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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07
The Prophet Fice.

Prof Tice. of st. Louis, remarks
the Louisville Ledger, has achieved
q reputation, which, if it has
brought him great celebrity, has been
very unenviable from the nature of
the foundation upon which it is
built. He is the heavy william on
the stage-no matter how true and
admirable is his acting, the sympa
thies of the audience are always
against him. Professor lice always
prophesies bad weather-equinoci
storms and great tidal waves that
overwhelm cities; long and DISASTROUS
rains that ruin the crops, and even
lncipient earthquakes that follow TO
the day the professors predictions.
They have teen singularly correct,
and the science of meteorOlogy Aas
now but one professor, and his name
is Tice.
sold Probabilities" at Washing
ton, can only foretell a storm twenty
four hours ahead, but Prof Tice
will designate weeks, and even
months ahead, the exact date of a
great atmospheric convulsion.
Not content with the storms of
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07

Push your business! II you
don't it will push you. Turn your
pIOney over often. Don't burn day
light by waiting for high prices.
Put life into your business by ad-
vertising SO that the people may
know that you desire their custom
Don't sit in your stores, like spiders
in a web waiting for flies, but "reach
out" for the flies if you want them.
People like to buy from real
liberal minded men, and people
know who is liberal minded
by the columns of a news
paper. Advertise in the CITIZEN,
advertise with sense and discretion,
not uselessly and without avail, but
advertise little all the time. Try
the "City Notices" column at
twenty cents a line first insertion
and ten cents a line for the subse-
quenJ insertion of the same matter.
But better renew the MATTER often
to make it "newsy" and fresh. As
the Nashville Bonner says, "stir
up stagnation! Life is too short to
be wasted!" Yes, life Is too short to
be wasted, and the merchants OF
Pulaski now on the stage OF
action will not have more than 8
hundred years to do businesss in
They will at the end of that time
become a little superanuated and
find it difficult to stir round and
attend to matters. Make bay while
the sun shines. Verify, we say unto
you, advertise in the CITIzEE, and
your reward shall be great even unto
| the smallest of you.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07

RHEUMATIsx.-I send you the re-
eeipt for q prescription, which is in
valuable. I got it at Nashville, and
it cured me OF rheumatism in 1851.
Since that time it has been exten-
sively used for nervous pains. I
have no doubt 1 have given two or
three dozen receipts. Ny wife used
it extensively for neuralgia, and it
cured two ladies so quick of sick
headache they got scared: thought
perhaps it would do them some Sc
rious injury: l OF. oil rosemary, l
OF. tincture cantharides, l OF. alco-
hoL Mix in a light glass stopper
bottle, and shake them up when
used. Heat q saucer, on embers,
pour a little in the saucer, and rub
it on the part affected with your
hand, previously warmed by fire, so
As to encourage absorption. Get
pure articles, a specific measure
each; do not let druggist guess, as
usual. For rheumatism, neuralgia,
pain in the jaw, sick headache
(nervOus) and IN fact for all nervous
pain it is invaluable. Try it, all you
unfortunate nervous pain sufferers.
It stops sick headache in twenty
minutes, do not be alarmed Ep-
| OhdnOe.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07
Celestial Marriages.

The Mormon celestial marriage"
must be the climax of terrestrial alb
surditv, if it is conducted after the
manner pictured by a correspondent
who has recently been delegated to
write up Salt Lake life and customs.
After being properly bathed-which
typically washes away the sins of
the world-the victims are anointed
from head to foot with olive-oil,
which the bride and groom must
furnish. The oil is poured over
them from q small horn, called the
horn OF plenty. They then don
their endowment clothes and ascen-
sion robes, and are led into typical
garden OF Eden, in the center of
which is q shrubbery tree, about
three feet high, from the green
boughs ofwhieh are suspended bun
ches Of grapes, no apples are in sight.
Reclining at the foot of this tree is
the serpent, clad in black-cloth
tights. This role is generally as
sumed by the second High Chancel-
lor, whose ''make up" the cores
pondent says, resembles that OF
ZdmieL in the "Black Crook" His
Satanic Majesty at once begins fir
tation with the bride. just as she
Yields herself to Old Nicholas, the
Saviour brigham Young) appears.
The robes of the couple are then
doffed, and an apron of genuine flo
leaves given them, which they put
on, and are driven from the Garden
by the Saviour into the ante-room,
where they are married. They are
then united for time and eternity,
death being only temporary separa-
ton. From this account, we should
Judge that the correspondent was
endowed with An imagination of re-
markable fertility.
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The Book ofJOb

The book of Job was written by
an Idumean of the same family the
that of the Phenicians, while as
Greeks were wandering tribes of
barbarians, when thev did not know
even the existence OF such a thing
as an alphabet. AS a work of high
cosmical power of the rarest beauty
of thought and felicity of express
sion, of widely-extended astronomi-
cal knowledge the book of Job
transcends in merit every intellec-
tual throb of the combined an
cient civilizations. As monu-
ment of intellectual power and
grace, this Idumean work may chal-
lenge comparison with any display
of mind that has yet been exhibited
by any of the civilizations. We es-
innate Ionic mental grace and pow
er by Homer's Had, Greek dramatic
power by Eschylus and Sophocles,
and English by Shakespeare:
What shall be said of the Cushite
Arabian mind that produced, and of
the people who preserved the Book of
OOD4 w hCAG nave AIo ~ l1tC BCduIy >
grace and power ever been surpass-
ed? What has equalled it's cosmi-
cal gifts? What ancient work on
the ethical relation of man towards
his Creator has more elevating, en-
nObling thoughts than this from tho
people of whom the Phenicians
were a family? When oiewed mere
ly in the dramatic treasures con
tanned in Job, the intellect of Phue-
nieian civilization may safely ask to
be measured with the intellectual
productions of any other people.
The peculiar conjunctions of the
consultations described in Job ena-
bled Hales, the great natural philos-
Opher, to determine by astronome
cal computation the time of Jobs
affection. Astronomy shows that
those stellar conjHnctions took place
one hundred and fifty years before
the time of Abraham.-PrOf. TheO-
GoTe s. Belt.
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Natural Philosophy

There is a good deal of philosophy
about the words of the cool reflect
i've individual who smokes and talks
to his better half In the annexed
The girl is generally educated on
novels, and her first disappointment
comes on the quiet indifference of
the husband after the honeymoon.
You love me no longer said bride
of few months to her better half
in gown and SLIPPERS. why do you
say that PussT he asked quietly, re-
moving a cigar from his lips You
do not csrcsS me nor call me pet
namcs; YOU no longer seek so anx-
louslf for my company, WRs the tear
ful answer. My dear continued
the aggravating wretch, Did you
ever notice man running after q
car? How he does run-over stones,
through mud, regardless OF every
thing till he reaches the car, and he
seizeG hold and swings on. Then be
quietly seats himself and reads his
paper. And what does that mean?
An Illustration, my dear. The car
- - aAA pNi SeAhO W IuS AlhL alCSE iC
gets in as when he is chasing it, but
the manifestation is no longer called
for. l would have shot any one
who put himself in my way
when in pursuit OF you, as
1 would now shoot any one who
would come between US, but as a
proof Of my love you insist upon me
running after the car. Learn to
smoke my dear, and be q philoso-
pher. The two combined clear the
brain. quiet the nerves, open the
pores, and improve the digestion
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Woman's Virtue.

1t is r prevailing vice among men
of doubling the virtue of women.
To us it looks like not only an out
rage to good taste, but also betOkens
q want of intellect. Besides this it
betokens a besotted nature, and pas
sions that would disgrace q beast.
The idea of dragging women down
to mans level in point of virtue, is
so repugsnt to the feelings, so utter
ly at variance with the truth, that
the utterer ought not to have a
place In civil society.
We would wish to impress upon
those who cast this slur upon the
character of the women of our land,
that il what they charge we're true,
this fair world of ours would be q
perfect hell. The women of our
land are as FAR above those who
make Ahese assertions as the heav-
ems are above the earth. Our
women are the highest type of purity
and virtue, and any craven who
would drive them from this high
estate deserves the execrations Of all
good mem Selected.
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Silent Men.

Washington never made a speech.
In the zenith of his fame he once
attempted it, failed, gave it up
confused and abashed. In framing
the constitution of the United
States, the labor was almost wholly
performed in committee of the
whole, of which George Washington
was the chairman; but he made two
speeches during the convention OF
very few words each. The con
vention, however, acknowledged the
master Rpirit, and historians affirm
ed that had it not been for his per
sOnal popularity, and the thirty
words of his fret speech, pronOunc
ing it the best that could be united
upon, constitution would have been
rejected by the people. Themas
Jefferson never made a speech. He
couldn't do it. Napoleon, whose
executive ability is almost without
parallel, said that his greatest diff
ticulty was in finding men Of deeds
rather than--When asked how he
maintained his influence over his
superior in age and experience when
commander inchief of an army in
Italy, he said by reserve. The
greatness OF man is not measured
by the length of his speeches and
their number. ......
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PRoFAEIrY.-We are emphatically
in the age of profanity, and it seems
to us that we are on the topmost
current. One cannot go on the
streets anywhere without having his
ears offended with the Yilest words,
and his reverence shocked by the
most profane use OF sacred names.
Nor does it come from the old or
middle aged alone, for it is fact as
alarming as true, that the younger
portion of the community are
most proficient in degrading Ian
guage. Boys have an idea it is
smart to swear; that it makes them
manly; but there never was a great
er mistake in the world. Men, even
those who swear themselves, are
disgusted with profanity in a young
man, because they know how. of all
bad habits, this clings the most
closely, and increases with years.
1t is the most insidious of habits,
growing so invisiblythat almost be-
fore one is aware he becomes an ac-
cOmplished cursor.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07

According to the late census, Ten
nessee has population, of all ages,
sexes and cOlors, Of l,250,0O0.-
There was engaged, in 1870, out OF
this population, in some kind of Ia
Dor or employment. only 367,987.
This number has to support $50, 533
idlers. Only twenty-nine out OF
every one hundred of remunerative
employment. The reader can read
ily see in these figures one great
cause OF the universal cry of hard
times. If the laws of the State
against vagrancy were enforced, we
would soon clear up the cities, and
towns, and roads, and groceries. OF
ioungers and loafers, and we'd hear
less of hard times Winchester
Home JOWrnGL. .-.-
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Only the female spiders spin
webs. They own all the real estate,
and the males have to live a vaga-
bond life under stones and in other
obscure hiding places. If they
come about the house so often as to
bore the ruling sex, they are mer-
oilessly killed and eaten. The spi-
der's skin is as unyielding as the
shells of Holsters and crabs, and is
she,l from time to time in the same
way, to accommodate the ANIMAL S
growth. II you poke over the rub
bish in female spiders back yard,
among her cast off corsets you will
find the jackets of the males who
have paid for their sociality with
their lives-trophies of her barbar-
ism as truly as scalps show the saw
age nature of the red man.-Eg.
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ssThat's How"

After a great snow storm, little
fellow began to shovel a path
through large snow-bank In front
of his grandmotheF's door. He
had nothing but a small shovel to
work with.
"HoW do you intend getting
through that driftY' asked a mar
passing along.
"By keeping at it," said the boy
eheerfully, ''that's how"
That is the secret Of mastering
almost every difficulty under the
sun. A hard task is before you,
stick TO it. Do not keep thinking
how large or hard it is, but go at il
and little by little it will grow
smaller until it is done.
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Tonuessee As Home.

Editors Rural sun: ! am right glad
To he permitted to date this letter in
your lovely city. | arrived here a few
days since from Minnesota, and am far
better pleased with the country than on
my visit last March. But what a
change has taken place in the few brief
months that have interviewed.
immediately after my return last
March l sent out my my first letter on
Tennessee. 7 had curiosity to see
what the public feeling was in the
North in regard to changing to milder
climate-tO see ii there were many
others that felt as ] did. Being in
charge of printing office, printed of
five hundred of five successive letters
and sent them TO as many prominent
papers in the North. At the close OF
each letter l requested all who desired
to change to a warmer climate to ad-
dress me and would send them dOcu-
ments to convince them that Tennessee
was the place to go to, rather than to
the West or Pacific States. Applications
came in so rapidly that l was obliged
to reprint an edition of ten thousand
copies with which to supply demands.
1t now takes two and three hands all
the time to fold and mail circulars, an
SweT letters and talk immigration.
As parties began to think OF moving,
the subject of reduced fare was sugges-
ted. / then went at that matter. I
have it now arranged for through rates
from Minneapolis to Nashville at $l7
and pro rata fare from intermediate
points. Before | return North l shall
90 to Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and
New England States and make like ar
rangemements.
The tide has commenced moving,
and immigrants and those coming TO
look Will arrive at Nashville in larger
or smaller numbers every day. II these
are received cordially and pains are
uIken to please and faYOrsbly locate
them, every one of them will be the
means of bringing many others to Ten
nessee.
The interest is wide-spread-extend
over twenty States and Canada. From
nifty to one hundred new names are ad-
ded on my books at Minneapolis. As
travel more extensively over the South
in my present visit, and send out fresh
circulars to all my list, the interest viii
widen and extend till in less than three
months ! shall have registered the
names of over ten thOusond, andtnearly
every one of them not only prOspec-
| tive immigrant, but a representative OF
a large circleof friends who will, soon
er OF later, follow him.
But just here let me say TeRnesseans
mISt look we'll to her laurels. Georgia
| and Alabama have seen what this effort
has done for Tennessee, and are ut
work, sparing no labor or expense in
making known their resources. Now
is the time for work. These four let
| ers-W-O-R-K-spel out the key of sue
success. More anon. Yours truly,
rt"Hfa- II ", T, HATCH,
Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 80, 1875.
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Judpe Hillary Wand. WHO has bee

Judge Hilary Ward, who has been
visiting his brother Mr.. II. Ward,
in this place, for some time, returned
to Columbia on Monday last
Judge Ward Is pronounced, by his
Mt. Pleasant acquaiEtances, a most
agreeable gentleman, perfectly free
from those mannerIsms some people
consider 50 necessary to assume to-
wards society. The Judge is re-
novned for his devotion to the fair
sex, and is as much at home in their
presence, as on the bench. The re
turn Of this gentlemen to our town,
will be hailed with delight By the
scores of his many friends, both Ia
dies and gentlemen.-Mt- Pleasant
correspondence Columbia Herald
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07

If mosquitoes or other blood
suckers infest our sleeping rooms at
night, we uncOrk bottle OF the oil OF
pennyroyal, and these animals leave
in great haste; nor will they return
so long as the air in the room is
loaded with the fumes Of the arom-
attic herb. If rats enter the cellar a
little powdered potash, thrown in
their holes or mixed with meal and
scattered in their run ways never
fails to drive them away. Cayenne
peper will keep the buttery and
store room from ants and cock
roches. If mouse makes an
entrance into any, part of your dwell
ing, saturate a rag with Cayenne, in
solution, and stuff it into the hole,
which can then be repaired with
either wood or mortar. No rat or
mouse will eat the rag for the por-
pose of opening communications
with depot of supplies.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07

From poverty he reached to
wealth and comfort From ignO-
rance he climbed to the heights Of
knowledge. From obscurity he lif-
ted himself to the greatest of earth
" positions; and now has gone down
TO the grave, honored by forty mil
lions of bis country-mcn.
What an example to the young
men who may listen to me to-dayl
How encouraging the lesson to all
of every age! With such possibili-
ties, in this alone, of all the govern
ments on earth, we should be Taught
to prize more highly our free demo
cratic institutions.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07

Farmers grow poor because they
impOverish their lands; because they
pay as much for working poor land
as for the rich, and the price for la
Dor is out OF all proportion with the
yield. 1t costs no more to cultivate
an acre that will yield ten barrels of
corn than one which will yield only
two barrels. II the cost of labor
per acre be five dollars, the cost of
producing a barrel on the rich land
will be fifty cents, whilst the barrel
on the poor land will cost Just two
dollars. No matter what may be
grown upon the land, this ratio is
maintained, and no matter what
economy may be practiced in other
respects, the farmer who pays for
cultivating poor land must grow
poorer every year.-UGrksUiLLe
Chronicle.
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1t is well known that little alum
dissolved is very effective in clean
ing muddy water; but a short time
since some alum was applied in a
manner which, from it's novelty and
its valuable results, is worthy of no
tice. In place where water is scarce
at present, a little alum was dissolv-
ed in hot water, and thrown into a
tub of thick soap-suds. In a moment
the soap curdled, and accompanied
by the muddy particles, sank to the
bottom, leaving the water perfectly
clear, pure and devoid of smell. This
water was found very useful for
washing clothing again, when poured
of the sediment. A SIMILAR result
was attained in q quick manner, by
illinga boiler with soap-suds, pla-
cling it on q fire and throwing bit of
alum into it. When the suds boiled
the scum went over and left the wa
ter clear, soit and as useful for
washing clothes as it had originally
been.
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LooKI

The pencil marks you see ErouRd tlis
paragraph Chus) mean that youl sub
scriptior b ous or unpaid, and thu
you are requeaksd 70 psy mp e on0z
We would take great pleasure IN extend
ing credit te our friends and patrons.
but cash alone VII pay expenses, and
SO are forced 70 adhere 10 ssxiot oAsl
rule. We hope yOa win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such 3
courue. and renew your Subscription
without delay. We solicit your faFox
~ We enter no new nance ON oEs
cooks without the money IN .advl' CO
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Col. S. N. Moody, of New Or
leans, who died recently by his own
hand, while suffering from an intol-
erable neuralgia attack, was a sim
gular man. He pfospered when
Louisiana was wealthy, and he
prospered when Louisiana was as
poor as a rat. The secret of his
continued success was advertising.
He knew how to advertise, and the
duler the season the more persis-
tently he kept himself and his be
fore the public. He was known as
the "Shirt King of the Southwest" "
On every wall and on every tele-
graph pole in the Mississippi Val
ley, the wayfarer was invited "to
get his shirts at S. N. Moody's.''
He was a most liberal patron of the
daily press, and by q thousand in.
genious devices, and in spite Of ire
mendous opposition, he died as he
lived, the super-eminent and plU
perfect king of Shirts" Such
was his faith in the necessity oI
captivating the fancy of the people
and winning their attention that il
was seriously declared in New Or
leans, years ago, he offered $4,000
to help pay for a new steam boat
| intended for the St. Louis trade
provided he had the naming of the
craft. His offer was prOmtly &C
cepted, but almost as suddenly de-
clined, when it became known thai
Get YoVr Shirts at Noodys" WAS tC
be the baptismaI appellation - Con
stituflOnoiisE.
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ESQ. James McCallum, Capt. J
Liberal Hill, Charles Princely Jones,
VIII Singer Ezell and J. D. Baugh,
oil of Pulaski, were ip Columbia last
Saturday as Knights-Templar, to
participate in the funeral services.
Herald.
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There is some talk Of getting up
a reunion of Cheatham's division, to
be held in Memphis this fall. The
division, We believe, was composed
of Manny's, StrahPs, Bells and
Preston Smiths famous brigades OF
infantry. The survivors Of these
brigades live in West and Middle
Tennessee and a reunion would be .
most pleasant affair that would at
tract several thousand people TO our
city.-AemphiS Ledger.
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Uprights. These are men who
take newspapers, pay for them, and
read them. Observe the order ir
which those things are done; the
pay comes first, the reading next
These men consider they get the
worth Oftheir money in the bargain
1t seems as fair and just to them that
the newspaper should he paid for as
barrel of sugar or q new coat
They never entertain any other opin-
ion. When the year runs out, or a
little before, they are on hand with
the pay. There is no more difficulty
with them in remembering this per-
iod, than Sunday or the first of Jan
uary. If one of them wishes to stop
his paper, he either calls or writes q
letter by his postmaster, in due
season, like a man. This class is
dear TO the heart of the editor
Their image is embalmed in his
warm affections. May Trey live q
thousand years, and see their sons
sons to the fourth generation.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07

In New York State, and and in
the City of New York, money is
said TO be very plentiful, and they
are opposed TO imitation.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-07

A threatened conflict between the
Catholics and Protestants is impen-
ding in Toronto.