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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
THE uRsERY MURDER.
W. W. Briggs Sentence Of Twenty
Years imprisonment Affirmed
z by the Supreme Court.

American of Sunday.
The supreme court affirmed, yes
terday. the judgment of the Giles
county circuit court in the case oil
w. w. Briggs, convicted of murder
in the second degree. On a previ
Gus trial Briggs was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life, but appeal
ed to the supreme court and had
his sentence reversed He will now
serve the State in the penitentiary
for five years.
William. w. Briggs, on the 18th
day of April, 1878, murdered John
G.. Ursery near Lynnville. Ursery
was in Kennedy's store, at that
place, when Briggs walked in and
said to him, How are you Johnny?'
Ursery responded, ''How are you
Mr.. Briggs?'' Briggs remarked,
Have you any corn to sell?" Ur
sery said he had. "What is it
worth?' asked Briggs, 1.-TWO dol
lars per barrel" said Ursery.-
Briggs asked, "What have you done
with that old corn you had2 l
l wanted to buy some corn but you
are over the market price" Ursery
remarked that he had sold two
loads at that price that day.
Briggs SAID, 81 met one of the loads
and it was a id little load. Be
sides, you are over the market
price" Ursery retorted, Eyes,
twas a small load-only about II
barrels-but it is our corn, and we
can keep it; that is our business"
briggs said, 81 have said nothing
for you to insult me about; you are
a ID foo; you havn't sense
to go home; l have a no
ton to slap your jaws; I believe l
sOiU slap your jaws" Ursery re
manned leaning on the counter OPP
poslte Briggs and made no re
spouse. Briggs then advanced
and slapped Ursery's jaw with his
open right hand. Ursery then
struck Brig..s over the left eye.
Briggs either fell or was knocked
back. Ursery struck at him again,
him. Briggs then began to
back and to put off Ursery's blows
with his left hand, while he pulled
out a pistol with his right hand.
They closed, and were engaged in a
desperate conflict tor the mastery,
when they were parted. Briggs
then fired the pistol at Ursery and
him HIS second shot went
through Ursery's heart. Ursery,
exclaiming, '.Oh. lordy," fell dead
at his feet. Briggs went out, re-
NAMED outside awhile, got his
horse and rode off. When Briggs
was asked why he shot Ursery, he
said it was in self defense.
Briggs came to Nashville and
was captured here and sent to the
Pulaski Jail. He is said to have
killed a man in Texas.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
A Sprightly Comparison.

Murfreesboro News.
If this interesting but distressing
game continues, the little State OF
Maine will soon be brought to the
condition of certain company in q
confederate regiment, which, dec.
mated by death, disease, deser-
ton, aud the various other accidents
of war, was finally reduced to one
private, who was governed by four
commissioned and three non com
missioned officers. This much of
ficered private ''came up missing
one morning, but he left note be
hind, informing the corps of compa.
ny commanders that endurance had
ceased to be virtue. He said he
could afford to be a section, and in
case of an emergency was willing to
be a platoon, but he would be ever
lastingly kerhumuxed if he was GO
ing to be a whole company any long
er. With officers and governments
enough to run half dozen states,
the time may soon come when i'll
used Maine will be glad of chance
to "come up missing" If such a
thing were possible.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
Edison's Light.

The attention of Edison having
been called to the doubts of some
Partisan critics concerning the sta.
bility of the carbon horseshoe, nnd
the claim thstit gradually wastes
away by decomposition, he said: A
complete answer to that is the &C
tual result ! can state that the
oldest lamp In my laboratory, after
burning sos hours, had its eiectri-
cal resistance measured, and there
was not difference of one tenth
OF hair from the time when it was
originally put in circuit. The sur
face of this carbon which burned
500 hours is as bright to-day as it
was the day when first put in, where
as oxidization makes carbon black.
Edison says he has not sold share
of his stock.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
MinnOw Ford.

Why our little corner of the
county is not itemized in the CITI
ZEN more frequently, is one Of the
wonders. We are plentifully stock
ed with school teachers, law.
yers, doctors and men capable OF
writing on topics of interest, and
some of these might try their bands
occasionally. In the meantime,
rather than our neighborhood Cos
sip should go unchronicled, l will
undertake the job myself. We
were as bountifully blessed during
the last year as any people in the
county. Crops exceeded the most
sanguine expectation. More cot
ton than usual and plenty of corn,
with sone to spare, should make us
cheerful and happy. In addition
to this, the health o. our communI-
ty has been unprecede2tedly good.
Drs. Waters and Jones have been
practicing in partnership for the
last twelve months. The senior
has been heard tn say that a medi
cal man never had BETTER time to
fatten his horse, while the junior
remarked that the people were dis
tressingly healthy. The only COM
plant is, that the pork is spelling.
Several OF our neighbors have lost
all their shoulders and hams.
Mr.. Thompson has the best mill
and is the best ssw-mill man that
has ever been near US. He is and
has been doing a good business.
He cuts from 5000 to 10000 feet of
lumber in day, and then cannot
keep up with his orders.
Morally, we are about the same.
Rev. j. NJ. Ashford is pastor of the
c. Z. hurch at Pleasant Hill. He
breaches there regularly on the sec
ond and fourth Sabbaths in each
month. We have good Sabbath
school at Pleasant Hill. Rev. w.
d. Cherry has charge of the Nj. E.
Church AT Mt Carmel. His services
are on the first Sabbath in each
month. We claim this worthy man
of God as one of our own His
boyhood and early manhood, were
spent in our midst. He came not
among us stranger, but a relative
and friend OF former years. We no.
ticed Hon. John NJ. Townsend, OF
near Athens, Ala, circulating in
our vicinity not long since. He
came ostensibly, to assist Miss Ed
ice Gilbert in procuring subscribers
for a magazine, but reaHy-and
echo answers, really2 OLMEDo.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
"Keeu On Workinr.'

Evansville cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
K. Culverhouse, superintendent
OF construction of Evansville, Ow-
ensboro IL Nashville road, being
built by Col. Cole, telegraphed to
Cole substantially as follows:
Gam working now on the road at
an expense of $1,000 a day. In
view of the change in the situation,
what shall l doT'
He received the following answer;
"Do not stop. Keep on working.
Z. w. COLE"
1t is understood here that Cole
will retain control of the St Louis
IL Southeastern road to this city,
ana, by connecting with the road
now in process Of construction, will
have a competing line from ST.
Louis 10 Savannah.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
Peppering Judas.

Nashville Banner.
This is not the first time the ex-
President of the Nashville d Chat
tanooga ". K. Stevenson) has
gone back on the state. We re-
member something about panic
and a run off after the fall of Fort
Donelson, and we also remember
something about an undivided in
terest in some cotton transaction
that was only prevented from going
through the courts by buying ?
of majority of stock, and by thus
getting control, stopping an inves-
tigation that might have resulted in
a large disgorge. How was that?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
The Right Sort Of Talk.

Memphis Appeal.
Nashville's dream of commercial
supremacy has faded as quickly as it
was conjured up by Cole. 1t is a sad
admission to make. But it is so.
Tearing the hair will not restore
the status of last week, so full Of
promise and so encouraging to the
people of the state capital. All his
plans have gone glimmering.-
There is but one thing to do, and
that is for the wealthy men of
Nashville to put their hands in their
money bags, subscribe few mil
lions and 60 into the railroad bust
mes on their own hook. They can
do it if they will
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
In Chancery at Pulaski.
JANUARY RULES, 1880.

Lewis White, Complainant, va Joseph A
Hale ct ais, Defendants.
N this cause it appearing 10 the satisfaction
ofthe clerk and Master from an affidavit
TO the bill that the defendants oseph a Hale
alias Dunk Hale) Hardin Lock, Geo Look
Jack Lock, Frank Lock, Pleas Lock, hinos
Douny Hale are nOn-residents Of the State
Of Tennesseeso that tho ordinary process
of this court cannot be served on them;
On motion it is therefore ordered that pub.
Hcation be made for four weeks in success
sion in the Pulaski Citizen, o newspaper pub
lished in the town Of Pulaski, In said State,
requiring said defendants TO ne and appear
on the first day of the next term Of tho Chan
Gerry Court to be held for the county of Giles,
at the court-house in Pulaski, on the Sd Mon
day in Feb, 1880, and answer complAinantis
bill, or the same viii DO taken for confossod
as TO them and set for hearing ex-psrte.
iaps-at J. B. STACY, q. d n.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

The town marshal at Waverly,
Tenn, killed a drunken man at that
place by hitting him on the head
with a stick, breaking his skull. He
is said to have been a harmless fell
low, even while drunk. The Mar
shall became irritated at his demur-
ring to 90 to the court house with
him, though he did not offer any
formidable resistance. The Mar
shall obtained $1,000 and left for
parts unknown.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
NJ CARD.
To the Suffering of all Glasses.

Prof. CLARK, III. D., and DIR. WATSON
are now in Pulaski for the. parpose OF
treating all chronic diseases which have
failed to yield to general or local treat
ment. DIR. Clark and DR.. WATSON treat
all forms of chronic diseases, such as
the following: Asthma, Bronchitis, Ca
tarrh, Consumption, Chronic Constipa-
ton, Erysipelas, Skin Eruptions Of
every Kind, White Swellings, Hip Com
plants, Scrofula, Rheumatism, most
diseases of the Eye and Ear, Cancers,
Tumors, Ulcers, Piles, discharges from
the Nose and Ears, Spinal complaints,
Dropsy, Diabetes, Kidney disease, Dys-
pepsia, Chronic Diarrhea, and ell func-
tional and organic diseases of the Heart,
the Liver, the Lungs, the Spleen, the
Pancreatic, Gland, Kidneys, Stomach,
all the mem branes, the Ovaries and all
Uterine and Female Weaknesses, Epi-
lepsy, and other fits, Sciatic pains and
all chronic diseases. All Blood Poisons
or Humors can be antidoted, and ex-
PEELED from the System, and cure eff
fected with the same certainty as in
other diseases, when well understood
and the curative remedies applied.
diagnosis and consultation free. Of
flee at the Linden House, first door,
front entrance. janl5-4t
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
Puzzled.
Nashville Banner.

Nashville Banner.
When DR.. Standiford sent reas-
surfing telegram to our people, after
the rape of our road, we felt as if
we should accept his promise in the
same spirit in which it had been
made. But when the Courier Jour-
nal comes to us with such insulting
illusions to the tributary condition
of Nashville, and when we know
that paper has been the recognized
organ of the Louisville road. we
are at loss to know which one to
accept as the animus of tho com
pany.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
Trustees Sale of Land.


DY VIRTUE of deed of trust executed
ID to me by r Simpson, on the 25th day
of February, 1879, md registered On Same
day, in the Registers Office of Giles county,
Tennessee in Trust deed book D, pages sos
and $40, will,
On Saturday, Feb'y 18th, 1880,
expose to sale. at the court house door in
the town of Pulaski, to the highest bidder
for cash, and free from the rgh: of redemp-
ton, the undivided one-fifth interest of Z J
Simpson in tract OF land containing
LAO ACRES.
and lying in the 10th civil district of Giles
county, Tennessee, and bounded on the
north and east by the lands of s A Tinnon,
on the south by the lands of B r Lane and
on the west by the lands of T Williamson,
and being the same trsct of land that be-
longed TO DsEid J Simpson. deceased, and
on which his widow, Sarah A Simpson, now
resides. Sold in pursuance of and to satisfy
the terms of said trust. This goth day of
January, 1850. T.. III. STANLEY,
jan22-td Trustee
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
Pretty Stiff.

Memphis Appeal.
The details of the plan on which
the extension of the Texas Pacific
road will be built have been made
public. The Texas Pacific is to
pay $12,O00,OOO in bonds 100000
per nile) and 100000 in stock,
and as $4,000 per mile is pretty
stiff price for building in the sort
of country this road will traverse
Ill miles built in 1877 having cost
only $1,7S1, 693-it is thought that
Jay Gould's improvement company
promises to become rich bonanza.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
4 Good Joke.
q NVSN q
Philadelphia Times,

Gen Grant has stopped the use
Of all liquors wines or beers, sure
enough, and such a change in a
man was never known before. He
is not as fat as he was; his face is
thinner, paler and less apoplectic
his eye is clear, and he has what
the English call a smarter" look
about him. Now, if he only sticks
to his resolution! He tells every
body that he feels very much better
when he does not drink, and that
the enjoyment does not compen
safe,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
Tafy.
Murfreesboro News.

MurfreesbOTO News.
The retirement Of Mr.. l.. w. Nc
Coed from the PULASKI CITIZEN, a
paper he has so ably and success
Tuliy managed, is the occasion of
general regret among newspaper
men. The readers of the CITIZEN
are, however. to be congratulated
that his mantle falls upon so com
petent and brilliant a journalist as
Mr.. John Bateman Smith, late edi-
tor of the Fayetteville Express.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

Mr.. V. K. Stevenson, who betray
ed Col. Cole and lined his raIment
with half million by the transac-
ton, attempts to vindicate his con-
duct 10 a card published in the
New York Herald of the Odd. He
SAYS the sales of Nashville, Chatta-
nooga & St. LOUIS railway stock by
Tennessee holders alarmed him to
such an extent that when the
agents of the Louisville IL Nashville
entered into negotiations with him
he concluded to close out too. The
texture of Mr.. Stevenson's little
narrative is rather too thin for ser
vice, and we advise him to set the
spindles of his fancy to work on a
yarn that will wash, Even if Mr.
Stevenson vas really alarmed at
the sales of the X, which as al
together improbable, as be had
sense enough TO know they
were more the result OF speculation
than hidden design, bis relations
with the managers of the jeOpsr
died road were such that he should
have given them fair notice of his
intention TO sell. Good faith. as
veil as a high sense OF personal
honor, required that he should
warn Col. Cole of the impending
blow. AS it is, we are decidedly of
opinion that the blietering prefix,
Judas" which has been hitched TO
Mr. Stevenson's surname so fire.
quently of late, will continue to
stick TO him like a brother
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
Correct.
Lebanon Herald.

Lebanon Herald.
Socially politics are of no account.
The social standard has to do with
culture and capacity and not with
politics.
A gentleman and an honest man
is gentleman and an honest man,
whether he expects to vote for
Grant or Hancock. 4 blackguard
and ruffian Is BLACKBOARD and a
ruffian, no matter for whom he votes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

Some idea of the extensive bust
ness done by Knoxville may be
gained from The fact that she
shipped over the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad. du-
ring the year 1879, nearly 10000,
600 pounds OF freight.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

J.Z George was elected United
States senator by the Mississippi
LEGISLATURE last week, to succeed b.
X. Bruce. And now the stentorian
INQUIRY goes up from Maine to Cal
ifornia. from the fresh water lakes
IN the Gulf: WHO the devil is
GaOr0eS"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

The negro emigrants in Kansas
are undergoing some rough expert
ence. Numbers of them are dying
from starvation and exposure, and
their bodies are left in the burying
ground three or four days before
being inferred.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

The testimony in the Spoford-
kellogg case was closed Thursday,
and the committee allowed counsel
on both sides two weeks to prepare
arguments to be submitted in print
cd hripfa
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
A Rochester Physicians Expe.
r1ence.

R Caulkins, M. D., of Rochester, N.
Y, certifies Oct. 9th, 1879, that he has
used the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure in
and liver, and the result has been salts
factory in the extreme. He says, ''I
would now prescri De the same remedy
to all similarly afflicse Jed, and you are at
liberty to so state in your testimonials"
iapQ-2m
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

The Cincinnati Times states that
it has positive information. from an
authentic source, that the National
Democratic Convention will be held
at Music Hall in that city.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

w. A. Knight, the defaulting
trustee of Davidson county, whose
office was declared vacant by
the supreme court was reelected
by the county court on Monday
last. Several Justices entered their
protest against this strange pro
ceeding, and a resolution declaring
Knight ineligible to the office, ow
ing to the heavy deficiency in his
accounts, was adopted. Several
members of the court, who had in
vestigated Knights books, openly
charged him with being a defaulter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
Just So.

Murfrees bOro News.
Before questions, bearing upon
the claims of rival political parties,
are presented for the decision of
the average supreme court, it is i'm
portant to know the political faith
of the majority of the court, you
know
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

Rev. j. L. Henderson, pastor of
the Methodist Church in Van Vert,
Ohio, was publicly horsewhipped a
few days ago by Miss LORNA Con
ner, the daughter of a prominent
merchant of that place. Miss Con
ner was the organisC of Mr.. Hender
sons church. and that gentleman
censured her very severely in a ser
mon for attending dances and trip
ping the slight fantastic" ra her too
vigorously for damsel piously in
clined. Subsequently he repented
of this marked personal allusion.
but the furious maiden rejected his
peaceful overtures and dashed him
numerically with a cow-hide. He
was amiable enough to admit that
the castigation was nothing more
than he deserved.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

The supreme court, in tie case of
the State VS.. L. III. Davis, held that
that the law prohibiting speculation
in witness fees was constitutional.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Eggs-from first hands 10; packed 100
Feathers--Prime, 46c.
Wool--Ws shed $40 unwashed,S5
Rags-2xc.
misunderstanding TO quality, 2J<04O
Hay-per ton $20@28. -.
Butter-Common TO choice s@l6.
Beeswax-choice zoo.
Ginseng-dry &1.25
Tallow-51<c. oE l1 es
Hides-Green, So. Dry, l4916.
Dried Fruit Apples, SO; Peaches, un-
pealed halves, &c; quart,6c.
FLOUR AND GRAIN.
Flour-choice family, per Dbl, o. 90.
- Meal sacked 521<o. unbolted IS
Corn-sacked indepot 55c.
Wheat 00Ql,85 ..-.
Oats sacked and in depot 500bbbo.
PROVISIONS.
Lard-ln tierces, country, s
LIVE STOCK.
Cattle Extra shipping, $50; 1nferi-
or, 1@1<c. Hogs S.50@400 Sheep 21f@SH.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

A Manchester, Tenn, lawyer per
suaded his client, while on trial, to
have a fit, and the latter went
through with the performance so
successfully that the sympathies of
the jury we're thoroughly aroused.
The deception leaked out through
the attorney himself, who boosted
of his success, and the result is an
indictment and such action as will
doubtless prevent the young man
from practicing tricks of any kind
at the bar in the future.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

President Lincoln's walking cane,
which was stolen from his box in
the theater on the night of his as
sessination, was recovered in Troy,
New York, last week.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29
No?

No Man on Horseback; No Sash
ed and Girded Sphinx; 20 Savior
of Society; no Strong Silent Man
No Emperor; no American non
sense and 1unkyism; no Grant!
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Dissolution Notice.

THE Partnership heretofore existing be-
cey was dissolved on December 2sth, Mr..
Lacry retiring. Parties indebted to the firm
are requested TO settle at once. The books
may be found at the Drug Store Of sumpter
d Son. ). A. sUMPTER,
ra W. 4. LACEY.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-01-29

Mr.. McMillin, a vigilant repre-
sentative in congress from this
state, has been heard from. He has
introduced a bill to prevent depos-
it's Of sawdust in navigable rivers.
Until this important measure be
comes a law, it is of course imPru
dent TO express an opinion as to the
effect it will have on the market
value of mills.