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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

Down ia South Carolina there is
a conflict Of oaths Thus-as IL
were: /, Beverly Nash, colored
Hayes elector Of South Carolina, do
solem,y swear before the Congress
ional committee that l.. ID. Childs,
president of the South Carolina Ma
tional Bank OF Columbia, offered
me $4,000 to cast my electoral vote
for Tilden, and /, l.. ID. Childs,
president, etc, do solcmnly swear
before high heaven that when Bev-
Nash, colored Hayes clector, etc,
says or swears, either or both, that
! offered him or anybody else $780,
900, or any other sum TO cast his
electoral vote for Tilden or for any
body else, he outlies all the dogs,
whether going on two legs or four
in the State Of South Carolina
Courier Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

We will never be self-ststaining
and prosperous people as long as
we send abroad and pay high pri
ces for articles that we can raise
ourselves. During the coming
spring thousands of dollars will be
sent North for Irish potato seed,
when, by a little trouble and care,
as good potatoes can be grown here
as there. An acre of potatoes,
rightly put in, will pay better than
five acres of corn. If our farmers
would do more garden farming they
would find it more profitable than
putting the whole world in corn
and wheat and cotton.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

The Nashville American says
more polls were collected from ne
groes last year than any year since
the emancipation. I he dog tax
got them. When they came up to
settle this little bill and discovered
they bad a.poll tax assessed against
them, and usually paid it off.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

A negro was found dead In Gcor-
gia, having fallen and broken his
neck while stealing chickens from "a
high roost. lie was class leader
in a church, aud his pastor, In
preaching tho funeral sermon was
bothered by the question where the
soul Of the dead brother had gone.
"IIis well-known piety, said the
preacher, "indicates that he died a
Christian, yet there are circum.
stances connected with his death
that are peplexing. if after he fell
and before he struck the ground he
repented OF his sins, there can DO
no question but that he Is NV In
glory; but there was mighty little
time for him 20 think about IL.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22
YOUR TIME IS OUT.

A large number:of subscriptions ex.
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poss'bIc--se th your name may be
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without delay. Doa't nail.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

Dallas (Texas) Herald: One OF
the most important suits that was
ever docketed in Dallas county is
now pending before Judge Burford,
in the District Court Tne suit in
wolves nearly fourteen thousand
acres of the finest lands lying in
Dallas county, about eight miles
from this city. These suits are not
instituted against actual settlers,
but against spectators who In 1874,
by their entries, are alleged 10 have
intruded upon reservations OF the
Peters colony. and II is understood
that the actual occupants are not TO
be disturbed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

ut is an axiom OF law, says Sen
ator sherman, 'that legislative pow
ers can not be delegated; II the
power 10 make laws can not be del.
egated, how can Congress delegate
the power which controls the vote
Of the States 10 n picked tribunalr'
The character Of this conundrum 10
not wholly unlike that Of that cele-
brated arithmetical problem which
has so long bahlcd TIC skill OF the
ingenious youth Of the country, 10,
''if lot OF Irish poturnips cost each
sixty two and a half cents peck
by the dozen in Podunk, how far Is
it by the overland route from Har-
per's Ferry % ChristmasF'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

The curse of this country is Office
seeking. Men with high sounding
titles such as ex Governors, ex Sen
ators, ex-Generals and Majors, now
serve as extra policemen around
the capital building. When a man
gets to be a regular office seeker,
especially under Radical admins
tration, he is fit for nothing under
Gods heaven but a special detec-
tive, an informer or q Washington
policeman.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

Alex. H. Stevens is reported to be
excessively amused over the obitu
aries which appeared in several
newspapers following the recent
mistaken dispatch announcing his
death. He is astonished to learn
how death raises a man in every
body's estimation. Even his bit
terest opponents admitted him to be
q man.-S. Louis Republican.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

A negro eloped with and married
a white girl in Campbell county.
KY, and officers were sent to ar
rest him. The negro shot two of
his pursuers, and tried to shoot his
wife's father and brother. That
night he was found dead with six
bullet wounds in his body.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

The submarine and land tele-
graph lines now in operation in this
country measure over 100000 miles,
and employ 100000 miles of wire.
At present there are 81, 900 tele-
graph stations, sending in the ag
gregate 100000 messages per
snnum.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

The Texas and Pacific railroad,
while Of national importance and OF
value to every section OF the Union,
is yet a necessity 10 the South, II
she is to be permitted TO enter into
friendly rivalry with the North In
race for prosperity and future
power and influence, and she viii
sens with anxious eolicitnde the
record Northern parties may make
upon the bill now before Congress
when il Is being considered
lRichmoud Waig.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

1t is said that there is ore hymn
in the Moody Sankey collection
which is sung by the ladies of ev-
cry household-it is "The Sweet
Buy aud Buy."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

In the Orient they won't let a
young man see his girl until the
clergyman has tied the knot, and if
she is cross-eyed and has no front
teeth, he must either put up with a
bad job or flee to the Black Hills.
As a general thing he fees.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

Editors breathe easier now. The
new counterfeit $1,000 notes now in
circulation can be detected by their
''greasy feel" 1t eats into the edi-
tors salary fearfully to get "stuck"
with four or five such notes in q
Jaal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

1t is an undoubted truth that the
less one has to do, the less time
we find to 10 it. One yawns, one
procrastinates, one can do it when
one will and therefore one seldom
does it at all; whereas, those who
have a great deal of business must
{ to use vulgar expression, buckle
to it, and they always find time to
do it.in
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

Grant came to the rescue of the
embezzling Belknap by promptly
accepting his resignation one year
ago and breaking the force of i'm
parchment. He now directs the
civil suit against belknap to be dis
missed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22
IlaSOICe1st Notice.

THE insolvency ofthe estate of W. J. Hill,
l. deceased. having been suggested TO the
County Court of Giles county, all persons
having claims against said estate are notified
10 appear and iile the same, authenticated in
the manner prescribed by law, OF or before
tho 10Th day Of April next.
IL. W. EWING, Admir-
snl1r<t OF the estate Of ". J. Hil, decd
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

Friday next is the 9th anniver-
sary of the Seniors newspaper life
in Moulton. He has fought many
political battles, and if the types
that are worn out and gone were
here, and were able to speak, they
could tell story that would thrill
the natives. His eyes are growing
dim, his hair turning white, his form
is bending to old time, but he is
still active and can pick up "m's"
as fast as any compositor in Ala.
If any dispute his ability to stand
in the van, we politely invite them
over to a trial of speed. If he fails
to sustain his reputation, the Jun
Tor will be found ready to pluck the
laurels from the swiftest of the
craft. Try us.-Moulton Ala AdU.
Hold on, Jourd! Let US count a
little. Remember your Senior sue
ceeded our Senior at the advertiser
helm, and he is not old, nor gray,
nor bent! Our Senio- has dandled
eight children upon his knee, and is
still young and frisky as u colt;
while yours has no daddy expert
ence, and yet he is old and bent!
o, time, what have you been doing
with that old fumblerl But hold
on, we say. You are counting too
fast. Friday was not De's 9th an
niversary on the AdVertiser. Go
back and count again, man. You
are worse than returning board.
1t was only yesterday that our Sen
ior left Moulton, he says. How
dare you say it was % years ago!
The children's kingdom-Lap-
land.
A crying shame-Our neighbors
baby.
The best throw of dice-throw
them away.
Dogs beat dentists-they insert
natural teeth.
The first man that ever had a
spare rib-Adam.
Clergymen, like brakemen, do a
good deal of coupling.
The civil service-Knife, fork and
spoon for a christening.
The best kind of a back door
belle-A pretty maid-servant.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22
To Ministers, Lawyers and Old Men.

YOU have weak voice, subject to hoarse-
ness, and = throat often sore; if yoL have
- weak lungs; II you have weak back; If
you are troubled with consti patton or
piles, prolapsus ami, or hernia; If continued
speaking, singing, riding or walking fatigues
OF exhAusts you. your abdominal muscles
have relaxed, and you need sipholding. II
You viii enclose me three cent stamp, the
effect1al remedy will be pointed out. and in
formation how to obtain 1t with or without
money. Fo; prolapsus uteri, woman's weak
ness, Hn1nfallible cure. Address
J. r GRAVES,
Editor Of "The Baptist" Memphis, Tenn.
Having suffered compassionate the suffer
my l0VO have already bscn relieved. mi-Iy
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22
For the Entire Year.

Single subscribers 81 with chrome.
Twenty-Five cents extra must accom-
pany all subscriptions out OF the county
for postage on CITIZEN and chrome.
1t will be cent free of postage without
chrome for 81. We will have three diff
fercnt chromos, all new, to select from
Extra copies will be furnished to sub
scri ,ers at our Office at 25 cents each, by
mail 80 eents-io non-subscribers at 50
and 60 csnts. Retail price of chrome 81.
L W. McCORD.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

Those who receive the Citizer an sim
gle wrappers will please observe the
date printed thereon, and if they want
the paper Continued,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

II was George lawson, we be-
lieve, who once said that he hated
theology and botany, but that he
loved religion and flowers.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

ais there any one here who takes
exceptions to the rulings Of the
courtT' said a Nevade justice,
pointing to q six shooter on the Ia
BILE. There wasn't one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

With clear eye and upright
heart resist ev ry wrong.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

A Joint Committee-Two doc
tors working over a sprain.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-02-22

will be given to every subscriber who
has paid for the CITIZEN for the entire
year 1877 at regular rates, either as sim
gle subscribers or in clubs at $l.60 each.
But they must call at our Office for it, or
send ten cents for postage. Due notice
will be given when it is ready for deliv-
cry. Others may avail themselves Of
this offer by paying up at regular rates.
For the Balance of 1877
we will send the CITIZEN in clubs OF ten
for 81 each, or for sl.25 each with a
beautiful chrome. In clubs of five for
s1.25 each, or with chrome, $3.50 each.
Single subscribers, $3.50 each, or with
chrome sl.75.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-13
Women and Homes.

Our homes have need of breadth
and height. Cooking and nursing do
not constitute home, or any good cook
would suffice 10 make mans house
home. Quiet, seclusion from the
world do not constitute home, or the
nunnery and Jail would be home.
Caresses and delight are not the es-
sence of home, or the harem would be
home. Home is place where mu-
tual affection and mutual help secure
happiness and growth; an abode
where wise, strong, beautiful soul
presides and guides and this guar.
dian genius should be the wife and
mother. There need be no fear that
home will be harmed by broadening
the lives of women. It's greatest dan !.
ger, to-day, lies in the pettiness and
selfishness Of the women who should
be educated to great duties by great
L. oughts and aims Many place is
called home where the children say
mother TO one who is merely a cook
and nurse. Many place is called
home where the mother is only a
dressmaker for her children. We
want in our homes wives and mothers
who can do more than feed and clothe
the body, who can train hearts and
intellects, and save souls as well as
sew for bodies. THE woman who
selfishly loves the little group about
her-her husband and her little ones
and cares nothing for the rest of
Gods children, is not .it for wife and
mother but she who loves her own
family not less because she sees in
humanity one large family to which
she owes her love or help.-Revolu
ton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-13
Cure for the Diphtheria.

A correspondent of Victorian pa,
per writes: Should any of your
family be attacked with the diphthe
ria do not be alarmed, as it is usually
and speedily cured without doctor.
When it was raging in England few
years ago | accompanied DIR. Field
on his rounds to witness the so.called
wonderful cures he performed while
the patients of others were dropping
on all sides. The remedy, to be so
rapid, must be simple. All he took
with him was powdered sulphur and
a quill, and with these he cured every
patient without exception. He put a
teaspoonful of flour of birthstone into
wine glass of water and stirred it
with his finger instead of a spoon, as
the sulphur does not readily amalgam-
ate with water. When the sulphur
was well mixed he gave it as a gar
gle, and in ten minutes the patient
was ont of danger. Birthstone kills
every species of fungus in man, beast
and plant in few minutes. Instead
of splitting out the gargle, he recon-
mended the swallowing of it. In ex-
IRENE cases in which he had been
called just in the nick of time, when
the fungus was too nearly closing to
allow the gargling, he blew the sui.
plate through quill into the throat,
and after the fungus had shrunk to
allow of it, then the gargling. He
never lost a patient from diphtheria.
"If a patient cannot gargle, take a
live coal, put it on shovel, and
sprinkle a spoonful or two of flour OF
birthstone at time upon it; let the
sufferer inhale 1t, holding the head
over it, and the fungus will die. II
beautifully used the whole room may
be filed almost to suffocation, and the
patient can walk about in it, inhaling
the fumes, with doors and windows
closed. The mode of fumigating a
room with sulphur has often cured
most violent attacks of cold in the
head, chest, etc, at any time, AMI is
recommended in cases of consumption
and asthma.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-13

Capital punishment - hanging
around a pretty girls neck.
Queen Victoria's maids of honor
receive So, 900 year and their board
and washing.
ALL it women were only like ba-
nanas The older this fruit gets the
sweeter it becomes.
Win Carleton will read his new
poem, "The Golden Horse" at the
Oshkosh Fair.
ASPARAGUS tops are made into
letter paper OF the finest quality in
France. This is the country where
they waste nothing.
Bustles are 20 far ont OF IA hion in
New York that they sell for ten
cents apiece. They make pictur-
esque flower screens.
In passing over the Sierra Nevada
Mountains to Silver Lake is seen the
name of Kit Carson, carved by him.
self in 1874 on hemlock tree.
Florence Nightingale is leading
movement TO relieve the furnishing
Hindoos, and the Prince of Wales
has subscribed 81. 500 of his country's
money.
A firm faith is the best divinity, a
good life the best philosophy, a clear
conscience the best law, honesty tho
best policy, and temperance the best
medicine.
A Baltimore belle, just from Vas
sar College, when told by waiter in
a restaurant that they had no goose,
berries, exclaimed "What has hap
pened to the goose ?" The waiter
w;lted.
Harry, after looking on while his
new little sister cried at being washed
and dressed the other day, turned
away, saying, "lf she screamed like
that il heaven | don't wonder ttey
sent her Off"
How much did he leave ?" in
CURED gentleman of an acquain.
lance, on learning the death of
wealthy citizen. ''Every thing" re-
sponded the truthful man ;''he didn't
take dollar with him"
Winter, which strips The leaves
from around us, makes us see the
distant regions they formerly con-
cealed; so does old age rob us of our
enjoy nfents, only to enlarge tho
prospects of eternity before us. -
Richter
Several years ago hopeful young
minister left these shores for the Can
nibal Islands as a missionary. On
arriving at the end of his journey the
natives weighed him and cut silver
off his leg as sample. He came
home by the next boat, and is now
the travelling agent of circus.
Visitors to tho top OF Mount
Washington have been rewarded
with some wonderful sights lately.
Some passengers down The mountain
witnessed the unusual spectacle of a
brilliant rainbow 1000 feot below
them, and the same evening halo
about the moon appeared to observ-
ers at the top TO be almost within
their very grasp.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-13

BRIGHAM You've was sensible
man about funerals. He left written
instructions regarding his own fun
eral, requesting that his coffin be
made of plain redwood that ho be
dressed in bis Temple robes; that
his family buy no extra black goods;
that no Grape be displayed that
the services consist of singing and
prayers, and, if the friends desired to
speak few words, they be at liber-
ty 10 do so that the body be car
ried on bier to the southeast cor
ner of the private burving ground
on the bill, east of the Lion, House,
and deposited in a cut-stone vault,
covered with slabs and earth, then
rooted over. and there' he desired to
rest until the resurrection. He de-
sired no one to cry or exhibit signs of
grief If be lived until the saints
went to Jackson Co.. Mo-, he wished
to go with them, and be buried
there-otherwise, as above. These
instructions were signed, aud order
ed to be read at the funeral.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-13

THE waters have gone over me.
But out of the black depths, could |
be heard, would cry out to all those
who have but set foot in the peril
Gus flood. Could the youth to whom.
the flavor of his first wine delicious
as the opening scenes of life, or the
entering upon some newly discovered
paradise, look into my desolation, and
be made to understand what lreary
thing it is when a man shall feel him.
self going down a precipice with open
eyes and passive will-to see his
destruction and have no power 10 stop
it,and yet feelit all tho way emauating
from himself TO see all goodness
empty out of him, and yet not able to
forget time when it was otherwise ;
to hear about him the piteous specta-
Gle of his own ruin. Could he see my
feyered eye, feverish with the last
nights drinking and feverishly look
ing for to-nights repetition of the
folly could he but feel the body OF
the death of which | cry, hourly with
feeble outcry, to be delivered--it
were enough to make him dash the
sparkling beverage to the earth in all
the pride Of its mantling temptation.
-TCharles Lamb.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-13

The two young cadets, the Prince
of Wales eldest sons, have luxurious
quarters on the training ship Britain,
MIA. A part of the ship has been fit
ted up for them and their suite at a
cost of nearly $4,000. Their diet is
not bad. They have for breakfast
On Sunday, eggs and tea; Monday,
fried bacon, cocoa and coffee; Tues.
day and Wednesday, curry and cocoa;
Thursday, sausages and cocoa Fri
day, fish, cocoa and coffee; Saturday,
eggs, bacon and cocoa. At 8:45,
muster, and proceed to studies until
IL noon. Dinner at 1915, which
usually consists Of beef, mutton, veal,
meat pies, fresh and salt pork. On
Wednesdays and Saturdays, in addi-
ton. fruit pies, plum buildings, and
blanc manages. Sunday, fowls alter
nately at each table, and salt pork.
After dinner they are permitted to 60
ashore for one hour, when they return
to study until A. At 4, milk and cake,
and then again ashore, where cricket,
lawn-tennis, etc, are provided, until
$40. In Summer they also battle
from the shore. Tea at 7, with cold
beef, except on Thursday, when they
have jam in lieu of beef. Studies
from till 9. At 9:l5, prayers : and
$50 they retire for the night.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-13
Insect Wonders.

!" A Few days ago, while we were
on visit to the Big Woods" writes
correspondence of tho PupiPS
Gazette, we sat down under wide
spreading oak to enjoy its cool shade,
and soon were much interested in
watching the process OF the measu-
ring with which tho bushes
and trees were covered. Every few
minutes one would suddenly drop
from leaf above, letting itself down
by a fine silken web, or thread; but
would Invariably, after exploring a
little on the ground. return by its
thread to the same leaf, drawing
itself up by it. After seeing this
performed by a number of them,
and noticing that they left the coiIed
web on the leaf, we examined it with
strong magnifying-glass, and found
by getting hold of the two ends we
could pull it all out into one straight
thread. We then examined and
travelled another, and found it to be
looped up into perfect chain stitch
precisely such as is made by single
thread sewing, machine This led us
to watch with our glass tho process
OF this wonderful machanic in draw,
ing itself up. 1t would catch the
tho thread with its feet, then stretch
up his head, catching the thread still
higher up, pulling itself up, forming
slack then with its feet put
through loop, which it would hold
with one of its numerous feet, till it
again grasped the thread above, pull
ed itself up again, topped up its
thread, till it returned TO the leaf TO
which it was attached. 1t then de-
posted the coil aud left for other
parts
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-13
WHOLE No. 1895.

under spreading yew-tree. and on
the stone which marks her resting
place are inscribed the words, Faith.
ful Unto Death. Our Lsddie has
gained far spread renown for his
good works; aud as | sit Flushing
this short record of tale of which
he is the hero, he lies at my feet, our
ever watchful, faithful companion
and friend.