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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13
Waxahatchie, Texas


To the CITIZEN.
After having been here nearly two
years and made two crops l feel my.
self competent to give you some in
formation concerning this country
| am going to write facts go far as
my Judgment and observation will
admit 1 lived in your county alb vi
20 years and raised my family
there. Tennessee is a good coun.
try, 1 admit that. 1t is very nice
thing to own blue grass farm
and nice orchard in the rich, fer
tile valleys of the grand and glori-
Gus old tate. ] left and have there
yet as good friends as l ever
had any where. / would advise
the old people who have good homes
there to remain where they are.
1 have KIN own old people to sell out
their HON es in the old country and
come out here perhaps with their
expectations running a little too
high and dissatisfaction resulted.
They have to labor under some dis
advantages that they are entirely
unused to. Those disadvantages
may be the inponVenielce Of wood
and the disagreableness of the
mud when the weather Is inclement.
As to the wool, however, it can be
had by little effort. My advice
to the young men who are
trying to make a start is, come to
Texas and go to work and cease
to talk about the good things you
had back yonder, and it will not be
long until you can have homes that
you can call your own Our society
is very good and orr church priyi-
leges and school facilities cannot be
surpassed. The productiveness of
our soil guarantees the greatest re-
ward to the laborer. A man of in
duetry can make and gather 10
bales OF cotton and corn
enough for his own ptiQn.
Ellis will never fall short of one
half bale of cotton per acre and it
viii frequently grow over one bale
per acre. 1t will produce from IS |
10 40 bushels of corn; oats sown in |
the fall from 40 to 80 bushels. |
Wheat, 80 to so bushels. I will |
state what I have grown since
have been here, | made 81 bales
IF cotton and 500 bushels Of corn
asst year. This year have made
50 bales and 500 bushels of corn.
made this crop with less labor
han 1 ever made two crops in my
life. This is the easiest country to
iarm l ever fsrmed in. We noticed
n your last weeks paper that Car
ION 2. Reed YES either going or on
lis way back to tennessee. It IS 2
mistake. Mr.. Reed has secured
lin a home for another year and
;ays Texas beats Tennessee two to
me.
We were eolemnly impressed up
IN reading the posthlmogs ceremo
lies in honor of the lamented Col.
calvin j. Clack. We think such
marked respect was due to the re-
mains of the dead hero, but there
we're others also who enlisted in the
anne regiment. fought under the
anne flag. died upon the battle
ED, Of whom there has been moth
1g said. mention the lamented
'harles Edwards Marks whose sur I
living widow is now with US. A
raver and better man never lived !
r died.
Our old friend Rphraim Bass, who !.
1T your county few weeks ago, t
ought land in our county and he ,
highly pleased with Texas. 1
ould not be without your valuable
lper FOR anything. Respectfully. 1
joan RaGERg. B
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13
Failing!

That is what a great
many people are doing.
They don't know just what
is the matter, but they have
a combination of pains and
aches, and each month they
grow worse.
The only sure remedy
yet found is Browns IRON
BITTERs, and this by rapid
and thorough assimilation
with the blood Purifes and
enriches it, and rich, strong
blood flowing to every part
of the system repairs the
wasted tissues, drives out
disease and gives health and
strength.
This is why Browns
IRON BITTERs will cure
kidney and liver diseases,
consumption, rheumatism,
neuralgia, dyspepsia, mala-
ria, intermittent fevers, &c.
Mr.. Simon Blanchard, a we'll
known citizen Of Hayesville, Meade
county, Kentucky, says: My wife
had been sick for long time, and
her constitution was all broken
down and she was unable TO work.
She was advised to use Browns Iron
Bitters, and found it to work like a
charm. We would not now be with
out it for any consideration, as we
consider it the best tonic in the
world"
Browns IRON BITTERs
is net a drink and does not
contain whiskey. 1t is the
only preparation of Iron
that causes no injurious eff
fects. Get the genuine.
Don't be imposed on with
limitations.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13
A. Little Too cheap.

A Nashville man had to pay $500
for kissing a schqol teacher. Wei
it sound high, brethren,$sO0; but il
she was the right kind of school
ma'am, with pink cheeks and a
white apron, not SO tall by a head
and shoulders as the tallest boy in
school; with brown eyes undecided
whether to be roguish or serious, a
mouth made for smiles, and her
chin fastened on with dimples, just
a ripple in her hair-a-a-er era
and the Nashville man was deliber-
ate about it and enjoyed it, and
didn't kiss her like terrier snap
ping at q fy-a-a-er-a-we we're
growing old now, but If things were
as above suggested, we don't know
but the Nashville jury let him have
it just little bit under the ruling
quotation. He ought to be willing
to pay THOUSAND for it, anyhow
Burlington Haweye.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13

A Texan, union map during the
war, has entered suit against the
u. S. government to recover the
value of emanciPated slaves under
peculiar contitntional conditions
operating when Texas was adj
united.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13

The New York correspondent OF
the Chicago Tribune found Mon
sfgnor Capel the other day in a SUI
perb $10-a day room, overlooking
Fifth avenue at the Brunswick in
New York, writing a new lecture
on sThe Poverty Of Jesus"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13

Try to do something in the world
and you will be something. Aim
at excellence,and excellence will be
attained. This is the great secret
of success apd eminence. Il will
try" has wrought wonders. Halves
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13
COI'TON .STORAGE

IBERAL Cash Advances on all cotton
u stored with Us. Full insurance guaran-
teet. Protect your cotton from weather and
accidens. Charges nominal.
sep22- If RUFORD BROS
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13

EVERY MOTHER should keep a
bottle of DR.. DUNCAN'S BLACK
BERRY ELIXIR in their house. For
sale by II. M, Gripsbv.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13

Sour Stomach and Constipation of the
Bowels cured by DIR. DUNCAN'S
LIVER AND KIDNEY MEDICINE.
For sale by II. NJ. Grigsby.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13

EXPRESSIONS OF KINDNESS
thorne once said that expressions of
some kind are as necessary to the
life of affection as leaves ars 20 the
tree. No one would think of dis
putting this: and yet how few really
tender words are said by members
of the family to each tnef There
is many a woman who has never
since her courtship heard word
of love from her husband, until
possibly on her dying bed some ex-
preston of love for her has been
wrung from him. Men who are
capable of better things must be
greatly moved before they express
in words what they mean.
The latest american" story go
ing the rounds of the Europ can
press is that of traveller of that
nationality who found it necessary
to excuse his joining in the hilarity
of other travellers because of his
proverty. Gentlemen" said ne, Il
know am more or less a saturated
blanket on this perty; but the fact
is that 1s am a very poor man
stepped to the lips, ] may say, in
npecuniosity. When l tell you, in
strict confidence, that this is my
wedding tour, and l have been COM
PEELED to leave my wife at home,you
can form an idea of the narrowness
of my resources"
-----s se--------
THE STORY OF PURIFY Mrs, C.
NJ. Livingston, { Pansy's sister, is
one of the most fascinating stories
of its kind ever written. 1t pre-
sents the autobiography of a canary,
its haps, mishaps, infections, etc,
in the choicest and simplest Ian
guage, with rare offending of
pathos and humor. The delightful
little sketch is, indeed, worthy of
comparison with the famous story
of ''Rab and his Friends" and will
afford genuine pleasure to readers
old and young. IS CTS Sent post
paid on receipt of price. d. 10th
op d Co., Boston.
Sour stomach and Constipation of the
Bowels cured by DIR. DUNCAN'S
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-13

That the yeriest babes can be
made to take an interest in litera-
ture that has been clearly proved
by the continued success Of the
lively and delightful little magazine
published for their sole benefit by
d. Lotbrop & Co. Babyland,
among the tiny ones of the nursery
circle, is becoming as great a favo
rite as Wide Awake and Little Men
and Women, among the larger boys
and girls. The Babyland Annual,
consisting of the monthly numbers
handsomely bound, will gladden. the
heart of every little one into whose
hands it may fall.
John Angelo at the Water Color
Exhibition, by Lizzie W. Champ
ney, is a genuine Artists Portfolio.
1t presents collection of forty or
fifty drawings of pictures exhibited
at the late Water Color Exhibition
in New York, by well-known artists,
including Clifford, Reinhart, Hoven
don, Smillie, Nicoll, Satterlee, Fem
and others, and from an art point of
view must be regarded as one of the
choicest books of the year.
Mr.. w. Sloan's Kennedy's Life,
Genius and Writings of John Whit
tier, uniform with the authors popu-
ar Life ofLongfellow,is an apprecia-
i've and scholarly contribution to
literature, and will be
welcomed according. (l2 mo. illus
rated $3.50.
The ripest thought Of Rey. J. NJ.
d. D., the late beloved
,astor of Old South Church in Bos-
on, is furnished In the last work of
lis hands, Not of Man but of God, '
n admirable treatise upon the
oundation and structure of the '
'hristian faith. III mo. $1.25.l +
The popular reception of Jewett's Q
OF Thucydides, witnes- L
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03

A Drunken Headsman.

All Denmark, says the Copenhagen
correspondent of the St. James Ga
zette, was thrilled by general feeling
of horror when the papers brought the
details of the execution of criminal
in provincial place the previous day
"details which painfully remind one of
the disgraceful manner in which Sofia
Petrowskaya was executed last year at
St. Petersburg. According to the Dan.
ish law criminals condemned to death
suffer the last penalty of the law by de-
capitation by means Il an axe, the
block being placed at some conspicu
Gus place as ne?r as possible to the
place where the murder was commit
ted. A man condemned to death was
t. be executed yesterday morning, and
as usual, large crowd Of people from
the surrounding districts had assembled
round the spot, only one constable be-
ing present TO keep order. When the
usual formalities were gone through,
the criminal laid his head on the block |;
but the eye and the hand Of the execu-
toner, who had been drinking heavily
on the previous day, were uncertain,
and the stroke fell over both shoulders,
the criminal uttered q smothered cry
of pain. The executioner wrenched
the axe out of the wound, welded it
again, and struck the criminal high up
on the back of the head; sgain he
wrenched the axe out Of the wound.
and succeeded at last in cutting the
head off. The crowd rushed to the
headless trunk, some TO try to catch
some drops of blood, which the peas
ants think has some kind of magical
effect TO cure certain diseases; others
to satisfy their morbid curiosity. In
fact, q horrible and disgusting scene
took place, several men and women
fainting. Every one agrees that such
disgraceful spectacle must never
more take place in Denmark, and the
Minister of Justice has already, with
praiseworthy speed, declared his inten-
ton to bring in short bill providing
for execution by means of the guillo-
tine and within the precincts of a
prison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03

A CROWD of roughs, both men and
women, gathered in saloon in PENN
sylvania village, were blasphcmously
builesquing Il revival meeting few
rights ago. Ole of the men acted as
parson and received the penitents into
the foil. Just as the carousal was at
It's height, and the climax was reached
by an offer of sacrsmental wiuo to the
"mourners," q stranger entered with
nolseless foot. As described by a
veracious witress, the figure that step.
ped across the clouded room was sable
black. His breast, arms and legs we're
covered with long, coarse hair. His
eyes, set in deep sockets, flashed forth
red, luminous luster, and his lips,
parted in sneer, displayed long. gilt
tering white tusks. Too frightened ct
first to move, the assembly gszad with
aped eyes upon the spec raj figure. In
his hand he held a small book, and in
gentle, insinuating. voice, he made
them write therein their names. A
stampede occurred, and the crowd fell
rolled and crawle. until they got cut
of doors. Nothing could convince
the m th at they did --ot see his Satanic
Majesty in person, and a genuine re
vival uf religion promises to flourish
among the terror stricken people. One
steadler minded than the rest, re
manned behind lopg enough to see the
awful visitor empty the contents of s
brandy demijohn down his throat snd
then vanish with a demoniacal laugh
The man who represented tue devi
will find it safe to conceal his identity
st least until the sinners are converted
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03
FOREIGN

CARDINAL r. L. E. Anlici- " attei died
Tuesday at Rome, aged 72.
ENGLAND has requested the exraditiop
of two Irishmen from France for compli.
city in the dynamite conspiracy.
A WAREHOUSE and ship ehandlery were
consumed at Liverpool Saturday, night,
upon which the loss is 100000.
KELLY was placed on trial at Dublin
An important government witness swore
that Kelly wss not in Phoenix Park with
the other conspirators,
THE prospects for the wheat crop have
improved in England, and corn, -four and
wheat rule steadier. Domestic wheat
sold at London last week 4s7d per quarter
cheaper than in the corresponding period
In 1882.
Iu Kelly's second trial at Dublin, for
participation in the Ph@nix Park lnur-
ders, the jury were again unable to agree,
though The Judge summed up severe ely
against the prisoner. Michail Fagin, al
legged to be another of the c)nspiratorS,
was 'hcn placed on trial.
AT 0 essa fifty persons were arrested
last week for nihilism. At least twenty
workingmen accused Of nihilistic teEden-
cies will be p aced on trial before the cor
onation. Tue trial of the eighteen nihi-
lists al S.. Petersburg has resulted in the
conviction of all, six being sentenced to
death, Two to life Imprisonment, and the
pthers to from five 10 twenty years impri-
sonment. Those receiving capital sentenG-
es were concerned in plots against either
the late or the pres ent cz n.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03
4 TEXANS REVENGE.
Colonel PeItoD, the Slayer Oh the
Apaches.

Colonel Albert C.-Pelton, whose beau
tiful 10000 acre rancho is out towards
the Rio Grande, near Lrredo, has been
the Peter the Hermit of the Texans for
years. He has believed that he has
held divine commission TO kill Apache
Indians. Colonel Pelton came to Texas
in 1874, a common soldier. By talent
and courage he rose to the rank of
colonel. and finally, in 1857, command
ed Fort Mcrae. That year he fell in
love with a beautiful Spanish girl at
Abequin, New Mexico. Her parents
were wealthy, and would not consent to
their daughters going away from all
her friends to live in garrison. The
admiration Of the young couple was
mutual, and parental objections only
intensified the affection of the lovers
The nature of the Spanish girl is such
that once in love she never changes.
Finally, after two years of entreaty and
devotion, Colonel Pelton won the con-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03
GEN ERAL NOTES.

TIE new superintendent of insuI d ce
of the state of New York begins his ad.
ministration by dropping the names ot
seventeen employees from the rolls of the
flee, effectipg an annual saving Of about
$4,000.
A BOY of II years named John +. Navin
has disappeared from his home in Boston
and his ia her, Edward F. Navin, believes
he has been abducted in order that he NAV
not testify in a suit for damages resulting
from an accident on the Boston and Provi-
dence Railroad.
THE SCOTT bill, which has become a
law Of Ohio, prohibits the sale of liquor
to be drank on the premises. It fixes the
license for the sale of alcoholic LIQUORS
at 5000 per annum. l. exempts cities of
the first class from the operation of the
Sunday law
HE cigar manufacture of Louisville,
Kentucky, have acceded to the demand OF
The workmen for an arvance of wages.
and a strike there has been averted. A.
New Ycrk eight hundred cigar makers
and two hundred packers and strippers
have inaugurated a strike for higher
wages. About eight hundred coal-miners
in . hio have quit work rather than sub
nit to a reduction of twenty-f cents a
day in the rate of pay. The miners In
the Allegheny coal region have accepted
the lower v ages eff red by the EN- ,Jloyers,
In the Tewks ksbury investigation Wed
nesday a witness testified 10 tanning
human skins-presumably staken from
corpses from the almshouse-eor various
doctors, and exhibited a pair of uppers
for slippers made from the skin of a
woman. Governor Butler at once issued
an order removing the mar agcment. and
designating the state board of charities
to assume charge OF the institution. This
they refused to do.
The Irish convention to merge the Land
in the National League began proceed
lngs Wednesday, at 10 O'Clock. in Phila-
ielphia, Pres dent MONEYS addrtss was
eulogistic of Parnell and oenunciatory Of
the English Premier. There were tw en-
ay-ive female delegates in the meeting,
and Mrs. Parnell occupied position o.
honor on the stage. Secretary Hyh es' re-
port showed that in the last year $79 O3S
Dad been received; that $50 657 had beer
-ent to Ireland for league and relief : ur-
poses, and that 500 branch leagues exis-
Ted in the United States and Canada
The Merging. and Resolution G. .mmittee
was composed of one delegate from each
:. ate and Territory. Speeches we're made
ey Brennan and Egap, the latter stating
fhaG while he was reasurer of the league
81, ,230, 600 passed through his hands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03

company of rebels who captured Mira
goane. the latter part of March, from IL
aqua to the port named.
A NUMBER of patrons OF 0 orien's circus
at Dover, Delaware, Saturday nig3t, took
an emphatic manner Of expressing their
poor opinion Of the performance. As a
portion of the wagons were being driven
TO the depot to take the cars for the next
town on tie circuit a crowd Of men opened
FIRE upon them with repeating rifles
and revolvers. Ten or twelve of the cir
Gus men were wounded, oce of The propri-
etors, Charles Henderson, being shot in
the eye. Under protection of the sherif's
posse the remainder Of the vars were
loaded and driven to The depot without
molestation. a number of houses in the
locality where the attack was made were
riddled with bullets. No arrests were
made.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03
CRIME.

CHARGES and specifications against the
Rev. R. Heber Newton, rector of All
Sous, Episcopal church, New York, have
sesn filed with Bishop Potter, vino may
either quash them or order trial. The
complaint is that. in course e sermons
delivered last fall upon the inspiration OF
the scriptures. Mr.. Newton expressed
views at variance With tie IT eogniz d doc
trines of the Episcopal church.
THE first and second mates of the
steamer Tropie. running between Pnila-
delphia aud the West Indies, in the fruit.
carrying trade, were arrested by the u.
s. marshal upon the arrival of the vessel
at Philadelphia, Saturday, upon the
charge of violating the neutrality laws in
transporting arms and ammunition to
Miragoane for the Haytian rebels. The
vessel. it is also alleged, conveyed the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03

The Iowa Supreme Court has sgain
declared the Prohibition amendment
unconstitutional, null and void, be
cause the Legislature bungled its part
of the work. TIE Legislature and the
people will, consequently, have to do
the work all over again, before the
amendment can be incorporated into
the constitution, and to do this will re-
quire several years. The people of
Iowa now, more than ever before, ap-
preciate the importance of electing
Legislators who will have sense enough
10 know what thev are aoout.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03
FIRES AND CASUALTIES

THE lake marine suffered to a consid
7rable extent by the storm of Tuesday.
The schooner s. Bates, of Chicago, load
ed with cedar posts and ccrd1ood, from
Horns Per, went ashore near Winnetka
during tie c<,ernoon j. a strofg gale and
became total wreck. The vessel was
valued at IS 000 All of the cr.w were
saved by the Evanston liteJaving squad.
The schooner Clipper City. from Chicago
to Manistee, and the schooner 10 Duvall,
iroIa Milwaukee to Traverse Bav, collided
asrtheast of Milwaukee. A vessel broke
loose from its mooripgs at Grand Haven,
Michigan, and was carried against rail
road bridge, damaging the structure so
badly that trains cannot pass over it.
a TERRIBLE wind-storm occurred Sun
day in southwestern Mississippi. The
towns of Beauregard and Wesson, about
forty miles below Jackson suffered most
severely. The place first named, con-
timing about 800 inhabitants, was COM
pletely destroyed, 26 persons being killed
and nearly 100 more injured. At Wes-
son twenty buildings were blown down
and Is persons killed and so Injured.
some of whom will die. At Aberdeen 15
people were killed and 80 wou. .ded. Nu-
merous O. her villages were more or less
damaged. and in number of instances
loss of Ii fe is reported. In the aggregate
the fatalities number 65 while $50 per
sons were injured. La Georgia consider
able damage was inflicted upon property
by the wind, bat only in few instances
was there injury to persons. The storm
at Chattanooga, Tenn, caused damage to
The amount of $4,000. The damage by
the cyclone in Woodbury. county. Iowa
SATURDAY. evening, was more widespread
than first reports indicated, farmers and
villages suffering to a considerable e K
tent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-03
Facts

True love always makes q man bet
ter, no matter who the woman is who
inspires it.
If he who does good for goods sake
seeks neither praise nor reward, though
sure of both at last.
What men want is not talent, it is
purpose; not the power to achieve,
but the will to labor.
We all know what our duties are,
but we dodge them; we all know what
our rights are, and we are bound to
have them.
A man has no more right to say ap
evil thing than to act one-no more
right to say rude thing to another
than to knock him down.
A narrow minded Christian leading
a life Of crooked prejudices and doing
it conscientlOusly makes moro atheists
than all the infdel books ever written.
If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, expe-
rIence your wise counselor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your
guardian.
The man whom you can treat with
unreserved familiarity, at the same
time preserving your dignity and his
respect is rare companion, and his
acquaintance should be cultivated.
Doubt has been the great discoverer.
10 question an old lie is usually the
first step toward a new truth. 1t is an
act Of heroism to dispute moss grown
error out Of existence.
Profanity never did any man the
least good. No man is richer, has
pier, or wiser for it. Il commends no
one to society; it IS disgusting to re-
fined people and abominable to the
0od