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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-03

Republicans who excuse their
losses with the assurance that the
Nationals are swallowing up the
Democrats, deceive themselves. We
have heard of no National gains in
Democratic States. The Nationals
flourish only in Republican States.
When the long poll is closed in
November, it will be found that
Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylva-
MIA, Michigan and Illinois, all Re-
publican States, have contributed
what gains the Nationals have
made. The Democrats viii hold
their own in Democratic States
ICourier-JournAl.
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Il RARE CHANCE
FOR
AN ELEGANT HOME.
The Landed Estate of Mrs. III.
NJ. CGJdgCeU to be Sold.
On Tuesday. Oct. Sth. 1873.

A 7 IL o'clock a m, in the town of Spring
n Hill, (if not privately sold beforehand y
we will cell to the highest bidder, one of tho
most valuable tracts of land in Tennessee,
containing 452 acres. Said land Is elegantly
improved. with large and commodious
dwelling, quite number of new and sub
stantiRl barns, stables, negro houses and su-
perb cedar fences; is we'll set in meadows and
bluegrass; finely wAtered, and located in one
of the best nsighborhoods in the State. i'm
mediately upon the turnpike, one mile from
Spring Hill.
TERMS-one- fourth to be paid in cash,
the balance inI, and years, with interest
from date. H. P. PoINrERl As.n,.
sept26-2t S. A. POINTERJ agents
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Does the Horse Shoe Signify
Anything?

In our Southern travels, we have often
door of the rude log cabins, which COM
posed the negro quarters, and upon in
curing its significance, were told that
Ii was done to prevent a. visit from
witches. Many, equally superstitious,
formerly carried q Buckeye in their
pocket TO prevent disease, but happily
they have discarded such foolish observ-
ances as the latter, and embraced that
beneficial reality known as Tabler's
Buckeye Pile Ointment, which is conf
deptly offered the public as safe and
permanent cure for Piles. Sold by all
druggists at 80 cents a Bottle. For sale
by Sumpter & Lacey. janlO-eow-ly-2
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A curious example Of latter day
fanaticism is seen in the recent dis
patches from Europe, which give q
long account Of a conflict near Leg
horn Of a fanatical sect, led by ono
called david the Saint" with the
civil authorities. resulting 10 the
death OF David, who represented
himself as Christ come again. He
had chosen twelve apostles, aud
drawn some 1000 or 5000 people
together, who were well armed. On
the morning Of the 18th OF last
month he started out, followed by
his adherents, with what intention
Is not known. When met by the
police and ordered to dispense,
David the Saint" commanded his
followers 10 strike. After a second
warning the police opened Gre,
killing the leader instantly, when
the rest dispersed.-St. Louis Chris
tian Advocate.
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Figures For The Working Man.

The following table, being the
price list Of, wholesale grocers and
dry goods dealers in 1864, and the
prices for the same goods at the
present time show the difference.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-03
.rnnnr1NArInN pRlLEs
,E-prves amounting 20

I ,Ss7 Prizes, amounting 20 -, s rray,sS
:. IN monument points. 10 whom liberal
Concentration win be paid; -, -,
0'i Indication for rates TO clubs: should only
ha made 10 the Home Office in New Orleans
Write, clearly stating full address iOf i"i-
ther ihio' M. A. DAUPHIN,
p. o. Box 500, New OrleAns' La
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Please don't fail 70 send Us the
\postage on Jour paper II you live
oht of Giles county-at the rate\
Of 20 cents q year.
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What is it that by losing an eye
has nothing left but a nose? A
noise.
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AS the Howard physicians extend
their visits to the suburbs, many
instances are discovered of whole
families who are stricken and have
lain for days without any attention
whatever. The record of DR.. Cole
man is that thirty one unacclimated
physicians have arrived in Mem
phis since the plague began. Of
these, sixteen have died, thirteen
are now sick or convalescent, and
only two out of the whole number
have escaped thus far.-Avalanche
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p. O. Box s92, New orieAns' La

Am our Grand Extraordinary Drawings
are under the supervision and management
DfGFN'S q. It. BEAUREGARD * } UBAL
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TEXAS.

Take away women and what
would follow The men.
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!" Here you are reading
paper again, as usual. tt
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-10-03
! oIIISIANA STATE LOTTERY co,

n His instituLlOn was TNkuIaIIy 4tNVI fNII-,
ted by the Legislature OF the State for cd
ucational and charitable purposes in lSos,
with a capital of 81 900 900, to which it has
since added a reserve fund of SS5O,0e0' its
Grnnd single Number Distributions will take
Mace monthly, on the I'd Tuesday. Il never
scales or postpones. Look at the following
Distribution;
C4PTTAL PRIZE, SSO,OOO.
100. 900 TICKETS AT DOLLARS Each.
HALF TICKETS ONE DOLLAR.
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SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
A WIN A FORTUNE, Tenth Grand Dis
tribution, 1878, at New Orleans, Tuesday,
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HALF TICKETS ONE DOLLAR.

LIST OF PRrzEs
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
An Extraordinary Accident.

One of the most singular accidents
which it has fallen to our lot to record
occurred yesterday afternoon to Mrs.
George Sweeley, who resides at the cor
ner Of Perry street and Central ave-
nue.. Mrs. S., it appears, went out to
her hen-house to collect eggs, and in
order to reach one nest on q sort of a
loft was obliged to use step-ladder.
She mounted the ladder, which was set
against the side of the house, and while
in the act of reaching out slipped and
fell. AS she slipped she endeavored to
catch hold of y beam just above thel lad
der, but her hand slipped off that, and
her heavy, plain gold wedding-ring ON
the third finger of her left hand caught
on q projecting nail. BY the fall her
whole weight was thrown on that one
finger, and the nail being firm, the
flesh of the finger was stripped from
the bone by the ring up to the
first joint, when that joint, with the
stripped flesh, was cut off as clean as
though amputated by a surgeon, and
she fell to the ground. Strange to say,
not drop of blood flowed from the
severed member. Mrs. Sweeley has
tened into the house in = fainting con-
dition, and Drs. w. H. Murray and r.
H. Starkweather being sent for, ampu-
tated what was left Of the finger close
to the hand. The ringwa subsequent
ly found still hanging on the nail, with
the severed finger beneath it.-Albany
IN. ~ Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
A Narrow Escape for Russia.

ACCORDING to the St. Petersburg cor
respondent of the Cologne Gazette,
Russia narrowly escaped q tremendous
disaster last autumn. "There was, in
deed" the writer says, "a moment
when the destiny of the Empire was in
the hands of Osman Pasha and Mehe-
met Ali. While the troops of the Grand
Duke Nicholas were being shot down
by battalions before Plevna, those of
the Czarewitch were in extreme danger
on the LON. One aide-de-camp after
another was sent to the COMMANDMENT
Chief for help, but none came.
At last it became clear that further
resistance was impossible; if the Turks
continued their attack upon the Russian
positions the line of the Lom would not
only have to be given up, but it was
more than probable that the Czarewitch
himself, with the greater part of his
army, would have to surrender. But
at the last moment the enemy showed q
white flag, and asked to be permitted
to take up his wounded. The delay
thus occasioned enabled the Russians
to obtain the necessary reinforcements,
and the Gar ewitch and his army-per-
haps Russia herself were saved; for
such disaster at that moment might
have led to the overthrow of the throne
and the dynasty. Mehemet Airs white
flag saved Alexander H., for it para
lyzed the revolutionary element in Rus
sla. Pal Nall Gazette.
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ture; the skill that avoids crowdinp
dishes together, or leaving spaces too
bare; the forethought that looks out
for flowers for the dinner table, though
the center table 60 bare; the quick eye
which sees that everything is in its
Place-these supplement the fare won
derfully.
Promptness in each member of the
family is another essential. 1t democrat
ICES the group to have stragglers drop
ping in all the way through the meal,
and gives restaurant air-a sugges-
ton OF mere E" feeding''-to the family
meal, which it should never have. We
would make an exception in favor of
breakfast. Nothing is more absurd
and unwholesome than our American
iron-clad habit of hazing everybody out
of bed whether they are ready to awaken
or not, and sitting them down to
labOring mans breakfast two or three
hours before they want anything. The
necessities of business or Of school re-
quire punctuality in majority of cases;
aud then it is the chiefest virtue. Tardy
and irregular meals for those who want
them on time, have done their full
share toward retaining in the world SO
large a store of "original SIM" 1t
takes a triplc-plated saint-especiall if
he be of the male pcrsuasion!-tO stand
the test of waiting for dinner about five
days out of seven. But when there Is
no necessity in the case, the cOnstitu-
ton, temperament and tastes of the diff
ferent members of the household should
be well considered in the management
of breakfasts.
A little more fOrmality in serving the
family meals wouldn't harm some
households. There is no need of saw
ing all the company manners" for
company; if you do, the children, at
least, will probably be found wanting
when the occasion comes. We rather
enjoyed hearing. recently, of the pune
tiliousness as to dress and department
with which certain college chums are
wont to grace their dinners together
once week. Full-dress suits, 4 care
fully-spread board, silent and attentive
walters, cOurtesies toward each other
such rs the most polite society demands;
the aesthetics of dining are thus kept up
in an isolated life that leaves so many
young fellows mannerless.
Many preachments have been direct
ed to teaching the necessity of cheer
fulness and contentment at meals. 1t
cannot be too often enforced. The wis
dom, on purely physical grounds, of
a tranquil mind at meal times, is as old
as Bacon, in our language, and as
ancient as the patriarchs in practice.
The time given to the table ought to be
doubled in many families, and the
cheerfulness, good nature and domes-
tic conversation decreased in a like
ratio. "While we live, let us live''-
in the little matters as well as the
greater ones.-Goltlen Rule.
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A Dangerous Joke.

CLARENCE NEwcOMB, son of ex-
United States Marshal NewcOmb, I'M
derwent an experience a few days ago
which he will not soon forget. The
sportive humor of friend led to the
preparation of joke which came near
having serious and fatal termination.
Mr.. Newcomb had stepped into the
vault attached to the office of Lonergan
& Thiel, of the Detective Agency,
where he is interested. The vault is
used for the storing away of valuable
books, papers, etc. A gentleman who
was in the Office at the time closed the
door upon Newcomb by way of prac-
teal joke. In the meantime the prac-
teal joker went out exulting in the
funny plight in which his victim must
find himself when he discovered that
he could not get out. Mr.. Newcomb
could not hear any sounds from the out
side, and wondered what had become of
his friend. He tried to cry out, but
knew that his voice, even if raised to
its highest pitch, could not penetrate
through the thick walls that surrounded
him. The reverberations of his voice in
the narrow tomb were almost deafening.
He pounded against the walls, bruising
his hand in an attempt that he knew
must be Intellectual to attract atten-
ton. He thought he could hear his
blood as it was pumped out of
his heart and coursed through
his veins. The action of his lungs had
become suddenly and strangely audible.
Respiration was becoming difficult.
The murmur gradually increased to q
loud buzz. buzz, and then he realized
that this must be caused by rush of
blood to the head, the effect of his con-
tinued confinement. The buzzing in
creased to a roaring thunder. He felt
himself stagger, and then lost con-
seriousness. At this moment MIR. Thiel
came in hurriedly, having been in
formed of the situation, and unlocked
the safe. Mr.. Newcomb had tainted,
but was restored by the free use of
water mixed with some stimulants.-
st. Louis EvexiaQ Post.
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living in Tai Tuen, the
Provincial capital. The first of these
writes as follows:
1 believe the suffering here is far
more terrible than it was in India last
year. People sell their lands, pull
down their houses to get little for
their timber; sell their wives and
daughters; eat roots, carrion, clay and
refuse, to prolong their lives. And if
this was not enough to move ones
pity, the sight of men, women and lit
tie children, lying helpless on the road
side, or if dead, torn by dogs and
magpies, ought to do SO. Even cases
are currently reported and believed,
where the children are being boiled and
eaten. The cold has been unusually Sc
we're, and no coal can be purchased by
these families. The people, one might
say, are dying like flies. They have
only yellow earth mixed with leaves of
various kinds of trees left with which
to prolong their lives for few days.
The wild fruits are collected before
they are ripe, and the stalks of the
sorghum are all that are left them;
even water has failed in places, making
it necessary for the sufferers to seek It
at distance of half a days journey.
The future is appalling, for in many
places the want Of rain will prevent
the ground from producing, and the
people have consumed very much of
the grain for seed before sowing time.
| have been out in the country for a
week to visit thu suffering villages in
this vicinity. In one village one-half
were reported dead or sold, and al
though this was not strictly correct,
know of one family in which only two
remained out of sixteen. Smaller FAM
lilies had disappeared. In some cases
the dead could not be buried. through
the weakness of the living. l divided
some of my money to help in burying
them. No grain has been sown in
many places, and therefore, there will,
fear, be six months or more before a
crop can be looked for. Grain is al
ready four times the usual rates, and
the exchange of silver for copper cash
is less than usual.
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IT is truism pretty generally &C.
copied that fine feathers make fine
birds, that elegance in dress adds much
to the plainest face or the most dowdv
figure; and heightens the effect of beau
ty itself, while, to say the last, it is an
immense satisfaction 10 the wearer to
be sure no fault can be found with her
garments. The greatest minds have
not disdained the potency of splendid
raiment, and one has only to take off a
shabby gown and put on a fine one to
realize the magic. In the one we felt
i'll at ease, as if all tie world had an
eye on the threadbare spots, and was
mentally commenting upon its rusti-
ness. Our minds could not get away
from its defects; we were unable to fix
our attention upon anything more Sc
rious than its frayed condition, and our
attire. But give us an unexceptionable
toilet, and we can afford to forget our.
selves and allow our thoughts to make
excursions into distant realms. We are
no longer subordinated to our clothes;
we can move without embarrassment,
without fear of revealing patched ell
bow or of leaving q darn unguarded;
we are no longer obliged to sit or stand
with precautions; we are at peace with
all the world, ourselves included, and
all the gods of Olympus could not put
us out Of countenance. This fondness
for fine feathers certainly reflects no
discredit upon us, if we do not indulge
it beyond our means, with a selfish dis
regard of consequences. Without doubt
it originates in a love of the beautiful,
since next to being well dressed our
selves is the pleasure of beholding 9th
ers arrayed in purple and fine linen.
And it is not the people who dress the
most and the best who bestow the great
est thought upon it, as we are apt to
imagine, but those who with limited
incomes yet have unlimited leanings to-
ward this particular department Of the
beautiful, and are obliged to devise
ways and means for making bricks
without straw, to be daily stretched
upon the rack of invention. But how
much that is pleasing and effective
would be lost if every one agreed to
wear nothing but dun-browns or hod-
den-grays! And why should we not
consider the lilies, as we are hidden,
and wear our bravery as simply as
they? Should we each determine to
subdue this love of fine feathers, which
every lady in high places shares with
every Bridget in the scullery-if we
should betake us not only to grave col
ors, but to the most simple and cheap
fabrics should we not give death
blow to industries and livelihoods?
What would become of the silk-weav-
er, the lace-maker, the importers and
jobbcrs, and all the motley throng who
rely upon our love of finery to win
their daily bread?-Harper's Bazaar.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

TUESDAY, April 16.-In the Senate.
Mr.. Howe called up q resolution, introduced
by him few weeks before. calling upon the
President for certain information in regard to
Judge Whitaker, of Louisiana, and made some
remarks upon his former speech, after which
the resolution was adopted, rs was also a
resolution calling upon the Secretary of the
Treasury for information relative to the bal
ances due from the Collectors Of Internal
revenue not now In office, - to what amount
had been settled by compromise, etc. Bills
were passed-regulating the appointment Of
cadet midshipmen and engineers to the Naval
Academy at Annapolis; for the relief of Ger
tain settlers on public lands; to incorpo.
rate the National Pacific Railroad and
Telegraph Company. A bill was introduced
to authorize the States Of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois to bring and prosecute suits against
the United States to recover money due ON
account OF the proceeds Of sales Of public
lands. The Senate bill authorizing the issue
Of passports free TO colored citizens going to
tntroduced-toc construct ship canal for the
passage of naval vessels from the Mississippi
River to Lake Michigan; for the education az
colored teachers in Mississippi; to prevent the
reduction OF the volume Of United States
notes; The Postofiice Appropriation bin was
Whole. An evening session was held, ct which
about nifty pension bills were passed
"WEDNESDAY, April17.-Vice-Preside
Wheeler being absent, Mr.. Ferry was chosen
President pro tenn. Of the Senate. A substi-
tute for the House bin to repeal the Specie
Resumption act was favorably reported from
the Finance COMMITTEES, providing that on and
after the passage Of the substitute United
States notes shall be receivable in paymentfo
Government bonds, and, on and after Oct. 1.
Ior duties on imports, and that such notes
shall not be destroyed, but shall be reissued "A
often as received by the Governm ent. A con-
current resolution was unanimously adopted
providing for the adjournment Of Congress on
enlistment Of coiored citizens in the
United States Army was indefinitely
postponed--98 to IL. A resolution sub
mitted by Mr.. voorhees,, in December last.
declaring Il of the highest Importance that the
tanned, and TO that end that the Government
should, in all its departments keep its CON
tracts aud obligations entered into with its
own citizens, was unanimously agreed to. A
bill was passed extending the act of July 3,
1862, donating public lands to the several
States and Territories which may provide
chanical arts, to the State 81 COLORADO. !. In
the House, bill was passed repeating the act
authorizing the coinage Of twenty-cent silver
pieces. Several bills were reported from COM
mitteee, among which were the following:
Providing that any person may de-
post money, in any sum not less
order Office, and when such deposits shall
reach ten dollars, the Postmaster shall issue to
the depositor postal-order on the United
States Treasurer Tor 365 bonds, which shah be
exempt from taxation; authorixing the deposit
of silver bullion and the issue Of certificates
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
Edison the Magician.

YESTERDAY I went out to Menlo
Park, New Jersey, and spent the after
noon in the workshop of Thomas A.
Edison, the magician, who is making
machines that talk. His laboratory is
as interesting as Monte Cristo's cave,
and his achievements make the tales of
Arabian sorcery seem credible. I saw
the talking-machine, talked to it, and
it talked back. You have heard about
it, of course, but the story cannot be an
old one for years to come, and al
though the photograph is as simple as
a iack-knife, it excites the awe of the
beholder as a telegraph wire stirs up
an Indians superstition.
Edison is a tremendous worker.
Work is a dissipation with him-his
only habit. For the last ten years he
has averaged eighteen hours q
day at the desk. His house is
within fifteen rods, but when he
is in the crisis of an inven-
ton he does not go home for days,
either to eat or sleep. He never went
to school but month in his life, but
has taken out 157 inventions and filed
seventy-seven caveats, and is now only
thirty-One. Twenty-Five men are en-
ployed in his laboratory merely to ma
terialize his ideas. He is worth $780,
600, and now has an income of nearly
that every year. He dresses plainly,
hates sham, doesn't like to have a fuss
made over him, and doesn't believe in
guess-work about anything. He is
rather above the medium height; un-
ohovon ond ,nnohorn s1irht1v ahahhv
with q pair of bright, aggressive gray
eyes, illuminating an otherwise unin-
teresting face. He is an Ohio man, you
know, and is only thirty-one, having
been born in Milan, Erie County, in
February, 1847. His conversation has
a strong Ohio flavor. Indeed, in some
respects, he is provincial, for, if puz.
zled about a thing, he resolutely ex-
claims, I'm git it yit"'-Cor. Cinci's-
mats Commercial.