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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
Clippings.

Old John .Robinson's circus has
started out. It will probably visit
our city.
You can now see the truant ur-
chin sitting on the banks of Sugar
Creek waiting for a bite.
When a man is bound to go a
fishing, nothing but a funeral in the
family will prevent him.
The attentive gardner now gets
out before breakfast and proceeds
to exterminate the cut-worm.
Make little garden about now,
that your neighbor's hens may not
be idle when seeds begin to sprout.
Low necked shoes, with large sill
yer buckles and striped stockings,
will be worn to a great extent this
summer.
Gratitude is the music Of the heart
when its cords are swept by the
breeze of kindness. How little We
have now dsys.-Brolsnssitle Dem
ocras.
The successful merchant is always
the one who keeps the best goods
and treats his customers the best.
The successful merchant always
meets his customers with a smile
and a shake of the hand. The sue
cessiul merchant makes his visitors
feel at ease and at home when they
visit his store. The successful mer
chant is just as pleasant when sell
ing a spool of thread as he is while
selling a silk dress. The successful
merchant always advertises.--IJid
At the present writing we are ex
pecting nothing extremely startling
for the next issue Of our pa per, anC
in consequence, we'll offer a libera
reward to the individual who vii
blow the north side of his head of
with a shot gun, cut both legs of
up to the knees- with a chopping ak
gouge his eyes out with 4 pitch forl
tine, sell his ears for barn doors, ca
ten bushels Of raw Irish potatoes
without stopping, and fall over th'
fence running from the load of I
shot gun. P. S.-Extra induce
ments to the man who viii bs
spunky enough to asusanicide. -
Ibid.
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As rapidly as fractional currency
is received in exchange for silver,
paper money will be destroyed, but
it is the purpose of the Treasury
Department to hold for reissue in
case Of future necessity such frac-
tional currency as may be presented
by banks and other parties for re
demption in greenbacks, of which
there is now on hand about $780,
600. The Director of the Mint has
ordered the mints to do extra work
in order to coin silver as rapidly as
possible. About two million dol
lars per month can De coined in the
mInts when worked to their full ca
pacity. Should the bill pass now
under consideration in the Senate,
which provides new silver dollar
to be legal tender, except for Gus
toms duties and interest on the pub
lie debt, to the extent of twenty dol
lars, and with green backs may be
redeemed dollar for dollar, it will
make necessary the establishment
of an additional mint.
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.sFive Hundred Dollars. .
-st. Louis Republican. !


There are only four lines, but
they are worth reading:
Letters of administration were
granted to James L. Blair on the
estate of Francis P. Blair, jr., de-
ceased, valued at $500"
To live ffty-four years and die
worth five hundred dollars. is not
making the most of ones opportu
nities-as times 60. Francis P.
Blair waseyidenhy not the man for
the times, as times go; that is, if a
man is to be measured by the mon
ey he makes out of the times. He
ought to have been a rich man;
very wealthy man; and would have
been if he had followed suit with
many other public men. He had
the opportunities, thousands Of
them, but he seems to have missed
them all or passed them by-for he
lived to be fifty-four years old and
died worth five hundred dollars.
He was the brains, blood, bone,
muscle, life of a great political party
in this state for years, and when it
was the supreme power in this city
and county. 1t does not appear,
however, that he ever made any
money by it. He was three times a
member of Congress, and at the be
ginning of the war was in such
position as chairman of the military
committee of the House as to have
commanded the pick of contracts
and his own selection of war slush.
He was singularly remiss, however,
in making hay while the sun shone.
Then he was made a general, but
there was not much money in being
a general such as he was, for he was
always pounding away at the front,
getting more kicks than half
pence" He did not make any
money by being a general. Some
generals did, but somehow he had
not the kaack of Is. Then he went
to the United States Senate. Here
was another golden opportunity.
Some men have been known to make
handsome fortunes by going to the
Senate; to go in poor, in fact, and
come out wealthy. 1t was not
Blair's way. While other public
men were building fortunes in their
way, and according to the way of
the times, he never appeared to care
for money. And so he died. After
living fffty-four years and toiling,
toiling, toiling as few men have
eyer done, he died leaving five hun
dred dollars.
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American snobbery.

Peru and Brazil occupy about the
same rank among the nations of the
globe. Gen. Prado, President elect
of Peru, has met with no official
greeting whatever in this country,
but over Dom Pedro, Emperor of
Brazil, a tremendous splurge is be-
ing made. The difference in the y el
come of the two men does not arise
from the fact that Americans care
more for Brazil as a nation than
they do for Peru, but from the cir
cumstance that the former is an
Empire and the latter only a simple
Republic. The enthusiasm of the
American people over Republican
institutions does not lead them to
90 crazy over the visiting Presi.
dents of neighboring Republics, but
their admiration for kings and EN-
perors is sufficient to give those
gentlemen a royal reception when
ever they come among us.
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NUM-. 10.
FlOtsam and Jetsam.


An Incorporate printer is a typo
graphical err-er.
Disturbing the grave-Making a
sober man laugh
When is a fowls neclxllke a bell?
When it is rung for dinner.
The individual who was injured in
the discharge of his duty is still
very low.
A man has eye-dentided himself
with a lamp-post by running against
one and injuring his sight.
An exchange speaks of a woman
who is SO cross-eyed that when she
weeps. tears from her left eye fall
on her right cheek.
The spring style of hand organ
has only one stop. 1t begins in the
morning and stops at night.
A Chicago lady, whose lord and
master INDUCES rather freely in the
convivial glass, says he is a kind
but indulgent husband.
When a loafer enters the sanctum
of busy editor, and the editor
says. ''glad to see you're back, .
what does he mean?
"How one thing brings up snoth-
err said lady, absorbed in pleas
ing retrospection. "Yes," replied
the practical Dobbs, san emetic, foi
instance"
An Illinois preacher who believed
that fire insurance was defying the
Lord, is now living in barn until
his congregation can find him an
other house.
Wanted, at this office, about four
bushels of poems on Spring.
Our Office boy who sells the waste
paper, wants to raise money to &C
to the Centennial opening.
a printer out West, whose office
is two miles from any other build
ing, and who hangs his sign on q
limb of tree, advertises for boy
he says, "a boy from the country i.
preferred"
She held up a small bottle, anC
said she wanted five cents worth o
panegyric for the baby's collie. S,
he gave her Judge Porter's defens'
of Babcock, and said it was not tivt
cents worth, but it was all he had
And thou son of man, be no
afraid of them, neither be afraid o
their words, though briers ant
thorns be with thee aud thol
dost dwell among scorpions; be no
afraid of their words nor be dis
mayed at their looks, though the.
be a rebellious house.
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The Moulton (Ala.) Aduertiser,
the bantling of our youth, is now
one of the neatest and best papers
in the State. 1t looks very little
like the said b. of our v. now, but
we yet entertain a strong affection
for it. and the dear old town OF our
nativity, in which it is printed.
Maj. D. C. White, our immediate
successor, is still at its helm, and
has succeeded in making fame and
fortune. Long may he wave, and
long may the generous and chival-
rous people of old Lawrence live
and prosper to support him and
honor him. But there are one or
two sad reflections which come up
just here. The old land marks are
rapidly passing away from about
old Moulton, and there are left but
few familiar names or faces to us.
Our school companions have gone
to work in other fields or been
transplanted to other climes, while
our sweethearts, whom we remem-
ber as bright-eyed girls, have be
come matrons, and widows, and an
gels. Our kindred have nearly all
departed thence, either to the West
or to the skies. Still we love old
Moulton and the Advertiser.
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Ed. r. BUCKLAND.

HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIvEs,W WASH
INGToN, D. c., April 2, 1876.-Ed.
r. Buckland. Esq.-Dear Sir: I have
a letter from you in which you ex-
press a desire to hear from me, sub
scribing yourself as my friend.
Have been too busy to answer
earlier. understand your letter,
it indicates a belief on yoar part
that all the falsehoods put forth by
the Republican press are true. The
better-informed men of your party
know that most of these things are
said and published to distract atten-
ton from the robberies which have
been, and are now being, perpetra-
ted By Republican of1iceholders. So
long as you are kept in the belief
that 1 am fool or knave enough TO
90 round shaking hands with, and
congratulating, "Ben'' Hill for abus-
ing the keepers of our prisons, OF
course you have no time, if you
have the disposition, to remember
how your political friends are steal
ing here, at St. Louis, Chicago, and
wherever else they find anything to
steal. ''Be virtuous and you viii
be happy" Respectfully yours,
VIZ. r. MORRISON.
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What to Teach Our Boys.

In answer to the question, ''What
shall we teach our boysY PROFOUND
ed recently in the Cincinnati Times,
Gale Forest replies as follows:
Teach them to respect their eld-
ers and themselves. Teach them
that, as they expect to be men some
day, they cannot too soon learn to
protect the weak and helpless.
Teach them to saw wood, split
it, bring it in, carry water, empty
slops, make the fires, tend the baby,
and make themselves otherwise
generally useful around the house.
Teach them how to run a sewing
machine, and properly use needle
and thread.
Teach them, by your own exam
pie, that smoking in moderation,
though the least of the vices 10
which men are heirs, is disgusting
to others and hurtful to themselves.
Teach them that to wear patched
clothes is no disgrace, but to wear a
"black eye'' is.
Teach them that dime novels and
similar reading are an invention of
Satan.
Teach them that "playing cards"
may lead to gambling.
Teach them that swearing is an
unnecessary evil.
Teach them that strong drink,
indulged in, means disgrace and
ruin.
Teach them that true lady may
be found in calico, quite as fre-
quently as in velvet.
Teach them that common school
education, with common sense, is
better than a college education
without it.
Teach them that one good, hon
est trade, well mastered, is worth q
dozen beggarly professions"
Teach them that "honesty is the
best policy''-that tbs better to be
poor than to be rich on the profits
of "crooked whisky ETC., and point
your precept by examples of those
who are now suffering the torment:
of the doomed.
Teach them that the more they
save before, the more comfortabl,
they can live after marriage.
Teach them that every two-leg
ged animal that walks the streets ii
not a man, even though he wears
the emblems.
Teach them that to be a man
"with all that name implies" il
now a-days a phenomenon.
Teach them that God is no re
specter of sex, and that when h
| gave the seventh commandment b.
meant it for them as well as 70
their sisters.
Teach them that by indulgin;
their depraved appetites in tn
worst forms of dissipation, they ar
not fitting themselves to becom
the husbands of pure girls.
Teach them that it is better to b
an honest man seven days in tn
week, than to be a Christian {?
one day and a william six days.
Teach them that "God helps thos
who help themselves"
Do all this and you viii hay
brought them up 'fn the way the
should 60"
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1t is highly probable that the
widow of Alexander I. Stewart win
be annoyed and prosecuted beyond
measure BY beggars OF various de-
grees, even now that Judge Hilton
is employed 70 assist her in dis
bursIng it. II she had retained the
whole she could not, during her
life, give away more than sEe merest
fraction of the interest Of her vast
fortune. II she knew on whom TO
bestow IL, and occupied all her time
in making small donations, she
could not give It all away during
her lifetime. Suppose her TO be
worth $50, 100000, and 70 disburse
only the interest," she could get rid
Of $4,000 day, or $1,000 every
working hour. In other words, she
could perpetually give away SIC a
minute for ten hours of every work
ing day and never touch the princi-
pail # resolved to transfer TO 9th
ers the entire fortune. it would take
her a year II she counted out 50 90
a second Gyaphic.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
For the CITIzEN.
Spring.

The cheerful days are coming nos0,
That gladden. all the year;
Of fragrant buds and verdant bough,
And songsterE full of cheer.
The earth with beauty 8olU is wreathed,
Al things her joys Roag share,
There Is not cen sigh to breathe,
Upon the balmy air.
The trees are out in living green;
They ara lloa0 the forests pride;
The tender vine may Ros0 be seen
Olambering up their side.
And trees and vine viii soon entwine
To form pleasant bowers,
Where may be spent, in shade OF shine,
Both sweet and happy hsurs.
NOss in the valley and the wood
Are the flowers fresh and fair;
Their sweets are by the breezes wooed,
And sent upon the air.
The zephyrs waft the falling dews
To kiss the biushing flowers,
The sweet caress they don't refuse
Amid their shady bowers.
The bee is humming on the breeze
In search of flowery sweets,
The merry birds are in the trees;
Their song the echo Rreets.
And aoa0 they build their little nests
Where leafy bowers disguise;
Love yelling in their happy breasts,
Joy beaming in their eyes.
The grass is coming fresh and green;
It's creeping everywhere,
Earth's naked bosom nOS0 to screen,
And eager fOcks to cheer.
The dimpled stream s,0iO gently glides
Through howery wales and meadow,
And azure skies in crystal tides
Shine double, skies and shadow.
The bright winged clouds noaO float about
All fTinged with silver sheen,
While ali at once the sun shines out
Their parted sides between.
And now and then the day seems made
OF bright and sunny hours,
And now end tnen Of light and shade.
Of sunshine and of flowers.
All nature nOlo delights, beguiles,
In bright and sweet disguise,
Her happy face nan bushes, smiles,
And gives glad surprise.
For t'is the season of the year
With grace and beauty bright,
When everything that's sweet and dear,
Is coming into light.
The fowery fields, the sunny skies
Their pure delights disclose;
They charm the heart, delight the eyes,
And yield a sweet repose,
o mortal man, to whom are given
Scenes so bright and fair,
Spare one day from out the seven;
Their bliss and beauty share.
May 1st, 1876. Nj. D..
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Exposures.

We are not alarmed or discour-
aged by the exposures Of rascality
in high places and low, which greet
our eyes in almost every morning $
newspaper. The exposures are the
natural product of healthy reaction,
the preliminary steps toward the
national cure. So long as fraud
and speculation exist, the faster
these exposures come the better.
Every exposure is a preacher of
righteousness, an evangel Of reform.
The more dangerous rascality and
infideIity can be made to appear, the
better for society. In any cutane-
Gus disease, the more we see. of it
the better. 1t is before it appears,
or when it is sunk from the surface
shat it is most dangerous to the
sources Of life and the springs Of
cure.-Dr. J. g. Holland
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Unmltigated 1InlIonaires.


When one reflects upon the inn
mense wealth now possessed by the
four principal owners of the incal-
culably rich bonanza developed in
the Consolidated Virginia and Cali
fornia mines, at the north end of
the Comstock, the mind is dazed
with wonder, and figures after fig
ures are added to the already long
array until they shade off into the
misty realm of the fabulous and in
comprehensive. The wealth of the
Rothschilds, the Astors, and other
rich men noted in history and
known of the present time could be
counted, calculated, and defined by
regular estimates based upon proper
financial grounds and established
principles. But in this instance,
when we get to counting by the
hundred millions, and see hundreds
of millions beyond, with very pos
sible billions in prospective, and no
defined or understood or even
guessed-at limits to the great bo-
nanza or source of this immense
wealth, all figuring and calculation
is lost in a glittering, golden-hued,
and silver-starred armament or
boundless wilderness OF incompre-
hensible affiuence, the materializa-
tion Of a vast golden dream com
pared with which all others palesin-
to utter insignifcance. Cresus,
Aladdin, Monte Christie, and Sin
bad the Sailor, were mere paupers
as compared with Mackay, Fair,
Flood & O'brien.-G Gold Hi (Nev. }
.Nea0s.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

What, after all, has the guilt or
innocence of Beecher to do with the
truth or falsehood of the Christian
religionf BY what sort OF logic is
the Presbyterian, Catholic, Episeo-
palian, Methodist or Baptist church
connected with Beecher2 Each man
is accountable for himself and not
for another. 1t is much to be de-
plored that one who occupies such a
high position as Mr.. Beecher should
be a pretext to the enemies of our
holy religion to speak evil of it,
but from the very first, the worst
members of the church have been
nominally members oft.
Among the twelve disciples there
was one Judas, who, for thirty piec-
es of silver, betrayed the Saviour.
Taking this as q rule, eleven
twelfths of the disciples were good
and true men, and it follows if the
same proportion be kept up, that
eleven out OF twelve Of our preachers
are good men. That will do pretty
we'll for fallen humanity. Let as
remember that the evil deeds OF an
other is no excuse for our own
wickedness.
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Two Letters.


The following correspondence,
which recently transpired, is good
enough to print:
MATTooN, Ill, Jan. %, 1876
Hon. William Morrison: Allow me to
drop you a few lines in regard to
that speech that Ben Hill made on
amnesty, and you went forward and
took him by the hand and congrat-
ulated him on his oratory. You
ought to went forward and took him
by the collar and kicked him out of
the Capitol. 1 am sorry that any
man from Illinois would no the like
of that-Democrat or Republican.
We have had all the war we want;
we want peace. U. S. Grant says
"Let no guilty man escape" I say
let no rebel escape. If you want to
know who 1 am, you go to John A.
Logan. was a soldier from Ohio,
First Ohio cavalry. Born and rails
ed there. Since the war have been
in Illinois eight years. Am a Union
man. You show Senator Morton,
or old Dick Oglesby, of Illinois,
this. Centennial-year men want to
elect a Republican president, and
we are going to do it, too. 1 am
an old Abe Lincoln man. 1 heard
him in his joint debate with Doug
lass, of Illinois, in 1858. I would
be very much pleased to hear from
YOU. Your friend,
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If no harmful disease comes
among the wheat, cake and biscuit
win be cheaper than corn bread in
this section next summer. And if
no disease breaks out among the
hogs, pork viii not be worth more
than FIVE cents next fall Just let
our people continue to plant plenty
Of corn, raise their own supplies,
keep out of debt, and we shall soon
be happy and prosperous.-Aoasl On
(Ala.) Advertiser.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

I he latest amusement is termed
the printers Delight and is per
formed in the following manner:
Take a sheet Of note paper, fold il
up carefully and enclose a bank note
sufficiently large to pay up all a.
rears and a year in advance. And
what adds immensely to the feat is
to send along the name Of a new
subscriber with cash to balance.
Keep your eye on the printer, and
if you detect a smile the trick is q
success. Try i.
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The marble statue of George d.
Prentice, executed to surmount the
stcne balcony which overhangs the
principal entrance to the Courier
Journal building, is now completed,
and will be unvailed with appro-
pirate ceremonies on the 18th OF
May. The statue is considerably
larger than life size, cut from a sol
id block of Carrara marble. Mons.
Boulay, the artist, who was brought
hither from Italy to do the work,
has been faithfully engaged upon il
for eighteen months, and has sue
ceeded in producing a most admira.
bic and graphic representation oi
the great journalist The statue is
taken in a sitting posture and is
thoroughly characteristic Of Mr
Prentice as ne was known by his
friends Couris1-JournaI.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

That ''big bonanza" in the Ne
vada mountains, which was struck
last year, was the richest treasure
in history, probably. The Consoli
dated Virginia, which is the stock
name for the mine, has just divided
its thirteenth monthly dividend of
81, I,0S0,000 gold! In twenty-three
months the mine has taken out
$30,000,000 of treasures, and divid-
ed $l7, ,26O,0OO of profits.
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The $75. exemption of household
furniture, plantation and mechan
ieal tools of, last year was repealed
by the last Georgia Legislature, and
there is no property exempt from
taxation in that State now but
churches, schools and public build
ings. All cotton, corn, annual crops
and provisions held for sale on and
after the 1st day of April of each
year are also taxable.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

An impecunious but ingenious
tramp left the colored population Of
Georgetown, Texas, poor in pocket
and sore in body by initiating
them, at two dollars and a half a
head, into "a lodge of Free Masons." ."
The principal part of the ceremony,
next TO paying the fee, consisted in
tying the candidate on a table, face
downward, and branding him with
a hot poker.
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0. that We had S real. genuine
Jacobs ladder that We might climb
up to the beautiful queen Of night
and tack to its horn a sign-hoard
ten thousand miles in length, with
letters painted thereon as large as
the southern Confederaey and Cape
Cod, that all the swelis, the gaioots,
the would-be letter-writers in these
United States could see and read it.
On said sign we would place. "No
Centennial Correspondence Want
.eir'