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


Mr.. EDITOR perhaps you are not
aware that there is, just eight miles from
your beautiful city, flourishing coun-
try known as Friendship valley, whose
name has never found a place in your
columns. Why should it not? We are
a frugal people; the spirit of improve
ment is abroad in our midst, which is
displayed in the numerous white cot
tages that seem to spring up by magic.
Our neighborhood can boast of two
mills, two shops, one store, small
school, and two churches-Baptist and
Methodist-which rise up in quiet dig
nifty, telling the passer-by that we are a
God serving people. We have services
every Sabbath. Our worthy pastor,
Bro. McFerrin, fills his pulpit ably and
claims warm place in the hearts of his
people. His colaborer Bro. Harwell,
who never tires of working in his Mas
ter's vineyard, breaches for us also.
Our Sabbath school is largely attended
and well presided over by Bros. Young
and Brigs. When we 60 up to the
sanctuary we mark with regret the va
cant seat of Uncle Tommie DIcCanless,
who has been suffering for several
months with a complication of diseases.
Wheat is now DOMINIC her harvest
will be heard throughout our valley. 1t
was feared that the we'll known harvest
song would prove dirge over blight
ed crop, but we are glad to learn that
| the fears to some extent were ground
less. This is by no means an eventful
country. Nothing of tragical nature
ever happens. We have no festive
scenes or nuptial feasts to describe. We
are too busily engaged with our several
vocations to have time for excursions.
We leave all such sports as fishing for
idle school children and teachers to en-
gage in, and our young men are pos
sessed with far too much Judgment to
think of matrimony ''these hard tines
(of course tits all their fault that we
are not at wedding now and then.)
There seems to be a dearth of candi-
dates in these parts. They have given
place to teachers who are canvassing the
district for "free schools" We are going
to wage war against Mon. We intend
ed taking the new Baptist church into
our territory, but he got there first and
claimed the field.
We all take your paper and hail it as
a weekly feast. Who would not love to
sit at the feet of the wise and venerable
DIR. Rivers and learn wisdom, or take a
ONSA VIVA bhO OhPA1OA
of our great republic, or listen with will
ling ear to the wise counsel and fifty
spoken rebuke of the gifted Haroline
Harold and write them in indellible
characters on memory. Long may she
WELD her pen. Then there is that re-
freshing draft of town and county gos-
sip; what repose it is for the weary
mindl After reading it am reminded
of compliment that lady paid the
editor of the Herald and Mail after Pc
rusing his column of "Over the Coun-
ty." She exclaimed, "What an excel
lent woman Horsley would have made"
But OF course tits not the women that
gossip. e 81 a'
A careful housewife is anxious to
know if the chicken plague is peculiar
to this county, as she sees no account of
its being elsewhere, and is sure that it
is important enough to be noticed even
among editorials, for the editor must
love chicken. She wishes to know a
remedy against this domestic trouble.
June Sd. K. L.