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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-23
Pulaski, Tennessee, Thursday. Dec. a8, 1880
The Mistletoe.

It is natural for us to sing when we
are glad, and carol singing once formed
q principal feature at all great feasts or
banquets But In later times the carol
seems to have been devoted to Christmas
alone, and when the Yule log was blazing
brightly upon the wide hearth, and the
green mistletoe boughs hung from the
wall and decorated windows and doors,
the wassail-bowl was filed to overfowing,
and true friends pledged each other with
a joyful Christmas song; and under. the
mistletoe boughs the young people joined
hands in the old-fashioned dance and
chanted blithe carol to which their
feet kept time.
We, of modern days, have little idea
of the rare virtues which were once APP
propriated to the mistletoe. He who
hung mistletoe around his neck believed
that the witches would have no power to
harm him, and that was truly comfort
able thought in days when the firm be-
lief in witches was almost universal.
The Druids and the Celtic nations attrib-
uted the most valuable medicinal prop
critics to the mistletoe, calling it all heal.
In Wales it was known as guidheL.
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A Tight-FIsted Mans Christmas.

Oh but he was tight-fsted hand at
the grindstone. Scroogel A squeezing,
wrenching, grasping, clutching, covet-
GUS old sinner The cold within him
froze in his old features, nipped his
pointed nose, shriyeled his cheek made
his eyes red, his lips blue, and spoke out
shrewdly in his grating voice, He car
ried his low temperature always about
with him he iced his Office in dog days !;
and didn't thaw it out one degree at
Christmas.
Once upon a time, old Scrooge sat
busy in his counting house. He could
hear the people in the court outside go
wheeling up and down, stamping their
feet upon the pavement stones to warm
them The fog came pouring IN at
every chink and keyhole, and was so
dense without that the houses opposite
were mere phantoms.
ga merry Christmas, uncle God
save you y cried a cheerful voice.
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Christmas in England.

In England, Christmas Is celebrated
30 regularly and SO joyously, that few
perhaps are aware of the difficulties
once In the way of establishing this glad
festival, or of the various names under
which it has been honored. Towards
the end of the first century, the Christ
ians first found means and coumge to
make due observance of the anniversary
of the nativity of their great Master. It
would have been death to them to mourn
when the Roman Empire was rejoicing,
or to wear signs of gladness on a pagan
unlucky day. They chose, therefore,
the period of the Saturnalia, when half
the heather population was mad with the
excitement of enacting revelry or wit
Messing its enactment According to
some writers, the Church authorized the
observance of the festival of the Ma
tivity ON the 25th of December as early
as the middle of the second century.
Others assert that it was not till the
fourth century that the season for glad
and grateful observance was thus author
itatively determined; and we believe
that the latter opinion is the correct one.
Christmas is the great holiday of the
year, when even grandpapas and grand
mammas condescend to play the part Of
cH1lufen all over again. 1uey Seeuls 10
recover a remarkable elasticity of step;
their smiles are indiscriminately be-
slowed on all around them; their hearts
warm with the generous feelings of their
long past prime, aud the selfishness o.
old age is for the time subdued. They
encourage the little ones in those noisy
romps which at any other season would
give them the headache or prove intol-
era Il to their nerv s; they behold with
out a gesture of angry reproof the kiss
ing heneath the mistletoe. But if the
''old people" be thus pleasantly infu-
enced by the advent of Christmas, how
is it with the young? Who can depict
the full sense of happiness enjoyed by
the youthful of both sexes at this season
of the yearl 1t is not only holiday in
respect to school, but it is a holiday
in the midst of holidaSs-an extra feast
occurring in the midst of a series of festi-
vals-the browning of the brow with
flowers in the midst of a delicious garden
of floral sweets.
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CHRISTMAS in MIdsummer.

Children, wouldn't you think it funny
to see Christmas come in the middle {
summer; to have no ice and snow on the
ground, and no merry sleigh bells ring
ing, and nothing to remind you that it
was winter? Well, away off on the other
side of the world Christmas does come
in the middle of summer. In Australia
on Christmas morning the children say,
"Oh, dearl how hot it is I do wish
Christmas came in the winter time. :"
For when it is winter here it is summer
there, and when you are lying under a
shady tree in July, the little Australia
children are running around with winter
clothes on, blowing on their fingers to
keep them warm.
But whether it comes in summer or
winter, wherever the English language
is spoken, it is time of jollity and plen-
ty; of tender feeling and kindly gifts of
peace on earth and good will to men,"
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Christmas Sentiment.

Says writer in the Yonkers Gazette:
"There is so much about Christmas that
savors of harmony, concord, peace-a
peace that means not merely the cessa-
ton of hostilities between conflicting IN
terests in our social world, but that Sc
rener, broader, deeper peace which
unites man to man by all the ties of
friendly intercourse which proceed out of
an universal desire to make Christmas
bright spot among the fading memories
of the year. / like the sentiment the
more because it pervades every commu-
nifty and brings to view the better side of
every mans character. Not a ScTooge
nor Gradgrind on earth can wholly
steel himself against its humanizing in
huence, and though the closing of the day
may find no charity dispensed or glad
ness awakened, yet it will at-least surely
find the edge of his habitual severity
bluRted. If there is ever ''peace on
earth" in its fullest sense, it is on Christ
mas. do not believe that custom and
usage alone have made the modern ami
versary day of the Saviour's nativity one
of rejoicing; it has ever occurred to me
that since first the glad tidings went out
from Bethlehem the event has left its i'm
press on each succeeding generation,
ana JIlab edcn recurring HdppN mOrH
has found the chord of human sympathy
and love responsive to the mystic glow.
If this were not so think we should see
less Misunderstanding and cordial greetings
than we do now, a more limited sphere
of action for the aims gatherer, fewer WIS.,
its from ''Santa Claus, fewer Christmas
tree festivals, listen to poorer and less ex-
citing homely old stories of legendary
lore, hear less caroling of christians
awake" find sparser harvest of mistle-
toe, and we would have far more con-
tracted views of our life-cloud's silver
lining. And then, too / like the meth
DDS we have taken as nation to show
our appreciation of that day. They are
beautiful; they are just They help us
to consecrate our lives and to shape them
in the channel that is best suited to their
moral development. Where thoughts
and motives are pure and simple, we may
look for good deeds. Where the observ-
ance of Christmas is made known through
benevolent acts, kind words to the dis
tressed, family gatherings, happy chill
dren and the distribution of gifts, wheth-
er the celebration be to honor the day for
the days sake or not, the occasion is one
that we should be truly thankful for
This world of ours is bettered by Christ
mas and every one of us should help to
make it memorable.
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''Bah - said Scrooge. ''Humbug !"
christmas humbug, uncle You
don't mean that, I am sure p
81 do, said Scrooge ''Merry Christ
mas What right have you to be
merry? You're poor enough"
Come, them" returned the nephew,
''what right have you to be dismal
You're rich enough"
"What else can 1 be when I live in
such world of fools as this ? Out upon
merry Christmas If 1 could wish my
will every idiot who goes about with
Merry Christmas on his lips should be
boiled with his own pudding and buried
with stake of holly run through his
heart Keep Christmas in your own
way and let me keep it mine"
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The wife's Christmas Present.

They sat at the breakfast table
my dear" said she, "Tm going to
get you something very handsome for a
present
His countenance fell so quick it hurt
itself, but he succeeded in saying with a
semblance of pleasure:
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"Are you, my love?" while at the same
time he began figuring how much these
two bills-the one for his own ''hand-
some present" and that for the equally
handsome one expected in return-would
increase the quarterly outlay. Thus
does the prodigal hand of Santa Claus
make much happiness and allow the
thoughtful helpmeet to get the bulge.
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AGAIN At Christmas did We weave
The holly round the Christmas hearth,
The silent snow Possessed the earth,
And calmly fell on Christmas eve.
The Yule-log sparkled keen with frost,
No wing Of wind the region svspt,
But ovur ali things broeding slept
The quiet sense Of something lost.
Who showed token Of distrs1f
No zingle terT, no type 81 pain;
O porrQW. then can SORROW Wanef
o erid, On grief Be changed TO len.
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The CITIZEN offers its usual Club
Rates for 1SS1--$l 80.
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Do you see the poor,
thin MANI How sad It is
to be poor, and have no
turkey to eat. Who is
the man? He is an ed
i-tor. What is an ed-i-
tor9 An editor is a man
who robs his own stomach
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to fill the heads of other people.
Poor mani will send him a big,
fat turkey for his Christmas dinner.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-03
,CHE ARrlzANs SAVINGS BANK

TINHE ARTlzANS SAVINGS BANK
SOP MARKET STREET,
INCORPORATED JANUARY 18th, 1861.
Open TO receive deposits dafly from A
NJ, until 4 L. M, and ON Tuesday and Sal
urday evenings from to 8 O'Clock.
SEMl-ANNUAL DIVIDEND,
regularly made in April and October.
When dividends are not Withdraw nt
they are accounted as deposits. Thus per
manent deposits compound their Interest
twice in each year.
MANAGERS.
Chas. W. Townsend George S. Capeiie,
Nathan'l R.Benson, NJ. l.. Lichensteln,
Henry +. Dure, Edward Darlington
W. Hastings, Job ii. Jackson,
Edward Pusey, VIM. ii. Swift,
Anthony Higgins.
GEO. W. BUSH, President
EO. s.. CAPELLE, Vice President.
feb2l-lv ct. TAYLOR Treasurer.
L,IRST NATIONAL BANk
Il OF WlLMINGTUN
REPOSITORY OF THE PUBLIC MONEY
AND
FINANCIAL AGENTS OF THE UNI
TED STATES.
EDWARD BETS, PRESIDENT.
GEO. ID. ARMSTRONG, CASHIER
Paid up Capital, $5oO.OOo.
Philadelphia. New York and Boston II,
change furnished to regular Depositprs
without charge.
Discount days, Mondays ana ursdsj'
at $50 A. NJ.
DIRECTORS.
Clement TSn 3; ,smyth' GeoEEe ,,, Es W. Bush
Henry $. McComb. Sam,l bancroft, II.
Daniel James, William Tatnal,
Edward B"ts. ianl-h
The daily gazette., 1880-09-03
snakes AS Life DestrOyers.

The loss of life in India due to the ra-
wages of yenomous snakes Is almost in
credible. Yet the disease which, Is as willy
and deadly as the deadliest India reptile,
8 winding its coil around thousands of
people while the victims are unconscious
Of lis presence. 1t has long been hobby
with incompett mt physicians to assume
that consumptio Is incurable after the
formation of tubercles has begun; and in
every case they tail to effect cure
of course tubercles had begun to form
and they were incurable The records Of
medical science disprovea any such theory
ON the contrary, In cases OF lung disease
Witch had been cured and the patients
lived forty and fifty years in ROBUST health
most mori,m xamiuations showed large
rica,rices (scars) where the tubercles had
been formed and removed. The tubercles
are removed by absorption into the blood.
An efficlent Alternative, DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, must be nsed to
cleanse the blood Of scroiulous Impurities.
ForiubeTcular consumptioni Is only form
of scruIulous disease. Golden Medical
discovery is sovereign remedy for all
forms OF Scrolu! !ous disease. or king's-cvii
such as tumors, white swellings, fever
sores. scro1ulous sore eyes, as well as for
other blond and skin diseases.
aug2G-eodOt'
The daily gazette., 1880-09-03
A BIG DAKOTA FARM.
Dubuaue CIowa) Times.

TIE entire party, on invitation, visited |
the famous Dalrymple farm, twenty five |
miles west of Fargo, and took mental
note of the largest cultivated farm on
the Western Continent. 1t contains &c.
600 acres under plow, 24,000 of which
are now in wheat and $4,000 in oats. 1t
was a grand sight, and well it might
challenge the admiration of visitors.
Last Monday morning the several Super
iutcndents of divisions put the reapers
to work cutting the wheat. There were
125 of these-l25 reapers on single
farm Mr.. Dalrymple manages his farm
on strict business principles, his harvest
work being performed on folty-day
contract with each workman at $1.75
per day, he boarding them. The harv-
esters all board at large dinning halls
prepared expressly for the Dalrymple
family. Each reaper is operated by three
horses or mules. There are 375 of them
on these reapers, aid the click of the
sickle is music TO the farmers ears.
When shocked and sufficiently dried,
both wheat and oats are threshed from
the stubble and without stacking. The
threshers are operated by steam, and,
like all other kinds of work, this is done
with thorough system. The estimated
field by harvesters and proprietor is
about eighteen bushels of wheat per acre
and ninety of oats. The wheat product
OF this one farm foots up $4,000 BUSH
els-about nine hundred car loads, or
forty-iive train-loads Of twenty cars per
train. This immense crop will go to u e
seaboard by way Of the lakes, through
Canada and the Erie Canal, and is ex-
pected To net sixty cents per bushel at
the farm. Mr.. Taylor says that large
emigration is going inlo that section, but
it is his deliberate judgment that the
soil of the valley will not long endure
the successive cropping to which it is be-
ing submitted. He thinks, owing to the
thin alluvial surface and the gravel and
sand sub-soil, that it is far less durable
than the soil Of Iowa, and that settlers
will Ultimately be disappointed. 1t is a
delightful country, and very inviting to
the eye. The Northern Pacific Railroad
extends one hundred miles beyond Bis
marck, and is going steadily westward
| The road is an excellent one, declared
to be the best new road known by the
railroad officers Of the party.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-03
AN INGENIOUS EDITOR.

From the n Jrristown Herald.
William II. Balch, the Boston news
paper man and detective, and for a
short time editor of the Philadelphia
Press, recently heard lady say: 81
wish somebody would invent hairpin
that would stay in ones hair" And
Mr.. Balch, being of an accommodating
turn, went to work aud invented such
a contrivance. 1t is getting so now
that a man can't be successful editor
unless he can turn his hand to almost
anything. Some day, when we get
time, we shall invent pin that won't
wound young mans hand when he
puts his arm around girls waist to
prevent her falling out of a buggy or
off chair.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-03
TAKE NOTICE /!
/ SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
o8U-I24th. MOhthIy DraWIhE.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO

This institution was regularly incor
porated by the Legislature of the State 20
Educational and Charitable purposes, in
1868, for the term of Twenty five
Years, to which contract the inviolable
faith OF the State is pledged, which pledge
has been renewed by an overwhelming
popular vote, securing its franchise in the
new constitution adopted December I'd,
A, d., 1879, with capital of 81 100000, To-
which IL has since added a reserve fund OF
overb350 0OO. Its Grand Single Number
Distributions will take place monthly
on the second Tuesday.
IL neUer scales or poStp0neS. Look at the
following distribution:
CAPITAL PRIZE; S30,000.
100000 T1CKET AT TWO DOLLARS
EACH.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-03
SOUND ADVICE ABOUT FU-
NERALS.

In the preparation and arrange
ments for the burial, let as little
time and money be expended as pos
BILE for snowy surroundings. The
less of these things the better. Have
only enough show for proper respect
for public decorum and social re-
spect. We are getting TO mingle
adversely and prosperity together,
and are getting TO be unable TO dis
tinguish moral dillererencc. We are
now hardly able to distinguish be-
tween funeral and q wedding. At
funerals the tendency is toward eX.
travagance and pride, and, as con-
sequence, toward vice and the mean
est folly. Funerals are degenerating
into the most selfish, expensive, ,showy
and meaningless services. AS the
vulgar expression is, they are simply
ceremonies TO give the dead "a good
send-off." The coffin is covered with
tinsel and finery to'ally out of place,
considering the surroundings of the
deceased when alive. A man win
spend $50 for carriage hire at the fu-
neral Of his wife, when he never spent
a dollar for riding for her when alive
At a great deal of sacrifice a husband
will buy a profusion of costly flowers
when he never bought u pot plant fol
the Frightening of her chamber duriae
years Of sickness and suffering. Il
possible, the funeral should be on Z
day other than the Sabbath, so as no
to interfere with the PASTORS rcgula
duties at stated service. A vigorous
protest against the too frequent ant
very often disgusting habit Of public
leave taking of the body was made
The preacher held that the leave tax
ing Of our beloved dead should alway
be in private, and not before crowt
of idle, curious and unsympathizin.
spectators. The practice Of kissing
the dead just before the coffin-lid wa
sore we'd down, was neither decoru
nor proper, particularly in the pres
encc of strangers. Sometimes thcr
was more kissing after death than be-
fore. The glass cover should not b'
removed for the qualification of any
body. Nay, more, the revel elend gen
tleman suggested that the face of th
dead should never be exposed t.
strangers. All the funeral ceremonie
should be simple, but strikingly sym
bolical. A simple piece of Grape OF
the door or worn on the person wa
sufficient to denote death in the family
The daily gazette., 1880-09-03
The Health of NeworIeans.

AT this period of the year the public
generally turns its gaze to New Orleans
for the news of public health there. The
many sad recollectioDs of the past fever.
stricken years are still fresh / h every ones
memory. The world famed Charity Hos,s
ptal there is the great rock of comfort as
a protection to the citizens, and its | a s
century of excellent management give
them confidence of Its future ability TO
stay "'Jhe pestilence that walketh in dark
ness" The support of .his establishment
has been guaranteed by the large revenue
paid by The Louisiana State Lottery for
its franchises any information about will
be cheerfally given, on application In
person or by mail to NJ. A. DAUPHIN,
No. $40 Broadway, New York City or
Same Pedson, at New Orleans, La.
sent. |. Gt.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-03
EGIsrER's ORDER,
REGISTERS OFFICE,
New Castle Co. A

REGISrER'S OFFICE,
New Castle Co., Aug. rs. 1880. (
Upon the application of j. Poulson
Chandler, Executor of Mary Gould late oil
Christiana Hundred, in said county.
deceased, II is ordered and directed by the
Register that the Executor aforesaid
give notice pf granting of Letters Testa-
mentary, upon the estate of the de-
ceased, with the date of granting thereof
by causing advertisements TO be posted
within forty days from the date OF such
Letters in SIX of the most public places of
the county of New Castle, requiring all
persons having demands against the es-
tate TO present the same, or abide by an
Act of Assembly in BuCn case made and
provided; and also cause the same to be
inserted within the same period in the
WILMINGTON GAZETTE, a newspaper pub
lished In Wilmington. and to be cOntin-
ued therein three weeks, (e. o. d.
fol Given under the hand and seal
1 Il. =. of Office OF the Register aforesaid
49, at New Castle, IN New Castle
County aforesaid, the day and year above
written. =. G. BIGGS, Re gister.
NOTICE,
All persons having claims against the
estate of the deceased, must present the
same, duly attested to the Executor,
on or before ug. 20, 1881. or abide the Act
OF Assembly in such case made and pro-
vided. j. POULSON CHANDLER,
Executor.
Address-Centreville. Del.
ag25 wtod.
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THEY'D DO THEIR BEST.
From Detroit Free Press.

From Detroit Free Press.
A party of Detroiters who were fisbsnl
for brook trout on tine Boyne river, an'
camping on It's banks, ran out of sup
Plies, and an envoy was sent out to beg
buy or borrow something until an o!de
| sent to Traverse City could be filled
After a walk of two miles he came to 4
log house in the woods. A woman, five
children, three dogs and a family o
tame coons occupied the one single room
in the house. The furniture was all
homemade, the tableware consisted en-
tirely of tin dishes, and only one bed
was visible. The envoy stated his er.
rand, and the woman replied:
"Flour! | reckon we ran out O. 1our
yesterday, and we won't have any more
till next week"
"Can you spare any coffe 2"
al guess not. The last coffee We had
run out on Christmas. If we git any
next week I'll spare some"
GLOW about tea?
dwell, tea has been purity skeerce with
US for the last two months, but Ben said
he thought of gittin' some long this tall.
Ii you're around here when our tea
comes we'll divide with you"
"You haven't auy potatoes 10 spare,
have you?"
"Well, now, You ought to have been
here last week for 'taters. / cooked the
last Sunday. These ere doks and child
rem set heap by cold Eaters, and they
go off like hot cakes. Ben Is going to
get some more long about Saturday"
Have you any provisions at all thai
you can spare?" asked the discouraged
envoy.
Well, now, don't believe we have,
b 1t we are going to stock up long in
the fall, was telling Ben only last
night that I'dgot kinder tired of scrooch-
in along ON Injun and lasses"
"Ill buy some of that il you can spare
ii, for we haven't drop of anything in
camp"
"No, can't sell any. Fact IN, we had
the last for breakfast, and Ben won't
get any more till Saturday night"
"Pm sorry" sighed the man as he
turned away.
eyes, som l." she sighed III return.
"I set d your party down dar in camp
rother day, and you look like honest
folks. ia be glad to spare you some
thin, but | can't. Ifyou men want TO
move your camp up here and enjoy our
society, and use our smudge to drive
away skeeters, we'll do our best to make
1t PLEASANT but when you come down TO
fodder we ain't nowhar'. l was telling
Ben only last night that we'd be lucky if
we got these dogs and coons through an
other winter.
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RAILROADS.
DHlLADELPIMA, Wllmsn9slLsyg, y \ \ y
i AND BALTIMORE BAkLHO A1
JULY 26rH Is

JULY 26ra 1889.
Trains willleave Wilmington astolF,ws;
for
Philadelphia and intermediate Stations,
100. $40, 1880 a. M; 2.3O, 400, 100 s.ov
p. m. 4p
Philadelphia tExpress) $50, 800. s.44,
1902 a. m. 30, 9.48 p. m
Phila- and New York 2.23 ,0.30.7.00. 1902 @.
M, 12.39, l2.43, 2.2O. 8.07 p. IN.
Baltimore and Intermediate Stations
S.35 q, IN. 5.22 p. m.
Baltimore and Bay line, 7.0B p. m.
Baltimore and Washington, l2.U. 400,
2.l5 S35. q. m; l2.52, l .04, 4.48, 7.0s, p. N.
Trains for Delaware Division, leave tor
New Castle 800. 9.25, a. M; LOS SOC. 8.6
p. IN.
Harrington and Intermediate Stations.
9.25 q. m. LOS, 6.35 p. m.
Delmar and intermediate Stations, e.8
NJ; LOO p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Philadelphia and intermediate Stations
$40 q. m. 800, 6.3O, $50 p. M.
Philadelphia and New York, 2.23 q. m.
Baltimore and Washington, 1851, 2e3
O. m.
For further information passengers are
| referred to the time tables posted at tn I,
| depot H. II. RENNEY,
Superintendent