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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
The cossack's Shawl and Mulhran-
don's Coat.

New York Tribune: "Now it APP
pears that the yellow fever was
brought back to Memphis through
the saving graces of a Mrs. Mul
brandon. Some friends of hers died
of yellow fever last summer and she
inherited their clothes, which she
carefully packed away. The germs
of the black death, as our readers
will remember, were introduced into
Russia by a shawl which a Cossaek
soldier Drought home to his sweet
heart. In the case of the Mulbran-
dOns, the woman probably was po4r,
and she could not bring her mind to
waste the coat. She put it on her
husband, ran the risk, and trusted
to luck. he died the next day.
just as American engineers patch
the leak IN the boiler with bran to
save the expense of a new one, o.
our city governments leave sewers
putrid with decaying garbage, and
drains trapleSs, out of the same wise
economy, knowing that death, may
take hand in the game, or not, any
minute. just as ne pleases. He gen
orally does please, and finishes it.
Bnt the money is saved.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
How a Radical Editor Talks About
the State Debt.

We clip the following extracts
from the Knoxville Republican, an
extreme Radical paper, to show our
readers how an editor who is in ia
vor of paying dollar for dollar of
our State debt, talks
1--WE see the Democratic leaders
all over the State. on the stump and
in the newspapers, the honest Dem
ocrats, the State Credit Democrats
and the Repudiating Democrats,
the abolition Democrats and the
scaling Democrats, the 60 centers
and the 80 centers-we see all of
these Democrats shouting the par
ty watchwords, and cracking the
party whip, and using the party
drill-masters. 70 force every Demo
crat TO vote for the so ard L."
"The Democrats have determin-
ed to vote accepted and thus force
u settlement. In other words, the
repGdiating element in their party
have t-iumphed. Reputation has
been decreed. The Democrats say
that the a0elfare of the Democratic
party requires that the State debt
question shall be settled before
1880. The Democrats say that
they must unite before 1880. The
Democrats have resolved to sac-i
fee honesty, State honor, good
faith, justice to the States credi
tors, and public morality, on the
altar of Democracy. The Demo
Gratis have determined to repudiate
rather than risk a Democratic de
feat in 1880"
This explains the Democratic
newspaper howl in favor of SO and
/. This explains their rage at the
sight of Republican who has the
10 see through their
trick, and the courage to expose f.
and denounce them"
"What can honest men do?-I
Marks is for accepting" and Saw
age is for rejecting" If you vote .
accepted" you must take your /
stand with Marks the Scaler. II
you vote rejected YOU take your
stand with Savage the arch Repu-
iiatOr.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
YELLOW FEVER.
1t is Epidemic and Rapidly
Spreading to Every Part
of Memphis.

There is no longer any doubt that
yellow fever is.epidemic in Memphis.
There are over one hundred per-
sons PROSTATE with it, and others
are falling daily. Thirty-six new
cases were reported Monday and Z
Tuesday. True it has assumed a
much milder type than last year,
but is still fatal in many cases. The
cases reported on Monday included
some that should have been report
ed Saturday and Sunday. No part
of the city is exempt from it, and
the work of depopulation is in prog
ress. A strong effort has been
made to induce every person who
did not have the fever last year to
leave the city, but many stubbornly
remain, hoping to escape and at the
same time receive ratiohs; most of
these are negroes.
A dispatch yesterday said:
The anxiety of citizens to leave
this Ill fated city is daily increasing.
Every train that departs is crowded,
and hundreds have gone into the
country. All species of vehicles
have been pressed into service, and
the roads leading from Memphis
are filled with wagons conveying
the panic stricken people to places
of safety. There were 800 pas
sengers aboard the steamer Goa
homa. which left this evening for
St. Louis. Nearly all of them had
their passage paid by the city au-
thOritles, who are using every exer
ton to depopulate the city. Two
physicians, DR.. Willett and Dr..
Brown, were engaged to accompany
the steamer to ST. Louis. Main
street already begins to assume a
Sunday appearance. Nearly every
prominent retail house is closed.
By the end of the week none will be
left in Memphis except those who
cannot get away, or those who re-
main in anticipation of receiving
free rations. Perhaps wooden
box will be their share.
The federal authorities having
forwarded tents and supplies, a
camp will soon be established, and
then will begin the removal of the
poor to place of security. The
Mcclellan Guards and Memphis
Zouaves, our two colored military
who did guard duty all
among the epidemic of last year,
have again volunteered their serYi-
ces which will be accepted if an
emergency arises.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
THE DEBT.
THE DEBT.
Sixteen Potent Reasons Why We
Should Adopt the 5o-4
Compromise.

Because we shall have to settle
some day.
Because we shall never get bet
ter thing than is now offered.
Because if we defeat this PROPOSE
ton, there is no telling where the
matter will end.
Because if we defeat it,it may re-
suit in open Reputation, which
every honest man, and every man
having any regard for the honor
and fair fame of the State, would
regret.
Because we may never get as fa-
vorable terms again.
Because the longer we delay the
more likely we are to have to pay
more.
Because the longer we postpone
the settlement, the more bitter and
intense will become the question
among our people.
Because if we put off settlement,
it will engage the public mind al
most exclusively, and every other
interest will suffer.
Because it will distract our bust
ness, paralyze our industries, and
we will lose more in that way in
the next two or three years than
the debt will amount to.
Because by accepting this com
promise, we get rid of 2,2ll, 900
of principal at once, and in thirty
years, the time the new bonds are
to run, $2S,OOO,O00 of interest, max
ing in all $40,O00,0O0 We shall save
by the operation.
Because if we let the debt contin-
ne as it now is, for two years more,
we shall have 100000 more in
the way of interest to provide, max
ing our debt then $2S,000,000 in
stead of 100000 as it is now.
Because if we delay and the hti
CATION against the railroads is de
cided in 1heir favor, as the weight
of legal opinion dictates, they will,
OF course, not contribute a cent TO-
wards the liquidation of the debt,
and we shall have it to meet with
out them.
Because in the opinion of our
best informed thinkers we have all
to lose and nothing to gain by de
lay.
Because it is right and honorable
in itself that we should adjust our
debt.
Because, whatever our motives, If
we refuse to settle now on the 5O-4
basis, it will be regarded abroad as
intention on our part to repudiate
the whole debt.
Because if we refuse now, we
may have to settle the whole
in the future.
Because, it will bring about re
newal OF prosperity, restore conf
dence and good feeling, &c.
Because it will give US an increas- |
9d circulation, one-third OF the !
ponds being required to be issued,
n denomination of from So to .
100 and another third in from
300 to $1,000.
Because 80 comedies substan-
Tally, all the equities that low tax
zen ever expected or demanded
Shelbyville Gazette.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
We Feed the worl6

England, says the Saturdays Re
view, is not the only country in the
world which is receiving quantities
of American corn aud meat large
enough TO damp the spirits of home
producers. The importatious from
America into France are nothing
like so large as those into England,
but still they are very considerable.
II is asserted that last year France
imported million quarters Of
wheat from the United States The
French corn grower cannot contend
against this competition, as his ad-
vocstes sllege, and it is said that in
at least four districts of France
wheat Is ceasing to De cultivated
The competition of American beet
pork and cheese is also said to be
telling on French production, ana
an effort of very serious and
determined character is being made
to induce the Government to put
on protective duties so as to save
the French grower.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
YsllowJack's History.

The history of yellow-fever IN
this country shows that it has hard
" been the exception when the fever
appeared as an epidemic the year
following an epidemic. In lS47
there were 1853 deaths in New Or
leans, snd $50 in lS4S, and 73S in
1919. In 1853 there were 1870
deaths in the same city, and there
were 2423 deaths IN 1854, and 2670
in 1885. In 1858 there were 1889
deaths, but none the next year. In
1867 there were 3039 deaths, and
none the following year. In the
same proportions the fever appeared
in the smaller places in Louisiana
and Mississippi in those years. In
lS+S. when it reappeared IN New
Otlesns, it came in June, while the
epidemic Of lS4T began ID August.
The great epidemic of the year fol
lowing came in July, and in the next
year il June. The epidemic in
North Carolina in 1862 was followed
in 1854, two years afterward, by one
of increased mortality, but not in
the same cities and towns as a gen
eral thing. IN 1897 Philadelphia's
death list was 1900; in I79S, $500,
and in 1899 there were 1000 deaths.
So it was in 1902 three fifths when
Pbilsdelphis next had the fever as
an epidemic. In South Carolina It
has been almost invariably the case
hat the second year brought an cpl
iemic. Memphis and sll other
points which were infected in 1873
escaped the seeond year. In that
scar the fever began in Shreveport /.
irst, and did not come until the lat (
er part OF August, reaching Mem
,his September l+th. August has
been the fsvorite month for its in
.eption. LAST year il began near
be 6rst OF that month in the south"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

affairs in Memphis have very
gloomy aspect" remarked Banner
reporter to d.. T. q. Summers, Jr.,
Monday.
No gIoomier than L said they
were q week or two ago." said the
Doctor in reply, adding, Il suppose
some people will believe after awhile
that l am not as big 3 fool as they
think | am, merely because have
certain ideas about yellow fever, and
am not afraid to make them known.
Ii l were provided with a hospital,
furnished with Catholic Sisters of
Mercy the best nurses in existence J,
and allowed TO have all the articles
required for the treatment of pa
tients, ! will guarantee not to loose
any. There is no use fighting vel
low fever in Memphis. The doctors
ought to attack the disease in its
stronghold, and study its nature I'm
til they find how to prevent it. Mem
phis might be obliterated from the
face of the earth, and in four years
Nashville would have the yellow
fever. Mark my words; Between
now and the fifteenth day of August
there will he fifty cases in this city
After saying this, DR.. Summers
walked away, and left the reporter
sincerely hoping that his prediction
about cases in this city would not
come to pass Banner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

If there is one thing needed in
Tennessee to make US prosperous
now, il Is s local currency Our
crops are fine and the prospect for
4 renewal of business beyond all
expectations We nave attempted
again TO establish a State currency.
We now have it in our power to es-
tablish local currency, that viii.
from is peculiar character stay with
Us. 1t viii buy land and pay for
land. -Four millions of dollars
thrown into circulation, viii at once
start tide OF prosperity unknown
for many years. VIII you refuse
70 let your State bonds, that now
lie IN safes, be cut 10, and circula-
ted among u.s. 1t will supply the
place of green backs and I'll a void
.ong needed in our midst Nash
vile Banner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
Fastest Mile Ever Made to Wagon.

n. I. Herald: Edwin Forrest, on
Wednesday, July ,, trotted the fast
est mile that has ever been made &c
wagon. He was driven by Mr..
Bonner on the exercise track on his
farm. The first quarter was trot-
ted in 81 seconds, the halt in I:OS,
the three-quarters in 1;144. and the
mile IN 2:l64. This grea: perform
ance was made on i thrae-quarter
which is much slower thIn a mile
track, and, besides, the horse car
ried Dir. Bonner, who weighs over
$50 pounds.
Considering that be was on a three
track, TO a wagon, and car
ryiug sucn weight it is the greatest
performance ever made by a trot
ting horse.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

The past teaches that there is
but one and only one sure avenue
of escape from yellow-fever- flight.
Last year ninety eight per cent. OF
ali the white people who remained
here were taken with the fever, aud
seventy per cent. died. In other
words, only two OF every hundred
escaped, and the doctors and nurses,
after the expenditure of fabulous
sums of money, great skill and a
sleepless vigilance could only save
eighteen out of every hundred
Surely we do not want these appall
ing figures repeated. If every one
who has not had the fever will go
away, we will not. BY as many as
stay we will. There is no known
specific for this terrible disease.
The doctors cannot grapple with it
with the assurance that character
ICES them in the treatment of any
other of our local fevers. They
have not vet been able to find Il
medicine that will arrest the speed
lily killing poison which disinte
CRATES the blood, and delivers Its
first blow at the very seat of life.
The best of them stand appalled, at
its suddenness of attack, its over
whelming, savage and relentless sub
lection of the will as well as the
physique to Its purposes, and the
wholesale destruction of life that
follows upon its appearance. Two
in ten is but a slim chance tor life.
The theory of sanitary statisticlans
is that the death rate in whole
year should not be more than eigh-
teen in a thousand. These figures,
and the facts we have laid before
our readers, should be sufficient
without another word from us to
induce the removal at once of every
one who has not had the fever
Memphis Appeal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
Sale of Valuable Land.
S D BAbcOck ct ais vs.. Thos Brown ct ais

D BAbcock ct ais vs.. Thos Brown ct ais.
JnO Brown, Admir-, ct ais vs.. Thomas
Brown at ais.
PURSUANT to an order of the Q. S. Cir
l. cult Court for the Middle Di vision of the
State Of Tennessee, at Nashville, in the above
tyled consolidated causes. at its April term,
1879, we Will sell,
On Saturday, Sept. 9th, 1879,
st public sale, to the highest bidder, at the
court mouse door in Pulaski, Lot No of
the subdivision Of the Aspen Hill Lands
containing 1876 and 7-I0Oth acres; also Lot
No. Of the subdivision of Veto Tract con
tanning 1877 and ss-TO0th acres, both of said
tracts lying snd being in Giles county, Ten
nessee, on the waters of Richland Creek and
Elk River, and both near the Nashville &
Decatur Railroad.
TERMS CT SALE:-One-third cash, the
balance in and IL months in equal install
ments, With interest from the day OF sale
Notes with good personal security will be re-
quired of the purchasers and Ieins retained
upon the lands until the purchase money Is |
al paid. E. R. CAMPBELL,
J. B. STACY.
jul24-td Special Commissioners.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

There was very brutal eXhibi-
tion at Niagara Falls recently. A
man named Peer was TO have jump
ed from the Suspension Bridge into
the river below, but when he sp
peared he was SO drunk that be was
not allowed by his attendants to at
tempt the foolhardy undertaking.
Twice again he came out, but each
time drunken than the other, until
finally the great throng of some i've
thousand people was dismissed and
went grumbllng away. II must
have been = morbid spirit that
would take pleasure in seeing this
silly fellow leap TO almost certain
death.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

Cleveland Banner; We are Tor
the 90 1 proposition, but if ma
jority of the people reject it. and
say thereby that we must pay dol
lar for dollar, we think we can
stand it if they can. That Is what
rejection will amount 70. There
might be some plsusibihty in vot
ing against the proposition If it
would pay the debt, but it will not
do that. The question of pay al
OF not pay any, is not before the
people. The question is "Will YOU
pay 90 cents on the dollar of your
outstanding liabilities, in new
bonds, AT per cent. interestT' II
you vote against it and reject it. it
leaves the debt unsettled, and it re-
mains Al dollar for dollar. drawing
q per cent interest. Ii the people
Will examine this matter carefully
and thoughtfully, We believe that
they will do what is right in regard
70 II. The great body Of the peo-
pie ale honest, and when properly
informed, seldom do wrong.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
In Chancery at Pulaski
JULY RULES, 1879.

J S Shelton ct ais Complainants vs.. James r
Bruce ct ais Defendants
I n this cause it appearing to the satisfaction
L ofthe clerk and Master from an affidavit
TO the bill that the defendant James Bruce
is a nonresident of the State of Tennessee,
so that the ordinary process of this court
cannot be served on him;
On motion it Is therefore ordered that pub
LEGATION be made for four weeks in success
sion in the Pulaski Citizen, a newspaper pub
lished 10 the town of Pulaski, in said State,
requiring the said defendant to be and appear
on the frs: day of thu next term of the chan
Gerry Court to be held for the county of Giles,
at the urt-house in Pulaski, on the 1st Mon
day in Sept, 1879, and answer com plainaats'
BILL or the same viii oe taken for confessed
as to him aud set for hearing ex-parte.
lul244t J. STACY, c. " NJ.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

The Murfreesboro, Tenn, band
of burglars, including Smith and
Hall. condemned to be hung, have
each been sentenced to forty-one
years in the penitentiary, with sew
eral more indictments against them
yet to be tried. 1t is reported that
one of them will soon be married.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

Virginia Female Institute.
StauntOn, Virginia.

THE S5th Annual Session will commence
L Sept. 18th, 1879, with u thorough organi
zation and its usual full corps of instructors.
Buildings and grounds are spacious and fur
nished with every modern convenience and
comfort The sanitary arrangements are
very complete and successful
Unsurpassed advantages in Music, Modern
Languages, and full course of English, &c.
Extravaganza in all its forms constantly
discourage
TERMs:-Board, furnished Room, beating
by Steam, Gas, Washing, seat in Church,
Physicians fee, and tuition in full course of
English, Calisthenics, Elocution in classes,
Latin or elementary French, tor session of
40 weeks, S245. Music, 49,, extra.
- summer Board, with e light Vaca-
ton course of study for pupils only.
For Catalogues, address,
Rev. r, 81. PHILLIPS, Rector.
July, 1879. jul24-6w
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

Throughout England and Scot
land farmers pay from Sll to S35
an acre rental, yearly, for land used
for ordinary agricultural crops and
agricultuIa al purposes; yet they live
like princes, have plenty of leisure,
have good teams, read the papers
aud make mouey.- Eek.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

The chairman Of the Central Com
mittee at Nashville, Nathaniel BaX-
ter, Jr., has appointed committees
for the various counties in Middle
Tennessee, charged with the duty
OF organizing the friends of the 50-4
compromise.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

How does the amount we pay
for taxes to maintain our good
name compare with the amount we
throw away for tobacco, whisky and
fine clothes?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

We have lost whatever faith we
ever had in quarantine. The yellow
fever now prevailing here is of I'M
disputed local origin. We have,
therefore, no confidence in the eff
cacy of quarantine to prevent re
curing visit of the plague. The
MulbrandOn case is supposed to
have originated in formi!ies preserv-
ed in a trunk; the eases to privy
poison, but the Tobin case is one
that, having no connection with the
others, and originating no one can
tell where, puzzles the will and
dumfounds the most expert. There
is not, and has not been, case of
yellow fever reported this summer
any where on the gulf or South At
lantic coasts or in the interior of
the country save here, and we have
not had any Cuban, Mexican, Bra
lillian or West Indian visitors.
Therefore j. could not have been
The theory of local orr
gin, Whatever may have been the
causes of its first appearance, is thus
well established, and the quarantine
theorists will have to step down and
out Memphis Appeal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

Chief Justice Deaderick, of the
Supreme Court, in q letter to Judge
Jno. +. Garner approves the com
promise settlement and hopes it
may be carried. He thinks East
Tennessee will he largely in favor
OF it
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

A deaf negro walking on the rail
road track, near Jackson. Tenn,
gas saved from death by young
man who swung himself from the
pilot of an approaching locomotive
and knocked him off the track.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

Cleveland Banner: Some of the
anti adiusters of the State debt say
that Gov. Marks and A. 5. Colya-
have been bought up. Admit, for
argument sake, that this charge is
true, and what does it prove? 1t
proves that the question should be
settled at once. If such men as
Marks anG Colyar can be bought
up, what an easy matter it would
be for the boDdhOlders to buy up
the members of the future Legisla-
ture, and get dollar for dollar for
their bonds and six per cent. inter
est. If the compromise is rejected
it will leave the question open for
future legislation, and as we have a
party in Tennessee already that
wants to pay dollar for dollar of
the State debt, it would be well
enough for us when we have an OPP
portunity, to settle the question be-
yond controversy hereafter. If we
accept the proposition TO psy 50-4
it will put a stop to all buying and
selling out. and the people will
know what they have to pay.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

Austria Joined the Powers in de-
manding religious freedom in Tur-
KEY; but now Austria is shutting up
Protestant churches and schools.
Whether religion ought to be free
or not, depends. it seems, entirely
on whose religion it is.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

Mankind has long been growing
about the cold and taking a nip of
something to warm up" The same
are now beginning TO growl about
the heat, and sup some of the same
fluid to keep cool"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24

Conductor Berry Holt told Ban
ner reporter Monday that preacher
of The Northern Methodist Church
was sick at Shelbyyille with sup
posed yellow fever. He had come
from Memphis on Saturday. Con
ductor Holt obtained this informa-
ton from Rev. w. ID. +. Sawrie,
who was told of it by Rev. Mr.. Nc
Grue, OF Shelbyville.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
TO TAX PAYERS.

office in the court hOuse, Pulaski, from
the fourth Monday in July until the first
of September, for the purpose of receiving
the uncollected taxes offs. Pay up prompt
ly, gentlemen, otherwise your tax claims
will be found in the hands of an officer.
iulyl0 At r. NJ. BUGG, Trustee.