The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-11-16
PULASKI ILLUMINATED.
And Celebrates the Democratic Vic
tory with Great Rejoicing.

The grandest event but one in tn
history of Pulaski transpired las
Friday night when all her peopl
and many from the country unitet
in celebrating the sweeping tri
umphs of democracy with brillian
illumination, long cavalcade ant
longer procession of people bearing
transparencies and giving vent t.
their enthusiasm in loud shouts o
exultation, while guns and anvili
awoke the echoes and the popping
of crackers and the glare and Will
of rockets helped to light the scene
and add to the joyous racket.
1t had been announced by dodgers
beforehand and by 7 o'clock the
square was ablaze with the glitter
Of many hundred candles lining the
awnings, the signs and show-win
dOws and all around the iron fence
of the courtyard, and above a hun.
dred transparencies of all designs
and various inscriptions moved
hither and thither waiting to fall
into procession.
At s o'clock, DR.. G. ALT. Aber-
nathy, Marshall Of the Day, moved
the column down south main, the
carriage containing the orators in
advance. Next followed a numer
Gus cavalcade of men on hoseback
with transparencies, followed by a
battalion of Knights of Pythias,
with helmets and swords, horseback.
Then came citizens marching with
lights and torches, forming a long
procession that traversed 1st, ID,
and Sd streets and thence around
the square.
The scene was inspiring and grand
and was witnessed by hundreds of
people, ladies and gentlemen, and
when the procession halted on the
south side the vast concourse of
people assembled in front of the
speak ers' stand erected at the south
gate and listened to the eloquent
orators who had been selected to
address them.
The speakers were, Hon. Scion E.
Rose, Hon. Thos. NJ. Jones, Mr..
Sam. c.. Mitchell, Hon. f. Edmund
son, Hon. John G. Lester, Mr.. Jas.
p. Rankin, Hon. Il. W. Ewing and
Mr. Laps. d. McCord, who left off
the dull argument of facts and fig
ures that some of them had used so
effectively in making the occasion
for rejoicing possible, and spoke in
strains of triumphant exultation
and eloquent hallelujahs, that
thrilled the people until each heart
was tingling with jubilation and
every checked flushed with joy.
The occasion was enough to in
spire such emotions. The greatest
and most sweeping victory that ever
came to a political party in all the
annals Of time, and greater still be
cause it portends still greater vic
tories in the near future, had just
been made manifest, and it was meet
that a people who deserve most and
labored most for what they deserve
should sing p9ans of victory at the
glad tidings.
The rejoicings did not stop with
the speaking, but after the coast
was cleared of non-combatants, a
bonfire was built and the stores
sacked of combustibles and the
racket of rejoicinga was turned into
a racquet of revelry, and away into
the night the peal and blast and
glare of arms swung corners with
the .larum and whoop of trumpet
lungs in a stunning carni
val of merriment. The speakers
stand that an hour before had been
a spring board for eloquence to
launch itself into the murky en-
pyrean and fall in showering sparks
to thrill a multitude now trembled
under a loa,l of red -lettered wag
gerry and vUciferous fun, and the
shafts of wit, scarcely less vivid
than the myriad rockets that lit the
gloom of night with Dolly Warden
streaks of fierce-hamihg fire, shot
lurid streams of whimsiCalities
athwart the (hic) scene, and the
cracking flames Of (hic) infinite
Jest that curled their red tongues
toward the (hic) stars that stood on
their heads behind Ghe battlements
of the sky (hic) blue vaults of the
that stool with (hic) up
turned (hic) drinking in the (hic)
peans of their fellow (hic) citizens
the flushed 0otaries Of (hic)
to vent their (hic) rousing hilarity
in (hic) unexampled (hic) bully!
The country in now safe.