The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-01
A Panoramic View Of Pulaski.
BY A VISITOR.

Tennessee. Bluegrass is indigenou
to this soil, and Giles county is t.
Tennessee what the beautiful blue
grass country around Lexington i.
to Kentucky, "a goodly sight to be
hold" Pulaski has population o
about three thousand souls, all told
The county has q population of some
thirty-odd thousand, voting popula
ton six thousand five hundred
The assessed valuation of Giles
county for the year 1882 amounted
to IS, 1887, 522; valuation of the city
100000. The city finances are il
excellent condition. A few years
ago the corporation was conSdera
bly, IN debt, but thanks to accom-
plished financiering and wise man.
agement, the city got out of debt
and has now in the treasury $4,000
l found it difficult to get back into
the past, as many of the records
were burned up. There were settle
ments here as far back as 1906.
There was an original grant of six
hundred and forty acres of land,
signed by James Madison, presi-
dent, upon which the town was laid
off in 1909. Among the early set
tiers here was Col. Nelson Patteson,
the father of Esq. Patteson, magis-
trate and historian of this county.
His father came from Virginia to
Williamson county in 1907; from
that county he came to Giles in
1908 and settled here. William r.
Davis came here in 1906, and acted
in the capacity of Judge for thirty
years. To hear Mr.. Patteson tell
about those old times, with the
whipping post and stocks, and the
very summary justice meted out
to the transgressors of the law, one
could almost imagine the days of
the Inquisition. But the present is
an age of civilization, and we have
a more refined and aesthetic manner
of Furnishing criminals. For in
stance, social ostracism, and the
man who plumbers the public treas
ury, he is no longer thief, but a
defaulter; hbecause, .forsooth, his
fashionable family demanded high
style of living, and the maintain
ment of that style required lavish
expenditure of that 'jingling of the
guinea which helps the hurt that
honor feels" 1t is true, we have a
very exalted code of morality and
we are beautifully consistent peo-
pie! There is hardly any doubt of
that. Suppose now, for instance,
some poor, miserable wretch, SILVER
ing in his tattered garments, stands
on a christmas eve on the brilliant
ly lighted streets and gazes with
the "hollow eyes of misery in at
the window of some brilliantly
lighted baker shop at the tempting
display of christmas, edibles, and he
thinks of the starving children at
home, around their desolate hearth,
who had gone for many days with
only crust, and he steals mind you
l use the proper word ia loaf of bread
and darts away, but the officers of
the law are too swift for him, and he
is carried before the judge, stately
and dignified, who had just dined
handsomely off round Ia mode,
washed down with sparkling cham
pagne-he commits him for ten
daysl Reader, do you point the
moral2 l have treated you to little
bit of moralizing.
The area, in square miles, of Giles
county was originally $40, but bout
forty or fifty miles of the north east
corner. was cut off and added to
Marshall county. Before the war,
Giles county was fifth in point of
wealth in the state, and is weatl-
thy equity still. The average num-
Der of bales of cotton is ten thou
sand, since the war.
Pulaski has an elegant bar of
some fifteen members, corps of six
or eight physicians, two national
banks-Peoples National, Col. Bal
lentine, president and member of
Congress, and the Giles National,
with capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars and in a very prosper
Gus condition and doing an excel
lent business too, Hon. Scion E.
Rose, president, Capt. John D.
Flautt, cashier.
The Industrial enterprises around
Pulaski are the Cotton & Wooden
Mills, of thirty years establish
ment, purchased three years ago by
Mr.. Luther w. .McCord, the former
proprietor of the CITIZEN, and DR..
D. @. Gordon; also the Merchants
FIGURING Mill, planning mills, &c.
not very numerous, however. Ten.
nessee is the finest country under
the sun, but peopleSneed to "wake
up" and develop it. We have got
everything to make it Gods owl
country, but the people need to get
out of "groove," to shake off thai
lethargy which has long held bel
down, and step to the front. W.
have let Georgia get the lead in al
most everything, with her barren
sterile soil, and we know that the
soil of Tennessee is worth a doz
EN- of it; but down there they use the
chemical phosphates and the red
clay IS made doubly productive
Every little town in the state nearly
has some sort of mandatory, anc
new towns are springing up every
year along the various lines of rail
roads with which the state is GOV
cred. Georgia was the first south
ern state to kick out of radica
traces after the war. Two years ag
they had nine hundred and some cd,
thousand dollars in the treasury o
Georgia. The laws of that state ar
very rigidly executed. Even tn
conductors on the railroads are EN-
powered with police authority by a
act of the legislature. The city G
. Atlanta has the finest railroad con
nection of any city in the south.
The citizens of the pretty littl
city of Pulaski take great pride i
! pointing it out as the best buil
, town in Tennessee. There are som
beautiful and elegant residence
. here situated in the midst of Lowell
ornamental grounds. The societ
: too is cultivated and highly accom-
! plished, another feature to whic