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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-04-29

Wedding, reception, banquet, ball and
all kinds of "Invitations" printed at the
CITIZEN office in the most modern style,
on the best and most fashionable sta
tionery as cheap asCincinnati and cheap
er than Nashville for the cash. II we
do not give perfect satisfaction nothing
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to do.
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determined to come a third time,
and, in response 80 the "Who's
there?" replied, sobbingly: "Your
own loving wife" This brought
Prince Albert to terms, and peace
was re-established. 1t is said there
was no more teacup throwing in the
happy family
Yet Victoria always remained an
exacting wife and never allowed
her spouse what is bourgeoisement
known as a latchkey. AS the
prince presided at many public dim
ners, it was often close to midnight
before he could possibly reach
Windsor, and he had accordingly a
storm to face for keeping late
hours. Finally, the queen ordered
the castle gates to be closed at 1870
P. NJ, and the now much monu-
mented husband was locked out, if
he happened to be behind time
I The Hour.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-04-29

"Georgie," said fond mamma
to her little son, as the were walk
ing on the beach, "see what lot of
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-04-29
On Tuesday, May 4th, 1880,
DOMINION, JR.

WILL MAKE the present season, which
w has commenced and will erd July 10th,
at JOHN W. GOOCH'S, on Shoal creek in
Giles county, IL miles south of Pulaski, and
will be let to mares at the reduced price of
IS for insurance, payable when the fact is
ascertained or property changed, or likely to
be moved out OF the county. Care taken
to prevent accidents, but no liability should
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-04-29
DESCRIPTION AND PEDIGREE

DOMINION, JB., is ISL hands high, 9
years old this spring, dark bay, and his form
the gaits and performs well in double and
single harness. he was sired by old Do
minion and came out of an imported Vir
ginian bay mare.
mar25-5m ]. Y. GOOCH
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The Blessing of a Blunder.

A good piece of luck was that which
fell to Miss Elizabeth Thompson, lady
whose paintings of scenes in military
life can now command almost any
price. The story goes that the first of
her pictures that attracted much atten-
ton was the Roll Calp'-a picture
with which many of our readers are
doubtless familiar. The original pur-
chaser paid 5000 for it and sent it to
the Royal Academy. 1t was accepted
put in a good place and on Royal day
the Prince of Wales who knows a good
bit about pictures, took especial notice
of it. "Who is the painter of this?' he
inquired. Miss Elizabeth Thompson,
your Royal Highness,n was the answer.
40. indeed | know her very well,
said the Prince; the daughter of my
old friend, Sir - Thompson mis-
taking one person for another. He
was not corrected as most of the peo-
pie present knew less about Miss Eliza
beth Thompson than he did. The
result was that at the Saturday dinner
his Royal Highness remarked in the
course of his speech that he had OBJ
served among the pictures one by Miss
Elizabeth Thompson, which was des-
tined to win much fame for its painter.
He thought he was doing a good turn
for fellow member of aristocracv.
The speech was published as usual and
ten DAYS afterwards Miss Thompson
found herself famous. Policemen were
stationed in front of her picture in the
Academy to prevent people from being
crowded upon it-fOr it was on the line
and spoilingit. The engraving dealers
were beSeiging the young lady's doors,
offering her fabulous sums for copy
rights. She was thencefOrth secure
her fortune was made. A London cor
states that since that time
she has received as much as 5000
guineas, nearly $4,000, for the right to
make and sell an engraving made from
a single one of her paintings. The
Queen heard of the Roll Calf picture
and was anxious to see it. After her
curiosity had been gratified, she signi-
fed to the owner her desire to possess
it. He said that he did not care about
parting with it, but that the Queen had
a wish, he had no
choice but to comply with it.
The Queen sent him a check for
9120, exactly the price which he had
paid and this was characterized by
some daring critics as rather penuriOus
The gentleman thus deprived of his
picture, at once gave Miss Thompson an
order to paint him another one. Why
did not the Queen do the same thing?
Exchange.
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American Slang.


There perhaps isnothing marking the
English spoken in this country which
gives rise to so much concern as the as
serted prevalence of slang; certainly
there is nothing more common than the
depreciation of its use. 1t is often s2O-
ken of as the chief danger which threat
ems the English tongue, at least as en-
ployed by US. Most of us have probably
heard OF read assertions to that effect,
many of us have possibly made such as
sertions ourselves; yet no evidence has
ever been brought forward to show that
more slang is produced or used in this
country than in England. That what
is produced here Is far more racy, va
ried and vigorous is plain enough from
the appreciation it meets there. But
even if it be conceded that our soil is
more favorable to its growth, that need
not be looked upon rs 4 great CALAMITY.
Slang performs an important and. in
deed, necessary part in the develop
ment Of speech. Expression has always
a tendency to become weak in the liter
airy language, just as, unfortunately,
the individual in the process Of becom-
ING civilized is too apt to gain gentle
ness at the expense of vigor. Less power
is felt in some way to eXistin the words.
and so close is the relation between the
thought and the garment with which it
is clothed that the former seems often
to share in the flimsiness of the latter
1t is this gradual process Of weakeningS
which slang comes in to counteract.
The word is new, but the thing is Old,
Slang is the great feederOf vigorous ex-
pressiOns; for, in its very nature it is an
effort to state more concisely and more
strongly what the established speech is
felt to say too diffusively and too feebly.
OF course it is not an unmixed benefit.
Much of it is silly; much of it vulgar;
most of it is worthless; but from the
countless words and phrases which
spring up in communities where men
think and act earnestly the literary Ian
guage, with almost infallibIe instinct,
will gain something to recruit its own
exhausted energies and to impart to its
expression additional fitness and force.
II. Z. L01J1sbury, IN International Re
CielU.
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Immigration Statistics.

Statistics are seldom interesting to
the general reader, but these published
in the Statistical Abstract y issued
from the Government printing Office
last week, will be found q rare eXCep-
ton. 1t appears from these statistics
that the whole number of emigrantS az
irving in this country during the nine
years ending December 81, 1879, was
2,374, 934. This is an average of over a
quarter of a million year, while the
aggregate is nearly equal to the pOpu-
latiOn of the United States ut the close
of the Revolutionary war. The number
of English people arriving in this coun-
try during the nine years embraced in
the statement, was 1892, while in
the same time there came from ireland
sos, PCS and from Seotland74, 924. Thus
Great Britain has lost SOC, 900 of her
people in niue years, besides 100000
who have settled in Canada. OF other
natiOnalities there came to this country
during the nine years 1889 Scandi-
navians, 67,SS3 French, 33,9S3 Rus
slams. The largest movement from
Germany was during the years 1S7l-72-
'73, Immediately following the Franco
Prussian war, when the annual arrivals
were respectively S2,j54, 141, 109 and
1861. During the business depres-
sion in this country it dropped to less
than one-fifth Of its highest figure, then
in 1879 it rose to 34,602. A very small
proportion of these emigrants are of the
pauper element, the majority of them
being industrious working people, who
start Immediately for the West and be-
come respected persons. The class of
foreigners landing on our shores has
been steadily improving of late years,
and so marked has the Improvement be-
come, especially in the case of the Irish,
that there is now no necessity for APP
prehensiOn a. to the beneficial results
OF the increasing tide of emigration
Boston Post
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Enriching Soil With Clover.

\ writer in the NclC England Home
StcaT advocates the use Of clover as the
cheapest method of enriching farm
lands He says:
Competent authority has established
the fact that potash, phosphOric acid
and nitrogen are indispensable ingre-
uients in the composition of a fertile
soil. Now it is possible for our farm
ers to obtain an ample supply Of these
constituents of fertility by the eXpendi-
ture Of q tritling sum of money if we
are only so disposed. There is not the
slightest necessity tor sending to Peru
for ammonia or to Germany for potash.
Seed the land plentiful with clover
seed. The long roots of the clover will
penetrate into the subsOil, loosen and
disintergrate it and assimilate and pre-
pare for the future growth of crops the
valuable mineral which we import from
Europe. 1t also deposits notable guam
titles of phosphoric acid, both in the
stalks and roots. We have paid and
are probably paying immense sums for
ammonia in some of its combination TO
lay upon our lands. There is no rival
to the clover plant in absorbing nitro
gen from the atmosphere equivalent
To and convertible into ammonia-and
depositing it in the soil ready for use
Professor VOelcker from careful analy-
sis estimates the amount from two to
two and one-half tons per acre.
Here then by the simple process of
sowing clover seed we set in motion the
laboratory of nature which liberates the
hitherto unavailable potash of the soil,
evolves by the mysteries of vegetable
growth that precious element phosphoric
acid, and garners from that inexhausti-
bic resource, the atmosphere, immense
supplies of nitrogen. But this is not all.
1t furnishes the soil an abundance of
organic matter without which it would
be infertile and unprOductive. Practi-
cal farmers who have long cultivated
clover in regular rotation estimate the
enriching power of a thick, dense sod as
equal to twenty or more two horse loads
of stable manure to the acre. This reno
waiting crop can be repeated once in
three years if the necessities of the soil
require it. As dairying is an important
interest among our farmers, it can be
made valuable auxiliary in carrying
on that branch of industry. Indeed, it
is really a fact that we need not 90
away from our own fields to find the
means to render them fertile And it
should also be considered that clover
yields a rich return to the farmer as a
forage crop while improving and enrich
ING the soil.
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Roads and Roofs.

These two items have nothing in
common except that they concern US
all. In riding few miles along the
road lately, two qualifications were APP
parent-cOstliness and inelficiency. In
one place was mere gullywith seldom
a flow of water in it and it was bridged
over with lumber at a cost of $50 for
the bridge, to say nothing for APP
prOaches on each side. In q few years,
say ten or twelve the whole structure
will have gone to decay and viii
need rebuilding. A large earthen or
iron culyeTt, two or three feet in d.
amctcr and eighteen to twenty feet
long, would have been cheap and
good substitute for the bridge and
would have. lasted till doomsday.
The only place where bridge stTUct-
Ure is needed is where at times
big freshets would occur, and moth
ing less than bridges might do.
Blind custom and not reason rules Us
too much in fixing our highways. l do
not know whether we are afflicted with
some prohibition patent law that would
make earthen culvertS too expensive,
but if no such difficulty stands in the
way, the earthen culvert ought to SUI
percede the timber and plank to a very
great extent on the highways. On long
fiat pieces of road | feel convinced the
drain-tile three or four feet below the
surface would in the long run be the
cheapest way TO make aud help main
tain a highway-nOt to mention the
benefit that would accrue to the ada
cent land.
And shingles, the time-honOred, in
fammable shingles-it seems almost
pity to say a word against shingles. So
neat as the newly finished single roof
lOoks-alas, how soon it goes 20 decay
and helps to form a part of . grub
street. Insurance Offices could say
more Of shingled buildings than | would
wish to- Few families in the land but
could also tell some tales of shngled
roofs and the cost thereof; not merely
the cost Of shingles at so much per
thousand, but the after cost of house
and home. Roofs composed wholly Of
wood are peculiar to America and would
almost lead to the supposition that no
other material exists in America for
roofs. She has slate like other countries;
like them too she has clay that would
do to bake into tiles; either material
and more durable than shingles
Some eXperimentalists make fatroofs,
but it is doubtful which is the 1iatter the
roof or the eXperimenter. The only
flat roofs | ever saw that answered were
covered with lead, five pounds to the
square foot, but that is a very eXpen-
siKe roof MrsierR FIRM JuHLRnL.
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.

ALoNZO WOODS, a fireman, and
Thomas Beasley, blacksmith, were killed
by collision on the Vandalia Road, some
five miles east Of East st. Louis, on the 2Gth.
A freight train and a wrecking train came
together on a single track while both were
running at a high rate of speed, causing a
general demolition of both locomotives and
smashing several ears into splinters. AnUm-
Der OF other train hands were injured moro
or less severely.
d. p. NEWELL, well known real es-
tate dealer of Chicago, became a mOnoma-
MAC Onthe subject Of inventions, his pet hob
by being a life-preserycr which he claimed
TO have invented, composed entirely Of lead.
a few days since he took passage on a
steamer for Grand Haven, Mich, leaving
word for his wife that he was going out to
try his invention. When about midway
across the lake he quietly stripped off his
clothing, and, attaching his so-called life
prcserver about his body, jumped into the
water, going to the bottom like plummet.
AT Paris, o., on the Goth, Mrs.
Kciger, ayoung and beautiful widow from
Hardin County, o., who had been on a visit
to the Zeigler family, distant relatives, at
tempted to kill viii Zeigler, a young man,
and failing in the attempt shot herself
through the forehead, causing instant death.
The shooting was evidently premeditated,
and was inStigatcd, as understood, by young
Zeigler's efforts to break off his engagement
with the widow.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, a dissipated Young
man Of Elkhart, Ind. on the 9th shot Miss
Mamie Dacy, aged 10, twice in the head,
causing fatal wounds, and then blew out his
own brains. The young lady had been en-
gagged to Elliott, but on account of his disso-
Lutte habits had broken off the en-
gagement. Elliott formerly lived
at indianapolis, where his IA
Their was at one time 4 successful real
estate agent, but subsequently took to drink,
became impoverished and ended by commit
ting suicide. The unfortunate young lady
was from Dunkirk, n. Y, where her parents
now live. She is said to have been an unu-
sually bright and attractive girl.
A PASSENGER train on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was ditched
neTr Sergeant, Kansas, on the Goth.
j. j. Jenkins, Of Dubuque, Iowa,
was instantly killed; Mr.. Hee-
nan, of Arkansas, and his wife were
both fatally injured, and at least a dozen
other passengers we're hurt, several Of them
very seriously.
THE Denver and Rio Grande Rail-
road is completed to within point six miles
of Leadville.
THE President has commissioned
Paul Selby Postmaster at Springfield, H.,
vice d. l.. Phillips, deceased.
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One day last week q man residing III
East Toledo, Ohio, skipped from his
family and brought up in Detroit. His
wife cot a clue to his whereabouts and
came on after him and yesterday she
had an interview with him At the Cen
trail station. where he had been run in
for the purpose. She had no tears 10
shed. On the contrary, her hair had a
fighting bang, and as soon as she could
get her breath she began: 70 B
So, You miserable little apology for
human being, you skipped out, did
you?"
1 No reply. grs .Ere
After I had washed and scrubbed
and sewed for nearly twenty years to
support YOU YOU cot tired of your fami-
", did YOU? Our style of living wasn't
tony enough TO suit You, and You
wanted diamond pin and a caue''
'' Say, Lucy, I'm sorry. " he mumbled
"Wcl, l ain't"' she snapped. ''No,
sir, On the contrary I'm glad of it?
You've chewed tobacco and drank
whisky and whitfield shingles and.
lOafed on the corners at my expense
just as long as YOU ever wiln'
"What DO YOU want of me, then?'
Want of YOU? Why, | want TO
clear my character, All our neighbors
say that YOU ran away from me, and
some pity me and some laugh. You
run away from me, Why. YOU low
down corner loafer, you couldn't run
away from anything but a spade or an
AK. followed you to get this nat
ter straight. I've got to live there,
and I'm not going to be pitied or
laughed atn'
'What do you want?' he asked.
Here's what | WANT she said, as
she seized his collar and twisted him
around. Now take that-and that
and tbat-and I'll have these officers
sign a paper that l found YOU and
kicked you out to take care of yourself!
Now you git! Don't ever write me,
don't ever dare to come back tome.
Even if [ hear that you ever tel any
body that you were married to me I'll
buy Il shotgun and hunt for you.'
The husband sneaked ont doors and
down the street and the wife, having
the So does in her pocket, walked the
other way, mutterinr to herself:
Skipped out Run away from his
family. Well, his Old shirts viii make
n mop worth twice the value of his
whole body! Now, want to see some
one grin in the face Of this testimonial
that l raised him right OF his heelsr'-
Detroit Free Press. ..s.. -ra-.s
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Mental and Physical Labor.

DR.. Samuel Wilks, in a lecture before
the National Health Society of London,
said that there were some kinds of men
tai labor which were mere relaxatiOns
against others, and remarkable exam
pies had been presented by the vigOr
derived from varied exercises in mental
labor alternated with physical exercises;
but where the mental labor had been
attempted without the physical the per-
sons had broken down. Some persons,
holding to the idea that - use is second
nature, - had not accustomed themselves
to physical exercise in the midst Of their
mental laoOr; but there was anecessity
for this physical labor and the body re-
quired it. The necessity first was shown
by the studiOus man pacing his room,
as the animals paced their cages IN the
- Zoo" by the errand boys in the streets
putting down their goods to fight other
bOys-these were actions showing that
the body needed exercise. Then came
the question:: If a man has good food,
rest and exercise can he pass the rest
of the hours in mental labor? The an
swer was, certainly he can; but it must
AOD 10 OllC hlAiAl Va LlAI4lLtll lGliJJl vi AIlt
kind Of pursuit, for one pursuit would
abnOrmally exercise one small faculty
Of the mind and cause it to be over
worked to the impoverishment and loss
of other faculties Such man would
have strong opinions about things of
which he knew nothing-he hated for
eign languages, and knew nothing of
them; he abhorred theaters, and never
had been to one; disliked Darwin's
views, but would say Never read a
volume of Darwin in my life and never
will On the other hand, political
history was filled with facts about men
With many ideas and examples of the
good in varied work. Lord Palmerston,
Lord Brougham and Others especially
dwelt upon the case of an eminent
statesman who, at seventy years of age.
held the highest place in politics, could
turn with freshness to a theological
controversy, could discuss Learned ques-
lions with the utmost vigor and was
known to love physical exercises.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Archbishop Williams, of Boston,
has purchased the Stanwood estate,
Brighton, upon which Roman Catho-
lie Theological Seminary is to be estab-
lished.
Professor Elisha Grey, one of the
inventors of the telephone, who Is
graduate Of Oberlin (Ohio) College, has
offered to give that institution $4,000
on condition. that an additional sum of
$780, 900 is raised.
Professor Nowth, D. D., presided
over the forty-cirhth annual meeting of
the Congregational Union Of Great
Britain. The Rev. Dr.. Allan was Sc
lected to preside in 1881, which is the
jubilee year of the union.
The chief of the Metropolitans of
the Russian Church is Isidore, Metro
pOlitan of NoygOrod, St Petersburg
and Finland. He was cOusecrated in
1884, and is the senior of all the Metro
politans. OF the thirteen ArchbiShops,
but four were consecrated before 1860.
Spotted Tail, Red Cloud, American
Horse and White Thunder, and other
chiefs, recently visited the Indian
school at Carlisle, Pa. They were de-
lighted with the management of the in
stitutiOn, except in one particular the
rule providing for the punishment OF
serious misbehavi0r by Imprisonment
in the guard-house being distasteiul to
them.
The Rev. Dr. Girardeau has re
signed as Professor of Theology in the
Southern Presbyterian Theological Sem
mary, at Columbia, 5. G. The author
tiles of the seminary, considering the
financial condition Of the seminary and
their inability to fill DR.. Girardeau's
chair, have resolved to close the insti-
tuition for a time.
Archbishop Taschereau, of Quebec,
has issued letter of accommodation
against all Catholics who, during the
present year, shall conspire against or
attack men for working at any price
whatever. He warns such persons that
absOlution for this sin can only be given
after PREPARATION has been done for any
injury afflicted.
A meeting has been held ut Bide-
ford, England, to promote greater unity
among all Christians. \ lecture on
- Home Reunion was delivered on
the occasion by Earl Nelson. The Bish-
Op Of Exeter, who presided, invited the
ministers of several denominations to
the platform and these took part in the
discussion which followed the lecture.
The American Missionary AssOcIa-
ton at its annual meeting at Boston,
that it was just entering on its
year of work in the South,
during which time it expended $780,
600, $4,000, 600 ofwhich were employed
in the education of the colOred race.
During the same period it sent into the
South $500 missionaries and teachers.
1t has nineteen educational institutions
in its jurisdiction and siEty-fyc church
es have grown up under its auspices.
Over 1900 pupils were taught by grad
yates from its institutions during the
past year. Mr.. Thomas Bicknel, in
q recent tour in the South.
said that there were no better schools
in the country to-day then those in that
part oft, and that the ruling sentiment
was in favor of popular education,