN. Sh Il.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

the following tract of land lying and being in civil
district No. ., in Giles county, on the aters of
Weekly's creek; bounded on the South by the lands
of John Tarpley and J. W. Petty containing by es-
tImatIon 22O acres, on which s. E. Buchanan now
resides, levied upon as the property of Sarah E.
Buchanan, to satisfy said Venditioni Exponas.
June Il b. II. PFDEN, Sheriff.
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TAKE NOTICE.

7 HEREBY forewarn all persons of all colors from
L Fishing with sein or nettin Big Creek within my
premises, under penalty of law.
may Is, lS66-tf w. c. FLOURNOY.
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NEW ADVERTISER TS
InsoIvent Motto.

HAVING suggested to the Clerk Of the County
IL Court of Giles county the insolvency of the es
tate Of Archibald 9 Esteman, deceased, 1 hereby
notify all persons having claims against said estate
to file them with the clerk Of the Chancery court at
Pulaski, properly authenticated, within the time
prescribed by law, or they viii be forever barred
June SIT W T. BROWN, Admir-. &c /
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

The Indiana L o. of o. F. have condemn
ed lotteries and gift enterprises as immoral.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

A New York letter states that the near
prospect of hOstilities in Europe is having
the effect t. diminish the applications for
passage on the part Of American families,
as the belief is that the war will be general.
Many Germans who were going on visit
to ''faderland" this summer, have changed
their minds, under the apprehension that
if they were to go they would have some
difficulty in keeping out of the clutches of
the CONSUMPTION officers.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

THE subjOined is going the rounds of the
Abolition press, and is being received with
remarkable favor:
Zone of the lady teachers in the indus
trial school at Petersburg, Va, was recent
ly questioning her pupils from Scripture,
and asked:
"'Who died for you?"
ITO which the little fellow shouted in re-
ply, Abraham Lincoln"
The time is not far distant when, among
Abolitionists. the profession of faith will be
that Lincoln instead of Christ died for sin
ners. That is the belief now among no in
considerable portion Of that party Chicago
Times
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

WE learn from the Pine Bluff, Arkansas,
Dispatch that friend of that great and gal
liant military leader, is writing history of
General Patrick R. Cleburne. He desires
those of his soldiers who remember Incl
dents or anecdotes of the "Stonewall of the
West" to write out and forward the same
to the editor of that paper.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08

DISTINGUISHED VIsIToRs.-Among the
distinguished lawyers in attendance upon
the Circuit Court, we are glad to meet this
week Gen. Jno. G. Brown, of Pulaski-as
hale, hearty and genial as ever. We saw,
while in Nashville a few days since,
splendid picture of the General and Staff,
which was about as handsome as anything
we have seen lately Columbia Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-06-08
Saturdav the al Ia o. JmIK neYt.
Sherif,s Sale

RE virtue of two writs of Venditioni Exponas to
u me issued from the Circuit Court of Giles coun-
for cash. at the court house door in the town of P
laski, on