The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03

Miss Mary Lou White returned
from her visit to Nashville last Fri
day.
To-day is the election. Candi-
dates can't sleep any more for the
next forty-eight hours.
There will be a hop at Cayce
Springs tomorrow night and Mr.
Cayce requests US to extend cor
dial invitation to our young people
to attend.
After getting through with the
first call of the criminal docket
Tuesday evening, Judge McLemore
adjourned court until Friday and
went home.
Miss Ella Rankin, for some weeks
the guest of Miss Alice Osborn,
went Tuesday to Buford's on visit
of a week or so to friends in that
community.
Capt. Jas. R. Grove brought us
Tuesday a couple of the finest
peaches of the season, "Pride of the
Village" One measured IL inches
around and weighed II ounces.
Judge McLemore said at the
spring term OF court that all par
ties found guilty of carrying con-
cealed weapons after that term
should go to Jail. He has done as
he warned them he would do, and
sentences them to Jail.
Knight 81 King have bought out
McGrew Bros. and will, in week
or two, open their market at the lat
ter's old stand. Mr.. w. r. Craig
will probably occupy Knight d
Kings present stand with his evap
orator.
Mr.. John Halsey, son and part
ner of one Of the best merchan is in
North Alabama, Mr.. Sam'l Ha lsey,
at Trinity, and his wife, have been
visiting relatives in Giles this.week.
Mr.. Halsey thinks of coming to Pu-
laski to engage in the mercantil e
business.
The hop at the Linden last Fri
day was largely attended and high
ly enjoyed by all present. A num-
Der of young ladies were visiting in
town at the time, adding to the bril-
liancy and pleasure of the occasion.
The Pulaski young ladies were
equally charming.
Mrs. Cary Gilbert of near Pros
pect has returned from Coleman's
wells near Huntsville much i'm
proved in health. She suffered
greatly from neuralgia, and we learn
that part of the bone had to be re-
moved from her face, and she was
compelled to seek relief in the heal
ing waters of the wells.
There was big crowd in town
Monday, and electioneering was the
order Of the day, attended with
great excitement. Nearly if not all
the candidates in the county were
here, and were making a desperate
effort to gain votes. They have
finished this laborious task now.
To-day will tell the tale.
The enormous peach crop in this
section is frequently remarked upon.
In town, and we are told that it is
the same way in the country, trees
are actually weighted down with
fruit, and in some instances ruined
by being so broken. Another re-
markable feature is that the fruit
is all fine and well developed.
We have received with the compli-
ments of DIR. L. Hensly Grubbs,
Grand K. of r. & S., copy of the
Journal of the Grand Lodge of Ala
bama for 1882, a ninety page pamph-
let printed in elegant style by DR..
Grubbs at the Decatur News office.
From it we learn that the X. p. in
that state is in fOurishing condi-
ton financially and constantly
growing in membership.
Miss Shapard makes her usual
fall announcement of the opening
of the Cottage School. The pupils
will be limited and those intending
to enter had better do so at once
The Cottage School has gotten to be
an indispensable feature in Pulaski
and is so recognized by patrons and
the public. 1t is only necessary to
call attention to the opening and
advise early application of patrons.
Judge Hilary Ward happened to
an accident last Thursday evening
that might have been serious. His
chair post wen through a hole in
the floor of the front porch of Mrs.
Young's boarding house and pre-
cipitated him headforemost through
the vines some three feet to the
ground. He was unhurt, but his
precipitate fall occasioned consider
able apprehension among the board
ers who witnessed it.
S. T. Vert, esq'r, of Decatur, one
of the most successful lawyers at
the North Alabama bar and a gent
al, jolly gentleman, was in Pulaski
last Wednesday on professional
business. He stopped on his re-
turn from Nashville where he
witnessed the marriage of a client
for whom he had but few days be
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