The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-05-23
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/ The business of the Crimina
S Court is about completed and tn
Court viii adjourn to-day, perhaps
r About a half season ofrain fell il
e this vicinity last Friday. Farmers
are suffering yet for the want of it
Ernest Meredith and Dick Bile.
: both say they were at Puncheor
: Camp last week and shook as many
I bushes as Judge Lewis.
Messrs, Irvine d Lindsay have
} purchased of Dir. Boyd II. Young
, "Old Coon Corner at a slight ad-
vance on his bid.
1t was remarked by one of the law
yers in the case that the jury en-
panneled for the trial of Jordon
Petty was the finest jury ever in
the box in Giles county.
Our fighting editor is. also a. work
ing editor He. brought in seven,
new subscribers in one day this week
and said it was not a good day
either.
Col. J. c. Ballentine has sold his
promising colt, Keno, the winner of
the mile heat race on Saturday last
to Mr.. Metz, of Covington, Ky, for
the sum of 5000.
Tive hundred delegates were in
attendance at the Farmers Conven-
tion last week, among them was our
distinguished vinyardist Colonel A.
Cox.
The spring fights received a fresh
impetus Monday last. Clubs were
trumps and knock-down was the
game. The game was for five dol
lars, ana strange to say all of them
lost.
JUS mention horse-racing to
some of the visitors to the Exposi-
ton from this place and it acts with
the power OF an ounce Of ipecac.-I
Money is no object, as they havn't
got cent.
Isn't it delightful these beautiful
moonlight evenings to drop in with
your wife or sweetheart and treat
them to a glass of Elwood Lacey's
delicious Soda Water? This is a
common occurrence these evenings.
No little excitement was created
on the square Tuesday morning, oc-
casioned by the Sheriff chasing one
Of our merchants around town try
ing to summon him as a jurer. The
Sheriff had to take to a horse and
then failed to oyertake the feet-foot-
ed merchant.
Messrs. Mitchell and Mcdonald /
have made and set up in Nj Win
ships jewelry. store the handsomest
silver ware case ever in Pulaski, and .
that gentleman has filled it Will, The
most superb lot of silver ware ever
offered in this market. It will pay
the trouble Of visit to see this
case.
Last Sunday night at the Meth
odist Church several young mon or
boys stood outside the door and
kept up a continual whispering
greatly to the annoyance of the con
We hope this willstop it,
for they certainly need only to be
told that they were disturbing pub
lie worship.
MI. James II. jackson made a
narrow escape the other day when
the runaway occurred on the square
He was driving across the square in
a buggy and met the runaways, and
was just able to get his buggy out
of the way of the frantic team. His
horse them attempted to run away,
and had it not been for the hercu-
lean efforts Ct Mr.. J. T. Moore, who
held on to the bride, he would
have gotten away and doubtless
done considerable damage.
Ye local has been 70 the Exposi-
ton, but as everybody else in the
country has been or is going, he
considers it unnecessary to tell what
he saw, heard, learned. did and eat
land drank. Suffer him to say,
however, to those who have been.
Boys, didn't we have bully timer
and to those who have not been
that it is richly worth their time,
money and trouble to go to see this
greatest exhibition ever before made
in the State, and perhaps in the
South.
We have been attacked by each Of
the young men mentioned two or
three weeks ago in this paper IS
great INSISTS and who were so ut =
-erly infatuated by sight of some {
hing to kiss as to become so com {
pletely blinded that they could not I
ell the color of the object upon
which they were lavishing their ca !
'esscs. Each one said that he /
,ould prove that it was the other S
who did the kissing, and rs both t
gentlemen are Enthusiastically truth G
al, we cannot. come to any other c
than that they are both I
correct, and hence both guilty. |
One Of our citizens, who is con l
idered by all who know him as a I
Proficient at anything he under :
akes, while attending the EXposi-
ion last week struck up with a green g
ooking boy and thought he would e
ave some fun at his expense. He n