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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
PERSONALS.

Col. Spancue Hodkins, President
of the Colored Festibul Club of
Bucksnort, spent a few days in Pu-
laski this week looking for a con
venient hen-roost.
Miss Flora O'Flarity, ex-wash-
woman to our devil, was seen in her
back door Tuesday morning.
Mr.. Peter Jones has had his shirt
studs replated with oreide.
Our readers will be pleased to
know that Maj. Hezekiah Smash
has had his breaches patched.
Miss o. r., the asst colored
teacher at Pinchum, has had that
hole in her stocking darned.
Miss Julie Finch spent five days
at school last week.
Mr.. Geo. Blaine, the fashionable
assistant porter at the livery stable,
called on Col. Crenshaw's cook the
other evening.
Miss Flugity's favorite tom-cat
had kittens Monday at > O'clock
sharp.
Mr.. G. R. took pill Sunday eve
ming.
Col. Bluchard's chamber-maid' S
aunt arrived last Tuesday in time to
help her neice fix her pin-back for
the festibul that night.
Capt. Jack Lowry, the fancy rib
bon clerk in the barber shop, has
had that boil opened under his arm.
Miss Bridet O'Neil, who crimps
wales and fat meat for the hands
at ,Rodes' brick yard, got her little
finger bit off by flea one day last
year.
Gov. SHORTS front gate blew open
yesterday morning at , o'clock, Il
minutes and 238 seconds.
Neighbor Fruits old COW, Pide
bit the door knob off of Col. Hick':
pig pen Friday.
Judge Bond, ex-riddler in Gen
! Fats gut factory, stuck a splinter
in the heel o: his boot next week
Miss Ada Gush's old green sill
looks almost new since it was turned
Ex-Gov. Coolers neice's poodle
humps have struck in.
Our gallant young friend. Tob
Slob, has a fever-blister in his nose
Miss Margery Undertook
mouth looks like cellar door.
Old man Grabs sorrel calf chawe,
the name off of Peter Snob's saw
horse last Friday night at tn
concert.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
NJ. & X. RAILROAD.
Contracts out for the Grading.

1t will doubtless be 8 matter of
surprise to some who "knew the
NJ. d K. r. r would never be built"
to hear that contracts for thegrad-
ing of the road between Pulaski and
the Lawrence line have been let
out and that the work will com
mence at an early day. We make
this announcement from informa-
ton furnished US by one of the en-
gineers of the route and it can be
relied upon as correct. The build
ing Of this road through Pulaski
is thus put beyond the preadventure
of doubt, and we hope that now
the Fayetteville papers will ac-
quaint the people of Lincoln with
this fact so that they may take
steps at once to continue the road
through that county. They have
taken no action for the reason that
it was not settled we would get the
road, but now they can have a
substantial fact to work upon, for
aOe are going to build tie road. Giles
and Lincoln, two of the best and
richest counties in the south, lie
contiguous, while at the same time
Pulaski and Fayetteville, only thir-
ty miles apart, are as distant from
each other as Nashville and St.
Louis. Let us have a communica-
ton, men of Lincoln. and know
more about each other and help
each other. This railroad offers
the opportunity, and it is with Lin
coin to say whether or not she will
have it.
Messrs. Rodemer d Chinn, the
contractors, are men of large expe-
rience in Railroad building, and the
latter, who is now here awaiting the
arrival of his hands and carts, in
forms us that they will arrive to
day, that work will be commenced
Immediately upon the highlands,
and that it will be pushed to com
pletion at least by the first of Au-
gust. We are glad to know that
the chief Engineer is moving up
the work in Lawrence also, and that
there will be no delay there. Now
the gap between Lawrenccburg and |
the Wayne county line only remains
to be provided for to give us a GER
tainty of the road to the Tennessee
river at Clifton. Mr.. Chinn in
forms us that his supplies will be
purchased in Pulaski, if our mer-
chants will come to taw, and we
know they will do it. We congrat-
ulate the town, and the county, the
R. R. Co., and everybody concerned.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Capt. David Rhea has had framed
at Cakes d Co.'s a letter written bv
one of his ancestors, Rev. Jno. Rhea,
to a friend in England, dated Nov.
4, I'LL. He says he lives about
forty miles from a little town called
Baltimore. The letter contains
many matters of interest at that
time, but is now difficult of perusal.
He was a Presbyterian minister, and
the influence still predominates in
the family.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
Brown a. wilkes.

We have heretofore failed to call
attention to the card of this new
law firm. Capt. Wilkes is widely
known in Tennessee as the private
Secretary of Gov. Brown during
the four years he served as
Governor, and it is no disparage
ment to the Governor to say that
Capt. Wilkes proved himself emf
nently competent to run the gubar-
material machine. For the past year
ne has been assistant cashier of the
Giles National Bank, and now after
a retirement of five years from ac-
tive practice in his profession, he
returns 10 it with an experience and
partnership both valuable ano
enviable.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
Married.

At the residence of the brides
father, Rev. DR.. r. H. Rivers in
Pulaski, Thursday morning, Jan'y.
18th, Mr.. VIM. G. KENDRICK, of
Louisville, KY, to Miss LIZZIE D.
RIVERS.
Our best wishes follow the hap
Ply couple to their Louisville home,
for which they departed immediate
ly. Miss Lizzie has endeared her
self to this people by her many
amiabilities, and regrets for her
loss to this community are mingled
with the manycongratulations which
accompanied her from our midst.
DIED.--In Pulaski, Jan. 18th, at
4 o'clock A. NJ, of inflammation of the
brain, SUSAN NoLA, daughter of
Mrs. Annette An geline Bryant, aged
Is years, Al months.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

a long. lank negro man, with
patchwork breeches and an army
overcoat on, that looked as if they
had served their time in the Semi
mole war, yanked into Rosenau's
store the other day and winked Mr.
Smith off into corner, and with his
hand in his pocket, firmly grasping
the proceeds of bag of cotton, said
in a low tone: HAS yer got any
'spetabul elodingg' Mr.. Smith re-
marked that Rosenau's store was
that sort of a hair-pin, and led the
way upstairs to where a fine stock
of the fashionablest clothing resid-
ed. The scaly son of black aliga-
tor looked carefully over the lot
until he came across q blue-striped
coat with red lining, and he selected
it out and held it up and looked at
it and grinned all over his physiog
nomy, and then took it and stretched
1t out on the counter and seated
himself on the end of a boot box
and laughed till the rags which Gov
cred him shook and trembled like
ship-pennats in a storm. Directly
he subsidized and felt to see if he had
lost his cotton proceeds" and then
arose and beckoned to Mr.. S. and
carried him away off behind stack
of trunks and cautiously asked:
mister, what'd yer ask gem to
occupy one O dem feliows?" Smith
thought he would buy at any price,
he was so delighted, so he put the
modest price of $13 on the coat.
The feathered libel upon intelligent
citizenship proudly arose snd de-
parted as he said ''Damfi don't
war desc close till dey war out,
fustr'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
OOuruln Court.

A. d. Bull was granted letters of
Administration upon the estate of
Mrs. Phereby York, deceasd.
John P. Williams was appointed
administrator of Mrs. Susannah
Williams, deceased.
The viii of Mrs. Elizabeth
Crowder was probated and John
P. NJ. Compton appointed admins
traitor with will annexed.
Certificate of character granted
Geo. r. Kenney upon which to base
application for legal license.
Danl J. Ingram was appointed
guardian of James and Tennessee
Allen.
Ep- Tarpley, Esq, qualified as
Coroner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
LYNNVILLE.
CONTEMPT OF coURr.

A number of our citizens inno-
Gently came to grief at Pulaski last
week under the following circum-
stances. They were witnesses in a
criminal prosecution and the prose
cutor had engaged to telegraph, that
they might be on hand when wanted.
The message was unfortunately
dispatched in a double sense, by a
locomotive telegraph, that was rid
ing out of town, and did not reach
the parties till it was some hours
too late. Hence there was a spring
tide of wrath in the heart of the
generally patient Judge, and our
citizens who pride themselves on
their law abiding character are ex-
cessively annoyed. They hope the
next time the regular telegraph is
PASSED by, that the services of
the ox-cart Express Company
will be solicited. If courts contin
ue to increase in length and fire.
quency, as they have been doing,
the day is not far distant when these
five or six relays of juries will be
always on hand, and that fraction
of the population, that will not be
having or witnessing, will be too
small to be mentioned.
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.
Miss Sollie Fry has left for the
school of Mrs. Laramore, near Flor
ence, Ala. She will take charge of
the music class, a duty for which
none who have heard her need be
told she is eminently qualified
Miss Sallie Smith has gone to
jackson, West Tennessee, on a visit
to her relatives, which she expects
to lengthen out to several months,
and which we all hope will be short
ened to very few weeks. She will
be missed by every one.
BUSINESS.
There has been a heavier freight
sent from this place, during the last
few weeks, than at any previous
time. The prospects are, that these
exports will increase rather than
diminish. Messrs. Farmer, Smith
& Wagstaff advertised sometime ago
for 10000 bushels Of corn They
pay thirty-five and forty cents, and
have sent away about 2,000 bushels. |
During the last two months there
have been sent from this point 26
car loads of mules, one of cattle, 10
of cotton seed, II Of corn and 10 of
hogs. Besides this, there have been
about q car loads of cotton and
produce, 80 in all. People evident
Iy intend to sell everything they
cam Mr.. Lindsey has shipped
about half of the corn and cotton
seed, Mr.. Hoyte Fleming, DR.. John
son, Mr.. John E. Caruthers, Mr.. j.
Yokely, Houston q English, Grif-
fifth q Brodus are largely connected
with the trade. At such figures as
these, it will not be long before the
country is out of debt.
THE DEPARTED.
Dr. Fry, who is now citizen of
Old LynnvilIe, expresses himself as
highly pleased with the prospects
before;him. He has read largely in
the past, and keeps up with the day
in his profession. We hope that
his many merits will be fully recog-
nized in the intelligent and wealthy
country to which he is now more
accessible. And that he and his
noble wife will have all happiness
and prosperity in their new home.
Z. L. n
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
Centennial Reflections.

81, 100000 more is asked of Con
gress for the Centennial in one
minute, and in the next Senator
Morten flaps out his bloody shirt
and shakes it around, calling for a
committee to investigate Mississip-
pts deliverance, and trying to in
duce his colleagues to fasten the
chains back upon her. Northern
papers TEEN with appeals for South
ern aid to celebrate the great event,
while their representatives in Con-
gress prize open the wounds of war
that have been ten years in healing,
trying to GUST southerners from of
fee and disgracing themselves and
the country and the centennial year
by bowling over southern outrages,
when they are all committed by men
of their own party who can spare
the time from stealing. A hundred
years of independence has cult
mated in the grandest system of
thievery known to history, and filth
and slime and rottenness ooze from
the very pores of the centennial adj
ministration. The private sectreary
of the President stands indicted for
stealing the revenues of the govern
ment, and the President duplicates
himself by trying to shield him, if he
has not already implicated himself
by taking part of the spoils. And
we are asked to help to celebrate an
event the very remembrance OF
which calls shame to the cheek of
honest men, and even while they
are asking us they seek to drive
rivits in the chain of our bondage
and squeeze the filth from the bloody
rag as they wave it over our heads
A resolution offered in Congress tt
give union soldiers the preference
in appointments made by the mem
bers over Southerners smacki
terribly of that corciliatory spiri
which should characterize the ruler
upon centennial day. 81, 10000,
for centennial gush, and not a cen
for Southern Pacific Railroad be
cause it Is a southern project
These are facts, and they show tina
Cancellation is not to come from tn
other side. But we should not re
linquish the grand project for thes
reasons. Let us be manly withOu
fawning, and demand and take 70
ourselves an interest in the nation
welfare, shaming the miscreants VIII
howl and hurl their slang at us an
slvly steal our wealth from US. lie
us take the centennial in earnes
and celebrate it with a zeal that wi
put to shame and fight the rogue
and wretcheswhO have perverted on
institutions and driven honesty t
the dogs. Congress should driv
the last nail in the plank that bridge
the chasm by relieving the last ma
: of his political disabilities, and no
withstanding the gibes and mis-
representation and balderdash {
the men who joined the army aft,
the war was over, it should give al
to the centennial and make it trul
% an anniversary of freedom and IL
end of pickering and hate. An
then Wen bury those howlers in pc
lar coffins and send the devil a be
Y Of matches by each of them
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
Concert Friday Evening.

At the earnest solicitation of
many friends, Miss Mcclellan has
consented to repeat the concert ut
Martin College Friday evening.
The proceeds Of the first was insult
ficicnt to purchase the carpet de
sired for the stage, and the young
ladies hope the generous people of
Pulaski will give them such assist
ance on Friday evening as will ena-
BILE them to make the purchase. The
entertainment will be richly worth
the admission fee. Do not forget 1t.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

At the regular meeting of Lynnville
Grange, No. 360, the following pream-
bic and resolutions were adopted
Whereas, Death has again entered
our Grange and taken from us our be-
loved sister, Miss AMANDA j. BROWN,
who departed this life December 10th,
1875. In her death her family has sus-
tanned an irreparable loss, our order the
loss of a useful, worthy member, the
church and community rare jewel
She was kind, ailectionate daughter
and sister, and a steadfast friend. She
loved the cause of our Order, and de-
lighted in its success and prosperity
Her death recalls to our minds the SOL
emn reflection that all flesh is as grass
tlst cOmeth forth rs a flower and is cut
down, as a shadow that fleeth and con-
tinueth not.
We miss her footsteps from our hall,
Her voice, her smiles we miss them all;
While echoes wake on memoTy's ear,
The tones of one grown strangely dear.
We miss her and affections shrine
Shall hold an altar through all time,
Where amarRnths ard immOrtelle
Are woven with the asPhodel.
Therefore be it
ResOlUed, That while we bow in hum
BILE submission to the will Of the Allwise
AdstCAs VIC ctAANNlGA9 E4OuAn Tue AOSS Oh a
sister so worthy and true, and emulate
her virtues and noble example.
Resolged, That we as a Grange tender
to the bereaved family our heartfelt
sympathy in their bereavement.
ReSOlUed, That we wear the usual
badge of mourning for thirty days, and
the Grange be draped in mourning.
ReS0lUed, That this preamble and res
olutions be spread upon the minutes of
this Grange, a copy with the seal of this
Grange be sent to the family of the de-
ceased, and copy sent to the Pulaski
CITIZEN and Rural Sun for publication.
J. n. GRIGsBY,
NJ. NJ. JOHNSON,
w. c.. CARTER,
j. Ii. BURR0w.
Committee.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Patronize Home Industry! If
every man in Giles county would
do this, all kinds of manufacturing
establishments would spring up,mer
chants would prosper and everybody
else would prosper, because money
would be kept at home and be
abundant. To begin with, let us all
patronize Messrs Byers d Leonhard,
manufacturers of furniture, house
trimmings, mOuldings, flour, meal
&c, at the Rainey mills. Mr..
Leonhard is known TO many of our
citizens as one of the best mechan-
les in the country. We would be
glad to see them literally patron
lied
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Our Aspen Hill correspondent
was made to say last week that Mr..
Strong's marriage was witnessed by
"two men and dog," when he really
said "two men and a Joy." Though
the printer is excusable for mistak-
ing a boy for dog sometimes, and
especially when the chirography is
not very plain, yet we prefer not to
get boys and dogs mixed at a we'd
ding.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
Real Estate Transfers.

E. f. johnson to NJ. 7. Alternately,
100 acres, dist .$ zoo 90.
j. Z. Steele, Trustee, to G.
q NJ. y acre, j dist. 665 80.
Mary B. Mcdonald to a.
Houze, acres, 20 dist. lis 90.
a. J. to G. D. Menatree,
80 acres, 20 dist. 49,. 300 90
Ed. f. Everly to Nancy G.
Tarpley 7255 acres, 6 dist. 2,1sG 90.
S. B. to w. March, deed
gift, 2S21a acres, dist II
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Messrs. w. G. Lewis and Jas. Fl.
Jackson, we understand, have just
consummated huge trade, by which
Mr.. Lewis takes Mr.. Jackson's resi-
dence and a partnership in the liv-
cry business, and Mr.. jackson sue
ceeds to the Great House" that
overlooks Pulaski from the classic
brow Of Mud Hill.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

That boy of mine is the truth
fullest and tender heartedest chap 1
ever see said Mrs. Jinkens to Mrs.
Brown; and when Mrs. Brown went
to leave, as she passed out the front
gate she saw that boy in the Chin
ney-corner punching a cats eyes
out with n rusty nail, and when his
mother called to him and asked him
what he was doing he said he was
getting his Sunday school lesson.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Mr.. Geo. T. Riddle was elected
Cashier of the National Bank of Pu-
laski last Wednesday. Mr. Riddle
has been assistant Cashier for some
two or three years. and is in every
way qualified and fully deserves the
high confidence the directors have
placed in him.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Criminal Court has been all this
week engaged in the trial of Amanda
Brown, charged with burning Mr..
Ferry house some time ago, in
which his child was burned. The
case was being argued yesterday
evening.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Judge Jno. c. Lester occupied
the bench in Criminal Court this
week, trying a murder case in which
Judge McLemore was incompetent
by reason of relationship with the
prosecutor. Judge Lester presides
with dignity and ability.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Mr.. Willis Fortress, an old and
respectable citizen of Giles, died at
his residence, s miles north east of
Pulaski, at 3 o'clock yesterday
morning, at the advanced age of 76
years. The cause of his death was
curvature of the spine, caused from
extreme feebleness and old age.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Capt. Jas. r. Crow requests us to
say to his friends that when they
decide to come and eat him out they
had better not come ON Sunday. He
boarded with Mr.. Young last year
and got acquainted with doing with
out ANYTHING to eat o Sundays.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
oct2s-tf

Young man, don't waste your
means. Did you know that a nickel
saved each day amounted to $lS.25
year? If you will commence when
you are twenty one years old to
save thus your means, when you
are a hundred and no longer able to
work for your liquor you will have
laid up in the bank 81, 44l.75, and it
will be a source of extreme satisfac-
ton to you on your one hundredth
birthday to go to the bank to get
your nickels and find the bank
broke.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

C%- Sumpter & Lacey keep constant
" on hand, and are receiving daily all
Kinds of Drugs, Medicines, fine Per-
fumery, Toilet Articles, Paints, Oils,
Varnishes, Dye Stutfs, Window-glass,
Putty, &c. Physicians Prescriptions
carefully and accurately compounded
at all hours, day or night. See card.
7luu-0 G-tf
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

1t is thought our next Legislature
will be elected on q siX-per cent.
platform. Even that would be an
Improvement, as the members we
have had during the last some time
have not averaged more than one
and a half.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
Religious Intelligence.

Rev. R. H. Rivers, D. D., will
occupy Rev. A. G. Dinwiddie's pull
pit next Sabbath, morning and ev-
ening, the latter being absent on a
visit to his mother at Clarksville.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

The man who has to depend on
collection of old debts for a living
now, generally has face as long as
a deacon who has just put a nickel
in the preachers hat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Brick Church Grange, No. 234:
RI Anderson, Master; W. A. Bea-
yer, Overseer; r. G. RothrOck, LectuT-
er: Z. G. B. Lee, Chaplain; A. X. Cor
don, Stewart; J G. Burgess, ASS. Stew
art; 7. +. Dunlap, Secretary; ID. J.. Cor
don. Treasurer; A. J. Heimiek, Gate
Keeper; Mrs. y. Z. Hardy, Ceres Mrs.
J. c. Moore, Pomona; Mrs. Z. G.. B. Lee,
Flora; Miss Matte ROthrock, Lady As
sistant Steward.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Henderson charged the govern
ment $4,000 for prosecuting the
whisky ring. Maj. Richardson says
he don't make that much during a
whole term of Court.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
COuNTRY PRODUCF.

NVI N III 7 HVD DLE-
Dried Fruit Apples Sc; quarter peaches,
&C; half peaches, llc.
Eggs-15c.
Feathers-Prime, soc.
WooI-Washed, 40945c; unwashed, esq
2se; bury lots, 5@l0c, less.
Eags-9c.
Broom corn-According 70 quality, 597c-
Hay-per ton $2l@25
Butter Common 20 choice 5000
BeeswaX-2sc.
Ginseng seG8i 90.
Tallow-TJ<c.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

The election for Constable of this
district comes off tomorrow. Out
of the several candidates, one of
them will certainly be elected, al
ways being provided he gets votes
enough.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

Mr.. s. Z. f. Rose was elected last
Thursday assistant Cashier of the
Giles National Bank, vtce Capt.
Wilkes, resigned. We are glad of
Eds promotion to this place Of
trust, which he will certainly ill
ably and honorably.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
Officers of Bethel Grange, No. 200. p.

OIIIlEIa u lsltIII-l u - o % =
of H., for the ensuing year:
Esq J 5 Edmundson, Master; William
Simms, Oyerseer, Y Case, Lecturer; II
r Chileoat, Steward; 5 c Hughes, Asst
Steward Mrs Valina r Gilbert, Treas
urer; james + Smith, Secretary; Rev
II i Sanders, Chaplain; Jonathan Legg,
Gate Keeper; Mrs Fannie + Brown,
Ceres Miss Lillian Naples, Pomona /;
Mrs Mary Hughes, Flora; Miss Carrie
EdmundsOn, J. a Steward.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20

The lood-gates of heaven got
kicked open some how or other last
Sunday and some four inches of
moisture has been precipitated upon
terra trina. 1t has also been rain
ing several days.