The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-19
NUMBER II.
tions earned In frontier warfare with
such cavalry as those before MS.


such cavalry as chose before rs.
How Sinners Were Punished in Old
Times.
Virginia was STYLED fhe sold Do
minion" because during the protector
ate Of Cromwell something like an at.
tempt was made 10 invite Charles II, It
Is said, then q refugee, to establish an
independents dominion within fhis terri
tory. Many of the so-cailed blue laws
Of Nirginis are, IN their way, as laugh.
able IS those OF any other Of the colonial
goYeEnyaenls. We may we'll wonder it
pestsfisy vii laugh at us in future
hme-tWenty years from now-as we
love in the press ns generation TO poke
fun at our ancestors, or rather, as We
should say, az our neighbots, ancestors.
Well, the "blue laws" Of Virginia
these are sew extracts; ~
In 1910, attendance at church twice
every SiIndaywas enjOined, ''uP3n pain,
for the first fault, to lose their provis-
ions and allowance for the whole week
following; for the second to lose said
allowance, and also to be whipped and
for the third to suffer death" The laws
were subsequently modified as follows
"That every person should 60 to ciarch
Sundays and holidays, OF lie neck ana
heels that nighs, and be slave to the
colony the following week; for the
second offence he should be a slave for
8 month and for third, year and
day. 1lF5
1862. Every person who refuses to
have his child baptised by a lawful
minister (of the Church of England)
shall be amerced two thousand pounds
of tobacco. The whole liturgy of the
Church of England shall be thoroughly
read at church or chapel every Sunday
1868. -"If any Quskers, or other Sc
paratists whatsoever, in this colony as
sembled themselves. together to the
number o, five or more, of the age OF
sixteen years or upwards. under the
pretence OF joining In religious wor-
ship not authorized in England or this
country, the parties so offending shall
forfeit and pay, for the frss offence, Ave
hundred pounds of tobacco, and for the
third offence shall be banished from the
colony" Pulitanical intolerance, in
deed, Mr.. Royaiisti ~
They did not let peopls travel on
Sunday in Connections. They tell anus
ing stories aboat the selectmen stop
ping people on the highwa, there in
ancient times. Well, they did nothing
of the sort in Virginia. OF course not.
Let us see
1862" Enacted, That the Lords day
be kept holy, and no journeys be made
upon that day, unless upon necessity.
and all persons inhabiting in the coun-
try, having no lawful excuse, shall
every Sunday resort TO the parish church
or chapel" Good that was jolly.
Again tThe court IN every county
shall cause to be set mp near the court
house a piIlory, a pair OF stocks, whip
ing-post, and ducking- stool, in such
place as they shall think convenient /:
which not being set mp within six
months after the date OF the act, the
said court sha be fined Eve thousand
pounds of tobacco. -
Funny, decidedly; but the funniest
part of this tale is the ducking-stool
This wss a sort of beam or pole, NOV.
ing on pivot at the middle, and having
a seat fastened at the further end,
wherein scolding woman WAS convent
emily let down and ducksd in pond or
stream of water. This was a favorite
pastime of the royalists in early days.
have never discovered that the PuTi-
tans practiced ducling In New Eng
land. Not they. They were too straight
laced for any such amusements. The
method of Furnishing scolds wss intro
duced into the city of New York 10y the
English royalists-most ungRllant fell
lows-not the Dutch
But one more, and then viii close
1919 The first offence of hog steal
ing shall be punished according 20 the
former law Ito pay one thousand pounds
Of tobacco, and in case Of inability, TO
serve two years in prison.; upon sec.
ond conviction the offender shall stand
two hours in the pillory, and lose bis
ears and for the third offence he shall
be tried by the laws of England, as in
the case of felony." Poor hog-stsa aler
This was hard on him--a predicament
truly lauRhable. .L-L.