The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-03-15
Fire Incidents.

incidents will illustrate this quota
ton from Josh Billings Proverbs
A man was Drawing heat and
danger in vigorously trying to cut
down q brick wall with an ak in
rear of the saddle store, just exact
ly where it was indispensably neces
sary for the wall to stand as a pro-
lection to other property, and In
face of the fact that it would have
taken him Just seventeen months
nine days four hours and 324 min
utes to cut it down.
Two men packed up Mr.. Bridges
table ware carefully in a box and
brought it out and set it down at the
courtyard fence, when a big niger
grabbed up the box and pitched it
over the fence and broke everything
to pieces.
Men carefully took out the sash
from the second and third stories
of the Jackson House and pitched
it over the banisters to be crushed
into atoms.
DR.. Grants splendid wardrobe
was mashed into kindling by mer-
CHESS lunge from the second story,
when there was a halt hour in
which to let it down safely.
Bedsteads, washstands, bowls and
pitchers, tables, chairs, looking
glasses, ETC., came pell-mell from
secoud and third story windows to
be smashed into smithereens, when
there was a perfect superfuity of
time and thousands of hands to
carry or let them down carefully and
safely.
Fifty men and five hundred buck
cts of water worked continually TO
keep an iron cornice from catching
fire, when it was never so hot that
a man could not sit on it with his
breeches off.
The Alamo was in terrific
blaze and the heat would boil water
a half mile, while the jackson House
stood in eight feet of it, presenting
a broadside of dry wooden surface
that would catch fire quicker than
a keg-of powder, when a lone figure
was observed upon the jackson
roof with a bucket of water and
dipper fighting the demon. Thous-
ands hung upon the possibility of
his having squirt gun in his peck
ct, but (sadD he didn't.
The aroma of Tried chintz smote
the heavens and the fumes ofroasted
rat fioated upon the redolent breezes,
while two hundred men stood off
and sighed and wondered where the
devil they moved the saloon to.
The congregations at the
churches were very inconsiderate in
not stampeding. How are we ever
to be city-like and eclipse New York
if we don't seize such opportunities
to get telegraphed over the country.
One man leaped from the Metho-
dist church window expecting
stampede. He was so ashamed of
himself that he tried to crawl back
and come out right.
Nine men out of ten were sorry
they didn't have money in the
bank vault just to see if it would
get cremated. We had checked all
of ours out the day before to have
our shirt washed.
Niggers stood around with water
ing lip and itching palm, cycling
askance the valuable rubbish lying
around loose.
The Giles National never flinched
before, but we actually heard man
refused his own money when he
called for 1t Sunday night.
Two men were placed on guard
over the bank vault the other night
with a shot gun. They had orders
to shoot on the spot the first spark
that dared to scortch the sacred
vault.
We do not intend to make light
Of the terrible calamity, but what
ever is to be will certainly happen,
after it has already come
to pass. Which is why we remark:
1--WE told you So"
If we ever mention fire engine in
this paper again we hope to be beset
forever with a little Board of Devils
with dimlnutive squirt-guns made
out of petitions to Aldermen squirt
ing tobacco juice over our immacu-
late shirt front; and may insurance
agents drown us with sluice of cir
culars and palaver, and fire engine
dealers bedevil us with propositions
and offers of engines on a credit and
on trial and on the shares, and hob
COLLINS Of the fire demon haunt us
with CHASTITY premonitions of con
aagration, and carpenters and tin
ners and bricklaYers swig us with
beer the balance of our days.
People took this fire with mere
complacency than any of the many |
that have afflicted Pulaski. They |
knew it had to come some day and |
.he town gave one sigh for the los
ers and another of relief when it |
was over. The demolition is COM
plete and from the ashes will per-
maps spring something that people
will not so dread.
Here it is in his own language: