The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-29
Prospects.

/ AS Rube has quit | will try K
give your readersa few items
this week. and may be some
will represent us hereafter.
We have organized Sunday
school here with J. E. Gilbert su-
perintendent and himself and Mr.,
r. Pepper teachers. Other teach
ers will be elected as the school in
creases. We invite ali TO come out
and join US in this, as we cannot
make a success of it unless the peo-
pie will lend us their assistance and
cooperation. Rev. j. II. Nichols
breaches for us every End and Ath
Sundays.
There was shipped from here
cars Of corn IA cars of cotton seed
and about HOO bales of cotton this
season. The business done in last
month amounted to $776.S5, not in
Guiding the express and Western
Union. Mr.. j. F. Westmoreland
paid $39, 200 for cotton.
We have a few cases measles;
DIR. Williamson, John Williamson,
Walter Whitfield aud two of Frank
Mays children now have them.
Bob Campbell, whom Rube report
ed down with pneumonia, is i'm
proving slowly.
Irvine Powell has gone to Tex
as to bring back the family of Chess
Smith, who went from this vicinity
about year ago. We learn that
Chess is dead.
ID. Griffin has entered suit
against the L. &c. n. R. R. Co. for
$1,000 on account of getting left by
the morning train.
Miss Book Mason returned
home last Wednesday from visit
to Pulaski.
H. C. McLaurine and lady
we're down the last week visiting
r. NJ. Potts says after one
or two more trips to Elkmont he
can say ''well done thou good and
faithful servant, come up higher"
--L.N.Case will leave soon to take |
charge of night Office on the Mo
bile and Ohio R. R.
Mrs. Gibson took the train a
few nights ago for Memphis, &C
companied by her sister, Miss Car
rie Naples.
p. G. Beasley speaks of going
north soon to get better wages.
j. NJ. Neil is building a new
house for a dwelling in Prospect. |
We are glad to have such men
with us
w. S. Wilson, the night owl at
was up last week with us,
also r. A. Sherrell. Sherrell saws
that after much painstaking and
hard talking, he lost the fair one
and is left . wretch to weep in des-
pair. The sun to him will never
shine so brightly, but if die he
must, he wants some friend to
write an epitaph suitable to the oc-
,asion and put rotten chunk over
MS grave where reposes the NOR
al remains of poor Sherrell, for he
never loved q speckled pup but it
fell over the fence and broke it's
neck.
Celia thought it best to com
promise with Rube and let him go
before she caught hydrophobia.
Peter Mason says he is very sorry
they quit, for they did write so ex-
luisitely.
Gus says that Cupid throws
MS darts around 80 that he will be
obliged to marry this fall if he can
get the old horse fattened on the
shares.
Young EVERY who shot him
self last week is doing very we'll;
he doctor thinks it will not prove
'atal.
r. B. Thompson has a new
student in his Office, Sampson Ed
nundso1.
Some of our Bethel merchants
ak about sueing the R. R. Co. for
IS cents.
Our deputy sheriff, j. E. Gil
,ert, lost his horse last week. l
zee him carrying his saddle upon
lis back, / suppose to put it on
whatever he catches.
West is still stall-fceding his
Id COW, l suppose for the early
pring market. BooT JACK.