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About Widows.

Winter-kept apples, seasoned
wine, a clouded meerschaum, vase
around which the scent of the roses
still hangs, all these have rare, ripe
eyanescent flavor that suggest, but
cannot express, the charm of the
widow. A young widow is. perhaps,
the most interesting object in ma
ture, or in art. She represents ex-
perience without It's wrinkles or it's
gray hairs. She has matronly beau
ty and maidenly freedom combined.
She is grief with laughing eye
sorrow in house of festival sill
yer moon in a sable cloud. She is
too sweet for anything? Like all
good things, she can only be created
at a sacrifice. Mrs. Browning says
that a man must be pretty thorough
ly spoiled before he can leave wild
ow. This black swan-this mourn
full Ph9nix-rises only out of the
funeral urn that holds the ashes of
a husbands heart. Let us wipe
away the briny tear and proceed
Perdite Pierides. Poets, statesmen,
heroes and philosophers have each
felt the indefinable influence of
widowhood. Its quality is not
strained. Edward Plantagent mar
ried the widow Elizabeth Gray,
though he knew she brought civil
war as her dowry. Ned. Walker,
Joe. Addison, Sam johnson, Wash
ington, Napoleon Bonaparte, John
Wesley, Tony Weller, Ben Disraeli
and all the other boys married wild
ows. Henry VIII, was so fond of
them that he took two, and King
David was so pleased with Abigail,
the widow Of Nabal, whom he took
to wife, that he turned Ba thsheba
into a widow on purpose to marry
her. When Judith ceased her
cogitations over the virtues of her
late lamented Manassas of Bethulia,
puts off her mourning and adorns
herself in brave attire to set out for
the camp of Holoferns, we feel in
stinctively that she will come back
with his heart, his crown or head,
whichever she goes for. When the
old widow Naomi coun sells the
young widow Ruth how to lay snares
in the harvest fields of her kinsman,
and spring her net on the threshing
floor, we know at once that the
wealthy bachelor Boaz might as
we'll order the wedding garments.
Ramsay wrote song telling how
to WOO a widow. He might as well
have left directions how to get
struck with lightning--Rural New
YOrkar
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Gas a Positive Blessing.

Appropo to the Gas question, we copy the
following from the Brownsville Democrat:
1t is often said, 1--WE never appreciate
the blessings we have until we have lost
them.r There is not a little truth in the
remark, and we would all take a trner
estimate of life if we were permitted
once in awhile to realize the value of
our surroundings. 1t would cause an
end of much useless fretting and repin-
ing, and dissipate a great deal of false
and morbid discomfort with our lot in
life. We were forcibly struck with the
literal verify of these things when this
city was suddenly left without gas on
the night of December 18th. We had
been using gas for several years, and
had come to look upon it as matter of
course, and sometimes people who are
predisposed to grumble, would complain
about it, and all that sort of thing, just
as they sometimes de- about their best
and dearest friends, and those things
they would be most loath to give up, but
they never had fully realized what
positive blessing it was, how cheap and
convenient, how utterly superior it was
to all other kinds of light, how safe and
brilliant and cheerful, and how its pow
er of dispelling darkness was more than
eighteen times that of ordinary candles
at a cost of less than one, these things
were suddenly brought before our peo-
pie with vivid force they win not soon
forget. We had become so accustomed
to gas, we had forgotten how to appre-
ciate its benefits, as we do with many
other blessings in life. But undertake
to say that there Is no difference of
opinion on the subject now. The expe-
a. Of cff lo
was too vexatious not to be remember
ed for years. The miserable makeshifts
of dull, glimmering candles, or of evil
smelling and dangerous coal-oil lamps,
and the snuffing OF wicks and trimming
of smoky burners, the constant knOwl-
edge that you had at your elbow or
above your head an element more dam
gerous destructive than siX-inch shell,
which might at any time explode multi
alton and death upon you and loved
ones in moment, caused the beautiful,
brilliant and harmless gas to be fully
appreciated. What is evident to us all,
is, that we cannot do without gas; our
people, after their late experience,
would go to any sacrefice rather than
have to give it up. 1t is much cheaper
than coal oil or candles. 1t is very
much safer. 1t gives a vastly superior
light. Let us then aid our excellent
Gas Company in extending their enter
prise and to give more of our citizens
its benefits. Let's encourage them to put
down more pipe in every part of the
city, until the whole of Brownsville is
illuminated by this beautiful light. AS
a tallow-dip is to the sun so are all 9TH
er subterfuges to give light, when COM
pared with this brilliant and beautiful
agent.
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SHERIFFS SALE.

BY virtue ofan execution in my hands is
- sued from the Chancery Court of Giles
county. in the cause OF J. 4. Stacy, C. d. NJ.
use of &C., VS.. Brownlow 81 Kimbro. will
sell at the courthouse door in Pulaski,
On Saturday, Jan 9th, 1877,
fo- cash, one tract of land in the Sd civil dis
trict on Little Shoal Creek, and bounded as
follows, south by Barnett, north by Petty,
east by McConieo, west 10y DAILY. Levied on
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symptoms of a Diseased Liver,

Symptoms of Diseased Liver,
IlAIN in the right side, under the edge
| of the ribs, increases on pressure ;
sometimes the pain is in the eftside; the
patient is rarely able to lie on the left
side; sometimes the pain is felt under
the shoulder blade, ard it frequently ex.
tends to the tol, OF the shoulder, and is
sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in
the arm. The stomach is affected with
loss of appetite and sickness; the bowels
in general are costive, sometimes alterna-
tive with lax the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally considerable loss ofmemory,
accompanied with painful sensation of
having left undone something which
ought to have been done. A slight, dry
cough is sometimes an attendant. The
patient complains of WEAKNESS and de-
bihty he is easily startled, his feet are
cold or burning, and nc complains of a
prickly sensation OF The skin; his spirits
are low; and although he IS satisfied that
exercise would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try il. In fact, he distrustS
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred whercfe ofthem existed,
yet examination olthe body, after death,
has shown the LIVER to have been ex-
tensively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
DR.. c. McLANE's LIVER PILLS, IN
CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when taken
with Ouinine. are productive of the
most happy results. No better cathartic
can be used, preparatory to, or after
taking Quinine We would advise all
who are afflicted with this disease to
give them FAIR TRIAL
For all Bilious arrangements, and as
a simple purgative, they are unequaled,
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
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PIrLs are never sugar coated
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RAJ Insist on your druggist OF
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DR.. c. McLA3E's LIVER PILLS, pre-
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Sold by all respectable druggists and
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To those wishing 70 give d. c MeLsSE's LivHs
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A Queer Pin-CushiOn.

A very strange malady is that
from which Lydia Stokes, young
woman of Lawrence County, Ala,
suffers, if we may credit the cor
respondent of local paper, and he
claims to have his information from
a physician familiar with the case,
and vows it is no "sell or sensation;
nor overdrawn." At various times
during the past two years there
have been taken from her body over
one hundred pins anu needles, be-
sides wood splinters, no great num-
Der being extracted at one time.
They have appeared and been taken
from all parts of the body-face,
head, neck, breast, arms, and legs.
The peculiarities of the case are
that the pins are headless, the nee
dies are sometimes taken out in
bundles, or rather as many as five,
twisted together as though made of
soft iron wire, and, while they are
mostly corroded and more or less
decomposed, as though they had
passed through the stomach, yet
some are bright, as though recently
inserted from the surface. Every
effort so far has failed to detect
how she becomes possessed of them.
She has been deprived of both pins
and needles, all such feminine con-
veniences being carefully concealed
from her for long periods of time
without materially checking the
trouble. The location from which
they are taken is first indicated by
a small pistule or pimple. She is
delicate, apparently consumptive,
and believes that she is bewitched.
Exchange.
The physician alluded to is prob
ably DR.. Isaac Berryman, a Scolored
doctor, who used to take pins, nee
dies, DC, from bewitched people in
that same section when the writer
of this was a boy. How is it, De?
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Chancery Sale of Land.

c. n. ordway ct al, VS. Johr Jenkins ct al.
PURSUANT to decree of the Chaneery
i Court for Giles county, Tennessee, in the
above cause, l will sell,
On Wednesday, Jan. 81, 1877,
at public sale to the highest bidder, on the
premises, on credit of s, IL and is months,
with interest from date and free from the
equity of redemption, the tract of So Il acres
of land mentioned in the pleadings. situated
in the 18th civil district of Giles county, on
the waters of Richland creek, adjoining the
lands of Robert Rodes and others, and being
the same sold by II Pullen to John jenkins
and Harrison Birdwell by his deed Of date
January /, 1874. Purchaser will be required
to execute notes with approved personal Sc
land until the purchase money is paid.
jan4-td J. B. STACY, C. q NJ.
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DR.. Mary walker cot up the other

DR.. Mary Walker got up the other
morning in a thoughtful, dreamy
mood, her mind dwelling on remin
iscences of the happy by gone days,
and in an absent manner she tried
to put her pantaloons on over her
head, and she worked herself into a
fit of passion and vexation before
she recovered herself and saw what
the matter was. Then she sat down
on the side of the bed with the legs
of those navy blue breeches dan
Cling around her fair neck and cried
like woman for half an hour.
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We are glad to see that the ladies
are again forming reading clubs for
the winter. The reading club is an
organization that discusses the
character of Shakespeare's Portia
for fifteen minutes, and the best
manner of cutting basque on the
bias for an hour and half, and rare
ly fails to be of great profit Nor
witch Bulletin.
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The following is a social rule re
Gently adopted at Port Jervis:-
Oyster stews at church sociables
and similar entertainments will this
winter be cut lower in the bowl
than usually, and be tucked and
gathered more. Four oysters TO
three stews will be ample. These
should be cut bias and trimmed with
the material"
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Argue not with man whom you
know to be OF obstinate temper; for
when he is once contradicted, his
mind is barred up against all light
and information. Arguments,
though never SO well grounded, do
but provoke HIM, and make him
afraid to be convinced of the tuth.
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A few Sundays ago we heard a
preacher of the Gospel make use of
this vigorous comparison: "A
hypocritical Christian can no more
get into heaven than a raccoon can
climb stove pipe with a tea-kettle
tied to his tail"
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Education in Western Texas.

An amusing incident occurred last
week at an.exhibition of a school out in
the country, down Live Oak County.
A large orphan boy was asked by the
teacher why it was that no attempt was
made To explore the South Pole. The
boy replied because it was too cold.
After expressing his unbounded amaze
ment at the ignorance of the youth, the
professor procured his cowhide out of
his desk and began to instil the latest
intelligence into him, an
notating the information with copious
whacks. "Pll teach you to disgrace my
school in that way (whack)! Now re-
peat after me (whach): The South
Pole being in the torrid zone, immedi-
ately under the equator, (whach! quit
your finger-hold out the other
hand), and being covered, (whack! take
some more, you young ass) covered with
a dense jungle, infested by Savage
tribes, (quit bowling or I'll punish you
y, ferocious wild
beasts and venomous reptiles you'll
know next, whack! time, whacki wont
you?) civilized man cannot penetrae
there, <whack! whackD The audience,
of the most intelligent citi-
sens, expressed their approval OF the
professor by increasing his salary, and
1ne of them, Justice of the Peace,
wanted to hold the boy while the pro-
lessor rebubed him.-Sdn antonio Her.
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LOVES ADIEU.
TO HER WHOM 1T Is TO.

TO HER WHOM IT rs TO.
We met, hi, hol
One year ago.
To see was to adore you;
at least know
/ told you SO,
And many moro before you.
babe you speak,
Your blushing cheek
Referred me to your mother;
Yet, fatal freak,
Within a week,
You flirted with another.
My hopes were bright,
My cares were light,
No fates our love could sever;
But now tonight,
have to write,
Alden, adieu forever.
But know. my pet,
I'm not as yet
Completely broken hearted;
J do regret
That we have met,
But not that we have parted.
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Some years ago, gentleman ex-
perimented in giving salt to swine
which he was fattening. He select
ed two pair of barrow hogs, weigh
ing two hundred pounds apiece
One pair received with their daily
allowance of food two ounces of
salt; the other pair similarly fed,
none. In the course of week, it
was easily seen that the sailed pair
had much stonger appetite than
the others, and after a fortnight it
was increased to two ounces apiece.
After four months, the weight of
the sailed hogs was three hundred
and fifty pounds each, while that of
the unsalted, five weeks later,
reached only three hundred pounds.
The experiment was repeated with
almost precisely the same results.
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- Here You are reading a
borrowed paper again, - usual. If
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The Early Bird Catches the
Worm.

Poor foolish wormi if he had lain
Snug in his earthly bed,
That early fowl had never made
A breakfast of his head.
At noon, no doubt. the bird had sought
Some distant forest bough;
And if the worm had slept till then,
He might have lived till now.
Take warning. early risers, all,
And heed the lesson taught;
The worm that lies in bed is safe
The early tcorDs is caught.
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"a complete Pictorial History Of the
Times. "-fZhe best, cheapest and
most successful Family Paper in
the Uni0n.'
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URQuestiandblg the best sustained acork
Of the kind in the World.''
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81 Repository Of Fashion, Pleasure and
instruction"
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OF gold, silver, jet and steel are
again worn among the trimming of
hats. Coquettish little bows oflace
and ribbon are worn in the hair.
HAND SEWING.
There is a reaction in favor of
hand sewing on fine underclothing,
and most imported undergarments
are now hand made. A.
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Good Templars.
Blooming Grove Lodge, No SIS l o G T,
meets every Saturday at o'clock II; Ii b
Edwards, W G I; w Edwards, X sec V.
Pleasant Valley Lodge, Ne AIS, / g T,
81 Rogers, w G T; W Alternately, RS.
Pis9sh Lodge, No SO, / o T, meets VERY
Saturday at Up n; r Evans, w CT; L +
Collins, X s.
Aurora Lodge No.--Pulaski. w
Jones Rivers, W. C. 4; RoIhn Lasseter. sec
Aspen Hill Lodgs, No 442 q. g T, Asnen
Hi. meets every Friday at 1880 D m. Il w
Nollard, w G T; G IL Bennett, S.
Cave Spring Lodge, No ass, meets everv
Saturday 3 N; S Mason, w c T; J Par
sons, sec'y,
crosswater Temple No 200 meets at Sharon
Sd Saturday night in each month; Epperson
Tafply, d I; x Brunson, ID sec'y.
Crosswater Lodge, No 500, meets At Sharon
ss, Sd and Sd Saturday A Ksllum, w T;
x Bruneon, sec'y.
Odd Fellows.
Giles Encampment, No 50, meets tho LIST
Monday night In each month; A L Crow,
PPM Bunch, s.
Pulaski Lodge, Nc %, meets every Friday
nighl; McLesn i 81 r K Reed, 4 sec'y.
Campbellsviils Lodge, f, James =
Camphvfis n @; d Y Horne, Z Sss'y.
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GENERAL DIRECTORY
City Officers

Mayor. Caleb Osborn; Recorder. Jno W
Dyer; Aldermen. w G Lewis, L W McCord
10 Martin, A Alternately, II Z Crow.
Town Marshal, John Arch Richar5son.
Pofieorean Tohn Mar4;n