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st. Nary's county, to ,rit:

On dis day Of 1873, b.
fore ,he subscriber, Justice OF the Peace
Of the STAT" Of Marylasd. in and for said
county. r, rso"slly arr ared --, and
d. cared that he intends I" apply for
traders license. under the 2ni section -:
the act OF January Session. 1858. tn the
Cle,k Of the Circuit Court for St Mary.
county. and mad oath that the amount
Of The s,cck Of goods g nerallv kept OF
hand hy him Tor BY the concern in rhich
he IS engaged, i" care it ic u a. tncr>srn }
ut n; pmcrl nj seas, n o. sale, Cor if I'll.
applicant has net previously rngny. !"
such ,rcd". that the nmount of the stack of
goods srhich he erpeets to keep. dc, } does
nh (.'r will nm) EXCEED 5 B.
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AGENTS WANTED.

usse and fsnass Agents wanted % I'll the
sA1kO SEWER" the wondsr &C sAeaEs. No
hniiy sAcuid he without IL. IL viii Do The
work cf SIS na:hine. Works % eniiy .
shiad cor rsA h.. Guaranteed fcr ene yeas.-
price. 81. Agents should send for circulars
Addrs1 nANU SEWER MANUFACTURING
CO., SeI Craig 81. Monssssi, cAnada. Latter
posaAge 10 Canada, &C.
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for The purpose Of carr, ing on the BLACK.
SMITH. wHEELwRiGHr and UN DER.
TAkER'S business. al Sc Johns church.
are roe prepared 10 promptly execute oil
orders f>s wosk ia their line Of bushes -
They will warrant all wo-k TO Be well o, :;
faithfully done, and solicit share OF the
pubiie patronage. 5 sf9L
ttHr ANDREW ~ GARNER,
saee2 ..4r JAMES Il THOMPSON.
Nov Il. ls.?-6m.
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THOMAS 4. VHiTTY.
Late Of Chapel Point, Nd,
WITH
BURGESS & SCOTT.
pRrir AND GENERAL COUNTRY PRODUCE
Co m "a S s ION .Nerc hanfs
l52 W. PRATr SrxxEr,
BALTIMORE, ND.

- Consignnsuts respectfully solicited and
promptly attended to. Shipping orders care
fully put up.
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NOTICE.

= HE undersigned ha ~ associated them
selves together. under the 6sm and
style Of
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See l Be IL enacted by the Gener,.
Assembly # Maryland. Tina, Z e ,wcnty.
6-st and the twenty second scc,iuns OF th.
city six,e Article Of si,- Code Of Pabli
General L.ws. relating to al. Licenses"
hawker- and pedlrrs b. and the same are
hereby REPEALED. aud the following sec
tions enacted in lieu thereof:
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on ard after FRI
DAY. March 9Th. the
Steamers n A r Y
WASHINGTON and
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-07
How the Gable Talks.

Through the kindness of the superin-
tendent, Mr.. Weldon, Twas permitted
to witness the mode of transmitting aud
receiving messages through the cable,
and initiated into the secret. An opera
tor sits at a table IN a room very slight
ly darkened by curtains. On his left
hand stands little instrument named
the g rejecting galvanometer, the in
vention of Sir William Thompson,
without which Atlantic telegraphy
would be a slow process, not exceeding
two or three words per minute, instead
of eighteen or twenty, the present rate.
This delicate instrument consists of a
tiny magnet and small mirror swing
ing on silk thread, the two together
weighing but few grains. The electric
current, passing along the cable from
Valencia, defects the magnet to and fro.
The mirror reflects a spot of-light on TO
q scale in a box placed on the operators
right hand, where, by its oscillations,
the spot of light indicates the slight
movements of the magnet, which are
too small to be directly seen The hit
tie swinging magnet follows every
change in the received current and
every change, great or small, produces
a corresponding oscillation of the spot
OF light on the scale. A code of sig
nails is arranged by which the move
ments of the spot of light are made to
indicate the letters of the alphabet.
When receiving a message from Valen-
cia, the operator watches the movement
of the little light speck which keeps
dancing about over the scale on his
right. To his practiced eye each move
ment of the spot of light represents a
letter of the alphabet, and its seeming
" fantastic motions are spelling out the
intelligence which the pulsing of the
electric current are transmitting be-,
tween the two hemispheres. 1t is truly
marvellous to note how rapidly the ex-
perienced operator disentangles these
irregular oscillations of the little speck
of light into the letters and words
which they represent.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-07

without breaking the owner of that
tavern. Over each of the four mantels
in the parlor, let me remark en- passant,
is a frescoed figure. These are in
tended to represent the four seasons !;
they look like good seasons, and I hope
for the sake of the proprietors that they
viii prove prophetic. Besides all he
has done in the parlors and around
since last year, Mr., Stewart has had the
clothes-hooks IN the bedrooms ar
rangedso high that step-ladder is nee
essary to hang anything upon them or
get anything down. This is rather in
convenient, but I suppose it is the fash
ion in hooks and must be followed, to
the ceiling, if necessary. In the fall,
Mr.. Stewart intends to publ down all
the part of the building which now can
be called old though it is but few
years since it was built, and extend a
uniform front, with corresponding pi-
azza, the whole length ON Broadway
Perhaps this is why he has had the
hooks in the bedrooms put up so high,
though just at present it is difficult to
see the connection between the two
plans. But this reminds me that my
night-gown is hungu there Mrs. Paul
borrowed a ladder, which has since
been removed, for the purpose, and I
had better be climbing if I want to get
to bed tonight.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-07
The Surf-Board Sport at Hilo, Sand
wich Islands.

Hilo is one of the very few places on
these islands where you can see a truly
royal sport-the surf f-board. It requires
a rough day and heavy surf, but with
a good day it is one of the finest sights
in the world.
The surf-board is a tough plank about
two feet wide and from six to twenty
feet long, usually made of the bread
fruit tree. Armed with these, a party
of tall, muscular natives swim out to
the first line of breakers, and, watching
their chance to duck under this, make
their way finally, by the help of the
under-tow, into the smooth water far
off beyond ali the surf Here they bob
up and down on the swell like so many
ducks, watching their opportunity.
What they seek is a very high swell,
before which they place themselves, ly-
ing or kneeling on the surf-board. The
rgeat wave dashes onward, but as It's
bottom strikes the ground, the top, un-
retarded in its speed and force, breaks
| into huge comber, and directly before
this the surf-board swimmer is propelled
with a speed which we timed and found
to exceed forty miles per hour. In fact,
he goes like lightning, always just
ahead of the breaker, and apparently
down hill, propelled by the vehement
/ impulse of the roaring wave behind
him, yet seeming to have a speed and
motion of his own.
It is very surprising sight to see
three or four men thus dashed for near
/ " a mile toward the shore at the speed
/ of an express train, every moment about
/ to be overwhelmed by n roaring breaker
/ whose white crest was reared high above
and Just behind them, but always es
| Gaping this engulfment, and propelled
/ before it. They look, kneeling or ly
ing ON their long surf-boards, more like
some curious and swift-swimming fish
like dolphins racing IS it seemed ~tc
/ me, than like men Once in q while
/ by some mischance the cause of whici
I could not understand, the swimmeI
was overwhelmed; the great combeI
overlook him; he was flung over and
over like piece Of wreck, bat instantly
dived, and re-appeared beyond and out
side of the wave, ready 10 take advan
tage of the next. A successful sho
launched them quite high and dry ol
the beach far beyond where we stood L
watch Occasionally a man woui'
f.S.,.a a,-s.s -,,,..,. HE IN = 1,rurH fsafau
cling himself in the boiling water with
out apparent difficulty.
The surf-board play is one Of the an
cient sports Of Hawaii. i am told tha
few of the younger generation are ca
pable of It, and that IT II thought TO Re
quire great nerve and coolneas eve
among these admirable swimmers, an
TO be not without danger. Hei51Der
Magazine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-07

Formerly no one bought American
toys, but the trade is gaining fast, and
the productions are of more varied de-
sign and better make than the importa-
tions. Several ingenious men give all
their time to the invention of mechan-
ical toys, in which America does over
three-fourths of the entire trade. One
young naH Processes to have earned
800, 600 from royalty on his toys, and
several others have reaped small for
tunes. a year or two ago q baby doll
appeared in the tOy-shop windows
which would creep gently across the
floor, turning its head from side to side
as though seeking approval. About
10, 600 of these little things were sold in
one year, although their price was five
dollars each. The heads, legs and arms
are made to order in Germany, and the
rest of the doll is made in New York.
Upon this one toy $50, 900 was expended
In one year, and its sale IS increasing.
Here is a bear, a shaggy, ferocious crea-
ture, with very red mouth and rows
of terrible teeth. Wind it up, and il
viii rise upon its launches, open It's
jaw, snap its eyes, and turn upon yOu
in true grizzly fashion. The native in
his piny depths Is put 20 shame.
Perhaps young America cannot row
prettily, featheriDg his ores and squirt
ing at the proper moment. If he will
study the movements Of an eutomatom
which has appeared IN the toy-shops,
he may become proficient. A vigorous
little chap seated in a boat will pull
across a sheet of wnter in a giffy, with
no other incentive than Connecticut
clock-work. The same native makes a
II
across a table. There is no end, indeed
to the variety of mechanical toys. The
movements are mostly made in Bridge
port and New Haven, and the rest of
the toy is supplied in New York city,
where several large ma IufactoTies are
working. As baseball is simply a ma
tional game and is not played in other
countries, all the implements are OF
homemade. Many sehooners arrive IN
New York from Maine during the sea
son laden with bats alone. the trade IN
which amounts to about $500, GOO annu-
ally. The balls come from Eiticli,
Mass, where a large number of men
and women are engaged in their manu-
facture. The core IS made Of cork,
around which several strips of india
rubber and yarn are wound. After this
operation the ball is covered with the
blenched hide of horses and sewed with
silk or linen thread. The business of
one firm in Natick is said TO amount to
$3.50, 600 a year Great numbers OF
rocl1ng-horses are made in Vermont
Jew's-harps were exclusively maDufac-
tured for many years by two competing
Irishmen in Dublin. The trade was
brisk. and both had as much work as
they could do; but finally the tide of en-
migration to America swallowed one,
whl, established himself in New York.
His old-time rival followed, and the two
are now in the metropolis, making this
10Y and exporting it to all parts Of the
world. d.-He0rth and Home.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-07

PEOPLE have generally three epOchs
in their confidence in man. In the first
they believe him to be everything that
is good, and they are lavish with their
friendship and confidence. In the next
they have had experience, which has
-smitten down that confidence, and they
then have to he careful not TO mistrust
every one, and to put the worst con-
struction upon everything. Laterinlife,
they learn that the greater number OF
men have much more Of good in them
than bad, and that even when there is
cause to blame, there is more reason to
pity than to condemn and then g
spirit of confidence again awakens
within them.-Afiss Bremer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-07
THE CHILDREEs CHURCH.


EFBoN THE GERMAN or PAUL GERoK.l
The bells Of the churches are ringing
Papa and mama have both gone
And three little children sit singing
AoRether this still Sunday morn.
While the bells toll awayin the steeple.
Though too small TO sit stiI in a pew,
These busy religious small people
petermihed TO have their church too.
So as free a. the birds OF the brsezes
By which their fair ringlets are famed,
Each rogue sings away as he ueases,
With book upside down in Lis hand.
Their hymn has no sense in its letter.
Their music no rhythm nor tune;
Our worship, perhaps, may be better,
But theirs reaches God quite soon.
Their angels stand close to the Father;
His heaven Is made bright by these flowers ;
And the dear God above us would rather
Hear praise from their lips than from ours.
Sing on, little children, your voicea
FIJI the air with contentInont and love:
An nature around you rejoices,
And the birds warble sweetly above.
Sing on, for the proudest oraiions,
The lturgies sacred and long.
The anthems and worship Of nations,
Are poor to your innocent song.
Sing ON, our devotion Is colder,
Though wisely our prayers may be planned,
For often we, too, who are older,
Hold our book the wrong way in our hand
Sing ON, our harmonic inventions
We study with labor aud pain;
Yet often our angry contentious
Take the harmony out of our strain.
Sing on, all our struggle and battle,
Our crt, when most deep and sincere
What are they2 childs simple prattle,
A breath IN the Infinite ear.
Harper's Magazine.
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The Dukes Lesson About Diligence

There was a duke once who disguised
himself and placed a great rock in the
road near his palace. Next morning a
peasant came that way with his ox-cart.
80 these lazy people, said he there
Is this big stone right in the middle Of
the road. and no one viii take the trou-
BILE TO put it out of the way" And so
Hahus went on scoiding about the lazi-
ness of the people. Next came a gay
soldier along. His head was held SO
far back that he didn't notice the stone,
40 he stumbled over it. He began TO
storm at the country people around
there for leaving a huge rock IN the
road. Then he went on. Next came a
company OF merchants. When they
came to the stone, the road was 50 mar
row that they had 10 go OF IN single file
ON either side. One Of them cried out:
- Did ANYBODY ever sec the like Of that
big stone living here all the morning.
but no one stopping 70 take IL away ?
It lay there for three weeks, and no one
tried 10 remove it. Then the duke sent
around word to al the people on his
lands TO meet near where this rock lay,
as he had something 20 tell them The
dav came, and n great crowd gathered.
Old Hahus, the farmer, was there, and
50 were the merchants. A horn waa
heard. and a splendid cavalc4de came
galloping up. The duke got down from
his horse, and began 90 speak 70 the
people Ny friends. it was / who
put this stone here three weeks ago.
Every passer-iJy has LETT it just where u
was and has scolded his neighbOr foI
not taking it out OF the way" HC
stooped down and lifted up the stone
Directly underneath it vas q round hol
low. and in the hollow lay small lea
theTn bag. TIE duke held up tins bag
that ali might see WHIST was written oI
Il. +" For him who lifts mp the stone.
He united the bag, and turned It upsidl
down, aud out upon the stone fen
/ beautiful gold ring, and twenty large
/ bright gold coins. So they al lost Tia
urize because they had not learned tn
sesoln or formed the habit Of diligence
/ Afetliodisf.
KsowLEDaE begins with the particu
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LOOK

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
scriptiOr is out or unpaid, and that
You are requested to pay mp at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere toa strict cash
rule. We hope you VII comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such q
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
g We enter. no new names on our
hooks without tbe money IN adv1s'ce-
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A sANGUINARY CONFLICT.
The FeFOeiOus Fight between Hugh
Anderson ana Arthur HIcCIuskey.

The FerOeiOus Fight between Hugh
Anderson ana Arthur IcCIusISey.
A corresdondent of the World gives
an account of one of the most ferocious
duels ever fought. It occurred on the
evening of July 4, in the Indian terrific
ry, at Medicine lodge, point which is a
great resort for hunters during the
colder months. The parties engaged
in this desperate fight were Hugh An
derson of Texas and Arthur McCluskey
of Kansas, both desperadoes we'll known
on the frontier for their reckIessness of
life. Anderson had killed brother of
McCluskey in a dance-house fracas and
the latter sought him out for the ex-
press purpose of taking Vengeance upon
him. A Texan guide named Richards
acted as second for McCluskey, and a
huge Kentuckian of the name of Har-
ding fulfilling a similar Office for An
dersOn
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-07
UP IN THE TREES.

e By JOIN SYDNEY.
Mould we we're there IN the woods tssether-
Two little birds in the midsummer weather
Out of the winter. away from the sorrow,
WITH think Of it never q thought of the morrow
Up in the trees. whose branches are swinging
They sit in the soft airs, singing, singing
A song in which youth and passion are blended,
That Is always beginning, and never ended
Look at them there now, sitting, sitting
Where owls are hooting, and bats fitting:
One is singing. the other is s.eeping,
While the Lady Meon through the leaves is peep
ingi
And now look at us, whose years are doubled,
We have missed so muehs and have been SC
troubled;
Would We were there in the woods together,
Two happy birds in the midsummer weather!
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AN DIiEssED young gen
tleman, after buying another seal 20
dangle about his person. said 70 the
jeweler that he would-ah, like 70
liaye-ah. something engraved on it
ah, 20 denote what he was Certainly,
certainly. sad the tradeaman. III put s
cipher on it.
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move any portion of his body save his
right arm, With this he raised his
knife aloft, and as McClnskey craWled
up to within reach dealt him a terrible
blow in the neck, cutting muscles and
tendons and veins, and half severing
the head from the body.
A& THR LAST EXPORT. "a ~
But the effort was too much for him.
and leaving the weapon sticking in the
wound, he pitched heavily forward on
,his face, Every one supposed that this
blow would have Instantly killed Me
Cluskey, but, strange to say, It did not,
for 50 great was his vitality that before
falling he twice plunged his own knife
into the body of Anderson. The tale is
soon told. McCluskey lived a minute
longer than his antagonist The dead
bodies firmly locked in each others
embrace, were taken to the house Of
Harding and laid out side by side on
the gaming table. "A crimson trail
marked the path of those who carried
them indoors, and pools of block indi-
Gated the scene of the late conflict.
There was no gaming that night
the hunters and Indians appeared to
find excitement enough in talking over
the events of the day without having to
resort to their usual pastime. About
IL o'clock the moon rose, and the bod
les were taken out for burial. There
were no funeral ceremonies, but Job
Harding remarked as the muff1ed forms
were lowered into the grave, "There
go two as brave men as ever lived. "
They were buried deep to keep the
wolves and coyotes from digging them
up, and the earth was heaped up in a
little mound to mark where they slept.
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Roberts of Danbury.

When you are carrying several arti-
cles and one of them slips, it is best
not to try to recover it. An Essex
street man named Roberts was helping
his wife prepare the dinner table on
Sunday, as one of the deacons was to
of steak in one hand and the coffee-pot
in the other, and had a dish of peas on
the arm with the steak. The wind
blew the dining-room door partly to as
he approached 1t, and putting out his
foot to push it back, the arm with the
peas moved out of plumb, and the dish
commenced to slide. A cold streak
few up Roberts spine, and his hair be-
gan to raise, and he felt a sudden sick
ness at the stomach, but he lodged
ahead to save the peas, partly caught
them, made wrong move, lost them
again, jabbed at them with the coffee
pot, upset the steak dish, and in spring
ing back to avoid the gravy stepped on
the cat that belonged to the family
down stairs, and came to the floor in n
heap, with the steak and peas and n
terribly mad cat under him, and an
overhowing pot of scalding coffee on top
Of him. Then he bounded up, and
stamped on the steak dish, and picked
up the other dish and threw it out Of
the window, and finished that perform
anee in time to hurl the eoffee-pot and
the remaining contents after the eat,
which was making the very best time
down the front stairway. The deacon
didn't stay to dinner. Roberts retired
to the bedroom with bottle of sweet
oil and a roll of cotton batting, and
Mrs. Roberts went over to Ter moth
er's 70 cry.-Da''b'''y Neses.
Nj. CoL1S says that after experiment
ing upon some thirty animals, he has
determined very clearly that the idea
that l1ltthisis pal,pe'salis can be trans
Initted through using the flesh of ami
mails affected with tubercular diseases
Is erroneous. Such maladies are never
inoealable through the digestive or
gans,- and hence the employment Of the
meat of phthisie animals does not offer
the danger generally supposed.
THE real wants Of nature are the mea-
sure of enjoyments, as the foot is the
measure of the shoe. We can call only
the want Of what Is necessary. poverty.
/ ST. Clement
TIE year Of jubilee Tor frogs-LeaE
year.
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THE points of drills, etc, used by
watchmakers to use upon ordinary steel
are tempered by heating them 70 3
white heat and inserting them into hard
ceiling-wax, allowing them to remain
but a second, and then pushing them
into another part Of the wax and again
quickly Withdrawing, to repeat the OPP
Grafton in a fresh spot until they are too
cool 70 penetrate the wax The tool is
TO be moistened with turDentine when
used
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THE AGREEMENT.

BY the terms agreed upon between
Richards and Harding the antagonists
were to fight with revOlvers and bowie
knives, to be placed back to back at an
interval of twentypaces, to wheel and fire
at given signal, and after the first inter
change of shots to conduct the fight as
each one should deem it best to his ad-
vantage. The spot selected for the en-
counter was in the open prairie. The
grass had been closely cropped by the
cattle, leaving the turf firm, yet elastic,
and Just the thing for rough and tum-
BILE business. The men met long after
sunset in the presence of a crowd of
hunters, trappers, railroad surveyors,
gamblers and Indians. The combatants
were duly placed, and the crowd
awaited with breathless interest the
result.
The giving of the signal had fallen by
lot to Harding. Stating to the princi-
pals, who by this time had began to
show signs of impatience, that this
would be the report cf pistol, he drew
his own weapon and discharged it, fist
skiing the question and receiving the
usual answer that both were ready.
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ArrENrIos 10 the mind is the natu-
raj prayer that we make 10 interior
truth. that we may discover ik-Maft-
Jrdaoh.