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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-26
A QUAKER PnINrER,s PRovrRp.

A QUAKER PRINTERS PROVERBS.
Never send an article for publ
cation without giving the editor thy
name, for thy name oftentimes Sc
cures publication to worthless arti-
cles.
Thou shouldst not rap at the door
Of a printing office, for he that an
swereth the rap sneereth in his
sleeve and loseth time.
Never do thou loaf about, nor
knock down the type, or the boys
will love thee as they do the shade
trees-when thou leavest.
Thou shouldst never read the cop.
y on the printers case, or the sharp
and hooked container thereof, or he
may knock thee down.
Never inquire of an editor foI
news, for behold it is his business 70
give it to thee at the appointed time
without asking for it..
1t is not right that thou shouldst
ask him who is the author of an ar.
ticle, for it is his duty to keep such
things unto himself.
When thou dost enter his office,
take heed unto thyself that thou
dost not look at what may concern
thee not, for that is not meet in the
sight Of good breeding.
Neither examine thou the proof
sheet, for it is not ready to meet
thine eye thou mayest understand.
Prefer thine own town paper to
any other, and subscribe for it i'm
mediately.
Pay for it in advance, and it shall
be well with thee and thine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-26

GreenvIlle Intelligencer (edited
by Andrew Johnson, Jr. "In John
Savage's "Iife of Andrew John
son, the reader is given the be
lief that Mr.. Johnson loved
and was disappointed in his
affections by their object. Such is
not the case, so far as the conclusion
is stated. He did fall in love with a
young lady of good family and esti-
mable character, She responded in
the fullest degree, and both antici-
pated great felicity in a future life
together. The parents of the young
lady, however, objected to the mar
riage upon the grounds of Mr.. John
sons youth Che was yet in his min
or years and lack of means. Upon
hearing this, Mr.. johnson sought an
interview with the young lady, told
her of the decision of heI parents,
and of the course he himself had
resolved upon. With his native
high principle, he said there was
nothing left to them but to part and
forget what they had been to each
other. The lady felt otherwise, and
frankly told him that she would go
with him wherever he might lead.
and that she would not hesitate to
trust her life and its keeping into
his hands. The strong pride and
love of fair dealing of Mr.. Johnson
could not permit this, and, notwith-
standig his love, he denied the prop
osition and left the place, only re-
turning long years after, when the
/ lady was married and the mother of
a family. Thus, it will be under
stood that the lady did not prove
fathless and cause anv wounded
feelings to the subject of this sketch.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-26
Grass.

After Sherman made his march to
the sea, all in the wide track OF
waste and desolation that he made
with tramp of his footmen and the
iron feet ofhis cavalry there sprang
up new and unknown grass from
the soil, which the farmers called
SHERMAN clover" 1t would grow
up in the most unexpected places,
and it is said would root out Ber-
muda grass; and, as a strange SINH
larity, we now hear that after the
Franco -Prussian war of 1901 in
many districts of France a new veg
citation sprang up, evidently the res
ult of the invasion. 1t was believed
that this vegetation would become
acclimatized, but very few of the
species introduced in this way ap-
pear likely to continue to flourish.
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Something Worth Knowing.

Every little while (writes a cor
respondent we read in the papers
of some one who has stuck a rusty
nail into his foot. or knee, or hand,
or some other portion of his person,
and that lockjaw has resulted there
from, of which the patient died. If
every person in the world was aware
of a perfect remedy for all such
wounds and apply it, all such reports
must cease. But although we can
give the remedy, we cannot enforce
the application. Some Will not en-
ploy it because they think it too
simple; others have no faith in it
when they read it; while oUhers
often think such a wound of small
account and not worth fussing over,
until it is too late to do any good.
Yet all such wounds can be healed
without such fatal consequences as
follow them. The remedy is simple,
almost always on hand, and can be
applied by any one, and, what is
better, is always infallible. 1t is
simply to smoke such a wound or
bruise that is inflamed with burning
wool orWOolen cloth. Twenty min
utes in the smoke of wool will take
the pain out of the worst wound, and
repeated once or twice, it will allay
the worst case of inflammation arising
from wound we ever saw. People
may sneer at the "old wOman's rem
edy'' as they please, but when they
are afflicted just let them try it. 1t
has saved many lives and much pain,
and is worthy of being printed IN
letters of gold and put in every
home.
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What I have Seen.

1 have seen a young man sell a
good farm, turn merchant and die
in an insane asylum.
[ have seen a farmer travel about
so much that there was nothing at
home worth looking after.
have seen a man spend more
money in folly than would support
his family in comfort and indepen-
dence,
1 have seen a young girl marry a
young man of dissolute habits and
repent it as long as she lived.
have seen a man depart from
truth where candor and veracity
would have served him to a much
better purpose.
/ have seen the extravaganza and
folly of children bring their parents
to poverty and want, and them
selves TO disgrace.
l have seen a prudent and indus
trious wife retrieve the fortunes of a
family when her husband pulled at
the other end of the rope.
have seen a young man who de-
spised the counsel of the wise, and
advice of the good, and his career
ended in poverty and misery.
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Es- Stepping into the busy shop
of that redOubtable son of Vulcan,
David Spear, a few days since, to
investigate his newspaper files, and
to discover, if possible, the familiar
face of the CITIZEN, we stumbled
ever so unexpectedly on a brother
chip of Uncle Davy, in the person
of Il Mr.. w. II. II. Word, who
proved to be a perfect bonanza of
rare novelties. In the first place he
had belonged to the 3Ist Regular
Alabama Vol. c. 5. A, (Col. Hens
lev's), and was Gen. Joseph +.
Johnson's Headquarters smith.
Second, by a skilled movement of
the lips and tongue could make mu-
sic equal to two French harps, and to
crown the climax, had a tortoise shell
case, purporting by inscriptions to
have been made IN London in l477.
The machine was without regulator,
and unique in its entire makeup.
This gentlemen credits DR.. Mayes
of this county. as the donor, to
him, of this quaint chronometcr.
Can DR.. Grant give us any light on
this heirloom Of the fifteenth cen
turY?
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Female Education.

1t is a great mistake in female
education to keep a young lady's
time and attention devoted to fash
iOnable literature ofthe day. Ifyou
would qualify her for conversation
you must give her something to talk
give her education with the actual
world, with it's transpiring event
urge her to read the newspaper, and
become familiar with the present
character and improvements of our
trade. History is of some import
ance. Our thoughts and concerns
should be for the present world-to
know what it is, and to improve
the condition Of it. Let US have an
intelligent opinion, and be able to
sustain a conversation concerning
mental, moral, political and relig-
ious improvements of our times-see
that each others feelings, and
thoughts, and actions are pure and
true; then will our life be such
The wide pastures are but separate
spires of grass, the sheeted bloom OF
the prairies but isolated flowers.
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Too Much Marrying.

There is altogether too much
marrying by form of law; those who
at the most, are only a third or half
married in other ways. And there
is altogether too much urging and
cOaXing, and alluring young people
into the most important and sacred
of all human relations before they
are prepared or moved to assume
it's burdens, and by those who
ought to know better and act with
more consideration. We make too
much of marrying and being
married, until it is thought by
many people somewhat OF a
disgrace for woman to pass
through life single; when in
fact, the life of many a single wO-
man is poetry, romance, rapture
even, in comparison with that OF
many a wife. So there is a vast
deal of discomfort, heartache, mis-
cry, hypocrisy and unmarrying at
the last What we want is not a
more stringent divorce law, but a
better understanding of the moral
law which fOrbids the marriage of
those not already one; not less mar
ryiug, but less marrying where
there is no real marrying. And
above all, let there be no inciting
or bribing those to marry who are
not drawn to each other, and held
inseparably together by qualities OF
mind and soul.
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The Salt Lake (Utah) Herald,
which always speaks a good word
for Brigham Young, and is really
an organ of the Mormon church,
takes this view of the recent noun
tain Meadow massacre trial at
Beaver, which is interesting as ex-
pressing the Mormon estimate of
the proceedings:
Bloody as the crime was, and
guilty as Lee may have been, the
prosecution did not desire his con-
viction, and while they labored,
hard to bring out all the testimony
possible to find, they worked with
quite as much energy and skill to
avoid a verdict of guilty. As evi-
dence of this fact, we cite the reader
to Mr.. Easkin's argument to the
jury, which plainly indicates that ii
is not particularly John d. Lee that
is desired to punish, nor is it SO
much the bringing to justice of the
blOodstained particIpators in the
foul massacre. The great object to
be achieved is the crushing out of an
entire community, and the placing
Of a prosperous Territory into the
hands Of political spoilers. There
is no way to accomplish it save by
proscriptIve Congressional legisla
tion for Utah, and the Mountain
Meadow trials will be made the pre-
text upon which the necessity fol
such laws are to be demanded.
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The New Senator.
In the Language of the immOr-
tai Clay, "WhO is''-Key?

On Wednesday. 18th inst, Gov,
Porter appointed Hon. D. NJ. Key
to the Vacant Senatorship. Mr..
Key is the Chancellor of the Chatta-
noOga Chancery court, and is said
to be a lawyer offair ability. He is
As or so years Of age, was born in
Green county, and is an old line
democrat. He was a member of the
last Constitutional Convention, was
beaten for Congress by Mr.. Crutch-
field in 1872, afterward elected
chancellor, and is now the successor
of Andrew Johnson. We believe
the Banner is correct in its opinion
that probably the appointment will
cause as little dissatisfaction as any
that could have been made" but of
course this was not the acme of the
Governors ambition in the matter
Key succeeds Andrew Johnson
Who will succeed Key?
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What the true man wants with a
wife is her companionship, sympa-
thy and love. The way Of life has
many dreary places in it, and man
needs companion TO go with him.
A man is sometimes oyertaken by
misfOrtunes; he meets with failure
and defeat; trials and temptations
beset him, and he needs one 10
stand by and sympathize. He has
some hard battles to fight with pow
erty, enemies, and with sin; and ho
needs a woman that, when he puts
his arms around her, he feels be has
something to fight for; she will help
him to fight, that she will put her
lips 10 his ear, and whisper words
Of counsel, and her hand 10 his
heart, and impart inspiration. All
through life, through storm and
through sunshine, conflict and VIC
tory, through adverse as well as ia
voring winds, man needs a woman's
love. The heart yearns for il. A
sisters or 4 mothers love will hard
ly supply the need.
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Charles Lamb once said that
he had found out why a friend
wrote to him in such blind hand
it was to conceal his bad spell
ing! We believe that every
body makes mistakes in oIthog-
Laphy, and that very great wri-
ters are frequently under obliga-
tions to the proof-readers. There
is a good deal Of idiosyncrasy
about it. When everybody, incIud
ing the great and good George
Washington, spelled badly, it was
not of so much consequence. But
now that a spelling reform has been
set afoot, now that the accomplish
ment is to be made a sort of semi
cardinal virtue, let no man write
ten lines without one or the other
of the two W's at his elbow, as he
would escape the sharp correction
and the humiIiating snub.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-08-26
Do not Worry About Yourself.

To retain or recover health, per
sons should be relieved from all
anxiety concerning disease. The
mind has power over the body, for
a person to think he has a disease.
will often produce that disease.
This we see effected when the mind
is intensely concentrated on the
disease of another. 1t is found in
the hospitals that surgeons and
physicians who make a speciality
of certain diseases are liable to die
of them themselves; and the mental
strain is so great that sometimes
people die of diseases which they
have only in imagination. We have
seen persons sea-sick in anticipation
of a voyage, ere reaching the vessel.
We have known persons to die of an
imaginary cancer in the stomach,
when they had no cancer or any
other mortal disease. A olindfold
ed man slightly pricked in the arm,
has tainted and died from believing
that he was bleeding to death.
Therefore well persons, to remain
so should be cheerful and happy,
and sick persons should have their
attention diverted as much as
possible from themselves. 1t is by
their faith that they die. AS a man
thinketh so is he. If he wi is not to
die he can often live in spite of dis
ease, and if he has little or no at
taChment to life he will slip away
as easily as a child will fall asleep.
Men live by their souls and not by
their bodies. Their bodies have no
life Of themselves, they are only
receptacles of life-tencments for
their souls, and the will has much
to do in containing the physical oc
cunancY of giving it nn.
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RS- There is no human expert
ence for which the Word of God
has not provided a specific. It's
words reach down into the most
debased atmosphere, or up into the
clearest regions Of spiritual purity.
Itanswers to all demands of reproof,
warning, approval, consolation and
expectation. 1t is the peoples own
book! 1t is q full and correct por-
trayal of human feelings, hopes,
passions and tendencies. 1t com
prehends the whole, needy manhood.
Its authenticity and veracity estah-
lish a claim TO almost confident ae-
ceptance, as law of life. Gpon il
have been hurled the hate and ig-
nominy Of ali ages, but it shines
like the unhindered sun, far above
and beyond the raging and effect OF
the storm. It's inherent truth Is its
eternal vindication, and even the
powers of hell shall not prevail
against it! Truly, it is the "Book
above allr'
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WEATHER SIGNS.


Would it not serve a useful pur-
pose if some scientific meteorologist
were to gather into a mass the vari-
Gus weather signs-whether valua-
bic or nOt-Jreasured by the farmers
and other common sense people of
the country, and then sift them so
that those of real value may have
their proper influence, and those
which are merely fanciful may cease
to misleadl
That there are weather signs in a
bundance, everybody knows. That
the greater part of these signs are ut
terly valueiess, every person ofintel-
ligence can testify. Yet that they
do practically influence the time and
mode of planting crops, and OF Their
after culture, will be acknowledged
by many who would not be suspect
ed of the folly, and who can give no
other reason for it than the force OF
habit.
1--WE are going TO have a dry
month, " said a farmer the other day.
''How do you knowY" he was ask
ed.
by the Indians sign of the new
moon," he replied. "Its horns hung
so sloping that they could hold no
water"
His companion laughed. "why,
that's my Injin sign for wet moon.
The horns slope so that they let
loose all the water"
The sign in one case was no doubt
as prophetic as in the other.
always plant your potatoes in
the dark of the moon, ifyou wish to
have a full CROP" l heard my neigh
Dor say. "But never kill your pork,
nor boil your soap at such time,
unless you are willing to have them
shrink to nothing"
"What is your authority for thisY'
81 have always so heard" he an
swered with some hesitation, "and al
ways so practiced. Potatoes, you
know, being roots, naturally love
darkness. And soap and bacon
l suppose they take their cue from
the state of the moon. The fact is,
1 only know that this is the old time
rule"
"We are to have frost on the 10Th
of May" said a farmer to me on the
9Th of April.
1 was shocked, for he looked wise
and lugubrious, and a frost at that
time in our latitude would have cost
millions of dollars. asked, 'How
do YOU knowY'
Because we had fog on the 10Th
of March"
He saw me smiling, and added, II
have heard this rule ever since l was
boy, and it has never failed yet. -
''The surest rule l know for fore
telling the weather throughout the
year." said planter, possessed Of at
least a semi-collegiate education, sis
to note the twelve days between new
Christmas and old Christmas from
December 20 to January g.. The
months of the ensuing year are apt
to be wet or dry, cool or warm, ac-
cording to the days corresponding.
He seriously declared that for many
years he had pitched his crop" and
ordered his plantation work under
the guidance of this rule, and found
that it served well. No doubt, for
that amount of time in advance, il
was quite as good as any other rule
in ordinary use.
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The Leatherwood Mystery

A gentleman of this city, who has
n friend living in Waco, Texas,
wrote TO him after the appearance Of
Bruce Groves testimony, asking
him TO enquire whether or not 4
man by the name of Leatherwood
had lately visited Waco. y few
days ago our informant received a
reply from his friend 10 the effect
that early in June a man named
Leatherwood had stopped a short
time in Waco. but that he could not
ascertain whittier he entatter quit
ting there.
The mystery thickens, and we
hope the Waco papers will aid us to
unravel it. If the men now under
bond charged with Leatherwood' S
murder are guilty they should pay
the penalty; but if Leatherwood is
gallivanting through Texas 1t would
be murder to convict them OF hls
taking ofi.-NOatgOmery Adcer-
tiSer, 10th inst,
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RS- The stock sale of Cockrill,
Ewing and Williams at Nashville
on the 18th was well attended, but
it seems to us the prices were low.
The aggregate of sale amounted to
$l3, 400. Our fellow citizen, Col.
Jno G.. Ballcntine purchased three
thorough bred mares, Electra, $2lO;
Ellie Cheatham, $3.50, and Calu-
met $40 Tre sale was continued
at Col. John Ovcrton's the next
day and aggregated $9,lOO. Mr..
A. j. Ballentine bought bay brood
mare by Suwarrow for $1IO. Mr..
f. j. Buford bought bay filley by
Chieftain for $3.50. Mr.. A. j. Nc
Kimmin bought bay filly by Chief
tain, for 5000 Messrs. Oakes Il
Co, bought Joe. johnson, brown
stallion, 6 years old, by Columbus,
bred by David Maxwell, tor $4OO.
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CLIPPINGS.

A girl was heard to remark the
other day, that "a thing of beauty
was a boy forever.
If Rome was not built in a day,
the inference is that it sprung up in
the night, and thus became mush-
roomy city.
He who. does nothing don't
amount to much. 1t makes but
little difference whether he is a mil
lionaire or pauper. He is only
An editor down east has insulted
the whole female sex. He says
that the ladies wear corsets from a
feeling of instinct, having a natural
love for being squeezed.
An exchange gives as a reason
for business inactivity that too many
people are sitting down waiting for
it to become more active instead of
going to work to help make it so.
There are I12 newspapers in
Georgia. Every town, village and
water tank has one or more, and we
constantly hear of new ones. They
live as long as their credit holds
good, then the proprietors pocket
their type, and, like the grasshopper
of the west, moves on to new pas
lures of "green. ."-Ex.
stagnant pool, without energy
enough to start ripple. He
dif'uses a moral miasma over every
thing around him. Do something;
don't stand on the corner gaping
with your hands in your pockets
like an idiot The world was made
to work in, and if you fill your hearts
with good angels, the bad spirits will
keep out because there is no room
for them.
The Rome Commercial tells of a
practice in its neighborhuod i'm
which bad management is still more
clearly shown. 1t says that farmers
who last fall sold corn TO the mer-
chants at 70 cents per bushel are
now buying corn from them at 81 80
on a credit. When they come To
pay for it next fall with cotton atI2
or 10 cents, the circuit of improvi
dence will be complete. Cheap corr
is needed to make cotton culture
profitable, and the only way to So
cure cheap corn when transportation
from the West is SO high, is to
raise it at home
If our good friends, the merchants
would try advertising their wares
more freely, we think they would
find that it would pay. If it pays
to hang ready made coat, piece of
calico, ham, shovel, hoe, apples,
onions, Goldfish, and the like, before
the front door, where they will at
tract the notice of the passerby, why
not show them up in the columns
of your city paper, where several
hundred families-many Of whom
will never see the things may be
had Advertise and call attention
TO your goods, offer inducements and
let people know where you are an
what you are doing.-Ex.
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The Negro.

The Northern friends of the ne
gro need not worry themselves
about the proposed new constitution
of Alabama. The Montgomery
Advertiser, whose principal bust
ness it is to procure Alabama in
formation, says:
If any man thinks that Alabama
will attempt to "interpose obstacles
in the way of the enjoyment of their
H. G., the negroes } rights he is a
thrice sodden idiot, to begin with.
The negroes may have all their
rights and welcome. They will
help US in the electoral college; they
will hereafter help us on the floor OF
Congress. The term voting cat
tie" by which one of the Grant
organs was kind enough to describe
them, may be apt, and all that, but
voting cattle" or not, they are an
element of political power which We
of the South mean TO utilize.
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LOOK

The pencil marks you see around tin,
paragraph Cthus) mean that your sub
scriptiOP il out or unpaid, and tina
you are requested to pay mp at once
We would take great pleasure in ext"lii
ing credit to our friends and patr'.
but cash alone viii pay EXPENSE. al.
We are forced to adhere 10 strict ,.,..!
rule. We hope you will oompr,I,rl
and appreciate the necessity Of sllrl
course, and renew your subscriptin.
without delay. We solicit yOur favor
81 We enter no new names or ut.
books without the monev in all a. g.
ES Wheat taken at the market val
ue in payment Of subscriptions, and for
debts due the office.