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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08
Wells Villainy Exposed.

Littlefield, clerk of the Louisiana
Returning Board, testified before the
Morrison House committee that on
the Sd of December he altered the
original returns from two of the
polls in Vernon parish, SO as to
transpose lis Democratic votes over
to the Republican candidates; that
be did this by the express direction
of Gov. Wells and that after making
copies of the altered originals, the
latter were burned either by himself
or Gov. Wells. he did not remember
which, but at all events with Gov
Wells knowledge.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

J. G. Tucker, a wealthy citizen OF
McMinn county, Tenn, married his
cousin several years ago. They
disagreed and parted in 1875; Tuck
err sued for divorce, which was re-
fused him. Mrs. Tucker had been
too intimate with Rev. J. c. Chris
man, of the Cumberland Presby-
terrain church, and continued So
She.correspon led regularly with her
children. who had gone to live with
their uncle, Robert A Miller, at Taz-
well Court house, Va, her letters
usually being postmarked Paris or
GAINESVILLE. A few days ago they
received Letter from her at Bethany,
H., care of J. C. Chrisman. Mr..
Miller went out to investigate
the matter, and found that Mrs.
Tucker had been granted a di
vorce by court in Beven county,
Utah, that Craftsman had been di-
vorced from bis wife ut st. Louis on
account OF adultery with Mrs.
Tucker, and that Chrisman and Mrs.
Tucker, were living together as man
and wife.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08
Reputation.
PETITION


To the General Assembly of the State OF
Tennessee:
Your petitioners, citizens of Mem
phis-many of us creditors and tax
payers-would respectfully repre-
sent that our local government is
so complex, so exacting, and so un-
equal in the distribution of its bur
dens, as to become destructive of
the fundamental purpose of govern
ment-the protection of the prop
erty and labor of the citizen. We
suffer all the evils of a tripartite
government-theS State, the county,
the municipal-at an expense so
enormous as to consume more than
the net earnings of the people, the
greater portion of which is the cost
of our municipal government. As
the natural result of this vicious
form of government, business Ian
guishes, our real estate has become
almost worthless, and capital studi-
ously avoids investment here, in any
form, because of the certain confis-
cation which awaits its appearance.
We can no longer endure this state
of things, and pray you to abroga.e
the Memphis city charter, and re-
peal all laws constituting us, in any
manner, a municipality, and resolve
us back into the body of Shelby
county, and give us the simple and
limited form of government pro-
posed in the accompanying bill for
the local government of certain pop
ulations; and we pray you to speed
lily enact the same into law. Re-
lieve us of the oppressive burdens
of our municipal government, and
we will be enabled better to dis
charge our obligations to the State
and county.
Memphis owes $6,000,0OO and
seeks in this way to repudiate.
Here is the milk in West Tennes-
secs State debt reputation cocoa
nut. The Appeal has this to say
The petition for the wiping out |
of Memphis-providing for a sort
of municipal harikari-does not |
meet with general favor, as will be
seen from the following counter Pc
tition, put in circulation yesterday, !
and which will, no doubt, be sup
ported by strong array of names
To the General Assembly of the State of
Tennessee:
Your petitioners, citizens of the
city of Memphis, and taxpayers
therein, would respectfully repre
sent that they learned with surprise
that a petition to your honorable |
body is being circulated and signed |
by citizens, asking the repeal of
the charter of our city and the en-
tire abolition of it's municipal gov
eminent, and believing that such |
a course would be disastrous to the
best interests thereof, we respectfully
ask that you pass no laws tending
to the abolition of the municipal
government of the city of Memphis.
1t appears from this that we have /
citizens who think that it will not
do to commit communal suicide to
evade the payment of debt. "Let
us live, and let live"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08
What is a Bat
Popular Science Monthly

Popular Science Monthly.l
All who have ever examined a
bat closely and obseryed its. fur,
ears, and teeth, must, / think, have
recognized it as kind of beast
Its real affinities, however, serve ex-
cellenJly we'll to demonstrate how
little mere external aspect can be
trusted as a guide to fundamental
relationship. The bat is essentially
an animal OF the air-all its struct-
ure is modified for fight, and it rare
ly descends to the surface of the
ground. The mole, on the contrary
is essentially an animal of the earth
all its structure is modified for
burrowing, and it rarely ascends to
the surface Of the ground. The
contrast could hardly be more COM
plete, and yet the bat and mole are
cousins-the mole, the hedgehog,
and the shrew-mouse belong to a
group of beasts with which the bats
show no inconsiderable affinity.
have spoken of the opinion that
The bat is kind of bird. This view
seems to have been entertained by
the Jews, and the "bird of dark
ness" is placed in Deuteronomy XVI,
Is, among the unclean ones forbid
den as food:
"And the stork and the heron af-
ter her kind, and the lapwing and
the bat"
Aristotle, though he placed the
bats among flying animals, and the
fore among birds, distinctly recog-
nized the differences in their. organ
ization; and the same thing may be
affirmed of Pliny. But in spite Of
this, and although Albertus Mag
nus, in the Middle Ages, was fully
acquainted with the true nature of
bats as beast as well as with their
winter torpidity, we find later on q
retrOUre ssiOn of opinion.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

An exchange remarks that "the
depression in the cotton market is
beginning to make the Southern peo-
pie open their eyes. They can now
see that it is undoubtedly to their
interest to curtail the production OF
that staple and diversity their agri-
cultural operations" All in the eye,
neighbor. The Southern people do
not see any such a vision. All that
the Southern people can see, or are
like to see while this generation.lives,
is to raise cotton at twenty cents a
pound, and sell it at eight and nine
cents. Of course they will swear
about the low price of cotton, the
scarcity of money, and the high price
of meat and bread; but we have our
doubts about their ever having
practical sense to learn to make
their living at home. We, have
written this paragraph with the full
expectation of making five hundred
Hardin county FARMERS" mad with
US for telling them plain truth, but
we judge of the future by sail past
experience" and present surround
ings. Our people do not know that
they have a right to be independent.
Savanah Transcript.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08
NUN. G..
.NTama, L Hear

An affecting incident occurred at the
academy of music lately. Among the
audience was a wealthy family, one of
the members of which has for several
years been in delicate health, and was
born deaf and dumb. IL has been the
custom of the family to take their af-
fiicted daughter with them 10 the thea
tire, and even to concerts, as she experi-
enced acute nervous pain when LETT
alone, and seemed 10 enjoy the excite
ment and action Of musical enter
tainments, although she could not hear
sound. It was observed that she
seemed very much amused at the conf
calities of Mr.. Sol Smith Russell, and
enjoyed the changes Of his facial express
sion rs much as any of the audience.
When Signor Tagliapietra came on TO
sing it was noticed that curious light
came into her eyes, and stretching out
her arms to her mother, she spelled on
her fingers, with the greatest excite
ment, the words, mamma, can hear"
The next piece was an orchestral ar
rangnm0nt OF 'srrovadoTe," played by
the combination of the Berger family
and the Vienna ladies' orchestra. AS
the composition proceeded the the tears
flowed down the poor child's cheeks,
and her excitement became so great
that it was deemed prudent to leave the
theatre. On reaching home the exhaus-
ton produced by the events of the even
ing was such that the physician was
summoned. AS she lay OH her maiden
couch she reach for her slate and wrote
Mother, l think Heaven must be mu-
Sic" The next day in accordance with
her request, Mr.. Russell was sent for
and he kindly came and sang for the
little sufferer his famous song relating
to goose stuffed with sage and inguns.
1t was too late. Death had long mark
ed the child for his own, and she could
not even smile. The little lips are cold
now, and there is vacant chair in the
family circle. The joy of that one even
ing was teo much for the delicate ner-
vous system, now happily at rest.-Sdn
Francisco Netcs Letter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

The publishers ofthe Murfreesboro
News after a years trial of the ex-
pertinent of furnishing the paper to
subscribers at $3.50 per annum, are
convinced that they have lost mon
ey by the operation, and have there
fore returned to the original figures
1872 notwithstanding the fact that
the subscription price of its local
rival is only $3.50. This is very
sensible procedure on the part of
the News. Our own experience, ex-
tending over term of years, corrob-
crates that of the most successful
publishers-to-wit that country"
weekly published at less than two
dollars per annum will inevitably
lose money. We should hold the
Herald at that figure if there were
half score of papers published in
Lebanon at a less price.-Lebano1l
Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

Our young friend Frank Williams,
son of Jno. p. Williams, left curl
osity at our office last week. 1t
consisted of five ears of corn grow
ing from one stem and under one
shuck. There is one good large ear
surrounded by four smaller ones,
and all seem to grow out of the
same cob at the base, but diverge
into distinct and separate ears. 1t
might be termed bouquet of corn.
Yet Mr.. d. X. Cox says that
such ears are very common in his
fields, except that they grow in the
tassel. We do not vouch for this
story, however.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

Prof. Parkhurst is of the opinion
that the burning star which has APP
peared in the constellation Cygnus
is not world in process of destruc-
ton, but an old star which has re-
sumed it's former Drilliancy. He is
so good as to add: even assum-
ing that star is destroyed every
ten years, it would be 100000
years before our turn would arrive.
Indeed, it may be, for aught we
know, that our turn has already
come and passed. How do we know
that 100000 years ago our own
sun was not the center of attraction
to the inhabitants of planets IN the
stellar regions?"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

Such humanitarians as Charles
Sumner and HoraceGreely were car
ried away with the fiction of equali-
ty. There is no such thing as
equality. Two men can not be
found who are equal; there must be
some disparity. The proposition
was set up that million ofvery ig-
norant black men in the South were
equal to a million Of educated or
partly enlightened white men,
Time has proved its falsity. Igno-
rance has succumbed; intelligence
has stepped to the front The black
must develop In wisdom, education
and physical courage. Without
these qualities they are powerlcss =
Tsrre Ha,9e EsYrsss
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

Its absolutely mournful to notice
how full of strangers the city has
been ever since election. We know
a man who six weeks ago couldn't
walk across the street without stop
ping to shake hands with eighty-five
men whom he had known ever since
they were boys, who now walks from
his home to the post Office, distance
mile and half, and never takes
his hands out of his pockets the
whole distance. -ErchaRce
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

A young man at Kember's Bluff,
in this State" says Texas paper,
acquired the habit of TOSSING q
cooked pistol in the air and catch
ing it by the muzzle as it fell. The
last time he caught it was just a
moment before he died"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

Never, except on one occasion,
was prominent editor of newspa-
per Of Milwaukee known to refuse
to take joke, and that was the
other day noon, when the boy
mixed his spectacles and sent him
home with lantern to apologize to
his landlady for being out till mid
ninhf
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

1t is no new thing for Grant to
lie, as he did in the matter of his
promise to Mr.. Hewitt. People will
readily recall the fact that he was
caught in a lie by President John
son and publicly SO branded by the
Great Commoner."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

By about the middle of next May
the public will have seen the last OF
the present three-cent postage
stamp, and begun to get accustomed
to one that is red or possibly a new
tint. This change has been rend
cred necessary, as stamp-washers
take off the oily cancellation with
out acid or alkali, and use the stamp
again. A series of experiments just
completed convince the postal de-
partment that green is the poorest
color to be found. With the change
of color there will be change OF
design. The medallion head OF
Washington Will be retained, but it
will be relieved by an open scroll OF
white and the scroll-work will be of
a.different pattern.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

Now that the Presidential cleo
ton is over, and things are com
ing down to hard-pan, the nationa
debt is increasing-not diminish
ing. With four thousand millions
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., State
and municipal-and government
and railroad bonds untaxed. the
problem for the country, and for the
laboring class, (the non bondhold
ers, who pay their taxes as far as
they go, produce the country's
wealth, if they don't have IT'D be
comes a serious one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

During the late cold spell the
Tennessee river was frozen over SO
that at points in Marshal county,
North Alabama, wagons were driv-
en- over it, and in one instance a
drove of 81 mules was driven
over it without accident.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

Rev. Jno. S. Marks will preach
regularly at Cave Spring the 1st
Sunday in each month at IL o'clock,
at the Pulaski Factory End Sunday,
at 2 o'clock, at McLin's school
house, Sd Sunday at IL o'clock. ct.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

There lives In London an old crossing
sweeper, cripple from birth, who was
pensioner of Charles Dickens. SO
long as M. Dickens lived he received
regular allowance and never wanted
food or lodging. Ho still frequents the
square inwhich is Tavistock House,
where the great novelist wrote many Of
his books. "Grace Greenwood" writes
that while in London, not long, ago,
she stopped one day and talked TO him
of his "great." ellis cheerful face
clouded, yet glowed at once-'Yes,
madam, i suppose he was great he
said but / only know he was good,
and not at all proud. You see, II was n
good deal for him 10 remember a poor
fellow like me- when he had so many
things to do and so much 10 think out.
He was great loss TO me, he was.
When l heard he was TO be buried at
Westminster Abbey, 1 walked all the
way there, but they wouldn't let me in.
1 went another time, though, and found
his grave, all by my self. He lies In a
grand place; the country couldn't do no
more for prince"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

A young man in San Francisco
put out one of his eyes while pull
ing off his shirt. A spiral shirt
stud did the mischief.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

The multiplication Of 9s765432l by At
gives 4444444445. Reversing the order
OF the digits and multiplying 1234567sa
by As we get result equally curious,
8 ,555, 555 800. If we take 1234567s0 as
the MItiplicand, and exchanging the
figures Of As, take "a as the Mnltiplier
again, we get 50. 333, 1888, 334-all threes
except the first and last which read to-
gethcr 81, the multiplier. Taking the
same multiplicand and using "a, the
half Of "a, as the multiplier, we get a
product Of 20, csc, G0G, 0G7-all skies ex-
cept the first and last figures, which
read together give n, the multipIier.
Next interchanging the figures In the
number ~, and using az as the multi
plier with DS7654321 as the multiplicand,
we obtain a poduct Of II III, III, 112--all
ones except the first and last figures,
which read together give ~, the multi
plier.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

If you marry, said Roman con-
sui to his son, let it be to a woman
who has Judgment enough to super.
intend the getting of meal of Wet
uals, taste enough TO dress herself,
pride enough to wash before break.
fast, and sense to hold her tongue
when she has nothing TO say.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

1t is officially stated that, during
the past ten years, we have paid to
foreign governments the vast sum
of six hundred millions of dollars
of interest alone, to say nothing of
principal paid and unpaid.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08
YOUR TIME IS OUT.

A large numbcr.of subscriptions ex-
pircd with our last issue. Some had
previously expired which were con
unued by request. n this paragraph
comes TO you marked youIs is out.
IL you want II discontinued, notify us
without delay and II YOU don't, send
the price Of subscription At once IL
possiblc--so that your name may be
transferred TO our new book for 1877,
without delay. Don't fail.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

This is "nation" when the re-
publicans want the President to
send troops into the States to carry
elections and insure republican
government, but 1t is no nation
when the democrats want to 60 be-
hind the fraudulent returns of
Louisiana. She is sovereign
State" then.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08
I,ssoleent Notice.

THE insolvency ofthe estate of W, J. bill
l. deceased, having been suggested to tbs
County Court Of Giles county, all person.
having claims against said estate are notified
10 appear and file the same, authenticated il
the manner prescribed by law, or or befor'
the 10th day Of April next
Y. W. EWING, Admir-
anll-at OF the estate Of w. J. bill, dse'd
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

DIED.-At his fathers residences
near Minnow Ford, in this county,
OF Group, on the 18th of January.
Kid, son of Mr.. G. E. Barnett,-aged
2 wears.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

She used TO meet him at the gate
with kiss and smile, like morn
ing light; but now she comes to the
door, in dingy old calico wrapper,
and shoes down at the heels, shades
her eyes with her hand, and in q
voice that seems TO need oiling, in
quires: sDid you bring that but
terY
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

Those who receive the Citizen in sim
gle wrappers will please observe the
date printed thereon, and if they wan
the paper Continued,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

A liquor dealer has sign outside
of his place of business, upon which
is the letter 81" painted red. When
asked its meaning he replied "red-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

In ordering pair OF boots or shoes
made, provide your bootmaker with a
piece OF thick flannel 20 pat between tho
soles, and you viii be saved discomfort
and annoyance Of squeaking shoes.
our month-old baby has cut It's LIST 9Th,
wrote a happy young father to his bach
elor brother. That's tooth In, wrote
back the bachelor.
An editor, quoting DR.. Halls advice
10 aeat regularly, not over three times q
day. and nothing between meals, adds
ssIramDs will DO well 10 cut this out
aud put II In their bank books
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

The Knoxville Tribune wants the
State Constitution amended so that
the people can elect the Treasurer,
Comptroller, and so on.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

There is one advantage at least that the
country editor has over the Of man
kind. Readers may complain Of Ethe
quality and quantity In his columns, sd
vertisfng fall of, delinquents increase,
collections prove hopeless, and public
men and politicians whom he has made
ignore his existence; ali this, and more
too, may happen I'm the mysterious and
inscrutible workings Of Divine Proyi-
dcnce, but there Ia one source left that
be can always count upon with certaln-
tv. The inevitable Patent Office Re
mort never fails to arrive on time.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

1t takes eleven minutes to send a
dispatch to London, and seventeen
to San Francisco.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

A tea that should never be wa.
tered, adulterated, or milked-Char-
ity.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

'Man proposes" but there are
still $1,000 more women than men
in Massachusetts.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

One hundred millions of dollars
is paid the Government a year in
duties on whisky, beer and tobacco.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

The Rutherford Herald, Murfees boro,
Tenn, has gone "over the hills to the
| poor-house. n--I Courier-Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-08

E@ Here you are rea lag a
borrowed paper again, as usual. tt
New-York tribune., 1877-08-31
poRRERy OF A TELEGRAPH OFFICE.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 30.-A number of tramps
at late hour last night entered the telegraph office at
Union Junction tied and gagged the operator and rob
bed him of his watch and pocket book some money
belonging to the company and everything portable in the
Office The operator got loose and tel graphed the
the President street station whence the city
police we're informed of IT, Twelve policemen from the
Eastern District went ont aud arrested six tramps sup
posed 10 De the robbers They brought 10 the city
on hc 1915 train this morning aud lodged at the East
eu Police station. IL is reported that the operator
beaten and bound as well as gagged. All the robbers
were masked. The officers went ont on train aud
found thc tramps around fire in the EoOls. Books,
chs-ls and small articles taken out of the once were
found their 9ersons. Union Junction is short dis
tuce beyond The Eastern lin Is Of tine city, the point
~ which the tsacks leading from Prcsidcni-st and
Charles street dcp0ts unite.