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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
POLITICAL LEGISLATION.
oh, Loyalty, How Many Political
outrages Have Been Committed
in thy NameI"
From the Courier-Jonrnal.


The democratic party fourteen
years ago was in a minority so
small in the Congress of the United
States that it was incapable of re-
sistlng the many outrages the ma
jority was infiict ng on the Consti-
tuition. There were only thirty
four or five democrats in the House,
and hut seven or eight in the SEN
ate The great Mogul of the rad
icals was Thaddeus Stevens of
Pennsylvania, who boldly declared
that he and his party were legislat-
ing outside of constitutional limits,
and he who asserted to the contra
ry was either a knave or a fool 1t
was only necessary for him to crack
his whip and every radical sprang
to his feet ard into line. There
was no toleration for individual
opinion. To kick out of the party
traces was so hazardous that no one
d Jared to perform the feat. King
Caucus blocked out all political leg
islation, and the measure was often
forced through the House without
discussion. In this way many laws
were enacted which are disgracelul
to a free country. When it was
necessary to hitch on their caucus
offspring to an appropriation bnl
they never failed TO do it. The
very law authorizing the appoint
meht of Supervisors and Marshals
to control elections was attached to
the sundry civil service bill Not q
voice was then raised in the radical
ranks against this Legislative mode
of procedure. All was then lovely,
all was patriotic, all was exactly as
1t SHOULD be. 1t cannot be success
fully denied that such was the ac
tion of these seifsty led loyalists tor
eight long years, or until the peopl,
rose in their majesty and hurled
them into a minority. II was Ma
dame Rowland vino exclaimed on
the scaffold "Oh! Liberty, how
many crimes have been perpetrated
in Thy name" This sentiment,
since the close of the late wal,
might have been fitly paraphrased:
''Chl Loyalty, how many pohtiea
outrages have been perpetrated III
thy name" Now that the demo
Gratis have majority in both
branches of our National Legisla
ture, the old cry of "rebef is
podred out of every radical mouth
That this cry has no foundation to
rest upon is Known to every intelli-
gent man, North or South, East or
West, and is only kept up TO delude
the ignorant. There is no part of
this Union more loyal to good gov
ernment, or more desirous for the
resumption of fraternal relations
with the North than the South. But
how can she be otherwise than
''solid" against her slanderers-
against the party that has fastened
upon the country enactments which
are oppressive and would better
befit a monarchy? Cease your war,
gentlemen, and the South will re
cognize your action as the dawning
of a happier day.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
The objectionable Sin.

This subject has worried our
brain1considerably But Sam Ivins
of the Atheus Post, having solved
the mystery as follows, we feet Il
little more cheerful over l.:
A few years ago a learned divine
preached an eloquent and exhaus-
live sermon at this place on the
"Unpardonable Sih," but closed
without satisfying his audience that
he knew anything about 1t. We
could have relieved the difficulty in
half a dozen words, but 1t wasn't
our time to ''put IN" Sententiously
aud incontroverubly, the ''Unpar
donabie Sin" is in cheating the
printer out of his honest dues. 1t
is fearfui to Contemplate, and we
exhort all people everywhere to
avoid 10 hereafter. There may be
forgiveness in Gods bounciless mer-
cy for the man who robs the church
and steals the parsons boots, hut
none for the depraved wretch who
cheats the printer or withholds
from him that for which he con
sumes the midnight oil while one
half of the worlds asleep.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
Josh Billings Advice ON Choir
Music.

NV Dear Miss:-This is an i'm
portant epock into your life. The
lst thing tn make a good qulre
singer is to giggle little.
Put up your hair in curl papers
every Friday mite soze to have it in
good shape Sunday morning. Ii
your daddy is rich you can buy
some store hair. If he is very rich
buy some more and build it up
high onto your head, then git a
highpriced bonnet that runs up
very high, at the high part OF it.
and get the millIner to plant some
high grown artafishels onto the
highest part of it. This will help
you sing high, as soprano is the
highest part.
When the tune is given out
don't pay no attention tu it, d then
giggle. Giggle a good eel.
Whisper tu the gerl next tn yu
that En- Jones, which sits ON the
2d sect from the front on the left
hand side, has her bonnit with the
same color exact she had last year,
and then put up your book to your
face and giggle.
Object to every tune unless there
is a solo into il for tue sophrano.-
Coff and hem a good eel before yu
slug.
When yu sing solo shake the
artafshels off your bOnnit, d. when
va como tu hugh tune brace your
self back a little, twist your head
tn l side and open your mouth the
wi est on that side, shut the eye OBJ
the same side jest a triple and
then put in for dear life.
When the preacher gifts under
headway with his preachin, write
note onto the blank leaf into the
fourth part of your note book
That's what the blank leaf was pui
there for. Git somebody tn pass
the note tn sumbody else, and VI
watch them while they read it. anc
then giggle.
If ennybody talks or laffs in The
congregashun and the preacheI
takes notis of it, that's a gooC
chance for yu tn giggle a great eel
The preacher 0arsent say emmy
thing tn yu bekause yu are in tn
qulre, and he can't run the meetin
house at both ends without the quir
If you had a bow befour yu wen
intu the qulre give him the mittel
l-yu ought to have sumbody bette
now.
Don't forgit to giggle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
2,5OO BUFFALOEs
In Solid Phalanx they Plunge
Eeadlong Under the Ice
and are Drowned.
From a Chicago Paper.


An army officer who arrived in
Chicago from the Yellowstone val.
ley a day or two ago, told a story
of what happeneS to herd of buf
faloes that were migrating south
ward. The herd numbered two
Thousand five hundred head. They
had been driven out of the Milk
river country bv the Indian huu ter~
belonging to Sitting Bulls band.
The herd struck the river near
Crow Island and ventured upon
the ice with their customary conf
dence. The animals came upon
the river with a solid front. anc
began the crossing with closed
ranks. The stream at the point OF
crossing was very deep. When
the front file, which was stretched
out a quarter of a mile IN length,
had nearly gained the opposite
shore, the ice suddenly gave way
under them. Some trappers who
were eye witnesses of the scene said
it seemed as il a trench had been
opened in the ice the whole lengGh
of tile column. Some four or five
hundred animals tum Dled into the
opening all in heap. Others fell
in on top of them and sunk out OF
sight iE a twlnkling. BY this time
the rotten ice was breaking oil
short under the still-advancing
herd The trappers say that in
lessthan a minute the whole body.
of buffaloes had been precipitated
into the river. They were wedge,t
in so thickly that they could do
nothing but stEuggle for "a second
and then disappear beneath tue ice
a d the swift current. Not "A beast
of all that great herd turned tan
and tried TO escape when the ice be
gan breaking up. In a solid pha
lanx they marched to their fatal
bath in the "Big Muddy" In q
minute from the time the first lce
broke, not buffalo head or tail
was to be seen.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
Think Again.

Queen Victoria was not twenty
years OF age when she ascended
the throne. Coming into posses
sion OF power, with a'heart fresh,
tender and pure, and with all her
Instincts inclined TO mercy, we may
he sure that she found many
things that tried her strength OF
resolution TO the utmost. On n
bright beautiful morning the young
Queen was waited upon by the
Duke of Wellington, who brought
rom London various papers requir
iug her signature TO render them
operative. One of them was sen
tence OF court martial, pronounced
against n soldier OF the lno-that
he be shot deadl The Queen looked
upon the paper, and then looked
upon the wondrons beauties that
nature had spread to her view.
"What has this man doneY she
asked.
The Duke looked at the paper.
and replied, "Ah, my royal mistress,
that man, l fear, is incurrigible
He has deserted three times"
"And can you not say something
in his behalf, my LordY
Wellington shook his bead.
con, think again, / pray your
Seeing that Her Majesty was so
deeply moved, and feeling sure she
would not have the man shot in
any event, he finally confessed that
he man was a brave, gallant, and
really good soldier.
But he added, "think Of the
lnduencel'
"Inauencer' cried Victoria. her
eyes flashing and her bosom heav-
lng with strong emotion "Let 10
be ours 20 WELD influence. viii
Try mercy IN this man case: and
charge you, you grace, TO let me
know the result. A go q soldier,
YOU said. Oh.I thank you or thatl
Aud you may tell him that your
gooi words saved him
Then she took the paper. aud
wrote. with a bold, firm hand. across
be dark page. the br ght, saving
word-"Pardoned ~
. The Duke was fond OF telling the
story, and he was willing also 20
confess that the giving OF that pa
per To tue pardoned soldier gave
him FAR more JOY than no could
have experienced. from the taking
Of a.city.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

When you get to the station, hunt
up the agent and ask him what
time she next train goes. Never
mind about telling him which way,
for he can ask you that. 1t will
show whether he is paying any at
.tention to your question. Then
ask him what time ali the other
trains come, just to see if he knows.
If YOU think of it, ask if they stop,
if they are freight or passenger, and
any other little things you car
think OF, for you know he gets paid
for answering questions, IL don't
matter whether you intend riding
on the train or not. If you are
tired, 60 and sit down, hut do not
rest longer than necessary, for you
have not inquired. if the road is go
ing to change time soon. and whal
time the. train will be likely TO gel
through on the new card Ask
him what time the trains rvn by on
his road, and how much faster thai
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
How to Advertise.

The wrlier having been tor sev
eral years one oil the most extensive
and successful ad'v, rLisers in East
tennessee, has this tG say ON Jhe
subject: 1t pays to advertise, pro-
vIded you know how. Go To work
at any job and botch it, and YOU
will make nothing by it. A ten
cent advertisement will not bring
YOU one hundred dollars. But il
you spend one dollar and receive
one and halt, you hav made a
good profit. A good advertisement
generally pays four or five times
this percentage. But that depends
upon the amount of work you do
for the advertisement. If you write
it well, watch its effect, see that 1t
reaches the proper persons, and
change it when necessary, it Will
pay you better than anything you
can do to help your business. If
you find that ten dollars spent in
printers ink returns good profit,
try twenty, and go on increasing
your Investment so long as it pays
you to do so, just as you would any
other branch of business.
Advertise the plain truth. False
hood will out, especially when it is
made public. Don't advertise in a
general way that you are the larg
est, best, cheapest, ETC.; your neigh
bors can say the same. Every
good business house has some pc
cuhar advantage over every other
in the same place. Increase this
advantage and advertise it.
When a man starts out to pub
lish great announcement he finds
that he must have something to put
in it. 1t has not enough peculiar
bargains or special attractions to
call attention to. he will make some.
He will put down a line of goods
below the market, SO as to be able
to advertise the TACT. Next time
he goes to market he will look out
for special inducement TO advertise,
and finally every thing in the house
will be a special inducement and a
goou trade. He will become more
attentive to his calling and in every
respect a more. thorough business
man The people know this They
know it does not pay man to adj
vertise falsehoods, ana that no sen
sible business man does SO. Aud
experience has proved to them that
the store which continually keeps
them on hand Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

Knights Templar will convene here
in May. Tell Sam Caldwell 10 take
up a regular, old fashioned Metho
dist hat collection and buy him
a false face, and get DIR. 4Sears- TO
come with him and keep him
straight. and he may mash feathers
and pick chicken bones with as
good friends as he ever had. If he
tails in the collection aud has to
come "ges So" tell him To bring
good Sister Caldwell, and she, by
arguing tina pretty is as pretty
Toes" may be able to PASS him af-
ter all.
We have two good schools
Giles College has been leased by
Dr. Carol and Prot Mann. two
Virginians OF excellent teaching
talent and ripe experience. They
are assisted by Col. Rogers, an old
and eminently popular teacher of
lnis place. Their school is not as
large as lt should be, but their
work is thorough and they will
build. Martin Female ollege has
changed hands; DI. Rivers has en-
tered the pastoral work, and Prof.
w. X. Jones, an old and popular
teacher, has taken charge. He has
organized an excellent faculty Of
teachers and they are at work like
beavers. Prof Jones is an earnest.
honest Christian man. and his fam
,ly exceedingly refined. His teach
ers are select. Nearly all of them
were raised in Giles County, aud
have high reputatious as teachers.
His school is well patronized at
nome, and | believe he will have a
large patronage in the boarding de-
partment by September.
Before close, let me put in n
word for Rev. w. A. Turner. He
is good and true. He has fixed his
quandrennial eye on Oliyot Station
and the people are glad.
+. j. Duncan.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
THE PISTOL.
Society Has a Right to Protect Her
self Against Deadly Hip
Pocket Lunatics.
From the Morristown Gazette


Society has a right to protect
herself. If deranged man is going
around the country, it does not
matter how rich he is or how re-
spectacle he may be, the communi-
" will arrest him, con6ne him and
place hIm where he can don o harm.
This is right. We have the same
right-indeed it is equally our duly
TO prevent men from going about
in society with loaded pistols in
their pockets Men 90 into par
lors and chambers where there are
ladies' and chitdren; they go into
concert and lecture halls; they go
into churches where great congre-
cations are assembled, with n five
shooter, loaded. and ready to fire a
death dealing bullet, concealed in.
their clothes or strapped under their
coats to belt This is all wrong,
and the practice ought to be stop
ped. We are at peace in this coun-
try. We profess to be a civilized,
educated, Christian people, aud NO
man ought TO be permitted to go
proving around among the people
with a deadly weapon concealed
ready to take the lite of a citizen
without one moments warning.
Give erybody iai- warnihg-let
every man know that it is penI-
tenLlary crime. 10 garry a conceare q
pistol, and then when a fellow is
caught with one 1T him don the ze p
bra uniform and with shaved head
do the State some service Dy crack
ing rock or digging coal under .the
mild discipline OF Tom o Conner.
Those who are really AFRAID to 90
about in a civilized community IN
armed, can shoulder shot gun or
take navy PISTOL IN their hand. 1t
IS nothing but -daIr that ali men
should kaow who among US are
armed and who arr. u,,L
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

l4l Many persons say 81 haven't got
tile Consumption" when asked ~ cure
their Coughs with Shiloh's Consump-
tor cure. Do they. not know that
coughs lead TO Consumption, and a
remedy that VIII cure consumption will
certainly and surely cure cough or
any lung or throat tronbleY We know
II viii cure when all Others fail, aud
our faith In II ~ 20 positive thar we viii
refund the price paid n you receive no
benefit. is not this a fair prOpOeiLionl
Price 1Octs., 5Octs. aud 81 90 per bottle.
For lame Chest, Back or Side, use Shi-
lOh's Porous Plaster. Price 2jcts. For
sale by sampler q Stanley. Corner Drug
Store. iebl3eOw-ly-i
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
Hardly Ever.

Courier-Journal: Here is copy
of letter written by a srJain Sec
ond street beauty yesterday to a
worthy youth of Louisville: M
Lord: Would it fatter you any
should tell you that | lay awake
nearly all last night trying to de
eide whether / should write you
this note to day? 1 did decide fif-
ty times to write it and as mans
more not to. l have gone over the
same grounds this. moraing, aud
hurry to write it before the faint
hearted impulse leaves me again
Last night when you so earnestly
told me that you loved me and ask
ed me 10 marry yOu, doyou know
that Isthought v ur words the most
eloquent that | ever heard, few and
faltering as they were-for they
we're faltering, sir just little
that was what made them SO elo
quent to me. Oh! how bold you
must consider me, but l ought to
have the right TO say such things
now, l think. Yes, when you asked
me if / would marry you-oh! l
ought to have done it, l suppose
but then it was such an opportuni
ty, and so I smiled the cue TO YOU
and answered, .Never.s And you
stupid, you froze and bowed Ike a
telegraph pole and left. Oh, dear
mel and / certainly thought that al
this day there was snobody under
the sun who was SO anpardonabiy
obtuse, so far behind the age and
the rage, that he would not have
Instantly met me With. What
neverT and given me the chance u
reply, Well, hardly ever. =
"How nicely this cora popsr
said young man who was siJtine
with his sweetheart before the fire
eyes, she Responded .demdrely
sits got over being green
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

I Look at the date on the printed
label on your paper, if yours is di
] rected in thai manner, and pay up
| if your time is past. This in
| cludes all who receive their papers
IN single wrappers, or at the Pu
laski PostofIlce, or at the office Of
publication, who haze not made
special arrangements with us. Do
not fail in this if you wish the
CITIZEN continued to your ad-
dress.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

The champion long nOsed man
resides at Sacramento. Its owner
was at breakfast yesterday, when a
friend seated at the opposite side
of the table knowing him to be a
little near sighted remarked, ''there
is fly on the end Of your nose"
"Is there?" responded the owner OF
the horn of plenty. Il didn't
know it. just please scare it off;
you're nearer to him than / amp
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

Are you a despondent sufferer from
Sick Headache, HabItual COstiveness,
PalpitatiOn OF tina Hearth Have you
Dizziness Of the Head z IsyOur Nervous
system depresselS Does your blood
circulate bddIyp Have you a cough z
Low spirits2 Coming up Of the food
after eating &c, &c. Al Of these aud
much more are the direct results OF Dys-
pepsia, Liver Complaint and Indigos-
tion Green's Augu.t Flower Ia now ac-
knowledged BY all Druggists 20 be- posi-
live cure. 2,400, ,O0O BOTTLES were given
away IN the u. ). through Druggists 10
the people as a trini. Two doses will
satisfy any person OF iis wohdarfil quail
ity IN curing all forms OF Indigestion.
sample bottles 10 cts. Regular slzo 7J
sold bv Sumpter q Lacey and positively
by all first class Druggists tie United
states. iun2l l-eow 1y-l
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

When the Confederate army was
on its shortest rations, Gen. Lee
demonstrated one day with "a strag-
gler for esting green persimmons,
and asked him il he did not know
that they were unfit for food. Il
am not eating them for food, Cen
eral, replied the man, shut for the
sake OF drawing my stomach up to
fiG nv ratiOns''
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

Luckiest man 1 ever knew
everything succeeds with him He
had only to say what he wanted.
and he got it. Why, confound it, /
was walking with him one day-the
very last day of lis life-and he
said to me: when l die I want
to die suddenly" Got run over
that very night and killed, by ho-
keyl Ever see such luck?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

Eli Perkins, it is announced. has
been engaged to tell twenty-seven
hundred lies in twentysevenhundred
quarters of a minute 1t will he
safe to wager heavy odds that he
will perform the feat and have
twenty six hundred quarters Of a
minute to spare
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

A British professor estimates
that bees to collect a pound of hon
ev from red clover heads, would
have to make 100000 vIsits-al
most as many as book agent has
to make to a newspaper reporter to
collect the installments on a sub
scriptiOn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
Live stocI, PremInms.

The RURAL SUE, Nashville, Tenn, Is
Offering CotswOld buck, tt35.OO,) a
MerinO buck, (f25O0.) n 5outhdown
buck, (s25.O0,) a Berkshire boar,
$1,000 and a pair Of POland-China
Digs, (s25.OO,) A. premiums 10 canvass
ers. These animals are etborOugh-breds,
from the most noted focks aud herds Ia
the United States. Won't some Of our
try and capture one Of
themS Send TO the Rural SUN Tor
AZ once apr25-ly
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

He was a venerable agricultural
looking man, attired in the latest
New Jersey fashion, and he stood
on "a street corner near Washington
Market Holding up his left hand,
and gazing rehectiveiy upon three
pieces of string tied round as many
fingers, he soliloquized: ''Thst's TO
remind sme-get spool Of cotton ;
to5her means don't forget'the cali
co. But what the thundeTs this
one for2 All, by gum! that's dou't
get drunk againr'LN. Y. Com. Adv.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

Miserable street muck to Snod
kins, the belt of whose ulster was
dragging: Il say, old boss, if you
don't tighten up your belly band,
You'll lose Your blanket" And
Snodkins had to keep on looking
pleasant as ii he hadn't heard him.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01
NoBoDY's SONG.


Pm thinking just now of Nobody,
And all that Nobody done,
For I've passion for Nobody
That Nobody else would own.
/ bear the name of Nobody, :
For from Nobody ! sprung;
And I sing the praise of Nobody,
As Nobody mine has sung
In lifes young morning Nobody
To me was tender and dear,
And nay cradle was rocked by Nobody
And Nobody ever was near.
was petted and praised by Nobody
And Nobody brought me up,
And when ! was hungry Nobody
Gave me to dine or sup
/ went to school to Nobody,
J And Nobody taught me 70 read;
! played in the street with Nobody G.
And 70 Nobody over gave hsed.
recounted my tale 70 Nobody,
For Nobody was viii ing 70 hear,
And my heart it ching to Nobody
And Nobody shed tear.
And when grow older Nobody
Gave me q helping turn,
And bv the good. aid ofNobody
began my living - earn;
A nd hence courted N)body,
Ard said Nobody I'd be,
And asked 70 marry Nobody,
!. And Nobody married me.
Thus trudge along with Nobody,
And Nobody cheers my life;
have love Tor Nobody
Winch Nobody has for his wife.
So. here's health for Nobody.
For "Nobody's nov IN town."
And I've passion for Nobody
That nobody else would own.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-05-01

Harper's drawer tells of a little
three year old whose mother was
mixing 4 simple cough medicine for
him. He watched the process, and
asked if it was "good." He was
permitted to taste il, and exclaim
ed. "It's awful good, mama. Let's
keep it all for papa"