The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-03
For the CITIZEN.
Estee1e Vehse and Dickens on
Chancery COurts-Warren
ty-M cMinnVille-
POlitics-Ben LOmOnd.
McMINNvnLE, TENN.

and complaints and bring to us with
their cool, invigorating breezes, rest.
All! me. Rest even from the memory of
CHANCERY COURTS.
Dickens, the happy author, who so
aptly combines ennobling sentiment
with practical information, says, "going
to Chancery is being ground to bits in a
slow mill; it's being roasted alive at a
slow fire; it's being stung to death by
single bees it's being drowned by drops
it's going mad by grains 1t has its
worn out lunatic in every mad-hOuse,
and its dead in every churcA-yard. 1t
has its suffer in tags and tatters, with
siip-shod heels begging and borrowing
from those that will give or lend-and
gives to n1Oneyed might the means
abundantly of wearing out the right.
With its trickery, evasion, procrastina-
ton, spOliatiOn, botheration and costly
nonsense" wonder not that the victims
brain gives way and the heart breaks
while being so tortured.
WARREN COUNTY
has much to boast of in beautiful scene
~, good water, and a pure, healthy eli
mate. Rich in fine orchards, some of
which number thirty thousand trees,
seldom failing to yield annually their
horde of delicious fruit, which is gener-
ally converted into brandies. The hills
are full of coal, ore, and the lands If
not producing finely, at least produce
well, making the people self-sustaining.
McMINNVILLE
is charmingly situated on clear spark
ling stream of water and is susceptible
of being made the most beautiful town
in the State. There are some stately
serpentine walks and drives, rustic
bridges, fish-pOnds, bowers, conserva-
| tories, and parterres of rich, rare flow
ers, while there are some dainty little
cottages that seem the very embodiment
of comfort, nestled in trailing vines and
bright flower beds, looking as fresh and
well kept as a picture house.
SOCIETY
| is excellent-kind, generous and hospit-
able-dOing much TO make the stranger
| feel welcome in their midst. Moonlight
| parties with music on the waters-and
such music! the angels may have leaned
over the battlements of Heaven and
! listened.
! Exploring parties to the caves and
mountains-paTties in dainty parlors,
where the "trip of the light fantastic
toe" ceased not till the 'wee sma' hours
of morning" All those that have con-
tributed so much pleasure will linger in
the halls of memory like the scent of
i
til time with us passes away.
POLITICS.
The all-absorbing topic since the
nomination for Governor, among the
people of the city is, "who shall repre-
sent us In Congress ?' Prominent
among those spoken of for the Senate,
is one of McMinnville's most gifted
sons, Col. John II. Savage. He is eKpe-
rienced in Legislative matters, has ster-
Oh.
a genuine kindness which springs SUI
preme in all noble natures. Col. Hughes
is also among the many aspirants for
the House lis a man of distinction-fa-
miliar with public life, and popular at
home and abroad. The race will be be-
tween him and Col. Cliffe before the con-
ventiOn-a young man classically hand
some, full of personal magnetism, elo-
quent and fearless.
CASUALTIES.
Two men have passed by their own
misdeeds suddenly into the presence of
their God a Mr.. Sanders went with
King Alcohol to Bersheba, and viewing
the scenery by moonlight, the King
walked him over a fearful precipice and
left him to be picked up in fragments by
his friends, while he went in search of
other poor cOnfiding victims
The other, disappointed lover, for
getting the old adage, "as good fish in
the sea-" &c, took laudanum to quiet the
"fever and pain,' and died in horrible
agony, thus passing away from bad to
worse.
BEN LOMOND.
With a merry party we make the as
cent of the famous mountain. Famous
/ yes, for bruises and snakes; the latter
not altogether as thick as the leaves of
vahlambrosa, nor as large as the one that
/ rOamed old Williamson years ago; but
! enough to make ones teeth chatter and
the courage to Ooze ont of the finger
ends like Bob Acres of old. We were
well mounted on spirited herses that I'M
derstOod what was before them. In
single file vending up the steep and
| rugged ascent with now and then
scream and ringing laughter as would
have done good even to Elder Brewster
| of the Maytlower, we reached the first
plateau, and RECALLED ourselves with gol-
! den, delicious pears from DIR. Jones' or
\ chard. The neat little cottage peeping
out from under the shadow of the biq
! hill surrounded with its thousand pear
! trees, looked very inviting in its pictur-
esque beauty.
The next plateau brought us to a
spring uIsting out of the side of a
mountain as cold as that with ''ice all
round it''-then to the top and on to
| lookout point-a stupendous rock burst
assunder by some mighty throe of ma
| ture-and the valley lay below us nine
hundred feet with its farm-houses and
herds, and the city to our right, with
its spires laying peacefully, calmly, en-
circled completely with a belt of blue
misty hills. How fOrcibly the scene
brought to us the memory of day, and
the words of TennysOn, when we stood
with another, and looked upon the Con-
necticut river valley, so similar to this.
ooh for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of voice that is still.n
While gathered upon this point dis
tinguished woman who had made the
voyage OF the world twice, and steered
her husbands ship into New York bay
from the caribbean sea-he having died
ON the voyage-gave us descriptions of
the Pacific Isles, also the Atlantic Isles,
the Azores and home of the widow of
DR.. Webster, who was hung for the muir
der of DR.. Parker years ago. And one
might well imagine all the gardens and
greenhouses of the world had emptied
their wealth of foliage and flowers into
the lap of these islands.
Then a gentleman told us tale about
the Devils Pen" on the mountain, and
described the devil as he stood in it,
monarch of all he surveyed" not a
word of which we would have believed
it Beecher had sworn it.
The lateness of the hour admonished
us to mount our horses and HE away to
the land below; and in the hurry part
of us are separated from the guide and
/ lost in the dense woods woods SO thick
you could not sea your horses ears.
| Neyelled like Comanches, and having
/ the most powerful horse zee volunteered
/ the lead. Alas for the leader! Our
| horse fell head-toremost into deep pit
and in his efforts TO recover, the earth
/ giving away at each desperate struggle.
he threw us sky-high; and when we
came back to sunshine and air, our nose
was being rubbed vigorously with a
/ bunch of pennyroyal; and we have not
learned yet, whether it is SER locd,' or
a matter of necessity, the application of
that pennyrOyal to our already wound
| ed and snfiering proboscis.