The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-25

Mr.. EDITOR :-Although we are con-
sciOus that our ratings have little
weight with 'Old Probs, :" it is hard
to keep off of the theme of weather. We
have a good day occasionally but it
is only resting spell, to fresh start.
4" Spring itself would be but gloomy
weather if we had nothing else but
Spring." But what is it when we have
but slippery, sleety, sloshy, snowy,
drizzlY, dOings like the present. We
are reduced however to one of two al
ternatives to grin and endure or endure
and not grim
As yet our farmers have done, we
might say, no --splOwing, Though this
makes less difference than formerly, as
there is three times more wheat in the
ground this season than any year since
the war and as the corn crop will be
of an unusually large acreage. Ac-
cOrding to many people, you, Mr.. Edit
or, among the number, the millennium
is going to come as soon as farmers stop
raising so much cotton. We ourselves,
looking diligently around see very lit
tie money in cotton, but still less in any
| thing else, (as an exclusive crOp,) and
we are not so sanguine, as some others
as to the great plethora of wealth that
| the country is going to put on as soon
as the system of farming is changed.
We are inclined to suspect that nothing
will bring real prosperity, except a
much more general disposition to take
/ hold, than we are now privileged to see.
This suggests the emigration epidem-
| ic which is prevalent among our cOlOred
population. Efforts are being made to
get them to emigrate to the dreary
realms of Kansas and Nebraska, and
are partially successful. If the inten-
| ton is to remove them to a rigion
where their early determination will be
| certain this is an excellent plan. But
| we protest against the cruelty of entic-
| ing them to a country where habits, eli
mate and other surroundings must
| bring the vast mass of them to hopeless
misery and wholesale destruction.
| The road from Lynnville proper to
this place has long been the admiration
of travellers for the cOmplexity of its
crooks and curves. A jury for straight
/ ening it has been called and it is expect
ed that in a few weeks, it Will CORES
\ pond little better with tue definition
of q straight line.
! Mrs. Compton, wife OF our highly es-
| teemed citizen, Elisha Compton, has
been dangerously i'll but is now better.
| The health of the community is good
| The Primitive Babtist are to have ser
vices here this week. This excellent
people have been very successful with
their church here, having had many
valuable additions and are held in uni
| versal esteem.
Besides our home supply of wit, and
grace, and beauty, in which we hold
ourselves equal to any community, we
have been drawing ON the Pulaski stock
for an additional force equal in number
to that of the classic graees. They are
guests of our noble citizen, Mr.. LindsayI
but as they have just arrived we cannO
tell whether they will fare better thar
other ladies do here.
Our young gentlemen, cOmmendabl,
in other respects, are a set of sneak
about visiting young ladies, elthei
= transitOry or resident, so that they
J get to see them by going to the stores
which the poor things manage {,
visit one pretence or another FIRE
duently enough. There was an old Ia
{ | DIV who lived in the "'old North State
who said there were two things sh
8 could never understand, why the boy
{ knock down the green fruit or go to Sc
the girls, when, If they would wal
while, the fruit would fall of it
! self and the girls would come 70 Sc
: them.
Prof Campbell's school is In a YER
: fOurishing condition. 1t now number
i about sixty pupils and is CROWN
7 rapidly. We would again urge thOs
! DESTROYS Of giving their children q goo
= substantial education, at home, not I
4 miss this opportunity
: We see in the CITIZEN, a notice Of Sen
ator LOgan's bill to establish work