The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-12-13
CLISHMACLAVER.
The old year, dying, carries up
Its deeds and misdeeds straight TO h
And, dliHnde, hurries back

The old year, dying, carries up
Its deeds and misdeeds straight to heaven
And, dliunde, hurries back
Lo! tits another to Z!
Has Lebanon a dry goods store
The Lebanon Herald thus divides
Legislature.
The n. Y. Herald initiates thu
Lebanon Herald in its ads.
Mr.. j. Neil Mckenzie is Presi
dent of Chess Club at Lebanon.
The Louisville Club has succeed
ed in Devlin' the life out of the Ma
tional Game.
Turkeys will he cheaper in Pu
laski this season. Not so many
are being shipped.
To extract money deity from the
Treasury, in our new lexicon, that
is patriotism.-S. S. Cox.
The vaulting ambition of Chica-
90 bank president finds surcease in
vaulting away with the bank con
tents.
Another effect of radical rascal
itv: The suspensionsion of the joint
rules allows the sale of whiskey in
the Capitol.
When Jno. NJ. Sharpe is con
firmed Collector by the Senate the
photographers will doubtless call him
a Revenue Cutter.
The hacking cough of almost
every one now is attributable to
the sausage of the period, and is a
faint attempt at barking.
A suit in Circuit Court last week
involved few bushels of wheat and
the word "wheat" was used 351
times by the lawyers in speaking.
Tilden, it is said, took the oath
of office before a magistrate in New
York when he was elected, and will
soon unseat Hayes Sit down, un-
Gle sammy!
If we were legislator and in
tend d to vote against the 80 cents
compromise, we would tie our ballot
to a rock and throw it in the win
dow ana then run for dear life, for
fear the Bondholders' building 1--WE
call it our Capitol would tumble in
on US.
The cooper at Lynchburg, Tenn,
struck last week. His demands
were acceded to and peace reigns
again. His employer tried to stave
him off, but the infuriated mob
brought matters to head in such a
whoop that the bloated barrel-meA
ger had to cave in.
Capt Hick Ballentine pretended
it was all joke when he gave his
check to Capt. Irvine for $345 for
that mare, and Capt. l. kindly sur
rendered the check (when he found
that the Bank had been notified not
to pay it). She sold for S165, and
it is fair to presume that if her
owner Is yet alive he would throw
in a chrome if some man would let
him give her to hiH.
A colored Columbia troupe had
some sort of show at Antoinette
Hall last Friday and Saturday
nights. The brass band paraded
the streets Saturday. A slim-jim-
colored gent about the color of
burnt biscuit and under a helmet
hat led the van, followed by five
horn blowers. The tuba man was
trying to initiate a thunder storm,
and seemed to have proud disdain
for the key upon which his neigh
Dor was hopping about through the
world of discord. The tenor and
alto were running a race for who
should strike at the greatest num-
Der of tunes and never Craze one,
while the leader, with a rusty old |
valveless trumpet that looked as If
it had been eXhumed from the |
crumbling ruins of Jericho, seemed |
to delight in seesawiag from Cap |
tain Jinks into the long metre dox-
ology and chawing up The Last |
Rose of Summer-before last and |
splitting it out in screening wads
that would gouge the drum out OF
a iackass' ear. The kettle drum |
was trying to keep from keeping |
time with anything else in the
world, while the base-drummer was
hammering away like a mad bull
tearing up grass with his paw, max
ing as much music as a mule at
Kicking the weatherboard-
ng off of the stable. AS they
passed across the square the court
yard gate-posts held their ears and
cried out i'll loud lamentation, and
old milchcow that
ooked as if she hadn't had energy
20 prick her ears in forty years,
,aised her tail and scooted off to-
wards the barrens of Lawrence like
Is if her backbone was a wolf.
Monday morning some Of the in
labitants raised trap-door and
sent out a buzzard to see if the
1and left any dry land, and now
Pulaski is almost on her feet again.
as it the Hell-but enough.
Martin College.