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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-23
The MOONLIGHT Picnic

No occasion has afforded the
young people of Pulaski more
pleasure than the moonlight picnic
and dance at Col. Scion f. Roses
Monday night. 1t seems to have
been just the kind of an affair that
everybody wanted to attend, for
nearly everybody went They all
expected glorious time and none
were disappointed. There were
quite number of charming young
ladies from the country present be-
sides those who live in Pulaski. The
beautiful lawn in front of the resi-
dence, that makes Col. Roses place
one of the prettiest in the country,
was tastefully Illuminated and af-
forded nice promenades and com
Portable seats for those who pre-
ferred such amusement to dane
ing. This was said to be the first
private dance in Pulaski "for ages"
and the dancers have surely
not enjoyed themselves more for
equally as long a time. A good
many little folks were present
and engaged in the pleasures with
all the zest of youth, and had al
as nice time as the older
people. Col. and Mrs. Rose will
long be remembered by all who at
tended with grateful thanks for
their warm reception upon the occa-
sion.
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Poplar Hill.

Since my last we have had 6
fine rain and turnip-sowing has
been the go, more being sown than
usual.
old Mr.. David Pittman is very
low and not expected to live. He
is about so years of age and a good
citizen. Mrs. E. B. Gilbert is very
feeble with her jaw and throat. She
suffers greatly.
Rev. Mr.. Kirkland passed
Monday on his return from holding
protracted meeting at Elkton.
The colored Missionary Bap-
lists had a very large crowd out
from the beginning to the end of
their association--supposed on Sun
day to be over /, 800, and from all 1
can bear nothing but harmony and
good behavior prevailed. All went
off finely; they have some fine
preachers and good scholars among
them; Elder Smith, colored, bap-
tised ii on Sunday before in Elk
river. He is the right man in the
right place.
Aaron Coleman, colored, is
causing great deal of trouble here
and is soaring women and children.
He seems crazy.
Our protracted meeting begins
next Saturday at Poplar Hill under
Elder P. L. McCanless. Elder
Gum is expected to assist in hold
ing the meeting.
Not much fodder saved yet, as
the weather will not admit it's
curing.
Ira T. Haney and wife of near
Cotton Gin, Mississippi, are on a
visit and attending the bedside of
her father, David Pitman. He is
wanting to buy land and move back
again. He has been gone over ten
years and he says Giles county is
the garden spot. Ira looks well
and is not broken.
Our public schools are full
over 70 in each, white and colored.
Our road overseer, with the aid
of our district boss, P. G. Whitmire,
is putting our roads in fine fix.
Gravel and stone ia used considera-
bly, and he is making new bridges
across all deep gullies. E. c. Wy
att boasts OF a stalk of corn having
five matured ears on it.
OCCASIONAL.
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SuInac.

Notwithstanding we have had
seasonable weather we find many
cornstalks without ears. It is sup
posed by some people that this was
caused by hard winds blowing the
bloom from the tassels. Still we
will make a good yield of corn.
Stock of all kinds are at present
healthy and thrifty.
The turnpike has crawled up
to within sight of us, and as we
have mile or two of natural pike,
we've good road now to Pulaski.
We learn that about half the trav-
cling now is done down the creek.
This is curious economy-travel
two miles further to save a nickel
This reminds US of story we once
read about man trying to catch
the flies that had been in his sugar
that he might scrape their legs.
MIR. Merit Eslick and Mrs.
Mendoza Marks presented the resi-
dent preachers wife with some fine
fowls recently. Such generous peo-
pie will prosper.
This reporter while attending
Rev. j. B. Anderson's meeting
near Diana had the pleasure of Wis
iting Oakshade Farm, Dr. w. T..
Perry, proprietor, and in company
with him looked around at his fine
variety of fowls and hogs. The
doctor has recently added two very
fine Berkshires to his lot. He paid
$50 for one SOW pig 4 months old
purchased her at Sedalia, Mo. He
is doing much for the country by
introducing the best breeds of hogs
and fowls.
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, the oldest
woman of this place, is quite sick of
bilious fever; also little daughter
of VIM. Estes, Jr.
Uncle Billy Parsons is growing
quite frail. Mentally and physic-
ally he appears to be rapidly deelin-
ing. He is the only man of this
name that lived a bachelors life.
Mr.. Jack Ross who has been sick
nearly all Cne year, Is growing qulGe
feeble. He has recently had two or
three hemorrhages.
Mack Forehand is making ar
engagements to start to Texas-to
the land of chills and cotton. AS
we can't do much with cotton and
want less to do with ehills, we will
DerhapS try this hill country of Dure
water while longer.
Since our last letter VIM. J.
Newton, aged about so years, died
of consumption.
Daniel Eslick's school has
closed here and he is thinking of
going to the famous Culleoka school
to the Messrs. Webb. Miss Mamie
we learn, has made ar
to teach at Cave Spring,
about a mile north of the mills.
Mon.
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NO "a
LynnVilIe.

Il
Gideon White, a cotton plan
ter of Lowndes county, Miss,
born and reared near Burords' Sta
ton, is visiting the land of his ma
tivity-visiting his nephews, Messrs.
Summons, and his neice, Mrs. w. G.
Carter. He is good looking and an
old bachelor at IL. We take it that
his idea of beauty was formed in
boyhood in Giles. When he went
to Mississippi his idea was too high
for that state and he failed to find
one that came up to the beauty he
knew in his hoyhood. He is a great
admirer of fine stock. he will 90
on to- louisville to take in the great
exposition.
The shooting of a negro by
Col. Higdon reported in last issue
was substantially true. The trial
was had Thursday. Col Higdon
was justified. The negro asked to
make it up with Col. Higdon and
said the colonel had served him
right. The negro was only slight
ly hurt and has gone to work.
Our esteemed fellow citizen,
Capt. j. L. Cline, died Sunday
morning of paralysis. He had been
confined to his room for a year
with infammatory rheumatism, in
duced by horse falling on him
during the war. He was a north
ern man and captain in the late
war and settled here after the late
unpleasantness and was loved and
respected by all who knew him. He
was enthusiastic over the advan-
tage Giles county possessed over all
the world. His death is a misfor
tune to immigration as he was can.
culated to do great good. He was
a member of the Methodist chuIch
and his funeral was preached by
Rev. w. Weakley of Culleoka. The
remains were Uttered at Campbell's
station by the side of his first wife.
Misses Emma and Willie Gil
bert of Pleasant Hill are visiting
Miss Lena Story this week.
The Academy opened Monday
with 66 in attendance with a fair
prospect of 100 next week.
Mrs. j. b. Gray visited friends
at Franklin last week and Miss
Kate Gray returned with her Sat
urday. LYNN.
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Chambers Creek. Texas.

L see you get q letter from Texas
once in while, and as l promised
a good many of my friends in Giles
L would write them something about
this country as soon as I had been
here long enough to find out what
it was, l thought 1 would write you
and let you publish it, since those
who don't subscribe for the CITIZEN
borrow it, so they can all hear from
me that want to. Our neighbor-
hood had plenty of rain till corn
was matured. But since then cot
ton has suffered. Perhaps some of
them want to know what can be
raised out here. Well, first comes
cotton which is king of the land,
with watermelons plenty both on
waxy soil and sand. Then cattle,
in numbers both long horn and
short, with mustang ponies that
can rear, pitch and short. And
corn in abundance, but where are
the hogs? And instead of sheep we
have plenty of dogs. We also have
chiggers to amnse one in summer,
especially if he comes in the shape
of drummer; and chickens; don't
you wish you were preacher But
we can fill your place with school
teacher. And chinches innumerable,
of Sut Lovingood sort, when
you think you are away from them
you are caught. And Children,
oh, l don't know how many, from
twenty-five dollars all down to
penny. And chillsi how they rat
tie mans teeth, so when he gets
up he feels like dried leaf. In adj
dition to the above named articles, |
we raise a good quantity of mud,
for which we have at present no de-
mand. My advise to my friends
who are thinking of coming here is,
come and try it a year or two be-
fore you invest, and don't sell your
farm if you have one, for at the end !
of the year you will be like Dick
Eason-you will think you have
the best farm back there in the |
world, and you won't miss it far.
Texas has but one advantage over
Tennessee, that is a man can work
himself to death here ten years and
twenty-nine days sooner than he
can there. Your mud-holes that
you complain of there would be
very comfortable roads here. In
dry weather we have beautiful
roads. But let it rain and you had
better stay in the house. I don't
wish to cry Texas down; In some
it is very fine country.
A man can work more land here
than anywhere / ever saw. But if
he gets sick and has to hire help it
will cost him dollar day. His
cotton costs him a dollar per hun
bred, sometimes more when he has
70 have help. Plenty of men give,
after making the crop, one half to
get it picked out. When there
s a good crop Of corn as there is at
it is only worth 20 or %
OATS were worth only 25 cents.
cents per bushels. You can't keep ,
t two years because weavils eat it.
Some of these people say / am
home sick. have no home but if
ever own one it will be in old
Giles. There are several families
lere of the same notion. You may
oOk for us next winter.
G. p. REED.
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Pulaski and campballsville Pike.

Pulaski and campbellsville Pike
A turnpike from Pulaski to Cam
bellsville is now one of the greatest
needs of Giles county. 1t is a need
that has pressed itself upon the
people of the two localities and
along the line until they are fully
persuaded of its importance and
almost persuaded to build
it. 1t is one of the topics of con
versation on the streets of Pulaski
and some of our most enterprising
men are ready with their energy
and money to start the movement.
While the subject was being dis
cussed in a small circle last Monday
morning, men who have got the
money they propose to invest ex-
pressed willingness to engage in
the enterprise to the amount of six
hundred and fifty dollars, one an
hundred dollars worth and another
said he would insure five hundred
dollars. Here are only three men
in a large community who will
raise $3.50 toward building the
pike, and a few more such men can
build it. They can be found if any
one will take it upon himself to
hunt them up. One of the gentle
men mentioned above already has
money invested in one of the new
pixies and he says he is willing and
anxious to put more into the bust
ness if the Campbellsville pike is
built, because he is satisfied that it
will not only be of vast benefit TO
the county but paying invest
ment. He thinks, and reasonably
enough, that a pike from Pulaski
to Campbellsville would pay the
stockholders handsome per cent.
The necessity of having good roads
has been staring the people in the
face until such men as him are
aroused, and now is the time to start
the Campbellsville ball to rolling.
Pulaski would be vastly benefited
and she surely needs 1.-THE peo-
pie of Campbellsyille and along the
entire line would be vastly bene-
flied, and they would certainly be
Wllllu0 10 udlAC JuC IOdQ. L here
are exhaustless beds of fine gravel
in Big creek convenient to the pro-
posed route and the cost of con
struction would be comparatively |
light. There are numerous 1ncen-
tives to induce the people to action
in this matter and no .reasonao Die
can be made against it.
Pulaskians, listen to reason, and
arouse yourselves from the lethargy
which has tied your hands and
threatens to keep them tied until
the life blood of your business is
Slapped. .Yon can open avenues to
large trade, if you will, and a pike
to Campbellsville is one of them.
Let meeting be called for the pur;
pose of taking aggressive steps in
his direction, or let some one take
his pencil and paper and solicit in
vestments in the enterprise. The
money can be raised more easily
5han you can imagine. Do some
thing to start the ball.
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henceforth will meet at Mrs. Roth
rocks at least one night in every
week and practice about , hours.
Come out, young ladies; let's have
a good attendance once, for this is
a splendid way to improve your
voices. Tuesday night u o'clock
will be the time or is the time des-
ignated To meet and sing.
Mr.. Cover and his wife we're
visiting relative on Weekly's creek
last week but have returned.
Our Sunday school is flourish
ing now, though we had small at
tendance last Sunday caused by the
meeting at Blooming Grove, we
suppose.
DIR. HARDWOOD has two children
very sick, though nothing serious
or fatal, we hope.
We are glad to be able to say
that the manse has been undergoing
the work Of completion. The rooms
have been papered and painted and
it is now about ready for the in
mates. So we suppose Rev. A. r.
Holderby will move this week.
DR.. HARDWOOD is repairing his
house, that is charging it, though
we do not know for what purpose.
After it is completed he will give
an entertainment of some kind for
the benefit of the. manse.
Those who subscribed any
thing for the building of this part
of the pike are working out their
subscription. If the work is pushed
forward until the road is graded
through to Pulaski it will be in
such condition that it can be kept
up very easy during next winter,
but if it is not done the farmers of
this community will not be able to
carry their produce to Pulaski. |
We hope it will be completed long
before next winter.
Jones M. Hardy has the finest
sweet potatoe patch in this commu-
nifty. He has already had some for
table use which are very large and |
fine and he is anticipating a fine
yield. BRICK.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-23

Referring to the Tennessee prop
osition for conference at Louis
vile of southern immigration com
missioners, with view to formula
ting a plan for divertIng the
tide of foreign immigration
through the southern section of the
Union, the st. Louis Republican
say:
At present immigration goes to
the west and northwest because
the advantages and ATTRACTIONS,
which the agents of those states
present so industriously, have set
the stream in these directions. 1t
is believed that systematic and
organized efforts of similer kind
in behalf of the southern states will
divert a portion of the stream to
that quarter. In that event New
Orleans would again become what
it was thirty years ago, the entire
pot for large immigration from
Europe. There are millions OF
acres of cheap lands in the south
indeed, in a few years, the only
cheap tillable lands in the country
will be in that quarter; and then
the European immigrant, whose
main object is a small farm, will be
compelled to seek it in some one OF
the now overlooked southern states
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Throat Cut.

In personal difficulty near 30
denham Thursday of last week be
tween Geo. Davis and Bill and Bud
Fleeman, the latter received a very
dangerous if not fatal wound. The
Fleemans are brothers and had some
old grudge, it seems from the re-
port we received, against Davis.
They were riding together and met
Davis in the road and raised the
difficulty. All parties dismounted
and Davis and Bud Fleeman ran to-
gether with knives in hand. Flee
man, as we are informed, had his
knife raised to strike and was
reaching with his other hand to
catch hold Of Davis, when Davis
stabbed him and he retreated, say
ing that he was killed. The cut
extended from just under the left
ear to the wind-pipe and a slight
rupture was made in the jugular
vein. Fleeman soon tainted from
loss of blood and has since been in
a very critical condition, though
hopes of his recovery are enter
tanned
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-23
Keep the Court Yard Clean.

Sheriff Butler has very wisely for
hidden, by posted notice, the eating
of watermelons in the court yard.
He did so not without cause. A
great many rinds have been left in
the yard by thoughtless persons
which give it quite an abandoned
and filthy appearance. The court
yard is a beautiful place. the
pride of the town, and should by
all means be kept clean and invit-
ing. When the rotten rinds are
cleared away the first man that
dares again to leave such filth in
the yard ought to be fined.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-23

Mr.. Mark Arrowsmith returned
a few days since from his trip west.
He is well pleased with his bust
ness prospects at Hot Springs and
saws that trade has opened up
pretty brisk Tor Mr.. Gum, his part
ner. He went out to Texas and
spent some time with relatives out
there before coming home. He
saw a good many ex-citizens of
Giles, and several of the Pulaski
kOvS.
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A Little Boston Barber Blown
UD High.

Theodore Voight, little German
barber, was shaving at the shop of Mr..
Chas. Baeumler, No. 20 Avery st.,
when Star representative interviewed
him. He said; "When L found that
my ticket was the lucky one 1 did not
drop my razor and stop work. When
finished, L expressed my ticket to NJ. A g.
Dauphin, New Orleans, La, for collec-
ton. $1,000 cash was returned to me
for my 81 invested" He is a sober, in
dustriOus and prudent young men, who
will make good use of his wealth was
born in Marklissa, Germany; is aged
%. He has several brothers and sisters
at home whom he will assist, and will
proably open barber shop of his own
in this city.-[Boston (Mass.) Star, July
DC
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The present board of aldermen is
& good one and is doing some splen-
did work. Why not turn your at
tention, gentlmen, to the water
works question. Call a meeting of
the citizens some night at the court
house and see what they think of it.
Inlthe meantime investigate and see
what is possible and practicable and
what it will cost. Make a plan and
see if the taxpayer will ratify it.
1t is about time for Pulaski to have
one of her usual fires, and the fire
will come and go and the property
destroyed will more than pay for
water works, as usual.
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Capt. j. L. Pearcy attends to his
business rs usual. Also Mr.. H.
Solinsky. The fact is, they have to
bestir themselves a little more to
meet the extra drainage upon their
cupboards. Martin College will
not suffer in the end. o how these
sweet little girl babies wind the
arms of their tender affection about
our obdurate hearts and brace US
up with their love so we may meet
the market man face to face and
smile at his oalamities.
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###"They who cry the loudest are
not always the most hurt" Kidney
Wort does its work like the Good Sa-
marian, quickly, unostentatiously, but
with great thoroughness. A New
Hampshire lady writes: "Mother has
been afflicted for years with kidney
diseases. Last spring she was very ia
and had an alarming pain and numb
ness in one side. Kidney Wort proved
great blessing and has completely
cured her.
az No woman really practices econ
omy unless she uses the Diamond
Dyes. Many dollars can be saved
every year. Ask the druggist.
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Verv Low Rates.

During the continuance of the South
ern Exposition at Louisville, KY, (com.
menciLg Aug. LIST and continuing 100
days. the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road will sell Excursion Tickets from
lowing ample time to visit the Greatest
Exposition ever held in the south, and
second only to the Centennial at Phila-
delphia. tnov10
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-23

A letter dated at Denver Aug. Is
from Mr.. II. Arrowsmith tells us
that he is having a royal time. He
does not enter into detail because
ne expects to give a public lecture
at Antoinette Hall on his return.
All who heard his touching speech
on the night of the Bate rally will
be breathless until the doors open.
The excursion arrived in San Fran
cisco Sunday morning and this
week is devoted to sight seeing.
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The first open cotton we have
seen was raised by Mr.. N. B. Nc
Alister of Prospect. He sent us a
stalk Monday morning with two
bolls on it fully opened and ready
to be picked. Mr.. Thomas Reed
brought it to this Office and he
says that he had cotton open on
his place last Friday.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-23

A merchant or a man who keeps
any kind of Office or room in Pulas-
XII will pay at the lowest rate &c
cents a week for two buckets OF
drinking water, OF SIS a year, and
then he is without water half the
time and the other half it is toe
warm too drink. And yet if we
had water works and his tax wa:
$40 a year he would grumble and
growl over paying it, notwithstand
ing he has plenty of water all tho
time and safeguard against fire
And yet again, If these same meI
would help the CITIZEN we might
prevail on the authorities to take
some notice of this demand.
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MARKET. REPORT
Office of w. X. CRAIG,
Grain 81 Produce Dealer.
PULASKI, August ~, 1883.
nnrrnsruv uunu,r,1r

0Tdln % ITOuuCc Ltdlcfs
PULASKI, August ~, 1883.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Cotton, d1EaS16c.
Corn, $50.
Wheat, 50a90.
Bacon, dry smoked shoulders SIC. /;
Sides and hams 1O16tollc.
Lard, 10a1216c.
Butter, 12Hal5c.
Eggs, SC.
Chickens, 12Ha15c.
Wool, unwashed, lsa2Oc; washe
30; bury 10al5.
Beeswax, 25c.
TalloW,6c.
Feathers, 40a50c.
Hides, Green, Sac; Dry, 10al3
New Potatoes, Irish, zoe,
Peas, 40aG5.
Peanuts, 90 to 20.
DriedFruit, Peaches or apples, 3a4c.
Meal, 40
GROCERIES,.
Sugar, 9a121Sc
Molasses, N. o., GOa76o; Syrup, GOa75
Sorghum, 25a30
Coffee, 10a14c.
Salt, s bushels, $500; z bushels, s2.G0.
Flour, Family, 1928; Choice Fami-
ly, $3.50; Fancy, $7.5Oa$s.5O
Tea, OOa$l.5O.
Candles, lSa20c; Fancy, 20a25.
Nuts, Pecans, zoe; Almonds, Doc.
Soda, calico.
Starch, Calico.
Nails, by keg, los, 454c.
NASHVILLE MARKET.
From Yesterdays Americana
Cotton, good ordinary, 81.
Flour, family, $5a5.20.
Wheat, dry Mediterranean, l ,05a1 or
Corn, sacked in depot, 56
Cattle, best butchers, 3.25a3.50; med
Jun, 275a3 90; grazing steers, 00a3 20.
Hogs, 225 pounds average 4 50a4 60
Hides, green, 516a71s flint, 12al5
Chickens frying, l0a16% hens, Is
Country Lard, lie.
Eggs, from first hands IA
Feathers, from first hands, CO.
Beeswax, from first hands, %.
Ginseng l coal SO
New potatoes, from wagon, 60a65c
per barrel.
Bacon--clear sides 91Sal0c.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-23

Among the fine and intricate struc-
lures OF our mortal frame the eyes
stand pre-eminent, serving as windows
to the wonderful economy AZ work
within; do you want yours to be bright,
frank and beaming? Then keep the
system cleansed, and the soul conse-
quently at peace by the use of the SOW
ereign healer, Wilder's Sarsaparilla
and Potash.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-23

Was there ever a prettier site for
water works than Fort Hill? o
Pulaski, Pulaski! How often
would Fort Hill have gathered ye
under the wings of her protection,
but We would not heed the fiery ad
monitions that have been sent to
warn you.