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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27
The Texas Paradise.
What Experience Has Taught
Tennessean.
To the American

To the American:
Hampstead, Tex, Jan. 16. 1876.
Having travelled over a portion Of
this country, and considering the
various prospects for business here,
I am of the opinion that Tennessee
is,taking all things together, a much
better country than Texas True,
the climate is well suited to those
having diseased lungs and all kiad
red affections, but it is 10y no means
adapted to every condition. There
certainly is a mistake about the low
lands, for I have never found great
er humidity of the atmosphere than
on these low prairies.
The vicinity of Austin and San
Antonio, and especially that of San
Antonio, is really the country for
weak lungs; but it is a mistake to
go on the coast, owing to the exces-
sive dampness of the air, and every
thing else. as a matter of course. 1
find much more sickness on these
lowlands than can be found in Ten
nessee; even the swamps of West
Tennessee are perhaps not worse.
The cost of living is much great
er here than in Tennessee, and ] am
not able TO see the great advantages
with which our people are deluded
so as to forsake their pleasant
homes and try their mis-fortsnes IN
Texas. Unless a man has some capt
tai on which he can depend for some
time, he'll find that Texas is not the
home for the millions" Ii q man
has means he can do well anywhere,
and without them nothing. With
means he can, of course, live in Tex
as, but better in Tennessee.
Could Tennessee but see ard feel
her own interest, she would soon
open her vast resources to her own
people, so that no inducement could
decoy them TO other lands. What
a misfortune to the State that thou
sands of worthy poor men, and men
in good circumstances, are suffered
to leave the State, when little ener-
gy, rightly applied, could render
them eontented; and l would say,
Stay in Tennessee.
What advantage there can be in
owning large tracts of land with out
the means of cultivation, or so faT
distant from market as not TO b
worth the taxes, l must confess
1 am not able to see. For people
to avail themselves of the much
talked OF homestead law is sim
ply to exclude themselves from
society, and wait sin the wildwood
for civilization to come. The only
way to succeed under this law is tu
form colonies, which is no small un.
dertaking. Let Tennessee legisiate
for the poor as we'll as "the favored
few," and her people will stay al
: home, cultivate the lands and bring
prosperity and happiness within her
J borders. To all l would say, Stay
at home, be diligent in the develop.
ment of your resources-whieh by
7 nature are far greater than in Texa.
and prosperity will come with
abundant and speedy success. II.
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Yours &C, BY SHnIINY,

Senator Cooper demanded the
previous question on a bill giving a
pension to a North Carolina negro
the other day. Wise craftsmanship
will make itself felt. Who would
have thought of such a wise stroke
but the great Cooper, as he rose in
majestic dignity and recognizing
the awful solemnity of the hour,
gave to his speech a vigor that can
only be amassed by four years of
stentorian silence (at $500 year,
and defantly hurled his demand into
the very teeth of radicalism, and
rings, and corruption in high places,
and sich like. o for a pelcil made
out of the eedars of Lebanon, lead
ed with ore vulcanized by Pluto Tor
some other good blacksmith sharp
ened with the cimeter of the Major
of the 37th Louisiana Colored Vol
unteers, that we might record his
praises so the printer could read il
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The Printer.

A printer is the most curious be-
ing living. He may have a bank and
coins and not be worth a red cent
have small caps, and have neither
wife nor children. Others may run
fast, he gets along swifter by setting
fast. He may make impressions
without eloquence, may use lye with
out offending and he telling the
truth. while others cannot stand
while they set standing. and be can
do both at the same time-have fur
niture and yet have no dwelling
may make pi, and never see pic,
much less eat it, during his life-bs
a human being and rat at the same
time-may press a great deal and
not ask a favor-may handle a
shooting iron, and know nothing
about cannon, gun, or pistol; he
may move the Lever that moves the
world, and yet be as far from NOV
ing the globe as hog with hls sose
under a mole hill; spread sheet, with
out being a housewife; he may lay
his form on bed and yet be oblig-
ed to sleep on the door-he may use
ttwithout shedding blood, and from
earth he may handle the$+; he
may have n sleeps foot, and yet
not be defoFmed; never be without a
case, and know nothing OF law or
physics; be always correcting his
errors, and growing worse every
day; have ems without ever hav-
ing the arms of a lass around him.
have his form locked up and at the
same time be free from the watch
house or any other confinement, his
Office may have a hell in it and not
De a bad place after all. might be
plagued by the devil, and be a chris
tian of the best kind, and what IS
stranger still. be honest or dishon-
est, rich or poor, drunk or sober, in
industrious OF lazy, he always
stands up to his business.
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or the Citizen.
THE HONEY MOON.

On! tell me where in welded bliss,
That " Honey AOon" is found;
Which lives all its life,
With man and his wife,
And never, like the sun, goes dowr.
Oh where does it end, If end it does!
And where is the place that it setss
For it shines all day,
Through the hottest of May,
And June finds it has no regrets.
But wait for time and you viii see
That this little moon doth wane;
'Tis but a short while,
And they are blest with ale,
And tins is the mischief wane.
For one or two days it does very well,
The father is very we'll pleased,
The neither, it's true,
Has nothing to do,
And often she gives it squeeze
If this were always the case 'twould do,
But the brat soon begins to fret,
IL gives a squall,
And the mother bawl,
And the "Moon" goes down ''yOu bet"
Sc. N.
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A cOuntryman once heard that if
you sew a mules ears together at
the tips that the mule couldn't kick.
He sewed pair and then stepped
around to the rear and twisted the
mules tail. He now has the spirit
photograph Of pair of mule shoes
in his stomach, and when he catches
his breath he'll more fully explain.
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EsTEELE VEHsl
Wilderness, Dec. 30, 1875.

The Clarksville Chronicle says
We are pleased to learn, through
some of our exchanges, that the Pa
irons are initiating important re-
forms, and among them: Limita-
tion of the powers of the higher
Oranges, reduction of dues and fees,
and the return to members of any
dangerous surplus, simplifying the
ritual, and last, though not least, TO
abolish the Senate, or seventh degree
of Ceres, which is only a conclave
of ambitious sharpers eager to man
ipulate the large surplus which
ought never be permitted to accu-
mulate. Those aristocratic Patrons
-interlopers at best-care nothing
about the development of agricul-
ture, and less about the material, in
tellectual, and moral improvement
OF the farmers, and all they seek, in
that higher degree, is the power to
WELD that large surplus so unwisely
permitted to accumulate. They
mean embezzlement, and self-ag-
grandizement, and the sooner the
/ Oranges throw them overheard the
better it will be for every interest
connected with the Order If, as is
reported, the higher degrees have
appropriated $1s,Oo0,OOO to objects
supposed to be beneficial t. the Or
der at large, no other proof is want
ing of the dangerous power confided
to those who excise such right Of
disposal. We do not claim to be
posted on this subject, still there
can be no tmpropriety in our calling
attention to the published statement
we have seen, and advising the
Grangers to see that needed reform
are speedily consummated unless, a
seems the case in some localities, al
interest in the Order is lost
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The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean thai your sub
seription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons. but
cash alone viii yay cur expenses, and
we are forced TO adhere TO 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.
EZ We enter no new names ON our
books without the money in advance.
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regret, which resulted from a party
of our viilageites being little late,
failed to reach the church until the
door was closed, but sought shelter
near by. Sorry shey were not in
tima
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

A. R. Richardson, Esq, and also
Messrs Edmundson & Ezell, insur-
ance men, have ensconced them
selves in comfortable new quarters.
So soon as they get fixed up they
will doubtless notify the public of
their whereabouts, through the
public prints.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

A nice East Hill man slipped as
he landed on the opposite side of
the mudhole and sat right back in
the mud. Another just behind him
said: "Slide around, John, and see
if you can find any splinters." John
scrambled up and gave a sort Of
hen wallow shake and exclaimed:
The skins so thick where I have sat
For, 10, these many winters,
That pins bend up, refuse to stick
How vain to hunt for splinters!
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AN ACROsFIC.

May not tell the magic spell,
Ia beauty's beaming eyess
Sweet 10y that beams and bliss that CLEANS
So dear with soft surprise.
The love and light, the beauty bright
Of bushes and ssweet smiles.
My heart entrance ateV'ry glance,
Ny deepest grief beguiles.
l cannot trace each shining grace,
Each gift so fair and bright,
Zeal in thy praise would need the rays
Diviner rays of light.
And can I then with humble pen,
Vie with thy charms divines
Icould not write with beams of light
Such beauty as is thine.
NJ. D.
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parsimonY? Can you have forgot
ten the past so soon.
As I write memory brings before
me moving panorama! Look with
me upon it. Darkness gathers up
on the hills and encompasses the
world. Sharp piercing winds wall
around the dwellings of the little
village, nestled amidst its ever
greens, and the sad December snow
is mournfully shrouding the earth.
It-is Christmas! but fearful eyes
are waiting and watching. They
come! Come from a battlefield,
where man met with man, and steel
with steel, and "fell like the thistle's
head beneath the autumnal Winds"
crimsoring the field with blood and
death. They come,-the cannon
booming in the distance-the
emaciated forms 10 blood-stained
tatters, gashed and gastly soldiers,
with bleeding feet and bare heads
toiling on towards the great Ten
nessee river. Still they come!
Blanched with cold and hunger,
bowed with suffering. Stopping at
our gates, proud men, to ask bread
and permission to lay their wound
ed weary bodies in our porches,
anywhere, only to rest one moment.
Hopelessly defeated, heart broken,
pursued, marching on to death and
the grave. Loved ones far away
keeping mournful watch for their
coming, alas,-
''The battles lost, the soldiers slain y
And firesides made desolate for
ever.
And is a grave by the wayside
or in pauper soil the sole reward,
from US, for this mighty immalation,
and shall we let them lie there an
everlasting reflection upon us as a
people!
Southern soldier, you who es-
capped the bullet and cold steel of
your foe, do you look upon this as
justice meted out to your brother
in arms, the martyrs of cruel war;
And your bosom friends, your
school companions, and comrades
who fell in battle, "O'er the hills
and far away" Whose names are
unrecorded save in the invisible
imperishable "Temple of the Brave,
and in the silent, suffering hearts
of the bereaved, "whose greif like
running streams are deepening their
channel forever shall we dc
nothing to honor their memories
1 have no
-"Words of learned length and
laundering sound''
at my command, to convince you thai
we should raise a Cenataph to the
memory of these men; and around
that shaft gather the dust of the
unknown from the waste places
and with shell walks, flowers, and
evergreens, honor the true and the
brave, and in "honoring them hon
or ourselves" 1 know that oul
consciences should be kept quicl
and tender-quick to perceive duty
and tender to feel It's claim; aud tC
do this work is to strengthen US, tC
cultivate the power of perceivins
duty and of dong good. can on
ly pray and tust that you may see i
in the light that 1 do; and feel i
with the force that l do
ESTEELE VEHSE.
| Wilderness Dec 30 1875.
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If the man who spelled "Confec-
tionary" on that south-side sign
will apply at this Office Wen give
him a spelling-book and kick him
down stairs.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

Ifthe corporate authorities don't
cover that trap door on top of the
Tennessee House they may have to
pay some fool for failing into it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

Maj. Carter shipped 225 hogs to
louisville, making some 1900 from
4 neighborhoods, exported from
Giles.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

Mr.. Rose, who was burned out
some months since, is putting up
frame dwelling on the same site
near the depot.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

Speaking of Rabbits employees,
who eloped with 100000 Of his en-
ployer's money, the Graphic says:
"a soap-fabricatOr's cashier ought
to have clean hands," As if soap
could ever prove q bar to raseality.
- Coarier-Journal.
They have the defaulter in suds
now, but if he had been a govern
ment clerk it would have been
white-w wash.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

a young girl in the West who
wanted to be Mary Queen Of Scots
at masquerade, is said to have
gone to the Bible to find out how
she was dressed.
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LOCAL ITEMS.

The Catholic Church has recent
ly been enclosed by a substantial
fence.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

We listened a few days since to
the reading of a long letter from an
old citizen of La to a friend in Pu-
laski. The gentleman in question
was formerly a wealthy planter, but
with thousands of others, he suffered
financial shipwreck by the events Of
war, and has nothing left him but
his land. After devoting 8 pages
to his ups and downs, and to the
great staple of the gulf States be
fore and since the war, he speaks
oil the lands in his parish as being
capable of / hogsheads sugar to
the acre, and from 10 to 10 barrels
of corn-its adaptability to grain
and stock generally, but adds, "Our
people have no confidence in them
selves to try it (corn and grain) )"
and he closes with this significant
verdi ct, "They have run after cotton
until they have impoverished them
selves and their lands" We Offer
no comment.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

It's q stunning blow to the doe
trine Of foreordination-the state
ment that IL buck-w heat cakes had
been foreseen from tie beginning
the human arm and hand would
have been so formed that man could
easily scratch his own back between
the blades,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

"Sleeping 1 dreamed love" was
the language of a fond youthful
heart, not long since. We have
heard of persons who talked in their
sleep, and of others who walked in
their sleep, but it was reserved for
Pulaski to develop the young man,
who in the exuberance of his
abounding affections and forgetting
that he was asleep laid seige to the
lips of his bed fellow, nor did he
give any quarter until he had i'm
printed many buxom buss upon
the hirsuit labials of his wrathtul
victim. What nice young clerk
likes to be aroused from pleasant
slumbers by the osculatory saluta-
tions Of a fellow clerk. The strug-
ole was a fierce one, but after it
was over it is surmised that the
smaller Ed of the two slept on the
floor the remainder of the night.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-27

We record with unaffected re
grets the departure from Pulaski to
Fayetteville, of our young friend
VIII. McElroy, late, and for sew
eral years, an efficient clerk in the
house of Rosenau d Loveman. If
any young man in Pulaski main
tanned a fairer standing than he,
in the estimation of all good people,
we are not aware of it. Will. is a
gentleman, by character and in
stinct, and we so commend him.
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Original Attachment.

state of Tennessee, Giles County.
IL. Patterson & c., rs. Monroe Mcl-aa-
zine, col.
IN this eause it appearing by affidavit that
/ no defendant, Monroe MeLaurlne, Is Just !lSS
- ;TIo6tcJ .o The plaintiff, and is uon-ress
"etSc State 40 that the ordinary process
fi ofisw cannot am be served him; and an orig
'u~' rocrSy II Is therefore ordered that publ
cation 6e made in the Pulaski Clti5ehI, PIssl,i
newspaper published in the town town 0nding q, The
~ .oi ISSr Ionroc MeIaurlne 70 appear before me
S or some c otEer acting Justice of the Peace a
my office in the 9Th Civil District oi 50 o'oi
". on the 80th day of june, 1870 ano III L,
defence to said suit against him OF IL ".''
P'o'eoNe' WIN j. c. BUTLER,
i.r--us Justice of the Peace
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L. W. McC0RD, Proprietor.

mise Northeast corner Of the square. up-.tatr.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-01-15
TERRITORIAL.

The Puget Sound Weekly Argus
comes to hand enlarged and other
wise improved.
The masquerade ball at Olympia,
on New Years eve, is reported by
the Olympia papers as grand sue
cess.
Hon. L. 5. kcarncy was at In
dianapolis, on the 18th ult. He
writes that the weather was cold and
disagrccablc, and that he proposed
to go to Florida to pass the winter
months.
The citizens of Oakville, Chcha-
lis county, w. T., got up dinner on
Christina, for thc Sunday school, at
the Oakvillc schoolhousc. There
were present twenty-five or thirty
persons, and bountiful dinner was
served. All had plenty, and there
were victuals left sufficient for as
many more.
In Virginia, Mr. Allen Hannah
La, married Mis-, Hannah Allen, and
uow Nj, Hannah Aiicn IS Mrs.
Hannah Hannah, and is, perhaps,
the onv woman in tine world whose
whole name can h. spelled back
ward as well as forward. That's
what's the matter with llannah.-
WalM IFaita Union.
The Vancouver city treasurer hav-
ing proved dcfaultcr, his bondsmcn
voluntarily came forward and paid up
the deficiency. If the petty rogue,
who in their official capacity have
robbed Walla Walla would come for
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-01-15

ward and make restitution. the city
would have money to pay of all the
outstanding indebtedncss.-Statss-
man.
AT this time dwelling houses to
rent are scarce. There is not build
my in town that is fit for residence,
but that is tcnanted, and there are
many that usually are vacant, be-
cause of their dilapitated condition,
that are now inhabited. If the CEN
sus of the city were now taken there
would be found more people than
were ever counted here before
lVaia WdUa Union.
a small bottle has been picked up
on the beach at Admiralty Bay, con-
tanning a card upon which is written,
in pencil, the following: ain a fit
of exaspcration, and weary of life;
caught by the tide, no hcl p did God
offer, so we perishcd in love, faith
and unity" On the inverse side of
the card the words &c. NJ, ""L. w."
-. M.," stand out in bold relief.
So says the Weekly argus.
On Christmas morning they had
homicide at the garrison at Fort Wal
Ia Walla. "A soldier, named Hugh
O'Rcilcy, shot and killed another
soldier, named George Stokey.
O'Rciley was given dishonorable
discharge and handed over to the
civil authorities. Was brought be
fore A. II. Ayrcs, u. S. Commission
CT, for examinations; the evidence be-
ing conclusive of his guilt, he was
held TO bail in the sum of 5000, in
default of which, he was committed
to Jail. O'Rcilcy's wife, it seems,
was the bone of contention between
the parties.
The Walla Walla Union furnishes
the following in regard to the wealth
cr III that section: "On last Friday
night snow fell to the depth of about
m inch, and on the next night two
more inches were added, 50 that on
Sunday morning there was about
three inches of snow on the ground.
But as the ground was not frozen
when it fell, there was no good
slcighng. On Monday night "chi-
nook wind sprang up, and by morn
ing the snow was all gone from the
side of the mountains, to the south Of
us, and by the next morning the
snow had all disappeared from the
valley. SO that thus far three inches
of snow is the greatest depth we
have had, and winter is supposed to
be about half gone; still it is quite
probable that we will have Il sutli-
cheney for a little good slcighing be-
fore Spring.
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WASIINGTON, Jan On the Sen
ate Mitchell presented the petition Of
A. &. Mcacham praying compensation
for injuries received in the Modoc In
dian war, while rs acting as chairman
OF the peace commission in treaty with
the Modocs under flag of truce Re
lerrcd.
WAsHlNGTCN Jan. G.-In the Sen
ate Morrill, of Vermont. argued at
length upon his bill providing for the
redemption of legal tender u. 5. notes.
The bill provides forthc gradual resump.
ton of specie payment.
Bill were introduced in the House az
follows:
BY Phillips, Of Missouri, directing
the committee on civil service reform to
inquire into the fact of the presentation
ofna silver tea set to the late commits
sicncr ofpatcnts, Leggett, by contribu-
tons from his subordlnates adopted.
By Glover, resolution calling on
the Secretary of War for information As
to officers of the United States army
being engaged in military service of
foreign Governments, and by what au-
thority they were thcr,; adopted.
by Durand resolution condemning
The practice of making assessments on
Government employees for political pur-
poses; adopted.
WASIuNGroN, Jan. 7.-Thc re
port of Dr. Lindcrman, director OF the
mint, as TO the establishment of a
baruch mint at some point in Missss-
ippi valley, recommends indianapolis
is the location, for this reason that in
that city there are government build
ings no longer required for other pur-
poses, which can be utilized without
The delay or expense. attendant on the
construction OF new caiiicc.
New l'oHH, Jan. = The follow
ing dispatches from Europe have been
received:
Victor Emanuel, in his New Years
speech at the court reception, mcn-
toned tho possibility of events in
Europe which would require the Co
operation of the Italian army.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7.-Thc trial
of Capt. Sawyer for wrccking the Dr.
phcns continues without producing any
evidence of special interest.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 7.-'l'Lc Apachea
are taking advantage of the disturbed
state of otfairs here, and are rcsuming
dcpredations.
We hear of the murder of Don Juan
Luna, near Campo, in Montczuma; and
the theft of IS horses and mules near
Guasabas.
The revolution is the all-absorblng
topic, but we have nothing further from
Yaquis or Scrna, though we are hourly
expecting to hear something.