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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-16
Wonderful Plants, Rocks and Animals
of the Warm Countries.


There is nothing in India that is so
constant a surprise as nature. Your
ewes are accustomed to your own flowers
the oak, the ash, the sycamore, the mod
est daisy, the wholesome, virtuous clover
that blossoms over meadow and valley.
You look in vain for the old forms that
were so pleasant to you in childhood
that were always friends when the world
grew dark and sorrows swept over your
young and trembling life. The trees'are
new. You have heard of them in poems,
in ghost stories, in Arabian tales, but in
India they are around you. Here is the
mango, a noble tree, that gives pleas
ant fruit, said to be among the atone
ments of an Indian residence, but which
we shall not see, leaving Hindostan be-
fore it ripens. Every one has been tell
ing us of the comforts we shall find in
the mango, and that, although we come
from the land of fruits, we shall sur
render our peach and pear and Newton
pippins to the mango. All we have seen
of it has been some candied mango, so
killed by the sugar that it might as well
have been pumpkin or melon rind, sent
to us by some of the Maharajahs. We
have also had it as a curry, but the
spices reduced it to such condition that
it might have passed for radish or celery.
As tree it is royal and green and rich.
Here we see the tamarind, under which
you are forbidden 10 pitch your tents be-
cause of the unwholesOme exhalations.
Here is the pipel and the japanese
acacia; the banana, with its hospitable
leaves; bamboos, the orange and the
lemon; cactus until you are weary OF
cactus; a very world of ferns, and the
rose in endless profusion. Animal life
has freedom that is unusual to our rapa-
cious accustomed as we are to look
upon everything that God has made as
something for man to kill. Here the re-
ligion of the natives, which throws over
all animal nature protection, has its in
fluence. AS you stroll over the walks OF
an Indian garden or look out upon an In
dian forest, you see animal life in all
forms. The monkey is more common
than squirrels at home, and over your
table as you gather about it the birds OF
prey assemble and circle around and
around until your meal is done and 1t
comes their turn to take your place.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-16
Legal Decisions.

INJURIES FROM ANIMALs.-A de-
cision by Judge Clifford, Of the United
States Supreme Court, sustaining YER
dict against the owners Of n pet deer
which injured lady, gives an exposition
of the law which is Of general interest
/ The rule of law, as stated is " that peO-
/ pie may keep animals, but If the animal
is Of n wild and savage species, the owner
| is as a general rule, liable for any mis-
chief which il may do others. IL tho
creature is of a tame kind, such as
horse or dog, its owner may letit run at
! large, and is not liable 20 a single hurtful
act, unless he had knowledge that such
mischief might be expected from IL.
/ But, in respect 20 wild animals, though
they may be lawfully kept, a. curiosities,
for instance, the proprietor is bound 70
know their savage character, and must
keep them Gagged or chained. If he al
lows them 10 run loose where the pub
lie have a right TO 90, and they do injury
20 persons who are without fault them
selves, who have not given them any
prOvOcatiOn, he must pay damagea"
CORRECTION or CoNTHACT.-Whenan an
oral contract is afterward reduced 20
writing and the instrument fails 10 eX-
press in apt and proper terms, the real
intention Of the parties through mis-
take Of the writer, equity will permit the
mistake 20 be Orrected.-AODiin -.
Payne, c., Lolca.
IETERLINEATIoS OF DOCUMEET.-The
interlineatiOn Of lease 10 make 10 uni
form 20 what was the understanding and
agreement Of the parties az the time il
was executed, is not such fraudulent
alteration as 10 make it forgery PduH
20. The Commonwealth, Sup. c., L0ioa.
CUSTOM OF MARKETs.--A person who
deals in a particular market, must DO
taken 10 deal according % the known,
general and uniform custom or usage OF
that market, and he who employs an
other TO act for him az particular place
or market, must be taken as intending
that the business will be done according
10 the custom and usage Of that place or
market, whether the principal In fact
knew Of the usage or custom or not
Bailey ~. Henley, Sup. c., W
GUARANTY.--Action was brought en-
a guaranty Of the assignment Of mort
gage. The guaranty was that the mort
gagged premises were sufficient 10 pay tho
debt and also for the collection Of the
mortgage. Held that there must have
been a diligent foreclosure az a condition
precedent 20 recovery. The first pay
ment was due and unpaid nearly four
years prior 10 the foreclosure This do
lay was such negligence az discharged tho
guarantor-AoTflern XlsiraHce Company
Of Ne'0 York w. ~ Y CS. ef APPeah
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Conversational ProprietIes.

The term "genteel people this,
that, or the other is every genteel" arc
terms not 10 be used, or very seldom.
Substitute for them such words as
"highly accomplished, "good TASTE"
gentlemanly," etc. 1t is not well Cor
a lady to say " yes sir" and "no sir" TO
a gentleman acquaintance, or frequeatly
10 introduce the word "sir" at the end Of
her sentences unless she desires to be ex-
ceedingly reserved towards the person
with whom she is conversing. Such
words as "I guess" al calculate" and
a" / reckon" are TO be avoided as much aA
possible; and, when relating a converse
tion, IL is scarcely refined TO use the ex-
preston "says he" OF "says She" or
"you know" Interrupting one who is
speaking, even though il be an intimate
friend, is graceless and unbecoming.
Laughing st ones own story, Is short
way of spelling it-if IL have any wit 10
will be appreciated Speaking of any
person who is at n distance within sight,
IL is rude manners 10 point at him.
Forgetting names, or mistaking ono for
another, often indicates ill-mannered
heedlessness-thus, TO say, MIR. What
d'ye-call-him, or You-know-who, What's
her-name, or, How'd ye-call-her. Anoth-
er most offensive practice, is that Of
taking a person aside TO whisper, in q
room where there is company. Looking
one another in the face in converse
ton is essential 20 secure life and in
terest In speaking of ourself and
another person, whether he is absent or
present, propriety requires, us 10 mon
tion ourselves last, in all cases and un-
der all circumstances; thus we should
say, 90 he and ]" "You and l."
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An Eastern exchange says, that "hun-
dreds and thousands of young ladies
| have set up TARGET and drawn the bow,
! and dozens and scores Of doctors have
pulled down their signs and moved since
this healthy outdoor amusement was
inaugurated." Here and there an archer
or archeress obtains printed rules and
instructions TO guide the game, but the
great majority string up tho bow, hang
up the target and whang away without
intelligence. The following rules will
apply to all and every locality:
Don't attempt 10 hold the bow in both
hands when you shoot
If you shoot over the target, lower it;
If you shoot under il, have it elevated.
When you miss the target and plow n
furrow along n boys scalp, tally two
one for the scalp and one for the boy.
Either close both eyes or keep both
open when you shoot. Some favor one
method and some the other but odds 10
the difference as long as your father en-
ploys a glazier by the month.
Don't attempt a curve shot. The AZ
row is as apt 10 come down on the baby's
head as elsewhere.
Some girls squint up one eye and hang
out their tongue when they pull the
bow. This is not absolutely necessary 20
line shot, though il does look romantic.
There is no particular distance 20 30
observed, but the nearer the target you
stand the more chance you have Of hit
ting some ono across tho street in tho
eye.
A center shot is called a "dufer;"
missing the target is termed n clone
hand" hitting the horse-bnrn is known
as "phoopee" missing the barn and
shooting your aunt's spectacles off her
nose is called "Tom-tom% shooting
across young mans shoulder is known
as " snufiles;" sitting down and shooting
backward over your head is known an
"blufiing the game" and holding a spy
glass up TO get a line shot is called
" mashing the mark"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-16
Arteslan Wells.

San Francisco is largely supplied with
water by artesian wells, of which IL Is
said there are not less than two hundred
in the city. While in London and else
where il has been observed that the sup
ply Of each well decreased in proportion
to the increase in the number of wells,
such an effect has not been observed in
San Francisco. In some of them the
water is reached at a very small depth.
One Of the hotels is supplied by well
thirty-eight feet deep. Another has a
well sixty feet deep, furnishing six thou
sand gallons Of water per day. A candle
factory has a well one hundred and
si1ty-eight feet deep, which gives a sup
ply of ten thousand gallons per hour.
The Chronicle has been putting up a
building, for which new well Is being
bored, which is expected TO supply eight
thousand gallons per day. One reason
for the large number Of artesian wells in
the city has been the extortionate rates
charged for water by the corporation
through which the city has received its
supply. Like nearly all the corporations
of California, these water companies
have exhibited an insolent and rapacioua
disposition.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-16
Graphic Description OF a COnfagratiOn
in the Mountains.

lto1dNtLle Noufler.l
The fire originated in the lower end of
the first dry gulch south of the Pawnee,
near Browns charcoal camp. A burner
named Thompson raked a few bright
embers from his fiery pit from the open
ing, into pile of dry leaves near by,
which quickly ignited, and in less time
than it takes to tell it the flames stole
along the ground like the wind scud
that precedes a tornado, gathering force
with its progress and soon developing
into huge billow of fire, leaping from
the tiny grass blades to the thicker
underbrush, and thence climbing TO the
very topmost boughs of the giant trees
of the forest, for a moment bathing
them in a lurid, life-destroying flame,
then leaving them clothed in weeds of
blackened mourning and desOlatiOn.
The fire began at forty minutes past
two o'clock yesterday afternoon, and by
| five o'clock, at which time a Chronicle
reporter appeared upon the scene, tho
swath of the flame was probably two
miles in width, the wind directing the
fire southwark in tho direction of Iowa
! Gulch, and eastward toward Bald Noun
tain-Georgia Gulch on the north, and
the first ridge this side of Iowa Gulch
bounding its course.
A grander spectacle was never wit
messed on earth, Over the scene hung a
dense volume of parti-colored smoke
bluish-green, greenish-yellow, light and
dark blue, gray and black-the whole
blending in an atmosphere that fancy
pictures hell in. In the center of the
grim canopy a column black as night, and
perhaps twenty feet in circumference,
was carried far above the main mass by
an eddy caused by the intensity of tho
heat, very much resembling a water
spout at sea. Like a huge anaconda the
great column, in the shape of an inverted
cone, wound its way up through the
brighter elements and lost itself in the
clouds, forming a striking and awe-in-
spring feature of the awful spectacle.
Beautiful beyond the power of pen to
describe was the confagration at its
height The flames seemed to roll like
an ocean billow, and TO roar as never did
the sea-leaping from one cluster of
trees to another, ravishing each of its
verdant foliage in manner as erratic as
certain, sometimes climbing from tho
topmost projection down TO the base,
again commencing at the roots and
whirling through its every branch TO the
top, the work of total destruction scarcely
consuming moro than fifteen seconds Of
time to each tree.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-16
Feminine Loves and Hates.


In the world of unseen influences wo-
men play by far the most important
part. Their loves and hates, their fanat-
icism and jealousy have been from time
immemoriaI forces in human history
which act but are hot registered; and
when we think of the things that women
do we seldom add that hidden wire-pull-
ing by which we poor mannikins are
made to dance, that secret tanning by
which the fire is kept alive. In the
pretty little boudoir, with its silken
hangings and Satsuma China, sits the
lady whose favors one man has sighted
and one desires to win, or perhaps has
already gained, so that claim is estab-
lished and 4 source of secret influence
opened when she wishes to spite foe or
befriend a lover. To the uninitiated,
who only see and who don't understand,
those long tete-a-tetes betoken mar
velous fund of pleasant conversation;
to the suspicious they mean finding more
than the whites of each others eyes
pretty to look at; but if ever the true
history of any event could be written,
with Asmodeus as the editor, we should
find that the wheel of fortune had been
finally turned in that blue-lined boudolr,
and that between compliments and ca
resses, the war which made thousands of
homes desolate, had been potentially de
cided on-the primary cause, perhaps, OF
no more public gravity than the pique
of an angry woman, or the greed of an
ambitious one, acting on the momentary
fancy of the then master of the situ&-
ton. Nowhere, indeed; have women
more of this secret kind of influence
than in that very domain whence they
seem to be excluded. Shut out from
open participation in politics, they re
venge themselves by practically mould
ing what they are forbidden to design;
and in all save technical details and the
hard work of arrangement, their inhu-
ence does as much as, and even more
than, the direct action of man. This is
eminently true of foreign politics, and
the influence there of certain highly
placed women who, like so many rats
with their tails, do and do and do "
things in the dark which never come out
into the Light
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Grains Of Gold.

Other mems pains are easily borne.
We disjoint the mind like the body.
Pray devoutly and h Immer on stoutly.
He who wants little has always
enough.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes
open.
If Ounce is short CT some faults, he
only did not know how TO acquire them.
Nirture pardons the wicked, as the
sandal tree perfumes the AK that
strikes it.
Surely half the world must be blind;
they can see nothing unless il gliiterE
Heavens gates are wide enough 70 adj
NIT every sinner in the universe who is
penitent.
The passion Of acquiring riches In
order to support a vain expense corrupts
the purest souls.
One life; a little CLEAN Of time be-
tween two eternities; no second chance
for us forevermore.
Calumny and detraction are but sparks
which, If you do not blow them, will 20
| out OF themselves.
The wealthy miser lives as a poor man
here, but he must give account as a rich
man on the day of Judgment.
Never tell man that he is a fool; in
tho first place he will not believe you,
and in the second place you make him
your enemy.
To think kindly Of each other is good T;
TO speak kindly of each other Is better;
but to act kindly one towards another is
best of all
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THE last thing that a man wants to do

THE last thing that a man wants to do
Is the very last thing he does-die.
IGNORANCE has no light; error follows
false one.
A FINE coat may cover a fool, but
never cOnceals one.
THERE is no grief like the grief which
does not speak.
HE who blackens others does not
whiten himself.
THE Chinese are said to have used
beer four thousand years
, A'SUFF on the wrist is worth two on
the ear.-Anleriodn Punch.
THE way some farmers put up corn is
shocking.-Nel0 York Herald.
IT'S poor land that can't hold its sown.
| Cincinnati Commercial.
"A BAD little boyScalls himself Com$
pass, because he is boxed so often.
A DRAFT will bring ON cold, cure 8
cold, and pay the doctors bill.
IN the vegetable race, who ever saw
the tomato ketchup2
A DAVENPORT lady is about to sue
for divorce on the ground that her
husband q has no style about him p
KEEP your eyes open while travelling.
Better let in a cinder or two than moth
ing at all.
JANE PIE, of Columbus, attempted to
drown herself because she could not get
enough watermelon to eat.
In this season every young lady will
take the veil, unless she has a prefer
ence for freckles.
THE day after the recent tornado in
New England, Boston firm sold sixteen
thousand panes of glass.
CLARK County, Miss, has formally
declared for JEFF Davis for United States
Senator to succeed Senator Bruce.
THE Albany journal knows of a Mrs.
Shoddy who invited friend to come and
see her horse and phantom.
THERE is one kind of canned goods
that goes off quicker than any other
Gunpowder.
A MAN may be so wrapped up in
science that he forgets all things else,
but he never fools with electricity and
powder more than once.
COOKING soda, dissolved in water to
saturation, is as fatal to potato-bugs as
Paris green. The Newburyport Herald
knows this to be fact
MAJ. POOLE, of Tallahassee, Florida,
set tray of popcorn in the sun re-
Gently, ana N a few minutes the corn
popped as if over fire.
Two naked cherubs, over the portal of
a new courthouse at Rockford, Ill, so
offended the moral sense of the city that
they were chiseled off.
Do ladies use hair powder when they
blast their hair? and what kind of powder
does a man use when he "blasts his
eyesT
The contented rustic. "Well, Peter,
your crops must be ruined by this un-
timely rainT' eyes, your honor, but
thank Heaven. so are the neighbors'
IT was Sidney Smith who retorted
upon some one who called him an every
day man: "Well, if am an everyday
man, you are week one"
PHILADELPHIA steps to the front with
an affidavit that a hogshead of molasses
is liable to explode any time in hot
weather.
Ma
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-16
FAITH.
BY CELIA THAXTER.

Fain would hold my lamp of life aloft
Like yOnder tower built high above the reef;
Steadfast though tempests winds blow soft,
Clear, though the sky dissolve in tears Of grief.
For darkness passes; storm shall not abide.
A little patience and the fog is past.
After the sorrow of the sbbing tide
The singing flood returns in Joy at last.
The night is long and pain weighs heavily;
But God will hold His world above despair.
Look to the East, where up the lucid sky
4he morning climbsl The day shall yet be fairi
-ScTibJleT'S MOnttGy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-16
SHE was a modest little girl,
Her name was Matte Gordon,
But OF the fire she poured some oil,
And she's sailed the river Jordan.


NAVY blue parasols arc getting to be
all the rage. The rage is confined prin-
cipally to the husbands who have to pay
for them.-Nel0 York Star.
"CUNNING men," says Josh Billings,
always git beat in the long run, because
they are Just az dull on one side az they
are sharp on the other"
GEORGE WASHINGTON made but one
pun in all his life. And forgot that be-
fore he could tell it. This is what endears
his memory to the American people.
LOUIS KossUTH says that there are
only two countries in Europe where the
word home" is thoroughly understood,
namely, England and Hungary.
THE boy who says it's "my turn" as
the short-cake is being passed, rarely
makes the same remark when the moving
machine knives have to be ground after
dinner.-Mardthon Independent
WHEN you meet lady in company,
don't refer to the time when you used to
draw her to school forty-fve years ago.
You see if you do you give yourself
dead away.
BARON LIONEL DE RoTHsCHILD's
death will be a profitable event to the
British exchequer The probate duty
will amount to no less than S8S, SOC
(442, ,500). The duty is $4,000 on the
first million and e15,000 for every mil
lion afterward. This is only payable,
however, on personally within English
Jurisdiction.
FOUR Waterloo officers died last year
Any survivors must now be at least
seventy-six. Up to the death of "the
duke" the gathering of veterans for the
banquet he always gave on the ami
versary was one of the events of the Lon
don season, and an immense crowd al
ways assembled outside Apsley House to
see them arrive.
A CONDUCTOR on local train saw a
lady friend, sweet-looking young girl,
on his train, and stopped for a moment
TO chat with her. He leaned on the arm
Of the seat in front, occupied by a near
sighted, rather deaf old maid, with cork
screw curls. The conductor hadn't spoke
more than two words before the occupant
of the front seat yelled in voice that
sounded through the car like a base
drum: "Young man, if you want tG
hirt with me you've got to speak louder. %
oil City Derrick.
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A Struggle With a Mad Dog.

lLittle hock lArEl daHette
Near Gold Greek, Faulkner County,
and about seven miles from the river,
lives a man named Rhea, a farmer on q
small scale. Last Monday evening,
while Rhea and his wife were sitting in
front of their door, two dogs jumped
over the fence and ran under the house,
At first very little notice was taken of
the animals, their being several fox
hunters in the neighborhood, and the
Rheas supposed that the dogs be-
longed to them, but presently a
terrific bowling and fighting began, inso-
much that Rhea threw chips and pieces
of wood under the house. The howling
and fighting continued for some time,
when one of the dogs darted out, leaped
the fence and ran away. The other dog,
large brindle, of decidedly ugly type,
followed as far as the fence but stopped,
turned around and started toward Rhea
with mouth half open. Rhea stopped
and picked up an old churn-dasher lying
on a stump, and as the dog sprang at him
struck the beast over the head. Stunned,
the animal recoiled, but only for mo-
ment, for he sprang again before Rhea
had time to prepare himself. Graphing
the dog by the throat, and holding his
mouth as far away as possible, desper-
ate struggle began. The dogs eyes
glared, and his mouth emitted that froth
only known to hydrophobia. Mrs. Rhea
ran into the house and soon returned
with a case-knife, which she handed TO
her husband, Then the combat deep
ened." The blunt-pointed and dull
pointed weapon went time and time
against the animals throat without draw
ing blood or lessening his fury. The
strong grasp of the man kept his teeth
away, but such grip could not last long.
Again the woman entered the house, and
this time returned with a shotgun.
Cooking it aud rushing up to the dog,
che placed the muzzle close to the sai-
mails flanks and fired. There was Il D.
den give way, and seemingly additi- 4al
glare of the eyes, but no sound. Taking
advantage of the first shot, the gun was
again fired, and the animal fell over
dead. Reports of mad dogs come from
all over the country, and every one
should be on the lookout.
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