The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-10-15
TaftIara.
.sOb 4 could there in this T world be found
Some little spot fhappy ground,
Where village pleasures might 60 round,
Without the village tattiing-

.Ohl could there in this z orld be found
/ Some little spot of happy ground,
Where village pleasures might 60 round,
Without the village tattiing-
How doubly blest that spot would be,
Where all might dwell IN liberty,
Free from the bitter misery
Ofgossip's endless prattling r.
Every community is cursed with
the presence OF a class of people who
make it their business to attend to
every body's business but their owns
Such people are the meauest speei-
meDs Of depraved humanity which an
all-wise Pr6yideuce permits to exist
oa this cursed earth. It is we'll
known that almost every person is
sometimes disposed to speak evil Of
Others; and tattling 8 sin from
which very few are exempt. But the
object Of our present article IS to.
speak Of that dlstinc class Of tat.lers
who make iale-beaFing the consssnt
business Of their lives. They y
into the private affairs Ofevery family
in the Deighborhood, they knog the
exact state. of one neighbOr's feelings
toward another; they uudersfAn ey-
erybodv's faulss. alq' lgs.
der or a ldensanor ever escapes
their Yigi1ant watchfulnees. Trey
are particularly well posted upon sF
erything connected with cOurtship
and matrimony. know Who1ar going
to marry whom. and can guess the
exact time when it wilh4ake place
They watch every movement Of pa
ties suspected of matrimonial inten-
tions, aud If there is the slightest
chance to create disturbance, excite
jealousy or break up" match. tieY1E
taks immediate advantage of it, aud
in their power to keep people |
ina cons ant state ofvexation. They |
glide quietly from gentleman to lady, |
from mother to daughter. from father
TO son, and in theears ofall they pour |
their dark, bitter whispers of slauder
and abuse, and at the same time pre-
tend to be the most sincere friend of
those they talk -. their black t5sd
nauseous pills of malicious elander
are sugar-coated with smiles and hon
eyed words of friendship.
Tattlers are confined to DO particu-
lar class Of society. They belong to
all classes, and operate in all. We
find them the rich and the poor
"uPper ten" and the slower million"
in the church and out of it. They
are reople who have no higher ambi-
on than 10 beiwell informed in regard
TO other peoples private business, to
retail scandal to their neighbors, and
exult in feDdish triumph over the
wounded feelings and bruised hearts
Of their innocent victims. Beauless
old maids and childish matrons make
the most accomplished scandal mon
gers in the world. They seem to take
to tat'ling from the prOmptings of
natural instinct, and they prosecute
it with an energy that would do an
Internal honor to their great leader
the prince Of darkness himself. Oul
contempt for such graceless creatures
knows DO bounds, and we can find no
words in which to express its iniamy.
W hat punishment they Deserve, ne
cannot know; but God knows, and as
sure as His eternal justice reigns,
they will receive retribution pro-
portioned to the magnitude of their
against the laws OF God and
the interests of humanity.