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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-29
Pleasant Valley.
Deferred from last week

Deferred from last week.
On the evening Of the 10th Of this
month all the bellies and beaux ofthis
vicinity assembled in the beautiful
grove near Arlington, and engaged
IN the delightful game, croquet.
This entertainment was given by
the young ladies and gentlemen of
Mrs. w. j. Craig's Sabbath school
class at her request. The evening
was delightfully."- spent by all pres
ent. We were wellSsupplied with
luscious fruit sent down by Mrs. c.,
nor did she forget her flowers. She
contributes largely TO the enjoy
ment of our neighborhood, and in
return, can assure her, we all love
her. Miss Ada Alternately opened
her school at Pleasant Valley on
last Monday. She has good
school, and will meet with but little
difficulty in controlling it, as the
school here has been for many years
under tue management of Mr.. u. A.
Mcknight, one of the best discipli-
narians in the State.
The young people of this place
have been attending a protracted
meeting at Campbellsville. The
sermons were splendid; but honor
bright young ladies and gentlemen,
was it solely to hear the sermons
that you wentl
Miss Blanche Scales, one of our
most worthy and intelligen: young
ladies, has Just returned from a Wis.
1T to Williamson county. The
young man who wins her Will Sc
cure jewel that is far above rubies.
The beautiful, amiable and accom-
plished, Misses Jennie and Lou
Reynolds frightened the faces and
cheered the hesrts of their friends
and relatives here last week. The
youngest child of Mr.. Thos. Rus
sell died Saturday. The bereaved
parents have our sympathy. A 1T,
tie daughter of 5. II. Mcknight has
been sick for several days. Her con
d,tion is now critical. JEssAMISE.
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The Use of Big Words.


There are some persons who seem
to delight in the use of high-sound-
ing words. They seem to forget
that the weight of thought does not
depend upon the number of big
words used.
A young man said to a distin-
guished minister: 81 perceive that
the ground beneath my feet is sub
terraneous." He meant that 1t was
hollow. A student was reciting to
distinguished d. d. In the
course of the recitation they came
to word which had been .misprint-
ed, and the student Inquired doc
tor, isn't that typographical er-
ror?" ''It is misprint," promptly
replied the Doctor. An eminent di-
vine in addressing the Sabbath
School, was so much in the habit OF
overshooting the children, that his
friends asked him to use plain
words. He promised to do so, say
ing: "Children, l am going
to speak to you plainly. Let
me give you synopsis-I beg par
don, | want to give you an epitome
of what am going to say"
A Sabbath School lecturer, whose
habit it was to ask the children
questions, began thus: "Children,
what Is the ostensible object of the
Sabbath SCHOOL," They knew not
what to say. He repeated the ques-
tion. At last o little boy bright
ened up "a il the answer had en-
tered his mind, and raising his hand
he quickly replied: "Yes, sirr'.
In describing a sudden death by
falling, one will say: "To the inf
mite horror and shock OF the whole
community, he was precipitated to
the pavement, and when found, alas
the vital spark had fed from his
mutilated body" Another would
plainly and pointedty say; 'eThe
poor fellow fell from a high roof
and was instantly killed." One
says: "That flower produces a
sweet sensation upon my olfactory
nerves" when he simply means that
1T has pleasant odor.
In reference TO preaching, DR..
Talmage says, we want fewer
rhetorical Celebrations, and fewer
sesquipedulian words, and when we
talk about shadows we do not want
TO say adumbrations; and when we
mean qneerness, we do MOI want to
talk about id.osyncraies; or if q
stitch in the back, we do not want
TO talk about lumbago, but in the
plain vernacular of the great mass
es, preach that gospel that Processes
TO make all men happy, honest, vic
toEious and free"
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True, Very True.

The following article is from the
Hopkinsville (Ky.) New Era, and
is not only sensible talk but is
strictly true:
The man who deserts the ranks
of the Democracy when his party
is swiftly marching triumphantly
to power and will soon have con
troll of every branch of the Nation
al government, in order 20 join a
helpless band whose sole purpose
is to undertake the work Of finan-
cial reform that was inaugurated
and is being successfully prosecu-
ted by the Democratic party, is per-
sonally committing political sui.
eide. There is no probability that
the National Greenback party will,
even under the most favorable aus
pices, acquire sufficient strength
within the next ten years to effect
the legislation of the country, and
as the Democratic party has
avowed and reiterated its devotion
to the greenback cause, the success
of that cause can only be accom-
plished through the instrumentali-
" of the Democratic orgaization.
Unreasoning men may not choose
to- see, and conform their actions
to the logic of the facts, but il will
nevertheless be sustained by the
result of the future political con-
tests.
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THE OLD AND THE NEW.

On, give me back the Government that bless
ed our earlier years,
With citizens for sovereigns, and nation
formed of peers;
The cheap and simple Government, that
served so well our need,
When love of country, not of self, remained
the patriots creed.
Some of us, in these latter days, have cast
their eyes abroad,
And learned too well, from kingly rule, the
arts of force and fraud,
The great republic, which should lead the
phalanx of the free,
Takes lessons from Napoleon and sits at
Bismarck's knee.
It's blessings an enormous debt, with bonds
and syndicates,
An army of officials, with tax gatherers at
our gates,
With ostracism for honesty, for fraud a
golden crown.
And armies to be raised to keep the starving
people down.
Now all tie land must bow and kiss the
Governmental toe,
The while the rich grow richer, and the poor
yet poorer grow;
And moneyed names are writ upon our
starry banners folds
Not Washingtons and Jeffersons, but Van
derbilts and Goulds.
o faithless politicians! think that this will
last,
Or that the people can forget the simple,
peaceful paste
They weary of the wretched rule of fraud and
greed and CAB,
And say, eff this be progress, change the
eagle to the crab!'
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In the Land of the Skies.

Northwestern North Carolina is
aptly termed the Land of the Skies.
Marion, Mcdowell county, is the
center of an ampitheatre of noun
tains. From twenty five to thirty
cloud-capped peaks are in sight.
The most prominent is Mount
Mitchell, 200 feet higher than the
White Mountains of New Hamp
shire. Clingman's Peak, twenty
five feet lower, pierces the sky like
pyramid few miles away. Noun
tam, the Roam, Hickory Peak, Ia
ble-Rock, and the famous Bald
Mountain stand on the horizon
like grim sentinels. The scenery
Is magnificent, and certainly unsur
passed this side of the Rocky
Mountains. From the top of the
Roam the tourist catches a glimpse
of nine states. The mountain
ridges of Tennessee, Kentucky, and
Alabama face him on the West. On
the north, the Peaks of Otter are
reared above the tobacco fields of
the Old Dominion, and the rock
ribbed Alleghanies mark the south
eastern boundary of West Virginia.
The mountain spurs of Georgia and
of the Palmetto state stretch away
to the south, and the red gold-belt
of North Carolina is spread to the
east. Bright seams ofverdure mark
the fertile valleys of the Yadkin,
Catawba, Broad, French Broad,
Great Pedee, Wateree, and Savan-
nah rivers, Springs gush from the
ground beneath the feet of the tour
ist, sending their waters to the
Gulf of Mexico via the Tennessee,
Ohio, end Mississippi rivers; and
within a stones throw a purling
brook starts for the Atlantic ocean
by way Of the Yadkin. Wateree and
Santee. 1t is a country of vast
water-power. There are cascades
at nearly every turn in the noun
tain roads, and crystal streams
filed with speckled trout irrIgate
every section of land. The coun-
try is fairly settled. Grass grows
luxuriantly upou the slopes, and the
valleys culver with golden grain.
The piping of the quail and whir-
ring of pheasants are heard, and
foxes, deer, bears, and
wolves are killed by the hunter.
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For the Citizen.
Use Of Words,
BY 7. S.

1t is evident even to the casual
critic that there is, among our peo-
pie, great want of attention to
correctness and purity in the use OF
words IN ordinary conversation.
This is a matter much to be regret
ted by al. students Of English, who
are struggling to raise the standard
of culture and refinement in the
use of our native tongue.
We have such variety of words
in our language that by care in the
choice of them we may express the
most meaning. We are not select
enough in the use of qualifying
words. With one, everything is
every nice," whether it be a house,
or landscape, or river, or hill, or
mountain; whether it be lecture or
sermon; whether it be a Dress. hat
or shoe; y neither It be a wagon, or
carriage or coach or ship; whether
it be a common road, highway or
railway. With another, everything
Is perfectly lovely" One person
has mighty bsd'' cold, a mighty
bad" headache; mighty bad" luck,
''mighty bad' time; he travelled
over a mighty bad'' road. Anoth-
er is lawful tired, lawful" hungry,
saw fur sleepy, ''awfur' sick.
And then we are so eXtravagant
in the use of the hyperbole. How
many times is the school girl sal
most dead" She walks up college
hill and is almost "tired to death"
She takes seat too near the stove
in a close, crowded room and al
most "suffocates." She sees some
thing funny, and afterwards de-
clares that she thought she would
kill herself laughing, and on very
cold morning she is almost ''frozen
to DEATH"
Finally, through carelessness, we
often violate the rules of gram mar
and rhetoric. If we were all atten-
tive and critical in the use of words
what marked Improvement there
would soon be in the refinement and
expressiveness of our conversation
How much more pleasant an refn-
ing to the ear, heart and soul,
to hear, feel and perceive ideas
expressed in select, varied and sym
phonious language! And if we were
more precise and critical how much
more refined and cultivated in the
use of language would the rising
generation be!
A short time ago L met a little
boy, only five years of age, who won
my admiration. He could talk so
precisely and sweetly of one and
another of the many things to be
seen in his neat little home. Now
be would talk pleasantly of "these"
and then of ''those" things of inter
est, and again he would speak of the
transfer" pictures hanging on the
wall, seeming to have clear and
comprehensive idea of what trans |
fer picture was. was highly de
lighted and entertained, and at once
understood the primary cause of
his attractiveness. His parents
were both precise and exemplary in
their words and conduct.
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Some Triumphs Of Poor Men.

1t is not little remarkable that
most of the mighty works of the
world have been accomplished by
poor men, but men so thoroughly
absorbed in their labor as to ulti-
mately exercise the most wide
spread influence. David Living
stone, for instance, and Smith, the
Assyrian explorer, have recently
shown that it is not wealth which
makes a man famous. Livingstone
who opened up the interior of AT
rica, and whose memory is so fresh
that it need not be dilated upon, was
factory boy. Sir William Herschel,
who made so many discoyeries in
astronomy, actually went to Eng
land when youth from Germany as
a street musician. 1t was a great
step when he became organist to
the Otogan Chapel at Bath. Una
BILE to buy a telescope, he made one,
and while in these humble circum-
stances discovered a new planet,
then called the Georgium Sidnus.
From that moment he became fa-
nous; but it is certain that it is not
the hope of public applause that
sustained him previously, but love
of science, Jenner, again, the in
ventor of vaccination, which is be
ing so carefully enforced in London,
worked for twenty years in the OBJ
scurity of country village before
his theory was accepted, and in ad-
dition was bitterly sstirized and
scorned. Sir Humphrey Davy was
an apothecaTy's apprentice. and at
first worked at his ideas with no
better materials than such small
pots and bottles as he could find in
the kitchen. There is a whole mus
ter roll of celebrated names in SCI
ence of men poor in their youth
whose disinterested labors, pursued
under every difficulty, have after
wards yielded benefits to the world
at large. The steam engine itself
was brought into practical use by
James Watts, who had to earn his
daily bread by making mathemat-
ical instruments and repairing fid-
dies, and indeed seems TO have been
glad to get almost any employment.
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70 the Democracy Of Giles CO'ty.

A Convention of the Democratic par
ty is hereby called to meet in Pulaski
upon Monday, Sept. 10th, for the pur-
pose of nominating candidates for Rep
resentative and Floater, and to select
delegates to the Congressional and Sen
atorial Conventions. You are therefore
respectfully requested to meet at your
various voting places upon Saturday.
Sept. 18th, in primary meetings and se-
lect delegates to the County Convention.
1t is hoped that there will be large
turnout, and that every district will be
fully represented, as no convention of
more importance has ever been called.
Z w. EWING,
Charm Giles Co. pem. Elk. Com.
auCl5-5t
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-29

The Pulaski CITIZEN is by NO
means a partisan paper; but il
would be recreant to Itself and TO the
country if it did not raise it's voice,
feeble though it be, in behalf OF
those great financial reforms which
are essential to the general prosper
ity and absolutely necessary to save
the working classes from the grind
inG j.. = heel heel OF the money power and in
many localities from actual starva-
ton. We believe the Democratic
party is the only power beneath the
sun that can achieve this end. We
would cooperate with any party,
no matter what it may be named,
whether democrat, republican or
greenback, to accomplish this re-
suit. Hitherto the democracy has
had life and death struggle with
the radical military-aristocratic-
centralizing mobocraoy under Grant
to restore civil government, and has
not devoted as much attention to
financial legislation as she should
have done perhaps, but she has
won the battle for freedom in the
Southern States, and now she can
turn her attention to the great re-
forms so much needed. But, in the
language of a Virginia paper,
"whatever may be the name of the
party or political organization which
will be placed in charge of the ship
of state, by the present great reform
agitation, one thing seems certain;
Democratic principles are rapidly
gaining ascendency. "a rose by
any other name would smell as
sweet and as long as we have the
essential thing itself, what can il
matter by what name it is called.
Party organizations are intended to
practically carry out certain princi-
pies, but when the organization is
untrue to the principles under
which 1t was organized, the organi-
zation is practically dead as repre-
senting those principles. Demo
cratic principles are diametrically
opposed to class rule and class leg
lSIatlOu, IuSy are OPPOSSN W AO
nopoly and GENERALIZATION, they fa-
yor "the greatest good to the great
est number" and all legislation
which will guarantee an equal op-
portunity to all citizens in the pur-
suit of happiness. Therefore no
man can be true to Democratic
principles who is not opposed to
the National Banks, not opposed 70
bondholders and all attempts to
bleed the people in their Interests,
not opposed TO a control of the gen
eral financial policy in the interests
of money lenders, in fact does not
stand to-day on the green back ques
tion where John c. Calhoun stood
in 1912 on the same issue, only il
was then called the Independent
treasury note. voorhees,, Pendie-
ton, Thurman, Ewing, in fact al
true Democrats stand true TO old
principles"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-29

Since It's virtues have been utilized BY
DR.. Tabler as a permanent cure for filcs
the Buckeye now 20 abundant In our
native forests, has become Of almost a.
much importance lnTbc medical world
a. Cinchena, or Peruvian bark, OF south
America. Fortunately the medical pro-
pertles are Ia the fruit, and not the bark ;
hence the trees Will not Be destroyed,
abundant supply, and we may regard
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment AZ q
permanent remedy. Price 30 cts. a bot
lie. For sale by Snmpter a. Lacey.
dOcG-oow-ly-l
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An UndeniabIe Trntln.

You deserve 10 suffer, and II you lead
miserable, unsatisfactory life In this
beautiful world, It Is entirely your own
fault and there Is only one excuse for
you,-yOur unreasonable prejudice and
sl1epticism, which has killed thousands.
Personal knowledge and common senzo
reasoning will soon show you that
Green's August Flower will care you
Of Liver Complaint, or niapepsla, with
all its miserable effects, such as sick
headache, habitual cogtiveness, dizziness
Of the head, nervous rprOstratlon, low
spirits, &C. its sale now reaches every
town on the Western Continent and not
a Druggist but will tell you of H. won-
derful cures. You can buy a sample
bottle at Sumpter q Lacey's for 10 cents.
Three doses Will relieve you,
fuuegI -ooW-Iv-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-29
TOO HOT.

Too hot to walk, too hot to lay;
Too hot to stand, sit, kneel, OF pray.
Too hot to feast. too hot to fast;
Too hot TO lead, too hot to last.
Too hot for home, too hot for church,
Too hot, seeking place, to bo left in the lureh
Too hot to dun, too hot to pay;
Too hot to borrow and return the same day
Too hot to dress, TO be in the breeze;
Sans ything-shirt If you please.
Too hot TO ride, too hot to rest;
Too hot to run for an Office out West.
Too hot for love, too hot for lawns:
Too hot to propose to tho Colleen Bawns.
Too hot for friendship, for coldness is now
The JOY that exudes from the face to the brow
Too hot for fun. too hot for joy,
Too hot to carry the bady boy.
Too hot to hasten for down town walks,
Too hot to listen when the curtain talks.
Too hot for anything under the sun;
Too hot 70 breathe whom the day is done.
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LOST AND FOUND.
A Five-Year-old Child Teur DAYS
and Nights on the Desert.

From the Salt Lake Tribune.
As we learn from the Elko Inde-
pendent, a little five-year old son of
+. j. Rossiter, residing near Hum
boldt Wells, wandered of and was
lost for four days and nights on the
desert. The particulars are given
as follows; The parents had gone
to n wood ranch from which the ia
ther was hauling, some twelve miles
east Of town, taking the bog with
them. About l o'clock on Monday
last the little fellow wandered out
of sight, and being missed about If
teen minutes later, r,search was made,
but without result. The parents
we're now thoroughly alarmed, and
half distracted, continued TO search,
finding his trail the following morn
ing, which was pursued a distance
of ten miles, where it was found he
had lain down. From there his
track was followed 60 the foothills
of Independence mountains, when
striking a gravelly ridge, 1t was
losti auu iOnB Tune was consumed
before it was again found.
News of the facts having reached
town, a large party of citizens
joined in the search, and it WIS dis
covered that the child had crossed
the railroad track, and turning had
gone back, but diverging from the
previous line of travel. Still fol.
lowing his trail. it led the anxious
party over a range of hills and up a
narrow valley about twelve miles
further, when the little fellow was
found, and, wonderful TO relate,
not only alive but apparently with
out having seriously suffered. That
a child under Eve years Of age could
have survived four days in those
hot, dry desert hills, without food
or water, is incredible, but that such
are tla facts annpara undaniabl
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And rising from her knees in wild
heart-rerding frenzy, she held aloft
her hands above the child as he lay
almost unconscious, with her head
thrown back as if trying to pierce
with her firery black orbs the abode
of heaven, and demanded the life of
her boy at the hands of our Re-
deemeri
Every face in the room was
blanched to the paleness of death ;
and strong limbs that never quailed
in the heat of battle, smote together
as with an aguel and the beautiful,
grief stricken, wicked woman lay
with clenched hands PROSTATE in a
spasm on the floor!
ITO be Continued.)
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what Is P0rtallne 2

THIS question Is thus briefly and truth
fully answered. Portalino, or Tabler's
Vegetable Liver Powder, derives Ia
name from the fact that Il regulates
those portals Of the body through which
the most dangerous diseases make their
entrance into the human system. Sim
pie roots and herbs, for which we are In
debted % bOuntiful nature, have been
scientifically combined, aud presented
az a cure 70 all suffering with Censtlpa-
ton, Billi0usness, Dyspepsia, and all dis
eases arising from a torpid liver. Price
30 cents package. For nle BY q. A.
Pope & Co. janl0-eOw-y-i
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-29

Gov. Wade Hampton, it is said.
would rather hunt or fish than make
a political speech, and yet South
Carolina darky says of him: "Fo de
Lawd but every time dat man opens
his mOuf feels dat 1 am turnin'
whittier an gittin' kinks out'n my
ha'ro
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-29

The Republican organs speak OF
the committee as the Potter An
noyance." 1t does annoy them ter
IDLY, and will annoy them more.
Some of the Republican leaders
heartily wish they had not sold
their souls to the devil in 1876.
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There is a Better Way to FnIoy Life


Than to quietly suffer the miseries result
ing from Dyspepsia. Ifyou are distress
ed with headache, nervousness, low
spirits, wakefulness, palpitation of the
heart, costiyeness, liver complaint, pain
in the stomach. bad taste IN the mouth,
Heartburn, etc. seek that comforting
relief that always comes from useing
Parker's Ginger Tonic, and you will be
astonished at your renewed capacity 20
enjoy life when freed from palm and suf-
fering. Protect also your little ones
from Cholera infantum, and yourself
and family from sudden attacks OF Collie,
Cramps, Dysentery, or Cholera Morbus,
by keeping this superb corrective and
invigorant always al hand. Buy 81 90
bottle from your druggist, Sumpter a
S,auley ,oT a sample bottle at 10 cts. and
test its merits. iuly4-3m-eow-l
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Don't tell a man you sweat. 1t
is Vulgar. Inform him that you are
being deprived of the saline and
oleaginous fluids of your material
substance through the excretories
of your pellucid cuticle, with SEN
sible condensation of moisture upon
the superficial exterior.
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The pencil marks you sec around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested TO pay up at once. We
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credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone win yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 70 a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
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books without the money in advance.