The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-31
GILES COUNTY,
Cosby Letter from Rambler
Progressive Pulaski and
its NJ any Interesting
SURROUNDINGS.

NASHVILLE, July q, 1873.
| To The Editor ~ the Bansler:
] have just returned from a pleasant
! jaunt TO Giles county, where / spent
several days nlingiing With dear, kin
dred and old friends and acqnaintanees
OF my boyheod- To return 10 ones ma
tive heath after an absence OF fifteen
years-to look upon tae house. and sit
down IN the very room in which you
were born, stirs the soul and awakens
feelings of most profound pleasure,
mingled with sadness. Here stand the
same grand old hills. here are the same
teeming valleys and beautiful streams
but, alas many familiar ees are gone
10 that bourne whence no traveller re-
turns.
A day or TWO spent in Pulaski gave
me remarkable insight into the enter
prise and progressive spirit of that
beautiful town. Several destructive
fires have occurred in the last few
years, destroying all the buildings on
the public square, except on the west
side. But new and elegant buildings
have arisen, phoenix like, in their stead,
and now Pulaski justly and proudly
boasts of the finest and most tastefullv
built stores of any town ia Middle Ten
nessee outside of Nashville. Not a
wooden building is to be seen amongst
any VI bilC INV DuSAHGSS houses. Dat ali
are substantially built of brick, and
are beautiful models The National
Bank building is a three-st story brick,
with an elegant stone front, and would
be credit to any city. The court
house stands in the center OF the public
square, and Is i'll striking contrast with
the unsightly mass of brick and mortar
that disfgures the Public Square Of
Nashville, being model of beauty and
taste. 1t has long been enclosed with a
fence and the yard planted with trees
and grass, and everything about it
shows the utmost care and good taste.
The streets are all graveled, and are
well grade and exceedingly smooth.
The dwelling houses present Il neat and
comfortable appearance, with many
yards filled with the sweetest flowers
and most beautiful shrubbery. Nearly
every sidewalk is lined with shade
trees - many of them evergreens-
while the sidewalks themselves are kept
in thorough repair Our E'penny wise
and pound foolish" city ought to take
trip down there and see what a live
town is. and what it can do. | think
they would be ashamed of themselves
and the dirty old town they represent,
so full of torn-up pavements and filthy
streets.
The crops in Giles are good, but in
some localities suffering for want of
rain. 1t is astonishing to see how fer
tile the land is. / was out on Brad
shaw, where the country is very broken
and rocky, and l saw corn growing on
the sides and tops of high rocky hills
that have been in cultivation more han
fifty years, and it looked us green and
as thriving as any l saw. If plowed
right these hills never wash away |
was in tho moi OH horbnaI of wills HVor
ley, Esq, the lucky man, and was hap
Ply to hear his neighbOrs speak so high
ly of him. All agree that he is worthy
of fifty thousand dollars, though there
are many who need it worse. The
Squire bears his affiiction with meek
resignation, and says but little.
There is one item j had nearly over
looked. 1t is in reference to Martin
Femal College, ut Pulaski. The history
of that college as related 10 me is brief
ly this: When Miss Laura Martin, an
accomplished daughter of Thos. Martin,
a distinguished merchant of Pulaski,
came to die, she called her father to her
and asked him if it had been his inten-
ton to give her any portion of his es-
tate, to which he replied that he had al
ways intended to do the same for her rs
his other children. She then asked that
he gave her thirty-five thousand dollars,
which being done, she ut once donated
that amount for the use and benefit of
school to be called Martin Female Col
lege. Five thousand dollars is to be
used in erecting suitable buildings, and
thirty thousand is to be used as an en-
dowment fund. Fifteen thousand has
already been raised by subscription in
Giles county, and more viii be raised,
sufficient to put-up buildings and fur
nish them in the most approved style.
The site selected is on a beautiful hin i'm
the western suburbs of town.
RAMBLER