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The Portland daily press., 1876-01-04
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The Portland daily press., 1876-01-04

STATE OF MAINE,
COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND IS. (
Charles Payson, Cashier of the above named bank,
do solemny swear that the above statement is true
to the best ofmy knowledge and belief.
CHARLES PAYSON, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me- this 3Oth day of
December, 1878.
CHAS. O. BANCROFT, Notary Public.
(Seal)
Correct-Attest.
JACOB MCLELLAN,)
RUSSELL LEWIS. \ Directors.
GEO. S. HUNT,
dec3l dat
, 1876-09-23
Denth oGahe TongueIess Woman
From the Ravenna (O.) Democnt. !

lCToih Tue haNenna (O.) DtmOcnt.
Mrs. Mary G. Burnham, whose misfor-
tune OF losing her tongue attracted so
much attention two years ago, died in
Rootstown, Friday, July 2S, 1876. Mrs.
Burnham had been afflicted for about
twenty years with bronchial or throat
difficulty. Her tongue became paralyzed
and she gradually lost the Use of this
member. During this time her health
was generally good. On Tuesday. Jan.
%, 1874, she had spell OF bleeding of
the tongue and throat in the forenoon.
While at dinner, being, to all appear
ances, choked with piece of meat, with
AN effort to expcl it her tongue fell out
OF her mouth. A council of physicians
was held, at which it was disclosed
that under her tongue there WAS cancer
which, enlarging, had destroyed that
member, us above Stated. Soon after
this decision "a new theory was develop
ed, some of these medical men denying
that there WIS canorod condition of
the tongue and throat. They asserted
that the tong lie had been destroyed by
catarrh, which had severed the nervous
connection of the tongue and throat,
paraly2ing the tongue, which was fol-
lowed by natural decay OF the connect-
ions OF the tongue. The basis Of this
theory was the sound condition Of the
tongue and the apparent healing of the
throat and mouth. Mrs. Burnham tclt
NO unusual pain at the time. Strange as
ir may seem, Mrs. Burnham, while her
tongue was parslyzed, so cultivated a
control of the other organ OF speech that,
utter her tongue was lost, she was able to
make herself understood by those accus-
toned to hear her. The singular loss Of
the tongue produced considerable aston
ishment at the time, and occasoned no
little comment The death of Mrs. Burn
ham was occasioncd by the same disease
that destroyed her tongue. After the
the loss OF her tongue, the same disc ase
attacked other organs, consuming vital
parts, producing eventually stroke of
paralysis. after which she was unable to
swallow, and literally starved to death.
Mrs, Burnham was able, after the loss of
her tongue, To perform her household du.
ties as usual up to this Spring, when she
commenced to fail. She was confined to
her bed for almost twelve weeks prior to
her death.
, 1876-09-23

William Graham kept moving on
roller skates in Louisville twenty.tour
consecutive hours with only twenty.six
minutes of rest.
The Statesville IN. c. american tells
Of minister of the gospel who has in the
past seven years officiated at the mar
rage Of eighty five couples, and has been
the recipient Of less than $50.
An exchange has an article headed
The latest agony at dinner parties"
% 'h" nNNt hay' i". hNGrg,inE IN
irv,h rg'a .rr..
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
Sermon to Young Ladies.


Ladies-caged birds are Of beauti
full plumage but sickly looks-pale
pets OF the parlor, who vegetate in
unhealthy atmosphere, like the po-
tato terminating in a dark cellar,
why do you not go into the open
air and warm sunshine, and add
lustre to your eyes, bloom to your
cheeks, elasticity to your steps and
vigor to your frames? Take exer
else; run up the hill for a wager
and down again for fun; roam the
fields, climb the fences, leap the
bitches, and wade the brooks, and
after a day of exhilerating exercise
and unrestricted liberty, 90 home
with appetite acquired by healthy
enjoyment. The beautiful and
blooming young lady-rosy- cheek
ed and bright eyed-who can darn
a stocking, mend her own dress,
command a regiment of pots and
kettles, feed the pigs, milk the cows,
and be the lady when required, is a
girl that young men are in quest of
for wife. But you pining, screw
ed-up, wasD-waisted, doll-dressed,
consumption mortgaged, music-mur
dering, novel-devouring daughters
of fashion and idleness, you are no
more fit for matrimony than a pull
let is to look after fourteen chick
ems. The tronble is, my dear girls,
you want less fashionable restraint
and more liberty of action; more
kitchen and less parlor, leg exercise
and less sofa; more pudding and
less piano; more frankness and less
mock modesty. Loosen your waist
strings, and breathe the pure atmos-
phere, and become something as
good and beautiful as nature de
signed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
Getting a start.

There is nothing like getting a
good start, and then keeping up a
good, sober, steady pace in business.
More men fail from want of stead
mess of purpose, than from any 9th
er cause. Fast business men--those
who progress spasmodically-are
not generally the most successful
ones, in the long run. An examina-
tion into the list Of successful bus
ines men viii prove that, in nine ca
ses out of ten, the success has been
achieved by patient, steady, perse
vering study, coupled, of course
with judicious economy. The fast
merchant may get the lead for a
season, but to maintain it requires
both bottom and speed, two quail
fcations rarely combined. 1t is
the past that kills. Everybody re
members the fable of the '.tortoiee
and the hare"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

The s.. Louis Republican thus
points out the clumsy dodger, a man
whom everybody has met: ~He is al
ways on the street, and If you walk
much you will meet him at least
once a week He bears down a rap
id pace, and appears to be going to
pass on your left, but at the distance
of two feet he suddenly ducks to
10 the right. You put on your
brakes and try to veer to the east,
he veers TO the east, you try the
west, he tries the west, you try the
gutter side, he tries the gutter side,
you become excited and jump for
an opening on his right, he Pushes
up and jumps in the same direction.
There are but two ways to get by
this excitable idiot. The one is to
right-about-face, and go round the
block; the other is TO grab him
around the waist and hold him till
a policeman comes and lets you 90
by
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

The people of Montgomery cOun-
ty on the 22d ult. passed a series OF
resolutions that have the right ring
about them. They take high
ground as to the payment of the
State debt, and say: mindful of our
unsullied ancestry, illustrious for
their kindred virtues of good NOR
ais and commercial faith, and re-
calling the good faith our country
has always kept with her creditors,
and desiring to preserve the same
heritage of good name and unsoiled
honor that has been so carefully
guarded and kept pure in its descent
to US, pronounce any effort to repu-
diate the outstanding bonds of the
State, in whole or in part, and any
further neglect to levy a sufficient
tax to pay the interest as it falls
due, as unwise and detrimental to
our best interests; subversive OF
public morality and honor, and in
the end equally ruinous to private
morality, to our good name abroad
and tending to prevent the accession
Of the capital so much needed, rath
er than to encourage its investment
within our borders.''
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
A Valuable Ointment.

A most excellent ointment for
hands that are scratched, burned
or sore is thus prepared: Take 3
drains of camphor gum, 3 of white
beeswax, 3 Of spermaceti, ounces
of olive oil; put them together in a
cup upon the stove where they will
melt slowly and form a white ONT
ment in a few minutes. If the
hands be affected, anoint them on
going to bed and put on a pair OF
gloves. A day or two viii suffice
TO heal them. For chapped hands,
instead of washing the hands with
soap, employ cat meal, afte- each
washing take a little dry cat meal
and rub over the hands, so as to
absorb any moisture.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
Beauty.

A pretty woman is generally hated
by her own sex, and all would be
pretty if it were possible. Scorn
full looks are her portion from wo-
men. Oh, how hateful an envious wo-
MAJ feels and acts under fire of the
charms of one who surpasses- her in
looks and attractive manners! She
gives forty Unnecessary jerks to her
head, twists her mouth and turns
her nose, and just cudgels her brain
to ind some means Of making the
afrightful creature" feel badly.
There is some excuse for all this.
Pretty women are humored, ca
ressed and courted-that is to say
if they know anything-while a
plain woman has to look out for
herself and keep in the background,
unless she wants to have her toes
hurt.
Stupid things coming from the
lips Of pretty women are laughed
at and considered bright, when an
ugly woman's witty sayings fall fiat
This Is not always the case. There
are women whose faces are almost
plain enough TO ache, who have such
agreeable manners, sparkling wit
and loveable dispositions, that they
are general favorites and bellies
wherever they are. 1t IS by no
means necessary that a woman
shall be beautiful to attract gentle
men. However, men never frown on
beauty, as women know.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
The Three jolly Husbands.

Three jolly husbands out in the
country by the names OF Jim Wat
so1, Joe Brown, and Bill Walker.
sat one evening at the village tav-
ern, until being pretty well corned.
they agreed that each one on re-
turning home should do the first
thing his wife told him, in default
of which he should the next morn
ing pay the bill. They then sepa-
rated for the night, engaging to
meet the next morning and give an
honest account of their proceed
ings at home 50 tar as they related
to the bill. The next morning
Walker and Brown were early at
their posts before Watson made
his appearance.
Walker began first; you see,
when I entered my house the can
die was out, and the fire gave but IA
glilumeriug light, I came near walk
ing accidentally into a pot OF bat
ter that the pancakes were to be
made of the next morning. BY
wife, who was dreadfuHy out Of hu
NOR at being up so late, said to me,
sarcastically, Bill, do put your foot
in the batter just as YOU say,
Mcggy, said I, and without the
least hesitation I put my foot into
the pot Of batter and went to bed"
Next, Joe Brown told his story
my wife had already retired to our
regular sleeping room. which adj
joins the kitchen, and tile door of
which was ajar: not being able to
navigate, you know, perfectly, I
made a dreadful Gathering among
the furniture, and my wife in no
very pleasant mood, bawled out,
Do break the porridge pot. No
sooner said than done. I seized
hold of the pot, and striking it
aginst the chimney jamb, I broke it
in hundred pieces. After this I
retired to rest, and got a curtain
lecture all night for my pains"
1t was now jim Watson's turn to
give an account Of himself, which he
did with a long face as follows: MY
wife gave the most unlucky com
mand in the world, for I was blum
dering upstairs in the dark, when
she cried out, DO break your neck,
do, jim 4 will be cussed if do,
Kate said I, as gathered myse If
up, IN sooner pay the BILL So
landlord, here is the cash for you,
and this is the last time I'll ever
risk five dollars at the command of
my wife"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
Respect Due to Wives.

Do not jest with your wife upon
a subject in which there is danger
of wounding her feeling. Remem-
Der that she treasures every word
you utter. Do not speak of the
great virtues in another mans wife
to remind your own of a fault Do
rot reproach your wife with per
sonGI defects, for if she has sensi-
biIity you infict a wound difficult
to heal. Do not treat your wife
with inattention in company; it
touches her and she will not respect
you more or love you better for it.
Do not upbraid your wife in the
presence of a third party ;the sense of
your disregard for her feelings will
prevent her acknowledging her fault.
Do not entertain your wife by prais-
ing the beauty and accomplish
ments OF other women. If you
would have pleasant home and
cheerful wife, pass your evenings
under your own roof. Do not be
stern and silent in your house, and
remarkable for neutrality-suspicious..
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
LADIES COLUMN.
HARoLErN HARoLD, EprrOE.
Fashion Items.

The long waists have revived the
broad leather belts, which are
broader than ever and known as
"Henry "" Bonnets for the demi-
season are black straw, or chip,
trimmed with black silk and cream
lilies, anemones, dafodills, the pale
clematis, or English hawthorn, in
its various stages. Bunches of very
natural looking Strawberries are a
favorite decoration for white chip
bonnets, laid in a net of pale cream
colored lace. 1t is called straw
berries and cream"
Painting is the new rage, and a
great many ladies paint their own
fans from their own designs. The
husband Of one of these ladies says
he is afraid his wife has designs up
on the chairs and tables, but lac
hopes not.
"Brassards," or elbow trimiugs
for coat sleeves, are growing in. IA
vor. The new buttons are ivory
chemed with the color of the cos
tune.
Ladies possessed Of black Hama
shawls are having them cut over in
to Jackets, the half corners forming
points in front.
The only shaw,s worn are square
India and striped wool for travelling
purposes.
All the natural and field flowers
are fashionable this season, combin-
ed with wood and grass and foliage.
Black silk trimmed with cream
cachemire lace or tinted Yalencien
mes will be used for morning dresses
at hotels and watering places.
The new 'Alsace' cotton, finish
ed like bingham on both sides, and
imported in brown or blue clustered
stripes and checks, is one of the
coolest and most serviceable of
wahing fabrics for summer country
wear. Charming bonnets of white
chip for young ladies are simply
trimmed with four small branches
of lilac 1.-TWO white, two colored, }
which are crossed up the back, and
mixed with little tinted Valencien-
mes. The inside of the bri1n is
faced with pale lilac silk. A quilt
ing of Valenciennes, and two small
branches of garden lilac mounted
front. Brazilian bags have be
come the rage again since the adj
vent of the emperor OF Brazil
Striped oriental scarf, Ia prince
of Wales are fashionable for the
shoulders for riding and evening
wear. A new black lace shoulder
wrap, the "Belocca," is really the
baschlik revived Broad armlets OF
gold, and porte JOnAeur bracelets,
consisting of several links or strands
are worn with evening dresses.
The French twist, fastended with
a shell comb, is revised for married
ladies. Young girls, however, stih
crepe their hair, carry it back, but
instead of tying it with ribbon OF
ornamenting it with flowers, they
wear Grecian bands Of gold or sill
yer cord, galloon, and the like.
JENNIE JUNE.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
Training Girls for Household
Duties.

Training girls for household du-
ties ought to be considered as neces-
sary as instruction in writing and
arithmetic, and quite as universal.
We are in our house more than half
of our existence, and it is the house
hold surroundings which affect
most largely the happiness or mis-
cry of domestic life. If the wife
knows how to ''keep house." if she
understands how to 'set table" il
she has learned how things ought
to be cooked, how beds should be
made, how carpets should be swept,
how furniture should be busted,
how clothes should be repaired,
and turned, and altered, and reno
waited; if she knows how purchases
can be made to the best advantage
and understands the laying in of
provisions, how to make them 90
the farthest and last the longest; if
she appreciates the Importance of
system, order, tidiness, and the qui-
ct management of children and
servants, then she knows how to
make little heaven of home-how
to keep her husband from the club
house, the gaming table and the
wine cup. Such family will at
tain to social responsibility, TO bus
mess success, and to efficiency and
usefulness in whate yer position
may be allotted them. 1t is safe to
say that not one girl in ten in our
large towns and cities who enters
into married life has learned to
bake a loaf of bread, to purchase a
roast, to dust a painting, to sweep
a carpet, or to cut and fit, and make
her own dress. How much the per
feet knowledge of these things bears
upon the thrift, the comfort and
health of families, may be coniee-
tured, but not calculated by figures.
1t would be of unreasonable advan
tage to make a beginning By at
taching a kitchen to every girls
school in the nation, and have les
sons given daily in the prepare
ton of ali the ordinary articles OF
food and drink for the table, and
how to purchase them in the mar
ket to the best advantage, with the
result of large saving of money,
an increase Of comfort and higher
health in every family in the land.
-Halr Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
The Nashville American.

We have been receiving and read
ing TIE Ameican, published at \ ash
vile, and can heartily commend it
as a Newspaper IN the true sense of
the term. The Daily has all the
Associated Press Telegraph matter,
both of the east and west, and all
daily important foreign news. Il is
accurate in Commercial and Finan
cial reports which are full to date in
its Daily, SenA- Weekly and Weekly
editions. 1t also has an Agriculu-
tural editor specially employed for
that department, who is DR.. Lee, the
most distinguished writer on these
subjects, in the country, making II
equivalent to any agricultural paper.
II also contains a great variety OF
Literary, general news and miscei
laneous matter and is worth its price
in gold TO any family or business
man. Address TIE american, Nash
vile, Tenn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
How Could 70

tie eas ried my satehel TO school
And me through the drifts carried too;
Gould ] think why he hinged me so closely
II couldn't, how eonld Is-couid You2
At eve he tied under my chin
y y hood, with its ribbons 50 blze;
by he gazed IN my face could I tells
i couldn't, ho~ could Is-eould youz
he told me my eyes were quite black,
And the brightest Of any be knew;
blushed and looked doWn-could / help 1T
If / couldn't, how could Is-could yous
lie left on my cheek warm kiss.
Then OF with the lightning speed he~;
II could I'd Ia sc scolded him soundly;
If couldn't, how could Ig-could yous
Twas long years ago; and since then
He has spoken words loving and true;
And now I lean close, as his wife,
To his breast Can help it. could yOGs
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

Mrs James Reynolds went last
December to Waverly, New York,
in response to n dispatch, and there
identified the body of a mau who
had committed suicide as that of
her husband. She had the remains
buried in the family vault at New
Haven, Connecticut. She has been
almost inconsolable ever since, and
when her husband walked into her
presence on Friday her shrieks
drew a crowd which shared in her
interest in her husbands story of a
pleasure excursion to t northern
part of the State. The reunited
pair are now anxious to learn whose
bones occupy the family vault.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

We beg our friends to remember
this important fact: that it is not
wise to give two pounds of cotton
for one pound of meat, when it is
easier and cheaper to raise TIE meat
than it is the cotton. The hungry
experience Of the last ten years is
yet fresh in the memory of our
farmers, and the numerous failures
throughout the land should be a
lesson to those who are running era
Y after standardization { Ala. } id
uertiser.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

More than one half the sickness
among country people is caused by
wet feet. Colds, fevers and all kinds
of complaints, are the frequent re-
suits Of wet feet. Earache, head
ache, and all sorts of aches in our
children, are produced by wet feet.
Guard against wet feet, and you
ward off more tina. half the sick
ness of the world. Keep your feet
warm and dry, and you will keep
good health. Wear thick, tight
boots and shoes, and make your
people do it. It is better to provide
them than to pay the doctors bill.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

A lady of our knowledge has a
terrible aversion to the Odd Eel
lows. She says her chubby be-
longs to the order and the nasty
things require him to attend nearly
every night in the week and keep
him up until TWO o'clock and some
times later. When he comes home
he looks awful queer and she just
knows that they do something
dreadful to him in the lodge room ;
but hubby" keeps the secrets of
the order faithfully, and all she can
get him to say on his return is that
he's sheen (hic) to the (hie) Odd
Fers." She wants the order abol-
ished so her husband can stay at
home of nights and get well of the
hiccough. We don't blame her
Brownsville States.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

When is a lady's dress ike an
unfortunate bnll-fighter?-When il
is gored. And when is it Ike a
partisan?-When it is biased. And
when is it like a toper?-When it is
full. And when is it like the sails
of a ship?-When it is trimmed.
When is like a season of the YEAR,
When it is lent. When is it no
longer fit for use?-After she has
once worn it out.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
Ia Chanoery I'D 80


ABRAL JULES 1876.
James T. AIcKissack ct ais, complainauts, VS..
Angeruai Cox ct al defendants,
n this cause it appearing to The satisfaction
i of the Clerk and Master from an affidavit
to to bill thst the defendant, Angernal Cox,
Is q non resident Of the State Of Tennessee,
so that the ordinary process Of this Court
cannot be served upon him, and that the said
Angernal Cox Is justly indebted 70 complain
ant, J. T. Mekissack, in the sum Of about
81 800 90, and an original attachment hav-
ing been issued against the estate Of said An
gernsI Cox and the same having been levied
upon a fund IL the hands Of Z. " Ewing a.
the property Of said A Cox, On motion
It * therefore ordered that publication be
made for four weeks IN succession In the Pu-
Iaski Citizen, a newspaper Published II the
town Of Pulaski, IN said State, requiring the
said Defendant TO be and appear On the first
day Of the next term Of the Chancery Court 70
be held for the county Of Giles, a. the Court
house Ia PHinski, on the lst Monday ~ sep
teIabeT iext, and answer comp lainant's bill,or
the same viii be taken for confessed 70
him and set fol hearing ex-paTte-
apr16-4w j.. B. STACY, G. & II.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11

Captain Eade's jetties at the
mouth of the Mississippi are rapid
ly opening a passage through the
mud banks of that locality which
will admit vessels of the heaviest
TONNAGE and deepest draft.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-05-11
Live Agents Wanted.

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