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

Sometimes we make a great mis-
take, and talk about duty and pleas
ure. as though they were bitter enc
mics who could never live in the
same house. Though It may sound
very funny to you. yet it is quite
true, that to do what we don't like
is one Of the most pleasant things
in the world. 1t isn't always so;
and lust at first it often does not
seem so. For instance, It wasn't
very pleasant for Lizzie, last Thurs
day, when she was curled up in the
arm. chair, reading a story book,
with pussy sleeping in her lap, TO
have her grandmamma come IN. and
hear Msssf say, Lizzie, get up. and
let grandma have that chair" But
when she got up, and grandma
kissed her and said, "Thank you,
dear" I'm sure Lizzie knew how
pleasant it Is to do what you don't
like.
Canon Kingsley says that a boy
is not worth anything unit! he has
learned 20 do what he does not like.
st. Paul tells Us that seven Christ
pleased not HIMSELF" and Jesus
SAYS, Il came down from heaven,
not to do Mine o9n viii" Il was
not a pleasant thing for Jesus to
live a suffering hfe and die on the
cross. The scourge and the nails
hurt Him as they would you or me.
If He had pleased Himself He
would never have left the beautiful
home above and the holy angels. TO
be the Friend Of sinners. And yet
there was a true pleasure in all this
pain. IL was afor the joy that Was
set before Him" that He endured
the cross, despising the shame -
-Exebaaqs.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Among the forms of insect life
there is s little creature known to
naturalists which can gather around
itself q snficiency of atmospheric
air, and so clothed upon, it de-
scends into the bottom of the pool;
and YOU may see the little diver
moving about dry, and at his easa.
protected by MS crystal vesture,
though the wafer all around be stag
naut and bitter Prayer is such a
protector; a transparent vesture-
the world sees it not; a real defence,
it keeps ont the world. By means
of l. the believer can gather SO much
of heavenly atmosphere around him,
and with it descend into the putrid
depth Of this communicating world,
that for q season no evil viii touch
him and he knows when to ascend
for a supply. Communion with God
kept Daniel pure in Babylon.-Dr.
HaEilt0R.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
Murder VIII out.

A few years ago august Flower"
was discovered TO be certain cure for
Dyspepsia and Liver complaint, Few
thin Dyspepsics made known 70 their
friends how easily and quickly they had
been cured by its use. The great merits
OF GREENS August FLOWER became
heralded through the country by one
sufferer 70 another, until without adver-
Using. its sale has become immense,
Druggists In EVERY TOWN In the United
states are selling Il. No person suffer-
ing with Sour Stomach, Sick Headache,
Costfveness, paipitation Of the Heart,
indigestion, low spirits, etc, can take
three doses without relief. Go % your
Druggists, Sampler 4 Lacey, and get q
bottle for 70 cents and try il. Sample
bottles TO cents. ly
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

A near sighted man out on East
Hill went.wandering around among
his currant bushes yesterday after
noon, and stopped down and pulled
a live Centennial wasp's nest up by
the roots to see what il was. He
didn't get it anywhere near the focus
of his eyes before he had an idea
that it was a fiatiron some of the
women had set outside to cool; then
he thought it might be q coRcentra
ted case of prickly heat; aBd then it
dawned upon him that he had pick
ed up q raw thunderbolt, and finally
his heart went clear down into his
boots as he realized that he had got
hold of the dangerous end of the
Hell Gate explosion and pulled it off.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

One hundred Georgia newsra-
pers and seven Georgia juries want
a shortening of criminal trials, on
the score of economyj good wagon
roads; dog law, as a protection to
sheep-raisiDg; and consolidation
of county offices for the purpose Of
of efecting economy in public ex-
penditure. The latter proposition
is one seriously TO be considered by
statesmen, as is also an additional
one to consolidate weak counties ter
ritorially.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

OF all the people who live at the
Centennial hotels / think the new
ly married couples-Philadelphia is
full of them, by the way-are the
only ones who are thoroughly con
tented and happy. It makes no DIFF
ference to them whether the pota-
toes are watery, the meats dry, or
the soup thin; aad they don't care q
pin whether people talk to them or
not. They live in q little world Of
their own, need no conversation but
their own, and have no thought but
for each other. They all try to act
as though being married was an old
story to them, and still for the life
Of them they can't help taking each
others hands every five minutes
The brides nearly all wear new
watch chains.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
NUN. 46.
A Little.Every Day.
m. Y. ohsorver.7

The longest life is made I'D of
simple days-few or many, but the
days grow into years, and give the
measure of our hives at the last.
The life is at the last what the
days have been. Let the children
therefore look after the days-one
day at q time-and put into each
one something that will last-some-
thing worth doing, something worth
rendering, something worth imita-
ting by those who follow us.
l. Every day g little knowledge.
One fact in a day. How small a
thing is one factl Only onel Ten
years pass by. Three thousand SIX
hundred and fifty facts are not a
small thing.
,. Every day a little self-denial.
The thing that is difficult to do to
day, viii be an easy thing to do
three hundred and sixty days hence,
if each day it shall have been re-
peated. What power of self-mas-
terry shall he enjoy who, locking to
God for His grace, seeks every day
to practice the grace he prays for!
8. Every day little helpfulness.
We live for the good of others, if
our living be in any sense true liv-
ing. 1t is not in the great deeds OF
philanthropy that the only blessing
is found. In
"Lttle deeds Of kindness
repeated every daV we find trua
happiness, At home, at school, in
the street, in the neighbor's house,
on the piay-ground-we shall find
opportunity every day for useful
ness.
Every day a little look into the
Bible. One chapter a day. What
treasure of Bible knowledge one
may acquire in ten years. Every
day a verse committed to memory.
What a volume in the mind at the
end of twenty-five years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph tthus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested TO pay up at once. We
would lake great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone win yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 70 a strict cash
rule We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such a
course and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor,
u We enter no new names on our
hooks without the money in advance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
Alexandria Val 81

Alexandria (Ya.) Gazette: Pas.
sengers on the Washington and
Ohio train this morning report that
a negro preacher named Smith was
shot and instantly killed at the
farm of w. a. Yandusen, near
HeTndon, last night. The shooting
was done by a spring gun which
Mr. Vandusen had placed IN his
hen n-house and occurred while the
deceased was trying to steal that
gentleman's poultry.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

A post nlortens examination of a
COW that died recently in Maryland
revealed the singular fact that he
stomach was filed with circus bills.
We should call that fatal bilious
attack. The COW manifested a lit
erary taste of higher order than the
railroad conductor who comitted
suicide by swallowing an eight-page
Radical newspaper.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

The Brooklyn Argus tells the
girls that husbands are not to be had
at a penny a grab even if it is leap
year. Few girls are silly enough to
expect to get husbands at a penny a
grab, although they know that as a
general thing that is about as much
as they are worth.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Canton miss Mail: Green Fos-
ter, colored, and an ez-constable of
this county, and Who appeared rs n
witness before Boatvell's Investiga-
ting Committee and swore all man
1er OF lies against our people, was
tried and convicted at the last term
Of our Circuit Court for stealing a
COW, and was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary therefor for the term of
four years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
To Ministers, Lawyers and Old Men.

m YOU have a weak voice, subject to hoarse- .e-
IN nos and a throat often sore; II yoI n" sS ..
III -.,ao2 IunOs. il you have weak back; II
Won are troubled with constipation OF
P19I, ipg singing, riding or walking fatigIes
or exhaSsts y on, your abdomipel, muscles Il
have relaxed, and you need uphSlu.ls 1,er the
yotsai ySS wi, Temedy viii be pointed out, and in.
snrmation how to obtain it with or ~lenop'
lOor loIln@si0F 70, prolapsus uteri, woman's weak
ness an III J.R. GRAVES,
ps,.or of..Tbe Baptist" Memphis, Tenn.
6aitoI % t;,rsd compassionate the sutier
mo- Gi"T I6o6 have already been relieved. ml-ly
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Selma (Ala.) Times: Cotton
comes in freely, but the price is so
very low that the planter, after set
Ting for advances, has but little
left. This, Of course, makes dull
times, and candor compels US to
say that the streets have not for
years looked so dull at this sea
son of the year.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Petersburg (Va.) Post: "Some
well-known estates in the James riv-
er section of Virginia have lately
been sold to Northern and Western
settlers. Among them may be men
toned the Grove" near the his
toric jamestown end nelrly oppo
site the celebrated Hog Island es
tate. It was sold for $50 an acre
Also 'sVarina," Aiken's Landing, 10
a gentleman from Pennsylvania, for
$40 600. and another from the same
Stste has bought a place a little
higher up the river, for $S5,o00,
F. r. Rumn's estate in Chester
field county, at and near Pert Wal
thall, was sold for $4,000. It has
already been mentioned that the
beautiful "Ellershe" estate, in the
same county, was lately sold for
S23 600 to an Ohio purchaser.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Charity is a bond which hold the
Christian graces in harmonious un-
ion, and by keeping them together,
secures a permanent completeness
and consistency of character.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
A word to Young Men

Young man whittier are YOU tend
ing? Is it up to the highway that
leads to honor and distinctiOn,o or in
the downward path that leads to
obstruction and misery? Would
that l could in some way bring
home to you and to the erring
youths of this country the wrongs
they are inficting upon themselves.
Is it of any consequence to you to
be free frCm suffering? As you
must inevitably keep company with
yourself as long as you live, is it Of
consequence to you to make of
yourself a pleasant and agreeable
companion and not one who will be
continually complaining and up
braiding? Is health Of any value
to you? Can you use your limbs
and the faculties of your mind as
you would like to do without it?
Can you have health if your habit is
to throw into that delicate part Of
your system, whereOn the action Of
life depends, substances which eX-
cite it to an unnatural eXertiOn or
deprive it of all power Of exertion?
Does not every part of your system
sympathlze with the injustice which
you do to your digestive and intel
lectuaI organs? Will not your
brain, consequently your mind, suf-
fer by this violence? Do you cX-
pect to attain middle age and old
age? viii not the seed you are now
sowing come up in that space o:
time? viii they come up in the
form of enfeebled muscles, chronic
aches, selfreproaching thoughts,
the loss Of the capacity to enjoy the
bounties and beauties of creation
Will they grow up to overshadow
your moral sense and shut out the
delights OF intellectual power?-
Was life given to you for the few
wears in which you can sing, drink
and enjoy yourself or that you may
enjoy life in every stage of 1t as a
rational being by rendering your
| homage to nature in obeying her
laws and your gratitude to him who
ordained these laws for your happi.
ness? Have your parents ever con
Quoted themselves toward you in q
way that YOU have a right to pun
| ish and affiict them? Are you will
ling that your parents should see
you and know you as you know
Yourself? If you should ever be q
parent are yoN willing that youl
children should be told with whom
and in what manner you enjoyeo
Yourself? Would you tell then
how you spent your youthful day;
and nights and recommend to then
to take yourself as al example? Dc
Won ever expect to ask pure anc
fair young woman to be your com
panion; if so, young man, "touct
not handle not tile unclean thingY
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

A mother, trying to get her little
daughter OF three years TO sleep, one
night, said, Anna, why don't you
try to 90 to sleep? 'Tm trying
she replied. But you haven't shut
your eyes yet. Wei, / can't help
II; um comes unbottoned.'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Byron wrote, "How sweet to hear
the watch dogs honest bark. -
From which we infer Byron never
attended a midnight sociable in a
farmers melon patch.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Were it ss fatiguing to preach a
dull sermon as it is 80 listen to it,
ministers who preach without hav-
ing anything particular to say
would soon break down.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

To distinguish Mr.. Stewart, of
Philadelphia, from Mr. Stewart, of
New York, they call him Stewart
the poor" the povertystricken
wretch having an income of but five
millions a year.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Whenever we pass judgement up
on ourselves, the prisoner is sure to
be well defended.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

The Empress Of Japan cautions
her young lady friends about atalk-
ing loudly on the street like the vul-
gar American girls"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Three thousand, eight hundred
and nine pupils attended the public
schools of Atlanta last year. at 4
per capita fax Of Sl6.7Z.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Women should make themselves
useful at this season. Eve helped
Adam in his fall work.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

General Dix has got so old and
feeble that he can no longer see a
worm-hole in an apple, and every in
sect must look out for himself.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Florence (Ala.) Gazette: We are
informed that a lady living in this
county. who a few years ago pro
duced three children at BIRTH has
lately given. birth to FIVE at one
time. ail of hich are alive and aP-
parentlv doing well.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Prof. Tice has been heard from
and fixes the cold season after Nov.
S0-but Tiee has played out, they
say.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

In Aloeria there Is O river formed
nv the junction of two streams, enc
coming from q region of furruS'n-
ons Soil and the other draining
neat swamp. The acid in the latter
acting upon the iron in the former
fcrIn n true ink, and the river Is
sctually a stream of good writing
fluid.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
T. MAGUIRE,
Garden eF
rTORIS

HrOwFR gardens and pleasure grouhos
Il foiJ opt in the neatest style. Orders so
i;c1te5 for southern raised fruit trees M4s
lsisSe roses and evergreens of every deseIl
ION Can be seen at the Post-oLleg,,s ,s - - -
the store of W. L. Craig
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

Spriggins says he once prevented
a severe case Of hydrophobia by
simply getting ona high fence and
waiting till the dog had gone away.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

'sWhy is it." asks q New Jersey
paper "that when the fool-liller
went all the way to Washington to
shoot the editor of the National Re
publican he failed to perform his
missionY' Simply because he. went
there to shoot a mere fool, and not a
natural born idiot.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

"You labor over much at your
composition, doctor, said a flippant
clergyman to a venerable divine
I,write a sermon in three hours,
and make nothing OF it. $50 your
congregation says, quotb the doc
tor.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

A young man employed in this
city is six feet eight inches high and
weighs q trihe over 3 hundred
pounds. They judge by mis- appe-
tite that he is hollow clear down, and
think OF smputsting one foot and
using him rs 3 stove pipe.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
CHEAP.--We Print

CHEAP.--We Print
Bill Heads, Letter Heads,
Statements, Tickets,
Labels, Envelopes,
Hand Bills, Magistrate. Biahks'
Rriefs. Clerk Blanks,
Receipts, Bank Cnecks'
Shipping Receipts, Bills OF LadlnS,
Tax Receipts, Notes,
Circulars, Visiting Cards,
Business Cards,
and everything in our line on first-class
material, and do it as cheap as the
cheapest. u
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
L. W. McCORD, Proprietor.

0aiee Northeast cornerof tho square up-.taIr.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16

We have, indeed, a band OF noble
workmen. In the tender relation
they sustain to you, give them every
encouragement. The year will
bring many diseouragements, and
they will need your sympathy and
active cooperation. See to it, that
they fail through no fault Of yours.
Give them a cordial welcome and a
generous support, and their labor
will not be in vain.
Son of God, we commit them to
Thee!
"Let al with thankful hearts confess
The welcome messengers of peace,
Thy power in their reporG be found,
And let thy feet behind them sound"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1876-09-08

"JorhnA uimport. IL this your iIrst AR
rcxt /" asked Ills Honor of the next, WIN
seemed 10 he Etiif In both knees. and
who's fnee wore serious expression.
Nm. sir, II irn'.. was arrested III
Memphis foe murder once.
.Ah hAl for murder. oh 1"
ies, air, but was only i years old,
aud tho Jury acquitted ine IN tho gronnd
nf extreme Innocence -
The Court lit into Il strawberry apple
IN nh ahsent way, anl tho clerk ppkel a
biz quill tooth.pick into his mol,tl, and
scowled nt tho newsl,oys.
~ wish WA. cub ngnin." sighed
tho prisoner, ~ hc fumblel around 10
ilnd thu loosc ends III his wiltud paper
collar. II used ln haye fun when waa
boy. Seeing those melon rinls on thu
win,lcr. sill pmt~ mein mind III thu halmy
days when ns.d tn hook I'm. ri.
member how used IL sneak
lyon may drop tho recollnctiona of
other days" interrupted Hin Honor,
"And Eive mc your .lefcnsc In thu pros.
cnt carss.
:" haven't any.
lyon admit that yon were intoxicated
last night, do yon Il
no help mo Alexander, | VIVA :
"Dn you wish Id make statement I
"iu, sir, 10. When ] mn .l.ai.
writc II on my tombstone that eall water
laid me out l"
~ regard you m n hard eue, 'uai,l
tho Court. m hr tonk up his pen, "ai,l
LII weld ypm ID Il sentence III three
montlla III thu llonsn u Correction.
"Awl right, WIN tho pltas.nt reply,
unh tho prisoner kst down IN mn inverted
water -l,all beside the corridor door, and
good ,liiAtnrehly sang,
'.nx weeAs Murr. and thu pnoilao,~s Nv
Win shut nis v1vs ana Aofty ale.'
-~Ds fruit ksyr pftAs.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1876-09-08
Very lk,abifal HMastroAr.

'ihc Virginia lNev.) throaiett, In
speaking III shn heat III July .lHt. III.
lated tl,e following instance ol whit wau
called a sunstrnke:
"Wm. krrrigAn. u lAhorcr, wl,n waa
saving Woosl near tllo Nonld and Curry,
foil also from TIN uilectsul the heat, all.
VIA inMnsihlc for half AN hour. !"
Mr.. kefrigAn comes ~ NJ aud explai,a
m iollowa;
ut II thrMc. l Wsss lift insinsihlc, tn,,
whether II wnH tllO HunstrMck ur what II
wns remains ID liz investigated. VII,
sawin' wool fer Mia Mcl)cnnin. Mrs
MclDennin several times ~Ine AM
looked At mc IN | WAN n.MaMin' u tii.
wKnl IN her bArk yard, Hayin' 10 me
/" William, III IN awful hot thu .lAy.
=. iur right tler,, aes /, its powerful
hot. MrH. McDunnin.
"Then #a Mira. Mclennim ---slie stand
in' IN the fcar II the house nj tho time.
.rs Hhc !: 1 tlnds nothn' likc rowld ~,
fnr thu Int, sVH abe. and 'ahr llluka iay
pot uii tl.e uhelf mud tuck u achAig.
.Well. sl,u several times cumo out
and ynyin', William the hate IL severe,
took ii scllwig from iii. tAyrut.
"rrisen.lt, finding thu hntc apprH
siyc, wrnt III OH lilY own invitation isti,
took q nrhwig from thu taypot. Thin
took another, and thin iopk another
and whin | VIVA finally lifted ~ iron
lcHidu mo MMhnck | tOwld thim alaa
was all knew about tha sMnstruke.