The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
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The graduating exercises at Mar

wIthstanding the rain a large audi
ence greeted the young graduates
and they all acquitted themselve,
with credit. Their essays were wei
written and well read. The vale
dictory by Miss Felicia Miller was
received with much feeling and ellie
tied great applause. Before deliv
cring the Diplomas the venerabl,
President delivered an address tc
the graduates which we consider
one of the finest literary produc
tions of the day, Astounding with
the loftiest sentiment. the purest
thought and the wisest counsel 1t
was creditable even to the grand
intellect and the grand heart of the
grand President himself. We give
the first installment of it to-day in
the youths column, and will con
clude it in three numbers. The
presentation of a bouquet and a sill
yer card basket to Miss Miller was
a very affecting scene. She is a
universal favorite here, and being
the daughter of Methodist minis
ter, whose recent death at Dallas,
Texas, left her an orphan, all hearts
were moved by her touching fare
well, as well as by the eloquent trib-
ute paid by DR.. Rivers to the men,
DRY OF her father and his feeling
prayer for the sweet spirited daugh
ter. The graduating exercises were
interspersed with music such as we
had hardly expected to hear. 1t
was artistic, it was classical, it was
grand. The selections were in most
admirable taste, and the modest,
candid, industrious, painstaking.
sometimes exactiag 1.-THE girls say)
but conscientious and thoroughly
competent Prof. Werrcn received
due share of appreciation.
Altogether this has been the most
thorough and the most satisfactory
examination ever witnessed at Mar
TIN College. The thoroughness of
the work done by Prof Casey in the
Languages and Mathematics, of
Mrs. Adams in Rhetoric aad Elo-
cution, of Mrs. Menefee as Hall
Teacher, of Miss Alternately in Art,
of Prof. Werren in Music and of
DIR. Rivers in Natural and Moral
Science, was satisfactorily demon
strated to Trustees, patrons and
visitors, and the praises of Martin
College are upon the lips of all who
witnessed the late commencement
exercises.
We published the entire pro-
gramme last week, but we subjoin
the names of the graduates and the
subjects of their essays:
Salutatory and dissertation on Char
acter, Miss Alice Osborn.
Essay-Hypatia,
Miss Matte McCord.
Essav-Now and Then,
Miss Mollie Lou Alternately.
Essay-POetry and Poets,
Miss Lula Pullen
ValedictorY, e..
Miss Felicia Miller.
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Our attention has been called by |
an enterprising and observing friend |
to one fact with reference to the |
wheat crop which may not have |
been generally noticed, and with
reference to which he desired the !
opinion of Others. Upon eXamina
ton you will find that there is a
small worm snugly ensconsed at
one or more joints in every stalk of
wheat, whether spring or winter
sown. This worm has doubtless
been the cause of the comparative
failure in the yield, by causing the
stalk To lose its vitality before it
thereby cutting of from
the head its source of nutriment,
aud preventing it from filling
and maturing naturally, Farmers
thought their wheat ripened two
weeks earlier than common this
year, and that 1t ripened more
rapidly than usual. Here is the Sc
cret: IL did not riEen at all. The
worm Slapped its vitality, and it was
Heath which gave it the ripening APP
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.he ears. Our friend is not con
yinced that this blighting worm is
caused by the Hessian fly as some
others have supposed, because it is
'ound in spring wheat just the same
IS IN the winter varieties, and be-
sides is frequently found in the
over joints and sometimes in all
he joints. His idea is that this fly
deposits its egg in the fall and the
worm is developed in the first joint
n the spring, but that close grazing |
would destroy it. This year the
grazing rule did not hold good, if
he fly is the progenitor of this
worm. Examine your wheat, if you
AVE not done so, grangers, and en-
tighten your ncighbors and the pub
&c through the CITIZEN as to the
'rigin of this worm and how to pre-
'ent it.
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