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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
Disinfecting Sick Rooms.

A correspondent of the Chicago
Times writes to that paper as fol-
lows: "When the emigrant typhus
fever ragged in Ireland and along
the banks of the ST. Lawrence river,
the lakes and canals of America, in
1848, the English government gave
DIR. Smith $4,000 for his great
remedy for disinfecting sick rooms,
and fumigating the clothing of the
sick and dead. He tested his REM
edy by going into the dead house at
the quarantine station on Gross
isle below Quebec, in the river st.
Lawrence. here he remained for
three days and three nights, sleep
ing and eating surrounded by the
dead. After the first day others
went there to see him. He escaped
unframed by the disease, which, all
who saw it in that year will bear
testimony, was very fatal. My wife
and daughter had it in Ottawa,
Canada, and / attribute their recov-
cry to the sanitary effect OF DR..
Smiths disinfectant, which / have
used in many cases SINCE. Take
for an ordinary room half an ounce
saltpetre and pour on it half an
ounce of sulphuric acid. This will
generate a very light vapor which
is not disagreeable to the patient.
Place the clothes to be disinfected
on lines in a room, apply two or
three times the quantity on sepa-
rate plates, which are to be heated
and set on heated bricks; let the
clothes remain for twenty-tour
hours in a closed room, when all
danger will be removed"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
Be Contented.

If you are gaining little every
day, be content. Are your expenses
less than your income so that,
though it be little,you are constant
ly accommodating and growing richer
every day2 Be content; so far as
concerns money you are doing well.
Are you gaining knowledge every
day? Though it. be little by little,
the aggregate of the accumulation,
when no day is allowed to pass
without adding something to the
stock, will be surprising to your
self. Solomon did not become the
wisest man in the world in a day.
Little by little, never emitting to
learn something even for a single
day, always reading, always study
ing little between the time of ris-
ing up in the morning and lying
down at night-this is the way to
accumulate a full store OF knowl-
edge. Finally are you daily i'm
proving in character? Be not dis
cOuraged because it is little. The
best of men fall far short of what
they themselves wish to be. 1t is
something, it is much, if you keep
good resolutions better to-day than
you did yesterday; better this week
than yoq last; better this year than
you did last year. Strive to be
perfect but do not be down heart
ed so long as you are approaching
nearer and nearer to the high stan
dard at which you aim. Little by
little fortunes are accumulated; lit
tie by little knowledge is gained;
little by little character and repu-
tation are achieved Exchange.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
What Most Women Need.

Discussing the difficult problem
OF female education, the Nation
pertinently remarks that what most
women need after health and power
of acquisition, and the confidence
which springs from having acquired
something, is Uolerable amount OF
administrative capacity. House
keeping is administration on "a
small scale. 1t includes the faculty
of getting the most of ones money,
and managing servants and chill
dren. If it were likely to be a
mans vocation to the extent of
which it is likely to be q woman's,
he would undoubtedly be prepared
for it by some sort of apprentice
ship. He would have to learn in
some subordinate capacity the prop
er mode of buying and preparing
food, aud procuring and taking
care of furniture and clothing, and
Of ruling seryants. He would be
trained TO receive company by some
experience in the art of entertaining,
both in it's material and aesthetic as
pect. No one would ever guess,
however, from an inspection of an
average school course that girl
was to be the head of the most
complex results Of civilization,
modern household, with its thous-
and duties, responsibilities and
relations.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
A Generous Woman.

A private letter from Saratoga
gives some interesting gossip about
Mrs. Thompson. the lady who pre-
sented the nation with Carpenters
painting, signing the Emaneipa
tion Proclamation" valued at $685.
600. Mrs. Thompson is a widow
of SO, though she appears much
younger. Her income is $50, 700 a
year, derived from a fortune of
about a million dollars. She never
accepts more than five per cent on
her investments. Mrs. Thompson
gives TO the extent of selt-denlal.
Her personal expenses, exclusive of
the actual necessities of life, do not
exceed $3.50 per annum, yet she
gives away all her large income and
sometimes pawns her jewelry, re-
deeming them when she receives
her next installment OF interest.
Although troubled with a slight
lameness, she does not keep a car
riage or q maid, and is as simple in
her manners as a child. When in
Washington last winter. Mrs.
Thompson was entertained by Mrs.
Hayes at the White House. After
her visit she sent Mrs. Hayes a dia-
mond pin in the shape of an eagle.
Mrs. Hayes wore il twice in honor
OF the giver, and then sent it back,
saying that while grateful for so
handsome gift as the wife of the
President she felt obliged To decline
all presents.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL INFORMATION.

The Amer lean Agriculturist for
September comes to hand with So
engravings of animals, plants, vari-
Gus useful contriyances for the
Farm, Garden and Household, and
upwards of 100 articles and items,
mainly upon the practical work of
outdoor and In door life. The sew
en- columns of hints. suggestions
and directions tor the work of the
month, prepared from the latest ex
periences of practical men in each
department in this, as in every num-
Der, are worth more than the entire
cost of the paper. Guernsy cattle
are described and Illustrated. Sun
dry humbugs are exposed. rid
ding furniture etc, of Moths" is an
important article that should be
read by every house-keeper. Among
the valuable articles are: Breaking
and training colts: talks on farm
crops; Among the Farmers, by one
of them; Wheat culture; Ag-icul
ture at the Paris Exposition; the
poisonous Loco or Crazy Weed of
the West, described and illustrated;
preparing for winter; a fine, new,
very early peach; notes from the
pines; home topics; boys and girls
columns; description of turtles, etc,
etc. Orange Judd Company, Pub
fishers, New York. $3.50 year;
Is cents q number,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
The Training of Girls.

Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby gives in
Sunday Afternoon, advice to moth
ers about the training of their
daughters. He says that the idea
of usefulness as a fashionable ne
cessity is wrong. "The boys after
leaving school or college, naturally
gravitate to commerce, law, medi
cine, science or divinity; but the
girls at like period begin to play
the fine lady, spending their day in
pretty idleness. The only question
that seems TO be asked is, how can
/ best amuse MYSELF DIR. Cros-
by's remedy for this evil is regular
daily tasks for girls, either of honse-
hold or charitable work, or of self
improvement. He thinks that
young women trained in that way
are those who devote themselves to
folly He adds: perhaps you
haye notion that if your daughter
is out Of SOCIETY she might as well
be in Sahara or KAmtchatka, and
you have brought yourself to be-
lieye that the only society on earth
is that which is distinguished by
white kid gloves and germans Did
you ever soberly think OF the posi-
bility of life outside of the charmed
circle? 1t is humbly believed by
some that men and women, both
old and young who have had brains
and hearts, have managed to enjoy
life without initiation into the mys-
teries of fashion. Some have even
dared to think that true refinement
is best cultivated in less artificial
atmosphere.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
A Word to Women.

There are many women who fold
their hsnds in dependence and re
ceive dole from grudging male rel
atives, who are quite capable of
making tkeir forJunes-who, left to
the guidance of their own instincts,
would have done it long ago. But
it was not given them to do what
they could. They timIdly asked
everybody's advice, and everybody
said absurd" Everybody always
does say absurd" when a new
idea is suggested. Before one has
done anything all the world declares
it impossible, What is in you,
goa know, and you only. Obey the
cry of your soul. You may DISC
hey it, but if you do you will never
be happy. Your heart may say to
you be domestic woman-minjs
ter to others daily wants; and if it
does, then do that, and you will
be honored and respected, and your
children, and those of some one else,
will arise and call you blessed. For
blessed indeed is the woman who
can make good gingerbread, and
whose coffee is always clear. But
if, looking into your soul, you feel
that you would like TO be physi-
clan, and run in and out all day, and
be called up at night, and be called
doctor instead of mother-if this is
the very dream of your heart, don't
take the advice of your Uncle
Tompkins and forsake your mis-
sion, and marry yonng Smith and
make him as uncomfortable as you
are yourself. 1t is some women's
mission to marry, and they always
know it well enough. If it is not
yours, do not pretend that it is.
So, if you want to paint, to teach,
to cook, to sew, to sing, to write,
make sure you can, and then ''go
ahead" AS rule, the individual
fitness for a calling should decide
the matter; and by esdily insist
ing upon being allowed to do that
particular work in the world for
which you know yourself to be
fitted, you will do more to give all
women their rights than you could
in any other way Mary Kyle
Dallas.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
Extravarant LANGUAGE.

The tendency exists of using in
tensive expressions that go beyond
all reasonable bounds. Things are
not good-oh, no; they are exquis-
lite. Things are not right; they are
divine. Things are not bad; they are
horribly bad. The whole force of
adjectiyes IS exhausted on the crdi
nary affairs OF life, and nothing is
left for the weightier matters of
thought and speech. Such extra
gances have pleasing effect once
or twice, and net only individuals,
but families and circles fail into the
habit of using eXtravagant words
and expires sions, because, under
certain conditions, they are anus
ing: but they cease to be so when
they are applied to the common ele-
ments of life, and are heard every
day. They become altogether dis
tasteful to persons of refinement,
and are ia every way bad.
The same is true Of bluntness.
Now and then the coming in of
blunt expression from a good,
strong honest man is like clap of
thunder in y hot, sultry day in sum-
mer, and we like it, but when a man
gives it to you all the time, and is
always blunt and bluff, on the plea
that he is too straightforward to be
speaking the honey-lipped Ian
guage OF society and continually
treads down the courtesies and ETH
quetts of life, he violates good taste
and true proportions of things.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
Buttens,

Buttons form speciality of dress
just now and they involve a great
deal of expense if ones desires are
granted. The gilt, or commonly
called gold, buttons are worn now
in Paris to button black silk dress
es; they are dome and ball-shaped
and watch-shaped, with dead sur
face cut in glittering facets like q
precious stone. Silver buttons take
on the same style. The new tor
toise-shel button, including shank
and top, is made of one piece OF
shell inlaid with all manner of fan
ciful devices such as flowers, bees,
butterflies, fans, straps and other
fancies in gilt. Black pearl but
tons are beautifully painted by hand
in such devices as clusters of flow
ers, birds, foliage, lilies. Another
style is painted in Persian colors,
initiating the patterns of q Cash
mere shawl, making them a perfect
object of art. japanese buttons
come in black lacquer work OF
quaint designs and figures in gilt.
Round, metal,shapes of oxydized
silver show copper, gold and silver
tones done by the action OF FIRE in
Egyptian figures. Charming rose
pearl shows the top or surface of
the button carved in a basket work
in relief, bordered by narrow, fiat
rim. More beautiful are those of
opalescent pearl set with tiny gilt
tering facets OF cut steel. Horn,
colored by artificial means In gar
net, olive, blue, green, and other
fashionable colors, has small cen
ter of iridscent cod fish peall, with
ewes. Crochet buttons are many of
them worked with jet; others are
made entirely of jet IN bell-shape,
and in the same shape crocheted
with Jet.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
Idleness and Crime.

We know of nothing that works
so many evil results to society as
idleness, Society has right to
demand the active services of all it's
members. When We reflect upon
the vastness of the number of
idlers in every part of the country
those who do nothing to promote
their interest. or that of society
who are no benefit to church or
state-but GA the contrary, who
draw their living from the labors
and means of others, either by
sponging or thieving-ana when we
reflect that idleness and crime are
inseperable as cause and effect, 1t
should not be matter Of surprise
that the chronicle of crime should
darken almost every hour, and pour
its blight and mildew upon every
portion of our fair land. Tie ques-
ton is frequently asked: Are peo-
pie worse now tnan ever before~
We answer, only in proportion as
they are Idle. .Ap idle head is the
devils work shop" is as true as
holy writ. At all the railroad sta
tions in the land, at our villages
and in all our Southern cities, idlers
white and black, the latter element
predominating, can be counted by
the score and by the hundred.
They do nothing, nor have they
any visible means of a living.
They are t1o lazy TO dig" yet they
must eat. 1t is clear. then, that
their living must come through dis
honest resources. Public opinion
shopld arouse to duty and drive
this thriftless horde to the plow-
share, or the hammer, or some 9th
er honest ayoeaLion. The yagrant
law should be enforced. Let few
examples be made; let them feel the
force of this law, and it viii have
a good effect. House robbing and
petty thieving VIII vanish like a
morning vapor, and crimes of a
more terrible character will be few
er and much further between. Let
the Law be enforced.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
LADIES COLUMN.
HARoLINE HAROLD, EDIroR.
Very few flowers are seen on bon

Very few flowers are seen on bon
nets this season, with the exception
of velvet and silk wreaths of leaves
and flowers in shaded hues more &C
cOrding to the demand of fashion
than nature: but the cry is for
feathers and birds-the tanager,
brilliant impion, lohophorus, Chi
nese king-fisher, sea gull. humming
birds with glancing heads of daz-
zling fire, breasts of peacocks, and
made breasts or all manner of bril-
liam. feathers, wings, and above all,
long, curling ostrich plumes and
ostrich feather trimmings. Delic
ious bouquets are made for the
waist, bosom and hair, of long
stemmed ruby and she'll pink pan
sizes that appear none the less at
tractive dressed in foreign cover
ing, all made of shining silk and
velvet. Others are fashionable in
the exquisite natural colors of the
stately Lady Washington geranium,
andthere are chrysanthemums of silk
in every color artistically shaded;
roses of all the Jacqueminot shades
clustered together in darkest red to
brightest crimson, so perfect and al
Turing that one voluntarily bends to
inhale the sweet perfume exhsling
apparently from the softly shaded
curling leaves. There must always
be bouquet for the waist as we'll
as the bosom. Long garlands of
pond lilies for ball dresses are made
to edge the gauze overskirt, with
long, trailing grasses and seaweed
glistening with dew, and other gar
lands have fringes of lilies of the
valley. Brides are no longer con-
fined to orange blossoms, but with
their waxen purity shines the love-
ly star jasmine, the delicate white
lilac, clematis, elderberry blossoms,
spirea and lily of the valley. Bri-
dial sets are made of these flowers in
earrings, brooches, necklaces, dia-
dems, garlsnds, and waist and hos
ON bouquets.
Ladies must look up the brocades
and watered silks Of their mothers,
since these materials are again in
fashion.
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AMBITION.
By nHs. N. A. k1DDrE.

Do not sigh little wife,
For the great worlds applause;
You are doing your best
In beautiful cause.
You are even q Queen
In your bright, little realm;
With q voice for its rights
And a tuln at the helm.
To the mAR of your choice
You are dearer than gold,
Ayel he comes every night
To the gate of his fold,
With q spirit of dread
And q heart full Of care,
Till he counts his dear flock
And finds every lamb there.
Such love, little wife,
Is worth oceans of fame,
Such friend is to you
More than fortune or name;
And much poorer are some
Who have diamond and pearls
Without love than are you
With your boys and your girls.
Sigh not. then, sweet wife,
Though you shine not afar
To be ''seen of all men,"
Like some radiant star.
If the rays of your soul
Light the orbit of home,
No more sanctified beams
Shine on palace or domel
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17

Democrats are making a woefu
mistake when they forsake their old
party with the expectation that the
new party will bring the country
the relief they crave. When that
relief is obtained It will have 10
come of the Democratic party. II
is folly to expect it from any other
party. The Democrat that is chas-
ing after this new party may be on
the track of very good game, but he
is on an extremely COLI trail, and
one that must lead him, at last, into
The quagmires of disappointment
and regret.- Montgomery Gala. J
Advertiser.
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In the County Court of Giles
County, Tenn.

I T appears that fund amounting to about
i ass, belonging to the heirs of Polly Horne,
decd, (who was a daughter of Buckner
Madry, decd has remained under the con-
troll of this Court for moro than seven ) ears,
and no person has come forward to claim the
same, and that the residence of the children
OF other descendants of the said Polly Horne,
Of any are living) is unknown, It is there
fore ordered by said Cosrt that publication
be made for three months in the Pulaski
Citizen for any children OF other descendants
of the said Polly dorne, decd, to come for
ward and recsipt for said funds; otherwise it
will be distributed to the known heirs of
said Buckner Madry, decd.
julya5-sm II. u. AYMETT, Clerk.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17

The Hon. Lewis Tillman, who has
just been nominated for Governor
by the Greenbackefs Of Tennessee,
now has a record sufficiently varie-
gated to attract the tickle voters OF
all parties. Ben Butler got him the
seat which he took in Congress in
1869, after he had been defeated by
Capt. Sheafe, the Democratic nomi-
nee. Both Ben and Tillman were
then Republicans together; now
they pop up together as Greenback-
ers. Mr.. Tillrnan signed the appeal
for the Reconstruction" of Tennes-
see on the approach of the death OF
the Republican party in that State
and in Congress he voted for the
payment of the bonds in coin and
against a resolution to report bill
increasing the currency The pres
ent brilliant emerald hue of Mr.
Tillman's spine is evidently the eff
feet of his new surroundings
lCourier-Jour
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17

Hol for Texas, but before we 20 let ss
glance at our list of indispensibles. We
must, of course, have the cash to defray
our expenses, clean shirt, comb and
brush, and picture OF the girl We leave
behind us, and II we are not free from
indigestion, Heartburn, Nervous Debil-
ity, Sour Stomach, Torpid Liver, &c,
certainly we must carry along pack
age OF Portaline, or Tabler's Vegetable
Liver Powder, which costs only so cts.
For sale by G. A. Pope q Co. ssp12-tf
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-17
GOLDEN APPLES.

s'Speech is silver, and silence golden
but let us give glad Inference to ouI
gratitude for the many blessings with
which our pathway is strewn, among
which Coussens' Compound Honey OF
Tar takes precedence. Let us an
nounce to the world, and henceforth
regard Compound Honey of Tar as one
of our household gods, for it is sure
cure for Coughs, Colds, and all diseases
OF the Throat and Lungs. Price 90 cts.
bottle. For sale by G. A. Pope & Co.
Sppl2-tf
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VEGETTNE.

Nothing Equal to 1T.
SOUTH SALEM, MASS, Nov. IA, 1875.
Mr.. Il. r. STEVENS:
Dear Sri have boon troubled with Scrof-
ula, Canker and Liver Complaint for three
years. Nothing ever did me any good until
commenced using the Vegetine. / am
now getting along frst-rate, and still using
the Vegetine. l consider there is nothing
equal to it for such complaints. Can hear
tily recommend it to rybody. Yours
truly, MRS. LIZZIE NJ. PACKARD.
No l6 Lagrange St., South Salem, Mass.
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In Chancery at Pulaski
sEPTEMBER RULE, ls-s.

CheathAm q Kinney vs.. o. W. McKissack
et ais.
I n this cause il appearing 70 the satisfaction
L Of the Cler and Master from sn AFFIDAVIT
to the bill that the defendant James Arm
strong, is d n-rcsideBt of the State Of
Tennessee, 20 that the ordinary process o.
this Court cannot be served on him:
On motion Il Is therefore ordered that pub
location be made for four weeks in successi on
In the Pulaski Citizen, q newspaper publish
cd in the town Of Pulaski, IN said State, re
curing the said defendant r. be and appear
on the hrst day ofthe next term Of the Chan
cerv Court 20 be held for the county Of Giles.
~ the court house In Pulaski. on the 1st
Monday IN September next. and answef com
Plainants bill, or The same will =. taken for
confessed - 70 him and set or hearing ez
parte.
OeIs-<t J. B. sTACY.:c. N
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CANCERS CURED
Or NO PAY.

HAVING secured at great expense the
IL Celebrated Cancer Remedy which was
introduced into the United States by an en-
inent French physician, the same having
been corr municRted to Madame Sullivan,
who formerly resided near Brownsville, W.
Tenn =, / am now prepared to treat cancers
on the iDsuranee--no cure, no pay. This
remedy is no quack nostrum gotten up for
the purpose of humbugging people out Of
their money, 1t is the emHnation from a clas-
steal and scientific mind. There are hun
dreds of living witnesses to-day who can
testify to the efficacy OF this remedy. ! am
located at the ST. Giles Hotel, where | an
particularly solicitous of giving ocular dem
onstration of the medicinal quality of our
remedy. Persons coming from a distance
can find as reasonable and elegant accommo-
dation at the St. Giles Hotel as can be found
IN he State. Persons in absolute poverty
who are afflicted with any virulent ulcer win
be treated without compensation.
For further particulars address with stamp
J. W. BIRDEWELL,
sePl9-sm st. Giles Hotel Pulaski. Tenn
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VEGETFNE

REV. o. Il. WALKER 81 Us.
PROVIDENCE, r. j., 164 Transit Street.
II. R. STEVENS, ESQ.
feel bound to express with my signature
the high value place upon your Vegetine
Ny family have used it for the last two
years. In nervous debility 1t is invaluable
and recommend it to all who may need an
inYigorating, Tenovating tonic.
o. T. WALKER,
Formerly Pastor Bowden Square Church,
Boston, Mass
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C1TI1E7N

Take n"t hold OF de ill., Yield not
; TO 'e"ptatiun which fasrinates to
your ruin. Adj not another 10 The
uncouDied fixtures which dishonor
the fairrst land beneath the sun.