The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-03-16
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sources. Money, or the expecta-
tion Of it by Inheritance, has ruin
ed more men than the want of it
ever did. Teach young men to re /
| " on their own efforts. to be frugal
and industrious, and you have fur
nished them with a productive cap
ital which no man can ever wrest
from them.
There is a story going around
about greenback itch. Bank tellers j
who have to count greenbacks are
very liable to catch tie itch, it is
said. We are not accustomed to
the itch much, but when they get
to throwing greenbaeks away on
that account We viii chance it q
time or two.
Two wills have recently been I'D
mitted to probate in London. One
was the viii Of Mr.. Brassey, a "a
NOUS railroad contractor. His per-
sonaIity alone, exclusive ofhis vast
landed estates, amounted to six
and halfmiIlions. The other was
that of AIR. Mark Lemon, late edi-
tor Of Punch. He left behind the /
sum of fsO0, all told. From this
the rising generation may see that
it is better to be a railroad contrac-
tor than a literary gentleman.
A couple of fire eaters, one from
each of the Carolinas, North and
South, met at Augusta to fight a
duel the other day, but, as the May !
or had them bound over to keep
the peace in the sum of 5000 each,
and as they were not mad enough
to fight at such an enormous exr
pense as that, they put up their
deadly weapons and went back
home, Ifthe commissioner Of IL j
ternal Revenue would order a two |
hundred dollar stamp to be put on |
every duel, there would be fewer Of |
them than there are.
The Washington Patriot says
"a long session of Congress after
the 4th Of March seems inevitable, |
and it is doubtful whether the APP |
preparation bills even win be got |
through this session. For some |
reason or other, many Senator's and !
members seem desirous of long |
session"
One Of our exchanges calls at
tention to the fact that last year
Congress passed a law making
Washington's birthday a national
holiday, but the very Congress !
which made the law, paid no atten-
tion tC it. A session was held the !
same as on other days, and the lead |
ing Radicals indulged in the bitter
est controversy of the season.
When the Legislature of New
York in 1870 rescinded the action |
of the Legislature Of 1869 in rati-
flying the fifteenth amendment, the
Radicals declared that such thing
could not be done. The Radicals !
have a majority in the Legislature
Of New Jersey, and that body has
just ratified the fifteenth amend
ment, Notwithstanding a previous
Legislature has rejected it.
It is stated that a ring of specu-
lators have bought up the old bonds |
repudiated By Mississippi over thir-
ty years ago, for mere song, and /
are going to work to induce the |
present Radical Legislature Of that |
State to provide for their payment. |
The original amount was five mil |
lions, but the ring now claim some |
thirty millions. Wonder If these |
same fellows have got Radical Iowa
to repddiate her bonds (iye mil
l1ons) issued torailroads, that they
may have a chance to buy them up |
on speculation?
A gushing Wisconsin youth Of
eighty-seven is suing for divorce, on /
the ground of desertion. 1t is re-
ally disgraceful how women win I
thus triae with the affections of a |
young heart.
A preacher in Washita, Wiscon-
sin, has been discharged for being
personal to his hearers. He said
'.If you should take a barrel and
fill it with the Holy Ghost, and an
other and Eli it with whisky, and
call the congregation up and let
you take gour choice, the whisky
would be gone first"
The way in which Robert Bon
ner commenced to lay the founda-
tion of that ridiculously large for
tune of his is said to be this: lie
worked at the case rs printer at
$8 per week, and wrote letters 70
country papers. When he had /
saved up $500 he bought the Mer
chants Ledger, and now owns Dex- /
ter. and J. Elliott, and Nebuchad
nezzar, and Raniaes the First, and /
ever so many other nags. lie has |
besides, many city lots, two orthree /
millions in stocks and things, and |
an income of$4000 a week, on which /
he manages to rough it. But then |
he's m economical man.
The number OF legless and arm /
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