The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
LYNNVILLE.

Amid the excitements Of the cleo
ton our community has been
swayed TO and fro all the week.
Sometimes hope has been jubilant,
as it was believed the day of saliva
ton had surely come; and then the
news seemed too good TO be true,
and the capacity of the Radicals for
cheating and lying has caused the
dread that the prize justly our own
would be wrested from our grasp.
People who have been called to
drink the bitter cup Of adversely as
long as we have beer can hardly be-
lieve that the end of oppression and
injury has come to their down -trod-
den land.
The remark has been frequently
made that for many months there
has been a cloud of gloom over this
region. Years ago there seemed to
be freedom from care and a general
joyousness, of which there is now
little trace. 1t is not hard TO find
the reason, when it is realized how
hard the struggle for life has be
come; how intense has been the pc
cuniary strain, and how many the
various forms Of trouble through
which different families have been
called TO pass.
While the nation is convulsed
about the election, it is pleasing to
know that the arts of peace are be
ing cultivated. We are thinking of
that especial branch which is not to
destroy, but to cure.
Amid the wreck Of matter and
the crush of worlds, it is pleasant
to know that peace hath her veto
ries no less renowned than war
Speaking of that profession whose
mission it is not to kill but to cure,
it is probable there are few lOcali-
ties where the facilities for exit
from a vale of tears are greater than
they are here. DR.. Fry states that
there are just fourteen doctors now
occupying the ground over which
three practiced before the war, when
the slave practice was remunerative,
and those three did not more than
make a support. 1t is one of the
grand principles brought out By the
u. 5. census that it requires just
seven doctors to keep up one under
taker, and this general truth is also
illustrated by the surroundings here.
In addition to all the other practi-
TONERS, we hear of German healer
who is holding out at Mr.. Migrants,
a mile or two distant He is said
to have worked some wondrous
cures in old chronic cases. The
treatment, from all accounts, must
be called heroic, whether the style
of the remedies or the powers Of
endura1-a of the patient are con
sidercd. The cure IS a secret, eX-
cept enormous quantities of coal oil
which, it is said, is boiled for seven
hours, turpentine, camphOr, oil of
sassafras, OF organum, OF juniper, of
lavend@r, Of s0ike, II cloves, of Gu
bebs, hai tslou, and everything
else that is hot. mixed up in one
mysterious compound. -Four stall
wart men then take hold of the suf-
ferer and proceed to rub the stuff
in. 1t is probable no smaller num-
Der could hold him down. In some
cases they say they have rubbed
sand out of the soles of the feet.
AS we see that Maxima is going to
Nashville, we beg her to stop on the
way and try the cure on her baby.
1t would no doubt be a help to its
sweet little hide.
Most of the hogs about town have
died of the cholera. 1t is not an
unmIngled evil, for if the sickening
odors OF the pens had pervaded
town a week longer, there. would
surely have been a pestilence among
the bipeds. The few swine that
survived were all slaughtered this
week, as the owners generally came
to the conclusion that that species
Of property was too uncertain and
the times too hard to stand on tri-
fes. We believe the most of this
bacon will be sent to some foreign
market like Pulaski.
Mr.. George Taylor, of Column bia,
HAS DGGu dOOuO JONn .SCNNtHl JlLuCS
lately. The votes pOlled here on
Tuesday were a little over two
thirds OF those cast for the county
officers. The colored people were
out in full force for their dear
Hayes.
Mrs. Marion Childress spent a
few days with Mrs. Lindsay, help
ing her in her packing. Mr. Lind
say and family took their leave on
Saturday They have been with us
just two years. Their departure
creates quite a void in our midst.
If they have ever failed to show a
kindness where it was needed and
where they had the opportunity, we
never heard of it. Mr.. Charles Blu
ford, who has been absent for a
week or two in West Tennessee, has
Just returned to his clerical twins,
Mark and John. Capt Mitchell on
Saturday night gave an oyster party
in honor OF the assured election OF
Tilden. The young gentlemen about
/ town, with drums and horns and
bells and flutes and everything but
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