The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-31
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yond Ogden, we found the circus had
pitched its tents, and people who never
like to be late, and who never can look
upon chcus without feeling of awe,
were already clustered about the can
vas waiting for the ticket agent and
Monday.
Corinne is purely Gentle. No Nor
mon runs the risk of the Judgment that
is sure to descend on Corinne, and so
the place is wholly given to the unre-
generate and their evil devices. There
is not much room fer anything else. Co
rinne smacks of the plains. 1t is sandy,
new, busiEess-like, and comparatively
unshaded. No Mormon had anything
to do with building that place.
At Promontory was formerly the
junction Of the Union Pacific and Cen
trail Pacific roads. Here in 1869 were
the parade and pomp Incidental to the
completion of a gigantic enterprise, and
perfectly appropriate on this occasion.
The last tie laid was marvel of en-
bellished log, and the last spike was of
pure gold. 1t was dark when we reached
Promontory. got off the cars to com
mune with the hallowed associations of
the spot, and to look for that spike.
1t was not so dark but that I could
make out the lay of the country. There
was not house to obstruct the view.
The faint sound of nothing was heard,
and heard distinctly. 1 was disap-
pointed. Promontory, which, for a
day was the most conspicuous place in
America, was now q deserted wilder
ness if you know what that is--a mere
wooding station. There was nothing
more to be seen of the country. We
were still ascending, but almost imper-
ceptibly, and everybody looked up to
the heavens, because there were more
life and animation there than on the
earth about them.
The next morning we awoke to face
the plains again. And all that day the
only relief to the eye from the interim
nable sand and sage, and low, uncom-
Portable hills, was Humboldt canon,
where some of the most singular rock
formations on the line are seen. The
stations on the road are about ten miles
apart, as near as I can remember will
the memorandum in the other coat anC
an absurdly insane foreman dancing
around for copy. When you have seer
one of them you are heartily Thankful
they don't occur oftener.
There is nothing about them to re
mind you of the east. They stand ou
boldly ON the plain. There is not tire,
about them. The only evidence of re
fined cultivation is an occasional hoop
skirt or pair of patent leather boots
The main street faces the depot. Il
many instances it is the only street
The business places are one story ant
two stories in height, with gable roo
and square front. Liquor saloons wit
Intoxicating names, and boarding house
with equally high-sounding titles pre-
dominate. Some of the houses ar
built of rough boards, others of canvas
others again of sods, with the floor IN
der ground, and once in q while there
brick structure.
Liquor is freely drank by the masses
but little or no drunkenness was pei
ceived. It is so all through the greG
west. Boston cannot show as clean
police record as San Francisco. If
had the time should anaIyze this pro
position, and show you why it is thu
but L never shall have time, than
Heaven.
In one place, five of eight bushes
places, all the village boasied, wei
liquor saloons. Cheyenne has nir
hundred population, and saloon fC
every nine inhabitants.
There is that unfinished aspect in e
cry hamlet that dreary, monotonoJ
roll and hump TO the hills, that ind
scribable barrenness of soil that max,
the trip too tedious for language to
hne. E
All that day the sun baked down {
the allah and sand, ali that day Il
sand and all1ali inflicted as much da1
ago TO the sun as it could, and cCnter
edly made up the balance on us. II
air was close, however we'll the car W
ventilated. The sand sifted in Al
percolated through the stoutest habi
ments. ..--
Euchre lost its attraction. Nov,
dropped to the floor, and even guid
books and watches grew less popul,
How the people stood it in the otl
oars, having slept one night in I
cramped bed formed by the seat, a
with another night of similar tortu
before them, haven't learned to &
day.
We saw plenty of red men, and t..
are TO be found at nearly every statt
ON the Central Pacific road. We n
none on the Kansas Pacific or Uni
Pacific beyond Cheyenne. But n,
they exist in abundance They belo
to the Piute tribe, and the name W
describes them, although I do not kn
what it signifies. But it sounds son
thing as they look. The men are
medium stature, broad features, a
short heads The women are like the
The hair of both is black, coarse a
long, with luster to il that shows
did not come out of stores. 1t
eombed straight down around, a
nearly hides their faces. If it gu
concealed them the hair would have ms
friends than Jim Fisk possessed bef'
he fell and killed himself.
The men wore blankets and pan
The blankets had the appearance
having been used 10 smother fire il