The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-18
Fronn IYnnYiIle.

Mr.. EDIToR:-The weather during
/ the past week has hem OF a kind which
has subdued the most refractory. Even
''Oid g-umblers'' are taking it without
mHrmur, feeling themselves not equal
to the OCCASION We have had changes
/ from bad to worse and from worst TO
ungramatical more worst. First, it
blew, then it snew, then it friz, then it
thew; and now the unhappy traveller
Laundering through the mu,ihOles feels
like Millions friend:
''In the lowest deep
Another depth. still threat'ning TO devour me
| t'Pens wide to which the mud Pm in
Seems dTyeSt dirt y
We wish we were Pope or Rome, or
Emperor, or something that could make
and eniuTce laws, we would immedi-
ately issue an edict that nicely fitting
set of harness should, At public expense
be supplied to each Road Overseer, and
that whenever his roads got very bad
he himself should be hitched before eV-
cry vehicle, with directions To drivers
10 lay on, and let him howl all through
his srctiOn
1t is just impossible for high grade
OF civilization TO continue in a country
where the roads are for nearly half of
the year impossible. People vino would
| import wealth into iC are warned away
" sum ENAhCHCC " a ldCh VI lAtltlC
spirit, and the manifest Inconvenience.
1t is not too much To say that the land
in four miles Of this place would be
worth one hundred thousand dollars
more with good roads, than il now Is
with the bOttOmless lanes we are forced
to travel. Not being rulers ourselves
we take the liberty of suggesting to
1.-THE most potent, grave and reverend
Seniors" who look after the county, the
Inauguration of some plan by which
our cOnvicts should be put on the
healthy and invigOrating business of
road making. Let the county move the
legislature, if that is necessary, to have
wOrk-house. Let us get all our con-
victs back and put them on the high
ways. Let each district get an amount
OF work proportional to the number of
its citizens, who are boarded at public
expense, or in proportion to the tax paid
by its citizens (perhaps the latter would
be more equitable).
We would thus be getting back our
rights, mending our roads, encouraging
the people to punish crime and setting
z wholesome warning before every trav-
eier who will pass the gang and will see
what lie will come to unless he does
better.
The opening of Chancery Court seems
to be having about the same effect, on a
large number of people around hereS
that the lifting up of great rock does
Oh the ants which have a nest under it.
They are running around apparently
with more madness than method, hunt
ing for money. ''There is no getting
blood out of a turnip' said Mrs. Micaw-
Der, "and there is no getting money out
of Mr.. Micawber." 1t locks as ii every
body here belongs to the Micawber fam
lily.
The dancing Dervishes look to the
North for their deity, and say he is not
there, and to the East, he is not there,
Now, they turn to The South and West,
he's not there. ''Where is hep And
they howl out, ''he is everywhere" and
go spinning around like tops. In the
same way people look North, South.
East and West, for cash and find none.
But, unlike that gentry the burden of
their bowls, as they go spinning about,
is; "Seems like there amt none no
wherev ~
Mr.. Robert James Gordon, of Nash
vile, has been with us the past week
looking after his property. Mr.. Gordon
is well known as a successful business
man and liberal and warm hearted
christian gentleman.
The health of the country is generally
good which is an especial blessing in
these tough times. Our excellent drug
gist, DIR. Pepper, who, in spite of his
nominal pungency, is one of our most
highly esteemed citizens, and has no ac-
rid properties beyond his appellatiOn
and the drugs he sells, says his sales are
comparatively light this season.
TIN.