The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-09
A Letter from Rev, S. N. Cherry.

MEssRs. EDITORS The CITIZEN is a
most welcome weekly visitor to the
Methodist parsonage at Mt. Pleasant.
Wife, boys, and paterfamilias are all
eager to read the news from Giles.
Few know how to appreciate the real
worth of q county paper while getting
it weekly at home in their own county,
as few who enjoy continued good health
esteem the blessing like those who are
long sick. We have mail every morn
ing and evening by the Nashville and
Florence railroad, which runs train
twice daily from here to Columbis,
twelve miles distant; fare only fifty
cents for the round trip, or just frac-
ton over two. cents per mile; hence the
amount OF railroad travel from here to
Colum bia, to me, seems really astonish-
ing. The coach is nearly always full
of passengers. | presume two cents
per mile pays the company more in the
long run than five cents would. Hands
are busy grading the road three miles
beyond here, near the Lawrence line,
but the rails are not laid down that far.
This is the Invest business town of its
size have seen for some wears. Wag-
ons from the factories and furnaces OF
Wayne and Lawrence counties bring
quantities of pig iron and bales of thread
cloth, and other articles for shipment.
More cotton and hogs are sold here than
I expected. Mules are so numerous be-
tw cen here and Columbia that if l
should state the average number on
each farm your readers might be in
eredulous. Fifty mule colts feeding in
single field of rye, barley or clover, is
no rare sight. Such splendid barns
have seen nowhere else in Tennessee or
the South. OF course the homes of the
citizens are generally beautiful and at
tractive. What a charming turnpike
from Columbia to Mt. Pleasant. Even
so quiet { p driver as Rev. T. j. Dun
can, made the twelve miles in one hour.
1t is a beautiful lane almost the entire
distance, with straight plank or picket
fences, or hedges nicely trimmed on
each side. What enhances the beauty
and value of the lands is their high state
OF cultivation and improvement. An
equal amount of care, labor and atten-
ton, given TO the pixies, lands and hous-
es in many portions of Giles, would
make them nearly equal in loveliness
and value to this garden spot of the
SOUTH Test it, my friends, brethren
and kindred of the county of my boy
hood; and you will find the time, labor
and means, if wisely expended, will pay
well in every way. You have the fer
tile soil and natural scenery. Improve
ments are needed.
My charge here is two churches. One
in town has 1l9 members. The one in
the country, 81 miles east, has % mem
Der. Both buildings are neat, large
frame houses, with vestibules and
blinds, furnished with two stoves each;
carpets and a good supply
of hymn books. l moved into the par
sonage, near the church and in the CEN
ter of the town, just four weeks ago.
Mem bers OF the Methodist and Presby-
terrain churches, and other citizens, have
sent us in gratis, liberal store of corn
meal, bacon, lard, butter, eggs, pota-
toes, apples, hackbones, spare-ribs, sau-
sages, dressed turkeys and fresh fish;
so you see, Methodist preacher, who
was a stranger in this part of Maury
county five weeks ago, fares as well al
ready editor in Giles county. L
met your con frere, ALT. Horsley, of the
Columbia Herald, at the substantial
supper two or three weeks
ago. He and his local get up paper
that l find in most of the homes that
visit in and around Mt. Pleasant.
Truly, 5. NJ. CHERRY.