The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-03
NEWS AND OPINIONS.

OF offensive partisanship against fe-
male postmasters because a woman
cannot be an offensive partisan.
Gen. Clusters widow draws a
pension of $4,000 annually, earns
something by literary work and has
a pleasant and very profitable posi-
ton in a commercial way in New
York.
The New Orleans States says that
the president is getting great deal
of advice towards enabling him to
shape his message. The advice
costs nothing and is worth exactly
what it costs.
In the new Connecticut legisla-
ture the republicans will have a
majority of two in the senate and
eleven in the house. Last year they
had ten in the senate and seventy
one in the house.
There is considerable curiosity
to know where Mr.. Randall stands
in the matter of proposed amend
ments to the rules of the house.
Thus far he has succeeded in keep
ing his own counsel remarkably
well.
The Philadelphia Times announ-
ces that Keely will soon exhibit his
motor to q disinterested committee
and turn it over to the company
formed to manufacture and intro
duce il. So long!
| Rhode Island, where property
qualification is a prerequisite of the
exercise of the elective franchise, is
said to be without a democratic pa
per, the only one it had having
turned its face to the wall last week
and died.
A Tallahassee school-boy, in de-
fning a demagogue, said that it
was a ''vessel made of glass, cover
ed with willow, that holds beer,
wine, gin, whisky, or any kind OF
Intoxicating liquor" He meant
demijohn, but his error was not a
great one.
Mr.. Webster, the publisher of
Grants Personal Memoirs" says
it is now assured that the generals
estate will receive 100000 from
the sale of the book, aud thinks it
may reach 100000. There are
now 10000 agents in the field can
casing tor it.
The Sioux City Journal contin-
ues to repeat the story of Fitzhugh
Lees paradlng Virginia in confed
crate uniform and with the confed-
crate flag. As the election is over
it seems as though the only object
in this must be to enjoy the fun of
telling lie.
The exact size of the Americans
politics can be taken when it is re-
membered that it zealously urged
the appointment of Ed Shaw to an
office Of trust and profit, and has
howled itself hoarse because so en-
inently respectable gentleman as
DR.. Morgan was given sinecure.-
GAINESVILLE Chronicle.
Mr.. Reese K. Henderson, recent
y appointed postmaster at Muir
freesboro, has resigned and Mr..
Frank White has been appointed
in his stead. MIR. Henderson gave
as his reason for resigning that the
postmastership interfered with his
duties as editor of the News, and
he prefers not to give up journal
ism.
Sometimes a man and wife are
one and sometimes two Cor even
several). For instance, at Berlin,
Ill, the postmaster was removed
because he was an offensive parti-
san and his wife WAS appointed be-
cause she was an inoffensive and
unterrifed democrat. United they
would have fallen, divided they re-
tanned the office.
Senator Camden of West Virgil
MIA said recently that in a year
from now President Cleveland
would be very popular among dem
ocrats. The senator says the adj
ministration will not be attacked by
Senator Eustis and that the per-
sons who look forward to an eXcit-
ing session of congress will certain
ly be disappointed.
1t has pleased Mr.. Hill of New
York to appoint to office man the
president had rejected as unfit for
appointment TO federal position,
and it has pleased the Sun and
many machine organs to refer ex
ultingly 20 the fact. 1t remains to
be seen who will get the worst of
this deliberate act of defiance and
Observation-Disclosures.
A newspaper in Lewiston, Me-,
which claims to speak by authority,
says at happens to know that Mr..
Blaine thinks that the democratic
party will not have a very long
lease of power" That will depend
to some extent on the number
of times that the republicans run
Mr.. Blaine The democratic lease
will run as long as he does.