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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31
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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

Columbi (Tenn.) Herald: A
very remarkable case of deformity
is now to be seen on our Streets
negro named Dick. When he was
fifteen years old q team ran away
with him, and dragged him through
the woods, twisting the lower part
of his body almost around-the
front to the rear.
LDick was in Pulaski last week.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31
You Must Cure That Cough.

III. With Shiloh's Consumptive Cure
you can cure yourself. 1t 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, it is alb
solutely without an equal. Two doses
will relieve your child of Group. 1t is
pleasant to take and perfectly harmless
to the youngest child, and no mother
can afford TO be without it. You can
use two-thirds of bottle and if what
we say is not true we will refund the
price paid. Price 10cts., 5Octs. and 81. 90
per bottle. If your Lungs are sore or
chest or back lame use Shiloh's Porous
Plaster. Sold by Sumpter & Stanley,
Corner Drug Store. febl3eow-ly-2
If you.vote against the 5O-4 do not
complain of hard times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

What do you call the men who
advocate a doctrine because they
think it popular? Demagogues.
Where do demagogues lead? To
the ID. Win you trail that road?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31
No More Hog Cholera.

DIR. SalmOn's Specific insures healthy
hogs and a profitable return for the
corn fed 70 them. BE sure 20 read his
advertisement elsewhere. IL Is cheap.
Leave your order and use Il as pre-
ventiye. IL Is also a most powerful pro-
phylactic and disinfectant for your cel-
lars. sinks and cesspools. Price only 20
cents Der n In 10 and 10 n cans. u
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31
The Green-Eyed Monster.

Mr.. Kroeger was TRANQUILITY eat
ing his breakfast a morning or two
ago, when his boy broke the silence
by asking for twenty-five cents to
90 to the MINISTRIES with that night.
Mr.. Kroeger promptly refused, on
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

Charlotte IN. CO Observer: It
is stated by persons who know, that
there is a young lady of the first
society in this city who can stand
flat-footed and turn a somersault.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

Alcohol will clean out the inside
of an inkstand. It will also clean
out the inside of pocket.book a
little more thoroughly and quicker
than ANYTHING else on record.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

The poor mans taxes are not in
creased one cent by the BOD. The
regular poll tax he pays now is all
he will have to pay. The 50-4 does
not touch the poll-tax.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

at does not take long, says an
agricultural writer ito fork over an
acre" Which is gospel truth.
Thousands of acres have been fork
ed over to the mortgages the past
year or two, in double quick time.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

1871 Wells'Persian Perfume, ''HACK-
METACK," is rich and fragrant. Try it.
Sold by Sumpter & Stanley, Corner
Drug Store. feb13eow-1y-2
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

a new cave has been discovered
near Newsom's Station, in David
son county, Tenn. One branch has
been explored two miles and anoth
er three miles. 1t is not yet known
how long it is.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

Who need more money and bet
ter times? The poor and laboring
men. What will help to get more
money and better times? Vote for
he 5O-4.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

The SOD act provides for the is
suance Of small bonds so that any
body can have more money. NO
man who favors more paper money
can vote against the 60-4.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

show'd my love my fond heart,
And asked would she be mine
Till cruel death do as pATti
She answered me, Zach neinl"
I showed my love my bank book
All, then ! touched bei soull
She sighed with such frank look,
Aid sweetly hsPed, ''yAhsWohp'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

Georgia is trying the small bond
issue with satisfaction to all her
people and money never was more
plentiful. Our people have chance
to do the same
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

"My DEAR" said a vain old man
to his wife, ''these friends here
won't believe that L am only forty
five years old. You know that L
speak the truth don't your
"Well," answered the simple wife,
Il suppose you must believe it,
John, as you've stuck to it for IF
teen years"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

What the laboring man wants are
more work and more money. The
504 will give these.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

Whom shall the people trust?
The men whom they honored for
many years or those new and
strange gods.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

If you do not leave an honest
name to your children, whose
5ombstones will lieY
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

Where do you tell a man to go
who will not pay when he CAM To
Texas. What viii you say about a
State that will not pay2
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

The State has assets of sixteen
to one of indebtedness-How many
are that we'll off?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-31

If State repudlatesy what will
keep the people from it? Nothing
but the law.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
Mis- EVELYN SIMPSON.
Sluggards. Read.


Tie effects of too much sleep are not
less signal than those arising from its
priWt;on. The whole nervous system
becomes blunted, so that the muscular
energy is enfeebled, end the sensations,
ana moral and intellectual manifesto
tioas are obtunded. All the bad effects
OF inaction become developed; the func-
tioos are exerted with less energy; the
digestion is torpid, the excretions are
diminished, whilst, in some instances.
the secretion of fat accumulates to an
ino.dinate extent. The memory is i'm
paired, the powers of imagination are
dormant, and the mind falls into kind
of hebetude, chiefly because the func-
lions OF the intellect are not sufficiently
exerted, when sleep is too prolonged or
too often repeated. To sleep much is
not necessarily to be a good sleeper.
Generally they are the poorest sleepers
who remain longest in bed; i. e., they
awaken less refreshed than if the time of
arising we're earlier by an hour or two.
While it is true that children and young
people require MORE sleep than their eld-
ers, yet it. should be the care of parents
that over-indulgence be not permitted.
Where the habit is for children to lie in
bed until 8 or 9 in the morning, the last
two hours, at least, do not bring sound,
dreanless sleep, where the hour for re-
firing IS 8 or 9 P. M, but are spent in
"dozing," and, in fact, such excess can
not fail to insure the harmful results
described by the authority quoted. What
is called "laziness " among children is,
in very many cases, disease, and is large
~ due 70 this, as we'll as the other causes
that undermine the founda-
tions Of health.-G0lde,, Rule.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
joseph Jeffarson,s Fence.

Mr.. Joseph Jefferson, during his re-
cent visit to his orange grove plantation,
has been actively engaged in applying
to p:actice a cherished theory-that
every country possesses sufficient ma.
ternl for its own fences He set to
WORK to prove it by erecting for each
side of his fence sods three feet in
width, divided into five layers, at an
angie Of rs degrees. The soil from be-.
meath the sod exactly fills the space
between the erected sods, leaving a
thre-foot ditch on each side. On TOP
of this sod-and-soil fence, which is four
anda half feet at the base and three feet
higl, he plants cuttings of the Macart-
ney rose, which are protected by panel
of boards. This fence, while within the
reath of any man who will shoulder his
spade and work, possesses the advantages
of an impossible barrier, the permanence,
of not needing repairs, of drainage and
of Ieing a most beautiful ornament.
Mr.. Jefferson will soon have enclosed a
section of his plantation containing 2, 900
acrts, and at one-half the cost OF stake
fente. Without being over sanguine as
to It's rapid adoption, we feel safe in say
ingthat it is the most economical and
useful fence in the southern states, and
destined to come into general use.-New
Iberia L. Sugar Fowl.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
A Pair of Socks.
From the Louisville (Ky.) Age.


The following letter from Henry CLAW
was selected from number of autograph
papers preserved by Rev. E. O. Guer.
rant, OF Louisville. The lady addressed
was Miss Evelyn Simpson, later mar
ried to Mr.. Owings, from whom OWNS.
vile, Bath county, derives its name.
The penmanship of this letter is unusu-
ally neat, as if the matter had been wor-
thy of a special copying on the gilt
edged paper. The letter reads, Gterat;m:
ASHLAND, 9TH May, 1880.
DEAR M1ss:-Mr. Thomas delivered
to me the pair of worsted socks which
you did me the honor to present to me.
| thank you most cordially for this in
teresting testimonial of your favorable
consideration of me, and for the friendly
sentiments with which you have accom-
panied it. In 6rmness and evenness of
thread and neatness Of appearance they
excel any that I have ever seen. Mrs.
Clay, who has supplied me many years
with socks, wrought by her own hands,
from the best Merino wool, acknowledges
the superiority of yours. I shall wear
them with added pleasure from their
being the production of one of my fair
countrywomen, and of the daughtef of
a valued friend. Next to intellectual
attainments there is none professed by
your sex, which more strongly recon-
mend you to the regard of those among
ours who are worthy of your notice,
than that OF industry, with its usual
concomitant economy. That you may,
in due time, meet with one capable of
justly appreciating your good Qualities,
and entitled, in return, to your warmest
affection, is the fervent wish of vour
friend and obedient servant,
II. CLAY,
Mis- EVELYN SIMPSON.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
SKELETON CITY.

In my travels through distant regions came
To certain city OF learned fame;
But tue natives were living skeletons ali!
At the gate pacing a skeleton tall
Whose coat hung loose for his limbs were small
And skeleton regiment marched by the wall;
Where skeleton waiter waited on me,
With strings like cat-gut v here flesh should be;
Many strange thing did see
While stayed in Skeleton City.
4 skeleton youth wood skeleton maid:
The gentle young skeleton seem'd afraid,
s 6ad Inc gay nold skeleton etc wood not am,s,
SkeIeton babies everywhere swarm'd,
skeleton mothers with these were charm'd:
She!eton scientists rose to speak,
With skeleton voices, hard, not weak.
While crowded skeletons hunr on thea uorda
Ina Ihat twitch'd them about like puI!eys and cords
P In re- was one poor skeleton preacher, too,
And ,e s skeeton audience was drowsy and few
VI the folk in Skeleton City.
Close by the hearth sat skeleton cat,
quick she sprang on skeleton rat;
A skeleton judge with spectaclas large,
Gave skeleton rogue to the hangman's charge;
Four skeleton horses met in the street,
And skeleton driving the hearse neat,
With piumss and hat-banis all complete,
To the field where silent skeletons meet
Outside Of Skeleton City.
A friendly skeleton took me in charge
To " show the lions" (his Uranium large,
Observation-Disclosures talk'd
High philosophy as VIC waikiki
'. Mind is matter, each wise man owns;
Our minds being fed Oh nothing but bones
From gene ration TO generation,
(The fauciful people mado e:nigration)
a drying up and Cs,iticaion
GrePt through the body, the whole machine
by slow degrees growing hard and lean,
But usetuller far and cheaper too
ana I" this moreover animals grew
FOR obvious reasons. In short" said he,
I've have been evolved into " hat you see,
40 mira, throu h mental society.
Sciences glory and triumph are wc
The natives of Skeleton City.
-FiaSer's Magasiae,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
An Evident Sufferer.

The Rome IN. W Sentinel photo
grapher grows plain lively eloquent and
evidently speaks from the full heart of
experience when he says: "The aver
age husband is very tractable and &C.
commodating person, and endeavors to
behave himself and treat his wife with
due consideration. But when she sends
him oman exploring expedition to the
clothescloset after an article of feminine
apparel and after he has CROPPED around
half an hour in the dark, bruised his
knucklts on hooks and nails and become
generally demoralized; after he has re-
peatediy told her the desired article was
not there, and after she has az often told
him that it was and that it hung on a
certain peg in a certain corner; after his
wife has repeatedly told him he WASH
worth a cent to find anything, and he
has about come to the conclusion he is
an illustrious fool anyhow; we say after
all this has transpired, and the woman
falls to thinking and suddenly remarks,
"Oh, guess l put it in the chest, up
stairs, after all" the man slams the
door, resumes his dignity
as lord of creation, and if he isn't very
pious man, he uses some cuss words"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
Chinese Schools.

The remarkable example of the &C.
centrlcity of the Chinese turn of mind is
noticeable in their schools, where, instead
CT silence being. inculcated, as might
naturally be considered: so essential,
every child is expected to bawl out the
at the top of his voice; and the babel
which is the result may be more easily
imagined than described. When a Chi.
lese boy gets up to repeat his lesson, lie
does not stand facing his tutor, but turns
his back upon him, and hence repeating
lesson goes by the name Of. backing .
it. This method of recitation has an
e e; effect in keeping the boy on
the qu1 viye to avoid mistakes, for no
sooner does he commit one than he is CALI
ed to recollection by q smart tap on the
c9losely.shayen pate, from the metal of a
long tobacco-pipe which every pedagogue
carries about him.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
A Doubling Woman.

The woman who doubts entered a De
troit fish store the other day with hest
tating step, and after looking around
upon various piles of the fnny tribe,
she turned to the proprietor and asked:
"Do you keep fish hereT'
mo madame" was his prompt reply.
ave keep hardware and groceries here,
but you will find fish store four doors
below. Come to the door and I will
show you"
She looked from him to the fish and
back, hesitated, and he continued:
Can | sell you anything in the line
of stoves to-dayp'
She shook her head and walked out.
She didn't call at four doors below,
which is tobacco store, but she looked
into the windows at the display of pipes,
then back to the fish store, and somehow
or other something puzzled her.-De.
tr0it Free Press.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
Water: Snakes in Winter.

Some four years since, during a two
days thaw, accompanied by q warm
rain, the snow being some twenty inches
deep, the people living near the water
trough, at the end of Samuel Brush's
saw mill pond, on the road leading from
Susquehanna to New Milford, discov-
cred large snake crouching in the shall
low water, and running into the snow,
it became chilled and unable to move.
In a few minutes others were seen
making their way. along down the open
wooden troug b about one hundred and
fifty feet in length, for: conveying the
water from a living spring at the base of
the hill. Fifteen of these ugly looking
reptiles were captured and Killed, some
OF the largest being five feet in length.
They were of that species of snake
called water snakes. It appears they
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
How Rabelais Deadhead ed It.

The learned and famous Frenchnan.
Or. Rabelais, once found himself in
Marseilles without money. He wished
to travel to Paris, hut Guild not vv11-
trive way to do 50. At last, however,
he hit upon plan.
He started, one first of April, carry
ing with him some full phials labeled
" Poison for the King and Royal Fam
ily." At the city gates, according tothe
custom in those days the traveller vas
searched, and these suspicious.looking
bottles were found, as he Intended. The
officials were Mortified, and thew
promptly arrested him, and hurried him
OF as a state prisoner to Paris, there to
be tried, for treason.
Not long after his arrival, Rebelais
and his bottles were taken before the
judges. Then the DOCTOR who was
very well known as wit, made a little
explanation, showed that the phials
contained nothing but brick-dust, and
was at once reieased,-tht court, the
accusers, the lookers.on; aid all Paris,
c <, W. with laughter az the Joke
st. Nicholas.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
The Gray Matter of the Brain.

A fragment of the gray substance Of
the brain, not larger than the head of a
very small pin, contains parts Of many
thousands Of commingled globules and
fbres.* Of ganglion-globules alone, &C.
cording to the estimate of the physiolo-
gist Meynert, there cannot be less than
600, 100000 in the convolutions of a
human brain. They are, indeed, in such
infinite numbers that possibly only a
small portion of the globules provided
are ever turned to account in even the
most energetic brains. In one particular
passage of his book, DR.: Maudsley finds
occasion to contrast the $1,000 words
which Shakespeare employs for the ex>
preston of his ideas with the hundreds
of millions of brain-globules that must
have been concerned in the production
of this intellectual harvest.-1he Edia-
burQh Review.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
The Goelet Millions.

Peter Goelet, bachelor and million
aire, owns more real estate than any
other man in New York, the present
head of the Astor family excepted. His
b, other, Robert, married and pretty we'll
supplied with heirs, is also a real estate
millionaire and worth very nearly as
much money as Peter. The two brothers
inherited their property and have taken
excellent care Of it. They own many
houses on Broadway and acres Of land
in various parts Of the city, but princi.
pally up town. It has been their custom
all along to lease their land rather than
build on it. They charge a rent of five
per cent on the value, and they some
times advance money to the lessee to
build, taking mortgage as security.
The lessee has to pay all taxes and other
expenses, SO the five per cent is clear
income. Since the hard times began the
Goelets have become the owners Of many
of the houses erected on their land.
Most of these houses were built in flush
times by spectators, with borrowed mo-
ney, some of which was advanced by the
Goelets. When the mortgage interest
became due and the spectators could
not pay, having been unable either to
sell the houses or rent them, the mort
cages were foreclosed, and in most
cases the houses were bought by the
owners of the land. It was perfectly
legitimate proceeding, Of course, but it
meant ruin to hundreds and profit to
only one or two-one[ Goelet, or possibly
botL. The wealth of the family has
been greatly increased in this way, and
there are many broken. down builders
and spectators in New York who curse
the day they had any thing to do with a
Goelet lease. The largest building
erected on Goelet land is the Windsor
hotel, which was sold under foreclosure
few weeks ago. The Goelets had
mortgages on it amounting to about
5000, for money advanced to build
it. John T. DAILY, who borrowed the
money, became insane and hanged him.
self in shanty across the East river.
His heirs held the property, but it
finally became too heavy for them.
Mortgage interest fell due; they could
not pay, and foreclosure was ordered.
A representative of the Goelets attended
the sale and bid up until the price went
above the mortgages. He then with
drew and other parties continued the
bidding until 1851 900 was reached, and
the property was knocked down to an
agent of the DAILY heirs. At the time of
Mr.. Daly's death the value of the prop.
erty was estimated at $3.50, 900.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
A Celestial <tTreat,"

San Francisco gohelle." said an en-
ragged Celestial on Prytania street yes.
terday. he had just heard the latest.
"Chinaman goodee man as Mclean.
Hoodlum too flesh. Makee steal all
Johns money. John 60 blind dunk full
as bed tickee. Go San Francisco makee
hoodlum's jaw blokee. That's kind
tooth:pickee John is. Have a dlink7"
We walked in and had one with John.
Before paying for it he excused himself
and went out in the yard. The back
fence was low and we paid for the
Orleans Times,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03

had crawled up there for winter quar-
tiers from the pond, which is about one
hundred rods distant. As thirty of
them were killed last fall on their way
thither, the query is, why they should
make mistake in their reckoning and
come forth to sure destruction in mid
winter.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
The Difference Between Can and
Will.

This is the way in which Louisville
girl disposes of q young man, according
to the (ourier-.]o,ynal: i" You have ask
ed me pointedly if can marry you, and
I have answered you pointedly that I
can. I can marry a man who makes
love to different girl every month. I
can marry q man whose main occupation
seems to be to join in gantlet in front of
churches and theate1s and comment
audibly on the people who are compelled
to pass through it. I can marry a man
whose only means Of support is an aged
father. I can marry a man vino boasts
that any girl can. be won with the help
of a good tailor and an expert tongue.
1 can marry such man, but Iw-o.n:tl"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-04-03
MACARONI AND HAM,

Take one-half pound of macaroni, put
it in boiling salt and water, and cook for
twenty minutes or until tender. Drain
the macaroni, and put in cold water
until you are ready to use it. Take a
quarter of pound of the lean of cold
boiled ham; chop fine; take half can of
tomatoes, seasoned with salt and pepper;
stew with a small onion; pass the toma-
toes, when thoroughly done, through a
colander; thicken with tablespoonful
of -four and tablespoonful of butter,
rubbed smooth. Lay the macaroni in a
layer, spread on the chopped ham, add
some of the tomato sauce, a little pepper,
a little salt, and SO on, until the dish is
filled. Bake in hot oven for twenty
minutes.