The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-10
Midtown.


censured for his seeming severity
in dealing with vice and crime. On
the other hand, he has been
brought to task by people for ''giv-
ing our neighborhood a better
name than it deserves" and nave
been asked, "Why do you live
there?
Well, let us reason together a
little. There was an old man in
the great long ago, who lived where
ten righteous persons could not be
found. Being an upright man, he
received a dispatch from the King,
afar off. The bearer of the news
told the old man to take his family
and leave quickly, for the Lord was
going to burn the place. After all
this, superhuman agency was used
to get Lot out of Sodom. We don't
claim to be as good as Lot was in
Sodom, but we think we have the
advantage in numbers of good peo-
pie, and Our springs are Excelsior"
timber plentiful, the soil if titled
yield pretty literally. We-that is,
this correspondent-are in feeble
health and like this water. We
hope to get well enough to leave
some day-not to leave on account
of locality merely, but on account
of our obligations to the Great
King. When the blessings of Heav
en- were shOwered down upon earth
they didn't all fall In q pile; they
were pretty equally distributed over
the world. Every part got a good
share of some kind or other. And
it is said that every portion of it
has it's drawbacks too.
A venerable christian said not
long ago that the devil had agents,
understrappers, or strikers all over
the land doing his dirty drudgery
that he wouldn't do himself. If
this is true, we have them-our pro
rata, about here. But, gentlemen,
we havn't got them all. We are bad
enough, God knows, but don't palm
off on US more than our share-are
there not many that belong as much
to sister neighborhoods as to us
that are numbered with our popula-
ton? l repeat, we have many clev-
er, upright and industrious cItizeus
on this little stream. And the new
dwellings, the well titled fields, the
flocks and herds all along the road
and off iC speak well for many OF
our citizens.
There is near here q model ten
ant. He wouldn't let his children
gather mUlberries out of even his
lot without permission.
He is very Industrious; tries to
make both for himself and employ
er. When necessary, his wife will
go out and help kill weeds. No
no, madaml Pity the
country didn't have thousands of
such people. How much happier
you are than are those whose idle
minds breed discomfort, envy, back
biting, tattling, DC. The vulture,
though filthy, is to man an invalu
able blessing. 1t cleanses the earth
of carrion. But the slander-mon-
gers filthy mind is filled only to be
poured out upon purity and limo
cence. 1t is useless tor me to tell |
the reader any more what my mo-
tives are for keeping up this cor
/ take it that every |
mind with one grain |
of intelligence understands. There |
is little need for the complaints and |
winnings of those who feel them
selves personated by newspaper cor
The man who would |
spend time and money to write let
ters in order to PerSondke some male
factor or wretch is, to say the least /
Of him, q consummate Ounce and
nuisance. Are not the characters,
the moral status, of all here, as well
as other places, known and read Of
all men, in that particular section,
and further too?
There is some sickness in the
country near here. Mr.. Greed Tay-
Ior has been dangerously sick with
fever, but is convalescing. Little
Tommie Sweeny died near Mr. Tay-
or's, at head of Buchanan creek, of
fever a few days ago. Mr.. Curry /
McGrew has had some symptoms
Of paralysis. We hope he will es-
cape. Messrs. Lee 81 Moore have
ust finished threshing the wheat
Tor US. Their separator does quick
and good work. Clever men, clever
.hreshers. We trust they will get
many big crops next year. Mon.