The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-07-30

Gte Bnlaski Citizen.
LAPS. D. McCORD. Editor.
THURSDAY JUYL 30, 1885.
Red heads are becoming all the
rage at the resorts.
Mr.. Randalrs advice and influ-
ence is eagerly sought by the adj
ministration. The democratic party
abroad is drifting into sounder
channels. We must purify it in
Tennessee.
The NashviIles beat the Allan
tas 4 to 3 Monday and l3 to u
Tuesday, making three out of four
victories for the Nashville team.
The Atlantas will carry off the
league banner nevertheless.
Johnny Skae. who once counted
mis- millions and dashed Saratoga,
died pauper in California the other
day. James Keenc, the great grain
dealer who made and lost millions,
is again on the road to fortune in
good luck.
Gen. Grant will be buried in Riv-
erside Park, New York, instead of
Central Park. Already subscrip-
tions are coming for a monument
which will be projected on a grander
scale than any that stands in honor
of dead heroes.
"The South is in the saddle" but
only it seems, Tor the purpcs sc of
Joining in the ceremonies in honor
of a general who was magnanimous
as well as victorious, and was not
ashamed to be just, as he was not
afraid to fight Courier Journal.
John Roach, the great ship build
er, is broke and gone under AS
soon as the democrats got into of
flee and held him down to contract,
ne threw up the sponge. Chandler
fed him richly on government pap,
paying him $2,I00,GO0 on the Dol
phin before it was received.
Dresden Enterprise The Amer
lean is now engaged in trying to
read old wings out Of the democrat
ic party and supplying their places
with negroes. The mOtive.of this
policy is patent; ignorance will
obey the behests of the machine"
much more readily than intelli
8ence.
| engaged a mantle saw one cord of
wood one day for which / was TO
pay him So in cash, but as he want
ed to take his pay in wood / agreed
to that, allowing him to take from
the cord of wood payment for saw
ing the remainder. How much
wood did / have left? Wood 81
per cord.
They had a perplexing case of
color blindness at the Vandalia Of
fee Yesterdays man who could
distinguish the slightest variations
of shade of color with his right eye.
while with his left he could not tell
the brightest emerald from flaming
scarlet. The left orb was a glass
ODe.-IndianapOlis News.
Until that farcical organization
known as the county court is abol
ished and something practical and
sensible is substituted therefor, the
people may expect crookedness and
aWkwardness in their county affairs.
The county courts have Outlived
their day Of usefulness and ought
to be RELOCATED to antiquity.-Na-
tional Review.
Winchester Home Journal: If
there is so much democratic juice
coursing through the veins of the
machine" element as it processes,
why is it that it will cling to pet
idea which threatens the etfectual
overthrow of the democratic party
in Tennessee? The answer is easy.
Ii loves a railroad commission bet
ter than it does the principles of
tue democratic party.
The National Review cOngratu |
lates Col. G. f. Merrill of the Amer
lean SupOn shis conversion to re-
publicauism and warmly welcomes
him into that party. The first
thing a republican neophyte does
is to hug q negro and the next is to |
Wiley abuse JEFF Davis. Col. Mcr |
gill has done the hugging act and !
the country tremblingly awaits his
attack upon the venerable chief
rebel
There are seven "independent"
political parties in Tennessee. to
wit: Col. Colyar, II. NJ. Doak, DR.. |
Bob White, A. L. lands, jr., Laps. |
McCord, Senator jackson and f. B. !
Stahlman. When the wild grapes |
get ripe in the fall these ponderous
organizations will have a grand pic
mic, and endeavor, by union of |
forces, to secure q quorum with a |
view TO permanent organization
National Review.
Can the democratic party live in
Tennessee if the demagogs succeed |
in running out those who dare to diff |
fer with them? Do Col. Merrill and !
Col. Vertrees hope to recruit the |
party with negroes so as to hold |
their grip on the leadership Is the
party able to stand this drain upon
1t and this foul accretion2 Let the
solid sensible men of the country !
say whether they will have the
grand old party betrayed and pol
luted by such foul means for such
selfish purposes.
London has been shaken from
centsr to suburb by the most start
ling revelations of scandal in high
places by the Pail Mall Gazette. 1t