The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-05-21
THE PAPERS SAY

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A breathless people still wait for the
first case of an office calling on man
who wasn't at home.
1t was a blessed thing for the south
that Murat Halstead did not get really
angry until the war was over.
1t is said that the owners of the New
York Times have recently refused So
100000 for the paper.
Sore-headed sspirants for Office as
sert that "Cleveland's motto is to the
victims belong the spoils."
1t looks as though England's power
OF absorbing and assimilating Russian
insults YVES unlimited.
The Illinois senatorshi is in more
doubt than ever and Carter Harrison !
has risen again. He is the stormy pc
trel OF politics
Ohio papers are bringing up the
subject Of Gen. Grants possible can
didacy for the presidency in 1888.
The Ohio legislature passed regis
tration law applicable only to Cincin- |
natl and Cleveland. Why not in Ten
nessee ?
Volun teer infantry-HOueton Light |
Guards, first; Mobile Rifles, second ; |
Chickasaw Guards, third; Louisville |
Legion, fourth.
In recent Sunday sermon Henry |
Ward Beecher said: alt is very dan
gerous thing for a man to be over
weighted on the animal side" Henry
has suffered.
Gen. Grant is sent each month by
the army paymaster at New York a
check for $l,l33.33 being one-twelfth
of the annual salary as general on the
retired list of the army.
The population of Russia, all told,
numbers eightY-fVe millions, or one
quarter more than the United States
and Great Britain combined.
Gen. Sheridan's injuries from the
upsetting OF his carriage on Monday
are more serious than at first supposed.
He was obliged to rest at Santa Monca,
Cal,
Secretary Lamar dined with Mr..
Blaine Saturday evening. The demo-
Gratis had better keep an eye on the
Plumed Knight or he may pocket some
of their offices for his friends.
The Ten essee Press Association viii
meet at Nashville on Friday, the 22d
instant, and after transacting the usual
business, the members will go thence
to the Worlds Exposition at New Or
leans,
Gen. Hancock has been the recipient
of unbounded attention at Atlanta,
where he has been locating a site for
| soldiers barracks, and he is pressingly
urged to visit sew 3iriisans, where he
is promised an ovation,
Mrs. Garfield is worth about $3.50
900, which nets her an inceme, at four
per cent, of $4,000 year. Her PEN
sion from congress is $4,000 a year,
making her entire resources $2l, 600 s
year.
The Old Testament Revision Compa-
ny, which has just submitted its report
TO conyOcation in England, held eighty
five sessions and finished in June,
1884. These sessions of about ten DAYS
each, comprised 1872 days of six hours
sitting.
No state in the union surpasses Texas
in the munificence with which it is
caring for its public schools. The
buildings in the larger towns are equal
to any in the United States, and liberal
salaries are paid the teachers. The
state has set apart thirty million acres
of land to provide for general education.
The fandangO in Mexico is played
out. Girls in the land of the MOntezu-
mas have espoused the waltz OF th e
French and German. They are be-
coming CIVILIZED and like 'hugging"
when the band begins to play. Twas
ever thus.
A rather singular coroner's verdict
was rendered by an Albany, Ca, jury
the other day. A well known "soak1
was found dead in the suburbs with
pistol near by. After consultation it
was agreed that "the deceased killed
himself in self defense-justifiable sui
eide.
The New York World celebrated its
second birthday under theInew manage
ment Sunday, Within that time its cir
culatiOn has been Increased from
i5,?!0, to $50, 1854, and it claims to lead
all of its contemporaries in the volume
of a dYertising. MIR. Joseph Pulitzer is
certainly genius in the way of build
ing up newspapers.
a New York dispatch tells the mel
aucholy story of an old man who
hanged himself because his aged wife
was about to die. Rather than to be
left alone the old coward left the old
woman alone. There is good deal of
mans nature in that. No woman
would ever have done such a thing.
Some of the courts of PENNSYLVANIA
have decided that farm boundary fences
cannot be made of barbed wire without
the consent of the parties owning the
adjacent land; and any man who puts
a barbed wire fence along the highway
renders himself liable for all Injuries
resulting to stock passing along said
highway.
Malone weighs 10 pounds. His lin
en- is always frayed at the edges, his
cuffs broken and demoralized and one
of them usually turned back over his
coat sleeve. He wears cloth Over-gai-
tiers, SLOUGH hat and ragged necktie,
while his hair and whiskers are long
and thin. From this brief description
it will be perceived that Malone is a
good deal of swell when he is fixed
up.
The Rev. Sam Jones says "baseball Is
rs innocent game as there is in the
world, but they have got it as rotten as
hell" 1t is to be feared that the Rev,
Jones has been the unwilling short stop
to hot ball, These things are produc-
tive of profanity, but common man,
not on the evangelical lay, would simp-
ly have said, cit is h-ll of game
Avalanche.
Girls, prepare to quicker your mouths.
The second wife of Commodore Garri-
son, the recently deceased millionaire,
won her husband by the power of
whistling. He was in 1873 crusty old
widOwer at Long Branch, and was
very much annoyed by some one
whistling near his apartments He uu-
earthed the fair whistler, discovered the
labial serenade to proceed from the lips
of girl of twenty, and married her.
Moral: Girls all learn to whistle.
Senator Joe Black burn had Il highly
inflammatory interview to-day with the
| president. He says that he read the
riot act to Mr.. Cleveland and all evil
| dences are corroborative of his declara-
ton. He told the president that all of
his Kentucky appointments have been
mistakes, that everything he had done
in the matter of appointments had been
J an insult and an outrage to the delega-
ton from Kentucky, and he went for