The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-19
THE MAN FROM PULASKI.
His Bewildering Antics in the
French QUadrille at
Long Branch.

A practical humorist from Pulaski
has been doing Long Branch. He gets
off good hurlesque, but the fashiOna-
bic tOdies don't seem to know it. They
think he is a gIeeney. Who is he? We
clip from Olive Logan's Long Branch
letter to the Chicago Times, written
July %:
Mollenhauer was slashing away at Girofe-
Girofa quadrilles, and six people had strag-
gled upon the vast floor and were looking
disconsOlately around for another couple to
complete TIE set. They were about to give
it up in despair and return to their seats
when middle aged man who had arrived
that day, and who somebody said came from
Pulaski, Tenn, stalked into the Parlor with
an elderly woman n hold Of his arm. he
made Decline for the fourth place in the
quadrille, the six people looked more salts
fed and held their ground, and the music
grew triumphantly louder.
THE MAN PROM PULASKI.
He was a middle-agcd man, this man from
Pulaski, and tall. and slim, and long-legged,
and if there a living personifcation of
the pictorial newspaper idea OF Brother jon
athan, it was he. Ills trOWseTs were full
short, and a pair of trowser- straps were
plainly discernible on either side his boots;
lOnR-tailed coat and a very high standing
collar, figured satin vest and an undue pre-
| ponlerance of plaid silk in a huge necktie,
were the other most striking articles of his
attire.
| No one knew where his companion came
from. It was enough, perhaps more than
enough, that she was there She were a rusty
alpaca gown without particle of trimming,
/ and a white handkerchief laid around her
throat and fastened with hair pin. When
! say hair pin mean not pin for the
/ hair, but one of those touching and very
| ugly mementO-mori brooches, made of the
locks of the dear departed.
The minute the man from Pulaski reached
| his place in the quadrille, he claPped his
| HANDS violently together and the lady gave a
| little cough. They were Il side couple; and
after performing very low obeIsances to right
and left of them, they waited patiently till
the others went through the opening PAGES.
Then they began The mar from Pulaski
! grasPed his partners hand, and with step
| like cradle under full rock he waltZed him
self over to the otEer side; landed there, he
aCed the old girl, and, the music favoring
| the movement, he executed the heel and toe
step which the Niger minstrels use for the
| polka, This served him nicely to place
I,again-and then he got ready for the next
movement.
Ladies' champ he cried out, all in a teeter,
and Selling the extended hand of his VISA Wis
he gave the astonished young lady Ga we'll
| known belle) such u whirl that her very
bOot-tops were disclosed, all tied back as she
was. To finish the figure there yet remained
the "set to partners" and what he himself
called out ''dosey doe" His set to partners
was a very vigorous breakdown and in the
ardor OF the dosey doe he came into collision
with the back of the woman in alpaca with
such an unexpected thump that she ejacu-
| lated ''My!"
The music now ceased for minute and
the man from Pulaski reposed. Little
groups had gathered around the windows to
look at him, for the word had gone from
mouth to mouth that there was man in
the parlor who was doing
sOME TALL DANCING.
Then the music was resumed, and forward
four" and 'hand over the lady!' was fol-
loweu by gentlemen forwardH
This, of course you know, is nothing more
nor less than the caUdlieT seuL of the French
quadTille, and on it the Partisan can-chnist
layishes his EXTREMIST execution: and for ii
too the man from Pulaski had seemingly
been reserving all his energies. Gathering
his coat-tails under his arms he started for
ward with a hop, skip and lump, and having
arrived in front of the three who stood OPP
POsite, he began, so to speak, to dance them
down. lie swung on one leg then on the
other; skipped backward and cut the pigeon
wing three times; he lifted his right leg and
hoped on his lett; finally he whirled around
till every body but himself was dizzy, and
then Selling his partner by both hands he
annihilated space with her up and down the
whole length of the floor He was off now
for good The music waxed fast and furious
and the man from Pulaski aroused
Sweat poured down his forehead, and mis-
bosom heaved; no matter, this was his mo
ment and he improved it. One by one the
other quadrillists dropped awayi with awe
depicted on their countenances, they stood
and looked at the from Pulaski. The
musicians, who could hardly draw their
bows, or toot their horns for laughter, en-
tered into the spirit of the thing, and, al
though the quadrille was finished, continued
to play for the advantage of the lone dancer
| from Tennessee. One familiar melody after
another aoated on the evening air; the ia
vorite morceaux of the "Grand Duchess
Ella Perichole," and "BaTbe Bleue;" the
"Monnie Ausk" and "No One to Love;
"Way Down upon the Swanee River and
champagne Charley" and finally the band
struck mp Dixie. This seemed TO attract the
Pulaskian's attention. He ceased dancing
looked about HIM as ifsomeN h6t surprised
to find the dance was over so soon; and
strolled out OH the piazza quietly humninq
to himself
Oh, wish was in Dixie,
Away, away,
| In DiXies land I'll take my stand,
To live or die in Dixie
Inseparable said he was glad this incident
happened, because it shows conclusively thai
if dancing is survival it will probably sur
vive long the man from Pulaski is
| guTXiEfr