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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-13
MORE coon rHAE nan.

There Is many resi- IA the rad Of lie,
II We would only stop ta taks s.,
And many a tone from the better land.
II the Queruiouz art watild make H.
To the soul that IA fan of hope.
Aud whose beautiful tru-t meier faiieih-
The grass Is green and tae dnwers are bright,
Though the winter storm prevaisesh.
Better to hope though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eye siill lifted;
For the sweet blue sky will soon neap through
When the oninoas clouds are riftef.
There never was night without daT,
Or an evening without a morning:
And the dark horr, as the praverb goes,
Is the hour before tbs dswnlng.
There Is maHy q geEa in the path Of lifa
Which we pass in our Idle pleasure.
That is richer far than The iesVeied crcyvn.
Or the miser's hoard II treasure;
II may be love of a little caild.
Or 2 mothers prayer % hoaxen,
Or only beggar's grateful thanks
For q cup Of water given.
Better TO weave in the web 81 lie
A light aud goluen filing.
anu % ~ Gods viii with ready hHart.
ana haRft7 that are swift aud wiling:
lhau 10 snap tns aelicale. minute threads
OF our curious hveH -ss7lnd ~
And then blame II aaven ~ ffa +a,,.feI y,3s
And sit, and grieve, and avsler-
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The pt-als.


/ WAS living al squire Jones'. BE
had gal and she was pretty you bet
used to think she was pretty enoug.
o eat, say I loved that girl would b'
40 description Of Ray awful felings but
I was awful bashful-I could not tell
her about it; and to make natter
worse, there was a feller coming to see
Sally: and he came once a week just ns
regular as the cows come up, and he'a
buck right ug to Sally and set up nal.
the night.
hated him, Of course, and nobody
conld blame me for it. deterinino,
to stop him or bust. fell on q plar.
and told Sally's brother Of It; hB
name was Ike, he was pleased, and we
went TO work. They we're scarce oi
house room /; had a front and back
room, which was used for kitchen ana
smoke house.
Ne and Ike slept in the back roam.
The floor was made of punchedi.s, aaa
Immediately under our bed, ard als
under the floor, was the big soap-trouzh.
1t had about ten bushels Of soft soap 81
it. I told her that I wanted 20 sleer
with her sweetheart that / night. Sh,
said all right. BE came dressed up n
his best. he had one Of those hiei
colIared, Ion :, scissor-taiIed coats, kew
copperas pants. awful tight. high lses.,
gum hat, and a square-yard red cotton
handkerchief around his neck.
He soon co.nered sally, and ne ans
Ike welt to bed-but not to sleer. w
raised the floor over the soap-srougn
took the boards o T The bed, all only ci
The freiide. where I vas TO lie-ius
enough behind T. hold up a bed with
ont n feiler. Ike lay before the FIRE 0i
a pallet. 7 lay on my plank holdinl
! very still. I began 10 think the.3 woul'
sit up ali night, but finally about
1 0 clock he came in. L Isnored violently
BE hauled Of his linen, and over ID
crawled, and IN he vent. down into ia
soap-trougb. or all the sforting an
kicking You ever herd. It was rigl
here. began to yeli al the top Of IA
voice. he was making a light. as d
got q flaming pine knot light 4 fui
blast. the old folks came tearing IN j
their night clothes-the old man vii
his gun and the old poalan with th
poker.
had sally's bean drawn ont by thi
time and stretched ont AZ fun lcueh,
before the FIRE. The soap was half 3
inch thick all over him. OF al 4
! sights 1 ever aaw. he looked the mo
terrible. A Knklux wasn't nowher
Saliy-cams with hsr dress ia her han
and ss abe entered the door he brak
: The dogs all went after hisn ont
= hearins-bs don't cons back a.
. more.
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Selected Miscellany.
CECILY

CECILY.
COB, II my love would come TO rue,
would come To me and speak 20 roe
ont q these shadows ders aud dree,
tiy heart would 50 Eiuch lighter be,
4ly heart would 80 much hVhter be-"
sang Cecily, sa-d Cecily.
"oh. if my love wov,Ia come 20 me,
And say the words & said TO me
Another day for love Of me.
The world wonld 50 much brighter be,
The world would 20 mueh brighter be-"
Sang fair deserted Cecily.
noh, II nv love would come to me.
And hold my hands and look at me,
The while he softly spoke tn Gne.
Ny life would 80 mnch brighter be,
My Hfe would 50 much brighter be-"
Despairingly sang Cecly.
''But silent aud away from me,
BE has no word of cheer Tor me,
For one dark day he doubted me,
and doubting me, grew hard 90 me,
And doubling me, grew hsri - me,
Half betterly sang Cecily.
~ But oh, il he would come to me,
Just FOR little while 70 me,
Before he left me, he should see,
Ibet I was true as truth could be,
That WGF true as truth could be-
Sang tenderly. sweet CeeIy.
'foh. II he would but come TO me
For long enough 20 learn Of me,
This precious truth, and say 20 me
The word h. said before 20 me,
sang Cacii-, fH1r Cecii7--
90 Ny way would 50 much brighter be,
Ny cross wouid 30 much lighter be,
And patiently ia wait and see,
Whatever WIS in store for me,
Whatever was IN store for me,n
Sang wistfully, poor Cec:ly.
" But now through shadows dark and dree
He VIII not help me, who might be
rock amid this Eurging sea,
shield between the world and me,
4 shield between the world and me-"
sang tearfsiiy, Ceciiy-
.'And all I ask to comfort me,
Is that hen come once more to me,
And say the words he said to me
Another day, for love Of me,
Another day, for love Of me-"
Sang pleadingly, sweet Cecily.
Z" Yet though these shadows dark and drea
Grow hard and darker yet TO see,
I viii not doubt, a. he doubts II g,
But still believe "e'l come to me,
But stil believe he'll come to mel
With sudden cheer
Sang high aud clear
This fond and faithful Cecily.
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News Of the Week.
orr UEC7'


San Francisco--Two Spaniards entered
Wizards store, near Horsetown, Shasta conn
~, Calfornis, AID shot and instantly killed
Chinamas, knocked ditwn tho clerk with re-
volger. and robbed lie store Of all the money
and valusbles .hey could carry. They went
toward Cottonwood, met man on the road,
robbed hinl. and got away. They are rem
nant Of tho famous Joaqin Martha band Of
70 bers.
Chicago REPORTS the conviction for murder
OF man aged 80. His sentence is for life.
The Kansas City and Council Bluff Rail-
road has been mortgaged for es,OO0,OOO to
provide fcnd for the entire equipment OF the
road, prncnfs depot grounds, pay The floating
liabilities, and provide for contingencies
in the United States District Court in Chi
cago, Judge Blodgett, in case wherein GER
tain distitlers contested the right Of tie In
ternal ieYenue Department 70 obligs them to
use the Tiee meter, decided that the Govern
ment haa full power to prescribe such ,regula-
tions as it Rees ht for the running OF distfler
ies including the use Of any meter selected
by the internal Revenue Department.
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DOKW EANT

AIRS. Putnam, vito or Avery ., Putnam,
who waa killed by Foster, now under sentence
OF death, has written iottsr 70 Gov. Dix,
asking commutation Of Fosters sentence.
New Jersey has appropriated $4,000 to
procure statues OF Stockton and Kearney for
the Halls Of Congress.
The widow Of the late James Fisk has OBJ
tanned temporary injunction restraining the
Credit Mobilier from dssolving it's organize
ten until judicial determination is had on
tho claim Of Hrs. Fisk to 20, 600 shares Of the
stOck
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sEaENlTY.

Reaecfed on the lale. love
To see the stars ~ evening glow;
So restless in the wave below.
Thus hsavenly hope is al serene,
Bni earthly hope how bright 80 et-,
Stin ductuafes Ger this changing scene,
As false and hseting a. 'tis far.
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lonR

The pencil nlssks yoa sse aseans tls
paragraph tthusl mean tllas voar sa.s.
serlptior IS ont or unpaid. and that
s.o'i are requested 70 pay Up ct ones.
We would take great pleasuie II ozssa1-
ing credit to our frlesl7s and ps-..as.
but cash alone VII pay expensss. md
We are .foreed 70 a1lisre to s.rics cash
rule. We hope You ~ comprehend
ans appreciate the useessliY. 81 sarn a
course, and renew y2nr sabscrigsi on
Eltllont delay. We solicit your favor.
rs5rIss sifiifsft flsss rls0Ilfs iIi s > i sa.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-13
On Criticism.

SO many foolish persons are rushing
into print, that it requires a kind of
Literary police to keep them in order.
Where there are mice there must be
cats, and where there are rats we may
think it worth our while to keep a
terrier, who viii give them q shake and
let them drop, with all the mischief
taken out of them But the process is
a rude and cruel one at best, and it too
often breeds q love of desHuctiveness
for its own sake in those who get their
living by it. A poor poem or essay
does not do much harm, after all; mo-
body reads it who is likely to be ser
iously hurt by it. But a sharp criti-
cism with drop Of witty venom in it,
stings a young author almost to death,
and makes an old one uncomfortable, to
no purpose. If 1t were my business to
sit in Judgment on my neighbors, I
would try to be courteous, at least, TO
those who had done any good service,
but, above all, would handle ,enderly
those young authors who are coming
before the public in the futter of their
first or early appearance, and are in the
trembling delirium of stage fright al
ready. Before you write that brilliant
notice of some nlliterative Angelina's
book Of verses, I wisB you would try
this experiment: Take half sheet OF
paper, and copy upon it any OF Ange-
lina's stanzas,-the one yoU are going
to make fun Of, IL you viii. Now, &C
to your window, If it is a still day, open
it, and let the half sheet of paper droI
on the outside. How gently it fail.
! through the soft air, always tending
downward, but sliding softly from side
to side, wavering, hesitating, balancing
until it settles as noiselessly as a snow
flake upon the all-receiving bosom o
the earth just such would have beer
the fate OF poor Angelina's dOtterin,
effort II Won had left it to itself. /
would have slan'od downward int,
oblivion so sweetly und softly that SIN
would have never known when it reach
cd that harmless consummation. p
Holmes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-13

TIE referenc suit to determine the
rightful possession Of Eva Grifiimg, a
young quadroon. who was adopted and
taken from her parents in the South, IN
her infancy, by Frederick GrifiiDg Of
Brooklyn, and whose mother has been
seeking to obtain possession of her, was
decided IN favor OF Grifhing on Tuesday.
The girl, now about 16, is decidedly
averse to leaving her happy home IN
Brooklyn for a hovel with her mother
in he South
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A xoUSa man in Minnesota took the
cars to go to Jonesville, where be was
TO be married, but the train was delay
ed so long that he got anxious and acted
so nervously that some detectives ar
rested him as one implicatcd IN @ great
Chicago robbery, ana when he was at
length released, be found his intended,
getting hufy st his delay, had married
another man.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-13

TIE Illinois woman suffrage couven-
tion met at Chicago, last week. The
attendance was small, aud Miss Anthony,
who was the leading spirit, attributed
this to the fact that the down-tTodden
women Of Chicago didn'J dare ask their
husband for the 50 cents admission fee.
One solitary man lifted mp his voice and
spakc. but a sister informed him in
loud whisper that he had better dry
up, for they had toe little time for tho
much they had to dc. But they didn't
do anything.
NEW YORK laws don't compel wife
TO "cleave unto her husband" 70 any
great extent. AIargarita Henne, not
yet 15, married Charles Sigismuna, re-
Gently. and went home directly after
the ceremony, and have not lived with
him at all he ''habeas corpused'' her
and her mother. in order to bring her 70
his arms, But it didn't work, for, as her
absenteeisia was entirely voluntary, ths
iudgs told him he couldn't help him
] self, so lac grins and bears it.
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FRolf H,ASRINGToN

Tho Secretary OF tho Treasury hns issued
= call FOR atty millions % the 5t bonds
second aud third esries aud rogisto sd bonds
FortT-hvo millions aro coupon boud5 and Eve
million are registersl bonds.
The President has pardonsd NTnes Car
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Robert K. Hubber, OF Chicsgo, forged his
fathers name for a5 %, and has been sent up
for five years by Philadelphia Court.
Edwin Forest's g personal estate Inventories
e32O 3s6.
-Josse George, lately deceased in Philadel-
phia, gave 940O, 900 to charitable institutions.
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F" Married?7 said Eugene Russell,
neaitatively. And why shouldnt I
get married, Helenas Is not 8 man all
the happier for uniting his fortune with
some truly congeuial soul ?"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-05-01

Prolific learn that Mr.. T. D. Young,
of whose prolific family we. made mention some
months since, has of late been blessed with a
fourth pair of twins, making in all thirteen
children. One of his sons, George Washington
of the first pair of twins-is now near twenty
years of age, and can beat any Of his neighbors,
black or white, in hoeing corn.
Mr.. Young has a yearling which recently
gave birth to calf. The animal is only thir-
teen months old, and gives fine quantity OF
milk.
The merits of Mr.. Young as farmer may be
Judged from the fact that last year he made, on
an acre of old field, five hundred and eighty
one pounds of lint cotton, using two wagon
loads of stable manure The land was thor
oughly prepared, but the cotton was not
ploughed after il came up. Three years ago
he made eighteen bales Of cotton with three
hands and two mules. Can any of our friends
beat this 7-Abbevile Press and Banner.
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Jostine at, Human Frailty.

A story is told of French gentleman, who,
having lost the bulk of his property through
the rascalities of friends in whom he trusted,
crowned it all by the loss Of his mental bal
ance, and for the remainder of his days found
his only delight in riding in omnibuses and
passing fares from passengers to the driver,
taking care when change was returned to add
to it sou or two from his own pocket and
watch the effect on thereceiver. In nine cases
out of ten, as the story goes, the passenger,
counting over his change and finding as he
supposed that the driver had cheated himself,
would look bewildered for moment and then
pocket the change with quiet chuckle. The
special delight Of the lunatic was In satisfying
himself in this way that nine-tenths of his
fellow-men were dishonest it they only had
the opportunity. $,
There may not have been any such French
gentleman-we incline to the belief that there
was not and if there was he may not have
found any such proportion of his fellow men
icheats-we are disposed to believe ne did not.
And yet, was there ever Congressman VINO
had been largely accused of things which of
course he did not do, but which if ne had done
would have been dishonest. Wash smart" "
and did people say, "You must watch him
pretty closely, but he is a very smart man ?"
And did he say of himself that he had been
accused of great many things, but no one
had ever charged him with being fool9 And
did he get tired of being accused of doing a
great many things and suspected OF a1great
many more7 And did he finally take on 8
profound disgust at all the professions of hon
esty and morality of his fellow-C Congressman,
and make up his mind that their pretenses were
insincere, and that they were only honest be-
cause thew had never had q fifst-rate opportu-
nifty to steal9 =.
Had there been such man ever, he would
never have gone crazy and fooled away his
time passing fares in an omnibus. He would
have been, much more likely to- introduce q
bill into Congress increasing the pay of the
men, who voted for it, and doubling the pay OF
the Executive who signed it. Then he would
have watched the performances Of the high
toned persons who despised and denounced all
surreptitious cheese, as they went round and
smelt of this especially tempting morsel. be
would have been somewhat amused at the gen.
tlemen who voted for the bill and then took
the proceeds, but he would have been tickled
almost to death at the performances of those
who denounced the scheme and voted against
it, and then, after bolder men had carried it
through, sneaked up and took their share OF
the plunder. ..,.f.....
Had there ever been such lunatic--which
Heaven forbid-and he had entrapped his fell
low-countrymen and fellow Congressman in
any such way, We might suppose that, even
had he been as far away as Essex County,
Mass, you could have heard him laugh as his
victims stepped up and drew their share. :.
Let us be happy in not having any such
lunatic to make sport of human frailty.-Ne'0
York Tribune. ~
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How THE SOUTH is TREATEB.-Wm. Cullen
Bryant, the veteran free-soier and longtime
editor of the New York Ecening Post, for whom
the Southern people have no reason to feel
special regard, has during the past winter been
seiourning in the Southern States. We ask
attention to the following extract from recent
letter of his to the Post:
In all my intercourse with the people of the
South, although it has not been very extensive
nor of very long continuance, have heard
only the expressed sense of a desire to be on
friendly terms with US Of the Northern States.
Especially las this been the case in Charles
ton, where saw more than elsewhere of the
people of the place. have never, since l
crossed Mason and Dixon's line, heard a single
expression of bitterness or malignity towards
those who 1--we north of it. 1t was but the 9th
er day that the people of Charleston sent a
formal invitation to the President of the Uni
ted States to visit South Carolina. He declined
the ciyilty, and at the same time removed the
postmaster Of Charleston, MIR. Trott who was
highly esteemed, and for whose continuance in
office the citizens without distinction of party,
had earnestly petitioned. In his place he ap-
pointed a cclored man, who, whether justly or
not, lies under the odium of being connected
with the corrupt fellows who have for several
years been pillaging the State. This was like
answering an invitation to dinner with slap
in the face, and was gross blunder to say the
least
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# is asserted bv celebrated dentist

1t is asserted by celebrated dentists that
the main cause OF defective teeth is the extrav-
agant use of soda, and cream Of tartar in the
manufacture of bread and cakes. DIR. Walker,
a distinguished dentist, has published the re-
suits of some experiments made by himself.
He soaked sound teeth in a solution of sale
ratus, and they were destroyed in fourteen days.
With these facts before US, why will we per-
sist in the excessive use of that which not only
destroys the beauty of the face, but also takes
from us that which our Creator designed should
add to our health, comfort, and happiness?
The Philadelphia Press thinks that many
men who Fought down the. rebellion" have
been "extravagantly rewarded for poor servi-
ces," which is true; for we know man-not
personally, thank goodness-who did nothing
more to put down the rebellion than any cor
poral in the army could have done, and yet
that man is now being rewarded with salary
of $4,000 year.
An Alabama paper says of recently
elected member of the, Legislature that he has
already shown his devotion to the State by
nine years gratuitous service in the State PEN
itentiary.
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parcels, anG the sleepy babies, the poor daisies
and the buttercups were left forgotten in a
corner of the rack. wondered if the mother
had not intended this. May be forgiven for
the injustical A few minutes, after passed
the little group, standing still just outside the
station, and heard the mother say, ooh, my
darlings, I have forgotten your pretty boquets.
I am so sorry T wonder if could find them
if went back. Will You all stand still and
not stir from this spot if do"
ooh, mama, don't go, don't 60. Wewill get
you some more. Don't co." cried all the
children.
"Here arc your flowers, madam" said I, 1T
saw that you had forgotten them, and ] took
them as me.nentoes Of you and your sweet chill
dren." She blushed and Cooked Disconnected.
shy with ali but her children. However, she
thanked me sweetly, and said:s -.
"I was very sorry about them. The children
took such trouble to get them, and think they
will revive in water They cannot be quite
dead"
"They viii never die |" said I, with an en-
phasis which went from my heart to hers.
Then all the shyness fed. She knew me, and
we shook, hands and smiled into each others
eyes with the smile Of kindred as We parted.
As followed on, heard the two children,
who were walking behind, say to each other,
"Wouldn't that have been too bad7 Mama
liked them 30 much, and we never could have
got so manv all at once again"
eyes, weconld next summer" said the boy,
sturdily.
They are sure of their "nexs summer" ]
think, all six of those souls-children and
mother, ani father. They may never again
gather so n any ox-eyed daisies and buttercuPs
"all at once" Perhaps some of the little hands
have already picked their last flowers. Never
theless, their summers are certain. To such
souls as these, all trees, either here or in Gods
larger country, are Trees of Life, with twelve
manner of fruits and leaves for healing, and it
is but littlo change from the summers here,
whose sums burn snd make weary, to the sum
mers there, of which "the Lamb is the light"
Heaven bless them all, wherever they are.
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BEEcHER ON SOUTH CARoL1NA.-Henry
Ward Beecher, in characteristic sermon at
Plymouth Church, drew on South Carolina for
an illustration:
He said that he did not know on earth a
more pitiabe sight than South Carolina. 1t
was at one time lhe richest and proudest of the
States. 1t inaugurated those ideas which led
to the disaster Of the war and the cleansing of
the continent The people of South Carolina
had risked and sacrificed everything for their
principles; they had seen their children laid
in the grave and their households reduced to
beggary, and yet, in the plenitude of their
sorrow, they would take back no particle. of
their faith in the cause. Though in bad
cause, they had shown a heroism it would be
we'll to pattern and admire.