The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-02-09
AcCIDENT AND fNCIDENTS.

self because his wife would not
move to Kansas. Since he couldn't
60 to Kansas he thought he wonld
go to the next best place.
A passenger on the Pacific Rail
road put his i've hundred dollars in
his boots for safety, ard now he is
inquiring around If the porter who
blacks his boots on the train is hon
est.
An old maid died ct Poughkeep-
sic. leaving $4,000, and now over
five hundred persons have conc
forward claiming to be sdescend-
ants" of the old maid. There is
something wrong there somewhere.
A Mobile man used a couple e
old shells that he picked mp at Fort
Spanish for aadirons in his fire.
place It was the opinion of the
coroner that the family died from
too much iron in the blood:
A girl at Springfield, Ohio, who
danced With her corset pulled up to
the last hole, vas the next day in
hearse that was pulled up to the
last hole that had been dug in the
graveyard.
Her name was Emma, daughter
Of Mr.. ggs, of sutern, Conn,
aged thirteen. Tie man who sold
the non-explosive kerosene to her
father, with which she tindled the
fire, was arrested right after the
mourners returned from the grave.
A girl at st. Paul used arsenic TO
improve her complexion, notwith-
standing her friends told her it was
dangerous. They had to use crow
bars to break the crust Of the ground
for the grave, on account of the
cold weather. She would not die
in springtiIne, but put it on till
winter, just to make trouble.
We fear Prince Arthur is sowing
quite as heavy crop of wild oats
as the Prince of Wales sowed while
over here. Two girls haze eloped
from Canada, following Prince Ar
thur, who whispered in their ears
when he was there. and their eous-
ins have gone to interview the
Prince Blood VIII tell-h,s-
At GAINESVILLE, Ohio, child got
into a row with its father, when it
ran to its mother for proteetion,--
The father caught it by the legs, the
mother held on to its arms, and the
undertaker's name was Smith. The
parents are accusing each other Of
killing the child. There is no way
to settle it without drawing cuts
A gentleman at Rutherfordton,
n. c., had his Sunday suit stolen,
and was obliged to 60 to church the
next S nlay with his overalls ore
A colored brother exhorted the man
to 'Come to Jesus with such fer
vor that he looked the colored man
over, he seemed SO. good, and pious,
and all that. He examined so close
he found the colored brother had on
hiss missing suit of clothes. In the
language Of the illustrious poet,
"Some pork viii bile So"
Some men of Louisville were bet
ting on the weight of a large mule,
when one man, who was a good
judge Of live stock, got behind the
mule and was measuring his hind
quarters, when something appeared
to loosen up behind the mule. just
before the expert died from the kick
in amongst his ribs, he gave
it as his opinion that if the mule
was as heavy all over as he was be-
hind, he weighed not far from AZ,
900 pounds, and a trifie over.
The people Of Chicago have got
to suiciding so bad that il has been
found necessary TO arm the police
with mach-pumps. A policeman
saw a man come out of the court
house acting strangely when he
supposed he was poisoned, and i'm
mediately applied his stomach
pump. After pumping him a while
the man said he had got rid of the
''pison" before he let the court
house. lie bad just been divorced.
The Chicago man who invented
the method Of wearing pants with
out buttons gave an exhibition Of
his affair before a crowd in a hall
there. He had on a pair of pants
without buttons, and while explain
ing his patent there was a sudden
collapse and the pats fell Off The
inventor and real shirt got into
the next room uncommon fast.-
Not any o. those new tangled no
tions this way, if you please.
A young man in Indiapolis IL
sick. lie is near-sightod and went
TO see his girl, andsgot on his knees
and proposed to her real quick, be-
fore the old folks should come in.
He was surprised at being hit IN the
mouth with a potatos and at seeing
a butcher-kRife raised over his head.
Come to find out, it was the old
man he had proposed to, who had
on the old iady's apron peeling po-
tatoes. Calico fooled the young