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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The Lawrence Free Press gave us
column last week to show that
Lawrence gives mere money to her
school children than Giles. We
took the census last week and
showed that Giles gives each pupil
$3.44 and Lawrence $1.22-nearly 8
to 1. The Press says the census is
wrong, and points out our errors.
Now we have the actual figures from
our County Clerk and Lawrence's
figures from the Press, and here
they are:
Giles county assessed property,
$6,6O7,s95 Polls, 1922. Giles lev
les ] mill on the dollar and. 81 on
the poll for school purposes, which
amounts to $12,725.95. She has
1O,OS3 school children, and this
gives each child S1.26 1-5.
Lawrence county assessed prop
erty, 81, 2O9,113. Polls, $1,1SO. She
levies l mill on the dollar and %
cents on the poll for school FUR
poses, which amounts to $l.6O4.
She has 2,779 school children, and
gives each child 573 cents.
Thus by the Free Press own fig
ures, we give more than twice as
much to our children's schooling.
The Free Press persists in saying
that Giles does not levy ST. on the
poll for school purposes. Our
County Clerk says she does, and
the records of our court show it.
However, we will come down to
Lawrence and investigate the matter
and see whether we do or not. On
the railroad proposition the Press
says:
Pulaski subscribed cheerfully to
the enterprise by an overwhelming
vote, and then acted in such a man
ner as to lead people to believe her
inclined to repudiate her honest
and voluntary contract.
What nonsense! The r R. Co.
failed to come up to its contract
and the Courts said Pulaski could
not subscribe the stock if she want |
ed to. If you sell me broken
winded mule or railroad) I'll make
you take it back. If you will send
us proposition to subscribe for a
de tacto railroad, Pulaski viii sub
scribe again, but she is not respon-
sible for the action of the courts in
holding that she did not have the
power TO give money to a railroad
that had no chai ter. The editor of
the Free Press has good sense anil
can readily see that our people are
not at fault in this, and are not ras-
Gals as he intimates
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
Tribute of Respect.

We, the undersigned committee, beg
leave to submit the following in accor-
dance with your resolutions:
WHEREAS, The fell destroyer has again
entered our fold, and we now lament
Miss EMMA WHITE, who departed this
life on the 18th inst, after a peculiarly
distressing illness of several weeks du-
ration. The old must die the death OF
our young sister is a mournfui illustra-
ton of the sad truth, that the young may
die. To her young friends it should
give added force 10 the impressive adj
monition, "Be We also ready"
ReSolUed, That the Pulaski Grange
has sustained an irreparable loss in the
death of sister Emma. She was good
patron, devoted friend, and always a
genial and pleasant companion.
ReSOlUed, That we tender to the be-
reaved parents and mourning brothers
and sisters our heartfelt coincidence. To
them remains the com fOrting assurance
that, though their loved and lost one
sleeps in the silent grave, yet will she
live again, and they may meet her in the
home of the blessed,
Resolved, That we wear the usual
badge of mourning for thirty days and
that copy of these resolutions be
spread upon the minute book; also, that
one be furnished the parents and one to
the CITIZEN, with the request that it be
published.
Mrs. MARION CHILDREss,l
Mrs. JNo. PHILLIPS, Com
Mrs. Il. G.. WHITE,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

Lawrenceburg was the victim last
Saturday night of burglars, who al
most sacked the town. They en-
tered the stores of Gilmore, Dustin
& Dunn, Sam Brown, Spotswood,
Ables and two others, and attempt
ed to enter Bentley's but were heard
and repulsed. They carried off a
large quantity of goods, clothing,
whisky, etc, but got in money only
one dime. Three of them have been
apprehended and some of the goods
recovered. One was named Hardy,
another Grisham ana another lief
teller, or some such name. They
were citizens of the place.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
Parker's Store.

Owing to the fair weather and
the farmers being behind hand with
their work, the great show" was
not patronized by many of our citi-
zens-the most of whom acted the
wiser part by staying at home, saw
ing the day as we'll as the money.
1t has been said that the fool and
his money soon part. A true say
ing in some respects, but there are
exceptions to all rules, and l sup
pose it must be allowed in this case B;
but / dare say that many a dollar
was spent on that occasion that
ought TO have been used in paying
debts and buying the necessarics of
life. People will go to town to see
the grand street display, become
excited by the martial music, change
their notion and go in the show to
see what they have. The balloon
ascension was witnessed by some
parties at work in this neighbor-
hood-a distance of about 10 miles.
Messrs. r. p. Yancy, j. NJ. Park
er and j. p. Woodland started to
Texas last Thursday on prospect
ing tour to be absent about a
month. We wish them a pleasant
journey and safe return. Some Of
the parties contemplate moving to
that country. hence this trip. We
shall expect rich treat through
the columns of the CITIZEN in the
way of a general description of
their travels on their return.
Mr.. J. ID. Hamlet in company
with Mr.. "Donie" Oliver, of Rog-
ersville, Ala, visited his parents
last Friday, and to be at the show
too 1 suppose. Mr.. w. B. Wood
has just returned from a visit to his
son at Prospect. KULLY.
April 23d.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The blue panes that hung in win
dows with Southern exposure
have mostly been taken down.
The peddlers who went from house
to house, vending few square
inches of blue glass at fifty cents
or dollar pane, are driven with
scorn and contempt from the door.
The most diligent sealch has failed
to find man, woman, child, horse,
mule, dog, cat, canary bird,or house
plant in the city or around it which
has been benefited to the smallest
appreciable extent by the "blue
ray. - Cleveland Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

War between Russia and Turkey
is admitted on all hands to be in
evitable; but a Vienna correspond
ent OF The Times says that the world
will have to resign itself to remain
for a short time longer in its pres
ent state of uncertainty, as the
Russian manifesto is not likely to
be issued before the Cars return
from Kischeneff, for which the 10th
OF April is named as the probable
date.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
Pulaski can draw manYnrofitahle

Pulaski can draw many profitable
lessons from her sister town, Fay
etteville. There are double our
number of mechanics there and
their hammers are heard all over
town, and houses and other i'm
prOvements are springins up all
around. A house can be built in
Fayetteville very cheap. We sup
pose the mechanics can afford to
work cheap because they are kept
busy, and we suppose lumber is
cheap because there IS SO much
sold. The town is dotted over with
nice, comfortable tenement cot
tages, which rent cheap and are oc-
cupied by workingmen from her
factories and mills, and everything
is driving ahead upon solid basis.
Pulaski needs more cottages for her
workIngmen. We have the best
carpenters in the State here, but
they get little work to do. We do
not wish to detract from Pulaski
enterprise, for it has been greater
than Fayetteville's in the building
of business houses and fine resi-
dences, but we wish to direct that
enterprise in another channel. We
have a sufficient number of splendid
store houses and costly residences,
and now let us make some cheaper
homes for our workingmen-the
men who are the bone and sinew of
the town. If we do not make it so
they can't afford to live here, they
will be compelled to live elsewhere,
and the town will be the loser.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
Ex-Gov. John c. Brown


The Athens Post, edited by that
soundest and sensiblest of Tennes-
see Democratic editors, thus turns
its guns upon the sore-heads who
are squirting at Elk Gov. Brown for
his acceptance of a position upon
Louisiana Commission. We hearth
ly approve of every line of the fol-
lowing. John c. Brown is too well
grounded in the esteem of the PEG
pie of Tennessee to be affected by
these attacks. for a truer, drawer,
or more devoted patriot and honest
man cannot be found in the land.
Says the Post:
Having assaulted Postmaster
General Key without other effect
than to nauseate and disgust the
public, the self-constituted conserva-
tors of the democratic party are
now turning their attention to and
hurting their anathemas at John c.
Brown. Elk Governor Browns
offense consists in having agreed to
serve on the Louisiana Commission.
He needs no shield nor defense
from such assaults. He relunctant-
ly accepted the position at the
suggestion and by the advice of
number of the most prominent
Democrats of the South. men
whose political fidelity and integri-
ty is unquestioned and unquestion-
able, in the hope that he might aid
In bringing about peaceable solu-
ton of the Louisiana complications. |
The motive is good and patriotic,
and. instead of abuse aud vItupera-
ton, should elicit commentator
and approval. If the Commission
should be instrumental in effecting
an adjustment, the result will add |
to Gov. Browns already well-earn-
ed reputation; should it fail, he will |
have nothing to regret in having
lent his efforts to the consummation |
of an object which so thoroughly |
commends itself to all minds capa |
BILE of rising to a level considera-
ton of subjects affecting the public
interests and general welfare. 1t
would be better for the future of
The democratic party, and for the
country at large, if it had more
patriotic spirits in its ranks, and
fewer croakers and carpers-fewer
men who have neither the capacity
TO lead in the direction of success
lor the good sense. to follow"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The ladies and gentlemen have
been practicing long for the Olde
FoIke's Concerto that will take
place tomorrow night at Antoinette
Hall. The old-time costumes and
the sweet old-fashioned music will
form a striking contrast with the
latter-day perversions and be ex-
tremely pleasing to hear and see.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

Cow stealing is too prevalent in
Pulaski. A widow woman who is
unable to buy another cow lost hers
last week and her son in-law, after
riding a whole day, found it in a
gentleman's pasture in the country.
He said he bought it from a negro
for IS. The cow was worth $40.
This is the fifth cow we have heard
of disappearing within the past few
weeks. People should be very care
lul in buying cows from negroes
unless they know where they come
from. The negro who stole and
sold this one will be apprehended,
and ten years is too small term in
the penitentiary for him. A cow is
very frequently almost the support
of a family, as in this instance, and
this vile thievery should meet with
the severest rebuke when the thief
can be caught. If people will buy
cows from irresponsible parties and
thus encourage this stealing the
party who buys should be prosecu-
ted. The gentleman who bought
this one is certainly innocent of
any wrong, but after this thievery
has become so notorious and we
have warned the people against
making themselves parties to it, as
we here do, man will be inexcusa-
BILE if he buys a stolen COW. Cattle
traders should be very careful. If
this thing is kept up some one will
be prosecuted, and some one will
wake up in Jail.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The stage at the Olde Folke's
Concerto 20 morrow night at An
toinette Hall will present curious
spectacle. Ludicrous old time cos
tunes and manners and the soul
stirring melodies of the days of
aTtIess perfection will be presented,
anu time and trouble have been
lavishly expended to make the scene
pleasing.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The residence of DR.. A. L. Glaze,
of Elkton, was burned to the ground
on Saturday evening last about 3
o'clock. 1t is supposed to have
caught through the carelessness OF
some children who were cleaning
up and burning brush in the yard.
The loss including much of his fur.
niture will amour. TO about $4,000
without insurance
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

Quite an excitement was pro-
duced at E. w. Hollis school on
Friday morning by the report that
a large eagle was sitting Oh log in
Mr.. Ii. fuckers field near by, de
vouring something which he had
caught. Mr.. VIM. S. Bass, a stu
dent in the school, fastened around
to DR.. A. NJ. Phelps and procured n
rifle, and returning, pursued the
bird, which he killed. 1t proved to
be large gray eagle measuring 6
feet and Z inches from tip to tip.
1t had flown to the top of large
tree above Capt. Bass field, where
he shot it, and when he shot it, it
rose high in the air and fell in the
field near where Capt, Bass was
working with the hands.
April Dist. REPORTER.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
OIde Folkes Concerto.

Tomorrow night Pulaski will
witness one of the most unique and
pleasing performances in years. 1t
is for a praiseworthy purpose and
it will repay witnessing. Let every
body go and hear the beautiful old
fashioned music and see the pecu-
liar costumes and manners Of We
olden time.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
v. T. Wells New Livery Stable.

Where you can hire or buy cheaper
than anywhere else saddle horses, horses
and buggies, hacks, &c. Left hand side
of North Main street. mar2-tf
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 he promptly attended to.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
Mrs. Allen .. MAY sent us Tuesd

Mrs.Allen E.May sentus Tuesday
a couple of cakes of the most beau
tiful Jersey butter we ever saw. 1t
has q rich golden color and looks
glossy and sweet. She is no less
famed for her dairy products than
for her kindness. Mr.. May has
taken great trouble and expended
considerable money in fine cattle
and he has his reward in some OF
the finest mich stock in the South.
We thank the lady for her kindness.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

Coles Circus drew heavily here
Saturday. The performances are as
good as the average and the man
ayers polite and gentlemanly. 1t is
better than nine-tenths of the dollar
shows, and comes nearer to its pub
lished program than many of them.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The storm that was so destruc-
tive to life and property at La
vergne Wednesday night of last
week was pretty severe in Lincoln.
We motto ed just across the Giles
line near Shiloh hill several signs
of the tornado, At one place trees
were uprooted and broken and
twisted off terribly. We heard of
no serious damage to houses.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
a White Honey Comb Quilt, large
size, at so cents, at the New York Store

Maidens in jimsy-woolsy, lads in
one-gallows coperases, damseis in
cottonade and men in e-breeches
and rude jackets, all singing the
beautiful melodies of ye olden time
and aping the manners of other
centuries and times, will be exhib-
tied at Antoinette Hall tomorrow
night. Go, everybody, and witness
the pleasing spectacle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

Travelling across the country to
Fayetteville we were agreeably sur
prised to see the extraordinary
large crops of wheat everywhere.
We, noticed furthermore that there
is more planted in Lincoln than in
Giles and that the average stand is
considerably better. If the season
continues favorable, the wheat yield
will be the greatest for years; and
If war prevails in Europe, the price
will almost double. Farmers who
read the papers and saw the pre-
monitions of war in Europe are the
largest wheat planters. 1t requires
as mucn sense, learning and fore
thought to be a successful farmer
as it does to make lawyer, and the
reason that farming does not pay
better is that there are too many
men conducting their farms after
the old wooden mould board ideas
and ignoring latter day implements
and intelligent suggestions ofnews-
papers. Every farmer should take
newspaper and an agricultural
journal. He should keep up with
his county markets and general
news, should keep posted on gen.
eral political events, and study
the latter day developments in his
avocation. All these bear materially
upon his interests, and to neglect
and ignore them is to fall back into
the third rank of farmers. If our
people had read the papers more
generally our wheat crop would
have been much larger, as we sug-
gested.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The balloon did go up here last
Saturday with the man upon the
trapez. He went up some fonr
hundred yards and landed about a
quarter of q mile down the railroad
unhurt. 1t was witnessed by a
vast crowd of people who trembled
at his daring.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The ladies exhibited spring fix
ings Sunday. The styles are beau
tirul and our ladies are beautiful
and the style and the ladies togeth
err upon such a beautiful Sunday
were enough to make fellows eyes
run molasses. Such hats and such
wells, such exquisite trails, such
ribbons, such feathers, such dresses
such crimps and such flutes, ano
such sweet dainty boots, such flow
ers, such curls and such. tresses-
such everything nice Otis the best
thing ON ice) is enough to inspire ;
fellow with an insuperable iuclina-
ton to scale the vaulting eminencC
of feminine gorgeousness with his
eyes and revel in inefable wonder.
ment at the vast immeasurability OF
her superlative beauty and dazzling
adornments-if possible, as it were
so to speak, just merely.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
her coming wheat crop.

Mrs. Brown, wife of Rev. Sterling
II. Brown, died at home south of
Pulaski last Saturday of consump-
ton. She was very estimable la
dy, beloved BY all, and though her
death was not unexpected, it is a
sad stroke TO the family and friends.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

Having purchased the stock of DRUGS.
medicines, etc, from Messrs. Bate q
steele, we intend keeping well select
Gu stock OF everything usually kept in
tne Drug line. Would be pleased to
wait upon our friends and customers,
ana VIII try TO give satisfaction both In
quality and price.
aUr26-2t G. A. Popr & ~
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

A circus man stole Mr.. b. NJ.
Young's pocket knife from his
bench Saturday. He went down
and reported to the manager and
the fellow was brought up and the
knife delivered. The thief said he
put it in his.pocket accidentally,and
the manager locked him 81 so fol
bis careleEsaess.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

lobe Winship thought the bal
loon was made specially to torment
him last Saturday. He left the cir
Gus ground as ii he had q dispatc CHI
summoning him to the north pole
10 supper. No damage, and he is
as gentle as ever.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

An Omaha man is doubly in
trouble. He deserted his wife to
elope with girl, and the wife is
chasing him. Then he deserted
the girl and she is chasing him.
The chasers have joined in the pur-
suit, and he fears the worst if they
catch him.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

There is some probability that
ex Secretary Robson will be pros
ecuted for transportation of Ma
Wy Department funds. For three or
four years Robson has come out
with deficiency of 81, 100000 which
he has not satisfactorily explained.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

and Medicines at
apr262t G.. A. Pope & Cos.
a Pulaski clothing store employs
handsome young man at a heavy
salary to display their fine clothes
upon. Calculating that they would
be Called upon for many fine Cal
amancoes they directed their Cal-lig-
rapher to use his eagle-eyed Cal-lid-
ity in selecting and ordering the
best, so that no Calamity would be-
fall their customers and they would
not Cal-citrate. The goods came,
and the clerk got out his own fine
coat to try it on, and, horror of hor-
rors! such a fit! We don't mean
the young man had a f1t-neither
the coat. The breasts stood out
like side-boards and the back wrink-
led as if it was laid of in corn rows.
When buttoned up, the tails stood
out each on his own responsibility
and tapped about as gracefully as a
dish-rag hung on a bush in the
back yard, and the sleeves were cut
akimbo for bow-iegged man. He
tried it on forwards, backwards,
right side up, up side down, cross
wise-and then put his legs through
the arm-holes and pinned the tails
around his neck, but it wouldn't fit;
he carried it to the tailor and got
him to cut off the flaps and splice
the tail, take tuck in the back and
trephine the elbows, and then he
traded it off for a calf-cover, and
went down in the cellar and hung
himself up on a nail by the seat of
the breeches and howled.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

Thirty five years ago a man in
North Carolina found a terrapin
and cut his initials on its shell.
Last week he found the same ami
NAL, with the initials, not twenty
feet from the original spot.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The District Conference of the
NJ. L. Church will convene at Old
Lynnville next Saturday. All the
officers of the churches and Sab
bath schools are members of the
Conference and should attend.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

Hon. II. NJ. Spofford was elected
U. S. senator from Louisiana Tues
day Oh first ballot, receiving lao
out of 1913 votes, republicans
voting for him.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The Knoxville Chronicle says if
half the idle men of Tennessee
would go to work and stay at it,
that the dawn of a new era would
be Witnessed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26

The Somerville Female Instnute
was burned to the ground at one
CLOCK last Tuesday evening. Loss
fifteen thousand dollars on which
there was no insurance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26


We travelled from the Lincoln
county line through Bethany and
up the Elkton pike TO Pulaski last
Saturday, and although it was a
beautiful day and the ground in
splendid condition for york, we did
not see a single pillow running nor a
single person at work in a field.
Circuses take money ont of the
country, but we never realized be-
fore the damage inflicted. Three
thousand days work at least was
lost. There were at least thous
and negroes in town who had no
money to get into the circus, but
they left the fields and came here
simply to be in the circus atmos
phere. Giles county threw away
last Saturday almost the profit OF
her coming wheat crop.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-26
no. II

Eve are not likely ever again"
says the Springfield Republican, 40
see a Southern Legislature filed
with illiterate field hands, 1t is
certainly to be hoped not, for within
the last ten years the legislation OF
illiterate field hands has cost the
South enough TO run the Parliament
OF Great Britain for at least a cen
tury and half Courier-JoKrnal.