The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13
CLIPPINGS.

A close observer says that the words which
ladies are the fondest of are the first and last
words.
4 policeman had pair of boots half-soled
last fall with boarding house beetstaak, and
he hasn't had wet feet all winter.
man who was treated to "25 censer,"
slipped back 60 the cigar store and economi-
cally exchanged it for FOR q quarter.
A man may forget his business, his family
and all the sacred obligations of life, but he
always remembers the place he got that
counterfeit bill.
The newspapers all over the country are
naming their candidates for President, and
the war horses of politics are everywhere
putting themselves in training fer the great
race of 1875.
Of course a woman doesn't want her plants
to freeze, but still a man can't be blamed tor
raising a row when he hops out of the bed in
the morning and finds a geranium pot in each
trowsers leg
Two Irishmen travelling on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad track came to mile post,
when one of them said: Tread aisy, Pat;
here lies a man los years old-his name was
Miles from Baltimore"
The rage for ending female names in the
French 'ie'' has come to a disastrous cOnclu-
sion in Oregon. A farmer named Axe
christened his eldest girl Bell. She, adopting
the style Of the Mo!lies, SusIes and Matties
of the region, got some cards printed Belle, y
and now appears to a distracted world IS
Miss Belle AXE.
The West Virginia Legislature has passed
a dog law by which it is provided that any
person may kill any eur found chasing or in
juTing sheep; that the owner of the dog shall
be liable for the damage done, and that the
owner of any dog which has been found
worrying sheep shall within forty eight
hours kill tie dog, under $3.50 fine for each
day the dog is suffered TO life after nOtifca-
ton has been given Of its evil deeds.
The following explanation Of why the
South is not prosperous Is given bv a re-
maTkable African down in Alabama: "A
fore the war the white gentlemen tended to
the politics and uiggers worked Consequence
was crops was good and white folks had
money plenty. Nova days the white men
and the niggers am both gone crazy on pol
itics; don't neither of en- do no work, and
consequence is amt neither Of EN- got enuh
10 buy corn bread.n
Mr.. John Bright sent this letter 20 the
centennial celebration at Lexington: Il can
not cross the ocean to JON your great COM
pany, and / know not how to write you a let
ter fitting the occasion. | would rather not
think cfan occasion when EnglIshmen shed
blood, and English blood, on your CONT
nent, and | would prefer to celebrate the
freedom and grandeur Of your coHntry some
other day. But l can rejoice with you, that
freedom and grandeur, and wish, with you,
that they may be perpetual.
Last Friday millions of Buffalo Gnats made
their appearance very suddenly N this cOun-
tY and up to this time Monday EVENING" 1t
is estimated that between three and FIVE
bundled horses and mules have been killed
by them This is a terrible blow upon on ?
farmers most of whom were already pressed
for means TO meet the expenses of raising a
crop and were in no condition TO sustain
such a loss. Many of them we tear, viii be
unable to replace the lost stock.-S0DseT-
ellie FGloon.
Had the farmers, by the adoption of wise
policy, for several years back, procured good
stands of clover and other grasses, and cut
an ample supply of hay, they would now be
much better provided with thrifty stock, and
provender for work cattle In the meantime
their lands, in grass, would have been gather
iLg fertility for abundant yield hereafter. We
hope the lesson learned will not be lost, but
viii teach the farmers the great value OF
mixed crops, and the danger of relying upon
a single staple.
Southern Republican Senators say that II
Pierrepont, as ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, shall
choose q conseTv alive course there viii not be
a Southern Republican vote in the Electoral
College in ,lS76- These Senators maintain
that there can be no successful party policy
towards the South except that vi ich was so
long followed by the late Attorney General.
They claim TO have information that Pierre
pont will pursue a different course, and that
his earlier Democratic training will not per
NIT him t. follow too closely in the footsteps
of Mr.. Williams. For these reasons there
Senators take desPondant view OF the
Southern political outlook.