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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22
Lawrencaburr Railroad.

LdWIeuCtDuIS - dSdlAI vi y III
Pulaski and Giles county to build 8
railroad to them. If we knew where
to catch hold we would agitate it.
Pulaski Citizen.
Lawrenceburg don't ask Giles
county to build road to us; we
are willing to do our part, in fact we
did grade most of the line in Law
fence county, but Giles county
wouldn't do her part as she had
promised, and the road fell through.
1t is true that Pulaski and Giles
have lost immensely by their bad
faith and churlishness. The way to
catch hold and agitate for rail
road is to take out your pocket
books and count out the cash,-at
least that is the way we do in Law
renee county.-Lawrenceburg Press.
We are surprised that the pres
ent editor of the Press should write
thus, in total disregard and ignor-
ance of facts. This is not the way
to secure the consummation of a
project that should call for united
effort rather than abuse and mis-
representation Giles county was
never asked to give cent. Pulas-
XII aOaS asked and promptly voted
$4,000 by IL to vote. The courts
decided that the railroad charter
was void and that stock subscribed
to a non entity was no subscription.
Pulaski stood ready then and now
to contribute her full share. The
fippant advice ''to take out your
pocket book and count out the cash"
might have some weight if u micro
scope could determine how far that
performance was carried into ex-
ecution by that editor. Hold up on
this manner of dealing with the
matter, Mr.. Press, and let's go at it
nationally and with a purpose to
build rather than exhibit the churl-
ishness you condemn. We con
graduate you upon your new rail
road, and we would like to con-
graduate you upon another one. 1t
will do you good and US good, and
ii by agitating it we can stir up
enough animation somewhere to
project a route and attempt its con-
struction, we will have done better
than to crafty q petty spleen in
commenting on Inexperienced
facts.
Induce your eminent Judge Nixon
to map out a route from Pulaski
through Lawrenceburg to the Ten
nessee, and then give to its con-
summation some of the mighty
energy that has characterized his
efforts in the other direction, and
then we will see things come rapidly
into shape. Your county will then
be ouartered with railroads, and
these will be only the main stems
and forerunners of others to tap all
your rich resources and help ulti-
mately to make your town a young
Pittsburgh. This route is a natu-
raj necessity from east to west and
if this gap were filed, both ends
would be met at-once and Memphis
and Knoxville be united through
US. There's a purpose worthy of
your effort. Giveit your assistance.
Dead embers will not start a fire
and if you content yourself to keep
blowing at dead coal you'll never
light a beacon on Powder Mill Hill.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22
Frank Leslie's Sunday Mag
nZfnn

The April number contains even
more than tho usual attractive features.
The Rev. Moses ID. Hoge contributes
"What is Presbyterianism p being No.
Nv. OF Religious Denominations In the
United StRtes;" the editor, DR.. Tai
mage, has a characteristic article,
offending the Bible" Edwin Do Leon
continues those deeply interesting pa
pers, "The American Pilgrim In Pales-
tine," etc., ETC., There are serial and
short stories, n large number OF very
excellent sketches, some admirably
written essays, sermon by DR.. Tai
mage, %Homesickness;" - several poems
OF great merit; record OF Important
events, personal notes ADD comments,
editorial comments, obituary notices,
etc. The miscellany is most cetnPre-
hensive, entertaining end Instructive;
the humber, IN fact, overtlows wltn
good things, and abounda With illustra-
lions. The price is only 20 cents copy
or 80 a year, postpaid. Address Mrs:
Frank Leslie. Publishes, %, 80 ana %
PARK Place, New York. fa
The MaE number will contain the
flrst Of series OF papers by Lieutenant
Fred schwatka; the Arctic explorer, enc
titled, among the Natives OF tia
NoFth.'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22
How They Play the Piano 10 New
Orleans.

/
81 was loafng around the streets
last night" said Jim Nelson, on,
of the oldest locomotive engi
neers running into New Orleans
''and as / had nothing to do
dropped into concert and heard s
slick-looking Frenchman play a pi
ano in way that made me feel al
over in spots. AS soon as he sal
down on the stool 1 knew by the
way be handled himself that he un
derstood the machine he was run.
ming. He tapped the keys away M
one end, just as if they were gauges
and he wanted to see if he had wa
ter enough. Then he looked up, as
if he wanted 10 know how much
steam he was carrying, and the
next moment he pulled open the
throttle and sailed out on the main
line, as if he was half an hour late.
you could hear her thunder over
calverts and bridges, and getting
faster and faster until the fellow
rocked about in his seat like era
die. Somehow / thought it was old
go pulling q passenger train, and
getting out of the wayof special.
The fellow worked the keys on the
middle division like lightning, and
then he flew along the north end of
the line until the drivers went
around like buzz saw, and got
excited. About the time | was fix
ing to tell him to cut her Off a little,
he kicked the hampers under the
machine wide open, pulled the throt-
tie away back in the tender, and,
Jerusalem jumpers, how he did
run. l couldn't stand it any long
er, and yelled to him that she was
pounding on the left side, and if
he wasn't careful he'd drop his ash
pan.
"But he didn't hear No one
heard me. Everything was flying
and whizzing. Telegraph poles on
the side of the track looked like a
row of cornstalks, the trees APP
peared to be a mudbank, and all the
time the exhaust of the old machine
sounded like the hum of humble
bee. l tried to yell out, but my
tongue wouldn't move. He went
around curves like bullet, slipped
an eccentric, blew out his soft plug,
went down grades fifty feet to the
mile, and not a COMPOUNDED brake
set. She went by the meeting point
at mile and a half a minute, and
calling for more steam. / knew the
game was up.
"Sure enough, dead ahead of us
was the headlight of the special
In daze / heard the crash as they
struck, and l saw cars shivered into
atoms, people mashed and mangled
and bleeding, and gasping for wa
ter. l heard another crash as the
French professor struck the deep
keys away down on the lower end of
the southern division, and then /
came to my senses. There he was
at dead stand-still, with the door
of the fire-box of the machine open,
wiping the perspiration off his face,
and bowling at the people before
him. If / live to be a thou
sand years old Pll never forget the
ride that Frenchman gave me on a
piano"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22
The ELECTRICIAN.

The contents OF the March number OF
this interesting monthly touch a wide
range Of scientific topics, and are OF
great value to every individual inter-
ested in the progress that Is being
made in the science TO which 10 is de-
voted. 1t is beautifully printed and
richly illustrated. Among its contents
are "Cut Outs for Electric Light
Wires," Improved Burglar Alarm"
Experiments with the Microphone,"
"The Electric Light in the Car Shops at
st. Dennis" "The FerraDtis Dynamo
Machine" "The, Gold and Stock Ex-
change Telegraph" "Sketehes OF Elec-
lustrated. 1t is published by Williams
& Co, lilo Nassau Street, New York, at
the low price Of 81 year; 10 cents q
cODV.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22
A Romance Wrecked.

What western man is there who,
after a stay in the new west of ten
or dozen years, did not go back
to his old home in Massachusetts,
or New York with great anticipa-
lions of pleasure? He dreamed of
it for months before starting, and
he made careful preparation to
make the stay at 1.-The old place. a
long one. He called to mind the
Jims and Toms and Susies and Ma
rvs of his boyhood, and thought
how delightful it would be to meet
them. lie remembered Sloan's
pond, where he fished when a boy,
the mill on the creek from the pond
of which he had pulled so many
bull heads, the Hill of which every
winter of his boyhood had been his
resort with his sled, the red school
house; every orchard and water
melon patch he had robbed came
freely before him. The blood
coursed quicker as the train moved
into the station and he was in the
seventh heaven OF expected pleas
ure by the time he had got to
his mothers house.
disappointment of most sicken
inc kind followed. One Jim was
in Wisconsin, another in the grave
yard. The village itself had
changed so that he could not recog-
nize it. The old Eagle tavern was
gone, and in its place was the
Union Hall. Peck's store with the
village doctor and justice of the
peace sitting in front, was not there,
but in its stead huge block of
brick buildings. The railroad had
given the town start, and it was
about the same as the one he had
left in the west. The wood had
all been cut off the hills and Sloan's
pond in consequence had dried up,
the mill had been torn down long
ago, and the very river had shrunk.
Possibly it was as large Us ever,
but mems eyes were different from
boys eyes. Round hill wasn't ex-
actly the shape of a sugar loaf, rs
he had always had it in his mind,
and the laughing, romping, red
checked Susies and Marys Of his
boyhood he found staid, sober,
worn matrons, with other Susies
and NJ arys to care for. And when
Tom came to him he found not a
rosy cheeke boy with his trousers
hanging by one suspender, but 0
tall, bearded man who had but 8
minute to give him. Jim, the prom.
ising boy in the village school and
the prize scholar in the Sunday
school, who was intended for the
ministry, he found a blear- eyed
loafer, hanging about the gin mills,
and Sam, the stupidest boy in thu
school, was the principal lawyer il
the county, and was being talkeC
of for congress. And TO add to hi
trouble, the dishes cooked by hii
mother, of which he had been 81
fond when a boy, tasted entirel,
different, and so he told the old la
dy, and she replied, with sigh:
II cook it just as l used to- blu
you must remember there is a dii
ference between u boy of. foprtee
who can relish anything, and a ma
of thirty. You have changed
not l." ar 80. ~
And so, instead OF making a Ion
: stay, be foundsthe place unenduri
BILE, and packed his valise and wen
home at.the end of the third day
Toledo Blade.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22
Going to Town"

What for, my friend? Have you
business that should be attended
to? If SO, proceed, attend to the
business promptly, and then on to
the next duty, unless you have
plenty Of means and can afford to
be absent from home indefinitely,
but by all means refuse TO be idle
don't hang around grocery or sa-
loon, don't talk much politics, and
don't discuss your private grievan.
ces. Make it a point to get back
home before night, so you shall save
loving mother, wife or sister many
tears and yourself much trouble.
The farmer who habitually goes TO
town without much business there
will soon have much less at home.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22
Kindness in the guise Of cruelty


Kindness in the guise of cruelty
was shown in n novel way by n
Montana stage driver on Wednes
day Of last week. The stage was
on its way from Deer Lodge to Mis-.
souri, and was passing over the
Flint Creek Hills. So intense was
the cold that the only passengers,
n woman and her little child, were
in danger Of freezing to death. The
mothers heart was so worked up
on the condition Of her child that
she placed around the baby all her
wraps. The driver saw that drow-
siness. the first stage of freezing,
had fallen upon the wretched wO-
man. He put his coat around her,
but her blood seemed to be stand
ing Sstill. Then he grew ,ery
harsh, seized the woman, dragged
her from the coach and left her by
the roadside. "Oh, my baby" the
mother cried. The driver cracked
his whip. The stage few over the
snow, with the woman running af-
ter. The race was kept up for
nearly two miles, when the driver
took the mother in again and
wrapped her in,his coat. BY clever
ruse he had warmed her blood and
saved her life,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

The region around Kansas City
must be a paradise for apple raisers.
judging by the records Of shipments
made from Kansas City by local
cultivators. Within radius of Is
miles of that city 100000 barrels Of
apples were grown and shipped of
last years crop, fact that will sur
prise many growers elsewhere. j.
C. Evans of Harlem grew 10000
bushels Of fine fruit, 5000 of which
he has still On hand waiting higher
prices. World.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

1t is queer that the very same
thing should, under such slightly
altered circumstances, be so entire
ly different, nor is it any the less
queer because the difference has
existed from the earliest age Of the
world.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

A journal has been started in
New York called "The Under
takers Assistant" Why not call
it :s'The Physician" at once, and be
done with it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

The well-informed Planters Jour
nal estimates that, upon an aver
age, every pound of cotton raised
last year in Mississippi involved its
producer in a loss of nearly two
cents-a loss of over five millions of
dollars to the state. In Georgia,
where diversified farming is begin
ming TO be practiced, all this money
went into the farmers pocket. The
money made by the sweat Of the
Mississippian's brow, alas! went
into the hands of money lenders,
middlemen and the producers of
bread, meat and live stock which is
imported instead Of raised at home.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

One of the great secrets of sue
cess in life is in saving your money.
You should always live within your
income, no matter how small il
may be.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22
From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

Church work and church meet
ings will run smoothly enough as
long as every member is willing TO
admit that he is a sinner. The
very minute, however, that either
man or woman becomes sinless, you
are bound to have trouble. No one
can so quickly get up a first-class
row in church as a man who is so
awfully good that he ought TO have
gone to heaven ten years ago. He
is harder to keep quiet than swarm
Of hornets with fire under their
nest. 1t seems a paradox, but it is
nevertheless true, that when a man
gets too much religion he is a good
deal worse than though he had none
at all. So long as he knows that
he ought to go to the bottomless
pit he can be easily handled and
utilized, but the very minute he
gets an idea that heaven isn't quite
good enough for him he tries to
"boss" the minister and the congre-
CATION, and is 50 self conceited and
intolerable that a mysterious dis
pensation of Providence would be
received with resignation, if moi
hailed as ''long-felt want"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

The power to eat well and digest
well, says the Youths Companion,
is not an element of greatness, but
it is often essential to the success
of great intellectual efforts, involv-
ing--as in the forum-high and
long sustained feeling, and broad
and apprehensive argument The
brain is food digested; and thought,
feeling, fancy, will and expression
are possible, in their HIGHER forms,
only as the brain is we'll fed, just as
the well-fed muscles are essential
to a successful athlete.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

There are counties in Texas
where they have to haul drinking
water ten miles. Think of that, We
who contemplate immigrating thith-
erward, and stay where you lare,--
lCleveland Banner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

Think much and speak little. A
great parade of words only dazzle
the eyes of fools, and is far inferior
to iudicious silence.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

Sarah Bernhardt says that she
has no intention of separating from
Damala. Says the Chicago Times,
functions speak louder than words"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

Eleven hundred and forty trains
a day pass the signal tower on the
Pennsylvania railroad at the june
ton Of Seventeenth and Filbert
streets, in Philadelphia-the largest
number passing any point in the
world.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

Forget the services that you
have done for others; it is their
business TO remember them"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

Somebody says ''you can't always
tell by mans clothes what he has
down in his pockets"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-22

Gen. Sherman's salary started in
1869 at $l3, 500 year and is in
creased 10 per cent. every five years.
He has received to date as general
1926, 299. Hancock gets 1900
with like increase since 1872, and he
has got to date as major general
$9z,550.
National Republican., 1883-02-09
rIE SIGNAL SERVICE.
The Anonymous Attacks Upon It-Why II
should Not Bo Transferred to the In-
terror Department.

The Anonymous Attacks Upon It-why It
terror Department.
Gen. w. b. Ha2en, chief signal oficor, U. s.
A., has sent to the press for publication q
statement in reply TO charges made against
him and attacks mado upon the signal service
by Representative Beltzhoover of Pennsyl-
vania, and a number of anonymous writer's.
The charges Gen. Hazen says, have their
origin in the resentment of dismissed em-
ploycs OF the service, and are untruthful and
slanderous, and the attacks arc made for tho
purpose of bringing about the removal of the
weather service to the Interior department
Gen. Hazcn then gives briefly some of the
reasons why such u removal should not be
made, viz; l. Because experience has shown
that tho head of the service must have the
power to punish men for neglecting to take
observations at precisely the prescribed times
and such power cannot be had under civil
law. 2. Because tho work is done
moro oheaply by tho present sig
done by civil bureau. 3. Because
tho government must be able to hold observ-
ors by enlistment in order to receive tho
benefit of their services in return for the in
struction given them in meteorology. These
ho says, are some Of the reasons why the
weather bureau should be retained as q part
of the service which has made it success
Gen. Hazen tltcn calls attention TO the covert
attempts which he thinks are being made to
destroy the weather service by indirectly hos
tile legislation. The army appropriation bill,
as reported TO the senate, contains provision
that officers who have served in Washington
more than three years shall return to their
regiments. This, he says, would destroy the
weather service, or at least suspend 1t for q
long time, because every officer, except one,
who can mako weather prediction has been
in the weather service here moro than three
years. In conclusion, Gen. Hazen says that
IL congress wishes to know all the details of
the administration of the bureau It can ap-
point an investigating committee TO which
every possible opportunity and facility will
be given
National Republican., 1883-02-09
The Naval APPROPRIATION BliI.

The subcommittee of tho senate committee
on appropriations have finished the prepara-
tion of the naval appropriation bill, and at
the meeting yesterday the examination of the
bill was begun by the full committee. Above
twenty amendments, involving new legsla-
tion, have bcen proposed in the senate, none
OF which, as far as can be learned, have been
adopted by the subcommittee. The provisions
of the house bill in regard to promotions to
the grade of admiral by selection from the
lists of commodores and captains, the abolition
of the grade of commodore, and tho provision
in regard to tho pay corps that no moro ap-
pointments shall be made from civil liSe, the
subcommittee recommends shall be stricken
out, and that the provisions of the present
law be retained. The committee will resume
consideration of the bill this morning.
National Republican., 1883-02-09
Trespnss sses Unon Pnnlle Lnnda.

The speaker laid before tho house yestor
day message from the President transmit
ting letter from the secretary ofthe interior
in which the latter calls attention to the in,
crcasng frequency of trespasses upon the
public lands and evasions Of the laws relating
thereto, and urges the importance of provid-
ing some effective legislative remedy for the
growing evil The speaker also laid before
the house II message FROM the President trans
mitting u letter from the secretary Of the
interior with regard 10 certain money due "a
the Cherokee Indians under the provisions OF
the treaties Of 1885 and 1916. According to
Secretary Tellers computations the amounts
due arc us follows; 70 the eastern branch of
the Cherokee nation, in North Carolina,
$i21 ,653 with interest ut 5 per cent, from
September %, 1851, aud to the western branch,
in the Indian Territory, 1884, ,297, with inter
est from June II, 1888.
National Republican., 1883-02-09
A PRINTERS VIEWS.
70 he Editor.

SIR: IL seems that the clerks are making q
great "kick" over the proposed passage OF
the eight hour bill, and think il would in.
deed be n terrible thingi if they should be com.
PEELED to work one hour more day
They do not seem to know, or mt least dc
not want to, that there are other employees OF
the government in this city who are COM
PEELED TO work eight hours Il day at brain
work far moro laborious and fatiguing than
theirs, aud through the session OF congress
from twelve to fifteen hours day, and
all this for less pay than the clerks re-
ceive. / refer to the printers Of the gov
ernment printing Office They do not get
thirty days vacation each year with pay, re-
ceivo their pay only once n month, and ii
they are absent from the Office for II day, or
even an hour, they are surely dOclSCd for the
lost time. They are compelled to work from
8 o'clock in the morning till . and IL ut night,
and sometimes later, during sessions of con-
gress, in II miserably ventilated room, with
gas burners over their heads which produce
10 per cent. more heat than light, and oftimes
worrying and racking their brains endeavor-
ing to dccipher some manuscript written by
these same alleged intelligent clerks.
IL is an undisputed fact that any printer
can fill all the requirements of u department
Clerkship, and could do the work required
just as well as the majority OF clerks, If not
better than some, but how many clerks could
have acquired tho ant. 1t cannot be learned
in u day or n week, the same as the clerks
duty Printers are certainly possessed of as
much intelligence as the average clerk, and
perhaps their brain is Of equally rs fine a
tissue and just as easily Overworked, yet they
arc compelled 20 work eight hours day, and
their work is work compared to that Of the
clerks.
lam not an advocate of an eight hour system,
but do believe in justice being done TO all,
and think the clerks should work eight hours
IL day as well as the printers, rs tho printers
work is the most intricate, eXhnusting, labori-
Gus, wearing tearing kind Of brain work, for
which they receive less pay than the clerks.
Why printers should be required to work
more hours than clerks is more than / can
understand, and | think the Clerks days
work should be increased one hour, or the
printers lgssencd one, if only to show justice
and impartiality If they do not wish Ia work
eight hours day let them resign and seek
employment in some other city, and they will
find that their services are only worth from
$40 TO Sl2 II week, ten hours Il day, and GER
tainly not such a snap" as they have here.
PRINTER.