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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-09

1t is generally taken for granted
that pan ents love their offspring; yet
the care and anxiety most parents
feel for their families quite over
shadow their consciousness of lov
ing them, and they fall back upon a
sense OF duty and obligation and re-
sponsibility that, however it may
stimulate them to perform the act
ual exterior demands made on them,
renders all their labor vain. This
sense of duty is not the highest of
motives. It is all very well TO re
quire filial obedience and submis-
sion from children because it is
their duty to render it; but when
they are lifted into the higher at
mosphere OF absorbing love for the
parent, the sense Of duty, that fros-
ty motive will be no longer needed
IL do not love my mother one parti-
Gle" said a middle aged man the
other day, simply because she nev
er loved me, She took care Of us
children-oh, yes-kept US clean,
taught US the Bible, prayed over us,
and cried over US; but we never felt
the warmth of a mothers tender
love. never went TO her with our lit
tie joys. IL is very different In my
family. If there is one thing that
nay children knuiw b b thAb 7 bOFS
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The unruly Member


We could not get on very well
without tongues, and yet we are
half inclined to wish that some peo-
pie would try the experiment. What
sets the world by the ears and
makes more actual sorrow than all
the bloodiest battle.flelds of history
is this everlasting ''cackle, cackel all
the day." This thing that you are
asked not to tell, burns, boils. bub
bles, seethes in your mouth, and
just for the sake of temporary re-
lief you tell it to your dearest friend
with the most solemn injunction not
to breathe it for thousand worlds.
But it is just like seidlitz powder in
his soul, IN full effervescence. He
cannot endure the trust, and so
shares 1t with others. If Edison
could only invent u paddock which
would keep a secret shut up safely
he would bring the millennium on
at once. Over-exertion of the tongue
is the real reason OF half the ills Of
life
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COPY OF the Detroit Free Press.

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Fragments Of Nashvills's Early
History.

Nashville Banner: In 1918 tn,
first steamboat arrived in this port
IL bore the name of ANDREW Jack
son."
The first dry goods store in Nash
vile was opened by Lardner CLARK
in 1856.
In IS4S the First Presbyterian
| Church was a second time destroyed
by fire.
The water works commenced op-
Grafton in 1882.
In the early settlement OF Nash
vile the dead were buried in the
Sulphur Spring bottom.
The asylum for the blind wos es-
tabl,shed in 1874.
The City Cemetery was first used
as a place for interments in 1882.
A Geographic dispatch from Lou
isville to Nashville was the first re
ceived here. 1t was sent over Reil-
ley's line In IS4S.
The Nashville Gas Company was
organized in 1849.
Nashville was first called Nash
boro.' in honor of General Francis
Nash. In 1888, by the acts of the
North Carolina Assembly, the name
was changed from Nashboro' to
Nashville.
The corner stone Of the capitol
was laid on the Fourth Of July, 1915
Robert B. Currey was the first
Postmaster of which there is any
record. He was appointed by Pres
Ident jefferson in 1901, and was re-
tanned by President Madison during
his two terms, and also by President
Monroe, serving in all twenty-four
consecutive years.
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A Scathing Epistls Regarding the
Matter from the Late President
Of the Bank.


John Thompson, ESQ.,, late Presi
dent of the First National Bank, has
addressed the following letter TO the
editor of the New York Sun, which,
in view of the present complication
about the unwarrsnted Treasury de
posit made in that bank by John
Sherman, will be found OF absorb
ing interest:
Dear Sir-A few months ago the
First National Bank OF this city
suddenly changed hands, and sew
eral gentlemen who are well known
to have been intimate with officers
of the General Government and es
pecially with the "cminent states
man" who auperintended the oper
ations OF the Louisiana Returning
Board. became it's proprietors.
From the time this change of pro.
rrietorship took place in the bank
there seems TO have been a myste
rious good luck attending its trans
actions, as marked as that OF said
Returning Board. The bank has
suddenly become almost exclusively
the very fortunate recipient of Gov
eminent favors to the amount Of
forty five million dollars, without
interest. Suppose we examine for
moment and see what this parti-
ality amounts to. This bank is
made depository of the Govern
ment funds with power to receive
subscriptions TO the Government
four per cent. loan. 1t is allowed
commission of thirty FIVE cents on
each hundred dollars, when the
amount of subscriptions shall ex-
ceed ten millions, or So. 800 on every
ten million subscriptions. Now,
simply by entering on the books of
the bank to the credit of the Treas
ury any given sum, and sending an
order to the Secretary for that
amount IN four per cent bonds,
under his rules the bank would be
entitled TO have the interest on them
from that date, and not one dollar
of money need be paid to the Gov
ernment by the bank.
A little calculation will show
what an erroneous privilege this is,
and just where the little joker
comes in. 1t is more than worthy
of that ''eminent statesman" who
successfully managed the returning
board. 1t is not necessary to con
vert these four per cent. bonds into
money, or to run any risk of loan
ing out money on call to ordinary
borrowers, or TO risk the failure OF
banks upon which checks would be
drawn in payment, or to examine to
see if he securities offered for loans
are all present and genuine. No;
this operation is q clean cut. 1t is
a nutshell. The first National Bank
of New York receives forty five mil
lions in Government bonds from
the Secretary of the Treasury. with
fifteen thousand seven hundred and
fifty dollars for commissions. The
bonds may then be securely lald
away in the vaults of the bank and
every six months the bank can cut
off the coupons and draw from the
United States Treasury two per
cent. in gold, or nine hundred
thousand every six months, with
out paying one cent of money TO
the Government or doing anything
more than just keeping the bonds.
Now, if this is not one of the
completest speculations, will some
one invent better?
Respectfully yours,
JOHN THOMPSON.
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A New Proposition.

Men and women tell us almost daily
they would like to take the CITIZEN, but
they are too poor. Therefore we make
this offer: Widows and destitute, home
less men with families, shall have 25 per
cent. discount from the regular price il
they are really and truly hard pressed.
We make this offer in all sincerity with
no intention to offend, and we cordially
invite all such to avail themselves of it.
We are anxious to put the CITIZEN into
she hands of every family in Giles eoun-
ty, and no one shall have an excuse il
we can possibly help it. If you haven't
got the money bring us something to
eat at the market price.
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them, and whatI do for them is not
from a sense of parental duty but
because they are infinitely dear 20
me. And such children as they
are-so affectionate, so obedient, so
happyT The teacher who is so
wise and so fortunate as to win the
love of his pupils has little Difficult
ty in enforcing order or securing
the highest grade of intellectual la
Dor Of which they are capable. In
order to gain their love, however, he
must first love them; for only love
vans love. So with the employer.
IL he can convince those in his EN-
ploy that he bears 70 them good
will, kindness, a sincere desire to
promote their welfare, they will
give him fidelity and thorough
ness of service that no wages could
secure.-Excha
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OF things is the unquestIonable fact
that the present crop is oyerwhelm-
ingly large, and a very considerable
proportion OF it is still in the plan
ters' hands. Ii is at once evident,
then that any material advances in
cotton is highly improbable if not
impossible. On the contrary. If the
large amount of the staple in first
hands continues to be withheld
from the market as the spri1g ad-
vances, when the farmers must sell
to equip themselves for another
crop, and the whole mass is rushed
forward. there is danger of q still
greater reaction aud decline. We
repeat, therefore, the deliberate adj
vice given our farming friends some
weeks ago to sell their cotton with
the least delay possible. Those
who did so at the time are gamers
by fully one cent per pound. 1t is
true the price is ernehy low, but
TIE same decline has taken place in
the value of meat, -four, clothing,
and all the necessaries of life, SO
that the hardship is more apparent
than real. Then again, it should
be considered that the wages of
farm hands must shrink in the
same ratio, SO that the cost Of rails
ing cotton next year will be greatly
diminished. The holding back of
the present crop is also iDjuring the
mercantile interests of the country
very much. In all directions we
hear the complaint of dull times
and slack trade at this, the busiest
season of the year. Very soon the
merchant will be- called upon to
meet the obligations incurred in
the fall, aud how can he do so if
his goods remain unsold9 Cotton
is the great medium of exchange in
this portion of the Union, and
VIXEN it ceases to move, the wheels
of commerce stop revolving iDstan-
ter BY every consideration then,
of public as well as private interest,
our planters should no longer with
hold their crops from market, but
sell as fast as they can deliver 1t.
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of who shall be president in 1880 is
regarded as one of immense impor-
tance to the people of the country.
but to orr mind, its Importance
paies into utter insignificance in
the presence of that other question
now pressing for an answer at the
bar of public opinion-shall we
have a God2 Whatever may come
we can feel no uneasiness for the
church OF Christ, for He said "the
gates of hell shall not prevail
against It," and although society
shall rock to its very foundation,
and even the elect shall barely es-
cape deception, we know that His
kingdom is an everlasting king
dom" and cannot fall. But we
plead for society-for good govern
ment- for peace and order, and we
feel perfectly assured that where
society knows no God, it cannot en-
JOY thesea abIessings.-[W Williamson
County (TeXas) Sun.
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ADANGERoUs CLASS.
The Lawyers Getting Everything
Into Their Hands Some
Startling Figures.
sss Lawyer. TO 1onot Lawyers.

New York graphic: The good
lawyer is as necessary as the ply
sician, the clergyman end the jour
nalist, who try to diminish the dis
ease, sin and ignorance of the race.
We would by no means advocate
the abolition OF the legal profession
or the serious reduction of its men,
bership. But, as the Graphic has
repeatedly shown, lawyers are be-
fore the eyes of the people more
than any other profession; they are
arguing, pleading, demanding and
devising methods always, and they
have peculiar and unequaled faeilI-
ties for securing public offices of
profit and trust. The natural re-
suit of this is, that there are far too
many lawyers in this country. lesFl
The last three words Of ourip
osition are important. In noaother
country is any such prominence
conceded to lawyers as IN this. 1t
would be thought wildly extrava-
CANT assertion if we were to say
that more than half of all the i'm
portant Offices in the United States
are held by lawyers; yet the state
ment would be far within the mark.
We have taken the trouble to as
certain the proportion of lawyers
in the present Congress. Accor-
ding to proportion in the legisla
tive bodies of other countries, the
number should be comparatively
small-not more than one-sixth of
the whole, but it is so much more
than this as to startle US with the
possibility which confronts US, that
the day is not distant when nobody
but lawyer will be deemed ct for
an elective Office.
In the United States Senate, for
instance, are fifty eight lawyers
aud only twenty OF all other profes
sions and occupations. From the
States of Alabama q, California, Della
ware, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois.
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisi
ana, Matte, Massachusetts, Mime
sofa, New York, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas.
and Wisconsin the Senators are ali
lawyers rs-no other profession or oc
cupatiun is represented at all in ali
those great States. Only two small
States found both their Senators
outside of the legal profession
New Jersey and Rhode Island
The States are included in Ell
ther of these vlassiicatio1 rs send to
the Senate one lawyer and one who
is not a lawyer. Here we find al
most three fourths of the members
of the United States Senate law
yers, in a country where lawyers
form an insignificant proportion oil
the population. and, in spite of the
fact that, living by ambiguitie and
of law, they are dis
qualified for making laws impair
TALLY.
In the House OF representatives
it is nearly as bad. We have ar
ranged table OF members fron the
different States by districts, figure
one standing for lawyer, and the
cipher for man of some other oc-
upation--the cipher designating
them pretty accurately, for they are
too few to be of much account in
this lawyer-ridden Congress. This
interesting classification is as fol |
lows:
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The South.

Here is q proof of Southern
peace and prosperity mentioned by
the Pittsburg Post that MulligaD
Blaine and the balance of his un-
happy bulldozers might give little
attention to if they would. 1t
would look well in their book of
Southern Investigations, that they
are greedy to get up. 1t proves, as
the Post says, that the relations of
the two races are friendly and self
helping. Here it is:
The cotton crop OF 1878, emnla-
ting the gigantic result shown by
the cereals of the North, is grea;er
than in any previous year. The
aggregate of bales reaches the
grand total of 5,197, 900, an enor
nous increase over the average OF
the years since the war, and q great
deal more than in any one year be-
fore that time. The crop marketed
in 1859-60 was estimated at 1861,
292 bales, but the war then began,
and in 1865 sc the product was but
1869, 316 bales, a decrease OF more
than half. From that low water
mark the figures have slowly but
steadily risen to the present maxi
mum. Moreover, while the acreage
mas been somewhat extended, the
has been more thorough.
for the yield per acre has risen
from an average OF about $50
pounds last year to l9I the present
season. This is a fair showing for
labor and capital. 1t is
worth a thousand of Biaine's intim-
dation aud outrage fictions. 1t is
the argument Of dollars and cents:
abor and industry; Of contentment
and prosperity.
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DON'T STOP NY PAPER.

Don Z stop my paper, printer,
Don't strike my name of yet;
You know the times are stringent,
And dollars are hard TO get;
But tug little harder
is what mean to do,
And scrape the dimes together,
Enough for me and you.
can't afford to drop it;
fndit doesn't pay
To do without a paper,
However others may.
hate to ask m neIRhbors
To grve me theirs on loan;
They don't just say, but mean it,
Why don't you have your ownf
You can't tell how we miss il,
If it. by any Iate,
Should happen not to reach US,
Or comes little late;
Then all is in hubbub,
And things go all awry,
And, printer, if you're married
You know the reason why.
cannot do without it, f-
lt is no use to try,
For other people takeit,
And. printer, so must /,
Il 100, must keep me posted,
And know is going on,
Or feel, ard be accounted
A iogY simpleton.
Then, take It kindly, printer,
If pay be somewhat slow,
For cash is Lot so plenty,
And wants not few, you know.
But must have my paper,
Cost what it may To me,
I'd rather dock my sugar,
"a Anddo without my tea.
So. printer, don't you stopit it,
Unless you want t"y frown,
For here's the years. su oscription,
And credit it right down,
And send the paper promptly
And regularly on,
And letft bring US weekly.
Its we leOmed benson.
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Somebody could pay a years sub
scription just now, or a half years II
they prefer, I'm sweet potSt0es, at the
market cash price. Somebody else could
pay another year or half year In Irish
potatoes. Somebody else could do the
same in stove wood. Somebody else
could do the same In chickens. Some
body else could do the same In hams.
Somebody else could do the same In
-four, meal, wheat, corn, hay, fodder,
old scraps Of iron, clean cotton rags,
dried fruit, sc. The first three how,
ever are imperative necessities. They
MUST come. -,
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Here we have the surprising re-
suit. of 223 lawyers and only &c
who are not lawyers! More than
three fourths OF the wholel Della
ware, Minnesota and Nebraska
stand quite alone without lawy ers
in the House, but they have only
five members between them, while
Michigan presents platoon of
nine lawyers, Mississippi six and
Name five, without any adHltera
tion from other occupations. Ala
bama, North Carolina. and Wiscon-
sin have each seven lawyers and
only one other member; and Hi
nOis has solid phalanx of seven
teen lawyers and only two members
from all other occupations. There
Is danger in such a state of things.
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u HtA
NEw York, Dec. l7.-Dr. Mary
Walker comes TO the front with the
latest -'trne VersionSof the Charlie
Ross story She says that when he
disappeared she hastened TO his pa
rents and gave them not only CON
dolence bit also money and her
personal efforts 20 fathom the mys-
terry. She lived in the family for
some time. She stumbled across a
bit OF information that led her TO
believe that all was not right, and
she finally discovered that Charles
father had put him ont TO board
with a family who were in the con-
Spiracy. She says she did not ex-
pose the fraud, because il took her
many months TO find out where the
boy was kept. She claims that Ross
has made large sum OF money out
of the sympathies OF the public, and
that he has offered to pay her hand
soInely il she would keep her kn1wl-
edge to herself. The boy would
have been discovered long ago, aud,
indeed arrangements we're once
made TO have the boy foun at st.
Albans, VT, but it was known that
she would expose the whole farce,
and so ne has been kept secluded.
She says that within three weeks
she has seen and spoken with the
child, and that she is acquainted
with his entire history since the
supposed abduction. She will pub
lish book in two or three weeks
containing the complete story OF
what she calls the greatest hoax
ever perpetrated upon the American
people, a good many people have
given considerable credcnce to DIR.
Mary's story, while others think IL
is shrewd device for raising the
wind in a forthcoming literary eff
| fort.
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Montgomery Advertiser: The
Congressional Committee on public
expenditures recently discovered
that $4,000 had been paid for type
tor the government printing Office
since April last, and 33 per cent.
more has been paid for it than indi-
viduals pay. OF course we infer
that there was"multipiication, addi
tion, and division" in the case. On
the Goth inst, testimony was sub
United to the committee that the
government had bought nine sew
ing machines at 81, 500 each. AS
the price of sewing machines has
lately been reduced one half, and
800 will purchase an ornamental
machine. it follows that in the pay
ment of 81 800 each tor nine ma
chimes, the government was cut
about ST. 400 each, while somebody
must have been ''ln" about as
much. Civil service reform has
been abandoned by the Republican
party, and Mr.. Hayes has been
driven from his position in that
matter. The old rings appear to
be quite thrifty in these dull times.