The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-12-25
LynnviiIe.

! years l think that LynnvilIe ha
!, missed two consecutive weeks unit
now. This time it is chargeable t
the mails, in part.
Our people are making til
! usual preparation to eat turke
Christmas. Your scribe is ten
Gered a cut at 20 pound go6leI
Than which no one ne can~do i
it more CITIZEN like or even il
soldier-like style. The stores ar
packed with candies and a thou
sand loads of toys for old Kris, VIII,
will bulge out many lznk it'll,
stocking. There is nothing left foi
us half so delightful as the it'll,
| fellows joy over a socs full OF whai
old Kris brought.
We turn from the joyful to toe
monrnful to record the death OF
Esq. James NJ. Shields Friday last,
OF sbiiity He was nearly 70 aad
10 ull these years he had never
been stout. He built character,
however, that is imperishable and
is nohle legacy to HE posterity
He was an elder in the Presoyteii-
an church for 80 or 40 years and
lived up TO his profession. He
took an active part in politics too
and was long a justice Of the peace.
There were few better posted men
in all the affsirs of the nation. Few
had more friends and fewer enc
mics than he. Funeral services by
Rev. Mr.. Groves Saturday, which
was largely attended Inferred at
Mrs. Smiths.
"A late letter from DIR. Stod
dert at Mexico, Mo-, says he is
painfully but. slowly dying of
stomach trouble. He is loved, de-
votedly loved, by all this people.
For six years he was our pastor. He
vas your Eblilliant correspondent
from here so long over at L. NJ
my illustrious predecessor whose
style and dIction I dare not attempt
to Initiate. His recovery is hum
bly, prayed for.
The first session of the Acade-
my under Professors Tandy and
Duncan closed Friday with a pub
lie examination were Thursday and
Friday. Those who were there
delighted with the progress shown
and the improved methods used. 1t |
is to be regretted that the weather
was so inclement. They are wor-
thy educators and their efforts de.
serve the highest success. We
learn they will open early in Jan
nary with more boarders than
usual.
Prof. Campbell and his two lit
lie daughters aged s and 10 started
'or Cotton, Cal, two weeks since to
make that their home. Several ter
rible gunshot wounds during the
war tore and shattered bis nerves.
Physicians prescribed a sunny eli
mate. Hope be may be spared
20 much usefulness. To no one is
his community more indebted
Tor its character for intcllectu-
Atty and high morals.
Prof E. B. Briggs is teaching
B class OF Is in vocal music at Old I
Lynnville last week and this--I2
days. He has made fine charac-
Ter as teacher.
The families of Geo. W. Witt
Of Pulaski and Mayburn Hancock |
Of Bohemian spent a week each as
Mr.. j. c. Johnston's, father of these
sstimable ladies.
Under the new road law and |
and the public Spirit of our citizens
in supplementing, the public work
with volunteer aid was putting the |
the 10TH district fsr in the front |
rank for good roads, but it was I'M
checked by the action
Of the pike company and Lynnville
which is now happily !
adjusted and they have come nobly |
forward TO the assistance of the
public and the road to Old Lynn
vile which was terror to.travellers
last winter is now put in fine fix.
The people on the Grigsby road.
with j. P. Fry overseer, deserve |
more cred it for the HercGlean task |
they have and are performing. The
road ran over hills and around |
three sides of fields often, and was
a disgrace to civilization. They by !
effort have Strengthened |
it through their rich bottom fields !
and piked it and it is one of the
prettiest roads 1 ever saw. They
had to have a jury to open a few
hundred yards oft and for months
they have been unable to get the
jury to act or to get them together
even. The law is shamefully de-
fective in that there is no compen-
sation nor nothing mandatory in it,
and the juror very naturally refuses
to ride Is or 90 miles and serve on
an unthankful job for nothing.
Meanwhile the public suffers on.
The law is 100 years behind the
times.
--Jo. Golman has constructed an
iron foot bridge the creek for the
public road that from appearance
would last 100 years without acci
dent, costing only about $40. There
is an immense spring tide in the
creek and until now no effort to
keep a foot way was successful
The public are under gratitude to
Mr.. Golman for his engineering
skill and they should see he is well
paid, for we learn he did it mostly
at his own expense.
Capt. Blackburn shipped car
of fine hogs to Louisville Saturday.
Mrs. Joseph Briggs who had
severe fall last year from which she
has never fully recovered is quite
teble
j. B. Bray is our first delegate
to tho exposition. He will go about
Jan. l. LYNN.
Rural nipples.