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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31

He founded The st. Louis Democrat, and IL
was the only anti-slavery paper In a southern
state. He entered the Kansas conflict ON
the free state side. His life at this time was
one strain Of excitement and danger
In 1850, Gratz Brown called the first Re-
publican convention ever held In a slave
state, which Missouri then was Carl Schurz
and he worked together At tho beginning
Of the war he rnised regiment for tho
northern army, and became a brigadier gen
eral. In 1858 he was a candidate for United
States senator. He took ground In favor Of
the immediate freeing OF the slaves, and once
more a tempest arose. After a long and
bitter struggle he was elected.
After the war he was one Of the first 70
favor the enfranchisement Of ex- Confederate
soldiers, and once moro encountered a storm.
He rode It in safety, and was elected gov
ernor of Missouri in 1870
In 1872 he was candidate for vice
president on the Greeley ticket; this
was the most prominent event Of bis
life Since then he has taken no part In
politics except a stand IN favor OF the Prohl-
bition Temperance party. His private busi-
ness in the legal profession occupied all his
time Re was one of the soundest railroad
lawyers in the country.
He died unexpectedly at his home at Kirk
wood, Mo-, near ST. Louis
Mr.. Brown left a widow and nine children,
well provided for. Considering his power OF
brain and body, he was yet young to die
He was one of the strong men Of q stormy
time.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31
The Trunie eatherer..
iPhiladelphia Times.l


The lots near Blockly almshouse and
the University of Pennsylvania were
literally covered with children early in
the morning. The majority had long
drawn faces, pale and pinched with
signs of hunger and want. and were
clad in garments that could only lay
claim to the one merit of thorough
ventilation. They were all apparently
intent on one purpose, as all were dig
ging with sticks under the rubbish piled
up on the vacant lots Nearly all car
ried little pals, into which they threw
little black objects that they unearthed
from under the rubbish.
A little girl, dressed in a frock ap-
parently made from flannel petticoat,
was asked by benevolent looking old
gentleman what she was looking for.
''Truffles," she replied. Then poking
her stick under heap of rubbish at the
bottom of an ash dump, she dexterously
tossed away lot of ashes and rags, and
exposed little object that looked like
dirty toapstool. That's one of 'em, }"
she said, plucking it up by the roots,
and tossing it into her tin pail. The
little fungus plants are becoming a
popular delicacy among those who can
afford to pay the extravagant prices
asked for them. They are quoted on
the bills of fare in fashionable restau-
rants and hotels, where they are sold by
the little children seen gathering them
in the fields near the almshouse.
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The Tiber . Bargain for Americans.



The statue recently discovered in the
SAd .,d of the Tiber proves to be Bacchus.
So at least the Italian cognoscenti de-
clare, though the Winckelmans of to-
day are no doubt already pouring across
the Alps to controvert this classification
aud prove him to be something entirely
different. He stands six feet in height,
is cast in broze, with ivory eyes, is ex-
quisitely modelled, and in excellent
preservation. This find should spur the
tagging project of thorough search of
the bed of the Tiber.
Why does not company of patriotic
Americans purchase from the Italian
government the Tiber, with its treasure
trove? Rome has already half empe-
rors and quarter emperors" enough and
to spare, in mellow marble and rich
toned bronze, whereas art-worshiping
America has to put up with the death
like pallor of plaster casts. Such a
company might endow the republic with
a western Vatican; and then if they
found Solomon's candle-sticks, which
are said to repose under the Ponte
Molle, what jubilation there would be
among the churches.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31

ing houses. The giant growth of the
old willow trees that fringe the water here
are notable. Now they will all go. Staten
Island booms again, but this time it is the
prince Of commerce and industry, not OF
fashion that has kisse1 the sleeping beauty
and walked her into life. The Balti-
more and Ohio road has already
bought several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of water front at New
Brighton The boarding houses and the
beautiful willow avenues will go together.
No more will innocent and spooning lovers
promenade beneath their dense and friendly
shades at evening. Good-byI
beautiful home, too, is the Townsend
mansion The main part of it is nearly 100
years old Formerly it belonged to Dwight
Townsend, who was a rich man and a mem
ber of congress But riches take wings,
alas The Townsend money flew away, its
owner was obliged to give up his beautiful
home His son and heir, James B., fine
fellow, is earning his living as a New York
newspaper man, with all the varying for
tunes that that implies. The picturesque
house still belongs to member of the
Townsend family, however, though report
says it Is about passing into the hands of Sir
Roderick Cameron.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31
A GLACIER In Alasks.

archbishop Seyhess in Catholic Sentinel
Pieces Of ice are necessarily breaking
down, bouncing along the incline of tho
glaciers edge and plunging into the
salt water with splash. Apparently
they are but the size of small stones,
but the rattling reports they produce,
ike the brisk fire of musketry, proves
that they must be of considerable
Dimensions. All at once the earth seems
to quake, an immense block, equal to a
large cathedral, is seen inelining ma
jestically; il is covered with white
powder; down it comes into the sea; an
Immense wave surges and sends its spray
aloft; icebergs and cakes of ice collide,
clattering, breaking, and grinding each
other; the wave strikes the vessel,
which heaves and rolls as if in mid
ocean; a deafening clap of thunder is
heard, followed by the rattling echo
among the mountains; it is as the boom
ing of artillery fire. Presently all is
silent, until the same spectacle recon-
mences and the same scene is re-enacted.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31
MARGAREr HATCHERY.

1t is simply photograph of plain, stout
old woman The face is broad, lit up withal
by an expression both shrewd and kindly.
Margaret Haughery was a poor girl OF
Irish parentage, who could neither read nor
write. Yet she made a fortune of half a
million of dollars. That of itself was
enough to make any woman famous. Few
enough Of the sex could do il, poor thingsl
But hear what she did with this nobly
earned money.
At this time of the year she comes back
to the memory with especial vividness for
now hundreds of orphans will be enjoying
the festive season which she gave them.
Only for her love and labors, their Christ
mas, poor fatherless ones, would have been
spent in want and misery. Blessed are they
who make the children happy at Christmas
timei
Margaret, the orphans friend, had herself
been a lonely orphan. She began life as a
domestic servant But she was naturally
drawn to the aIleviation of human suffering.
She was a devout Roman Catholic, and
under the direction of the sisters of charity
she became a hospital nurse. While serving
I'm this field one of her patients noted what
good care she took of him, and made up his
mind that he would have her all to himself.
He proposed IDarriago and was accepted.
But the husband died in their first years of
married life Her only child died, too, and
Margaret was left alone to do her life work
She managed the dairy in orphan
asylum awhile. Then she opened a little
eating house. But one feature of her career
is singular. With all the money she amassed
she never entered on any enterprise without
"A benevolent motive at the back. She had
noted how the Mississippi steamboat labor
ers deck hands they are called, were
swindled out of their money, and how they
stupefied themselves with whisky and then
lay about boozing kens till they were pushed
:Hut-
M..rgaret thought she could do them some
good. 20 she opened the little shop where
river labore,-s could get cup of good coffee
and n roll for t. ',,e meFest trife. 1t is not on
record that she eve- succeeded in reforming
the deck hands to any great extent, but she
did build up in time a great manufacturing
business. She erected a steam cracker
bakery, a building several stories n height.
Her wagons supplied bakers goods 10 the
city. / have seen them myself. On the out-
side were the words: ''Margaret's Bread and
Crackers" At first she drove her own bread
cart about the city. Money rolled in, and
she might easily have died millionaire
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31
HOME LIFE OF THE eURMANs.
But Little Furniture I'm Their Homes :
Culinary Arrangements-FoOd.
Ict T0uis Globa- -ranocraf

But Little Furniture I'm Their Homes =
Culinary Arrangements-FoOd.
ISt Louis Globe-Democratl
The Orientals have not the same ideas
as to home and comfort that are pos
sessed by western nations, but seem
quite content with what they have.
Their furniture, house appointments
and manner of life are thus depicted:
Always sitting and sleeping on mats,
the Burmans have little furniture in
their houses Officials and head-men
generally have table and chair or
to two to produce on the visit of an Eu-
ropean, and in some houses there is at
one end of the veranda large wooden
couch or divan, which is used as a
lounge or as a strangers sleeping place.
Occasionally, in native house, a Bur
man may be seen sitting on a chair, but
then he has his heels up on the seat;
and in the courts in our province, pre-
sided over by native magistrates, in
which the use of chair and table is
imperitive, they may often be caught
in similar easy position. Their beds
consist of mattress made of wild cot
ton, spread on a mat, with rugs of
strong cotton woven in the country,
musquito curtains of the same.
The culinary utensils consist of
round earthen pots, and the meal is
served in large, round lacquered
wooden tray, the rice being heaped up
on it, and the different curries and con-
diments contained in small cups are
basins of European orookery. Some
times among the poorer classes large
wash-hand basin forms the rice bowl
The better class use large lacquered
three-legged tray, which answers as a
table, on which the rice and cups are
placed, and round which all sit dipping
their fingers into the same dish accord
ing to eastern custom. The cooking is
not of the most savory kind to our
taste, the different curries, whether of
flesh fowl, fish or vegetable, being little
better than tasteless stews, deriving
any piquancy in eating from the
pounded nga-pee and chillies, which
forms the invariable coldiment of every
meal as salt does with us. Nga-p pee
means simply pounded fish, and differs
in quality, from the best, made of
shrimps, being the same as the balachong
of the Malay straits, kind of shrimp
paste, to the rankest filth used by the
mass of the population.
''This latter is really fish in a certain
state of decomposition, pounded up into
a mass with coarse salt, rendering in its
preparation the fishing villages perfect
~ nnbearable to an European: Yet the
favorers of this high relish find the smell
of an English cheese disagreeable The
chief article of food among all classes
being plain boiled rice, a highly favored
condiment of some sort is required to
counteract its natural insipidity, and
perhaps its bad effects on the stomach,
when eaten in such quantities, often
cold, as burman Wiz sSS ,e5 nHes1Sn ta az az
meal y
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31
London's self-Contained Power.
lJoseph Hatton,s Letterl

Whatever disabilities affiict other
cities of the United Kingdom, London
has a special imperative power in her
self. She never quite reflects the con-
dition of England. Men from all parts
of the world are always coming and go
ing hence The center of international
politics, London becomes more and more
the scene of great financial operations.
Everybody who has anything to sell, or
to patent, or to introduce to the world,
brings it to London. The inventor, the
singer, the writer, the painter, the spec
ulator, the adventurer, they all find che
metropolis the great magnet of the
world If it were possible for English
industries themselves to touch even
much lower depth than at present, Lon
don would be London still, the col Mt
ing-house of the empire, the head
trading quarters of India and the oil
onies, the banking house of Europe.
. Caterers for these, therefore, who de-
sire to be amused need never despair OF
, success in London. Given the big show,
dondon is tho place for it But there
the big certainty ends.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31
Explosions of Carbon Dust.


Herr c. Fngler has investigated the
conditions of the explosions that occur
from time to time in the lampblack
works of the Black forest, and has ar
rived at results of an interesting and
cautionary character to those engaged
in industries involving analogous con-
tingencies. He finds that mixture of
air and of gaseous hydro carbon, in
which mixture the latter is too small IN
proportion to be ignited, becomes capa-
Bile, when charged with carbon dust, not
only of propagating flame but of effect
ing true explosions. Air containing 20
volumes per cent. of marsh gas takes
fire throughout the entire mass II 1t is
charged with charcoal dust, though air
containing 3 to per cent. without the
charcoal dust cannot be ignited, and
only produces a local explosion with 90
to volumes
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31

The greatest advantage to be reaped from
the new enterprise is this; The water Is so
deep of the Staten Island shore that the
large freight steamers can lie at her
docks. The Baltimore and Ohio cars
will bring grain and heavy freight
directly to the elevator docks as soon
as they are built, and put it from the
cars into the elevator, whence it will slide
into the ships hold, all done with one
handling.
pany's railroad tracks already belt the old
island Over these Baltimore and Ohio's cars
viii run for ninety-niEe years, according TO
the terms of the lease Elevators shops
factories and cattle yards will spring up like
Jonah's gourd In a few years ano ther city
will frown at us from this new water front
Of New York, one equal to Jersey City, per-
haps to Brooklyn ELIZA ARCHARD.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-31

I American babies are inflicted with. Every
American mother scans that baby's costume
as if they were anxious to see how it
came off and went on These clothes,
by the way, were of dark colors
and not the traditional white of our nur-
series. What your correspondent, who has
had some experience with babies, wondered
at was whether the japanese variety pos
sessed the faculty of turning night into day,
or whether its mother ever answered its
Japanese father when he complained of the
racket it was making in its japanese way
that he should have more patience with il
while it was cutting teethF Bent on learn
ing more of this baby the writer extended
his hands to take it. The mother politely
granted his dumb request so that he had the
privilege of holding it in his arms for a
time. The only thing peculiar about it
was feeling that it was without bones, at
least without any backbone. 1t had alao de-
cided Japanese doll odor. Like its American
prototype it devoted its time to chewing on
its little hands or anything else within reach,
and was frightened when it found itself in
the arms of a stranger and paleface.
One thing commendable about the japanese
mother she does not cramp the childs feet like
her Chinese cousin over the way All the
inhabitants Of the village even ''Tbe three
little maids from school" +" who dispensed tea
to the visitors had really larger feet than
their stature would warrant. The feet in all
cases are covered with mitsen stocking.
According to the oriental custom the
wooden sandals are always left out
side the door ON entering the house.
The artist has caught one of the
inmates of the tea house in the
act of stepping into her shoes. The costumes
of the women in the two civilizations are
here brought i'll contrast and the reader is
left to judge which is the more sensible. In
a small box in this bamboo house is a fire OF
charcoal, on it, in fancy teapot, is ''draw
ing the tea which is afterwards dispensed
in diminutive cups to the visitors without
trace of milk or sugar. The women perform
all their work kneeling, with their feet only
bent under them, while the men sit tailor
fashion.
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pIsrILLINa oLo.rIMg WHISKY.
How 1t was Done in the Days When tn.
Business was Reputable.


louisville CommsrciaL1
The mode of manufacturing whisky "a
the days when it was sent down the
Mississippi river on aatboats and sold
at 10 to 20 cents per gallon, differed as
widely as possible from that of the
present. The location of springs in
that day decided that OF the distillery.
for the simple reason that they had no
machinery or pumps, and the water
flowed through troughs dug out Of oak
saplings into the flake stand or con-
denser. OF necessity the spring
was sufficiently elevated to flow
in the top of the flake stand. The
whisky of that day can truly be said
to have been hand made, as everything
was done by manual labor. The grain
was ground at the neighborhood horse
mill and carried on horseback to the
distillery. The MASKING was done in
small tubs, as now, except that the
spent beer or slop was carried in buckets
from the still to the tubs. The meal
was then put in and stirred with q
stick thoroughly cooked into mush, and
let stand about twenty-four hours to
cool. Then cold water was put in and
thoroughly stirred. Yeast was then
taken from tubs in a state of formenta-
ton and put into the new tubs, and
allowed to stand forty-eight or seventy
two hours, as the weather might be cold
or warm-the colder, the longer the
time of fermentation.
After the fermentation was complete
the mash became beer, which was
dipped in buckets and run through into
jug-shaped copper stills which were
placed on rock and the furnaces so
built that the fire, made Of wood, went
entirely around the still some distance
above the bottom, the smoke coming out
into the distillery. But the distiller, TO
make double sure that his still might
npt burn by the settling of the meal,
'Vhich would prevent the beer from
coming into contact with the heated
still, would leave of what was called
the cap and stir with pole until the
beer was about to boil, when no would
replace the cap and paste it around
with rye meal. This boiling process ia
called distilling.
Since alcohol becomes vapor at aloweF
emperature than water boils, the vapor
that arises is almost entirely alcohol,
whi;l goes through copper pipes, or
whsi is called the worm, simply because
it is coiled around the inside of large
tub or flake stand, which is constantly
supplied with cold water introduced ia
the bottom of the flake stand, the heated
water overfowing at tho top. This cold
water condensed the vapor in the worm,
which came out what was called sing
lings. This was redistilled in the same
way to get higher proof whisky. In
that day there was no such thin0 as q
Thermometer; the distiller's arm was
the substitute in testing the heat of his
tubs, and the proof vial was used instead
of the hydrometer, and the proof of
whisky was decided by the bead. The
distiller in running his whisky from the
still would shut it off when the bed of
the worm disappeared, and would run
what was called backings as long as
they would burn. The custom was to
throw them on the cap and set fire to
them. This was redoubled with the
singlings.
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ON STATEN ISLAND.
some Picturesque Views OF the baltimore
and Ohio Railroads New Acquisition.


and Ohio Railroads New Acquisition.
Especial Correspondence.J
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-The eyes of New
York, If not Of the country, are at present
turned toward Staten Island. For twenty
years it has been a sort Of monument of
tumbledown grandeur. Before and during
the war it was the most aristocratic and
fashionable resident suburb of the great city.
Rich merchants and others who had made
their pile' built fine mansions here and re-
tired to be happy The nearer they could
get to being English in their mode of life the
happier they were. Houses yelled behind
thickets of trees so that not even a tramp
could spy or scent them from the road, far
reaching, sloping lawns and handsome stone
walls were some of the prominent features.
The counterfeit was so well gotten up that to
this day the stranger riding through the ISL
and remarks at once the resemblance to an
English landscape. Here the wealthy old
time inhabitants lived In alleged baronial
style up to twenty years ago. The fashion
able reign of this suburb dates to before the
days when Jenny Lind sang at Castle Gar
den, to that remote period even when Castle
Garden was the aristocratic park of New
York The architecture of some of its fine
old houses have the high, huted-columned
porticos Of the days of Washington and
Jefferson. For fifty years previous to
about 1865 the summers among rich Staten
Islanders were q succession of scenes of
gayety, festivity and splendor.
Suddenly all that died down, The flckle
foot Of fashion fitted The glory of Staten
Island departed. 1t was suddenly discovered
to be the lurking place of malaria and the
mosquito.
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The various occupations take place In
booths, as in a fair, the floor of each one
being covered with mating The artisans
perform their various occupations sitting
with their legs doubled up as a cushion under
them, the luxury of a chair being unknown
in Japan The first booth that attracts our
eye contains the lightning sketch artist Aolzi,
a specimen of his skill sketched to order for
our readers is reproduced Ia fac-simile here
with 1t was drawn with a brush in less
than three minutes This is lightning work.
but the artist who contributes the remaining
sketches to this article could make a more
hfe-like sketch in one-hah the time. So
much for Celestial versus Yankee expertness
at sketching In this same booth is the
Kakemono painters. Kakemono Is the Jap
anese for changing thing" and refers to
pictures, panels and window decorations.
Here we can stop and bow our heads to the
superiority of the 'Japs," but in their ar
Fangement of colors only. Their designs are
Of course quaint and fascinating TO rs, but
the refined tastt, eId beautiful harmony dis
played in their selections CT cc.SHr c."r are well
worthy of study in our civilization Nature
has endowed the land of the crysanthemum
with the most vari-colored flowers to be
found on the earth, and it is from this source
that they, as well as ourselves, draw in
spira ton.
Consider the lilies of the field,
Behold they toll not, neither do they spin,
Yet Solomon in all his glory,
Was not arrayed as one of these"
These artists also undertake the painting
of portraits in oil or water color from photo
graphs furnished them Here is seen plainly
the conventional character of Japanese art
They couldn't for the life of them paint the
portrait of an American without giving
it a japanese cast The eyebrows are
darkened, the eyes become almond-shaped
and the skin an olive hue at the hands of the
Kakemono painter The same thing may be
noticed in European wood engravers. Let
a French, German and English wood en-
graver be given copy each of the same
photograph of Parnell, for instance, and each
will incorporate his nationality so unmis-
takably in his work that you can imme-
diately see Parnell as Frenchman, German
or Englishman. So this failing is not con-
fined to the Jap"