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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
On the Edge of journalism.

The edge of journalism is begirt
with innumerable aspirants. Every
man and a great many women
think that the only qualification
for journalism is that which is nee
essary IN writing a private letter.
1t is the commonest thing in the
world for people who have never
once welded the pen professionally
to imagine that they would make
first class European correspondents
for influential journals. 1t is the
commOnest thing in the world for a
young lady who has never indited
anything more weighty than a note
of invitation or acceptance, to think
that book reviewing and editorial
writing can be picked up in a mo-
ment. The truth is, that even in
different writing in these respects
is not the result of a weeks study;
and that excellent writing in any
important sphere of journalistic la
Dor is the slow-coming consequence
of years of trial and development.
Few things are more sadly amusing
than to watch the dreary failures
that are made. 1t is hard to i'm
press upon those who tremble on
the edge of journalism that, after
all, the ladder they would climb is
a steep one, with many rungs.-
They will not be persuaded, though
one rose from the dead to convince
them, and sooner or later are swal-
low ed up in the pitiless vortex of
bohemia.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

ry Robson, 1t says that during
Secretary Robeson's administration
there disappeared from the navy
register the names of seventy yes
sells which were lost at sea, forty
six which were sold and the proceeds
paid into the treasury, three were
sold and their proceeds paid over
to contractors, and twenty were de-
stroyed by order of Mr.. Robeson,
and the materials cut up and paid
over or credited to contractors. Of
this destroyed property, which cost
the government one hundred mil
lions, but is credited at only fifty
millions, we have an expenditure,
curing eight years, of over two hun
dred and thirty two millions. The
property sold and disposed of
would certainly have yielded rev
enue of twenty million dollars to
any prudent private individual; in
fact, the government received for it
less than two million dollars. Now,
subtracting from the annual appro-
priations for the navy the sums ap
piled to It's maintenance, it is found
that over sixty one million dollars
were applied to construction, equip
ment and armament. This makes
nearly sixty-five millions; and if ap-
piled to the building of war vessels,
would have given us seventy new
vessels like the Trenton, one of the
best in the navy-a number suffi-
clent to make the navy at once re-
spectacle and useful. Inquiring
next whether the laws enacted
for the government of the naval
service and the protection of the
government interests have been OBJ
served. the committee say they are
constrained by the facts and their
sense of duty to the house and the
country to answer that these laws
have not been observed or obeyed,
but on the contrary have been dis
regarded and violated; and they
further answer that large sums of
the public money and large quanti-
ties of public property have been,
in the administration of the naval |
service, illegally disposed of. A
number of instances are declared |
to be violations of the law, among
which are the disregarded law re-
quiring supplies to be purchased |
from the lowest bidder, and that re
quiring the proposal to be accom-
panied by a written guarantee and |
sureties, which the report states |
has been wholly ignored in |
over eight hundred and fifty
cases; the provisions of the law
that no contract shall be |
made unless authorized by law or
under an appropriation adequate to
its fulfillment, have been violated in
contracts for rebuilding the Mon
Miantonamah, Amphitrite
and Puritan; the law fodbidding |
advance payments in excess of
work done or prior to the delivery |
of material, has been disregarded |
in the delivery of material to Roach |
and others; the law prohibiting any |
from exceeding appro-
priations made by law is declared |
to have been disregarded, and the
report goes on at considerable |
length asserting similar disregard |
of the laws.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
Can't Pay.

We recently commented upon the
excellent words of Governor Por-
ter, of Tennessee, in which he ex
pressed the opinion that the people
of that State are able to pay and
should pay it's entire debt. We are
sorry that his term has expired,
and that he is succeeded by Gov
ernor Marks, who says that the
people can't pay. The taxpayers
are too poor to pay the interest on
the nominal debt of the State: aud
if the Legislature undertakes to
adopt any plan of settlement with
the bondholders, it must be under
stood that nothing shall be con
sidered as binding until the plan
is submitted to the people for rati-
fication, and has by them been rati
fed. This is about the substance
of what Governor Marks has to say.
Is it, then, fact that Tennessee
can't pay, provided the people had
the will to pay? Not at all. What
the bondholders want, and should
have, is the interest on their bonds.
and also the principal when the
bonds mature. The back interest
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
Grand Larceny.

There was Il clear case of grand
larceny, in the immediate vicinity OF
Sardis, this week, and yet no arrests
were made, and neither Mayor, Mar
shall, sheriff or Justice moved a fin =
ger to prevent the success OF the
daring deed. The larceny was COM
mitted by Tennessean, and this Is
the third or fourth time such acts
have been committed here by the
bold sons of our sister State. We
should think the Sardis boys
would ..rut head" on such tres
passers, and we would say to the
Young men of Tennessee that the
thing must stop right here where 1t
is. So far from arrestiag anybody,
the Cornet Band actually gave the
party musical send of. For further
particulars, notice our Hymenial
column Pamela MISS } Star.
Elwood Lacey was the thief.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

now amounts to about four millions
of dollars, and had the Legislature
taxed the people as the people of
other States are taxed, there would
have been no back interest. The
interest has accumulated from year
to year simply because there has
been no provision made for its
payment; and this is due to the
fact not of absolute inability, but a
want of disposition to make the
payment, and this want is just the
present difficulty. The report of
the comptroller, recently made,
places the aggregate assessed valu
alton of the property of the State
at 1928, ,2l2,1 153, which is probably
less by at least a hundred millions
of dollars than the real value. For
State, with such q valuation, to
say that it cannot pay the interest
on about twenty millions of dollars
is to insult common sense. No
body believes it. The people of
Tennessee themselves don't be-
lieve it. s.lltf
If we compare the rate of taxa
tion in Tennessee with that of 9th
er States, we shall come to the
same conclusion. The rate in Ten
nessee In 1877 was ten cents on
one hundred dollars. In Georgia
and Virginia it was fifty cents, IN
Mississippi, sixty-five cents; in Ala
bama, seventy cents; in Florida
ninety cents; in Arkansas, one dol
lar; and in Louisiana, one dollar
and forty five cents. How happens
it that Tennessee is so much poorer
than these other States, where tax
es in 1877 were much higher? Her
rate of taxation is exceedingly low,
as compared with that in most of
the other States of the Union. She
has only to bring herself up to
something like their level, and all
her difficulty about the funds with
which to pay the interest on her
debt will speedily disappear.
No, Governor Marks, this ''can't
pay" doctrine will not do. 1t Is an
old disguise and in this case alto
gether too thin to pass muster
among sensible people. The figures
contradict the statement, and prove
that Tennessee can pay, :e she will.
What she wants is the will; and if
she declines to have this, then let
her have the courage, without any
or wry faces, to take the
obloquy and the shame which a
just public sentiment will heap
upon her. Repudiators and rogues
must carry their own ear-marks.-
New York Independent.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
Mysterious Murder at Jackson, Tenn,

The jackson Whig of the 31st
says that John A. Anderson, an old
citizen of that place, was murdered
Wednesday, just outside the cor
porate limits. An examination by
the coroner's jury revealed two
wounds in the head, thought by
some to be made by a bayonet,
while his skull presented a mangled
mass of fractured bones. He had
on his person $43 so in money,
which shows that money was not
the object of the murder. He was
by his family to De at
Grand Junction, but was seen by
some of our citizens on Monday,
having arrived in the city by the
2.30 train, but it seems that he had
not been home, although found in
q grove within a few hundred yards
of his house.
This is the third mysterious
murder in Jackson.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

The school textbook business in
Indiana is a big thing. The Indi-
annapolis Journal shows that such
literature costs the 100000 pupils
of that State SO a head, and the
publishers make a clear profit of
75 per cent. on every book sold, so
per cent, of which is spent on
agents and school officers to get
the trade, and that so per cent.
amounts to $75O,000, which sum
can be saved to the people by
some very radical reform in the
method of supplying the common
schools with text books. In Cali
FORMS they have wrestled with this
subject for years, and tne regula-
ton now is that textbooks must
not be changed for tour years. In
most States the publishers get a
whack at the people every year. 1t
is a burdeusome tax Cour. Jour.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
THE YOUNG IDEA.
New and More Practical Methods
Of Teaching it How
to Shoot.
Excellent Sug sestiOns to Teachers.

At Buffalo last Friday evening
some excellent suggestions were
offered to the Teachers AssocIa-
ton by Miss Mary A. Ripley, of
the Buffalo Central School, on the
Importance of leading the pupils
mind cut of school into the current
affairs of the world. A few min
utes every day-twenty perhaps
should be given to a talk on these
subjects. The pupils thoughts
should be taken "out of Buffalo off
to Cyprus or A:ghanistan, or China
teaching him to be interested in
every part of the world, in its peo
pie, its government, its education,
its business. Whether he knows it
or not, he is very deeply interested
in the whole world. Humanity
hangs together ia such a way thai
if one member suffers, all the rest
suffer with it, Ten or twenty weeks
would be very delightfully."- spent in
making a school acquainted with
certain great statesmen who are
making their mark upon the Nine
teenth century. Look at Gladstone
and Bright, of England, rehearse
the wisdom of Carrur, and the pa
triotism of Victor Emmanuel; intro
duce them to Spain's great demo-
crat and orator, Emilio Castela;
make them feel that all nations
have a history worth knowing. -
This will widen a pupil: 1t will
give him a growing interest in hu-
manity. He should also be taught
to be a good citizen. "From a !
child's entry into school," said
Miss Ripley, 81 do not care what
his age may be, he ought to be un-
der training for citizenship. At six
years of age l should not expect |
him to philosophize much, but even
then, he could be made to under
stand that bridge, a public we'll, a
common planted with trees, meant
that somebody had earned a little |
more than he had consumed. -
While she thinks it a very good |
thing for boy to know about the |
the moons of Mars, sit is vastly |
more important for him to appre-
ciate intelligently the relations of
capital; the difference between mine |
and thine; the necessity for doing
his best work in whatever line his |
duties lie. Conscientious work, in
which the life of the worker reveals
its own beauty,'is the only labor
which the world will care to pre-
serve or to reward"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
AT THE GARDEN GATE.

They fingered at the garden gate
The moon was full above;
He took her darling hand in his,
The trembling little dove,
And pressed it 10 his fervent lips,
And softly told his love.
About her waist he placed his arm,
He called her all his own;
His heart, he said, it ever beat
For her, and her alone;
And he was happier than q king
Upon a golden throne.
"Come veal, come VICE." in ardent tones
This youth continued he,
GAS is the needle to the pole,
So l will constant be;
No power on earth shall tear thee, love,
Away, swear, from mep'
From out the chamber window popped
a grizzly night-caPped head;
A hoarse voice yelled, "You Susan Jane,
Come in and go to bedw
And that was all-it was enough,
The young man wildly fled.
Il Harper's Bazar.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
The Romance of Arithmetic.

"The most romantic of all num-
bers," says a writer in Chambers
Journal, ''is the figure nine, because
it can't be multiplied away, or got
got rid of anyhow. Whatever you
do, it is as sure to turn up again as
was the baby of Eugene Aram' vic
tim. One remarkable property of
this figure, (said to have been dis
covered: by Green, who died in
1794) is, that all through the multi
plication table the product comes
to nine. Multiply by what you like,
and it gives the same result. Be
gin with twice nine, IS; add the dig
its together, and l and 8 make 8.
three times are 81, and 2 and 7
make 9. So it goes on up TO eleven
times 9, which gives 80. Very
good; add the digits, 9 and 9 are Is,
and l and 8 are 9. Take a couple
of instances at random. Three hun
dred and thirty-nine times are
3O51, add up the figures and they
give 9. Five thousand and seven
t one times 9 are 45, $40; the sum
of these digits is 27; and 2 and 7
are 9 NJ. de Maivan found out an-
other queer thing about this num-
Der, namely, that il you take any
row Of figures, and reversing their
order, make a subtraction sum of it,
the total is sure to make nine"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
Cut this Quilt May Save Your
Life

There is no persen living but what
suffers more or less with Lung Disease,
Coughs, Colds or Consumption, yet
some would die rather than pay 75 cents
for bottle of medicine that would cure
them. DR.. a. Boschee's German Syrup
has been lately introduced in this coun-
try from Germany, and its wondrous
cures astonishes every one that try it.
If you doubt what we say in print, cut
this out and take it to your druggist,
Sumpter & Lacey, and get a sample bot
tie for 10 cents and try it, or regular
size for 70 cents. jun2l-eow-ly-l.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
The warden of the penitentiary

The Warden of the penitentiary
says IN his biennial report the larg
est number of convicts at any ore
time during the two years was
l,215; lowest number, 997; highest
at Nashville, $50; lowest, $50. OF
the 1,l53 there were 366 white
males, 757 black males, 6 white
females ard "a black females; A
married, 7O4 single; professors of
religion, 1O2; with trades, III;
without trades, 1,O06; good educa
tion, %; moderate, 70; limited, 129:
no eduction, 1896 Nine-tenths used
liquors before mprisonment.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

Every man in the Legislature
who fails to vote for the reduction
of his own salary in that body, at
ter cutting down the salary of
everybody else, should be remem-
bered in future by Uhe"dear people"
whose money they are pocketing.-
We don't think as a matter of right
that the salary of sOlons ought to
be reduced; but we do think they
ought to ply the pruning knife to
tn emselves as well other officials
T TClarksville Tobacco Leaf.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
Nashville Banner: 1t is a rema rk.

Nashville Banner: 1t is a rema rk-
able fact that during the present
term of the Criminal Court more
lawyers have been admitted to the
bar than there were criminals con
victed. Nashville is full of old and
young lawyers, and how til ey all
manage to make a living is ne of
those things which nobody c. an cor
rectly ascertain.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

The President has direc ted his
Cabinet officers to submit to him
the names of all important officers
under their respective dep; Irtments
which expire within the ensuing
thirty days, the object beiD g to send
in either new names or e-appoint
the old ones before the S. enate ad-
journs and passes into D emocratic
control. He apprehends. that he
may have some trouble alter March
4th next, with the. cOnfr nation of
the more important app ointments
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
Live Stock Premiums.

The RURAL SUN, Nashville, Tenn, is
offering a Cotswold buck, (S35.00,) a
Merino buck, ($25.O0,) a SOuthdown
buck, (S25.OO,) a Berkshire boar,
$4,000 and a pair of Poland-China
pigs, (S25.0O,) as premiums to canvass
ers. These animals are thorough-breds,
from the most noted fiOcks and herds in
the United States. Won't some OF our
county-men try and capture one of
them? Send to the RURAL Sun for
particulars, at once. apr25-1y
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
For the Citizen.J
Yes, ! Will Ever Think of Thee.
RY W. Il. WATSON.

Yes, will ever think of thee, my darling girl,
Though far in distant lands joyless roam,
Ny heart will ever turn to thee,
In thy far off southern home.
And when evening shades have gathered o'er,
And twinklIng stars bedeck the sky;
There will l bend at devotion's throne,
And breathe for thee tender sigh.
Think of theel Yes, though mid desert land
lay these weary bones to die,
I'd trace thy name upon the sands,
And fondly kiss it e'er die.
And when luna sheds her tranquil light,
And changes dark despair into day;
This loving heart to thee will turn
And long for thee when far away.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

Athens Post: When the Legisla
ture meeos again, recuperated by
the Temporary suspension of its ex-
haustive labors, let us hope that it
will give some attention to our de
fective road system. Here is field
IN which the mem bers may labor TO
the advantage of their respective
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

Washington Post: Mr.. Hayes
did not pay any money for the cleo
toral votes of Florida. In this he
is clear of guilt as Mr.. Tilden. But
Mr.. Hayes did pay, in offices, for the
votes Of more than one state. Right
here lies the disgusting difference
between the man who was robbed
and the beneficiary of the robbery.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

In the language of brother Nc
Nelly "The times are hard. an'i
particularly so with the printe r.
In short time we are going to
economic, by falling bak on turnip
greens and hog jowl. If we don't
make much we won't spend much.
With such economy we think we
can stand the storm till the wind
blows OYer'n
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

The New York Evening Post has
a long ana severe article on the re-
Gently enacted Pension bill, and
does not hesitate to say that SIT has
been pushed by politicians in order
to secure the favor and the votes OF
soldiers" 1t takes nearly eighty
million dollars from the Treasury,
just at the time Sherman wants it
all to resume with, too.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
Why Women are Always Busy.

Many women complain a great
deal, and not without cause, that
they have so much to do that the
days are never long enough; that
the darkness finds them with sun
dry duties undischarged. One
reason is, no doubt, that they are
not trained, as men are, or ought to
be, to concentration and continuity.
Another reason is, we suspect, their
habit of writing long letters to one
another, not on matters of conse-
Quence, but of no moment whatever.
A large number keep up correspon
dence with a dozen or more of their
feminine acquaintances-or friends,
if the term is preferred-and de-
vote a dozen or more score OF
hours a week to it. 1t is not as
tonishing how much the average
woman can write about nothing;
the endless details she can give in
regard to trifes, gossip, and the
like. 1t is not the young unmarried
alone who do this. The sex fre
uuently adhere to the time con-
suming custom long after they
have reached middle age and
become mothers of large fami-
lies. They will neglect things that
ought not to be deferred to inform
their country cousin of how they
enjoyed the last party or the new
opera, and sit up half the night TO
describe the final shred of the gown
just received from the modiste.
Men, as a rule, never write to one
another except on business, and are
usually very briefly. Women might
do the same-if they were not wo-
men. The typical woman can no
more be brief than she can be pro-
fame. Both brevity and profanity
are wholly unnatural to her. If she
wants to write letters; it is purely
her affair; but she surely might
save much time by making them
shorter n. Y. Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
Report Of the Naval Committee.

Washington, February 10.-Rep-
resentative Whitthorne has been
authorized to present the house the
report of the house naval committee
in relation to the administration of
the navy department under Secreta-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

Ed. Martin, one OF the best hair
cutters in the State, opposite the
Linden House, has new hair tonic
that IS really delightful. He gives
you a good hair cut and then makes
your head feel like a ball of glory,
with his rubbing and tonic. Our
head is on exhibition as proof of
what we say.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

Hayes is said to be deeply morti-
fled over the conduct of Tyner and
Brady in connection with the theft
OF the cipher dispatches, and well
he may be, for more villianous
transaction never came to light, 1t
Is disgraceful to the telegraph com
pany, the government and the
country.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

-.

The pencil ma rks You see around thi
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription Is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit TO our friends and patrons. but
cash alone win way our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere TO a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity OF such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
CS- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

Some men talk so much about the
scarcity of money that they cannot
find time to try to make any. If they
would work as necessarily as they
talk, they would have money enough
to do them, and some to loan to
their needy neigtbors. Try it on,
and see if we are not a prophet.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

A pretty girl down east is a
mind reader" She said tc a bash
lul beau the other night: La!
believe you're going to kiss me-"
She was right.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

Until the Legislature passes a
bill reducing be salary of its mem
bers from four dollars per day to
some lower figure, we shall never
believe that there is anything but
genuine demagogry and pure cuss-
edness in their action toward re
ducing the salaries of other state
officials ClarksvilleTob TobaccoLeaf.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20

II a man succeeds in driving a
good many hard bargains he will in
the end drive in his own carriage,
but the carriage road will end this
side of eternity.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-02-20
Organ for Sale.

A second hand organ, suitable for
church or Sundsy School, for sale
at a great sacrifice. Apply at this
office.