The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-05

since. Willie Burrow, of Santa Fe,
has been the guest of his grandpa
rents in this vicinity this week.
He reports a hot fight gong on over
politics in Maury, resulting in dai
ly exhibitions of bad blood. We
are more philosophical In Giles.
Here our differences are good HUI
noredly discussed. and so far no i'll
feeling whatever has grown out of
the election. Perhaps this is ow-
ing to the fact that so few of us
want offices. In Maury it is differ
ent, you know. That county, like
the irrepressible state of Ohio,
never sees an office lying arouud
loose without gobbling it up in
stantly, or straining trace to get
at 1t.
Robert Jones, an infant son o.
Capt. r. A. Gordon, died last Sun
day evening of cholera infantum.
He was not considered dangerous,
but on the contrary was thought t.
be better, when sudden change for
the worse took place and he died be-
fore medical aid could be procured
The remains were inferred in the
family graveyard at Mr. A. A.
Dickerson's Monday The family
have the sympathy of the commu-
nifty. Mr. j B. Boyd's child, who
was very sick last week, has, we are
glad to know, entirely recovered.
1t would take several columns OF
the CITIZEN to note all the visitors
and visiting in this community for
two weeks past. ! am occasionally
reproached for the omission of this
and that item. Allow me to say in
this connection that am not ubi-
quitous, that l cannot be every
where or. see everybody at once,
and hence am liable occasionally to
overlook somebody or something.
i am always glad to entertain any
items that are reported 20 me. l
have been struck by the discovery
that some of our smartesG men are
the most ignorant when approached
for news.
Your Brookville, Florida, CORES
pendent, in the CITIZEN of the 22nd,
misunderstands my position with
regard to emigration. 1 claimed
that immense sums of money and
much energy were wasted by our
people in seeking homes elsewhere,
when they might be expended to
better purpose herein old Giles,
where the soil and climate are as
favorable as any under the blue
canopy of heaven. The result too
often is that after years OF absence
and fruitless toll the wanderer re-
turns to be tenant in the commu-
nito where he was once an ipdepen-
dent landowner. There are three
classes of people to whom emigra
ton offers advantages: /. Those
who have outlived their friends; 2,
those who have experienced finan-
cial reverses from which they are
unable to rally; 3, those who have
money and energy, but are swayed
by q restless and nomAdic disposi-
ton, and who have a rough element
in their character not adapted to re
fined society. But to my mind EN-
igration offers no inducements to
the honest, industrious and intelli
gent man of moderate means, who
stands we'll at home. Such a man
can do as well, if not better. here
than elsewhere. am delighted that
your Florida correspondent is able
to give such rose colored view of
his new home, but ii l were not ac
quainted with his character for W
racity, should be tempted To re
gard his whole article as a piece ui
Munchausenism. St. Augustine was
settled in 1920, one hundred years
earlier than any other part of the
United States, and of late years
thousands of people have Wis
tied that region, returning with tho
most discoursging accounts of the
barreDness of the soil, the abun
dance of venomous reptiles and
poisonous insects, and the preva
lence Of n pestileDt isl malaria which |
hut Spaniard or a negro |
can stand. But it remains for your |
at this late day, TO
discover quite different condition
Of things and rewrite, among the
the charming stories
which embellished old Ponce dc
Icons conquest. Perhaps, in your
next issue, be will inform US that
he is watering his stock in the
Fountain of Perpetual Youth. But
| will not cay him nay. If he likes
Florida, all right. can afford to
be complacent, living as l do be-
yond the reach of alligators, high
and dry on the fertile soil of Giles
county. LYNN.