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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-05-27

1t seems that the president has
concluded thet everything is not
lovely with pension claimants and
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-05-27
Cures for Piles.

Piles are frequently preceded by a
sense of weight in the back, loins and
lower part OF the abdomen, causing the
patient to suppose he has some.affection
of the kidneys or neighboring organs.
At times, symptoms of indigestion are
present, hatulency, uneasiness of the
stomach, etc. A moisture like perspi-
ration, producing a very disagreed BILE
itching after getting warm is COM
mon attendant. Blind, bleeding and
itching piles yield at snce to the appli-
which acts directly upon the parts af-
fected, absorbing the Tumors, allaying
the intense itching and effecting per-
manent cure. Price 90 cents. Address
the DIR. Bosanko Medicine Co., Piqus
o. Sold by H. NJ. Grigsby. f4-6m
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Aspen Hill.
TELEPHONE BY F.


Miss Matte Prewett of Dan
vile, KY, Is visiting friends and
relatives in old Giles.
Rev. j. NJ. Ashford has gone to
Fedalia, Mo-, to attend general as
semblp. He will be gone a week
or more.
H. G. and G. D. Butler are hav-
ing their new Office shelved. They
will soon be ready for business. w.
J. Edwards is doing the work.
The Colorado potato bug is do.
ing a great deal of damage in this
neighbOrhood. L. W. Potts says
they will soon eat up his patch.
Lock out for them for they are
coming and they will clean up pota-
to patches as they go.
Crops are looking fine. Some
of our farmers will soon begin to
lay by corn. John Madry and Bill
Tasting, our boss farmers, say eve
thing is lyoking well.
We are sorry to say that P. H.
Bass is very sick.
Jas. H. Strong has been very
sick but is better.
There has been very little sick
ness in this community this season.
Miss Tennie Strong was in
Nashville last week.
DIR. G. D. Butler will go to
Nashville soon.
Last Thursday Mr.. T. Atwell
Fogg was on his way from Aspen
Hill to Testers station riding his
mare with a young mule colt when
he met train and the mare became
frightened and fell dead in the
road. A negro named Booker Allen
who lives in this place near the
railroad bought COW and drove her
home and put her in his lot and the
train came along and she fell dead.
Say, you cattle men, you had better
mind how you drive your cattle up
and down the road; you may lose
some of them.
Our fisherman, Mr.. Williams of
Columbia, caught 400 pounds of
fish last night near Browns mill
and will fish again to night. Can
you beat thatS
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Unequal Assessments.

Col. Thos. Claiborne of Nashville
has recently written some very val
liable papers upon the defects and
inequalities of our tax assessment
laws and has made some sugges-
tions which if followed out will cor
rect the evils. 1t is sufficient to
condemn the law to state that it is
unequal in its application. The
man with a hard conscience rates
his land at $40 an acre, while his
mora conscientious neighbor rates
his at $40. The honest man is
paying just one-third of his sharp
neighbours taxes. Ought law to
stand uncorrected that admits of
such inequalities?
The criticism goes to the person.
mel of the assessors. Magistrates
appoint themselves year after year.
Magistrates are honest, but they are
Humankind they are candidates.
They cannot sometimes avoid par
TALLY and they sometimes do it
without knowing it. They allow
men to undervalue their property
and they know it, but it is as much
as their official heads are worth TO
object. We are not making any
charges. Giles has an honest board
of magistrates, but even they are
criticized. In some counties the
favoritisms are outrageous.
The papers and writer's over tie
state are carrying the discussion
deeper still: the esta blishment of
our county court system and
the substitution of three com
missioners to do all the work of the
court and conduct the county bust
ness. 1t is coming to that sooner
or later in Worcestershire sooner,
the better. The people ought to
think of these things and call their
legislative candidates out. Send
men to the legislature with sense
enough to attend to such things.
If we can get every dollar s
worth of property assessed at its
true value, then it would be fair for
every one. Besides that, it would
show up two or three times as much
as it now does and people abroad
would know that Tennessee is not
the barren waste her tax books
show her to be. 1t would not affect
the amount of taxes. We have so
much to raise every year and lar
ger tax list would make a cores
pondingly lower rate-and every
body would be taxed exactly right
and no injustice done.
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GENERAL NEWS.

DR.. Dio Lewis is dead. The
cause OF his death was erysipelas in
the leg.
The Supreme Lodge, Knights of
Honor. met at Providence, r. 1.
last week.
A national bank with a capital of
100000 was organized in Shelby
vile recently.
DR.. G. c. Savage of jackson has
been elected to chair in Wander
bilt Unworthy.
The steamer Dean Adams, togeth-
er with her cargo, was destroyed
by fire at Memphis on the SD. The
creK barely escaped with their lives.
The fire was caused by the explo-
sion of an oil lomp. She was built
at cost of $37, 900 and was insured
for $4,000.
Senator Harris introduced a bill
in the senate last Monday authoriz-
ing the Memphis bridge company to
build a bridge across the Mississip-
pi at Memphis. 1t is to be sixty
five feet above the high water mark
and to have span of 800 feet.
A frightful accident occurred at
Soddy, near Chattanooga, Monday.
A car load of blasting powder,
about seventy five kegs, was being
hauled to the mines when a spark
from the engine fell into one of the
kegs, which had burst, when all ex-
ploded, wrecking the train and ia
tally injuring three men.
Mrs. Pendleton, wife of Geo. H.
Pendleton, present minister to Ber-
lin, and late candidate for vice pres
ident, was thrown from a carriage
in Central Park, New York, and in
stantly killed last Thursday. She
had returned from Germany only a
few weeks ago to attend the funeral
of niece and was driving for her
health-Exchange.
Mrs. Shelton, who was at the
head of the entertainment given un-
der the auspices of the Knights of
Labor some weeks since for the pur-
pose Of raising funds to provide en-
ployment for sewing girls and wo-
men, is now in Jail, charged with
embezzling funds arising from the
sale of tickets to the entertainment.
Memphis Avalanche.
Hon. D. +. Patterson, ex-senator
and son-in-law of ex-President
johnson has been appointed post
master at Howe, Green county, at a
salary of $40 a year. Mr.. Patter-
son accepted the office at the re-
quest of his neighbors, and for their
accommodation. His appointment
was endorsed by Senator Whit
thorne who was a clerk in the sixth
auditors Office when Patterson was
senator.
The agricultural department at
Washington has very encouraging
reports regarding the condition OF
crops in Tennessee. The winter
wheat ranks above the average crop
and is rated at 102, point to which
only two other states, Kentucky
and California, attain. Winter rye
is at the high average of 100; mead
ow moving lands SO; spring pasture
SO. The proportion of the cotton
crop planted May was 81 per cent.
at the date in other years. The re-
port deVotes a large amount of
space to the credit system practic-
ed among the farmers of the south
but does not mention Tennessee as
suffering in this regard so much as
many other states.-Milan Ex-
change.
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The Absence of LunatIcsAmODg
the Chinese and japanese.

A noticeable fact with the Celestial
nation is that with population OF 300,-
100000 there is not single insane asy
lum in the country. This immunity
from madness has been referred by ex-
perts to the fashion of wearing Pig
tails, the arrangement of which requir-
ing q very methodical habit to mako
them hang evenly from the middle
the head between the shoulders, acts a.
u balance weight to the brain. This Is
a PROF o -ition which cannot be ents r
tertained, as insanity is on the increase
among the English speaking popula-
ton, in spite of the pride and thoughC
which they give to the arrangement OF
their hair. Another more plausible,
and in fact the real reason for the alb
sence of insane asylums in Japan and
China is that fondness for mathemati-
cal calculations which has led them TO
invent puzzles requiring some sort of
calculation for the amusement Of their
hours OF leisure. "The Mikado" puzzle
is one of those great eastern games by
which these peculiarly civilized people
keep their heads clear from anything
| tending to interfere with the regular
functions of the brain. A soothing eff
feet is obtained from the working which
1 CO0siStS III lilC EcXuldIIIy
with which pyramid OF discs of vari-
rious sizes are removed from three
metal pegs inserted for that purpose on
a board of wood. The puzzle consists
in getting the nine discs on one peg
without placing larger over smaller
one
! Almost as old as the pyramids of
Ghiza, the Mikado puzzle has until
quite recently been unknown outside
the lands of the east. But in the short
time that it has been before the people
it has created such furore that school
children carry it to school; adults try
to work it out in non-business hours
in the home circle at evening parties il
makes young folks forget the music and
the dance. 1t is fully expected thai
when the Mikado puzzle becomes an
institution OF the country insanity viii
become of as rare occurrence here as i
is in the places from whence it has beer
| brought.
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Non-Resid ent Notice.

In the County Court Of Giles County, Tom.
Geo. W. Trotter admir-, ct ais VS.. Tnos. J.
Trotter ct ais.
N this causs it appearing to the satisfsc
i ton of the clerk from tho allegations in
the bill which is sworn to, that the dofen-
nants Thomas J. Trotter, W. J. Woodfn
and vile. Mary J. Woodfn. James Hodges
and W. r. Marks, administrator Of A. q.
Westmoreland, are non residents Of the
state OF Tennessee, go that the ordinary pro-
cess acknowledgements served on them. On
motion it is therefore ordered that publication
be made for four weeks in succession in the
Pulaski Clifton, newspaper published in
the town Of Pulaski, in said state, requiring
the said deiondants TO be and appear on tho
first day of the next term OF the county
court 70 be held for the county Of Giles at
the court house in Pulaski, on the LIST
Monday in June next and answer complain
ants bill, OF the same will be taken for
confessed as TO them and set for hearing ex-
parte. WILL. 8. EZELL, Crk,
by p. II. Ezell, D. c.
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CampbelIesviIIe.

After two fruitless efforts to be
in your valuable paper
1.-THE failure rests alone upon us
we again attempt to gain admission.
We are panied to announce the
death of a little daughter of Isaac
Gilhams. She died last Friday
morning with spasms.
The sick of our section are
convalescing. DR.. Upshaw is gain
ing strength slowly, having spent
two days abroad recently which
greatly benefited him.
Miss Ruby Campbell happened
to a very painful and dangerous ac-
cident last week. She was taking
horseback ride and by some
means was thrown from her horse
and the fall made her unconscious
for some hours but she is now al
most recovered.
Mrs. Charlie Smith has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Hugh En-
glish, the past week.
Frank Bramlett was in our
| midst Sunday. Everybody of course
can guess his business.
W. e. Peden and family came
very near having serious accident
last Sunday. In going down hill
en-route to Rock Spring church the
harness gave way and the vehicle
ran upon the animal which at oEct
made a break for liberty, and re
suited in upsetting the buggy AMI
throwing them out, inficting al
ugly cut on Mrs. Peden's head ant
several bruises on the little girl
Mr.. Peden was also severely bruis
! ed. The little boy escaped unhur
by leaping from the buggy as
turned over.
Miss Sallie Paisley's schoo
will close on Friday, the 10Th, wit
T grand concert at night. The sc
lections are splendid and a larg
attendance is expected. She ha
been very successful with her schoC
and deserves the highest praise.
Ton last Saturday it was on
! pleasure to attend picnic given il
the grove below Morris mill whic
, in every way characterized the hos
pitality of Big creek people, in pier
ty to eat and abundant socis
bility. The saw-dust was sprinkle
at an early hour and the dancin
was enjoyed by great many. Th
crequet ground was kept going a
day by those who did not partic
pate in the dance, while a numbt
of matrons and gentlemen locke
: on with great deal Of pleasur
= The gathering was well represente
: by large number of young gentl
. men from different neighberhood
: ULVA AND EUNICE.
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Favoring Education.

Savannah Courier.
We would like to be put upon
the record as favoring the education
of the masses, and for that reason
as favoring the passage of what is
known as the Blair educational bill
at as early date as possible. We
have read both sides of the ques-
tien, and have come to the conclu-
sion that the bills opposers are, at
heart, in favor of keeping the mass
es in Ignorance. We do not con-
tend that we have much, if any
foundation for this conclusion, but
believe we have as good reason for
conclusion as do the anti-Blairbill-
ties for contending that it smacks
of Capitalization. If, as some of
our erudite Aeighbors argue, it was
necessary for the government to
lay direct tax to raise this money,
then we would oppose it on general
principles, but such is not the case.
1t is proposed to make the appro-
priation from surplus already in
the treasury, and we want to call
the attention of our readers to the
important fact that this surplu s
was collected by indirect taxation,
which is decidedly the least bur
densome tax people ever paid.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-05-27

1t seems that the president has
concluded thet everything is not
lovely with pension claimants and
their hirelings in congress. In re-
viewing a recent claim he said:
"There still remained an appeal
to congress and probably there
we're not wanting those who found
their interests in advising such an
appeal and who had at hand con-
gressional presidents which prom
ised a favorable result. That the
parties interested did not miscalcu-
late the chances of success, is de-
monstrated by the bill now before
me, which, in direct opposition to
the action of the pension bureau,
grants a pension to a man who,
though discharged from enlistment
for a certain alleged disability,
made two applications for pension
based upon two distinct causes
both claimed to exist within two
months prior to such discharge, and
both different from the one upon
which he accepted the same, anC
notwithstanding the fact that The
proposed beneficiary, after all these
disabilities had occurred, passed al
examine ton as to his physical fit
ness for re-enlistment, actually diC
re-enlist and served till finally mus
tered olt at the close of the war.
any money is to be given this NAL
from the public treasury 1t SHOULD
not be done under the guise of
pension"
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Does Democracy Oppose Education2

OO0o OohOO1oOJ OpPOoo buuOdtlOnt
The labored effort to make it ap
pear that the democratic party is
opposed to popular education forces
one to seriously question the sanity
of editors and statesmen ~ who
are thus engaged. Can the demo
cratic party hope to win if it ranges
itself thus? The northern people
have already received about $3.50.
100000 in pensions, and they are
now getting about $SO,OOO,00O q
year, and when they come to offer
the south a small part of the treas
ures they are absorbing so enor-
mously, we hang Sack and say it is
undemocratic. Are the people go.
ing to put up with a democracy
that consigns their children to ig-
norance? What stuperdous non
sense it is to say that it is constitu-
tional to spend money to educate
Indians, but it is unconstitutional
to spend our own money to educate
our own childrenl Are sensible
people going to be stuffed with
such folly as that?
Because a republican introduced
the bill some democrats oppose it.
Out of the $70,000,O0O appropriated
the south gets over $6O,O00,OOO of
it. " hat folly to refuse it simply
because a republican introduced it..
The fact is, no one until recently
thought about it being n political
republican. In the senate 10
democrats voted for it and only 6
against it, That shows what they
thought of the foolish charge. 1t is
well known that it has large ma
iority in the house and could be
passed in ten minutes if it could be
gotten from the committee. The
action of the committee in smother
ing it and defeating the will of tie
majority is outrageous.
There is but one way to foil
them. LIE the people make it an
issue in this canvass and instruct
conpressmen TO vote for it and it
can be passed in December, This
congress- meets again in December
and it can be passed il the people
will press it. Don't sep the agi-
tatioD.
The democratic platform speaks
out squarely in favor of popular ed
ucation and yet some papers are
irving to twist another section in it
about so that it opposes the Blair
hill. 1t is worse than non sense-it
is suicidal, Let the people redeem
the democratic party from the foul
Islander that its opposes education.
washington, Jefferson and the
whole line of illustrious democrats
down to the present day are on re-
cord in favor of it and now our
democratic senators are l9 to 6 fer
it. Is not that enough to commend
it to the people as sound democra-
CIV? Let the people of Giles keep
their eyes open. A mighty effort is
made to rob them of this great ben
9 faction.
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How 1t Was That Five Port
landarS RacaiYad &1R.OO0

Mr.. Rufus F. Bacon held one-fifth OF
the ticket which drew the capital prize
of $751; 900 in The Louisiana State Lot
terry Drawing of April 9Th. Some OF
his friends suggested that they pur-
chase some tickets in The Louisiana
State Lottery. They purchased one
fifth of ten different tickets, paying
therefor $40. When they got the tick
cts, each selected two tickets haphaz-
ard, and If either ticket drew the
amount was to be divided between them
all. On Wednesday last telegram
was received stating that ticket No
%, 244 had drawn one fifth of the capi
tai prize of SO, 0O0.-Portland, Me.
Argus, April %.
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IN Chancery at Pulaski
MAY RULES.

N. P. Harwood, vs.. John II. McRee ct ais.
I N this cause it appearing to the satisfac-
i faction of the clerk and master from an
affidavit to the bill that the defendants,
John Gatlin, Seburn Thornton and wife Car
oline Thornton, are non-residents of the
state of Tennessee so that the ordinary pre-
cess of this court cannot be served on them /.
On motion it is therefore ordered that
publication be made for four weeks in
succession in the pulaski Citizen" q
newspaper published IN the town of Pulaski,
in said state, requiring the said defendant to
be and appear on the first day Of the next
term of the Chancery Court to be held for
the eoun tyof Giles, ct the courthouse in
Pulaski, on the LIST Monday in September
next and answer complainant's bill or the
same will be taken for confessed as to them
and set for hearing ex-parte.
may27 j. b. STACY y. q M.
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From Col. A. p. BOYD.

The Swift Specific Co, Atlanta, Ga.
Gentlemen: In answer 10 your in
quiries as to the health of my little
girl, l state: Her health is good. For
ten years she has been afflicted with
diseases of the hip-joint, and although
she has been rendered permanently
lame, her Assesses have healed and
her health is good 1 have every reA-
son to believe that she owes her resto-
ration to the use of S. S. S., by which
her blood has been purified and she in
vigorated. In all she has taken some
fifteen bottles, and is .still keeping up
its use. 1 charge nothing for saying
that have great faith In S. S. s., and
to its healing and blood purifying
properties 1 attribute the restoration of
my little girl to perfect health.
Your truly,
A.P. BOYD.
Editor North Texan, Paris, Texas.
For sale by all druggists. Treatise
on Blood and Skin diseases mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3,
Atlanta, Gas New York, 157 w, 23d
street.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-05-27

"The people of the Pulaski chancery
division are in a sort of quandary.
They are determined to get rid of the
old mutton-head who now presides as
chancellor, and whom no man has ever
been rash enough to charge with know
ing any law, but they cannot easily
agree upon plan for doing it. With
out regard to politics, there is a gener-
al desire for a change, and from what
we can learn from that section, any
sort of change will be preferable to
the present condition of things. 1t is to
be hoped, therefore, that multiplicity
of candidates will not intervene to ac-
complish repetition of the folly of
eight years ago.'-National Review.
1t is rather unusual these days
for a man to retire voluntarily from
lucrative and memorable posi-
ton, and the fact that Chancellor
Fleming does this with the close OF
his present official term should
guarantee him immunity from sour
rilous abuse. The above absurd
paragraph from the National Re-
view shows in its first sentence that
the blisstul Littleton does not know
the number of this chancery divis-
ion. The second sentence shows
that he does not know that Chan
cellor Fleming is not a candidate
for reelection. The entire article
shows that this progressive young
journalist is ready to assume that
any man, not republican is an out
law, and a legitimate target for thu
criticism of the truly good republi
and the criticism may fairly be poi
soned with false insinuation be
cause the object is a democrat.
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Syrup ofFigs,

Manufactured only by the California
Fig Syrup Co., San Francisco, CAL, is
Natures Own True Laxative. This
pleasant California liquid fruit remedy
may be had of II. M. Grigsby. Large
bottles at fifty cents or one dollar. 1t
is the most pleasant, prompt and effec-
tive remedy known to cleanse the sys-
tenn to act on the Liver. Kidneys and
Bowels gently yet thoroughly; to dis
pei Headaches, Colds and Fever; to
cure Constipation, Indigestion and kim
dred ills. 4-2O-Iy
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Saved HisLifa.

Mr.. /. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave
KY, says he was, for m any years, badly
ly afflicted with Phthisic, also Diabe-
ties the pains were almost unendura
BILE and would sometimes almost thrown
him into commissions. He tried Elec-
trio :Bitters and got relief from the
first bottle and after taking six bottles,
was entirely cured and had gained in
flesh eighteen pounds. Says he posi-
lively believes he wauld have died had
it not been flor the relief afforded by
Electric Bitters. Sold at fifty cents a
bottle by III. NJ. Grighby.
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win BOOdleige if Necessary.

Hon. VIM. Rule, Knoxville, Tenn. !:
Please announce In your most valu-
able paper that the two republican
state conventions will be held June
the 18th and 10th, and send the bill
for same to the chairman of the
state executive committee. Permit
US to remind you, however, that pa
pers friendly to the cause have
made this announcement without
cost.-National Review.