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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
OVER THE BARS.

Twas milking time, and the cows came up
From the meadows sweet with clover,
And 500 l in the lane, while pretty Jane
Had quiet chat with the droveT-
Such a quiet chat that it scarcely seemed
That a single word was spoken;
While a magic spell with the night dews fell
Aud the rythm Of song was unbroken.
The cattle stood at the lovers side,
without any show of vexation,
As though impressed that five bar rest
Was a part of their restoration.
And as Jane listened to the notes that came
Right under the bars and over,
Her heart took wing. the silly thing,
And Lestled up close TO the drover.
She heard him say his home was poor,
That he'd nothing but love To give her;
And she smiled content, as though Love had
spent
Every arrow he had in his CULVER;
She smiled content, when the evening air
With voices of birds are ringing,
And her Ii s confessed that a lcwly nest
Should never prevent her singing.
So over the barr the lovers lean,
In the Joy Of their sweet communion;
And their looks declare that poverty ne'er
Shall be q bar to their union;
o, sweetest music go thread your rhymes
Now under the bars and overi
Where pretty Jane, in the fragrant lane,
BewiIched the heart of the drover.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
Plant Fruit.

Don't fail TO prepare for planting
orchards this spring. The farmer
who has a generous supply of good
apples in the cellar In winter, is TO
be congratulated They make good
pies, good dumplings, are good
stewed, baked or raw. They are
healthy food for children and old
folks too. The acid of ripe fruit is
said to be an aatidote for worms in
children, and that children with
plenty of apples to eat are never
troubled with them. Baked apples
and bread and milk furnish a re-
past good enough for anybody
There are some persons that like
milk; but it does not digest well.
It forms curd in their stomachs. II
trey will use baked or stewed APP
plies with their milk, they will expe-
rience no such trouble, as we have
learned by experience The juice
Of the fruit itself prevents the for
nation of the cu.d, and the food
taken is easily digestible, healthy
and nutritious Nearly all kinds
of food are digested easier II fruit
is INDUCED in at meals. The cheap
ness, healthfulness and nutrition
quality of fruit should recommend
It's careful culture by every farmer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

A reunion of plug uglies Is to
take place soon. DR.. j. Toll. Grant
is to superintend the matter and
hold an election for officers. The
race for Captain is waxing warm.
The contest for the prize medal will
be hotly fought We don't wish to
bias anybody, but we call to mind
one of the company who, in our
opinion, should have the medal.
His squalid body stands on a pair
of rickety legs twisted by rheuma-
tism into knots and bows, the whole
frame making a shapeless mass OF
graceless, rawboned, grotesque dis
tortion. His head looks as If made
oil the odds and ends left in Great
ing other peoples, bunny and
scraggy, his eyes set like grease
Spots on the kitchen wall, his nose
looking like hunk of raw spoiled
beef turned wrong side out, his
mouth like a wagon track through
a mudhole, his ears like stable door
shutters rotted and hanging by one
hinge, the whole together having 8
tragic mic, clownish, cadaverous.
frightful.appearance about like the
spot made by a rotten egg mashed
against a smokehouse door. We
enter him
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
Singular coincidence-Death Scene.

Meridian Mercury: ''The father
and the mother of Stanton, the su-
perintendent of the Selma, Rome d
Dalton railroad, killed in the late
bridge accident, the one from Ohio
the other from Philadelphia, has
tened to him by the quickest route
and with the least delay. One ar
rived before he breathed his last.
and the other after, but in time 70
see him laid away in his last rest
IL place. The parents met thus
for the first time in thirty years.
Long years ago they separated and
were divorced, and young Stanton
TOOK his mothers maiden surname.
Both his parents were remarked,
and To make the strange occurrence
still more singular, they we're both
accompanied on the sad pilgrimage
by their respective mates. And
thus happened. probably, the strang-
est meeting that ever occurred at a
death bed scene"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

terprising business man, and its a
pity he's robbed his creditors. Do
not say anything TO hurt his tender
feelings nor expect him to soil his
tender fingers by toll. He CON
pounded with his creditors at % or
80 per cent, and now lives in luxn-
rious ease, an honored, respected
citizen, and a prominent man in the
church! -t
Go for him! He's poor-he is
trying TO pay cent for cent with in
terest, and his hands are hardened
by toil-his wife and children feel
the pincLings of poverty and the
tightness OF the limes-he has no
business to be poor nor honest
He's fool for not robbing a bank,
or stealing from those who would
have trusted him in prosperous
days. He ought to be poor! Go
for him! Keep him down, pile on
him such a weight of obloquy and
pecuniary embarrassment that he
will never be able to rise.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
Go for Him!

He's a poor, hard working man
trying TO pay his honest debts AMI
support his family by honest toll.
But Ego for him." because he can
not pay few dollars he owes. He
is poor and entitled to no consider
alton. Keep him down.
Help him! He's a rich man who
robbed a bank, or made an assign
ment, lives in a fine mansion and
walks the streets leisurely, enjoying
life, while his wife and children are
deprived of none of the Injuries oil
wealth or the enjoyment of society
HelU himi Hes smart-an en-.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

If anybody is curious to know
what's the matter with Athens
about this time we can relieve them
in . few words. There are too
many idlers in the community, old
aud young, black and white; too
many sitting around, industriously
engaged in doing nothing from Gay
to day, week to week, month to
month, and from year TO year;
many of them too lazy to labor at
any useful employment, and others
are too proud. And what is true
of this place is true OF every town
in the State that we know anything
about Athens Post.
We didn't know there was anoth-
er town in the world like Pulaski.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
He Shows How It Was Done.

In Cox's court was a charge of
assault against that old offender
and police favorlte, "John Doe"
and MIR. Dickson, the attorney, was
examining the witness.
Dickson-How hard did he shake
the man when he grabbed him?
Witness-I don't know. Pretty
hard.
Dickson-What do you call"pret-
ty hard?'
Witness-Well,it was pretty hard,
that's ali l can say.
Dickson-Come now, you surely
have sense enough to let the court
know what you call "pretty hard"
Witness-l guess l can show the
court 1t was like this
Here the witness rose from his
seat and springing upon the aston
ished attorney, grabbed him by the
collar, and with a strong and impul-
sive jerk, landed him on the floor.
Then he gathered him up and flop
ped him across the chair; then he
began to bang him over the floor;
jam him up against the wall, and
latter him round over the benches.
Hold on understand! shout
ed the lawyer.
"This is how he fetched him." re-
torted the witness, giving him an
other lift.
Wont the court rule out his an
swer? l object" said Mr.. Dickson,
catching his breath.
"If you withdraw the question,
ali right" said the judge, and
sprjnging down from his seat, he
collared the witness and took him
off. When he again mounted the
bench, he remarked: 1.-The witness
appears to have introduced his tes-
Limony, but l can rule that the jury
ignore his answer"
By this time the spectators were
in CONFUSION of laughter, and the
attorney retired to brush the dirt
off his Clothes NevadaChronicle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

A contemporary says the Republi-
can party is the party of universal
equal rights" 1t took the negro
under its charge and proposed to
protect him in all his rights as a
citizen, but at the same time ii
robbed him of all his hard earnings
deposited in the Freedman's Bank.
1t has been at last lett to the Dem
ocratic party to see justice done
the "poor African Mr.. Ellis, OF
Louisiana, has introduced into the
House bill appropriating two mil
lion dollars to pay depositors of
the Freedman's Bank, or their rep
resentatives, the sums now due
them.-1Ex.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

1. If the republicans should elect
their candidates for Governor this
fall both in New York and Ohio,
they would be sure of electing their
candidate for the Presidency, who
ever he may he.
,. If the democrats should carry
both Ohio and New York the Presi
Dental election would be absolutely
settled in their favor.
3. Ii the democrats should lose
Ohio and carry New York the Pres
Idential election will still be close
and bitter, bnt all the advantages
and chances of success would be
with the democrats.
4. Ii the democrats lose New
York aud carry Ohio the struggle
will still be CiOse, but al the advan'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
Many a Reporters Experience.

Franklin Patriot: 1t is quite diff
ficult at times TO get 'the right OF Il
story. The other day while AT
work at our desk, we heard some
thing of an uproar in the street and
FASTENED TO the front window
TO investigate the matters. BY the
time we reached the window the exj
citement had subsidized, bat we
beard some one say something
about o runaway hoss& We want
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

The everyday cares and duties
which men call drudgery, are the
weights and counterpoises of the
clock of time, giving its pendulum
a true vibration, and it's hands a
regular motion, and when they
cease to hang upon the wheels, the
pendulum no longer swings, the
hands no longer move, the clock
stands still.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

Knoxville Tribune: In Tennessee
our people have been taught by a
certain class of politicians that
there is and must he ali irrepressi-
BILE conflict between the people and
the railroad corporations of the
State. These gentlemen seem to
lose sight of the fact that the rail
roads are a necessity to the State,
and that no State can compete with
the producers of the world without
the presence of railroads.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

Courier Journal: The death of
Elihu BurrItt, ''the learned black
smith," at New Britain, Conn, the
place of his birth, is announced by
telegraph to day. While working
at his trade, to which he was APP
prenticed at the age of sixteen, Bur
rift scraped an acquaintance with
the principal ancient and modern
languages, having previously re
ceived only a common-school edu-
cation In time he became a pro-
life writer and lecturer. His hob
bies were the abolition of war, the
abolition of slavery, the promotion
of temperance, and a cheap ocean
postage. He proposed to abolish
slavery by buying the slaves rather
than by sIaughtering aud robb.ng
their masters. He died in his SIX
ty eighth year.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
nnn,f be DeceiYelI.

[4l Many persons say al haven't got
the ptlOn" when ask "a 90 cure
their Coughs with SbllOh's COnsump-
ton cure. DO they not know that
coughs lead 10 Consumption, aud a
remedy that will cure consumption will
certainly and surely cure a cough or
any lung or throat trOublel We know
IL viii cure when all others fail, and
our faith In 10 u so positive that we will
refund the price paid II you receive no
Price IOcts., BOcts. and 81 % per bottle.
For lame Chest, Back or Side, uso Shi-
lOh's Porous Plaster. Price 25cts- For
sale by Sulnpter a STANLEY. Corner Drug
Store, teDl5ooW-ly-l
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
Live stock Premiums.

The RURAL SUN, Nashville, Tenn, Is
Offering a CotswOld buck, (S35.O0,) a
Merino buck, (s25O0,) a Southdown
buck, ($25.0O,) a Berkshire boar,
($40.OO,) and pair Of Poland-China
pigs, (S25.OO,) 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
themg Send to the RURAL Sun for
particulars, at once. apr20-ly
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
She stands at the window cas-

She stands at the window case
ment, watching the snow flakes fall;
stands there rapt in reflection, won
dering who will call; stands there
noting the throng below and with
an eXpectant air-she keeps a fe
male barber shop, and grieves over
q vacant chair,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

The rampant rebel Legislature of
Texas has just had a case of con-
test between IA negro and a white
man. The negro was entitled to
the seat, and it was given to him.
We shudder to think. OF the conse-
quences had the case been different.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
So Mnre Bad smeIIs.

DIR. Salmon's ProphylacLlc and Disin-
fecfant lnsures pure cellars, cesspools,
sinks, and Is sure preventive and spe-
cific cure for hog cholera. Zee adver-
tisement on 4th page aud leave a trial
orde-. 1t Is so cheap that every man
can my II for hinRseah "
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

Rev. r. w. McKelvy has turned
his attention to farming, and says a
Methodist cicuit rider stands no
better chance for a living than a
good coon dog Moulton { Ala
Advertiser.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

1 Look at the date on the printed
label on your paper, il yours is d.
rected in that manner, and pay up
lie your time is past. This in
cludes all who receive their papers
IN single wrappers, or At the Pu-
iaski Postoficc. or at the Office Of I
publication, who have not made
special arrangements with us. DO
not fail in this if you wish. the
CITIZEN continued TO your al
dress.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

The man who dodges behind his
newspaper when lady enters a
crowded ear is the man who pious-
ly hates hireling ministry and re-
fuses to pay his pew rent on
principle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

The great crime that the Potter
com mittee is investigating is mex
haustible. Every prod that Is given
it lets out a fresh efiusion OF the
viiiainous odor Of Radical rascaliLy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

1t is said that ali over the South
farmers continue to hypothecate
their crops in advance which show s
that they are running at least one
year ahead of their means.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

A Western editor, in his financial
article, says: Money is close, but
not close enough to reach"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

The Cincinnati Commercial comes
to the sensible conclusion that there
are too many newspapers in the
country, else so many would not be
dying.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

Bob Ingersoll made $4,000 by
abusing the Bible last year, and a
Toronto clergyman died from star
walton. Isn't it about time for an
other food?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
A Spool of Thread.

One of the September magazines
gives a paper on a spool of thread,
which article contains some curious
statistics about such a small thing
as thread. One company makes
I,2OO different kinds, and it takes
10000 dozen spools to hold each
days product. There are 200 yards
to spool, and little calculation
will show that this means that, sim
ply at these mills, 1900 miles of
thread are made each day, or about
100000 miles a year. This is
more than 1900 miles of thread an
hour, or 20 miles every minute.
And, as the combined work of l, 900
employees makes 1860 miles OF
thread, even division demonstrates
that the work of each is equivalent
to I35 miles of thread daily.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

The Republicans have given up
the idea of controlling the organi-
cation of the next House.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

Proposals for marriages, in Neva
da are written on postal cards aid
the answer comes by return mail;
Come on With your preacher
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

Almost ali of US are generous to
fault, if the fault happens to be
our own
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

About a year aud a half go Mr..
NJ. McDuffey was killed. in an in
toxicated state, on the streets of
Meridian. Mr.. Hale, the saloon
keeper who sold him the whisky,
was sued by the wife and children
of the Stayed man. The case was
tried last week by the Circuit Court
at Meridian, and a judgment rem
dered against the saloon keeper in
favor of the wife and children for
$3.50. This action was brought
under the statute making it penal
ofense to sell whisky TO drunk
man or to make him drunk.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20
THE CITIZEN.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
two Dollars per Annur, always il Advance
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-03-20

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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-05-02
The Crops.

Corn in this locality is about knee.
high on the average, and the stand is
reported to be very good. From now
on, the cultivation will be light and
easily managed. The acreage in corn
is more than that of last year, and the
yield, barring a July drouth, promises
well. Cotton does not promise so we'll.
Many planters complain of bad stands,
and some have been compelled to
plant a second time. The wet weather
and lack of warm sunshine have been
injurious to the tender plant, and it is,
consequently, backward in growth.
Where the stand is good, the planters
are pretty we'll done chopping out.
The plow stock generally look we'll,
but we regret to say there is an mex
cusable scarcity of forage. The Gran
gers Notwithstanding.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-05-02
LEGAL.
A SSIGNEE,S SALE.
In the matter of
ELIZA w. WAKEFIELD,
No. 1910.


BY virtue of an order of sale issued out
America, for the District of Louisiana, in
the above entitled matter, will offer for
sale ut tho Court House door in tho city of
Monroe, State of Louisiana, between tho
legal hours of sale, on
Saturday, 9TH day Of June. 1879,
the following described property belonging
to said bankrupt estate to-wit:
House and lot in Monroe, La, situated
on Front street, bounded north by lot of
Mrs. L. l.. Mcclure, east by Walnut street,
south by Mrs. II. l.. StrOther's lot, and west
by Front street and Ouachita river, having
BOG feet front by $50 feet deep.
Vacant lot in Monroe, La, on the north
east corner of Breard and Walnut streets,
COZ foot front by 1851 feet deep.
Claim against the United States, now
pending before the Southern Claims Com
mission, for horses, mules, cattle and
wagons taken by tho United States forces
in 1863 and 1865, from Monroe and the Bon
Air Plantation in Ouachita Parish--amount
of claim 90 ,331 CO.
North half of section 3, township II, north
range east, containing 800 acres wood
land.
a part of section 81, township Is, north
range 4 east, north of Bayou DcSiard and
Immediately north of same section owned
by George Nelson, containing 81 75-lOO acres
wood land.
Sold as tho property of said bankrupt to
pay debts.
Terms: Cash on tho spot, in United
States treasury notes, to the highest bidder.
Act of sale before X. w. McClendon, re-
Gordon, at the expense OF the purchaser.
ct w. Il. ATKINS. Assignee.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-05-02
Kings and Queens.

At the present rate of increase of the
population of Monroe this little city
will soon be entitled to representa-
tive In Congress. Such, at least, seems
to be the fixed purpose of the City
authorities. Not many moons ago
Councilman Vogh was presented with
two little girls who claimed his protec-
ton, pins and pinafores. Mayor
Endom, like a worthy burgomaster,
put his foot down firmly in his wrath,
and said this bill could not be vetoed,
but it might be overshadowed. Our
worthy Mayor hustled around, as if the
town were on fire, vowing that the
Ouachita Livery was not better than
the Monroe Livery, and the net result
was two little boys, arrayed all in
pink, presented to the Mayor by his
sympathetic better. half. Our Mayor is
now happy-but it is somnolent fact
that he roosts across the hall.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-05-02
GyrO Pigeon Club.

Several gentlemen of this city have
organized q shooting club under the
name above given, and organized on
the 18th ult. The officers aud members
are as follows: Col. II. Richardson,
president NJ. N. Coe, vice president /;
Austin Green, secretary and treasurer ;
@. A. Singer, property keeper; DIR.
T. Y. Ably, f.. HI. Rills, J. g. Logan.
The club is to consist of eight men,
bers, one member yet to be elected.
The club has purchased two traps
and 200 flyers or pigeons. The fyer is
a thin piece of sheet steel about ten
inches long, having oval ends which
are bent 80 as to form oblique vanes.
The trap is a cast.iron cylinder having
a coiled spring in it which Is wound
up by a key and held by a trigger to
be relieved Mt the pleasure Of the party
using it. The flyer is placed upon the
trap, and when the trap is sprung, is
made to gyrate very rapidly. This
motion propels it through the air with
great speed and In its flight resembles
very much the movements of a pigeon !;
hence, the name "Gyro Pigeon" While
1t affords great amusement to those
fond of shooting on the wing, it is also
good practice, and will enable the
tyros to become experts. Tho club
purposes practicing once or twice a
week, aud later on, when the members
become experts, will have matches and
invite tho fafrer sex to witness their
skill.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-05-02
NOTICE TO ABSENT HEIR.

MONROE, La, April ., 1879.
To WALTER Roo (wlite). absentee and
universal heir to tho succession of Sorono
Rogers COLI, decensed:
Whereas, Serene Rogers (c0l.) lnto of tho
parish OF Ouachita and state of Lou isinnn,
died January, 1870, intcstate and I"sscssed
OF a small estate, having no hoirs in tho ns-
cending or descending limo, collateral rein
tions nor illeHitinnte children, and AZ tho
law in such cases makes tho surviving
spouse tho universal hcir-nOtico In thero-
fore given to the said Walter Rogers twhito),
husband of tho said Serene Rogers. do
ccasod, to como forward, prove his heirship
and tnlte tho estate.
jos. Il. JOHNSTON,
It Counsel for absent heirs.