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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14

Over twenty-five years ago hit upon
a plan of preparing fence posts, that
insures their durability better than any
way that I have ever heard of. I don't
admire the plan of Gliding a light
under half bushel, so 1 Will give you
my experience. My attention was called
/ to it by seeing fishermen putting nets
/ and lines in hot coal tar as they told me
! to keep them from rotting. L was then
fencing a lot, using cedar posts, and as
| 1 was short two or three 1 got some
! common white oak pieces from saw
mill, fur inches by elk, and put them
in boiling coal tar to the depth of over
two and half feet, kept them there
from twenty to thirty minutes. There
was a shallow drain across the lot in
| which there was water in wet weather
| during winter and spring. set these
| posts in that low place, leaving six or
| eight inches that had been In tar above
/ the ground. made no further expert
ments then. Sixteen years after that I
had occasion to move the fence, and 1
found the cedar posts more or less de-
cayed some had taken dry rot, and
| would break off at the top of the
ground, many were half decayed, and
few, If any, entirely sound. To my
surprise found the tsrred oak posts as
sound as when put in. used them in
| making a shed about a year ago the
shed was torn down and the posts were
cut off at the gro1nd, showing no signs
of decay. The year after tearing down
the lot fence, put a post and plank
fence along the side of an orchard which
| adioined public road. The gate posts
and some others were prepared in the
way have mentioned. I did not have
facilities to prepare many. To-day
many of the posts are one. third rotted
| off at the surface of the ground, aud
! all more or less decayed, except that
where tarred, they are apparently just
as sound as when they were set. I have
! since been using the boiling tar in va
| rious ways on timber, where there was
danger of its rotting, and with like re-
| suits. 1 think the heat measurRbly in
! lures the elasticity Of wood, but that
| it does it no injury for fence pests. I
know that in making plank fence, the
| great objection is the cost and frequent
renewal of the poats. This method, if
once adopted, viii be of almost inoalcu-
liable benefit to many prairie farmers.
My plan is this, get a cylinder say of
| No. - iron, not less, and from fifteen
| to eighteen inches in diameter, and
! long enough to insure the immersion of
| posts to proper depth, say three and
a half feet, have cast iron bottom riv-
eted on, and all is ready; it is much
the best to have the posts seasoned a
year, for otherwise the sap boiling out as
the tar fills the pores of the wood makes
a renewal of the tar necessary oftener
than If dry.-S S, w. ia Rural World.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14
The nataoomhs Of Paris.

Cremation would have spared us this
description of what a writer recently
saw In the catacombs of Paris 8 In
stead OF walls OF stone, 7 saw literally
walls Of human bones. From floor to
ceiling were piled, with the greatest
regularity, a countless mass OF dark
yellow bones, to whose natural color
Pickering candles gave q sickly hue.
For height of two feet or more from
the floor were laid all the large bones of
the body, those OF the arms and legs
side by side, the face of the wall pre-
sentIng the evenness OF the wood-plll
often seen by the side of railroad tracks.
Then en- top of these came a single row
Of skulls arranged in such q manner
that they stood out q little from the
face of the wall and stared at you full
in the face. On top of those skulls
came another layer of large bones as
before, followed by another row Of
skulls, the whole being finished by the
large bones again, which reached to the
ceiling. These walls of bones are. per-
hsps, eight or ten feet high. Some
times there was a space between the
top of the wall and the ceiling. This
space was generally filed in with loose
bones of all descriptions, looking as II
they might have been thrown up there
by shovelfals, which was doubtless the
case. saw there their thin archiDg
rib-bOnes IN countless numbers, chunky
YertebT@, thousands of little phalanges,
and even skulls and large bones mingled
together. Many of the skulls in the
walls had the teeth still In, the enamel
appearing as white and perfect as dur
ing life; and also saw several Of these
skulls pierced with hole, as if done by
a bullet. It was easy to distinguish the
head of the philosopher from that Of
the idiot, the child from the adult.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14
A Marshal of the Republic.

Among the Americans who attended a
ball given at the Hotel de Vile, Paris,
when John Y. Mason was our minister
there, was Jack Spicer, of Kentucky.
Jack rushed the dress somewhat strong,
and sported epaulettes on his shoulders
large enough to start four major gen
erals in business. Jack was the OBJ
served of all observers, and got mixed
up with party that his friends could
not account for. Wherever the mar.
shals of France went, there went Jack
and when the marshals sat down,
Jack did the same, always taking the
post of honor. The day after the ball,
Jack called on our minister to France,
who started up a conversation IN the
following way {:
81 hear Jack, you we're at the ball
last evening"
81 was, sir, and had high old time. +"
''For which you were indebted,
suppose, to the high old company you
got mixed mp with. BY the way, how
came you associated with the marshals p
How? By virtue of my office.
They we're Marshals of France, while I
am nothing else than Marshal of the
Republic. 1 showed my position, ind
took post accordingly"
"By right of your Office What do
you mean?"
Read and see -
Here Jack presented Mr.. Mason with
a Whitley brown paper, with seal big
enough for four pound weight.
What In the name of heaven is
this p
"My commission Of Marshal 7 re-
csived in 1850. when 7 assisted In taking
the census in Frankfort. ="
You don't mean to say that you
travel on this ?"
:, 't ::-,csc anything hing cl=c Tia. ,..s
makes a Marshal Of the Republic.
and 1 intend to have the Office duly
hOnored."
Mr.. Mason allowed that JACK was do
ing very large business on a very
small capital Cincinnati Star.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14

The Country Gentleman, in replying
TO a correspondent who inquiries how to
make an exhausted farm fertile, after
promising that there are special circum-
stances to be taken into account in every
such case, lays down the following gem
eral principles in view of a soil which,
from continuous hard cropping, has
been deprived of the vegetable matter
1t once contained, and settled down into
a COMPACT, hard mass
L. Understandings, if the soil settles
down in a mass after long rains.
2. Mellow cultivation when dry
enough, pulverizing the soil well as a
preventive of drought.
3. The introduction OF clover, to be
preceded, II necessary, by a moderate
dressing of manure, or by some other
green crop.
4. Working most of the farm into
grass, for the maintenance Of domestic
animals, aud for the manufacture of
manure.
3. As the Improvement progresses,
planting or sowing such crops as appear
on trial 10 DO best, such as corn, beans.
barley, etc, preferring variety of ro-
tation.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14

very moderate cost, I applied it in the
following manner: I took about twice
the amount of bone material in barn
yard manure, and about the same
amount in sandy loan, mixed the three
together.and covered the entire heap
with a mass of compact loan. The
one heap that made contained ton
of this bone material. I said to myself
81 have no doubt that the heating OF
the manure packed in this way, with
the little moisture on the outside that
would filter Through. would dissolve
the bones entirely; and it did, and in
less than a months time / found my
self possessed of a friable mass Of barn
yard manure, disintegreted bones, and
the muck that went along with them.
I used that as an application to the
growing of Swedish tuTnipe, and used
IL as had been in the habit of using
the best superphosphates I could fiEd
in the market. ] never had so good a
crop.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14

Once a year 50 since Adam was a year
ling. or less a trifie perhaps, the veter-
an editor Of the Germantown Tele-
s---ysS -. tclS 49, -esaa.. h. =. -
meat As no one vet seems 70 improve
u'pon the method, we VII for the-sav,
fifteenth time repeat st: "To one GAL
lon 81 water take one pound and a half
81 SALT oDe-half pound q sugar. one.
half cunce 90 saltpetre and one-hals
ouncc GO potash. In this ratsa TIE
E1'cs'r can he increased 10 auv QUANTITY
desrel. les these be hoile5 torether
lrfl tl TIE 5irt frcrn TIE snrzr rises "a
tte toV Eni IS slluue5 uT. Thcn throw
q lrto e. f-h O. c..cl. slf vhtn old r.-rr
Q rrsn rc-r te5s 20 pcrk. Ire meat
-1ft - sell u-ue-a1 uith rscffr. ~ :
ftl-ra u-s De rcs 6cun for ri lsssf iuro
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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14
Toe-and Soul.

Describing a Mexican bail, a writer
says: ''Ihe eBioym, mt of che evening
is at high pressure. The dancers are
swinging, suTging, and spinning through
the Spanish dance. Everybody who
can find partner and q place on the
hOor-there are many WHO cannot End
the latter-is dancing. Il Is a CAV. q
brilliant scene. All Is going as merriiv
as whole chime Of marriage bells when
deep and solemn peal from the church
close 10y breaks IN over the music, the
Laughter, and the dancing. Il u mid
night lt Is che Nocbc BtioH0. and the
bell summons she faithful - the mid
night mass. The effect is electric. TIE
last twill Of the waltz Is suspended.
hale executed. TIE dancers stop IS II
they were Puppets moved snd stilled by
the cunning Of scuae was puilinr hand.
A general rush is made for the church
in q mUUCnt the ballroom g. empty.
The church g. Giled &c instantaneoasiy
and the wildly-Fay danoers OF moment
$50 are DoW knecliuE. hushed and
duuu. blnt. ia devotional attitudes.
The scsue g. iHsrrcs tho bright BAH
toilets cuufFasfei ia a sdim religious
light thg sudisu ehaLEo e piaoc and
mood. from gay Co grave. from hzll-
roau to eaueiuarT. affssss = sfraEEsF's
Fse =rth l1F5iaiHE A. tss F-
eaala - Hl-a 49, erFH ratnfa
e. t4e tasi laHlH e. eazaee fl5sa grave
ir eF saa aaaa 90 'itttusi tll DAY.
iiEtI.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14
How the "Spirited-Hand Writing
is Done.

The Philadelphia Press gives these
details of the way the spirit hand per-
Torrance In the Holmes and Katie King
seances In that city was enacted Mr..
Owen was asked during q eabinet sit.
ting to pass through the aperture a
sheet of writing paper and 8 pencil.
This was done hand seized the sheet
anu apparently fsid II on Isothing, a IL "
inches back of the aperture, and abeut
four inches from the bottom of the
opening. While the paper was thus
seemingly suspended in tue air, q white
hand slowly traced out n letter, which,
when given to Mr.. Owen, was fon1d to
contain a message from and signed by
Frederick Robertson" As Mr.. Owen
was familiar with the signature, as he
had seen the letter written by a spirit
hand" while the paper was Z" suspended
in the air" and as the chirography
closely resembled that Of his departed
friend, he was forced 10 accept this
Ostensible evidence of spiritual pres
ence and power as conclusive. The
woman who cOnfssses that she person
ated Katie King makes in substance the
following statement in regard 10 the
manner IN which this was done The
letter was written by Mr.. Holmes. who
had q facsimile Of Robertson's hand
writing IN the house. When the blank
paper was passed into the Gperture an
other sheet on which the lines had been
inscribed vas substituted, and the paper
instead Of being placed on nothing Eas
held on a blackboard by Mr.. Holmes.
who had on pair Of black gloves. i
Katie King then drew over my night
arm q black covering, leaving Only the
hand aud part Of the wrist exposed.
THIS presented the appearanes Of g de-
tashed hand, and with the pencil ] pre-
tended 60 trace out the words on the
paper ElFesiy prepared.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14
A Mother Of Criminals.

Some Of the most curious and re-
markable criminal statistics ever OBJ
tanned have just been given % the pub
lie by DR. Harris CT Mes York. His
attention vas called. some time since,
90 g county on che upper Hudson whioh
showed q rEUarkable proportion Of
crime ard poverty On lhe whole popula-
tion. $50 0f SIS 80 0oo inhabitants be-
ing IN the siuas-house.- and. upon look
ing iuto The RECORDS q little, BE found
certain NAMES oaufinuhiIy appearing.
Bsc1u1i1g interested ga the suhiecl. he
ouucludci 60 search che zeueslogics of
these fsmiliCs. a1d. sitter tlzaforl5Ti1 5n-
eszssieza5sesss. la aies1szFe3 shat Iran q
sa=Hz @zsf rt3 . sis
us left safiit t.atlis fsas= tais5FH hlsu,
in village 10 sle caauig. 90 years aFa.
SD, ia the aisrrrc ef nn aifas- hoasn.
esa irft o. Eras ur rs lrat else ccnld.
have ieHcericd tue LnadFef erinsi-
uala A. a. ilattFatiou 81 ti.is rssuzrk-
stiu reegTds iE ege sineie Ferenfien 81
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14
Digging up Ancient Rome.

Modern tome, as att know, rests upon
q crust or cuticle twenty or thirty feet
thick, which, du ing q thousand years.
has been growing with the bruises of
war, and all sorts of destructive blows
dealt upon the coarse surface which
forms the covering Of a CITY constructed
Of materials which fire cannot DESTROY.
erd which fall into heaps Of debris
IN the progress Of time. This crust has
been broken into in a great many places,
but IN the quarters where building on
an extensive scale is EOs going on, it
has beea pretty nearly skinned of, and
tens Of thousands Of csrt-loads of earth
have been gong out during the past two
years. % III mp the lower grounds be
yold the city walls. Excavations are
song on also IN various places for arch
biological investigation as well Is for
public Improvement. In front Of the
Pantheon, for some time past. SiEnur
Ross, the director under the Ttalian
Ecvcrument, has been busy discovering
q couslGera6ie area. and interesting dis
coveriCs are made ODa sees NOR
clearly thaa before hos large a part ct
tle f1uniatiCn q shat ertst structure
is bc.oE che uo3sru level. Great blocks
% cut E.uue SIRE uncovered. aud several
-reat fnarbi1 slabs. covered u7ith scalp
tlre5 aeC1rattuta tn simost periect
rresC rvuticu. have been found. Further
cat an thc equste. Drar tle srcle % the
butsItgr. platform tu cut stone uf what
seems o. have beca the Foundation 20
us1uumeuts. have Esen discovered.
There are tndicaituus, as tho work Eoes
forward. that Durh more F0-sH 90 She
sauic Kind usY b. found. Afshe Cotus.
reu1 the ursk b slill Foine Ca urtsr
ttH tlfaE aifrran1. uua alrfafV uszz-
tstsa 81 tEe ARA altAa taa 5sfsa p
lles7ttfsi -sssEH = ihe uF5atass level
- gffEFE# 81 thH tfast q aateAe1
Ssh lrerrzHad sHirtrlt, esd she FIslfafn
af SIC uiuiurs of ataGinua tara. siii
esTe q brw ohierf ~ thav esmeus
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14

Or. j. Walkers California Vim.
egar Biiters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrOm without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause Of tho
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT-
TERSR ?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and n ie-giving principle,
a perfect Renovation and 1nvigoratoF
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities Of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick Of every disease man is heir 10. They
are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation Of
the Liver and Viseeral Organs. il Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carmina6ye, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretio,
SedatiYe, Counter Irritant, Sudoritic, Aitera-
tive, and Anti Bilious.
Il. II. MCDONALD q Co..
Druggists and Gen. CTS. San Francisco. California,
and cor Of Washington and Charlton SITS. n Y. 4
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
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How IL Happens.

Some one asks why it is that potatoes
so soon run out There are two
grand reasons. There are few potatoes
in hill that are fit for seed. Some
are overgroWn, coarse, rank, and viii
not transmit the original quality.
Others are underqrown, and not full
developed seed. A potato of medium
size, perfect in all its parts, with change
of ground will produce it's like, Gd
infiiitum. One other reason, cutting
potatoes between stem and seed end
continually, will demoralize the insti-
tuition. 1t requires the stem and seed
end to make a perfect seed. If cut, cut
lengthwise. Single eyes will run ont
any potato. There is no other seed
that will bear mutilation like the po-
tatO the only wonder is, that it does
not run ont completely.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-01-14
CORN SONG.
By JOHN G. WHITTIER,

Heap high the farmers wintry hoardl
Heap high the golden corn;
No richer gift has autumn poured
From out her lavish horn.
Let other lands, exulting. CLEAN
The apple from the pine;
The orange from its glossy greens
The cluster from the vine.
We better love the hardy gift
Our rugged wales bestow,
To cheer us when the storm shall drift
Our harvest fields with snow.
Through wales Of grass and flowers
Our pIows their burrows made,
While on the hills the sun and showers
OF changeful April played.
We dropped the seed DER hill and plain,
Beneath the sun Of May.
And frightened from our sproutiDg grain
The robber crows away.
All through the long, bright days Of June
It's leaves grey bright and fair,
And waved in not midsummer noon.
It's soft and snowy hair.
And now with sutumn's moonlit eyes,
It's harvest time is come,
We pluck away its frosty leaves,
And bear its treasures home.
Then richer than the tabled gifts
Apollo shOWered Of old,
Fair hands the broken grains shall sift,
And knead it's meal Of gold.
Lot vapid idlers roll In silk
Around the costly board
Give us the bowl Of samp and milk
BY homespun beauty poured.
Then shame on all the proud and vain,
Whose folly laughs to fcorn
The blessings Of our hardy grain,
Our wealth Of golden corn.
Let earth withhold her gOOdly root,
Let mildew blight the rye:
Give to the worm the orchard fruit,
And wheat-helds to the ay.
But let the good old crop adorn
The hills our fathers trod;
Still let us for his golden corn
Send up our thanks to God.
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The Road 90 Hearth.

Cleanse the stomach, bowels and blood from
all the acrid, corrupt and offensive accumula-
tons which produce functional arrangement,
and you remove the cause of most diseases
large doctors bills The most effectual and
reliable remedy for this purpose is found 10
DR.. PieTce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. No
cheap wood or paper boxes, but kept fresh and
reliable in walls.
High Ivers, those INDUCING in ease and
pleasure, and those OF sedentary habits, can
prevent boils, carbuncles, govt, red skin,
eruptions, pimples, constipation, piles drows-
mess, biliOusness. and other conditions in
duced by such habits, by taking from four to
six OF DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets
once week, or, better still, one or two each
night. They aye sold by dealers in medicines.
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her unhappy line there were twenty
children Of these, three died in infan-
CIV. and seventeen survived to maturity.
Of the seventeen, nine served in the
state prisons for high crimes an aggre-
gate term of fifty years, while the others
were frequent inmates Of jsils and peni-
tentiaries and alm-houses The whole
number Of this girls descendants,
through six generations, is nine hun
dred, and besides the two hundred who
are on record as criminals, a large num-
Der have been idiots, imbeeiles, drunk
ards, lunaties, prostitutes and paupers.
A stronger argument for careful treat
ment Of pauper children than these
figures could hardly be found.
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f t'rs-rtrr1E gives tka f-Iiouirrs
7 -lie ttr trst eeUnrFt tuEi1r tta
las erlsun tFr tln rrralrr uf turrirs.
ttst have ever funri fr ere world
~ 81 - ere frilra4rr arfsrf-a. Wrff
trrsVri iurras f.rrr1s ~ tav.- f.---- -.
rartr.f - = bean. hssfas - h-ff.r-,i
81 cnrairE frum a Eiue fsrtnrr. fozin-
natriT fril .nfr nv hrrfs. Tllrr uerr
airref e. . rtatn ~ lranurn-ItI--. w.
fnrk thr-- Ihrr ha1 FFnan nnf
ffuu 90 rnufrras heat .n utirh fLrs
laT End arrr eng rr1fr Hnsaf sac auf.i
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r1tFe ttHr1ae'rrs fruni II cnufI rnf
f1rrIaa ETaaif va haur ustrrisi AZ q
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Experiments with Tomato Seeds.

At the request of friend, made an
experiment with the seeds of the to-
mato. The fruit was cut in half, the
seeds from the flower end were sown by
themselves, and also those from the
stem end were sown separately. The
plants from the seeds of the stem end,
contrary TO my expectation, proved more
vigorous growing, earlier bearing and
more productive than those from the
flower end. These seeds were sown on
the Doth June, and although they had
no extra care bestowed upon them, they
ripened fruit about the 1st of October.
say "about," because my turkeys de-
stroyed the first fruit, and others rotted
badly. The Arlington and the Canada
Victor also rotted very badly, but
whether it was from some popularity of
their own or from the season, 1 cannot
say, as have no other kind at the same
season. 1 think that the Arlington
proved about one week earlier than the
Canada Victor, and 1 did not think
either variety was near as good for the
table as the Feiee. R.P.
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There has been imported into Europe
from South America, fungoid disease,
which attacks all plants of the Mallow
family, and being noticed particularly
on the hollyhock is called the holly
hook fungus. 1t spreads rapidly and
mysteriously, and no remedy has been
yet discovered. No importations of
any plant belonging to the Mallow
family should be made from Europe or
from South America, as if the fungus
should be introduced here, it would
probably attack the cottCn plant, and
might prove fatal to the cotton culture.
So far as known, it attacks all plants of
the Mallow tribe, Unfortunately, and
it is not likely that even our liking
cotton" would prove an exception.
The disease shows itself in small spots
upon the leaf, which, when magnifed,
are seen to be groops of minute fungi.