Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-08
Onion aud 9ispateh.
Largest Circulation in City and State.
GILES COUNTY.
The Late FaIr-FIne StOek-Interest
IR EducatiOn-JaelEs and Jennets as
school Ponies.

The Late Eatr-A1ne StOek-Interes
la observation-disclosures and Jennets a.
school Ponies.
Correspondence Of the Union and Dispatch.
PULASKI, Oct. 4th, lS67.-Thus far thu
fair Of the Giles County Agricultural anC
Mechanical Association has provensueeess
ful beyond the expectation of all. Thu
exhibition on Wednesday Of manufactured
articles was rather meagre, but on Thurs
day the exhibition of blood horses anC
harness stock was very creditable, and tbs
former was fully equal TO that Of the same
class at the recent Sumner county fair
Never were there more fine blooded mares
in the county of Giles than now, and old
Sumner will have 10 look well TO ii, OF
George Everly, Bryan Peden, George T,
Altman, and Others here, will soon be as
well known az George Elliott, Bale Pey-
ton and other distinguished breeders Of the
| Arabian have been in times past.
Originally advertised to last three days,
this meeting of stalwart yeomanry and
| their wives, daughters, sisters and sweet
hearts, because it has thus far proven to be
so good, has been protracted another day.
/ May this people ever thus continue to per-
severe in well-doing, and in cultivating
those arts and pursuits which will contrib
butte more to real independence than dab
bling in the dirty cesspool Of politics,
which is now so offensive TO every sensible
and honest man in the land.
Pulaski is arousing from the lethargy
which seemed TO have been characteristic
of its people since the war. A few new
buildings are going up on the sites of some
destroyed by fire during and since the war.
! Some more interest is being manifested in
educational enterprises. The work has
already begun on the ruins of old Giles
College, and it is believed that by the first
Of January next il will be ready for occu-
pancy by a corpse Of teachers already en-
gagged to establish a high school therein.
Mr.. Scales is conducting female school in
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church;
Col G. @. Rogers and Mrs. DIR. Bate are
teaching a female school here, also, and are
pstronized literally. At present there is
no male school for advanced scholars in
the village, but the boys have excellent
scholastic privileges at the Classical and
Mathematical Academy of Colonel A. II.
Abernathy, located about three miles south
of town on the ElEton turnpike. So pop
nlar is this veteran teacher that his school
numbers about seyenty-fVeor eighty pupils,
who come daily to the school house,
riding and walking distances varying from
one to six miles. II is interesting, and in
some instances amusing, to see the various
means of locomotion brought into requisi-
ton to convey the boys to school old bug
gies and crippled mules, now and then a
fine looking horse OF mare, but chiefly
Jacks and jennets afford means of con-
veyance. The latter, peaceful, patient and
surefooted animals, seem to be peculiarly
suited TO convey boys to school. They are
gentle, never scare, and above all in these
times of scarcity, poverty and economy, eat
but little. The little animals can be puI~
chased at from twelve to fourteen dollars,
and judging from the number to be daily
seen browsing about COL Abernathy's school
house it is not unreasonable to express the
opinion that the utility ION the score
Of safety of the jack and .iennet will, ere
long, be almost as highly appreciated here
as in Spain.
In almost every neighborhood in this
county schools are springing up and being
patronized. This is az it should be, yet,
the friends of the people should not grow
weary in urging them to educate the youth
of both sexes. Particularly should all
true men urge the education of the females,
upon whom the crushing effects of the loss
of the Southern cause falls so heavily, for
without education poor women must be
come menials nnder the heartless social
system which puritanism will attempt to
infict upon us. Yours, X.