The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-02-19

Wheat is reported as looking wen
throughout the South and West.
The students of the University of Viz
GINA contemplate an excursion to Eng
land and Scotland.
A little girl in Des MSines wants to
know why there are no he dolls. sure
enough, why not?
The season is Astounding in balls for
various purposes-"but the greatest Of
these is charity"
A Brace of Blazes is what the Chicago
Times calls the two fires in that city the
other day.
The new patent butter made of beef
suet won't suit many people, we fancy.
We prefer de udder kline.
In China, two people of the same
surname dare not marry. The Smith
family would suffer in that country.
The Archbishop of Santiago declares
that female voices in the choir are dan
gerous to true piety and devotion
A wag, on being asked for an appro-
pirate inscription to a founding asylum,
proposed: ''Thus far-but no father"
! New-fashioned wedding cards are
long and narrow, and have the initials
or monograms in the left-hand corner.
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seven persons are lying at the point of
death from having eaten fresh pork with
trichina in it.
The sugar crop of Louisiana is esti-
mated for this season, by the New Or
leans Picayune, at 100000 hogsheads.~
Men are being discharged at the
Brooklyn Navy yard by hundreds
There are plenty of clerks still in the
| DEPARTMENT at WASHINGTON
Dancing cIasses'' that meet on Sat-
urday evening are quite the rage just
now. No cake, no wine, no anything
but small talk and dancing.
Sit in the front hall with the door
open, put your feet in pale of ice-wa-
ter, and get your little boy tn jingle7a
string of bells and you have all the SEN
sations of sleighing with none of the
expenses,
Beecher, who ought to know, saws in
few years no horse will rank high
that cannot trOt inside of two minutes.
and some future historian will deride
the days past when it was thought won
derful for Dexter to show 2: 10.
The great centennial celebration in
, Philadelphia, on July 4th, 1876, prOmis-
es to be grand affair. Over five mill
lions have already been expended in
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required, and the national treasury will
doubtless have it to supply.
A beautiful young woman has myste-
riOusly disappeared from Memphis
, She was last seen at the Confederate BE.
: lief Association Ball, where she remain.
ed in charge of nice young man after
her sister and brOther-in-laW had gone
, home. Her parents, who reside in Shell
by county, have not yet heard of hel
! disappearance.
1t is significant fact that ninety-nine
out of every one hundred mechanics in
, the large cities of the United States are
foreigners, whose earnings now average
from four to five dollars per day, while
: any quantity of young American gen.
tlemen, product of business colleges anC
high schools, can be got to keep books
f or do any kind OF genteel waiting from
six to ten dollars per week.
( Caleb Cushing is not a boy. He lacks
only two years Of being as old as the
Nineteenth Century, and was in Con
2 gress as long ago as 1887, and Attorney
7 General when Franklin Pierce was
President. Originally a Wing, he be-
/ came Democrat and presided over the
l National Democratic Convention in 1860
) but turned Republican when the WaI
began. He has been an adviser of Adj
ministration for forty years.
The New York Tribune is down upon
the falsifications of official records by
! printing discussions which never took
, place. 1t says it is an abuse which
swells the enormous volumes of inflated
debate, obstructs the prompt dispatch of
the legitimate work of the printing
bureau, adds an inexcusable burden to
the taxpayer, and encourages a sort of
literary dishonesty.