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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-09-20
Lh,a Battle.

or twenty-threc young men who
recently stepped across the thresh.
old Of life from an eastern college,
and went forth upon the trackless
ocean Of life TO battle with relent
less fate, and win renown or a glo-
rios death in the arena, eleven arc
cle-king in auction stores at sl4 a
month, one is running a fish boat,
two are learning the house painting
trade, one starved 70 death before
he had been out Of college a week,
one is driving a team on a street
contract, two are tramps and the
others are living with widowed
mothers who arc their only support.
Fact is, brethren, when old life Crap
pies It's hooks into a mans collar. Il
shakes all his arena and ocean and
battle business out Of him so quick
that in six weeks, il he is alive. he
knows more in a minute about the
price OF pork and -four than he can
tell you about a Greek root In six
months.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-09-20
]. Billings on Pets.


Pets of all kinds arc a noosance.
Pet mule with klub and he liz
pashunt, but pet him with oats and
he will kick out one end of krea.
shun. Pet dogs are full ov neas,
and pet monkeys are iull of the
devil. All pet children are tyrants,
and a pet deakon wants as much
watching as pet coon duz. Pet
ideas are quite risky, and pet opin-
yuns, like second hand clothing, are
worth just what you can git fur
them. A pet wife soon gifts 10 be
captain, and a pet baby rules the
whole household. A pet horse
learns to be frisky, and a pet ser
want bekums cunning at the ex-
pense of his honesty. Pet friends
are the hardest to keep, and when
you do loze them they turn from
hunny TO gaul, and pets Of all kinds
are fastidious. A pet crow can't
tell what his next mischief will be,
and of all pets none are more nasty
and cross than pet parrot. Moth
ing in this world wuz made TO re
quire II. Pet hobbies are plenty
and eazy to mount but are hard TO
stick TO, and the bitches all along
life's turnpike are filed with the
riders. A pet lam always makes
a kross ram, aud what las been
once petted can never be happy
agin without it. Live pets ov all
kinds are sure 20 be lazy, and from
being lazy TO being sassy is but
short step, aid is sure To be taken.
Too mutch petting brings luxuri-
ance fust, and then ruin. have
seen gardin sass petted so much
that it all ran TO top and 10 vines.
Pet cats are, fGst, an insult 10 the
cat, and, next are an insult 20 the
party that pets them; and there IL
no more excuse for boarding a pet
poodle and Juggling them around
than there il for boarding and tote
ing a bed-bugg.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-09-20
MUM. 3S..
Mans Mission.


Every human being has a mis-
sion to perform. Every man has a
part to act in the worlds drama
one of the most unspeakable impor-
tance. But how few are there who
come fully up to its standard, and
endsavor by Divine assistance to
fulfill it. Man was created for a
noble purpose, endowed by an inn
mortal mind, and is capable of per-
forming a good work. Consider
how great may be the influence of
a single individual, either for good
or evil. If We have beea influen-
tial in reforming but one who has
been sadly misled by the contami.
mating influence of vice, we have
performed q good work.
There are various ways in which
good may be accomplished; but,
when a good resolution is formed,
the work is too often begun with a
lack of confidence and perseverance,
and, impatient to accomplish the
undertaking, we despair at the
first difficulty. This should not be.
We should have more faith; the
more distant the day of reward, the
harder we should labor, and not let
our arms become palsied because
we do not meet with immediate and
large results of our labor. In time
or eternity we shall receive our
reward.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-09-20
Don't Go to Texas, Young Man.

One of the leading merchants of
Waco, Texas, writing to a friend,
says;
"Yours to hand and contents
duly noted. In reply beg to say
that l cannot hold out any induce
ment whatever for young men to
come to this country, who are look
ing for any kind of clerkship.
There are thousands to-day in
Texas looking for situations of that
kind. The great influx of people
from every State in the Union-not
only this. but from all parts of the
inhabitable world-make it next to
impossible for a young man to find
employment. l have known good
business men to be here two years
seeking situations, and after that,
some leave without obtaining them.
l have answered not less than one
hundred calls like yours in the last
three months. To-day, in the same
mail with this. 1 answer five-three
from Tennessee and two from Ken
tucky. and truth and candor compel
me to answer ali in the same strain.
Il have not met the young man
mentioned, and answer you that
am sorry that the facts are as
stated, but any one coming TO
Texas will very soon find that pro-
fessional men and commercial clerks
have hard time here. They think
perhaps it is hard in the old States,
but their chances there are at least
two TO one over Texas. IL man
understands farming, this is good
country for him; or, If he has money
this is a fine place to use it; but
they had better learn the first oil
procure the latter, before coming te
Texas"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-09-20

Are we down to ''hard panY' We
are not wise enough to answer the
question. Some of the leading
journals of the country say that
we have reached the bottom. They
contend that the merchants of New
York are far more hopeful and thai
trade is in a more sound and health
full condition than for some time
past. OF course they are better in
formed on the subject than we can
possibly be, as their opportunities
for observing and forming Just con-
clusions are more favorable. Be
this as it may, our safety i'll the
present emergency is, to husband
all our means, live economically,
adjust our living to our actual
income and use every effort to in
crease our agricultural productions.
If we make nothing to sell, we are
certain to get no money, no matter
how abundant it may be. There is
always money enough in the hands
of dealers to buy all our surplus
products at some price or other.
Let US bear this in mind and keep
"pegglng away" We should aim
to do justice to ourselves in this
matter by putting our ground in
first rate order, not attempting
more than we can manage thorough
ly and using every particle of ma
nure we can command on our lands.
We try to spread over too big sur
face. 1t is pleasant to our vanity
to proclaim to our neighbors that
we have so many acres in wheat.
1t sounds "big," but it will meas
ure little when we come to gather
our crop and to put the half bushel
to it. Ten acres properly cared for
will be worth more than twenty
cultivated in slip-shod way. Let
US, then, take time by the forelock,
be industrious, hopeful and econom-
ical, and there will he less occasion
to complain of the "hard times. y
Rnoxville Tribune.
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The Governors in Gotham.

During the Governors excursion
down New York Bay, Tuesday, Gov
Porter was called upon for a speech
and said:
81 am glad to meet here to-day
the solid men of New York for the
first time face to face. Tennessee,
although not as old as New Jersey,
has brought no inconsiderable
wealth. into the Union. Her lati-
tude and her elevation enable her
to produce everything which is
grown from Mississippi to Canada.
This year she has raised 100000
bales of cotton, 50,000,000 bushels
of corn, 100000 bushels Of wheat
and 25,00C,0 pounds of tobacco.
The valor of her sons brought Cali
fornia and some of the territories
represented here to day into the
Union, and after the Mexican war
she boasted of the title of the Vol
unteer State, which their bravery
had won for her. 1t is not so now;
we are tired of war app,ausel-
and what we want is peace. What
we desire most is to develop our
resources, until we are known as
the most industrious State. Ap-
plause. In the centennial year we
turned our backs upon the past and
embarked in our new career. That
career has been rendered possible
by the policy inaugurated by our
President, and which has been
called the "Hayes policy and that
policy was inevitable. Under that
policy South Carolina and Louisi-
ana are permitted to manage their
own affairs, and with us to seek
that prosperity which was impossi-
bic to Tennessee and which she did
not desire while her sister States
were languishin9 under the heel of
military espionage. | rejoice that
the time has come when a Southern
Governor and an x-Confederate
soldier can stand here as your
guest, because you do not demand
that we shall come as sHppliants in
abasement, but as representatives
of States equal to your own State"
Gov. Porter closed with high
tribute to the late Commodore
Vanderbilt for his benefaction to
the educational facilities which Ten
nessee is extending to her people
without regard to color. The heart
lest of cheers followed the conclu-
sion Of the speech and mingled with
the Navy yard guns, which thun-
dered their salute to the Governors
as the boat passed up East River.
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The State Revenue.

Comptroller Gaines saws that the
State revenue will about equal the
current expenses, next year About
three-fourths of the tax of 1876 has
been collected, leaving ten cents
tax, 50 to speak, of about 5000 600
uncollected. The tax on realty
this year will aggregate 100000,
while the privilege tax will probably
yield an equal amount, making al
together S600,00O. In addition to
this there will be an income from
the Penitentiary lease of S70,500,
and tax of $4,000 on railroads,
valuel at about $4,000, 900, pro
viding they all pay in their taxes,
which is not altogether probable,
some of them claiming charter ex-
emptions. 1t will thus be seen that
the total estimated income will be,
in round number, $6S4,O00. Max
ing allowance fsr any Deficiencies
that may occur, the revenue will
about balance the expenses for the
year 1878. Under the law passed
at the last session of the Legisla-
ture, the ten per cent tax will be
continued next year, leaving the
next Legislature, unless an extra
session of the present one should
be called for that purpose, to change
the levy 1t deemed necessary.
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The Unemployed.

"Three million of unemployed
men in the United tates"-that is
the text upon which have been
threaded more editorial attempts at
pathos lately than any statement
that has been made since the panic.
But is it true? There are in the
United States 100000 people,
20,000,000 males, of whom not over
5000. 900 are mature, able bodied
men. OF these 100000 about
100000 are Southern negroes, of
whom it cannot be said that any
are really out of employment, since
there is work enough for all who
are willing to work. OF the re
naming 100000, at least 3,00O,-
600 are farmers, of whom it cannot
be said that any are out of employ
ment. This calculation leaves us
about 100000 to be accounted for,
and if they are all 'out of employ
ment," then there is nobody at work
in the United States except the
farmersi But this, of course, is an
absurd conclusion. or these 3,00O,-
600 we know that fully 100000
are engaged in active business in
professional work, or else supported
from accumulated wealth. And of
the remaining 100000, at least
one-half or 100000 are engaged
in mechanical trades, in the great
business Of transportation, in man
ual labor, in government or state
employ, ETC., etc. This would leave
but 100000 men really unem-
ployed in the whole country, of
whom at least half are southern
whites who won't work, tramps,
lazy young men living on their ia
Tiers, etc. We then arrive at the
conclusion that not over 100000
men in the United States are really
unemployed Philadelphia Leader.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-09-20
sRIaHAM's WILL.
How the Prophet Divides His
Worldly Wealth.

The New York Tribune's Salt
Lake special says Brigham Young's s
will was read Tuesday in the pres
ence of all his wives and children
and few friends. Brigham Young,
Jr., George Q. Cannon and Albert
Carrlngton are named as his execu-
tors. The estate is largely real es-
tate, and is probably worth $4,000,
600. The will was made four years
ago, and his youngest child, born
of Mary Van Cott, was then three
years old. Young was the father of
fifty six children, and left seventeen
wives, sixteen sons and twenty
eight daughters. The will aims to
make an equitable division of the
property between all the wives and
children, with no preference to any.
Most all of them had something al
ready decided to them. On this
valuation was set, and it is to be
charged to the recipients as part of
their share, though not necessarily
at the valuation he put upon it.
That is to be equitably adjusted,
when the estate is divided, upon
the youngest child coming of age.
Manwhile the income is to go to the
various mothers, according to the
number of their children, and they
can withhold the shares if the chill
dren behave badly. All are pro-
vided for as far as their present
needs are concerned.
A person present at the reading
of the will says it seemed to be very
satisfactory to all concerned. 1t
will be probated as soon as possible.
1t viii be wonderful if some dissat-
isfaction does not creep in within
the next thirteen years.
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An Editor Sued.


The editor of the Masculine
(Iowa) Courier was sued the other
day. He took it philosophically.
Hear him:
THE dim recesses of our dark
sanetum were illumined yesterday
by the rubicund visage Of our friend
Constable Scott. Our hair stood
on end, as with tears in his eyes, he
proceeded TO read a very nicely
printed blank on which our name
figured conspicuously with that of
Justice Klein.
go cut short a long article, we
we're suedl Were you ever sued
reader? Nice, amt it? We put
our pen behind our ear and looked
wise at the officer. He trembled a
little, for the idea of suing an editor
was new to him. He never imag
incl that anything could be got out
of "them feIlers" by suing-we
didat either. We don't now.
"The art of suing is a science.
Young lawyers who are anxious for
suits sometimes bring them for fun.
Old ones, however, never do any
thing Of the kind unless they can
get something. We never knew
anybody to get anything where
there wasn't anything to be had.
1--WE hope they'll get a judgment
against us; then we hope they'll
take out an execution; and lastly,
we beg they'll execute it. If we've
got any property we'd like to know
it. They might garnishee a lot Of
other fellows we owe around town.
We guess they will. II they're
sharp they'll commence on George
Schneider. We owe him for a glass
OF beer. If they would get that il
would help little. Failing in this,
we recommend them to attach a
box Of soiied paper collars We have
on hand. They have not been
turned yet, and they might use the
clean side. II this won't do We are
unable to aid them"
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Early Flowing.

Year by year we are learning
more and more about timely prepa-
rations for the wheat crop. 1t has
been the habit of most of us to put
Oh abreaking up" our land until
very late in the season-perhaps as
late as October or November. A
number of farmers, we find, are the
earnest advocates of plowing their
land as early as in June and July
Not only are they the advocates oi
this plan, but they are proving
their faith by their works. we
could mention several who are toi-
lowing it up and who now have
nearly all their lands ready for the
crop. They have pursued TINS
course for a number of years past
and they find that it pays cfepe
land Banner.
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The Busine SIS Outlook.

The Louisville Courier-Journal
has been inqulring into the business
prospects in that city, and heads a
two column article thereon as fol
lows:
The Dawn-Unquestionably a
Healthful Reaction of Business in
Louisville-Main Street Merchants
Wearing an Expression that Beto-
kens Better Times-In Business
over their ears and no signs of fur
ther quiet-A Most Pleasing Pros
pect.
And the Banner says: We are
fain to believe that the signs of a
business revival are to be found
all along the line. Here in Nash
vile, as we are informed by some OF
the Wholesale merchants, trade pros
poets are better than they have
been at this time in years What
is true of Louisville and Nashville
appears to apply to other cities.
We have already quoted from some
of the New York papers as to the
improvement of trade in the me-
tropolis, and now here is something
from the Cincinnati Enquirer OF
yesterday, in the same cheering and
hopeful strain
The completion of the first week
innSeptember demonstrates conclu-
sively that there is an improv ed
trade, and, though the improve ment
has been gradual, it gives evidence
of being healthy, and all indications
point to increasing activity fol
weeks to come. Merchandise has
been going forward to the South
as well as to the West. In fact
it has been moving in all dl
rections which it has been customa
ry for this market to distribute its
wares; and although there has mo-
been great volume of trade, there
is an undeniable feeling of conf
dence in the future, which is sucl
marked contrast to the depen
dence which has been the habit with
merchants and business men in gen
eraI for many past seasons. This is
Il
of itself, most gratifying feature
and will contribute largely to the
realization of those hopes which
have cheered the merchants of al
classes. The dry goods trade, The
condition os which is largly an in
dex to most other branches, is in .
healthier condition than at any
time since the panic of 1878. Their,
is less money being made than for
merly, bat the risks and losses ar,
less. Credit is sounder, collections
prompter, and larger portion o
cash business is done. The mar
kets are in a most satisfactory
shape for a good trade.
| The testimony of the agents o
trunk line railroads Is to the effec'
that there is an increase of freights
compared with business at the sam,
time in previous seasons, and is ad
ditional proof that the country il
recovering its commercial energies
and is again on the path 70 prosper
ity. 1t is now generally conceded
that the point Of extreme depres
sion has been turned, and that /
cheerful view is warranted by th'
actual fact
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Business Prospects.
New York H erald.

New York II erald.
The month of September opens
with feeling of greater confidence
on the part of our trading classes
and signs of greater activity than in
any preceding year since the panic.
Nobody expects great hustle OF
activity or rush of business, but
there is sober expectation of a
good fall trade on q basis of moder-
ate profits. In our Western cities,
especially Chicago, Cincinnati and
st. Louis, the season has fairly
opened with favorable auspices, and
this city is beginning to be throng-
ed with purchasers of goods from
the interior. Except at the great
distributing points the markets are
pretty bare in consequence of the
hand to mouth way in which the
country dealers have been pur-
chasing during the decline of prices
which has been going on for the
last year. There is large chasm
to be filled as soon as it is thought
that prices will be tolerahle steady
for few months, and the small
profits with which the wholesale
dealers are disposed to be content
relieves the retail trade of pretty
much all risk. One of the most en-
couraging symptoms is that the
New England manufacturers of fab
RIGS are now largely working on
orders, which is much better than
to be turning out goods on the mere
chance of market. The Southern
and Western demand for almost
every species of goods bids fair to
be quite large at the present moder-
ate prices, and in view of the good
ness of the crops there is no diff
Guilty in obtaining reasonable cred
its. Although not great deal of
money will be made the wheels of
business will be pretty well in mo
tion within the ensuing two weeks,
and before the season ends a great
deal of cash will have found its
way into the pockets of the farmers.
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They were husband and wife, and
as they stood before the Capitol in
Washington she asks: 'Whats
that figure on topY" "That's a god
dess," answered he. "And what S
a goddess?" "a woman who holds
her tongue" he replied. She looked
at him sideways, and then began
planning how to make a peach pie
with the stones in it, for the bene-
fit of his sore tooth.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-09-20
Common Sense.

The very basis of good taste is
formed by common sense. Itteach-
es a man, in the first place, that
more than two elbows are highly
inco.venient in the world; and, in
the second, that the fewer people
yod jostle on the road of life, the
greater your chance of success
among men or women. IL is not
necessary that the commons sense
man need be an unimaginative man
but it is necessary that bis inagi-
nntion should be well regulated. -
Good taste springs from good sense,
because the latter enables him 20
understand. at all times, precisely
where he is, and what he ought TO
do under the circumstances OF his
situation. Good taste is a just ap-
probation of the relationship and
probable effects of ordinary, as well
as extraordinary things; aud no
man can have IL unless lac is In the
habit of considering his own posi-
tion, and planning his own actions
with GOODNESS and accuracy.
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Mister, if this is borrowed paper
you are reading, lay it right down
and 90 and subscribe for one of
your own. Reading borrowed
newspapers is not exactly stealing,
but it is the next thing to it-you
are getting information that your
neighbor pays for.-Cleveland Ban
ner u
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-09-20

A gang of free lovers have been
holding a campmeeting near Law
renee, Mass. Marriage was de-
nounced by the prominent speakers
as the source of great misery and
innumerable crimes. 1t was held
the absence of love was a ground
for immediate divorce. Mrs. Elvira
L. Hall, the lawful wife of Moses
Hall, but who is living with free
love husband" at Vineland, N. j.,
read a personal explanation to show
that she was consistent with her
principles and above all selishness.
She denied the rumors which had
prevailed that she was jealous of her
husbands present affinity, Matte
Sawyer, and said that she and Mat
tie were workers together for carnal
reform, and that she looked on her
as a sister. The virtuous Moses,
who was present to hear all this,
read a resolution declaring marriage
slavery and the cause of many other
evils. He also made short speech,
in which he expressed the belief
that men and women should take
each other on trial before marriage,
and said he hoped to go to heaven,
where there was neither marriage
nor giving in marriage. We be
lieve, says the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, there are still laws against adul-
terry in both New Jersey and Mas
sachusette, and if the officers of the
law were attending to their business,
the Hall family might soon be more
profitably employed than it now is.
Knorville Tribune.
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There is one thing to be said In
favor Of the Musselman-he Is an
inveterate consumer Of cold water,
a beverage which seems TO be rap
idly growing into distaste with
Christians.