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The Cost Of Dying.

The population of the world a
the close of the year 1876 is estima
ted at 1,423,9I7,Oo0. Admitting
that the average duration of human
life is 80 years, the deaths will b.
42,455,060 a year. According &c
the most reliable data, 1t costs about
an average of 800 to defray the ex
penses of a Christian funeral. If
therefore all the nations of the earth
we're Christians, the funeral bills
would amount to S4,345, SOC, 900 an.
nually. The question that at an
early day confront economists will
be Cannot some way be devised to
die cheaper? Evidently it costs too
much to get decently under the sod
too much for rosewood cofins,
planned hearses, monumental mar
BILE, fashion able cemetery lots and
mourning costumes. Fashion is too
supreme at funerals. The tickle
goddess is too potential in debating
the fit and fabric of shroud and
winding sheet, and the style of sill
yer plates and nails. Mourning
goods are manufactured and graded
to order first, second, and third; ev-
cry sigh has its peculiar TINT till at
last the world observes that the
"dear departed" are forgotten.
The poor can hardly afford to die;
the rude country coffin no longer
answers the purpose. The style of
a burial case is a matter of deep
concern, and in many cases the liv-
ing are robbed of the absolute nee
essaries of life that the dead may
have fashionable funeral. Specu
lation in cemetery lots is now a fea-
ture in real estate transactions, and
there are aristoeratic avenues in the
SlbhSo Va buS uSau No nCll dS III l1C
cities Of. the living. Pride erects its
monuments on the grand thorough
fares, and the gaping multitude dis
cuss the former opulence of those
who lie under sculptured marble.
The population of the United States
is estimated at 10000, 900, which
gives, according to accepted death
rates, about l,150,000 deaths annu.
ally. Estimating the average cost
at 800, we have a death tax of
about 1926, 900, 900 annually or some
thing over So per capita for every
man, woman and child in the coun-
try. Manifestly this is too large.
Common sense demands that it
should be reduced.
The discussion will hardly be un
dertaken by the undertakers, and
the livery men may regard it as
somewhat hackneyed, nevertheless
the fact stands that it costs too
much to die.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
jefferson to his Daughter.

81 am glad TO learn, my dear
Patsy, that you are employed in
things new and good. or all the
cankers OF human happiness, none
corrodes with so silent yet so bale
ful an influence as Incidence. Ex-
ercise and application produce order
in our affairs, health Of body and
cheerfulness of mind. If at any
moment, my dear, you catch your
self in illeness, start from it as you
would from the precipice of gulf
do not like your saying that you
are unable to read Livy but with
the aid Of a master. It is a part Of
the American character TO surmount
every difficulty by resolution.
"My expectations from you are
high, but not higher than you may
attain. Nobody in this world can
make me so happy or miserable as
you can. Thi.k nothing is insur-
mountable and you will be all that
I wish you 20 be. Affectionately,
at. j."
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Old Whistles and Brandies for Med
cal purposes cheap at
aug9-tf GIBSON & GILBERT.

/Subscribers who are already in
/arrears need not expect to have
4 the CITIZEN continued to them
! after Christmas, unless they pay
up before that time. We are always
willing to extend reasonable ac-
commodations to our patrons, but
they must also show a disposition
TO respond 10 a reasonable demand e..
We now ask every one TO pay up
by the first Of January. We can
say truthfully that we believe we
have the best subscription list of
any country paper in the State, it
not in the country. Every man is 4
solvent, honorable, and as a gen
eral thing prompt. and We do not
often have TO make such appeals.
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It will not do to saw that all mel

1t will not do to say that all men
are dishonest who fail to pay their
debts. That is drawing it rather
ine. If a man has not the means,
and cannot get them, how is he to
pay? Many an honest man has
made debts that he could not pay
he made them on the promises of
dishonest men, and because he
fails to pay, it does not necessarily
follow that he is dishonest-if he
manifests desire to pay, and uses
his exertions in that way, he is just
as honest, in our estimation, as the
man that can and does pay his
debts. If a man is able to pay his
debts and refuses to do so then he
may be called dishonest.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

Here's a chance for some enter
prising young man who is waiting
for a start in the world. norman
an East Tennessee widow, thus sets
herself up as a Billet dOur target in
a late number Of the Sunny South:
"A gay young widow Of twcnty-six,
temporarily residing in the Pictur-
esque mountains Of Tennessee,
would like TO exercise her descrip.
tive powers through correspon
dence with several nice. moral gen
uomen between twenty-eight and
forty Eye. Object, TO procure com
pany, matrimonially for tie long
winter evenings"
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A Remarkable Coincidence.

In 1853 four gentlemen entered
their sons at a boarding school at
CokesbGry, in South Carolina
They had been for years intimate
friends, and were clergymen in the
Methodist Church. These boys re
NAMED at this school as room mates
and classmates for two years, and
entered Woford College, standing
relatively, first, second, third and
fourth in a large class. They re-
manned at this institution four years
and were room mates al the time,
graduating relatively first, second,
third and fourth. They entered a
law Office at Spartanburg and stud
led law under the same chancellor
The war broke out, and at the call
for troops they entered Jenkins ri
fe regiment from South Carolina,
and were mess-mates In the same
company. Being near the same
height they stood together as com
rades in battle in this regiment. At
the second battle of Manassas,
1854, a shell from the
enemy's battery fell in the ranks of
this company, killed these four
boys, and no others in the company
They are buried on the battlefield
and sleep together in the same
grave. Their names are Capers,
McSwain, Smith and Duncan, aad
are the sons of Bishop Capers, Rev.
DR.. McSwain, Rev. DR.. Whiteford
Smith, and Rev. DIR. Duncan, of Vir
ginia, and the last brother OF Rev
DR.. Duncan, of Macon College.
The grave is marked by a granite
cross enclosed within an iron railing.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
HORSES 81 MULES

Bought and sold at Wells New Liy-
cry and Sale Stable, and Bargains given
Lett Side North Main Street.
Also runs a commodious and COM
Portable Passenger HACK TO Lawrence
burg try-weekly. Express or Other
packages delivered at reasonable rates
Orders left at the stable or at the Post
Office will be promptly attended TO-
mar2-tf
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Total .

Twice day, ten cents, or $1,000
a year, which is ample food for la
boring man. All would be health
err on this diet. In Asia they live
on half of this, or $500. But this
New York evolution is cheaper than
any part of Europe. 1t discounts
Miss Corson, ruins Delmonico, and
will soon be popularized in every
city in America. l know it pays
ten per cent. G.. +. L.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
Mr.. Trains Five Cent Banquet.

To the Editor of he SUM-
SIR-When l foreshadowed the
coming fate of Murray Hill, in an
nouncing my peanut diet of one
small plate of baked beans, five
cents, L little thought that 1 so soon
should outgrow that extravaganza.
To-day l dined at Alb Grand
street, sumptuously, everything
good quality (my landlord being
graduate on this bill of fare:
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

The idea of making a country pa
per self-sustaining, where the pub
Usher does not work himself, but
loafs around and smokes fine cigars
and puts on as much style as Ben
nett, of the New York Herald, is
preposterous and absurd. Some
body will have to pay for this idle
ness and style Tseesasa5 Basssy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

Mrs. Sherman has inaugurated a
social revolution. The Baltimore
papers state there is a crusade
against dancing ia Baltimore socie-
ty, and nearly all the ladies who be.
long TO church are excluding that
amusement from their parties this
season. The German clubs are also
poorly patronized this year
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

Here is something which reads
like opera-bouffe: Corbln bears
credentials from a governor whose
executive chamber is in a New York
law office, and those of Kellogg are
signed by a Governor who loafs
around generally, and was never
Governor OF more than half an acre
of Louisiana for a minute of time.
These Republicans are great jokers.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

1t seems to be pretty well under
stood that the bill repeating the Re-
sumption Act and also the repeal of
the law demonetizing silver will
both pass the present Congress. 1t
is feared the President will veto
both bills. We hope he will not.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

Columbia (Tenn.) Journal: A
word in regard to the family OF Rev.
A. Templeton. This distinguished
divine came by invitation from
Pennsylvania abou; n year since.
The people of this community, of
all sects, recognize his worth.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure In extending
credit TO our Iriends and patrons, but
cash alone will Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 10 a strict cash
'ule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such
course, and irenew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
CB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

To say that there are more Irish
in America than in Ireland, seems a
little absurd, yet, as shown By recent
statistics, there are some six mil
ion or more in America, while Ire
land claims only 1--WE million.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

Who is alive 70 his own Interests and
would secure fair remuneration for
the products Of his industry,
THE NASHVILLE AMERICAN

should not be without
THE NASHVILLE AMERICAN.
As business investment, Il win pay
him a hundred times the price OF sub
scription, because Il will keep him
posted In the market quotations, 30 that,
as a producer, he may stand on equal
ground nth the spcculafOr On knowing
the state Of the market. He viii not
then b. dependent on his neighbors for
that knowledge, which "a money in his
pocket. lie will be also constantly adj
Weed OF the current OF events, political
and otherwise. He VIII know what Il
going on IA the world, and b. la con-
slant communication with &C. IL will
add % the intelligence 81 himsclf and
his household. II lac has q daily mail.
the farmer should BY ali means have
the Duly American, which viii cost
him 1900 per year, including postage.
II he cannot get the daily regularly,
then he should take the SeB,t- Weekig
American, price ti-2O per year, postage
included. And II lac cannot cOnyen-
lently obtain either OF these editions
promptly, he certainly can get the
Weekly american, which has all the
market quotations Of the week, includ-
ing those Of the day OF publication,
which viii cost him only $500 a year,
postage prepaid - the publishers. IL
i best 10 have the daily II you have the
postal facilities; but 10 any event you
should have the Weekly Amsrican. II
you try IL one year, you viii never stop
Il and never regret Il.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

Uncle Bob Russ of The Shelby
vile Commercial is no. half as
smart as he thought he was about
Boot Alexander's last sleep. He
says the rural editor away down in
Giles suffered him self to be deceived
by fixed up tale-that Boot sleeps
his last sleep DC. Well, it is
mighty bad to disturb a poor weak
mortal in his dream of selt-impor
lance and all-sufficiency, but Boot
has actually been recaptured alive,
and Uncle Bob must come down
from his perch.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
To Prevent and Cure Coughs
and Colds

A reliable remedy is necessary in every
household. Parker's Ginger Tonic is
Just the medicine needed. 1t radically
cures Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Bron-
chitis and even Consumption if used in
time, by its powerful specific action on
the Stomach, Kidneys, Skin, Liver and
mucous surfaces of the Throat and
Lungs. 1t accomplishes the cure in
wonderfully short time, and removes
all pain and soreness of the lungs. 1t
is also Il most valuable stomach remedy,
etfectually removing Dyspepsia, Head
ache, Liver Disorders, Costiveness,
Nervousness, Lew Spirits, Wakefulness,
Heartburn, Cramps, Palpitation of the
Heart, Sour Stomach, etc, and gives
cheering comfort and freedom from
pain that surprises every one. Buy
81 90 bottle from your druggists, Sump-
ter & Stanley, or sample bottle at 10
cts, and 5est its merits. dec6&20
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

"Just before the war began" says
an exchange, "Conkling made an AZ
iidavit, by way of Sinking his
county tax, that no was not worth
81 900; when the war closed he
was worth near a million"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

Phillips, Jackson s. Co.'s "Good So
ciety" Whisky is unequaled. 1t is per-
fectly pure and free from any adulteFa-
ton. 1t is recommended highly by
physicians, and is moderate in price.
Ask for it when!you want to buy. Sold
by all dealers. sep27-6m.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
The RncI1eYe.

IL is a well established fact, that Tab
ler's Buckeye Pile Ointment will cure,
If used according to directions. The
.Fsculus Hippocastanum, or Horse
Chestnut, commonly known as the Buck
eve, has been highly esteemed tor many
wears, owing TO the fact that 1t possesses
virtues lying in the bitter principle
called Esculin, which can be utilized ior
the cure of Piles. If affected with that
terrible disease, use Buckeye rue Olht-
ment, and be relieved. Price % cents.
For sale by Sumpter & Lacey. ld6-eOwly
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
For Rent 1873.

My residence on 3rd street will be
rented to a good tenant for 1873 on
good terms. Plenty ofrOom-well, els
tern, stables, kitchens, every convent
ence-high, dry and healthy. Pos
session LIST Jan'y. Apply to
nv29-tf, A. Z. IRVINE.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
nISEASED PURSE.

The present financial condition of our
country should teach us the true value
of our economy. No man or woman
who can buy one dollars worth OF goods
with fiuy cents should think OF spend
inc tie dollar, yet IL is done every day
Bsiley's Saline Apperient Is warranted
equal 10 the best in size and quality and
Is sold ut only 90 cents. 1t is just As
pleasant as soda water. no2S-4t
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
We neglected last week even

We neglected last week even to
call attention to the announcement
OH. C. McLaurine for Sheriff, and
in ms much as we did this we will
take the liberty to say just this one
time Of any candidate that he Is
clever enough for any office.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
South America and Southern unitea states.

Owing to their warm and delightful
climates, their inhabitants grow sallow
from torpid Livers, Indigestion and all
diseases arising from a disordered Stom-
ach and Bowels. They should of course
at all times keep the liver active, and to
our readers we would recommend Tab
ler's Vegetable Liver Powder. Taken
in time, will often save money and much
suffering. Price 80 cents. For sale by
Sumpter 81 Lacey. d6-eowly
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

The English language is spoken
by about So millionss the Chinese
language, by about 100 millions
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

It is better to love a person you
cannot marry than 10 marry a per-
son you cannot love.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20
Feminine Missionaries.

The current number of the Chris
tian Advocate says:
Bishop McTyeire, since his return
from the Pacific Coast, informs us
that on the steamer next succeeding
that on which our missionaries,
w. II. Lambuth and wife, went out
from San Francisco TO China, ten
or twelve Presbyterian missionaries
embarked for China and Japan.
One half were unmarried women
who had given their lives TO mission
airy work. We have on filo in our
Mission rooms four applications
from young, educated, Christian,
women, ready to give their lives TO
this work. We have a proposition
of the Women's Missionary Society
Of Nashville, to pay two hundred
dollars toward the support OF tho
Christian women in China.-and two
responses to this proposition-one
from Kentucky, one from Missouri.
We need responses TO the amount
Of five hundred and fifty dollars
more from the women Of the Church.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

THAT Husband of Mine" THAT
Wife of Mine" Just His Luck"
"His own Master They All Do
it." This is a series of charming
books, the result of question
which appeared in the Editors
Drawer of harper's Weekly as fol-
lows:
"Why win not some of our Amer
lean writers give us a series of do
nestle scketches-actual occurren
ces of every day life-the exact
truthfulness and aptness of which
will touch a chord that will instant
ly vibrate in the popular heart, the
real joys and sorrows OF the home
CIRCLE
These books comprise a series of
the most delightful reading for leis-
ure hours-written with great spir-
it, and so natural that the incidents
seem to be actual occurrences. We
arc under obligations to the publish
ers, Messrs Lee & Shepard, Boston,
for copies. Price, 80 cents in paper
or $I.OO each IN cloth.
The edition for 1873 of the sterling
Medical Annual, known as Hostetter's
Almanac, is now ready, and may be OBJ
tanned, free of cost, of druggists and
general country dealers in all parts of
the United States and British America,
and indeed in every civilized portion OF
the Western Hemisphere. 1t combines,
with the SOundest practical advice for
the preservation and restoration of
health, u large amount of interesting
and amusing light reading, and the call
endar, astronomical calculations, chro-
nological items, dc, are prepared with
great care, and will be found entirely
accurate. The issue of Hostetter's AL
manac for 1873, in the English, German.
French, Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish,
Holland, Bohemian and Spanish Ian
guages, will in all probability be the
largest edition of Il medical work ever
published i'm any country. The propri-
etOrs, Messrs. Hostetter Il Smith, Pitts
burg, Penn, on receipt of a two cent
stamp will forward a copy by mail to
any person who cannot procure one in
his neigh borhood. dec6-1m
When the late General Forrest
was a slave-dealer in Memphis, it is
said that he was always kind to the
human beings he sold; he never
members of family, and
always told his slaves to 60 out in
the city and choose their own mas
tiers. Not one ever took advantage
of this permission TO run away.
Forrest taught them that it was to
their own interest not to abuse the
privilege, and he also taught them |
to fear him greatly. To some men
who had the reputation of being |
cruel masters, he would never sell a
slave.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

We take the following from an ed
itorial in the New York Sun "The
Legislature which elected Judge
Spohiord was fashioned by a special
commission organized by Hayes. 1t
swept every vestige Of the Packard
Legislature, which elected kellogg,
aud was designed to wipe ont his
aspirations as with n sponge Right
In the face Of these acts at Wash
ington, the Republican Senate has
boldly seated Kellogg, contempla-
ton kicked Hayes policy aside, and
compelled Hayes himself aud his
Matthews to be not only consenting
but active parties to their own
shame and degradation. such a
spectacle has never before present.
ed in our political history"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

Ben. MONROE, Decorator and Paper
Hanger, with Benson, Brown s. Co.,
No. 90 North College Street, Nashville,
Tenn. sepz7-Iy
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-20

Special inducements offered this and
next week at
novl5-tt w. T. MCCALL's.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-03-10

Company" etc.. was taken up OF, its second
reading.
Mr.. Kidd. Chairman, on behalf Of the Commit
tee on Enrolment reported as correctly On.
rolled House bills Nos. 50, las, 81 and 1911.
The Speaker-announeed the following sddi=
tional appointments on committees:
On the Committees on Banks and Banking.
and Corporations Ferguson.
On the Committees on Lands and Leveas. and
Internal improvements Cain sartain.
On motion the House adjourned.
PETER J, IRRELEVANT.
Chief Clerk.
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SAVINGS INSTITUTION.

NEW ORLEANS SAVINGS INSTITUTION
~ No. 158 Canal street. Trustees-A. Moul
ton, e. A. Palfrey, Carl Kohn, 7. L. Bayne, DayK
Uru1hart, George Jonas. John g. Gaines, Thoa
A. Adams, Thomas Allen Clarke Christian
Schneider. Charles J.Leeds. Samuel Jamison
Interest Allowed ON Deposits.
D. URQUHART. President.
OHAS, HILgHAW. Treasurer apfa IL
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INSURANCE NOTICES.
SUN MUTUAL INSURANCE
COMPANY.
FROM THE TWENTY FIRST ANNUAL
STATEMENT FOR 1915.

Net annual earned pre-
miums and Discounts
and Interest. ..ss..:ss...s
Losses. Expe nses, Taxes,
DtG. 4s..ss-se szssss....a..-t
Reserved fund $4,000. and
DivfdsI d on capital 10
per cent .....s..s...s4.ss.
Net Profit .........!......
Assets OF tbs Uv.a pany es-
timated at their cash
market value:
Btocks, Bonds. Loans and
Bills Receivable. ........
Cash on hand and premi-
ums in course OF collee-
ton. .
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uREsUENT MUTUAL INSURANCE com.
pANY
Kew Orleans. May 10. 1875.

The trustees. In conformity to the amended
charter, submit the following statement OF Tho
affairs OF the company on the S0th April. 1875.
Fire premiums. ............ .*2B1, U06 rs
Marine premiums. ......... s7.AB8 81
Hiuar r,rnruit1ryYss JfA 1s4=1gSg HUA ~
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rrWENTY-sEyENTH ANNUAL STATE.
NEWT