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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-08-04
4 Baptist Bible Threatened.

This 6aptists Ct Philadelphia are talk
ing strongly OF printing a revised YER
sion OF the new testament OF their own.
Some OF their learned men have been
working for years upon translation or
adoption, or both, and sney think, now
that the question OF scripture rendition
has been opened, il woulu be a good
tiu,e to put in the Baptist claim. They
don't like the Canterbury revised YER
sion at all, and characterize 1t as en-
tirely too Episcopalian. Those English
theologIans, they say, had TO attend TO
the interest OF the established church,
whether or not they found those in
teresfs suDserven in the original Greek.
The Baptists particularly Object to The
translation Baptized with the river
Jordan" instead of Baptized in the
river jordan, - as the King James YER
sion has IL. Baptlzing In the river IS
tha naptist rite ot immersion, while
b2ptizing with a river throws cold
water on the Baptists' idea, and faY0rs
sprinkling. The Bsptists suggest that
several other passages have been
tampered with and remOdeled To favor
EpiscoFailanlsm and tell against the
RresbyteEl8es, Bapt,sts, Method.sts and
other dissenting religious denomina-
tions. The Philadelphia BAptists par
tlcularly find fault with the treatment
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Guiteau's Bullet.

1t is proposed to find the ball in the
presidents body by the use of the in
inductive balance, an electrical instru-
ment for detecting the presence OF
metals.
Here is an account Of it:
"lt consists only of two short glass
cylinders, around each of which are
wound two parallel coils of insulated
copper wire. One of the coils on each
cylinder is included in a battery circuit
and clock microphone. The other
coils are placed in a circuit with a re-
ceiving telephone. The two cylinders
are arranged to work together to detect
the presence of metal. If no metal be
near except the copper wire connected
with the two circuits, no sound is heard,
but when a small piece of metal is
placed in one of the cylinders or outside,
and near, the microphone clock will be-
gin TO tick. A lead bullet was placed
within two or three inches of this metal
detective and the clocks response came
promptly. Therefore it is held by the
investigator that by passing this instru-
ment over the patients body, or the
copper coils around his body, it will
lead to the location of the bullet, and by
comparative experiments of the effect
OF lead at different distances the exact
place of the ball may be detected"
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Whore is the West.

Ask Bostonians where the west
is, and they will tell you it is Ohio.
At Cincinnati they will call Mis-
soun the west. At st. Louis, Col.
orado is called the weAt. At Dem
yer, the Pacific slope is the weaa,
ASK also, where the centre OF the
country is, and we find it shifting
ever as we follow the star of empire.
rom the Empire S ate of New
York to Ohio, from Ohio to Iii.
nois, from Illinois to Kansas, until
at last it takes one mighty bound
of nearly two thousand miles to
San Francisco, which has recently
discovered that the furthess Aleu-
tisn lsle acquired in our purchase
OF Russian America, is as lar To the
west of that city as Eastport, is 10
the east OF it. The leap Is nul die
tcult, borne up on the mighty PIN
ions Of the rhetoric OF the Rocky
Mountains Preshyterians, which
thus out-Wehsters Webster and ALI
other Fourth of-July orators In
swelling on the fact that with the
comparatively small break between
Washington Territory and Alaska,
our territory extends through ono
hundred and ninety seven degreea
of longitude, or seventeen degrees
more than half way round the
globe. Hence" cried oar Rocky
Mountain panegyrist, when the
sun is giving its good night kiss to
our westernmost Isle on she conl llneA
OF Behring's sea, Itis already food
ing the helds and forests OF Maine
with its morning light. and in the
eastern part Of that state Is more
than an hour high. At the very
moment when the Aleutian fisher
man, warned by the approaching
shades OF night, is pulling his ca
noe toward the shore, the wood
chopper Of Maine is beginning to-
wake the forest echoes with tho
stirring music of his AK This is
great country. There can be no
question of it. The only trouble
is that we do not know il. Serious
ly, we do not know how great IL is.
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The Cucumber.

This succulent vegetable can make
towards of US all. There is no time in
a mans life when he is so susceptible to
the still small voice of conscience as
when he is prone on his back with the
idea haunting him that he may dieI Bnt
in health the still small voice is still
smaller, and if his sins should find him
out then, very likely they would find
him out at twelve or one o'clock at
night, whooping itup with the boys
And If our city missionary were TO ap-
proach him with tract he would prob
ably laugh the good man to scorn. But
when stretched out with sickness and
DONG the grand contortion act in case
OF cholera morbus he is not SO beastly
His conceit oozes out and be
is willing to accept advice and Jamaeia
ginger. Then, indeed, does the little
cucumber make towards OF us all.
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Wa Shanld Hnnnr Him

The LewIsburg News utters the
following statements concerning
Hon. Jefferson Davis. They do
credit to the brain and heart that
inspired them:
Mr.. Davis had the right to sug
gest the plan of the campaign, and
we hold that it was the duty OF
Gen. Johnston to execute iti and
defeat having followed his refusal
10 do SO he can not be justified by
conjecture or theory. To approve
or disapprove either was net the
object of our article; it was to ex
press our contempt for the caustic
criticisms of the press and individ-
uals on the fair name OF the only
living dignified representative OF the
Il Dst Cause" The man who has
never abated one jot or little in
faith of the justness Of his cause,
and who, when chained in q dungeon
cell, never covered before con
querors or bent the suppliant knee
for pardon, but stood like a martyr
as he was, ready TO meet the execu-
tioner, and die to prove that the
south be.ieYed in the justness Of
their cause.-the man who had the
sublime courage. after fifteen years
Of solitude, without q people and
without n cause, TO say that Stone
wall jackson died as be lived. be-
iieving in the business of their cause.
IS u us the sublimest character OF
modern history. and will oqtllve all
the dirty criticisms OF time serv
Tag press or individuals that have
been or can be hurled at his fair
name.
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Judge Keys Kind Heart.

hnoxVllle Irlpune-
A few days since in the federal court
room one of the numerous prisoners who
had plead guilty to some trifiing viola
tiun of the laws against distilling "a
sturdy, good-faced man of fifty years
stepped forth to receive his sentence
Judge Key pronounced sentence-One
hundred dollars fine and twelve months
confinement in fail. As the prisoner
stepped back into his place, some one
whispered to the judge that it was a
hard case, that he had family and no
body to support them during his i'm
prisOnment. The Judge called him:
"Are you a married manP"
"My wife is dead, sir"
"Have you any childrenP"
Eyes, sir, have three little children
SHOW old are they ?"
"The Oldest is ten, the next is five and
the youngest is two years old"
"Who Is there to take care of them
while you are in jail ?'
"Nobody. sir"
"I'lI suspend judgment in your case
during good behavior. Go back to your
and let liquor alone herea1teF."
We will venture to say that that SEN
tence did more toward the reformation
of the prisoner than the most rigorous
of the severest penalty
could have accomplished. I..
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The Tides o. Fortune.

There is no country in the world
where so many have been poor are
rich and so many who have been
rich are poor as the United States.
and no city in the United States to
which this applies as much as New
York. Every business man of 40
can give you q score of such cases
within his own experience. What
has become of the Blacks, who used
to entertain so charmingly on
Madison aYenueT" asks your friend,
who has returned from Europe after
few years. absence, TO learn tnat
Mr.. Blacks losses in Timbuctoo
Central were so heavy that they are
living in a very small way "some-
where in Jersey" The gloomy
story follows of Green's failure.
"He never recovered, '73, you know,
and things have gone from bad to
worse. How they get along heaven
only knows" Who is not familiar
with these dreary histories2 Who.
if he has, or is supposed to have,
means or infAenee, does no5 receive
piteous appeals from these "better
day" folks2
The question presents itself, have
we any effective machinery Tor aid
ing this class OF the needy? New
York has a vast number Of Chart
able associations, but scarcely of d
kind to assist in the most desirable
and delicate manner persons such
as these. In the great cities of the
old world, notably in London, the
guilds take unfortunate members oi
their various crafts into their keep
ing. They have alms houses,
homes, and pension lists. Thomas
Sutton, the great merchant, who, in
1911, founded the famous institu-
tion where Col. Newcome, in Thack
eray's pathetic story, ended his
days, founded home Tor ouch as
these. as q matter of fact, such
Institutions have. IN modern time
at any rate, not proved satisfactory.
A number Of elderly men, soured
by misfortune and brought together
late in life, are not pleasant company
to each other, or essy fol those set
over them &c please.
So much mas this fact forced itself
on the b. itish government that a
few years since the Royal hospital
for old and disabled sailors at
Greenwich was broken up, and the
men instead receive pensions and
live with their friends. Othe:
similar failures might be cited.
What is needed in New York is an
endowed fund, dispensed by a com
mittee of the cham Der of commerce,
for the private and confidential as
sistance ofdecaYed men of business.
There should, then, be no sort OF
difficulty in raising among these a
chamber of commerce charitable
fund yielding 100000 a year at
least. 1t would not only be a great
charity, but would relieve hundreds
of merchants from the perpetual
applications which now beset them,
and to which they oftentimes hesi-
tate to respond simply from doubt
as to the real merits of the case,
which committee with proper
Jfficeas could promptly investigate.
and, it need be, aid n. Y. Times
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The Battle of Nashville.

To the Editor of the Courier-Journal.
KEMPER CITY, Texas, June 30.--Gen.
Hood regarded Gen. Cheatham's failure
TO form his division across the pike and
check the retreat of SchofieId's corps as
a golden opportunity frittered awav.
In reading Gen. Hoods narrative in this
connection, L wondered why he did not
in person lead the column to its posi-
tion; as certainly the gravity of the sit
uation, as at the bridge of Led, demand
ed as much of the cOmmander-in-chief.
In his late contribution TO the history of
the tennessee campaign" Gen.
French asks me same pertinent auess
ton. But tha' BOod's theory was cor
rect was demonstrated by the action OF
Ross brigade OF Texas cavalry with the
column of SchOfield near Spring Hill.
Gen. Ross, in pursuance OF orders from
q n. Hood, formed his brigade, dis
mounted, across the pike, and held in
check the enemy during one afternoon
and night. Had the division Of Gen.
Cheatham, or SteVehsOn's or Stewards,
been present, the result would indubi-
tably have been different. But Hood
was "reeling along into Tennessee on a
wild goose chase" when the knell of
the ill-starred Confederacy had already
been sounded, and nothing that he could
accomplish around Nashville could have
relaxed the efforts of Giant or Sher-
man.
The beginning of the end ante-dates
Hoods assumption of the Army of Ten
nessee, and Is discoverable in that "Fa-
bian policy" which made towards of
the Confederate soldiery. Interminable
fighting behind intrenchments by day
and the stereotyped retreat under cover
of darkness did the work.
In proof Of the above it is only neces-
sary to point to the exploits OF the cav
airy OF Forrest, Ross, Armstrong, and
others, who always fought upon the
open field. Ross action with the
"White Horse" OF Brownlow, while
Hood was storming the works at Frank
lin, is without parallel in the gallant
ry of either side IN the annals of cavalry
service. Again when Hood was beaten
before Nashville, Ross and Armstrong
were the palladiums OF hope to the Army
Tennessee, and their men encountered
the vastly superior forces of the enemy
with the same enthusiasm and devil
may-care recklessness that character
lied the southern soldiery during the
earlier years Of the var.
Defeated to-day, the cayalFyman was
ready TO meet the same enemy on the
morrow; because he had not been de-
moralized by the use of intrenchments.
With similar experience our brothers
of the infantry arm would have proven
equally as ready for any emergency.
1t may bs bootless TO inquire the
cause of the Confederate collapse, as II
certainly is silly to shed any tears over
it now but l must always believe that
IL was a case of Jeio de Sc. .-.
And always excepting the loss OF
nroDertr and liie) [ imagine there are
few nov who %onli exchange their cit
izenship OF the great rsp1 blIc fSE siIl-
liar status ina Courth-rate power fonnd-
ed on a chimera, and held together by
the cohesion of Afrhan slavery, or re-
gret the price paid for the exposure OF
the fallacy of secession.
''* VECTOR NJ ROsN
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received by the American members Of
the revisory commission in placing
their suggestions in an appendix at the
back of the book; whereas they ought
all to have been adopted in the text.
And the Baptist do not exactly know
whether to print and publish their own
edition of the testament for Baptists
salvation or to take the revised version
and incorporate the American sugges-
tions in the text, and put the English
variations in an appendix. They are
resolved to do something in the way of
bible making, and depend upon the
curiosity that will attach to it to pay
the expenses. They think that the
Baptist Publication Society could dis
pose of at least 100000 copies OF Bap-
tist Bible, and that would pay.-[St.
Louis Repu blican.
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Tha Cation Kinn


Mr.. Richardson, of Cresson, Miss, is
the largest cotton planter in the world
and is the cotton King of America. He
has worked hard all his life and is still
| working. He is generally believed to
have Accumulated from $4,000, 900 10
$40 100000. all made in the south, the
poor south. Eight hundred hands are
employed in the factories, three-fourths
OF whom are women, gathered from the
surrounding country, good, faithful, in
dustrious and intelligent. The remain
ing fourth are men and boys, gathered
from various places, few from the
north, few from England and Scot
land, who work 400 looms and $4,000
spindles. In cotton these mills consume
daily from eighteen to twenty bales, be-
sides an enormous quantity OF wool, OBJ
tanned mostly from the Florida parishes
on Lake Pontchartrain. The prices of
the products of these mills are kept
down to rock bottom, and these mills
being situated in the southern cotton
belt and in the producing districts,
no freights to pay on cotton, their fa-
cilities for buying the raw material are
without doubt unsurpassed and they
can thus undersell all others. Their
savings in freights, having to pay none
at all amounts TO seven or eight dollars
per balo. These goods find ready sale
in all large cities. The mills are now
running day and night, using the Brush
electric lights, making the buildings as
bright as day. The night hands are
separate and distinct from those that
work in the day. All hands work har-
moniously together. There has never
been strike or any threats of such a
thing. There is no eolored laborer en-
ployed, except five men as firemen.
This labor CANNOT be utilized to manage
the looms and spindles. The monoto-
nous humming and droning OF the ma
chinery, it is claimed, would invariably
soothe the negro to sleep and let the
looms run wild and spindles foul. Hence
he is not considered available as a Ia
borer in cotton factories. Cresson is a
thriving town and its population rder-
ly and temperate. There is not grog-
shop in the town.
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Postal Facilities of the South

Postal Facilities of the South.
The press of the south should unite in
earnest and continued protest against
the way in which the government neg
lects the postal facilities at the south
1t is not known, perhaps, by our city
papers and people how deficient the SER
vice is, but the country papers and peo-
pie recognize it and feel it sorely. 1t is
a thing almost of every day occurrence
with us, and we dare say with every 9TH
er country publisher, that men decline
to su scribe for a paper because they
say their post office is too far away. We
venture to declare that no such remarks
are heard in the northern states. We
therefore demand for our people and for
ourselves that every neighborhOod be
furnished with post Office. Until very
recently there was scope OF country
in the northeast part of Giles county
perhaps fifteen miles square that had no
office. The country is rich and the peo-
pie prosperous, yet they were denied an
office. The western part Of this county
is now greatly deficient in this respect,
and indeed the offices might be doubled
all over the county and yet barely meet
the necessities of the people. The gov
ernment should see to it first of all that
its citizens are supplied with every pos
sible and ayailatle means of informa-
tion, and then our industries dem&nd in
creased facilities of communication and
our people are entitled to the benefits Of
a superior and increased postal service.
Let the city papers investigate and see
if these facts do not exist, and then lend
their influence to mending matters.
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The state of Ohio, not satisfied with
the president, now has a musical baby.
Her name is Eettie HibbaFd. and she ia
not yet four years old When an in
fant, she was very sensitive, and at on
ly a few weeks old, would laugh or cry
at certain pieces, but never changing
her preferences. At n year and a half
old, Gle begsn TO ging, learning, with
Sceu facy, anF air thse she heard upon
violin, plano or other Instruments.-
When under three years old she began
to drum on the piano. and liked to shut
herself up from interruption. The as
tonished family soon saw that she could
play correctly the airs sue sang Also,
Would correct false note Ia another
person. She now imprOvises accom-
paniments, aud the effort Is rather 10
To keep her back, lest her prominent
forehead Overfask her slight body. Her
touch Is firm and clear, although her
liaRo IS hard on soueh = n altacnS4ent
has been made for her tiny feet 70 touch
the pedals, and she Is fond of duets
She plays well with both hands.
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Billv the Kid.

Mr.. Lutte Wilcox, Olty editor or
The Las Vegas IN. NJ, Optic, was
in Indianapolis some time ago,
and a reporter interviewed him on
things ia general. Speaking Of the
notorious Billy the Kid, Wilcox
said: or all the killers in tho New
Mexican country, the Kid is the
most successful. He has slain thir-
ty SIX, and wants TO wind up with
Governor Wallace. The governor
offered a reward OF $500 for his ap-
prehension and return To Santa Fe.
He was once a boot black in New
York; a great reader Of dime nov.
els. lie has been in New Msxico.
four years. At first he was only a
herder and got his hand in by killA
ing Mexicans. His last triumphant
escape was about three months ago.
He was under guard. Two offlcers
were on duty, one a deputy United
States marshall by the name OF
Bell, 10 tho room with him. A pis~
tOl shot wis heard.
"The KID has tried to escape"
said one OF the officers, who at the
time was upon the street. sand
Bell has shot him"
The room was in the second sto.-
ry of the building. Saying this he
opened tho door and walked ia the
house. Billv the Kid stood at the
head OF the stairs and shot him,
down. He had worked his brace.
let's off and snatched the ofHcer's
pistol. Billy :hen walked down
stairs and shufiled along the slFeSt
TO n blacksmith shop The smith
cut his irons, and be compelled an
other man To saddle hlEa a feet
horse, lie was full three quarters
Of an hour in getting oUt OF town.
He had not ridden far when be waR
met by two other killers whose
friends he had killed, and Who had
sworn TO kill him. Here was q
ride Of death. They all knew that
one or more OF them had co die.
They rode along watching each 9TH
er Tor twelve miles.
At last Billy the Kid got the drop
and kiilS them both. He IL now
in the San Juan country, collecting,
it is said. a large party of killerA
A few days before 1 left Las Vegas.
Officer Bill Goodlet, at the instance
OF Governor Wallace, started IN
search OF him. The av-
erage cowboy is the tDeAnest o.
towards. as well as the most ruff
ianly of ruth Ds. He al~ays takes
his antagosi Ut at disadvantage,
and works upon the "drop." Ac-
curacy of shot and destitution OF
conscience are his only strong
points. The most miserable "goug
er" who ever wslloWed in "mudon
he lection day" would scorn the
foul "holts," by which the fellow
gladly profits.
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A man in Westfeid. Mass. re
ceived letter from an EnglishmaD,
setting forth that his son had landed
in New York, and gone, he believed.
TO "a plSee oalsPd Texas. The
father wanted TO k2og whether II
would "be askh z too much To beg
that his correspondent run over TO
Texas, and learn whether the young
man is the.e.
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pounds and came in here and told us il
we didn't take back what we had said
about him he would knock out the
window with our remains and let us fall
100 feet into the busy street, il wouldn't
worry US so much, because then we
could strangle him with one hand,
while we wrote a column editorial on
Cenkling with the other. We do that
frequently. But fragile little insect,
with no home and no parents, and only
four or five million brothers and sisters,
gains our confidence and then tickles
our scalp till we have to write with a
sheet Of tar-roofilg over our head.
Then he comes in and helps us to
read our proof. We don't want him to
help, but he insists on making eorrec-
tions aud putting punctuations in the
wrong place, and putting full stops
where they knock the sense all out OF
the paragraph. sD-t taAa-
IL the fly could be removed from our
pathway we could march along in our
journey to the tomb in way that
would be the envy of the civilized
world. AS it is, we feel that we are no;
making very handsome recOrd.-[The
Boomerang. gtC DTOtUsi
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Said a wild Boston boy TO a lee,
turer: You'd make good martyr.
You'd burn well. You're 90 dry"