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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06
Courier-JournaIisms.

"When it costs the Government
$4OO, ,OOO," says an exchange, @to re-
pair a vessel whose first cost was
$4,000, it's about time for some
one to howl" It certainly is; and,
if you'll keep within the neighbor-
hood Of Robson until Whitthorne's
committee comes to that item, you'll
hear him howl.
"The most annoying thing for
Americans abroad the coming sea
son, says the Allegheny pa. J Mail.
evil be thai, in nine cases out Of
ten, they viii be taken for fugitives
from Justice" And, unfortunately,
in too many cases those BY whom
they are thus taken viii not be mis-
taken.
It is not generally known why
Zack. Chandler once declined the
Spanish mission. It was ali be
cause somebody told him that there
was no awr in the Spanish Ian
guage. AS there was NO Nv" in
Spanish, he couldn't see how the
dickens there could be any whisky
in Spain.
SIN England the appropriations
for the House Of Lords and tie
House Of Commons" says an ex-
change, " much smaller than those
annually made in the United States
for the support Of Congress" or
course. In England they don't find
it necessary when appropriating
penny for legitimate expenses to
add a pound for steslage.
----@se----
Edwin Booth cleared $50, coo by
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06
0Hf'lornHs.
The New Preacher.

At a pleasant country station,
Full of eager expectation,
Sat a waiting congregation,
At church one Sunday morn.
The san poured in food Of light,
Which fell on heads by time made white,
On sunny curls and eyes of light,
That lovely Sunday morn
There sat the young and beautiful
There sat the good and dudful-
The aged and the sorrOwful--
That Christian Sunday morning.
There for the first, with form and feature,
Resembling much fellow-ereature,
Within the pulpit their new preacher,
Appeared that Sunday morn.
He spoke with freedom, zeal and power
TO him it was a blissful hour;
Twelve, tolled the bell in the old tower
That did the church adorn.
Some lingering at the close OF meeting.
To give the brethren friendly greeting;
I've not the power Of repeating
All that was said that noon;
For butcher, baker, lawyer, teacher,
People every trade and feature,
AL criticised the humble preacher,
That they had heard that morn.
The lawyer said, ''He'll not suit me;
No flowery strains, nor lueucy,
No logic, or philosophy,
His sermon did adorn."
An old man said, ''He spoke too low
Ny hearing is not good, you know
Besides, he reads too much; and so
l cannot like the man."
A sister said, "He is too tall,
His hands too large, his eyes to small;
do not like his looks at all;
They've sent us the wrong man.
"And then his wife, depend upon it,
She'll not suit here with that gay bonnet;
Pm sure she had flower on it,
And she our preachers wife !"
Another pious soul sincere,
Who gave full fifty cents year,
Said to his cOnsort fair, ''My dear,
l never in my life,
"Did 90 to church to critieise;
But this vain man { he wiped his eyes,
And in lower tone he sighs)
1 never viii support"
But there are some, both wise and good,
A blessing to the neighborhood,
Who spoke as Christians always should,
Wlth Christian charity,
o colld the wind have talked and heard
Each idle. eritieising word;
i'The servants not above his Lord
Methinks 'twould sadly moan.
Useless attempt to please mankind;
Fault-fnders you viii always h1d-
Though Gll the virtues be combined
In any great divine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06


The Tobacco Leaf insists that the
State can pay. With characteristic
observation-disclosures it says.
There is, unfortunately, dispo
sition on the part of the people Of
Tennessee to overstate their grieysn-
ces and underestimate their ability
to pay. That there was a panic il
1873, and that a time Of great hard
ship and enforced economy super
vened, are facts that cannot be de-
MED; but that very blow was a health
symptom. It denoted the end Of
disease. Tho fever of unnatural
speculation, Of inflated prices, orun-
substantial trade, and unstable and
baseless prosperity, then left the
system. II the time between the
unnatural stimulation Of n fevered
state and the return Of the yigor
and fire of health, the energy OF
sound and stable condition,
be one Of great prostration and fee
bleness, it nevertheless indicates a
certain return to health and vigor,
and sound and substantial trade.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06
Cure for Small Pox.

A great discovery has recently
been made by a surgeon in the
British army in China, in the way
of an effectual remedy for small pox.
The mode Of treatment is as FOL
lows: "When the preceding fever
is at its height, and just before the
eruption appears, the chest to be
rubbed with eroton oil and tartarie
ointment. This causes the whole
of the eruption, to appear on that
part Of the body, to the relief OF the
rest. 1t also secures a full and
complete eruption and thus pre-
vents the disease from attacking she
internal organs. This is now the
established mode OF treatment in
the English army in China, and Is
regarded as a perfect cure.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06

What would be the public senti-
ment in a town orneighborhood ia
man owning $500 worth Of proper
ty, liable to be sold on execution,
and owing $500 were to rufuse to
pay his debt upon the ground that
he was not aBls2 And yet We have a
State, and that State the State Of
Tennessee-whose assessed proper
ty at low yaluation-amounts to fvs
hundred million Of dollars, with debt
on it of less than s25, 900, 600 and
there are people in it who gravely
allege that Tennesses cannot pay
her debt, and propose to repadiate
IL, or scale it. And the proportion
between $500 and S25. and $500
100000 and SIS, 5,0o0.0oois precisely
the samel Some PLAIN folks would
call the man in the first instance a
sconndreL What should the other
be callsdf-G Gallaan Eraasiaer.
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The pencil marks yen see around this
paragraph lthns) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested 10 pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit 70 our friends and patrons. bat
cash alone viii yay our expenses, ard
We are. forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule We hope yon win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
~ We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06
Play or Pay.

The most unobservant reader of
the Tennessee newspapers cannot
have failed to have seen that the
most important issue of the coming
State canvass will be that Of the
Public Debt of the State. It can
not be set aside or ignored Can
didates for office will have to come
up to the mark and indicate precise
ly where they stand upon the ques-
tion. No blinking will be allowed,
and no sitting on the fence So as to
fall to advantage. We have no hes
itation IN placing this journal in
line upon the question. since it has
uniformly supported the policy Of
acting as honestly in our public as
we should in our private obliga-
tions.-G Gallatia Eraminsr.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06

Banning's bill for the reorganiza-
tion Of the army wiils among other
things, abolish the negro regiments.
Thus, gradually, the wards Of the
nation" are dropping down from
high position back to the OBJ
security where the Radicals found
them--ApPeal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06

Advertisement from a New York
paper OF I776: aTo be sold for no
fault but want Of employ. a likely
healthy Negro Wench. IS years Of
age. has had the smallpox and
measles. Enquire Of the Printer"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06

Col John II. Savage made a
speech at Smithville recently favor
ing State repudiaiion.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06
Agents, Beware.


Agents, Beware.
From the National Republican,
The lady called her husband to
see the new invention, and the agent
explained its workings to him.
As the husbands eye fell upon the
agent a wicked thought flashed
through his brain, and he deter
mined to be revenged.
eThis is a new invention" began
the agent, Ito enable the ladies to
draw back their skirts much tighter
than at present and at the same
time allow them to sit down. 1t is
called the high-fangled, drawback
and squeeze together, new nsOdus
opeyandi. Ladies say 1 am a labor
saving benefactor, that I am an ev-
erlasting@,"
"Wait!' shouted the husband;
''please explain its workings again -
The agent did so.
'Wby, that would make a good
hay-hoister."
"Yes," answered the agent; "but
it is more particularly designed for
ladies"
The husband sent for his daugh-
ter to examine the invention.
"This is a new, unparalled, up
right longitudinal, square-shaped,
perpendicular, two degrees south by
four west, extra strong, sling to-
gether and squash-up, pull-back
dress invention, which I am selling
for only one dollar. Ladies call me
a--
"Hold onr' shouted the husband
and father, "until 1 call my other
daughter" and he waltzed out Of
the room and returned with the
hired girl and the chambermaid.
"You see, ladies'" began the
agent, ''this is a flop over and stand
you-up, magical, tragical, two
strings to the right and one in the
center invention for pulling back
your skirts" and he went on for
half an hour, during which time the.
husband slipped over to the next
house and induced the imates to
come over and hear the agent talk
He returned with six women and
children just as the agent was wind
ing up for the fourth time. Escort
ing one person into the room at a
time he had the agent tell each one
about the invention" He station
ed small boy out in the hall with
lead pencil, who was instructed to
make mark on the wall every time
the agent repeated his story. The
stock he had brought in was ex-
hausted about noon, when he sent
a messenger around the ward to
send in the neighbors, and kept it
up without intermission till near
midnight
As the sun disappeared behind
the western horizon the agent began
to show signs of fatigue, but the
husband was as fresh as ever
Eleven minutes TO twelve O'Clock,
the agent, who had Just completed
his yarn, for the two hundred and
sixteenth time, looked up and gasp
ed. A glass of water was thrown
in his face, and the husband told
the boy to run in half a dozen more
persons. Tor he thought he could
finish the agent now in about an
hour and a half The boy left to
rouse up the neighborhood, to fnd
half a dozen who had not yet
heard the story of the invention
When he was absent frequent stimu-
lants had to be given the agent to
prevent him from fainting. Short
y the boy returned saying that no
more neighbors could be found, as
they had all gone on an excursion.
The husband, on hearing this, was
in dispair, but he had the agent re
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06

The firm Of Woods, Yeatman q
Co, Of Nashville, has failed-liabii-
tiles about S250,00o.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-06

Edwin Booth cleared $4,000 by
his Southern starring tour.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-27
A Singular Weather. Gauge.

MICHAEL REIFsNYDER is a well known
citizen, aged some n%inety-two years and
of excellent health. In fine weather he
takes his walk each day, and watches the
improvements IN the various parts of the
city, and thus he preserves his robust
pure ar.
Yesterday an Eagle reporter asked Mr..
Reifsnyder if he ever gave any special at
tention to the observation of the weather
with a view of foretelling the character OF
the weather in advance. He said;
80 yes; l have something to go by that
is more reliable than any almanac or
other kind of weather indicator-it is the
breast bone of a young goose. Some
twenty-five years ago the miller at Krick's
Mill foretold the weather in this a He
showed me how, and | have been using
the same kind of indicator ever since.
Each fall l secure the breast bone of a
goose and, by experience, | i have found it
to be a reliable barometer.
You will observe that the middle por-
ton of the bone is white, indicating mild
weather, which we are having now. We
will shortly have colder weather, as these
dark portions show, and we will have
some snow, but not near so much as last
winter. The end of the bone is quite
dark, and the month of March will be
about as cold and rough as any,"
Some persons use the breast bone of =
duck to ~foreteIl the weather by.-Reading
lPa.l EaqLe.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-27
Snow From the Mountains.

STRANGERS sojourning in this city dur
Ing the winter are surprised to see the air
full of snow when the sky is clear in every
direction. They seem to witness the pho
nomenon of snow falling from the blue of
the heavens. They presently discover that
the peak of Mount Davidson, which rises
high above the town on the west, The
prevailing winds are from the west, and
these, when they are above the strength of
a breeze, catch up the snow on the top
and sides of the mountain, and waiting it
along presently allow it to sift down over
the town. Last night, although but a
moderate breeze was abroad, there were
times when for an hour the air was filled
with fine particles Of snow, which tioated
about so airily that they were easily mis-
taken for little needles of frost. When a
heavy gallo is blowing after a recent fall
of snow this sowing of the flakes is seen
on a grand scale. Great whirlwinds form
and are playing about in the eddy under
the lee OF the mountain, and the snow
gathered and carried aloft is presently
hurled down upon the town and whirled
through the streets in binding showers.
Thus at times when the sky is perfectly
clear more nov may be seen in the town
than is often seen to fall directly from the
clouds even during the heaviestof storms.
When snow is both falling from the
heavens and blowing from the mountains
it is then that we have wild and uncom
Portable weather; it is then that you can
reach out into the air and pick up snow
by the handful as it is passing by. These
falls of now might be called aerial
avalanches.- - Virginia (Nep.) Enterprise.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-27
Dull Great Men.

DEscARTEs, the famous mathematician
and philosopher; La Fontaine, celebrated
for his witty fables, and Button, the
naturalist, were all singularly deficient i'll
the powers of conversation. Mormontel,
the novelist, was so dull in society that a
friend said of him after an interview: II
must go and read his tales in recompense
to myself for the WEAKNESS of hearing
him." As 10 Corneille, the greatest dram
atist of France, he was completely lost
in society-sO absent and embarrassed that
he wrote of himself a witty couplet i'm
porting that he was never Ineligible but
through the mouth of another. Wit on
paper seems to be something widely diff
ferent from that play of words in onver-
sation which, while 1t sparkles, dies; for
Charles H., the wittiest of monarchs, was
so charmed with the humor of "Hudi-
bras" that he caused himself to be intro
duced in the character OF a private gentle
man to Butler, the author. The witty
King found the author a very dull com
panion, and was of opinion with many
others that so stupid a fellow could never
have written so clever a book. Addison,
whose classic elegance has long been
considered the model Of style, was shy
and absent in society, preserving even be,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-27
IS Seeing q Man," and Its Results.

Nor many months ago, in India, a gen.
tleman and wife having taken passage for
England went on board with their bag
gage. Presently the husband discovered
that there was time for him to go ashore
and see a nan. He went, he saw, he was
conquered and when it occurred to him
that it was time to go aboard again he
hailed a boatman and ere long found HIM
self on board a large passen ger-ship. 1t
was night. A sleepy steward inquired
the number of his cabin, which he CHANGED
to remember, as also that his was the up
per berth; so he contrived to Chamber into
it without disturbing his wife, as he sup
posed, who slept beneath. But when
dawn broke, and the ship was well on her
way, a feminine voice was heard Shrek
ing, in a tone of terror: "Steward, stew
ard! there's a man in my cabinr" The
wretched man was aroused, and the situa-
ton explained to him. He had mistaken
the ship. They were under weigh for
Australia, and his unhappy wife was
steaming away to England under a firm
conviction that he had been robbed and
murdered by ~ruf1ians who frequent the
quays. When he at length arrived in
Australia he Could not even there re-
lieve her mind, as the cable connecting
that country with Europe was not COM
pleted-it having, in fact, only now been
working little more than a year-so that
about four months passed before she heard
anything of him.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-27
" Never Man Spake Like This Man,

NEVER was truth made so vital as when
novelty in Jesus to call God His Father.
The word had been used before often
enough. But the world, by all its wis
dom, had not learned to know God as its
Father. Now, little children, by the side
OF their small cribs, say in infantile trust:
"Our Father. who art in heaven;' and
the martyr at the stake cries out in assured
faith: " Father, into Thy hands l COM
mend my spirit" Jesus, because He was
vitality conscious of the Fathers love, has
made mankind also conscious of it. "To
them who believe in Him, to them gave
He power to become the son of God" 1t
was no novelty when Jesus taught men
to overcome evil with good, to bless those
who cursed them, help those who perse-
cuted them, love those who hated them.
The thing had been said before but now it
was done. Now it was said and done so
llvingly that it was not a mere far-otf ideal
but a commonplace fact, an actual eves.t
in human life, a safe rule to go by. To
tell of a future life was no novelty. The
Egyptians taught a future life in all its
minutest details. Nearly every ancient
nation believed in immortality. And yet
it is true that life and immortality were
broughtto lightly the Gospel" Before they
were vague possibilities, dim conjectures.
But he who believes in Jesus has eternal
life abiding in him. Faith in immortal.
ity becomes a part of the texture of his
soul, as it was a part of the texture of the
soul of Jesus Himself. He was the n.
mortality, the resurrection, the eternal
life. He did not prove it by elaborate but
u~nconvincing arguments, as Socrates in
the Ph@do nobly argued for 1t, expectant
of death, amid the laurels and myrtles of
an Athenian summer day. But Jesus was
full of that immortal life which dispels all
images Of decay, and puts death at an i'm
possible distance. These vital truths are
the deepest, and also the highest. They
have a character of the infinite about
them. Who has not noticed this in read
ing the words of Jesus? No commentary
e'0i oAlidusE thcil HisanluS. Inc WORDS
grow more luminous, their meaning deep
ems while l am thinking about them.
That is why Paul speaks of the breadth
and length and depth and height of the
love of Christ, the knowledge of which
"passeth knowledge" That which is
vital is inexhaustible. We cat and drink
and come again, and the banquet is still
spread, new, every morning, with daily
bread for the soul.-James Fomah
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-27

the best from the surface in among tne
roots, filling every interstice and bringing
every root in contact with the soil. When
the earth is nearly filled in, a pail OF
water may be thrown on to settle anu
wash in the earth around the roots; then
fill in the remainder and tread gently with
the foot. The use of water is seldom
necessary, except in dry weather, early IN
fall or late in spring. Guard against
planting too deep; the trees; after the
ground settles, should stand in this re-
spect as they did in the nursery. Trees
on dwarf stocks should stand so that all
the stock be under the ground and no
more. In very dry, gravelly ground, the
holes should be dug twice the usual size
and depth and filled in with good loamy
soil. If trees are tall and much
exposed to winds, a stake should be
planted with the tree, to which 1t
should be tied in such a manner
as to avoid chatting. A piece of mating
or cloth may be put in between the tree
and the stake. When the tree is planted
throw around it as far as the roots extend
and a foot beyond five or six inches deep
of rough manure or litter. This is par
ticularly necessary in dry ground, and is
highly advantageous everywhere, both IN
spring and fall planting. 1t prevents the
ground from baking or cracking, and
maintains an equal temperature the
roots. Grass or weeds should not be al
lowed to grow around young trees after
being planted, as it stunts their growth
and utterly ruins them. The ground
should be kept clean and cut loose around
them until at least they are of bearing
size. Place the packages, if frozen, un-
opened in a cellar or some such place,
cool, but free from frost, until perfectly
thawed, when they can be unpacked and
either planted or placed in a trench until
convenient to plant. Treated thus they
will not be injured by the freezing. Trees
procured in the fall for spring planting
should be laid in trenches in a slanting
position to avoid the winds; the situation
should also be sheltered and the soil dry.
A mulching ON the roots and a few ever
green boughs over the tops will afford
good protection.-N. Y. World.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-01-27
And He Did.

AN old man with a soldiers overcoat on
and carrying a big hickory staff in his
hand entered an office on Griswold street
yesterday TO make some inquiries about a
person named Johnson. He left the door
wide open as he entered, and was walking
across the room, when the shivering occu-
pant yelled out:
"Shut the doorr"
did you speak to me-" inquired the
old man, as he halted.
"Yes, sir, l spoke to you!"
"What did you say?"
81 said shut that door,"
(Which door,"
"The one behind you, sir. This is not
a saw-mill, sir!"
did l say that this was a saw-mill?"
inquired the man. Don't you suppose
l know an office from a saw-mill"
"Why don't you shut the door?''
screamed the man behind the desk.
"Do you want the door shut"
yes"
"Then I will shut it. There, the door
is shut. Now, let me ask if you know a
man named Johnson 2"
Yes; a thousand of them!'
"Will you tell me where l can find any
of them ?"
ono, I won't! If I knew a million
Johnsons l wouldn't tell you where you
could find a blamed one of the lott"
Very well, SIR" said the old man as
he turned to go, "that's what l get by
obliging you. Not one man in ten would
have shut that door for YOU"
81 don't want it shut" growled the
Office man.
"Then, sir, ! shall leave it open, SIR
said the old man as he vent out.
And he did. A coal -scuttle went down.
stairs after him, but it is seldom that you
can hit a man after he has got ten feet the
start.-Detron Free Press.