The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-06-20
The Reading Club.

Mr.. EDITOR The Pulaski
Reading Club" now Numbered
among the celebrated literary soci
cites of the period, has for the pres
ent suspended on account of the
short nights, warm weather, &c, we
would crave a short space in your
excellent paper that we may briefly
notice the concluding exercises,
which, on account of the popularity
of our President, Mrs. Brown, were
held at her house. A goodly mum
Der of fair women and brave men
assembled; or, as some Scotch poet
expresses it,
''Of the gay the valiant and the fair,
A goodly number / ween was there.n
After the reading of the minutes
by our Secretary the order of exer
cises WAS announced, which we
would give in detail but have mis-
placed the same. Rev. Rob't Cald
well being first called attracted our
attention by choice selection, in
the reading of which he proved
himself thorough elocutionist.
After another song, soft and sweet
but wildly musical, from one of the
assembled fair, DR.. LaFar, in mid
but impressive manner, delivered a
discourse on the works of nature,
ia which he wildly described the beauty
shed abroad
On all the glorious works Of God;
The birds and trees and flowers,
Maidens fair and sunny bowers,
The light of summer skies,
And sunsets glowing dies
In fact, all that was useful, desirable or fair,
That might be seen on earth in sea or air,
was presented to the minds eye.
Next came Judge Jones who read
an essay, titled "The Progress of a
Hundred Years. after fully dis
cussing which
He endeavored as it were with inspirations
To scan the regions of futurity,
And thro' the thickness of its curtained
gloom
To behold the glories of an age to come.
Again sweet music forged her in
visible chain and as warbled by
Miss Maud Edmundson in her
Syrian Song" bound in welcome
links our charmed souls. So sweet
ly did she sing
1t seemed as if Euterpe had trained her
tongue,
And taught her all the mysteries of song.
C.P. Jones next put in an APP
pearance and read piece of poetry
in the interest of the Murphy move
ment, titled the Drunkard's Dream,
the sentiments contained in which
were endorsed by all present, and
received an emphatic amen from
Mr.. &.
Mrs. u. W Ewing read a beauti-
full Christmas carol, and took her
seat amid great applause.
SIN her selection there was taste and senti-
ment,
To tinge with golden hues the ready mind"
Music being again in order, Mrs.
Brown appeared and sang with a
feeling which enchanted the senses
and won the heart, the listening ear
and attentive eye that beautiful
song, "The last Rose of Summer"
and as she sung,
could not but recall my past happy days,
too happy to return,
And like the rose, I'd be soon left blooming
alone;
Yet when she sang did the memory of my
boyhco1 stay,
4 twilight of the brightness passed away"
When the last sweet notes had
ceased some one near exclaimed, 81
could listen to those sweet strains
orever."
nay such sweet music as this oft with lustre
Mysterious link of human and divine.
After Mrs. B. quite a difficult
,icce, titled "The Caliph of Bag
lad' was well rendered by Misses
Brown and Mason, and we were al
most tempted in the absence of a
to throw them our hat.
Mr.. Taliaferro, in a deeply trag-
cal manner read a parody on An
honY's Grafton over the dead body |
# Cesar, which brought forth
ears, as in imagination we beheld |
j@sar's corpse before US.
This concluded the exercises of |
he evening with the exception of
N address from Col. Rose delivered |
n his peculiarly happy style. In
conclusion permit us to state that /
n every sense of the word has our |
hub been success, ald forever will
&c gratefully remembered the ur
anity, impartialty and ability with
hitch our distinguished President
resided over its deliberations and
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