The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-04-20
Courier-.Journallsms.

Courier-Journalisms.
General Grant is sreported to have
exclaimed on Sunday, 4 wish to
Heaven the 4th of March, 1877, was
at handF' In which fervent prayer
many millions of American citizens
concur.
There seems to be little doubt
that, in order to drown his sorrows,
Grant has turned out to hard drink
ing''-that all he lacks now of be
ing a bloated bondholder is the
bonds.
They say that Mr. Ray, of West
Virginia, claims to have discovered
a better motor than Keeley's." That
he may have done, and have merely
discovered a blind mule
The New York Tribune declares
that the Democratic majority il
Congress Investigates only where
Republicans may be blackened."
That is because the Republicans
may be blackened wherever the ma
jority can investigate.
1t is said that Krupp, the can
non founder of Prussia, clears an
nually a million and a half OF dol
lars. If he could hire some Napo-
leon Bonaparte to shake up the
market for him, he would soon be
in comfortable circumstances, if not
wealthy.
Senator Morton has handled his
bloody flag so much with dirty
hands, says an exchange, "that its
hue of blood Is about to be obscured
by that Of dirt" Yes; of his two
shirts it is now difficult to say
which is the dirtier, the one lac
waves or the one he wears.
1t is wrong to suppose that all
the Bs are bad. 1t won't do to
trust Henry Ward Beecher, Orville
Babcock, William BeIknap and Ben
Butler; but Susan Banthony is the
queen B of the swarm.
Rochester Democrat and Chron-
iele: "Why should the Personal
man of the New York Herald inti-
mate that we have a brick in our
hatT' That's what we should like
to know, too. Knowing you to be
drunk, as usual, why doesn't he
come right out and say so without
any of his "demnition innuendoes?"
A correspondent of a New York
paper demands the passage of law
forbidding girls to marry before
they are twenty-five. And is he
fool enough to suppose that there
is one solitary bald headed old leg
islator at Albany, or anywhere else,
who could be hired to vote for such
a law as long as there is a posi-
bility that he may some day be a
widower?
It is said that Mrs. Watts Sher-
man, one of the wives Of Duncan,
Sherman e Co, who failed for
very large amount some tine ago,
is building a 100000 shanty at
Newport. To get largely in debt
to everybody, lay away half a mil.
lion or SO among your wife's petit
coats, and then fail, settling with
your creditors at two and a half
mills on the hundred dollars. is
about as safe and profitable a spec
ulation as an honest Christian gen
tleman can engage in without com
promising his character
Perhaps the most dissolute and
extravagant youth in New York is
Daniel Drew. 1t is said that within
the last five years he has squand-
cred $4,000, 600. But as Daniel is
not more than eighty years Of age,
be may die a rich man yet When
he accumulates another pile of that
size he will be apt TO lay a brick on
it, SO that the Wall street breezes
can't blow it away Having so
recklessly suffered his fortune %
slip through his fingers, he ought
70 feel that there is nothing. on
earth Of which he should stand ia
greater fear shan the foolkiller.