The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-24
LYNNVILLE.


The hills and valleys are resounding
! with the buzz of the reaper, and the
wheat and rye are rapidly getting into
tnat shocked condition in which they
can bid defiance to rust, grasshOppers,
and the other ills which threaten while
standing in the field. II is thought that
the yield VIII be much greater than was
expected month or so back. The
heads are large and the grain exceed
ingly well formed. The corn and cot
ton are doing very well, and except that
our gardens are parched, we have
naught to grumble about.
The Changers met on their usual day,
which is the third Friday. We did not
notice as many ladies present as usual.
This is not dne to any falling of of in
teFest in the community in the oTgani-
cation, for we believe it is gaining in
favor. Even those who once looked on
IL with suspicion now regard it with
favorable eyes. Our kind Pomona, who
is Mrs. j. ii. Burrow, and who well
represents her character, for she is like
good fruit, always agreeable, was de-
tanned at home by household cares.
And Flora was added to the Galaxy OF
beauty, which was gathered at COlum-
bia, at the close of the session of the
Athen8um, where she was toasted, not
as Flora, but as Miss Anna Belle John
son, one of the most attractive of the
girls of our county. Our very punctu-
al Ceres, who as ranking lady officer,
should have been mentioned first, Mrs.
Sally Gordon, Miss Mary Waller, who
also wields the Baton of office, and 9TH
ers, who generally grace the meetings,
were absent. Ii our grange has not as
large a roll as some, it certainly is
surpassed by none anywhere in the at
tractiVenesS of the ladies'
Persons who had lost the reckoning
of the days of the month, were, as they
said, reminded that it was the third
Sunday, the day of the Baptist Breth-
rem, by seeing dead and dressed swine !
making its last triumphal entrance into
town on Saturday before. One of the
respects in which they are primitive
people, is that, as it was said of the early
christians, it can be said of them, "be-
hold how they love one another"
The public ought to be told what
spirit of resolution can do. We have in
town one who might be called the towns
nanny. Whenever anybody is sick,
or in need of help or kindness, there
she is, and there she stays, wearing her
self away, as long as she can move.
Some thirty or forty years ago she be-
gan to use tobacco, and has been using
1t pretty much ever since, but some time
back she resolved to quit it. She felt it
was not doing her any good, and that she
ought to resist the temptation, and from
that time to this has not touched it.
Now there is a lesson for wretched lit
tie Whelps like -- 1--WE have great
mind to fill up the blank boys fifteen
years and even younger, who say they
cannot break themselves. We believe
this thing of tobacco is doing as much
damage to the country aseven the whis-
key. And we are sure that if an old
lady like Mrs. Beatty can stop, man
or boy ought to feel ashamed to put
The paltry excuses for keeping on,
which they offer. We think Mrs. BIS
resolution was perhaps due to a most
powerful and impressive and eloquent
sermon which we heard Mr.. Hensley
preach on this very subject, and al
though we noticed that the reverend |
brother asked for a chew, as soon as he /
got out of the pulpit, we did not feel
like scolding him, until we heard of
this triumph of his persuasiveness.
Miss Mamie johnson and Miss Jacan-
ma Bradan have just returned from
school at Columbia, to add to the dan
ger of our young men, for whom we
see nothing left but to surrender at dis
erection.
Mrs. Mary Ann Bray departed this
life, after wearisOme sickness OF three
years, at the residence of her husband,
S. d. Bray, June 9th. She was born
June 18th, 1927, in Marshall county, and
married February 3, 1916. She was
member of the primitive Baptist church,
and had been waiting for the Master
long, with lamp trimmed and burning.
She leaves behind her nine children.
May the family, so sadly parted on
earth, be reunited in the better land.
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