The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-03-16
BETHEL.
Her Farming Interests, Her
Schools, Her Roads, and
Her Young Folks.

Her Young Folks.
Mr.. EDIToR:-We are sorrow you
had not heard from US before this,
bat we have been almost dead, al
most buried beneath the clouds of
obscurity, but now the veil is lifted
and we are rising again. One of
your city lawyers contested the va
lidity of our claims for corporation.
We don't know why, unless he
thought we might in time steal
some of the honors of his nativity.
We freely forgive him, but never
theless when he goes to leave this
world we don't want his mantle to
fall on any of US.
We have very little gossip to tell
you, for our people are too busy to
indulge in such pasume; all have
gone to work in earnest; they have
learned by sad experience that to
make more and buy less Especially
Of provision is the only password
on the way to plenty-that poverty
will be the result as long as we de
pend on cotton to purchase all our
needs, and credit our curse both to
rich and poor. Whoever eats up
his rations before they are paid for
places himself in the hands of the
Spectator to grind down as he sees
fit, besides having to pay in many
instances fifty per cent. higher for
what he has received.
Business is as good as could be
expected. Such a winter for but
ter and eggs was never known here.
One house shipped over one thou
sand dozen, but sorry to say many
were bought here at twelve and a
half cents a dozen and butter at fif-
teen cents a pound and sold at
Nashville eleven cents a dozen and
twelve cents a pound, with losses
accruing from breakage, DC.
Our day-school opened very IA
vorably for these hard times. There
are about fifty pupils in attendance
with expected additions soon. For
several years it has been patronized
from abroad as we'll as at home, all
branches are taught here as thor
ough as anywhere else, and board
can be had cheap, ranging from
eight to twelve dollars per month,
within three hundred yards of the
Institute.
An entertainment y i'll be given
by our school on Friday night,
9TH of April, for the purpose of
paying for stage curtains and car
pet. We hope it will be well at
tended, as the admission fee is very
small-twenty-five cents for adults
and ten cents for children.
Our young folks can't quite for
get and do away with holiday en-
joyments. They have had two Oh
three sociables lately, but they
never, as L see frequently in YOU
correspondence from other places
"tlp the light fantastic" for we arr
all church-going people.
Our Sunday school carried OF
the palm at our last quarterly meet
ing, and last month expended twelv
dollars for its publications, so vol
see our young people are moral.
If l remember right, once in al
item about Bethel you inferred tina
we had very bad roads in this south
ern part of Giles. We have t
plead guilty in a certain degreC
but before we offer any vindicatio
let me ask you a few questions
First, had you rather stumble owe
rocks or sink in unfathomable mire
And have you ever travelled Vale
station road till it intersects Law
renceburg road on Weakly creek
This road is in a country we hav
heard called the garden spot c
Giles, but we pity a garden wit
such walks. This we know is in
: far more wealthy community tina
this, and we once knew some tray
elers to be eight hours going owe
that four miles, and doing all i
their power to get along. So don
? think our roads are the worst, bu
visit US again. PAX.