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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07
Don't Lose a Minute.

Keep busy. The man who has
nothing to do is the most misera-
BILE of beings. If you haye no reg
ular work, do chores as farmers do
when it rains too hard to work in
the field. In work we forget our
troubles and get a respite from sor-
row. The nan whose mind and
hands are busy find no time to
weep and wall, If work is slack,
spend the time in reading-no man
knows too much. The hardest
students in the world are the old
men who know the most. If you
lack books, there are free or very
cheap libraries, at least in cities, at
your command. The man who
does not acquire some item of use
ful information between sunrise and
bedtime must mournfully say with
the Roman Emperor, 81 have lost a
day."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

The town Of Maple Grove, Wis,
is excited over a recent Sunday oc
currence there. The people were
mostly at church, and in one house
II year old boy was the only oc-
cupant. During the absence Of the
family, a man came TO the house
completely enveloped in a beef
hide, with horns, tail, and all COM
pleta, and so fitted that nothing
else could be seen. 1t was known
in the neighborhood that the occu-
pants OF this house had money, and
there was there at the time about
two hundred dollars. The object
diguiseG in the hide told the boy he
was the devil, and that he had come
after his money, and he must give
il to him. The boy answered that
he could not have the money. The
devil then told the boy tnat he
would have him and kill him if he
did not bring out the money. The
boy then stepped into the house as
if he was about to comply, but in
stead of bringing the money he
brought a gun and shot the man
dead in his tracks. The boy then
ran to the nearest ncighbOr, and,
finding only a woman there, told
her that he had shot the devil at
his house. The woman went with
the boy, and found that the degil
whom the boy had shot was her
husband.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

Abdul Kerim. the Turkish Com
mander-in- Chief on the Danube,
has ordered the inhabitants of
Rustchuk, Silistria, Varna and
Shumla to leave within twelve days,
If they have not provisions for at
least six months. These places, or
the great fortresses at these places,
constitute the Turkish quadrilater-
al, and the order indicates that the
Turks look for protracted sieges at
each point by the Russians. The
fortrecses have all been greatly
strengthened, especially at Rust
chuk and Shumla. At the former
place vast stores for the army have
been deposited, and preparations
made for long siege, as the Turks
believe from the Russian concentra-
tion at Giurgevo, on the opposite
shore, that their enemies intend to
make the attempt to capture the
fortress. Silistria is 2 very strong
place. The works consist of a cita-
del surrounded by earthworks, the
strongest being on the east side.
Opposite .Siiistria the Roumanian
shore is low and marshy, and the
river can only be approached from
Oltenitzy and Kalarash by single
roads. Shumla is AZ miles from
Varna (on the Black Sea-, few
miles from the Varna and Rustchuk
railroad. The Russians may, how
eyer, leave the four fortresses on
their left, and, crossing the Danube
above Rustchuk, compel the Turks
to fight on the open field between
the Balkans and the river. The
Russian preparations indicate that
such will be their course. There
are twenty-one passes over the
Balkan mountains, the most accessi-
bic of which are nearest the Ser
vian frontier The Russians are, of
course, more likely to select those
where artillery can be drawn most
easily. Widin and Nicopolis are,
compared with the Turkish defen.
ses on the lower Danube, very weak.
- Courier Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07
Give Your Child a Newspaper.

An exchange very appropriately
says that child beginning to
read becomes delighted with a
newspaper, because it reads OF
names and things which are famil
lar, and it will progress according
ly. A newspaper, in one year, is
worth a quarters schooling to a
child. Every father must consider
that information is connected with
advancement. The mother of a
family being one of its head. and
having a more imme1iats charge of
children, should herself be instruct
ed. A mind occupied becomes for
titled against the ills of life, and is
braced for any emergency. Chill
dren amused by reading or study
arc of course more considerate and
more easily governed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07
Fast Time.

To simply say that Ten Brock
ran a mile in 1899 presents rather
a barren idea to the ordinary mind
1t is something to say that the fast
est time ever made before was
L :4l3, but even that basis of com
parison does not convey to ones
mind any very satisfactory estimate
of the tremendous pace at which
this remarkable horse ran the
course at the Jockey Club grounds.
We are accustomed to measuring
speed in ordinary travel by the
hour, so let us see what Ten Bro
eek might do if he could indefinite
ly continue the speed which he ex
hibited on Thursday. He made
his mile in :394, that is, he ran at
the rate of 36.042605 miles per hour.
Dropping the decimals, and rating
him, in round numbers, at thirty
six miles per hour, he would make
S64 miles per day. He might run
over the Short Line railroad to Gin
cinnati in 3h. 3m. los. He might
run over the Louisville and Great
Southern road to Nashville in 5h.
Aim. 33s. He might give the
through sleeping car to New York
several hours start and get in ahead
of it. He might put Il girdle round
the earth at the equator in 27 days
Is hours, aad travel the average
distance 70 the moon in 276 days
and minutes. ~ To appreciate the
difference between the time of Ten
Brock and the best time ever made
before we must take the minimum
measurement. He ran about fifty
three feet in one second. He beat
the best time on record by two sec
onds; that is, in the same time lie
could have run log feet over a mile.
Ten Brock could not hold out very
long at srch rate or speed, but
for that matter neither can a loco
motive be kept up to its highest
rate of speed for any great distance.
The iron horse must rest like the
horse of flesh and blood and sinews.
When we talk about fast mail trains
and through lightning expresses
that overcome great distances in
short time, we consider the fact
that there are stoppages and change
OF engines that are like travelling by
relays. When Ten Broeck goes
home, if he goes by rail, the fastest
speed that the Lexington express
will attain, even over the best of
road, will not equal that at which
he ran on Thursday, and the mile
stones win seem TO post him very
slowly when he compares his exDe
rience with that of the other day
when the grand stand with its
thousands of spectators and the
waving handkerchiefs, gates, posts,
trees and carriages that stretched
along the mile whirled round him
in one flashing revolution before
the watch could tick Off the fortietb
second of the second minute from
the Courier Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07
From the New York Irish World.l
GOD PITY THE POOR.


The wild-rushing wings of the tempest are
sweeping
The frost-fetteied land like a spirit Of
wrath;
His fierce, icy breath with keen arrows are
piercing
The breath of the wand'rers who stand in
his path;
The earth in trance lies enshrouded in 81 :
lence,
The storm king knocks loudly at window
The prayer of the pi.iful fervently rises
God shelter the homeless and pity the poor!
God pity the poor who are wearily sitting
By desolate hearth stones, cold. cherries
and bare,
From which the last omber's pale flicker has
faded,
Like Hope dying out in the midst of de-
Who look on the wide world and see it a
desert,
Where ripple no waters, no green branches
Who see in future as dark as the present
No rest but the death bed, no home but
the grave
God pity the poor when the eddying snow
drifts
Are whirled by the wrath of tie winter
windsb by,
Like showers of leaves from the pallid star
lilies
That float in the depth OF the blue lake on
high;
For though they are draping the broad Earth
in beauty
Ard yelling some flaw ia each goasamer
fold,
The beauty is naught to the mother whose
children
Are crouching around her in hunger and
cold.
God pity the poor, for the wealthy are often
As hard as the winter, and as cold as its
snow;
While fortune makes sunshine and summer
around them,
They care not for others nor think of their
woe;
Or if f. ON their plenty trife be given,
So doubtingly, grudgingly, often tits doled,
That to the receiver their ''charity" seemeth
More painful than hunger, moro bitter
than cold.
God pity the poorl for though all men are
Though all say 'Our Fatber,n not mine.
when they pray,
The proud ones OF the earth turn aside from |
the lowly,
As if they were fashioned of different clay; |
They see not in those who in meekness and |
patience
Toll, poverty, pain. without murmur en-
dure,
The image of Him whose first couch was a |
manger,
Who chose for our sakes to be homeless |
and poor,
God pity the pOOrl Give them courage and
patience,
Their trials, temptations and troubles to |
brave,
And pity the wealthy whose idle is Fortune, |
For gold cannot gladen the gloom OF the |
grave;
And as this brief life, whether painful or
pleasant,
To one that is endless but opens the door,
The heart sighs while thinking on palace |
and hovel,
God pity the wealthy as well as the poor!
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07
The South.

The special correspondent of the
New York Times who has been
travelling through the South says
The expressions of leading news
papers can always be taken as iair-
ly indicating popular opinion, feel
ing and sentiment; and, as have
intimated, lthere is not in the cotton
States to-day leading newspaper
that does not rejoice at the solidity
of the Southern Democratic vote.
And looking at the matter from a
Southern Democratic standpoint,
why should the vote referred to be
What have the Southern
Democrats to gain by diserganiza-
ton? 1t is not usual for victorious
armies to disperse. Great political
parties only separate when they
have been defeated. The Democrats
of the Sonth have been successful
beyond their most sanguile expec-
tations. They have triumphed
where they anticipated disaster, and
would be more or less human ifI
they did not press forward to fresh
victories and still greater conquests.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

Never cast aside your friends, il
by any possibility you can retain
them. We are the weakest OF
spcndthrifts IL we let our friends
drop of through inattention, OF let
one push away another, or IL we
hold aloof from one for petty jeal
ousy, or needless slight or roughncss.
Would you throw away II diamond
because it pricked your One good
friend is not to he weighed against
the diamonds OF all the earth. II
there is GOODNESS or unkindness bo-
tween us, let us come face 20 face
and have IL out. Quick, before the
love grows coldl Life Is too short
TO quarrel IN, or to carry back
thoughts Of friends. IL is easy 20
lose a friend, but the new one will
not come for calling. nor make up
for the old when lost.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

See how the busy candidate inn
proves each shining hour; his heav-
enly smiles and winning ways arc
full of conscious power. The
slobbering babe his arms enfold,
with soft persuasive pressure; he
wipes the dew.drops from bis nose.
and swcars IL is treasure. Ho
trots it on his supple knee, despite
its frantic screeches, and smiles Sc
renely when il pukes all DER bis
Sabbath breeches. See, how the
busy candidate improves each littl
minute; he clasps the noble sover-
eign's hand, and vows there's honor
it. He strokes the snarling ur-
chin's head, with features grave and
solemn. while not wave OF trouble
rolls adown his spinal column.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

Should war be provoked, Texas
would take the contract at low rates
for planting the stars and stripes on
the Capitol of Montezumas in nine
ty days time, and ask no better fun.
In view Of the sufferings of patriot
ic pioneers from perfdious Mexico,
it is due TO the Lone Star Republis
that such means of satisfaction
should be accorded to her, out red
tapeism would never sartion such
honor TO a Southern State.-Austir
Gazette.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

Austin correspondent Of Calves
ton News: The taxes Oh lands
owned by presidents will be as
sessed at more than 200 per cent.
advance on previous assessments.
Everything is subjected to the pay
ment of taxes. A man fifty dollar
pipe will pay the State and county
thirty-fve to fifty cents; his good
clothes, garden truck, his pot of
greens boiling on New-year's day,
everything, down even to his dog
knife, must be rendered. Other
people than farmers will groan.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

II. b., in Journal and Farmer,
says: 81 see an inquiry in your pa
per how to keep setting hens free
from lice. / have tried the follow
ing plan with success; fll the nest
with hog hair, and there will be no
lice troubling the hens, as hce will
not remain in the nest after the hog
hair is put in, and every farmer can
save enough for this purpose after
he has killed his hogs"
A correspondent in the Kansas
Farmer recommends the same, or
what he considers better Build
your hen house over the hog pen
and you will always be free OF the
louise pest.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

The pencil marks you see around thI
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 friends and patrons, but
cash alone win Yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere TO strict cash
rule. We hope you win comprehend
and appreciate the necessity oil such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
tB- We enter no new names on our
books without the money In advance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

Chamberlain positively refuses 80
accept the offer of IA appointment
mt the hands of the President. He
cave as a reason that he had been
guaranteed 10y law firm in New
York twice as much per annpm as
he could make out of the Solicitor
ship, and that he did not intend to
re enter politics till he had made
hls fortune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

When a man is laid up with a
broken leg and there is no -four IN
the house, nothing pleases him so
much as to have the members of
the society to which he belongs pre-
sent him with a series of resolutions
expressing their high appreciation
of his fine moral character.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07
Senator Brownlow was six feel

Senator Brownlow was six feet in
h eight and of n spare, STOPPING fig
ure. His face was dark and
smooth, and his intensely black
hair was but little silvered to the
last. His aspect was grave, ard he
laughed seldom. He prided him
self upon having hever played a
card, sworn, drank y dram Of IL
quor, except for medical puFpos
es, smoked cigar or ehewed. nc
never, he said, attended theatre
or horse ace, and never courted
but one woman, whom he married
He had seven children.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

No one seems to know how many
counties there are in Texas. Tue
most reliable "estimate" puts the
number at two hundred and twen
ty-two. Some of these counties
contain the area of the State OF
Connecticut. The time will come
when these counties, being cut up,
the number will be six or seven
hundred.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07


The N. Y. Custom House has
been badly managed. A govern
ment commission has been locking
into IL. They think il should be
managed on business principles and
free from party influence secre-
tary Sherman calls the attention OF
the President 10 this report and
asks for further instructions, and
the President writes:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAsHISG-
TON, May 2G.-My Dear Sir: ] have
read the partial report Of the Com.
mission appointed 20 examine the
New York custom house. concur
with the Commission in their re-
commendntiOns. II Is my wish that
the collection OF revenues should be
free from partisan control aud or
ganized on a strictly business basis,
with the same guarantees for eili-
cheney and Gdelity In the selection
Of chief and subordinate officers
luub NOui1 W lNIhiiNA ~ f'NN
merchant. Party leaders should
have no more influence than other
equally respectable citizens. No
assessments for political purposes
on subordinates should be allowed,
no useless officer or employe should
be retained; no officer should be
allowed or permitted 70 take part IN
political organizations, caucuses,
conventions or political campaigns.
Their right 70 vote and % express
their views on pablo questions,
either orally or through the press,
is not denied, provided Il does not
interfere with the discharge cf their
official duties. Respectfully,
X. Il. HAYES.
To Hon Iobn Sherman
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

Recent dispatches indicate that
the wheat crop all over the United
States is in good condition, partic
ularly in the. great West-the gra-
nary Of the world. When this is
taken into consideration, with the
great demand which the great war
in Europe will create for bread
stnds, it will be seen that our farm
ers in the future ha1e Eluch to en-
courage them to renewed eXertions.
Speed the plow now, an abundant
crop of cereals and a bright future
will loom up at an early day for the
sons of toll.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

When a father discovers that his
boy has been using MS razor to
sharpen his slate pencil with, his
faith that he is to be the father OF
u President is temporarily eclipsel
by his anxiety to find the boy and
n piece Of lath,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

The Radical Republicans are
abusing Hampton for hanging three
extremely guilty negro murderers
in South Carolina aad are at the
same time damning Governors
Stone and Nichoiis foF not hanging,
before they can be arrested, two
white murderers in their respective
States
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

A mocking bird entered a Meth
odist churt h at Jackson, Tenn, the
other Sunday, and, after clrcling
around the room, lit on the railing
of the altar, where it sat in atten
tive silence till the close of the SER
mon, when it warbled some of its
sweetest notes and sailed away.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

New Orleans has boy with a
bullet in his brain. A six year old
was accidentally shot by play
mate on the 4th of April, the bullet
passing through the brain, but, af-
ter lying i'll a semi-unconscious
state fsr two days, with his right
arm and leg, right s,de Qf tongue,
and lcft side of face completely par
alyzed, he began to improve, and is
now so far restored as to he out OF
bed. eating heartily, and enjoying
himself with his playmates.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

4 darkey was once attempting to
steal goose, but dog raised an
objection and Sambo retired. The
next night during a thunder show
er he attempted it again, and just
as he was Oh the point of getting
away with his fowl, the lightning
struck close by, and the noise near
ly frightened the poor fellow to
death Dropping the goose, he
started away, mutteringi "Peers to
me der gn mighty lot of fuss
made bout a common goose"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

Scene in Texas. Hotel table:
"Good morning stranger; il looks
like rain" Stranger; II think
not A shot is heard, and the
stranger Is rolled out of the back
door Moral: Texas is fine
grazing country.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

"He's a man after my own heart,
pa" said Julia, reverting to her Au
gustus. Nonsense" replied old
Practical, ''he's man after the mon
ey your uncle left you." And then
all was quiet.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

Mr.. G. S. Bells, a Northern set
tier residing near Middleton, N. c.,
has an orchard of some twenty
five or thirty Thousand peach trees,
embracing over one hundred differ
ent varieties. lie is going North
to make arrangements for bis ship
ments and sales. lie ships alto.
gether by rail, and expects to real
ize $4,000 or $4,000 by his sales.-
He has also large strawberry fields
and a fine vineyard. His success
in fruit-raising in the old North
State has aroused the interests Of
the people there in that culture.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07
MIND READING TESTED.
Why Brown Does not Find
Philadelphia's Lost Boy,
Charlie Ross.
New York SnnI


Brown, the mind reader, last
night, in the church edilice, Brook
lyn, experimental in the presence
of a critical audience. The Rev.
Henry NJ. Scudder and Horace B.
Clafin were of the committee. Mr..
Brown, while bliEdfolded, found a
knife that had been secreted under
Il cushion. Then ne undertook to
designate person thought of by
DR.. Scudder. The doctor stood on
the platform to concentrate his
thoughts or some person, and hold
ing the clergyman's left hand tohis
own forehead, started, almost plung
ing Of the platform. He raced the
doctor up and down the aisles, and
at length hoyered with him about a
woman in the center of the house
Then Brown gently touched her on
the shoulder, and said: This is the
person you are thinking Of" "Yes,"
answered DIR. Scuddcr, sit is the
hardest job ever had to find my
own wife"
Mr.. Brown said that he was often
asked why he did not find Charlie
Ross. If he was able to place him
self in contact with any person
through whose hands Charlie Ross
had passed, he could trace him from
one to another, and at length find
the lost boy. He illustrated to the
audience how this might be done,
by tracing an article through the
hands of three or four persons who
handled it while he was out of the
rom
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

There is no merit where there is
no trial; and until experience
stamps the mark of strength, cow
ards may pass for heroes, faith for
falsehood.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

A cotemporary asks; "Does ad-
vertising pay?" OF course it does.
Only a week ago a man in
New Jersey went off with a hand
some womaa, and his wife learned
of his whereabouts by seeing few
lines about the clipping couple in
newspaper. She started in pursuit,
intercepted the truants. and
scratched and tore the woman's
new spring bonnet all to bits, and
raised lump on her husbands
head as large as a new potato. Tho
few lines in the newspaper didn't
cost her a cent Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07

There are two ways of getting
through this world. One way ;s to
make the best of it, and the other
is TO make the worst of it. Those
who take the latter course work
hard for poor pay.