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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
The GrasshOpper Plague.

The plague of locusts' in Egypt, as
depicted in the book of Exodus, is said
by eye Witnesses of tho ravages of
western grasshOppers to be a correct
picture of the modern plague in some
sections of the country : " For they
covered the face of the whole earth, so
that the land was darkeued and they
did eat every herb of the land, and all
the fruit of the trees which the hail had
left: and there remained not any green
thing in the trees, or in the herds of the
field, through all the land of Egypt"
Most melancholy details come from all
pats of the west. In Kansas a long
drought dwarfed and withered grass
and grain then myriads of grasshop-
pers darkened the atmosphere, and
swarmed down upon plain and valley,
literally stripping the fields of every
green thing. This ravaging insect army
travelled at the rate of twenty or thirty
miles a day the air was alive. They
worked in concert, swooping down upon
a town with fierce rapidity, beating
against the houses, swarmiDg in ct the
windows, covering passing rail road
trains, and leaving destruction in their
path. Farmers and their families at
tempted to fight the invaders with fire.
Piling brush and hay about their fields,
they applied the torch, and the suffo-
eating smoke filed the air for miles
around. In some sections this device
drove back the incoming grasshoppers.
But this calamity has destroyed the
hopes of many a farmer, who, as a new
settler, had risked his all in the hope of
an enriching crop. Some, disheartened,
only desire to raise money enough to
seek some less stricken locality but
the majority are energetically working
to guard against the disastrous conse-
quences which naturally follow such a
scourge. But next winter it will be
very different in Kansas from what it
was three or four years ago, when corn
could scarcely find a sale at fifteen cents
q bushel, and was even used as fuel in
some parts of the state, being cheaper
fbaD coal
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
A Perpetual HOt-Bed.

At Niederplants, near Swicknan, in
Saxony, a vast bed of coal has been
burning for over three hundred years.
The ground above this subterranean
bed of fire has become thoroughly
warmed by this time, and an ingenious
gardener has utilized it by planting on
It a large nursery garden. Here he
raises tropical plants of all kinds, with
exotic fruits, which flourish with &
vigor and luxuriance In the open air
that the best forcing houses could not
insure. His speciality is pineapples, Of
which he has a great variety. There
are subterranean fires IN other parts of
the world which have been utilized in a
similar way. Would It not pay, Ia GER
tain cases, to take hint from these ac-
cidental examples Of underground heat
ing, and warm large plots of soil by
means of steam-pipes running under
the urfaeei?-RUrat Carolilian.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

hnd the renegade, and all set off at 9
discreet round pace in the direction ~
the pass OF Lope, which leads through
the mountains to Cordova.
They had not proceeded far when
| they heard the noise of drums and
trumpets from the battlements of the
Alhambra.
"Our flight is discovered /" said the
renegade.
owe have feet steeds, the night is
dark, and we may distance all pursuit. -
replied the cavaliers.
They put spurs to their horses and
secured across the Vega, They had at.
tanned the mountain of Elvira. and
were entering pass when a bale fire
sprang up into blaze on the top of the
watch tower.
Confusion I" shouted the reneoado;
that fire will put all the guards of the
passes on the alert. AwayI away I
Spur for your lives, or they are lost. u
Away they dashed, the claitering of
their horses hoofs echcing from rock to
rock, as they swept along the road that
skirts the rocky mountain of EIvira.
Forward forward 70 cried the rene
gado, as the watch-tower of the noun
talns answered the light from the Al
hambra. To the bridge - to the
bridge. before the alarm has reached
there %
They doubled the promontory of the
mountains, and arrived in sight of the
famous PuentO del Pinos that crossed a
rushing stream, often dyed with Moor
lsh and Christian blood. To their con-
fusion the tower on the bridge bIazed
with lights, and glittered with armed
men. Followed by the cavaliers, the
renegade struck off from the road,
skirted the river for some distance, and
dashed into its waters. They were
borne for some distance down the rapid
current the sgrges roared around them,
but the beautiful pIincesses cIung to
their Christian knights, and never ut
tered a complaint. The party soon
gained the opposite bank in safety, and
were led by the renegade, by rude and
unfrequented paths, through tue heart
OF the mountains, so as to avoid all the
regular passes. They succeened in
reaching the ancient city of Cordova,
where the restoration of the cavaliers
to their country and friends was cele-
brated with great reioicings. The prin-
cesses were forthwith received into the
bosom of the church, and, after being
IN all due form made regular Christians,
were rendered happy wives.
After the flight of her sisters, the I'M
happy Zorahayda was confined still
more closely, though she had no known
inclination to elOpe. 1t was thought,
indeed, that she secretly repented hay
ing remained behind, for now and then
she would be seen leaning on the battle
ments of the tower, and looking mourn
fully towards the mountains of COrdO-
va; and sometimes the notes of the
lutte were heard accompanying mournfuI
3itties, in which she lamented the loss
Of here sisters and her lover, and be-
walled her own solitary life. She
died young, and, according TO popular
rumOr, was buried in a vault, and her !
fate has given rise to more
than one traditionary fable.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
The Profits of Cotton Raising.

A cotton planter, and formerly q
Chicago man, writes from Vicksburg,
Miss, urging northern and western men
to engage in cotton planting, showing
as an induceme1t the enormous profits
the business is capable of yielding when
conducted by northern men, upon north
ern economy and principles, with capi-
tai of their own. After reciting, for
purposes of comparison, the old meth
DDS of storing in use before the war,
which are now still more indifferently
perpetuated, he gives the results of
northern methods of farming applied
to cotton raising, in this wise Corn
and cotton were formerly both planted
in drills, and, a great supertiulty OF seed
being used, the process of thinning both
crops to a stand was slow and tedious.
The corn was usually cut out to 2 feet
in the drill, rows 5 feet apart; the cot
ton II to feet in the drill, rows 6 feet
apart. Both corn and cotton can be
planted in "check," feet each way,
or by 4, with perfect success. They
can then be cultivated with the i'm
proved farming implements of the west
The buggy plow can be used in both
crops alike until the cotton has branched
so as to forbid its further use; and then
the sweep-the only important labor
saving implement in cotton culture,
except the double scraper, used before
the ware IN be used until the cultiva-
ton of the crop is fnished-about the
middle of July. The bush-like shape
of the cotton so shades the ground that
weeds grow only in the middle of the
rows, after the cotton has attained
height of two feet so that our sweep,
running once in the " middle" would
go over ten acres a day and keep it clean.
It may be readily seen by this that the
use of the same implements used in
cultivating corn crops in Illinois, with
strong teams, would enable one man to
cultivate at least twice as much cotton
and corn as under the old system, which
to-day is far more imperfect than it was
before the war.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
A Wonderful Machine.

An eastern paper says: "a wonder
ful piece of mechanism has recently
been produced by +. Schroeder, an
Amsterdam jeweler. It is called the
Great Mechanical City, and is twenty
feet long by fifteen feet wide. There
arc houses, castles, churches and stores
in it, just as they appear in almost any
European city. People walk and ride
about Horses and wagons and railway
ears pass through the streets. Boats
pass up and down the river, while some
are loading and others unloading at the
docks. Mills are in motion. A foun-
tain plays in the public park and band
of musicians fills the air with melody.
There are also forts with soldiers parsd-
ing about them, blacksmith shops with
artisans at work in them. Other scenes
20 70 make this wonderful structure
indeed. +"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
The Wives Return.

The Paterson Guardian says: ga
recent paragraph calling attention to
the fact that the summer widOwers were
having the jolliest times imaginable IN
the absence of their voluble halves has
had a most remarkable effect. The
wives come trotting home to see abont
this thing. One gentleman who was
having an unusually good time, and
whose wife had gone away to stay till
the middle of September, was wonder
fully astonished on going home at fouT
O'Clock in the morning to find his wife
sitting up waiting for him. She gave
him a rousing reception, and he looks
like the last rose Of summer. The wide
world msy wag as viii, but it is doubt
full if he ever smiles again. The wives
are coming home Unexpectedly every
day, and husbands had better look out
little in order that they may save
some trouble."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
THE ExCUR SION.

Again, as thread these rustic yyavs
Here 10 the heart Of the summer land,
am gently reminded OF other days
BY objects rising on either hand.
But mostly yon bowery isle, mid-stream.
Recalls quaint feast, like a feast In a a.,
But dear alike to my mind ana heart
There we're only six Of us; Ralph and Nor
And Curtis and r 1se (city cousins tbe IoH3
Aud gray-eyed tlorence, whose deep hearl g WI,
was her lover, and it's long since nast wen,
But j0llier party never filed craft F''
As we rounded that point bv the ca5,r CHA
Ihe s3urts, Ascrtlc could not but have la1gbed'
At the highly romantic appearance we yosJo
Roses and jonquils on bright heads in c,o,,
Wreaths Of them, too, from the Tnnvgaia" az, az,
Bonghs OF fresh foliage in wild festoons Hoat'
From stem to stern Of the painted boat.
But under them all on cheek and I'm
Rosebuds more tempting aud laugh and co.,.
ituds piashlhg over and oar-biades adm 80
Ana beauty aud bliss, as We driftei along
We reached the island: How vel, recall
IAe pretty giris' screams as we helped them to
How Rose vet her feet, and Fio's aImsv shaw,
Like lS a cloud yelled my arm as she gave me her
Then the neat little lunch in the logended grot
Win tle white cloth spread By the spring at its
The jezts remember, the toasts I've for,,ot
Ana thg Tia pouring in from the clouds in the
Then We, We made them swing from a grapevine
Read poems, tod tales, with a romp now ana
then, P NO" ana
Played croquet while had a rubber of ,ybis.
And talked with the echo that bauDts ar -
Then IN couples apart, as betrothed lovers s6S,ii
Mcssrayed, to repeat the old tale ever voTI,1,, -
How well remember the bench in the wSod o
Between the two oaks, and who sat there a. 1
Then weary but bhthe, at the days dim oIose
We driited IN peace in tho starlight a-doNyn
And saw with regret, as the sicklc-moon rose
The faint-twinkiing lights Of our trim IffIs t,,.
For our hearts were so full and our souis yTeye -
b.est, '' were 30
We wished the fair stream were enchanted that
'N' - ''Alt
dRq' @ @ saS down for aye on its softheaving breast
Hinged with romance how these tbipps no,v o,,,,o,-t
For, just on my way through the VILLAGE ~, - -
j passed the old house whore for many wear ''
falr Florence my rivals proud home has made
And Rllph and Nell are long married; and Rose
Passed away when poor Curtis was killed by the
Aud am alone, while the calm river flows
shores. -s
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

HENRY CAREY, cousin of QGeen Eli
zabeth, after having enjoyed her majes-
tvs favor for several years, lost 1t IN
the following manner As he was walk
ing one day, full of thought, IN the gar
den of the palace, under the queen
window, she perceived him, and SAID
to him in a jocular manner, what
does a man think of when he Is think
inc of nothing ?" "Upon a womanS
promise. " replied Carey. Well done,
cousin." answered Elizabeth. She re
tired, but did not forget the answer.
Some time after he solicited peeraee,
and reminded the queen that she had
promised It to him. True, she sad,
"but that was a Woman's promise.
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Prehistoric Musical Instrument.

In a French cave which n. +. Pielte
discovered in 1871, he has found pre-
historic musical instrument, which he
describes as tine JfIst0 neOlithfque. II
is formed Of bone, and pierced with two
well-made holes and was discovered IN
a layer of charcoal and cinders in the
cavern Of GourdRn (Hante-G -Garonne),
associated with flint implements Of neO-
lithic types. Evidences have before
been obtained Of the existence of the
arts Of engraving and sculpture among
the stone-using folk Of Gsul, but this is
the first testimony that has transpiFed
to show that they we're sensible TO the
divine influence Of melody. One can
easily construct q moving romance out
of this crude bone flute, upon which
some enamored lover may have serena
ded his savage sweetheart by the light
of tender moons.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
Two Cuban Beauties.

Olivia, writing from Saratoga to
the Philadelphia Press, says " A
recent arrival has brought a pair of
beauties of opposite type-the eldest q
royal Spanish Cleopatra, with purple
hair, large almOnd-shaped eyes, classic
features, creamy skin, with rudy fame
burning in cheek and lips. The crea-
ton is finished with form typical Of
woman's perfection. The youngest is q
Cuban blonde, but not one of the opa-
line transparents. The beholder is re-
minded of one Of Whittier's soul warb-
hngs
So Maud Muller on q summers day.
Raked the meadows, sweet with hay"
a blonde kissed too ofttSl by the warm
fervid sun for beauty's sake. Ahi look
again I Why, the dear old sun is as in
nOcent as Henry Ward Beecher. He
nav have been there but he did 10
harm. The faHlt is IN the original Gre
alton Of the woman. The clay Of which
she is made was never taken pure from
its native bed, and there is an unmis-
taxable knk In her yellow hair, which
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
Upon the Occasion of His First Baby.

1t was his first baby, and he sat down
to think about it, with a copy of ''De-
wees on Children spread out before
him.
Having refreshed himself with the
phenomena of Group. scarlet fever and
measles, he closed the volume and
| sighed.
''Poor devil" That was his judg-
m mt on himself. "Poor devil.
Then he wrapped his morning gown
about him, and went and rested his nose
against the window-pane.
It was raining outside, and It didn't
seem to him so particularly sunshiny
within.
"Hive syrup" said he to himself,
I" at 25 cents per ouRcs bottle; socks,
S1.20 q pair relays of paregorie, 40
cents relay; linen, so cents p5r yard,
and God only knows how many yards
it's going to take before I'm through
with it nurse, $40 a month /; doctor,
twice day, at S5 call.
Then he heard yell, and rushed up
stairs, expecting to find the baby dead
The door was slammed in his face, and
he meandered slowly back to the sit
ting-room.
1t seemed gIoomier than ever.
"What did 1 do it for?" he MUIR
INJURED, while the rain beat reproach-
full rataplan on the window-panes.
He thought he would go round to the
club, and then he thought he wouldn't.
When a man is for the first time a
father, instinct tells him to dodge his
old companions. It is better for him
to ''tread the wine-press alone.
But how to get away with the cease
less stir and rustic of females going in
aud out doors and up and down stairs
He was nervous, and felt like a man
sitting on the ragged edge of remorse.
Likewise he recalled the saying of
Isaiah, ''In that day seven women shall
take hold of one man."
But it seemed to him as if seventy
women had taken possession of his
house, and penned one man up in one
corner of it.
It occurred to him to sing a hymn
but then the baby might be asleep, and
his instructions were to keep as quiet
as possible. And still the rain fell, and
the dripping branches tossed TO and fro
with every passing gust. Was there eV-
er such a dreary day? Was ever the
problem, What shall do with my
self ?" so utterly unsolvable?
But it is the duty of man of genius
to rise superior to circumstances.
Little minds bend before the tempest !
of human events great ones turn that |
tempest to their purposes.
So reasons the man with his first baby; |
and when his house ceases to be his |
castle, and nurses and nature combine |
to make it his prison, he turns to and |
finds nepenthe and occupation in whit !
Ting himself fresh supply of tooth
Ne9US,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

all the blood of the Anglo Saxon can
never straighten. But this sitting hu-
man magnnlis is as lovely as an August
afternoon, and as ianguishing as calla
lily, which some man viii Gull and fling
and reason"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

TIE Austrians say that the reason
Kullman fred at Bismsrck's face is that
the prince is known to wear n shirt of
mail on his body, without which, in
deed, he would have been killed by
young Blind.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24
a superauous Letter.

We could get along without the let
ter T, as the following story shows !:
" Phairest Of the pbair," sighed the
lover, 4" Phancy my pheelings when I
pheTsee the phearful consequences Of
our phleeiug phFom your pbather's
phamily. PheW phellOWB could have
phaced the music with so much phOr-
titude as ] have and as phickle phor-
tune phails to smile upon her love, 1
- Hold, Phranklin, hold r. screamed
Phrances, 81 viii pholIow you phor-
ever. But Phranklin phIed, and love
ing Phrances phainted."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

WITHIN the past two years over
500, 600 worth Of sheep have been de-
stroyed by Kentucky dogs,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

CIscSEATI men, when they hear Of a
contemplated visit from the mother-in-
law, write the family has the smallpox.
They get mad, though, when they re-
ceive telegram from the old lady say
ing she has had il. and 50 has Aunt
Jerusha, who " I viii bring with me to
help nurse the children. "
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-24

tired, he will go to sleep, and awaken
bright, cheerful and happy. Do not,
though, as have seen some parents do,
plunge a child into cold water when he
screams and shrinks from it, thinking
you are doing a good deed. Nature
must be the guide if your child has a
nervous constitution, a shock of this
kind is only exhausting and injurious.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-03
;e fs4 F. L. CARDOzO. Treasurer of South Carolina

Dr.. SoHRNok's PU1MoN1c SYRUP,
SEA WEED ToNlo AND MANDRAKE PILLS.
These medicines hive undoubtedly
performed more cnres Of consumption
than any other remedy known to the
American public They are com
pounded of vegetable ingredients, and
contain nothing which can be injuri-
ons to the human constitution. Other
remedies advertised as cnres for con-
sumption, probably contain opium,
which is 3 somAwhat dangerous drug
IN all cases, and il taken freely by con-
sumptive patients. it must ,io great in
Jury; Tor its tendency is to coutine the
morbid matter in the system, which,
OF COURSE. must make u cure impossi-
hls. Sc!ienck's Palmonic Syrup is
warranted not to contain . pnrticle of
opium. 1t is compose of powerful
bnt harmless herbs, which act on the
lungs, liver, stomach and blood, and
thus correct all morbid secretions and
expel all the diseased matter from the
body. These nre the only means by
which consumption eau be cured, and
as Schenck's Pu]monio Syrup, Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills are
Tho only medicines which operate in
this way. it is obvious they are the
only genuine cure for pnimoha con-
sumption. Each bottle of this invalu.
able medicine is accompanied by full
directions. DR.. Schenck is profes.
sionally at his principal Office, corner
Sixth nnd Arch streets. Philadelphia
every Monday, where all letters for ad-
vice must be addressed. 70 t13
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-03

HABITUAL CONsrlPATION-How TO
EFFECT A CERTAIN AND PERMANENT
CURE.-Some occupations of life pre.
dispose to oostiveness, more especially
which which allow but little exercise.
Persons who contract this unfortunate
habit of body, under such ciroum-
stances, might possibly be relieved by
changing their sedentary employments
for others Of more active kind; but
this Is by no means certain. Habit
ual constipation is o very obstinate dis
order. All the ordinary so.called
remedies invariably aggravatc it. No.
thing can be moro injurious than the
continued use of strong nperients.
They at first irritate, and finally al
most paralyze the bowels, rendering
them so torpid that enormous doses Of
cathartic medicines have no effect
upon them. A mild apericnt, COM
Dlned with O gentle stimulant, is the
true remedy; and combination in
the happiest proportion of these in
gradients is found in Hostatter's Sto.
mach Bitters. This famous stomachic
lnvlgorates the whole intestinal canal,
while quietly removing from it's con.
volutlons all impediments to q free
passage through them. No mere pur-
gative has this double operation. No
ordinary stimuant effects the desired
object. Gases Of constipation aban.
doned as hopeless by distinguished
medical men, have been cured in few
weeks by the Bitters. 10 those who
have tried oil the medicines of the dis.
pensary in vain, we say try this ire.
sistlble stimuant and aperient. There
is no sufficient reason why constipa.
ton should be the consequence of So
dentary habits. Hostetter's Bitters,
by supplying the vigor which would
otherwise be derived from exercise,
will. in all cases. enable the system to
perform it's exoretory functions regu-
larly and heaithily. J28t3Gl