The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-10-19
LOCAL FLASHES.


Would do, altho' 'tV IS somewhat old.
We listened for an hoHr or so,
But iBasmuch IS Job, yoa know,
Was not modern pattern for
A sleepy worn ont Editor,
We cried, ''thst 7. Cat is q croaI,er.H
Ano ssraightway 'ruffed' him with = poker
lie bumped his back and raised his tail,
And set up such piseoas vail
That all the anger of''ye local.
Was sOothed by est-gut strains 20 vocal,
We went to sleep, and Thomas c.
ForboTe his feline minstreI-sce.
(EEcuse this wrctched PoetEes.
The catl y gusour aPolo-gee.J
Sam Weaver 3 popular Lawrence
burgher has purchased the Giles
County Saloon in this place.
Last Monday the clouds bur
thened with grief at the death OF
the flowers, rained down tears up
ON their graves.
If King Cotton has been de-
throned, his sceptre ofroyalty still
exercises a bale-ful influence in
Pulaski at this time.
Rainey Brothers have erected
large Fairbanks scale on the north
east corner of the public Square,
for the benefit of the public.
Vale Mills is agitatcd. The ter
rible 0nestiOn who does Dave
Burch's weayingf" is stirring up
public opinion in that section like
a simeon stirs up the sands on the
Dsert of Sahara.
A bridal party from Culleoka
was one of the attractions at the
Pulaski House during the Fair.
The groom was Mr. David L. Nave,
and the bride, Miss Cochran, both
of Culleoka.
Dick Wrlliamson's voice, melIi-
fuous with pursuasion, is now
heard behind the counters Of those
popular merchants, Ros enau &,
and host OF. customers
listen daily to it's seductive tones.
Mr.. W. H. Jackson, an estima-
BILE, and useful citizen of this coun-
ty, died at his residence near Brick
Church, last Saturday after q long
and painful illness. He was bur
led with Masonic honors last Sat
urday.
During the Fair, one of HEX
Balleutine's 'thoronghBreds" beat
Boyd Nj. Young's dray horse and
Marshalrs farm plug" Itwas
proposed to run yoke Of oxen
against the winner OF the race, but
the thing fell through.
Dick Keiser, a cOlcred Benedict,
became cnraged at the disordered
Of his wife's ringlets and
attempted to smooth them down
with a stick Orwood a few days
ago. Esq. Jones fined him SO
and costs for Lot using a fine
comb.
Our young friend ERNEST NiER-
EDITH, is announced as a candidate
'or Tax Collector. ERNEST is che
IF the most meritorious young men
N the county. and his high char
,cter and fine Insiness qualifica-
ions eminently fit him for the Of
ice to which he aspires.
Pulaski is about to have a brass
band. Several of our musica
Young men have completed an or
5anization and ere long will be able
to discourse sweet strains in suffi-
Gent quantities to supply the de
mand.
Ar old lady named Farr, who
ives near BuforPs Station, was ar
rested and brought to this place a
few days ago charged with appro
priating to her own use, some cot
,oa claimed by belghbor. After
a trial she was honorably scquit-
ted
a man 5y the name of Mauly, |
who was detected while taking
cotton from the farm ofCapt Rhea,
a this county last Saturday, was
arrested by a party Of pursuers, |
nut while they we're bringing him
% town he managed to elude their
vigilance and escaped,
A party Of youag gentlemen who
,eside at the Gas Factory, in this
county, had a small game" of en-
;hre few nights ago which termi
lated in a repetition of thatviyid !
scene between Bill Nye and the
Ieathen Chinee, which Bret Harte
% eloquently describes. Next
morning an empty bottle and a
barlow knife we're all that was left
o tell the tale.
Would that Chesterfield were
live to teach us how to make
graceful bow to our accomplished
.onug friend, Theo. Richardson, of
he firm of Irvine and Lindsay, for
. beautiful hat, one that We fear
Sill prove too elegant a 'surmount-
ng" for an editors Uranium.
Yheh we wear it however, it viii
lever fail to revive grateful mem
,ries of its esteemed donor.
AS an advertising medium the
Citizen. has no superior outside Of