The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-12-11
For the CITIZEN.
sPROSPFCT' .

| DEAR CITIZEN Seeing your requests
| for notes from the various sections OF
the county, 1 have determined to risk
/ my all upon the troublous yea OF litera-
| ~ immortality. That L may succeed
/ in my venture, and make sure voyage to
the island of undying renOwn, / have
chosen subject of dimensions-high as
/ the tOpmOst single on the village
school house, though said house Is as yet
uniinlshed-deep as the ravine beside
the Railroad, down which flow the pei
| lucid waters of our village stream. In
short, dear CITIZEN, Prospect, in ali its
dimensions and extensions, in all its ca
liabilities and unexplored possibilities,
is my theme.
Unlike your Bethany and Elkton cor
respondents, the nag that we shall ride
Is very sOber-minded and staid ami
mai, and, therefore, pardon us If We be-
come not enthuseG over fairy forms and
,'Edenic" salons { p Indeed, Prospect
Is very stdd in all its ways and apDur-
Eenances. As 1 suggested, there has
been an ebullitiOn of energy, resulting
IN the erection OF a great shell, digni-
ned with the name school House," in
which they have persuaded j young Mr..
Ransom to shiver through these cold
December blasts with so many of the
Young Americas as their parents con-
N~NAN~N " NJ IL lAOAA1Es d. Ellt-Ns III AlI-
ter irony say, 'Eto build up home eBter-
prises." Bethel, Bethany, Pulaski, &c.
&c, are indebted to Prospect for some
OF the pupils in attendance on their
schools, while Prospects own school
enterprises dwindle and die.
The humanity of our age is but rude
and inhuman after all, when in every
inventory of the ''one-horse villages
dotting our country, we must enumer-
ate the dram shops. OF four business
houses in the burg that forms my sub
ject, two are devoted principally, if not
wholly, TO the sale OF spirituOus liquors.
OF three hundred people, white and
black, in Prospect and immediate vi
entity, my personal knowledge, and the
best information accessible, can emu
merate but few, very few. ttgrOWn3
males who do not indulge In ardent
drinks. An eyewitness remembers
three negroes proposing to treat them
selves. One gave 10 cents, another %
cents, and the third 80 cents; yet when
Memphis in her dire distress stretched
forth stricken hands for aid, the only
response, from lips red with frequent
libations, was but brutal laugh, and a
closer gathering Of purse-strings. Said
a young man, Chimes must be pretty
lively there Cat the saloOns) from the
way they carry on sOmetimes.' Yes,
lively indeed but few see, in the too
brightly glowing cheek and madding
mirth, the early consumption of the Vi
tai lamps; the lavish waste of energies,
worthy to be expended in the resurect-
ion of our Southern Land.
Yes there is hope in the outlook for
Prospect. Hope, but not in the wealth
of the dram-seller, nor the Ledger of
the merchant, nor the broad inviting
fields of the farmer; but hope in the
voice of an earnest-souled man that
on every second Sabbath speaks from
the desk in her unfinished, upholstered,
unceiled school house.
A dance, or a social gathering viii, at
a few hours notice, collect a company
such as would excite our EllStOn friend
to raptures; yet Mooney or a Bates,
with ample announcement, will preach
to but a handful. Yet here, Mr.. Editor,
despite the fact that some may sheer,
Others may laugh, we declare that
whatever of nObleness and whatever of
true manhood and womanheod Prospect
may possess, is all owing to the seeds of
truth, and the gems of christian moral
ity that Prospect of the past has given
10 the Prospect of the present.
But our lamp burns low, so we must
say goodnight" TUUM.
Dec. I'd, 1873.