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not thus necessary they should be
dropped. Instead of verses we
should have paragraphs, and al fig
ures or indications Of the verses
abolished. Conversations should
be printed in broken paragraphs,
with quotation marks, just as in a
novel. Poetry should be printed as
poetry. Instead OF being crowded
into one volume, the book should
be in four or five moderate duodec-
imo volumes, with large type and
good paper, so that it could be at
once held without firing the arm
md read without straining the eyes.
Finally, this book should have a
good sanalytical index. A cum
brous concordance is. not an index,
and does not serve the purpose Of
one. If presented in such form
the Bible might be enjoyed as liter
ature, and perhaps better under
stood as a Divine authority.
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Fatal Mistake.

Once upon a time there was a
woman who lived in the city of
Paris. She was the owner of a cat
which she wished to get rid of She
was so soft-hearted that she could
not bear to see anything suffer, not
even that most odious of all things,
a cat. So she set her wits to work
about three weeks ago, and they
wrought for her a plan which she
proceeded to execute. She had a
chemist to make a tempting poison
Gus cake. This she took gingerly
and placed where the cat would be
apt to find it. Then she hurried to
the bed room, locked the door, bur
led her head in pillows to keep out
any sound of suffering by which the
doomed Tom might express his re
proach for the cruel, cruel thing she
had done. After a sufficient time
had elapsed, she stole from her
room. and, with futtering heart,
looked for the body of her mur-
dered victim. Instead, she found
it sitting on the floor, gazing calm
ly at its mistress' dying boy, who
himself had found and eaten the fa-
tai cake.
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Your Local Paper.

You might nearly as well forget
your churches, your academies and
school houses, as to forget your
local paper. 1t speaks to ten times
the audience that your local minis
ter does. 1t is read eagerly each
day and week from beginning TO
end. 1t reaches you all, and, as it
has lower spirit and less wisdom
than a sermon, it has a thousand
times better chance at sou. Lying
as it does, on every table in almost
every house, you owe TO yourselves
to literally add to its support, and
exact from it as heightened char
acter as you do from an educator
IN your midst. 1t is in no sense
beneath notice and care-unless
you yourself are beneath notice
and care-for it is your representa-
tive. Indeed, in its character, 10 is
the sublimation of the Importance,
interest and welfare of all. IL is
the aggregate of your own conse-
quence, and you cannot ignore II
without miserably depreciating
yourselE-I Chicago Ledger.
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THIS FARM FOR SALE"

''For sale?n Yos, that's the word stranger;
Pm kind o. put to it, you see,
Or, rather mole plainly in speech, sir,
mortgage is closing on me.
I've put up d notice conspicuous,
And sent few lines to the press,
That the home where Pve raised my children
Must go for its value, or less.
In a tboughtless and i'll fated moment
borrowed some funds, you see,
And gave as security perfect.
The mortgage that now worries me.
I thought at the time when l borrowed
That all would come right in the end,
But failed to provide for the future
l borrowed the money to spend.
And times have grown harder and harder
Each year only makes matters worse,
The debt has grown larger and larger,
While tanker and leaner my purse,I
The day that l borrowed the money
a nd II ade out the parpers in town
Signed, sealed and delivered, recorded,
Both signatures fairly wrote down
OH bother the day and the money,
1 don't like to talk oft now,
For with it many misfortunes
Seem strangely connected, somehow
Like slow-moving sand in the hour glass,
My substance has filtered away;
A cancer that gnaws at my vitals-
The instrument signed on that day.
Yes stranger, this farm is for sale, sir,
just fix on the figures yourself,
Only see that the mortgage is covered
l want THAT THING laid on the shelf.
The buildings, the fences, improvements,
Have all been the work of my hands;
| hate now to break up and leave them,
But foolishly mortgaged my lands.
The papers as firm and as binding
AS any good lawyer could draw;
The time is fast closing about me,
So mention your price and Pll go.
Well not haggle long as to terms, sir,
The moneys not coming to me;
Just draw in and cancel those papers
And see that am perfectly free.
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TEXAS COWBOY.
Somsthing About the Habits and
Pastimes Of This Rare Bird
Of the West.
Fort Worth Correspondents Of N. Y. Herald

Fort Worth Correspondence of N. Y. Herald.
The Texas cowboy is a rare bird.
He is sort of happy jack of the
wilderness, dry land sailor, who
takes his fun in large doses when
ever he gets to port-port being to
him the nearest town with a dance
house-hIs fun pure deviltry. He
can yell louder in an unearthly key,
swagger more and swear harder
than any man of his inches on the
continent. His dress is evidently
intended to ape the Mexican coun-
-terfeit of the Spanish cavalier, with
a sneaking regard for home conven-
tionalities thrown in. Imagine the
conglomerationl Having no fixity
Of form it is wholly indescribable,
and varies with the whim of the in
dividual. Yet he is proud of his
snake up" and pays particular at
tention to the style of his hat, boots
and spurs. The hat is an elaborate
affair. Broad leafed, tasseled and
tinseled, it spreads its preaching
shadow over the form of its festive
owner few acres beyond. His only
pet is his horse; his only toy his
pistol; but he would prefer losing
his horse for day to being severed
from his siX-shooter for a moment.
All his strength is in this toy. Like
the savage Indian, when deprived of
his weapon (of offense always, never
needed for defense), his "heart is
on the ground" A small boy could
thrash him then. Give him the
pistol and "the drop" on a man and
he will rejoice in his ability to
"bore hole in him big enough for
a large sized dog to crawl through, "
as if the boring process were some
thing to be exceedingly proud of.
This is because towards are not
hung often enough in Texas, and
the reason they have not been is
because they have been employed
and protected by the cowman who
steals, just like the murderous ward
politician might sometimes be pro-
tected by the dishonest, corrupt dis
trict attorney in some Northern
cities. We have had some very dis
tinguished cowboys in this part of
the world. Bill Longley, who killed
thirty-seven men in the course of
his brief experience, was a cowboy
most of his time, as was also John
Wesley Hardin, better known as
Yves. Hardin, who has been known
to kill a mah for snoring. in his
sleep. These miscreants have had
no such word as fair play in their
lexicon. If they intended to get q
quarrel up they first ''got the drop
on their victim, then bullied HIN
into active resistance, then shot him
"in self-defense." This sort o.
cowboy has been more frequently
seen heretofore than at present, bu
we still have a few left.
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AN APRIL FOOL MARRIAGE.
Jack Allen, the "Great American Jo-
ker, Pays $500 for Breach
cf Promise.

Clarksville Tobacco Leaf: Quite
an interesting case for breach of
marriage and fraud came up in the
Circuit Court Friday. The suit
was brought about two years
ago by Mrs. Jane Elliott against
Jack Allen. 1t will be remem-
bered that the Tobacco Leaf, In
April, 1877, gave an account of
Jack Aliens April fool marriage,
gotten up, as Allen stated, to April
fool Squire Griffin Orgain; but it
seems that Jack carried the joke too
far and carried it on little too
long, and didn't fool the Squire
much, as the sequel will show.
The following day, however Jack
met with Squire Organ and they
came to the Leaf Office together
to have the marriage announce
ed. They were both in a jolly
mood and Jack seemed very happy.
Uncle Griffin told Jack that he
ought to pay So for the ceremony.
Jack said no; that his wife would
pay the bill. Later in the day Jack
told the Squire that he was not
married; that it was simply joke
gotten up to April fool him; and
that the license, as he would see by
examination, was bogus. "By
grannys," replied Uncle Grif., "you
can't fool me; am an officer of the
law and not to be trifled with. /
performed the marriage ceremony
in good faith, under the solemn au-
thority of law and 'by grannys' it's
got to stick" And it seems from
the testimony that it did ''stick" for
about six or eight weeks, when
Jack Allen pulled out and married
another woman, and Mrs. Elliott
brought suit for $4,000 damage.
There was a strong array of legal
talent on both sides, considerable
sparring with the lawyers and much
good humor and wit. The jury,
after hearing the clear charge of
Judge Stark, retired and in a few
minutes brought in a verdict, in
which the plaintiff was given $4,000
damages, enough to cover the.whole
of Jack Aliens estate.
Moral-Young man, play whatev
er pranks and jokes you will, but
don't April-fool a woman in mar
riage. 1t costs $4,000 to play Jack
Aliens trick, and Judge Smith, Ar
thur Munford and Judge Rice can't
joke you out of it. You may prove
insolvency, or fool q woman in most
any other way, but never April fool
one.
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A Horrible Accident.

Jackson (Tenn.) Tribune and
Sun, 9th: Last Monday the wife OF
Mr.. Patrick Sanford. who liv rs
about two. and a half miles from
Pinson, in the seventeenth civil dis
trict, met with one OF the bitterest
misfortunes that ever beiel a moth
er. She was men5ing a pair Of
trousers for one of her sons, who is
well-grown, and her little three
year old boy was playing around
her with all the winsome grace and
innocent glee OF childhood's h@ppy
years. While the happy mother
was mending a pair of trousers. in
turning them over a small pocket
pistol fell from the pocket where il
was concealed and rolled on the
floor. The little child seeing il,
recognized it. as the older brothers
pistol, and in ITS childish prattle
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Gen. Grant and the Figures.

A good many jealous Republi-
cans affect to believe, and perhaps
really think, that with Grant for a
candidate, and with troops at the
polls, and with plenty of supervis-
ors and deputy marshals, they can
surely carry the next Presidential
election.
Have these same stGlwarts taken
fair look at the figures2 Let them
ponder their lessons, and gather
wisdom from the same.
A majority of the electoral votes
is 1876. The class of Republicans
to whom we refer, and indeed all
kinds of Republicans, admit that
their candidate, whoever he may be,
will not receive a single electoral
vote in the Southern States, and
that his sole reliance is upon the
North.
The Northern States. which went
for Hayes in 1876 cast 166 votes.
This number is 10 short of a major
ity. Four Northern States went for
Tilden-New York with 30 votes,
Connecticut with 6, New Jersey
with 9, and Indiana with I5-mok-
ing an aggregate of 65. Les us,
for the sake of calculation, concede
that Grant would carry all the
Northern States that Hayes did,
and tiieiI where is he TO make up
this deficiency of 10 votes2 1t will
be remembered that the whole
South is conceded to the Democrat
ic candidate. And upon the theory
that Grant would carry all the
Hayes States, he must get the need
ed 10 votes from the four States
that went for Tilden.
Where can he find them2 Indi
ana is as sure To go for the Demo
cratic nominee in 1880 as is Ken
lucky. Connecticut may vote for
the Republicans, and there is a pos
sibIlity that New Jersey might 90
in the same direction, though there
is far less probability that these two
States should take that course than
there is that Oregon, California and
Nevada should throw their II votes
for the Democratic candidate. But
give Grant the 10 votes of COnnec-
tieut and New Jersey, and he will !
still lack for majority.
OF course, if Grant could secure |
all the Northern States that went |
for Hayes, and then add to them
the 35 votes of New York, he would |
be elected. This result would give
a total of 2Ol votes. But If he
we're to carry New York and all the
Northern Hayes States except Ohio,
the loss of its % votes would reduce
this total to 179, which would be
six short Of a majority.
We advise the friends Of Grant
and the bayohet to carefully study
these figures.
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KNOXVILLE.
contrasted with Chattanooga. The
Secret Of Their Growth and
Prosperity.
The Whole South Might DO Likewise.

EDITOR CITIZEN AS it has been
some time since l wrote to you
from East Tennessee, l will give
you few items from Knoxville, the
leading city in this end of the State.
Chattanooga is the rival city, and
many cuts are thrust at each other,
but in point of location and health
this place is as free from any local
causes for sickness as anv town in
my knowledge, and it is as free
from epidemics as any city of its
size l suppose in the United States.
AS to the population, and the enter
prize of the citizens in the two
places, there is not a great deal of
difference, and both are entitled to
great praise, as two nice cities have
been built since the war out of the
ruins, we might say, of two villages.
1t only shows what capital and en-
terprise can do.
/ must speak in reference to what
the South needs and what can be
realized if all antagonism and sec
tional prejudice can be overcome.
The building up of manufactures
and the two places L have spoken
of was not done by men of the
South alone, but principally by cap
itallsts coming from other States.
They did not come as Office seekers
to stir up strife, but with an eye
single to business, and seeing the
great advantages the two points of
fered they invested their capital,
and by honest toll they have opened
out paying business and developed
the resources of the State. East
Tennessee can point with pride to
her manufactures, mines and well
cultivated fields. l hear no such
epithets as "carpet Dagger" thrown
at men engaged in honorable pur-
suits, but they are welcome and are
highly respected by all good people.
There are also Irish and German
citizens who are helping to build up
the country, and they too are
spending their time in following
their trades. Politics is a second
ary consideration.
Knoxville has river transporta
tion and is Immediately on the E.
T., V. & G.. r. r. and has two
branch roads and one of the
branches will connect with the Gin
cinnati Southern. The wholesale
trade is increasing and many mer
chants scattered over East Tennes-
see do their trading here in prefer
ence to going East. The weather is
hot and dry, and the oat crop is in
jured, but wheat is generally good
and about ready for harvesting.
Corn is small, but has been we'll cul-
tivated, as the weather has been fa-
vorable. The people generally are
in favor of the compromise of the
State debt, and would be a unit
upon the question if it was not for
some of the journals and prejudice
against the Democratic party. The
want to make it appear
they are honest and the Democrats
have sought the advantage of the
bondholders because they were prin-
cipally Northern men. j. H. E.
Knoxville, June Sth.
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Josh Billings.


Pills will sometimes refuse to act
on the liver, but saving wood will
never do so.
Anger always hurts US more than
the one We get mad at.
When a man amt good for moth
ing else, he's just right to sit on a
jury.
What a man gets for nothing he
is apt to value it at just what it
cost.
L don't bet on precocious chill
dren; the huckleberry that ripens
soonest is always the first to decay.
Everybody seems to consider
himself a kind of a moral half
bushel to measure the worlds frail-
ties in.
He who has nothing to do In this
world but amuse himself, has got
the hardest job on hand / know of.
l have always said, and 1 believe
it still, that the time to be care
fullest is when you have a handful
of trumps.
Next in point of meanness to do
ing a man an injury, is to do him a
favor and every now and then re-
mind him Of it.
Woman has always been more
than a match for man. Adam held
the best cards but didn't know how
to play them well.
The man who is honest from
policy needs as much watching as a
hive of bees just getting ready to
swarm.
Biographies are delightful read
ing; we compare all the virtues of
the person with our own, and his
fallings with our neighbors.
There's a lot of young men in
this world that are like a rooster;
take the cockade and spurs off
them, and you couldn't hardly tell
them from a henl
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"This country is not yet ready to
be ruled by its least intelligent
end."-T New York Tribune.
Verify no; but as it is a favorite
Republican idea that the ignorant
field negro should rule the States of
the Union, and thieves from the
slums shall conduct the elections in
the States, for the benefit of the Re-
publican party, we hardly see the
consistency of your remark. More
over, during the last eighteen wears
the '1east intelligent end" of the
country has been trying to rule it at
Washington, and has played the
mischief with the liberties and the
funds of the people. We believe
emphatlcally that the "least intellI-
gent end" which appears to be the
Republican party, should be bounc-
ed.-TCourier-J ournal.
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called it "buddie's pistol" The
mother picked it up, and she said
it looked like it was in two pieces.
She attempted to put it back to-
gether as she thought it ought to
be, and it was discharged in her
hand, the ball striking the little
child at her side, in the centle of
the forehead, and killing him in
stantly. DIR. N. A. Mccoy was
sent for and examined the wound.
The ball went crashing through the
brain and cut the cord of life as
quick as thought. God be merci-
ful to the poor mother. The bitter
anguish OF her soul in that moment,
the terrible picture which stamped
upon her memory in that instant,
will constitute the rooted sorrow of
her life. What sad commentary
this occurrence furnishes upon tho
vicious and barbarous practice of
carrying concealed weapons. The
unfortunate brother who was the
cause of this fearful tragedy, of
course, is no more to blame for
carrying the pistol than the hun
dreds of young men who carry pis-
tolls concealed on their PERSONS
He has our sympathies. This hor-
rible catastrophe should remind
our young men generally to respect
the law Of theiland on this subject,
rather than the damnable custom
of going about armed, either against
the lives of their fellow man, or in
careless spirit of braggadocio.
Our law-oflicers should root out
this crying evil by making it odious
and disgraceful. A few incarcera-
tions in the county iails all over
the State would be a blessing to
copintv
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Killed by disappointment.

New York, June At is less
than a month since the "Woodrun
scientific exhibition around the
world" about which much has been
heard for some years, was aban-
doned for lack of public support.
To day Mr.. j. 9. Woodruff, the
promoter Of tho enterprise, died
from the effects Of prolonged ankle
ty and disappointment. For six
years past the proposed expedition
was Mr.. WoodruG"s sole thought
and ambition. He could not give
np his cherished dream.
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WHY WILL YOU

Allow a cold to advance in your sys-
tenn and thus encourage more serious
maladies, such as Pneumonia, Hemorr-
hages and Lung Troubles, when an i'm
mediate relief can be so readily attain
ed. BoCHEE's GERMAN SYRUP has gain
ed the largest sale In the world fol the
cure of Coughs, Colds and the severest
Lung Diseases. 1t is pr. Boschee's ia
nous German prescription, and is pre-
pared with the greatest care, and no fear
need be entertained in administering it
to the youngest child, as per directions.
The sale of this medicine iS unpreee-
dented. Since first introduced there has
been a constant increasing demand and
without q single report of failure to do
its work in any case. Ask your drug
gists, Sumpter q Lacey, as to the truth
OF these remarks. Large size 70 cts. Try
it and be convinced. Jun21-eow-1y-2
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Improvement of the Bible.

Rossiter Johnson writes: If one
book must be singled out and
doomed never to receive decent ty-
geographical treatment, it should
have been any other rather than the
Bible. l should like to see what
would be the effect of giving it a
fair chance. 1 believe it would be
read if it were made readable. We
ought to have one edition of it
without foot notes-unless in rare
cases where these are absolutely
necessary. Where the italicized
words are necessary to a complete
and ldiomatic rendering, they should
be printed in PLAIN Roman; when
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-06-19

W. w. Corcoran, of Washington,
in letter to Prof. j. j. White, of
Washington and Lee University,
offering to become responsible for
one sixth of the $4,000 required
for the completion of the Lee maus-
oleum at Lexington, Va, pays the
annexed tribute to the memory of
the late Gen. Robert E. Lee: at is
perhaps superfluous to add that it
affords me a melancholy satisfac-
ton to testify-even in this imper-
feet manner-my respect for the
memory of a valued friend, the
grandeur of whose character COM
manded the admiration of every
Southern heart. Happily blending
the qualities of a hero with the
graoes of a Christian, Gen. Lee was
the embodiment of my ideal con-
ception of all that constitutes a
truly good and great man."
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a Splendid Opportunity for "A
Lady of This County.

The Queen City Suspender Company
Of Cincinnati are now manufacturing
and introducing their new stocking sus-
penders and supporters for ladies and
children. They give 20 the movements
Of children while at play, and do not
bind or injure any part OF the body;
our leading physicians recommend
them and are loud In their praise. This
manufacturing establishment Is man
aged by ladies, who have made the
wants OF ladies and children n study and
they ask US 10 refer them 20 some reli-
able aud energetic lady, 10 Introduce
them In this county, and we certainly
think that an earnest solicitation Ia
every household wOnld meet with a
ready response, and that determined
woman could make a handsome salary
during the summer months. We advise
some intelligent lady OF this county,
who Is In need OF employment, 10 drop
a postal card 20 the Company, and mem
tion this paper. Address
Mrs. B. G. smith, Manager,
2l4 Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
junel2-2t.
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Yon Must Cure That Cough.

III. with Shiloh's Consumptiye Cure
you can cure yourself. lt has estab-
lished the fact that Consumption can be
cured, while for Coughs, BrOchitis,
Whooping Cough, Asthma, and all dis
eases Of the Throat and Lungs, IL Il alb
solutely without an equal. Two doses
will relieve your child of Group. lt Is
pleasant 10 take aud perfectly harmless
TO the youngest child, and no mother
can afford 10 be without IL. You can
use twO-thirds of n bottle and II what
we say Is not true we will refund the
price paid. Price l0cts., 5Octs. and Si.OO
per bottle. II your Lungs are sore or
chest or back lame use Shiloh's Porous
Plaster. Sold by Sumpter a Stanley,
Corner Drug Store. febl3eow-ly-2