The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-03-15
Sunac.

We wrote you last week of the
serious sickness of John NJ. Ross
and Merritt Eslick, jr., and sent
other items. But they came back
with the returning mail. The notes
were eveloped, sealed. stamped and
post marked. Why, then didn't
you get them? Because there was
not the mark of pen on the wrap
per! When they returned we real
lied, as never before, that to be
able to put our words on penpoints,
from there to paper, as signs of our
ideas, was great thing, but TO be
able to put them when and where
we ought was greater still.
We notice in the list of new
mail-routes in our state that route
from Sumac via Young's and Gas to
Boonshill is open for bids. The
mail is to be carried semi-weekly--
on Wednesdays and Saturdays, leav
ing here at a. m. to return at Z
p. m. The postmaster will have
the privilege of examining mall-bags
ten times a week, besides dis
tributing the mails, on salary of
perhaps two thousand cents and
get some circulars (for chromos)
besides an occasional Irvine for the
children to tie the kittens with.
"Who bids nextf"
Some time since an old gentle
man from Ohio, seeing nice farm
with commodious buildings and
other conveniences advertised in
the Southern Industries, came to
Giles county to look at this farm.
He was getting old and had ac-
cumulated money and wanted to
spend the evening of life in the land
of luxury and genial climate. He
passed through here, went and
looked at the farm that was offered
for sale. But imagine, if you can,
the surprise of the landowner the
next morning, when in reply to a
proposal made to his northern guest
to go out and inspect the lands,
buildings and general surroundings,
ne was told that there was no use,
he did not want to buy his farm at
any price. This place is in one of
the garden spots of Giles. After a
moments pause the visitor said:
Captain, yours is good farm, in
a good neighborhood, etc.; your
price is low enough, but / won't
live in any country where l can't
travel-you've no roads in this
country" A gentleman living in
an upper county wrote Esq. Beaver
to know what a certain farm that
he fancied could be bought for
He gave the desired Information,
when the land hunter asked, care
you going to build this turnpike?'
then added, "if you amt l don't
want to buy" Whose land lying
along this P. d. B. road that would
not be enhanced from 10 to % per
cent in value if the pike was com
pleted? Yet there are men Ga few
whp refuse to take dollars stock
in the road. Well there are public
spirited men with money enough to
build the necessary pixies, and we
believe they will be built. A man
along the pike routes couldn't
put his money out to better adj
vantage, though he never collect a
cent Of money on his invested stock.
We learn with pleasure that
the sick, mentioned in the first of
this letter, are improving. Miss
Lizzie Estes is numbered with the
sick this week, but we hope she is
not dangerously i'll,
There was great excitement, as
well as sorrow, among the colored
people, mile or two west of here
not long since. A number came to
John Flournoy's or Powell's to sit
up with his daughter, who was dead.
Soon after they congregated they
began, as is customary with them,
to sing. In a few moments after
they began their song one young
woman, who was singing pretty
vociferously, tainted, as they
thought, and fell. She never re-
covered. There were then two
corpses--adults--in the room at
once. 1t is supposed she had or
ganic heart disease. MoN.