The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-07-19
Courier Journalisms.

Let us tell the farmers again,
for the we-don't know how-oftenth
time, that the surest way to keep
the dogs from killing their sheep is
to swap their sheep Off for dogs
and let the dogs kill somebody
else's sheep. We hate TO Dc eter-
nally hammering this thing into
peoples minds, but il will have TO
be done, il seems.
Under the administration of Mr..
HAYES IL is not deemed necessary
to keep the South full Of troops.
The regiments both In the South
and East are TO be sent TO Idaho.
Under Grant, Howard would have
received no help on the Salmon
river. The troops would have been
kept in the provinces"
Somebody has started the story
that Beecher and Tilton proposed
TO have a grand sensational "r9oon.-
ciliation" when Tilton comes back
from Europe. Beecher gave All
emphatic denial TO the rumor last
Friday, and says it is simply In
possible" II would appear, so
Judging from the record OF the un-
pleasantness.
ave hope" says "A correspondent
of the Middleton Press, ''that moth
ers will remember that good brandy
is cure for summer complaint"
Would TO goodness that wives
would remember it, too, and that
some of us husbands have the sum
mer complaint all the year round.
The pay of the Turkish soldier'is
not as munifcent as heart could
wish-not in this unfriendly world,
at least--for il is said that he gets
but three cents n day; but then,
when amid the thunder Of guns and
led by the sacred crescent, he seeks
TO ego where glory waits him" and
a Russian shell strikes him amid
ships and knocks him into a cooked
hat, his pay in Paradise is beyond
all bounds.
The Christian Secretary gives
eight reasons why congregations
should pay their pastors, the first
Of which is "God requires IT," We
should have supposed that this one
reason covered the whole case, ren-
dering the other seven quito super
nuous. However, congregations
are too apt 10 disregard the re-
quirements Of the Almighty, know
ing that lie will make no immediate
fuss about il.
Grant dined with King Leopold,
Of Belgium, yesterday, at Brussels.
Such a bi2 man as Grant can hard
ly find room 70 spread himself In
that little country, where there Is,
indeed, so much 70 be seen. Leo
pold Of Sake Coburg bequeathod 10
his son the present King a realm
l73 miles long and ll2 miles broad,
with an area Of III 1913 square miles.
It's population OF over 100000 is
crowded in at the rate OF 104 per
sons TO the square mile.
The Cars Asiatic campaign has
been temporarily clouded. General
Louis Melikof, who has been
whipped several times recently by
the Turks, has been recalled, and
IL may be some weeks before the
Grand Duke Michael will be In
20 order the march % Er
zeroum 10 be renewed. After all, u
is apparent that the possession Of
Kars Is a necessity with the Rus
SLAMS, and they will doubtless ex-
pend their strength hereafter upon
that stronghold.
The members Of the late Louisi-
ana Returning Board have been
placed under arrest for forgery.
The evidence has been IN process
Of collection for some weeks at New
Orleans, and IL is probably very
damaging. or the legal action would
not have been taken. These politi
cal lepers did all they could 70 dc.
,troy the evidence Of their guilt,
but their tracks COVERED too large
an area