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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
Mules and Their Duties

In General Stanley's expedition to
the Yellowstone river, two hundred and
eighty wagons and sixteen hundred and
eighty draft mules were required to
carry forty days supplies for force Of
twelve hundred infantry and about six
hundred cavalry. In the Black Hills
expedition, one hundred and fifty wag-
ons and nine hundred mules were nee
essary to carry sixty days supplies for
a command numbering nine hundred
men and six hundred horses.
The average load for pack mule is
from two hundred and seventy-tive to
three hundred pounds. The heaviest
weight which pack master confessed
he had ever imposed on a mule was
eight hundred pounds, piece of ma
chinery which could not be divided.
From fifty to one hundred mules make a
good sized train, though three or four
hundred sometimes follow the same
train IN close succession. Low, snug
built, chunkey, short-coupled animals
are the best for this work. The well
broken pack mule is proud of his bur
den. Should it by any means get loose
he quietly steps out of the line OF pro
cession and visits for a pack master tc
come and tighten it. The value of pacH
mules as an auxiliary to a wagon train
says a writer, was well shown on the
| Black Hills expedition. Packing oul
extra rations and forage On few o.
these animals under charge of Mr. Wag
ner, our chief packer, we were enabled
to make In three days a journey of {
| hundred miles over hills and mountain
which would have embarrassed our trail
| for two weeks.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
The Man of Genius.

The difference between the man of
talent and the man of genius would be,
that the man of talent could be replaced
by a dozen men of ordinary power,
whereas a million of such men would be
no nearer to replacing the genius. A
thousand dwarfs may be kept back for
ever by barrier which Is Overstepped
as soon as there comes a single giant
and if the young gentlemen who we're
piucked for their de res in any given
examination were multiplied by a thou
sand, they would be as hOpelessly un-
able as before to make one of Newton's
immortal discoveries. In the same way,
a clever man may write something which
is superfcially just like a first-rate
poem, but when we take it to pieces we
find it to be nothing but skillful COM
bination of echoes, whereas In a single
song or verse which shows genius there
is always something which could not
have been borrowed from anybody else.
In short, originality is the mark of
genius in this sense, though the word is
constantly used to denote great powers,
which are, rigidly speaking, merely a
faculty for doing more quickly than
usual what has been done by Others
before. The man of genius
introduces into the world something
which was not there before, instead OF
simply using up old materials.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
The Lick Trust.

The San Francisco Chronicle says:
Mr.. Lick's trustees have at length taken
a decisive step with a view to relieve
themselves from the peculiarly embar-
RAISING position in which they have
been placed by this deed of revocation.
The original deed conveyed TO them, as
trustees, large amount of property N
which they had no personal interest,
and established certain very delicate re-
lations between them and the bene6cia-
ries under the trust, which were capa-
bic Of being viewed in widely different
lights from different standpoints.
When called upon to recoL vey to MIR.
Lick the property decided to them for
certain specific public uses, they nat
urally felt some doubt as to the course
which they ought to pursue. To com
ply with Mr.. Lick's demand might have
seemed like a tame surrender OF the
rights of the public, if any rights had
in fact been vested, and weak betrayal
of public interests, while on the other
hand their motives were liable to gross
misconstruction if they refused such
compliance. Placed in this embarrass-
| ing position they seem 10 have adopted
| the most iudicious course open to them
! in instituting a suit the object of which
| is to relieve them of all responsibility
| in the premises, and TO refer the whole
matter to the decision of the courts.
The complaint of the trustees, filed on
! Saturday in the nineteenth district
court, asks for leave to resign their
trusts, and for the appointment of new
| trustees to be their successors. The
complaint is in the nature of an old
fashioned bill in equity, and the court
| in disposing of the matter will have tc
pass upon the question whether the
! original deed was valid and iTrevocable
| NICETTEsIN NAVIGATION During vOy
ages, especially across the Atlantic, the
wave line of the side of the ship Is yer,
often such as to leave an ordinary screw
half exposed, when the engine. witt
only half work to do, will spurt off at
dangerous rate. To prevent this, al
irish inv ntor has devised n slmpl
method of lowering the screw, enabling
the engineer in heavy weather to keel
the vessel going much steadier, wit
very little reduced speed. A larg
amount of power is thus utilized, with
gain of uniform motion, and 1t is Re
garded by experts as the most import
ant every introduced into steam naviSa
tion. Observations in voyages have le
Mr.. Deverell, of England, to devise
ship moving register, by which he OF
served that in two bOurs' voyage
{ made over 10000 rolls, and abou
1000, 600 pitches, the average number c
oscillations in both directions per mir
ute being fourteen. Mr.. Deverell think
= he has demonstrated that within ocea
limits the swell is unceasing, ard this
the movement OF an independent bod
within the ship is unceasing, and pre-
! ~ i
! propelling power.
1t is suggested that for purposes
= Identification (of criminals) it Is on
4 necessary to get distinct photograp
Of the palm of one hand, taken IN
, strong obhque light, so as to bring o.
the markings strongly. This Slll
! found "a map, IT is said, never alike
l two persons no disguise short OF =
3 tual Disagreement will do away WI
the difference,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
The California Pever.

Fer some reason or Other-perhaps
mainly because of the hard times in the
Atlantic states-there is an extraOrdi-
nary emigration towards California this
spring, and it is feared that many of
those who have gone thither will meet
with unexpected hardships, as some
who started very early in the season
have already returned east, having
failed to realize the high expectations
whic led them to make the jour
ney. The AtchiSOa CKansas) Cham
DiOn says that in March, $500 persons
passed Kearney Junction bound for
San Francisco, of whom probably 1000
had expended all their money 10 paying
their passage. It is difficult TO imagine
a worse place for a man without money
than San Francisco, yet a large proper
ton of the people who constitute this
tide of emigration appear to imagine
that nuggets of gold are to be picked up
in the streets of that city, and that the
citizens are suffering for the want of
labor, notwithstanding that the Chinese
article is both plentiful and cheap
there. A good many farmers have been
made the victims of colonizing schemes
which look very promising on paper,
but turn out to be based on fraudulent
pretences. According to the SGcTd-
7le1ltO Union, the southern counties Oi
California have afforded a fine field fol
the operations of unscrupulous adven.
turers who have purchased bad lands
for a song, and by means Of speciout
representations, sold them to unsus
pecting immigrants for five or sil
| times their value. For working off sucl
lands, the employment of the maehin
! cry of a colonization organization hs
often proved successful. The price o
! arabic land in California Is high; /
brings $40 and $50 an acre in region
200 miles from San Francisco, eve
where transportation facilities are poo
and there are no good local markets q
hand. Large landholders with ampl
capital make money in California; bu
it is not at present promising plae
| for small farmers who have but litL
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scriptiop is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend.
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced TO adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
G. We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advaroe
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
The Mexican War Cloud.

The Mexican raids, as they are called,
are receiving from the proper depart
ments all the attention possible. The
war and postOffice departments particu-
larly are receiving reports from their
officers. There seems to be only one
course for the government to pursue,
and that is to make, in proper manner,
protests 10 the Mexican government
against the use of her soil as a place of
organization and retreat for marauders
into the United States. The raids are
not approved by the Central Mexican
government any more than the Fenian
raids into Canada were approved by the
Federal government. 1t viii be re-
called that the United States were una
BILE to prevent some of those raids, and
Mexico is far less able TO control the
marauders on her border. The evil is
continuous and annoying, and the gov
eminent viii take every measure that
promises to be useful, whether through
| the state department or otherwise, to
| suppress the disturbances on the bOr-
/ der. Texas ought to catch and punish
| the raiders, and the offenses committed
| on her soil can be tried by her laws,
whether the criminals are Americans or
! Mexicans but she is not able to exc
| cute her laws without some aid. What
| ever the army of the United States can
lawfully do to aid Texas, either by act
ing in conjunction with her authorities
or indepeRtly, will be done, and if our
troops are fortunate enough to come IN
contact with the raiders, a profitable
lesson will be taught them. But be-
fore official action is decided on, trust
worthy evidence must be obtained to
show whether and how Mexico is culpa-
BILE. If the raiders are Mexicans, and
make their predatory excursions from
the Mexican country, as the Texans as
sert, then ultimately there can be but
one solution. Mexico must stop the
raids and ineffective demands on oul
part would lead TO war. There is nj
reason at present to expect that the
friendly relations between the two gov
ernments Will be in any way disturbed
by controversies growing out of tn,
border troubles, as the Mexican gov
ernment is anxious to discharge its du
ties as a nation, and viii discharge then
toward the United States If it has tn
ability NCgU York Times.
A LITTLE girl at school read thus
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

The Spanish press Is being treated
with unusual rigor by the new govern
ment. Not a foreign telegram can be
printed which has not been examined
at the ministry of the interior.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20
He Bet Because the Odds Were Great.

A son of the faderland, says an ex-
change. went into Barney Galllgan' 8
saloon the other day and called for a
drink. Barney observed how blooming
he was with the "rOsy already, and
shook his head, saying You have had
enough" " Enough of whad, guess?'
asked the Teuton. Enough to drink. "
''Who is running my machine, you or
I?" You are, and you are running 1t
in the eronnd.
tI bade you ten dollars dat / am a
liar" said he, slammIng bis hand down
upon the bar.
"There is no bet there" said Barney,
laughing.
"Gife us a drink.
"No, you are drunk now"
"I bade you not.
"WeIi. / will bet you fifty dollars to
! one that you are drunk, SAID Barney,
/ while quite a number of bystanders
! gathered around TO see the fun.
90 Good enough, bade you, said he,
| Ruling out fractional currency enough
| to make up a dollar. 'NOw, who will
you leave it mid ?"
"In leave it TO yourself. Are You
not drunk ?"
"Yes, by jingoes, I am" said he
mournfuIly. "dake der doller."
| A friend of his happened to be in the
| crowd. and upbraided him for deciding
against himself.
4" But it was the druth-
q" Well, supposing it was what die
you wan5 to be fool enough to bet FOL
theD?"
"I couldn't help it-der odds was 81
gread," " he replied, turning away, NOR
IN sorry than anger.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

LATE mail advices report the wheat
and rye IN eastern EaroPe as promising
fine yield this year. From Bohemia,
Hungary, Styria, Moravia, the reports
all accord. There is DO complaint of
frost except in Pomerania.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

CH1CAGO's Mullet-built custom house
walls are so shakey that they will prob
ably be torn down. Supervising Archi-
tect Potter is of this opinion.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

FBIoHTFUL VENGEANCE UPOE GREEK
BR1aAHDs.- Greece is the classic land
of brigands. A half dozen of these,
with more crimes on their backs than
dollars in their pockets, submitted TO
the government last month. They we're
all dressed in gaudy costumes, carried
guns, and rode on horseback to the
point of surrender, Almygro. After
shree DAYS spreeing around in that VII
laRe, the civil and military authorities
and several notabilities escorted them
to IIarissa, where they entered IN tri-
umph, receiving an ovation from the
inhabitants. After giving mp their
arms they received the hospitality Oi
the governor Of the town, and proudly
walked around, displaying quite 8
cheeky martial air. and attending the
theatre regularly. One whole week o.
! festivities, dinners and balls was passed
in hOnoring them, after which they re
turned to Almygro, with their servant
/ and q government employe. sent alonl
4 to rent them a villa 70 dwell In durinl
one year of imprisonment, according T.
sentence of law. They sre At presen
engaged in avalhng themselves Of sucl
/ soft impeachment.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

GEoRGE @. CANNON, Delegate in Con
gress from Utah, is on trial at Salt
Lake on charge of lasciyious cohabi-
tation, which is new name for polyg-
amy.
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snmethinr of a sandwich.

lido not like this place at all, and /
hope that We will soon leave. We have
attended some very pleasant parties,
one given by the king, another by our
minister and a grand SuRn, native
feast, where we all had a very nice time.
There were six large tables about six
inches from the ground with straw mats
around the sides for the guests 70 SIT
on. On the table was everything you
could think of-roast pig and roast dog,
chickens. live sbrimps, pei and lots OF
native dishes, raw fish, raw pork, etc.
of course we were obliged TO taste
everything and had 70 eat with our
fingers, not knife. fork, spoon or any
thing similar allowed on the table.
Each one had a towel and a bowl Of
water provided, and we all had to SIT
down tailor fashion. a lady would dip
her finger into the poi and you would
| follow. Poi is a native dish about the
consistency of dough, and the aristO-
cratic people use one finger, others two,
and the low class three. 1t is very
nourishiDg, and think ] VIII like 1t
/ after awhile. I can assure you that
| dog tastes very nicely, and think you
/ would like Honolulu Letter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

STARvIsG CHOCTAws.- We learn from
Gen. Ed. Burgevin, who lives in the
Choctaw nation and rides as dep1ty mar
shal, that there is great suffering in the
Choctaw nation among the full bloods.
He saws bread and means hsve been
sent to the grasshopper regions IN Kan
eas and Nebraska, 10 relieve the starv-
ing, but she Choctaw Indians need relief
as much and perhaps mores than the sut-
ferers IN the grasshopper country. 1t is
10 be deplored that these people are
starving when the Government owes
them several million of dollars for
land sold for them ever forty years ago.
The drought Of last summer prevented
them from making corn. Congress APP
propriated $500, 600 10 relieve the Cher
| olxees out Of money due them, but did
nothing for the starving ChociaWs,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

In letter received at Washington
from naval officer at Port Royal, who
is in direct communication with assist
ant surgeons at Key West, he says
there have been two more deaths from
yellow fever at that port, AMI several
new CAGES have appeared.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

Az old citizen Of Vermont observes
that when a postofiice clerk gets TOO
high-nosed TO lick a stamp on 70 letter
it is time that the county had change
Of administration,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

The new trowel bayonet lately adopted
in the United States service is to be
habitually worn in the scabbard, unless
when fixed on the rifle for use as a
weapon. It is never to be used as an
intrenching tool fixed to the musket.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

ACCORDING to Comptroller Green's
monthly statement, the debt of New
York city, as represented in stocks and
bonds, had reached, on May l, the enor-
nous aggregate of $50, $50, 191, an
increase of SS, 526, 433 in four months.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

HELPS FOR WASH DAY.-H by chance
your wash boiler should spring a leak
when filled with clothes, over brisk
fire, carefully press the clothes away
from the side of the leak and sift a
small spoonful of Indian meal over the
water; the leak will close Immediately.
Should tar, by any means, get smeared
over your clothes, rub the stains with
lard thoroughly, then soap and rinse
as usual. Boiling water poured over
ink stains will cause them to disappear,
provided the boiling water Is the first
water they are immersed in. The fabric
containing the stain should be held
over the tub and the boiling water
poured through it. All dirty clothes
that can be conveniently gathered up
on Saturday, such as sheets, pillow
slips, table linen, ETC., etc, would be
much benefited by washing and put
ting the same TO soak IN clear, sOfl
water Saturday eve, letting them re
main until Monday morning, when they
could be put to boil, thus facilitating
the work 10 hand on this over-buEdenee
| day. Besides, clothes thus treated vii
be improved IN looks a hundred PEI
cent, provided they have been pre-
viously inclined to become yellow.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

SEVEN hundred immigrants returned
to Omaha from California last week,
not very well pleased with the result of
their Investigations. They stated that
California is flooded with immigrants
who can not get anything to do, and
their situation is a decidedly gloomy
one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

The great blue lead of California,
which is nothing more than the bed Of
an ancient water course, whose sands
and gravel are rich in float gold, Is now
reported to have been traced through
Northern California, Oregon, Washing
ton Territory, and British Columbia,
for distance of over seven hundred
miles. All the gold taken from the
younger placer and lode workings since
the settlement of the Pacific coast viii
not, if this be true, represent tenth OF
the precious metal yet lying uu touched
! in this ancient water course
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

A LITTLE girl at school read thus :
The widow lived on a small limbacy
left her by relative" " What did you
cali that wora p asked the teacher.
.'the word is legacy, not limbacy.
" But, said the little girl, my sister
says must say limb, Eot leg"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

OK Sunday last, for the first time in
fifteen years, religious services were
held in Pobick church, Fairfax county,
Va. 1t was built in 1773, through the
active exertions and influence of George
Washington. During the late war it
was occupied by federal troops as a
stable.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

BRITISH brig, the James Birney,
has been caught stealing men from the
Hawes group of islands in the Pacific,
under the American flag. The natives
have captured her and murdered half
the crew. The rest escaped in the ships
boats.
THE Nevada and California papers
are savagely debating the question /:
'Who shall have the immigrant?" At
the rate immigrants are turning their
backs upon these regions, in disgust, it
looks now as if the Pacific coast bazoo
will be blown in vain.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

a CALIFORNIAN called "the Rev. Mr..
Hammond" an ecclesiastical idiot to his
face, because, during his revival preach
ing, the clergyman frightened his little
daughter by depicting the terrors OF
hell in a very dramatic way. Mr.. Ham.
mond bore the assault with Christian
meekness.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

THE New York World says "The
work of the truant agents, charged
with enforcing the compulsory school
ing act goes bravely on. They com
Prehend all vagrant boys, who are only
released on giving the number of the
house where they don't reside and a
promise to attend school which they
have no intention of keeping"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

THE placing of mail boxes in the
Chicago street cars has proved a very
successful and popular experiment.
Most of the lines pass by the Postof-
fee building on one street or another,
and the mail boxes are empted on each
trip. Thus a man living six mi es dis
tant from the office, has his mail deliv-
ertd as quickly as though he had taken
the car himself AMI deposited it in per
n. The innovation commends itself
for adoption in sll large cities.
THE New Orleans papers are begin
ming their ANNUAL wrangle about the
quarantine question. There has been a
dispute for years as to the efficacy of a
guarantee when yellow fever is on its
march, many eminent doctors claiming
that the fever is indigenous to New Or
leans. The business men of New Or
leans also object TO the structures on
commerce eutailei by the quarantine.
A few dnys ago n petition was sent 70
the board Of health signed by large
number Of medical men, who stated
that the system had proved a failure
I'D should be abolished.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

A DISPATCH from Muskogee, Indian
territory, says that water-spout burst
Friday near Honey Spring., which was
followed by the severest rain storm for
many years. Bridges and culverts were
washed away, and the track of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad near
Elk creek submerged aud undermined.
No loss of life reported, but great dam
age to property.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-20

THE issues of postage stamps of all
kinds by the postoffice department
during the month of April last amount
ed to little in excess of $4,000, 600.
This is an increase of about twenty per
cent on the issues for the correspond
ing month last year, and is by far the
largest amount ever issued in any one
month by the department.