The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-08
VOL 60
Citizen Cuttings and Comment.
A little less tariff talk now.

tie lSlVe scale.
A lot Of old campaign badges,
banianas. ch-lights etc, can
now be bought cheap.
President Cleveland has designa
ted Thursday, Nov. Goth as day oil
national thanksgiving and prayer
There have been about 5000
miles Of railroad constructed in this
country eince the first of January.
Gov. Taylor pardoned II year
old colored girl out the penitentlary
last week who had been committed
for larceny.
In Berlin heay wagons are not
allowed on certain streets, In Par
is any carload of rattling materia
must be fastened till it can't rat
tie.
Father Francis, a learned and
eminent catholic priest, committed
snicide at Dallas, Texas, few days
ago, ),
Corn gathering is later this fall
than usual on account OF the heavy
winds blowing 80 much OF it down.
What goes to waste in many
kinds of business is far more than
what goes to profit.
We hope to see the entire north
SIDE of the square built up soon
with substantial business houses
like the Sc now being erected.
The price of chickens went up
little last Friday. Nearly all the
Methodist preachers of this district
were here.
Five men were killed and many
others injured by the explosion OF
the boiler of steam thrashing ma
chine in Bern township, Pa, Friday.
The Decatur Tennessee Valley
beos leave to be excused from any
more yellow fever epidemics.
A Decatur paper remarks that o
vei,ow fever epidemic develops So
cial a2alities in many man that
he il surprised at the possession Of
himself.
A cripple while digging in the
Ground in Kentucky found copper
Kettle containing $4,000 in gold and
silver coin. 1888 was marked on
the kettle.
Six petitions were filed in one day
last week in the chancery court al
Louisville for divorce. 1t looks
like marriage is q failure with 1Sne
people.
A thief at St. Louis attends fu
nerals, and while the ceremony is in
nrooress secretes himself and awaits
the departure of the procession.
Then he energies, bundles up the
yaluables and steals away.
Only three colored people have
died in Decatur Of yellow fever, on
ly fouf females have died and only
one child. Several colored people
have recovered from the fever with
scarcely any treatment at all
Before the election the great OBJ
iect of The CITIZEN was to get the
democrats to turn out. Now our
advice 10 them is to stay at home,
gather their crops and prepare for
She hard winter.
The official public debt state
ment of Nov. l shows decrease
during October of 81, 5S5,655; since
July /, 1888 $2s, 294, $40; total cash
in the treasury as shown in the
acknowledgement cccount 1924 ,3O4,
4S7.
We will now take a rest on politics.
We don't care five don't hear the
word tariff again until the next
political campaign, when of course
the question will be discussed again
as usual.
Good dramatic and minstrel
troops are ed!fying the people in all
the towns around Pulaski, but our
, people, with a good opera house
standing idle, enjoy nothing OF the
sort.
A subscriber at Knoxville, ask
ing for missing back number OF
The CITIZEN TO be forwarded, says
his wife declares "Ia is a great loss
to miss even one number" She is
an appreciative reader and we will
see that she doesn't miss another
number
Some friend has sent US copy
of the Tennessee Valley, paper
published at Decatur, Ala, of Oct.
25th. 1t gives complete list of all
who have ceen sick and all who
have died t. date with yellow fever.
Adiutant. General McCord Fri
day issued an order attaching the
Phelan Light Guards, of Somer-
vile, sad the Ripley Rifles, of RIP
lev, to the secondlbatallion. A reg
iment will now be organized in the
western division of the state.
The women of Washington hav-
ing manageable daughters are
aehast st the information that Chief
Justice Fuller will have six daugh
tiers in society this winter. Four
of them have been out for several
wears. and two others make their
debut this winter.
The United States Supreme court
has declared the drummers' tax in
Texas to be unconstitutional, on
the ground that the statute under
which it is imposed is an interfer-
encc with interstate commerce.
This is good news for the drum
mers, but had for the people Of
Texas.
Mai. c. II. Allen, of the Hotel
Bismark, Decatur. has kept his no.
tel open all during the yellow fever
epidemic and the sick nurses and
doctors have been taken care Of
without money and without prices.
He also visited and helped the sick
and dying whenever he could.
Such q man should not be forgot
ten when business openes up again.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, ST., is an
gry With Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr
because the latter insists that her
baby, James q. Blaine III, shall
be baptised in a Catholic church.
Mrs. James @. Blaine. jr., is an ar
dent Catholic aud was married by
Catholic priest, and insists on hav-
ing her child baptized under the
forms of the Catholic church. The
desertion by her husband of this
fair Ohio-born girl is as disgrace
full as it is Infamous.