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PULASKI, TENN., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY-13, 1879.
NUM. 7.
T HK CIT1ZRN.
I,. W. MeCOKD, Pn..ri. tur-
j: it Ji r 3i
LA C.McCORD,'
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
(; No. Childo'-' Block.
ay
I Ler Citiz" o Hoe.
srr
KOJiEIlTS & MclETEIK?
PULASKI, - TK.NN.
lfIw- nn lt Mun St.. irr.ntiiiir tho Linden
nin. One formerly ocviipicd ty us n14-tf
THOS. E. STOUT,
Attorney 21 1 JLaw,
PLLASK I, TKNN.
OFFICE with A. .'. V J. i'. Alwrnall-y,
near South West Corner i'nhlie Square.
Frumnt attention eivuu to collections, anil
' laimH o)i-it4l.
aj.r25tf
K . T. T1UAFKHKU.
ALBRKT STATENSON.
Taliaferro & Stevenson,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
llllltMli, Toiui.
special ttntion iriven to the collection of
1 (aims t)!lii o formerly oooupied by Matlh
w & Taliaferro. ang8i-tf
K. Sc. T. SMITHSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AND
.Solicitors in Chancery,
PULASKI, TENN.
Will practice in the Cotut-1 of Miles and ad
orning counties; id tne capreme and federal
courts t Naabviiie and in liankruptcy. Spe
cial attention to collections, oince ISO. l,op-
ntairs,"Xew Conntitnlion' nuiidmr. itlo-yl
CHH O. BBOWM.
I
mo. a. wilkbs.
BROWN te WILKES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Solicitors in Chancery,
1' U LA SKI, TMSNX.
jan7-tf
T.S. & J. P. ABERNATHY
Attorneys at Law,
PULASKI, TENN.
tW Okfick 2nd.
of May's Corner.
Main Street, South
Jan. 4 1872 ly.
. K. BOMB. JMO. A. T1HM0H.
ROSE St TINNON,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
Will (. notice in 'he State, Federal and Bank
rupt Courts of Middle Tennessee,
f.aw and ol lectin if office Southeast side of
the I'ublie Square,
marll-ly PULASKI, TENN.
m.jotii,, oh s. r. jones, i, i, if ma,
Jones, Son & Ewing,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Pulaski, Ten ii.,
f 17 ILL practice in Giles and adjoining
V V counties and in the Supreme and Bank
rupt Courts. Special attention given to col
lections. mar'2"
J. H. Keeling, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
PULASKI, TENN.
Office - North-East eorner Publio Square.
p stair next to Citizbb Office. mr-JS,
C. C. ABEKNATHY J. A. SCMrTKR.
DRS. ABERNATHY & SUMPTER,
DKS. ABERNATHY & SUMPTEB wiU
continue theirco-partnerahipin the prac
tice of Medicine and Surgery. Offloe at
umpter A Lacey's drug score. jcu9-ly.
AMOS R. RICHARDSON
Attorney at Law,
ULASKI, --- - TENNESSEE,
WILL practice in Giles and adjoining
Counties. 1-jyOBiee in Dr. White's
lew building, North-West corner of Public
Square. dec2.
J A8. M'CALLUM,
J AS. & W. H.
. Attorneys
AND SOLICITORS
PULASKI,
W. H. M'CAI.LCM,
McCALLUM
at Law,
IN CHANCERY.
TENN.
Offick: The one formerly occupied
Sy Brwn & MeCallum. (jan25-ly
II. A. ROSEiGRAiT,
MANUFACTURER 0F
SADDLES AND HARNESS
1st Main Street North,
Pulaski, - - - Tennessee
Next Door to Jackson's Stable.
m ....
Ailontrosc Vineyard,
PULASKI, TENN.
Corcord, Ives, Diana and other Wines,
,(CNM1XED,PDKE GRAPE JUICE.)
17E HAVE FORSALE1N ODRCELLAR
V 4,000 gallons of the vintage of 1974.
They are approved by physicians aod oon
coisuors as genuine and of superior qualities.
Can be had at the Vineyard and at the drug
atore of Sumpter Lany. at prices so low
that all can afford this healthful and delicio
beverage.
Also, at the Vinevard, Grape slips of all
varieties; Potato and Tomato slips. Cabbage
plantu, &o., cheaper than at Nashville
prices.
fehsvr AforsTlNK co.
A SUPERB MONTHLY
The November number of that
superb mouthly, The Housekeeper,
is brim full of good things, includ
ing a bill of fare for every day in
the month, a rousing "one for
Thanksgiving, and the fullest chap
ter on oysters we have ever seen in
print. The publishers offer to send
it free for two months to any lady
who sends them the address of two
ladies at each ol five post ofBces.
The offer is good to Jan. 1, '79!
Address. Buckeye Pub. Co., Minne
apolis, Minn. nov21-2m
Do You Want Money?
Advertise your business.
tf Here you are reading
borrowed paper again, as uaaal.
1 C WATSON.
WILLIAMS & WATSON,
Proprietor of. the Pulmil'i
1 vLAJNl xSijr iHL,L
MANCFAOTURKIt OF
I::;:, Ii:':, l, It'.::".,
NEWEL POSTS, HAIX1STERS,
Cedar, Pine & Poplar Floorin
or
Weatherboarding, Ceiline.
RAILING- and PALING
Contract for Buildings of all kind solicited.
Plaiin and specifications InrniMied it
jaii2-ly Desired.
A New Proposition.
.Men and women tell tis almost daily
they would like to take the Citizen, but
they arc too poor. Therefore we make
this offer: Widows and destitute, honie-
kvs men with families, shall have 25 per
rent, dixeount from the regular (trice if
they are really and truly hard pressed.
We make this offer in all sincerity with
no intention to offend, and we cordially
invite all such to avail themselves of it.
We are anxious to put the Citizen into
the hands of every family in Giles coun-
tv, and no one shall have an excuse if
we can possibly help it. If you have'nt
got the money bring us something to
eat at the market price.
H. M. URIUHST,
JiS. A. SLILLBKN,
NEW HOTEL!
THE LINDEN HOUSE.
Pulaski, Tenn.
Grigaby it- Shillem, Proprietors
'PHIS new and commodious Hotel ( luto Os-
a. oorn House I is now in the hands ot new
proprietors, has been renovated, refitted and
renewed in every particular, and is ready to
ertam the public as well as
the flonth, in or out of the I
any hotel in
large cities. oct3tf
Low rates and satisfaction guaranteed.
St
ON TIIE SQUARE,
PULASKI, - - - TENN.
A. C. IK VISE & CO., Prop'rs.
FINEST HOTEL in lis SOUTH
Outside of the Lurg Cities.
lient Accommodation ut the
Lowest Jifites.
roar7-tf
E. H. ABLHNATHY.
TV o w
FURNITURE STORi
"yyE ARE KECEIVLNG A NEW STOCK
of all kinds, bought low for Cash, which we
effor to the trade on as
REASONABLE TERMS
as can be had elsewhere . Our stock consists
of ail the poods essential to or commonly used
by housekeepers. We keep a full strck of
from the commonest Wood Coffin to the finest
Metalio Casket, also
Burial ROBES
for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children, and are
prepared to attend all cases of Undertaking
on reasonable terms.
.J. M. NEIL & CO.
West Side Publio Square, next to Giles
National Bank. apri-tf
1
Stock Men
THE FIltSTf
ANNUAL STOCK SALE
OF ,Tl!
GILES COUNTY
teMa jatiaVaia Caa slLsa fess?a
ASSOCIATION
Will take place in the
Spring of 1S79.
The Secretary ia now prepared to receive
entrios for the sale, and invites all persons
having stock to dispose of in this way to ap
ply to him in order that he may put them
in Catalcge.
J. K. P. BLACKBURN,
Secretary & Treasurer,
novSS-tf JBrick Church, Tenn.
A BA11GA1X!
J. B. l. 'ILI IM-
GILES
Hoe
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C3 0 37" 17" I N SJ.
NOTICE
na
1WISH to sell 125 acres ot Land near Pn
laBki a part of the Ir. Carter farm all
well set in Grasses, with a (rood fence, and
b.in convenient to town would make a
splendid dairy farm. For "particulars and
wpto-am. . .
out me
I nights belong to cats.
''Governesses should never be re
quired to do low menial work," said
they frequently aspire to the hy
IJH'lilttl.
Support j'our own mechanics, who
buv your produce and merchandise.
if 3'ou want your country to flourish
as a green Day tree.
. .
Ever' man is made better by the
possession of a good picture, if it is
only a landscape on the back of a
hundred-dollar note.
Miss Lauri Rider, of Maryland,
imagines that she is an engine, and
as she approaches a bridge or road
erasing, tdie gives a shrill whistle.
11 V"ii want jour business to
prosper and flourish throw more vim
in it rv advertisme it sell for short
profits, and be certain to make no
bad debts.
'So." said a lady.- ecently, to a
merchant, "'your pretty daughter
has married a rich husband?"
Well," slowly replied tiie father,
'I believe she has married a rich
man; Put I understand be is a very
poor husband."
We would like for some double-
storied modern statesman to tell ua
why it is that there are certain sea
sons wiien a politician can see a
horny banded son of toil clear
across the street, and at other sea
sons can not see inm a loot ana a
half away.
If a sane man unnecessarily leaps
into the deep, is the Almighty under
any obligations to help him out?
Certainly not. For is it not written
"Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy
God?"' Remember this, ye thought
less curisuans, wuo plunge your
selves among the Pillows ot tempta-
tion and then cry L.ord deliver us
hereof. The prayer is behind time.
The petition. "Lead us not into
temptation, presumes mat we are
to keep as far from it as possible,
-t-
Look at that stick. It is straight-
Plunge one end of it into water: it
seems crooked or broken. Philoso-
ophy teaches us that this is owing to
lit I
r
f
ut
viewed in the history of the world it
appears to be zigzag This is at-
tnoutaoie to the tact that the ravs
that proceed from it are refr.cted by
wicked men and nations.
Lust Tuesday night a legislator of
dile, cow at home spending the re
cess, letiied to rest without taking
the precaution to io k his door. II
Kvery dog lias its day,
I the refraction of the rays of lig
I which proceed from that part unde
! the water. So it is with the line o
I'rovidence. It is straight. 15
soon IuimmI into" dreamland nnd hishnuaicating from one to the other.
dreams took bent Iron, the thoughts
uppermost in h.'s mind when awake.
He thought he had a very important
bill up lor action before the Solons.
bomc ut tliem, lews antute, (or per
haps bribed by bondholders,) didn't
sec it in that light, and it was in
imminent danger of being kough.
phlumonghxed, when he bethought
him to call to his aid his colleague
from Giles. Right lustily he yelled
for Dr. Blank, and yelling he awak
eneu mm sell ami lounu it all a
dream. Then he ;ot up and shook
himself and locked the door, and to
avoid a repetition of the troublesome
dream he fixed his mind on his
sweetheart and breathed himself
away gently into a land of love and
flowers and sweet prospects and sich
like, and awakened with the dawn
in happ:est mood. What was his
consternation to find that some thie!
had entered his room and stolen his
boots while the door was unlocked!
He acquits his colleague, whom he
was calling, from the offence, though
he will eye his feet with suspicion
when he meets bun. A barefooted
legislator is bad enough, in all con
science, but when his feet and his
legislative office are both bootless, it
is too bad !
Bee Seeping.
Many of your patrons are bee
keepers,' and bee-keeping is like ev
ery other business needs attention
at the right time. Without this
success is doubtful. We have had
Beveral weeks of bard freezing
weather, nd weak colonies that
have not been well cared for have
frozen out But if so, all is not lost.
The combs are still good. All dead
bees should be brushed off and the
combs kept dry for future use. Be
sides, they may contain honey. Fre
quently bees starve to death with
plenty of honey in the combs. Be
ing few in number they dare not
break their cluster in extreme cold
weather, and if the freeze is protract-
ed so long that the honey is exhaust-
ed from the comb they are cluster
ed upon, they starve. If they break
cluster they freeze. Hence weak col
onies should be united in the fall af
ter brooding is over, or else they
should have proper protection, by
cocfiuing them to middle of bottom
story and packing around them with
dry hay or 'straw or something to
absorb moisture, which if not thus
absorbed will lreeze and prove in
jurious to both bees and combs.
Even in strong colonies, bees fre
quently wauder away from their
clii!tei'8 and freeze. Dead bees be
come very oQensive to the survivors
alte;' the weather becomes damp and
the dead bees begin to decay. . Bees
are nice housekeepers, and in good
weather will carry out their dead,
but iu winter the warm spells are
generally too short for them to react
frotn their dormant state, hence it is
necessary for the owner to take a
warm day after each cold snap and
clean out the dead bees and trash,
aud see if any of the colonies are
destitute of honey, 60.that he may
supply them fiom those which have
a surplus, thereby saving those
which would have ultimately starv
ed. Don't disturb your bees in cold
weather. But it is never wrong to
handle them whenever they can fly
briskly. The same rule is applica
b!e In handling brood. However,
brood may be exposed in the shade
and away from animal heat too long
for safety. If you wish to transfer
at any time when bees are not gath
ering honey you should draw from
stocks that have to spare, i. e, if the
stock you transfer has not enough
to last until it can gather.
J. B. Brat.
ZVLVBLUN UOOLITTLE.
.
riei 10grapny ot a Character
ilet Almost .Daily 111 Every
Community.
A c.euerai Jack of All.Tiades.
Somewhere iu Ameiica, and some
time in the present century, the
subject or this story was born. His
parents, caring but little for educa
tion, the children received but little
W I 1 .
ooj, -lowever, managed to. get a
smatteriug or superticial knowledge
of the inglisn branches. It is sup
posed by some that he srot as far as
a nge( Tonometry, for, as the boys
sometimes say, he was always "trig
germg. Judging by his actions as
well as words, he deemed himself
not a whit inferior to his illustrious
predecessor who wrote the Pro
verba. Soon after quitting school,
he offered his services to his con
stitueucy lor almost any position
ihev had to bestow.
Most of his aspirations were real
ized. He was oe of the most suc
cessful electioneerers that ever fig
ured in the district in which he
lived. And had he been as diligent
in tilling positions as in seeking
them, and confined himself to fewer
vocations, wealth would have
crowned his labors. Indeed, he did
appear for a few brief years to be
doing well. Long enough, at least,
to deceive some ot his best well to
do triends, who afterwards had to
pay hundreds of dollars "security
money, as they called it. Fickle
ess and "triggery" reduced Uncle
Sol at one time to abject poveny
And as the friends who were able
to succor had fled from him, he be
came somewhat . dispirited, at the
sauic time a little soured at the
well-to do people
According to the version of some,
and the teachings of the old Book
itself, there
are but two sorts of
people. And there lived in Uncle
Sol s countr" many, very many, of
his sort. Hence, in his novertv -ind
,, , V ,
livuuic lie luutl"lJL ui mis auu LOOK
fresh hope. lie knew that there
were always two or more aspirants
for the same oflice of the other sort.
So he was from about the time of
the "Big Shakes" (according now
to Uncle Peter's recollection) a
standing candidate lor "(JUief cook
and bottle washer." I have said
that lie was a very successful elec-
tioneerer. I meant he succeeded
among his "sort,". and on this plan:
lie would tell Ins constituency thai
Alr.ao-and so was proud, aristocrat
ic, overmuch righteous or temperate
in snort, be is not of our sort.
bometimes when he found out
there was a coolness existing be
tween parties representing both
sorts he would be very busv com
Professing dear irien
dship for both,
he would, bind both equally in se
crecy as to what the other said
about him especially in a case
where and when he knew that either
or botn were doubttul voters. A
vulgar adage says "the devil some
times overshoots himself." It was
often demonstrated durins Uncle
Sol's campaigns. As it is a difficult
matter for the most acute of the ob
servant to tell every time which
sort or party a man belongs to, even
Uncle Sol, with a long experience
and a great deal of cunning, would
often tell his store of secrets to the
wrong: man.
As to his politics and religion,
they were like the answer an old
colored preacher gave to a white
one who would know of him how
many members belonged to his
church: "Dat," said Cutfy, "'pends
'pon de times. If it's 'vival times,
all in de neighborhood are mem
hers; if it's backsliding times, wy.
Uncle Billy and Aunt Kancv are all
de members I had." Uncle Sol's nowned Abernatuy. A cold is al
nolities or relie-ion denended e-reatlv ways to be feared. Colds h ve
I ----- - - i- - o J
unoii times and circumstances. Al-
though it is said he professed some
religion in uis young days, at least
enough to get into the church ot
his sweetheart, yet he failed to cul
tivate, and that like bis garden and
fields was choked of thorns and
thistles. He quit attending church,
except when he was seeking an of
fice. I hen, when with the A church
member he would give the B's "fits,"
and vice vema.
His cunning, craftiness and chi
cauery being much greater than his
stock of common sense and good
principles, his friends of the better
class grew in numoer oeautuuiiy
less every time he canvassed the
countrj' for office. Space forbids
my telling ail the mean things done
by Uncle Sol during his public ca
reer. Let me sav to boys: This
man had a tormenting conscience.
poverty enough, little happiness
here, less prospect of any hereafter,
here, less prospect of any hereafter,
and had the appellation of "General
Jack o' all trades," or, "Solomon
Doolittle." Whenthe next generation
of Doolittles are sufficiently drilled
for aspirants, let every good and
qualified man in the land offer lo:
the same office at once fas in Sol's
days) that the young Sols may,
like the old one, succeed.
Peter Pender, Jr.
Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever.
The N. Y. Tribune says that
while pneumonia is scourging the
people of New York, the whole
Northern press gives a doleful ac
count of the ravages of diphtheria
and scarlet fever, lhe Philadelphia
Press says that the physicians are
unable to determine the cause of
these diseases, but concur in the
opinion that sewer gas, malarious
exhalations of various kinds, the
foul air of cellars forced into sleep
ing chambers by furnace flues, waht
of proper ventilation of apartments
all have something to do with the
development of these fatal com
plaints. But they are not sufficient
of themselves to provoke their ex
plosion. There is a mystery con
net ted with the origin of these mal
adies that is yet to be solved. The
fact remains, however, that they are
rapidly propagated: in many cases
whole iamilies being swept off. If
one of these diseases breaks out in
a house where there are children it
is likely to attack all, unless the
healthy are immediately removed
from the premises. Physicians
have their own notions about the
contagiousneos of diphtheria and
scarlet fever. It is nevertheless
true that every member of the fam-
ily is liable to be attacked, and par
ticulhrly the junior memoers. Iso
lation is the only safe rule. There
,s u-fortnnately no recognized Bafe
aJtLC,u treatment, zj army any
two physicians adopt the same
method, and homeopath v and alio
pathy at swords points rebpectina-
medicaments. While it is difficult
to divine the right mode of cure, it
is evident that the purer the atmos
phere we breathe, the less danger
there is of these diseases. Preh
air has a wonderful influence in
puritying the blood and invigorat
ing the system. We cannot have
too much of it. Every room in our
uwcumgs shouiu ie Ventilated in
the course of the day. The atmos
phere of bed chamlers becomes
polluted by the emanations of the
uigiit.and that of the house is more
or less impregnated with malari
ous iuflue-.ces from the want of the
purifying currents of the external
air. lhere are houses in which
not a breath of fresh air is permit
ted to enter during the cold season,
windows are padded and hermeti
cally sealed up, beds are made up
as soon as v&cated.and never thrown
open and exposed to the sun's rays
and the sanitary influence of the
winnowing winds. Day by day in
such dwellings the atmosphere be
come worse and more lnmure. It
is not too much to say that they
who live in this way daily drink
poison from vitiated air into their
lungB. It is a notorious fact that
pel sons predisposed to consump
tton have been cured by repairing
to climates where they could pass
one hall ot the twenty I. ur hours
in the open air." fN Y. Times. '
DALE TO SAY NO.
Dare to say "No," when you're tempted to
aruiK, . ;
Pause for a moment, mv bov. and think.
Think of the wrecks upon life's ocean tossed
For answering '-Yes.' with ut counting the
costl
Think of the mother who bore you in pain.
Think of the tears that will fall like the rain:
l?l.D? other heart, and how cruel the blow;
mma: ot ner love, and at once answer -Iso.'
Think of her hopes that are drowned iu the
bowl.
Think of the danger to body and soul;
Think of sad lives once as pure aa the anow.
Look at thtmnow, and at once answer "No."
1 nu, k t a manhood with rum-tainted breath
Think how tne crlass loads-to sorrow and
death.
Think of the homea that, now ahadowed
witn woe,
xtiigm nave oeen Heaven bad ine answer
. been "Wo."
Th'nk of lone "raves both nnwept and on
known.
Hiding fair hopes that were fair as your own
Think of p oud forms now forever laid low
That etill might be here had they learned to
sav 'INoi"
.Think of the demon that lurks in the bowl,
- . - 7 L 1 , ,
driving to ruin ooin oouy ana soul,
Think of all this as life's iournev vou firo.
Ana wnen yuu re assailed by the tempter
say "io."
Pneumonia.
The Appeal: Thin disease it; be
coming a great scoarage through
our, ine country, lue mortuar, re
ports of Memphis for the past four
weens ten a sau tate as to its rav-
ages in this city. In New lork
pneumonia is an epidemic. The
Times says: "Hardly any one who
has a large acquaintance, or who
reads the obituary or death notices
in the public prints, can fail to have
noticed bow fatal a disease pneu
monia is, especially in this cit It
really eeems sometimes as if it
caused half of all the deaths that
occur. Each wiater it aouears to
grow more dangerous. This season
nas oeen very virulent, owing, proo
ab.y, to sudden changes and the
unusual amount of snow. Pneu
monia invariably begins with
cold, to which scarcely anybody at
taches any importance, and the cold
is neglected until it results in the
painful, and always alarming dis
ease. 'Only a cold!' echoed the re
I . ... .. . . , . .
KUieu more men man names ntve.-
I here seems to be no way ot guard
ing against pneumonia. One per
son is as much subject to it as an
other. Rugged constitution, vigor
ous health, general attention to hy
gienic laws, have no power to pre
vent it. Pneumonia slays a giant
as quickly as it slays a pigmy, an
accomplished athlete as quicklv as
a puny invalid. One meets this
morning a friend flushed with youth
energy. Within three or lour
days he is dead. Pneumonia has
cut him down. Persons who care
to live and the fact that they do
live shows that they care cannot
be too watchful of the beginnings ol
pneumonia, which is one of tLe most
insidious and formidable foes ot
human existence."
Haw to Mind Your Ps.
Persons who patronize papers
should pay for them promptly, for
the pecuniary prospects of the press
have a peculiar power in pushing
foiward public prosperity. If the
printer is paid promptly, and bis
pocket purse kept plethoric by
prompt paying patrons, he puts his
pen to his paper in peace, his para
graphs are more pointed, he paints
his pictures of passing events in
more pleasing colors, and the peru
sal of his paper is a pleasure to the
people. Paste this piece of prover
bial philosophy in some place where
all persons can perceive it.
GOOD ADVICE.
Now is the time of year for Pneumo
nia, .Lung ever, sc. tvery family
should have a bottle of Boschea-'s Ger
man Syrcp. Don't allow for one mo
ment that cough to take hold of youi
ehid, your family or youreelt. Con
sumption, Asthma, Pneumonia, Croup,
Hemorrhages and otner tatal diseases
may set in. Although it is true Ger
man Strup is curing thousands ot these
dreaded diseases, yet it is much better
to have it at hand when three doses will
cure you. line bottle win last your
whole family a winter and keep you
sale from danger. If you are consump
tive, do not rest until you have tried
this remedy. Sample Bottles 10 cents.
Regular size 7o cents, bold by your
Druggists, Jsumpter & Lacey.
June21-eow-ly-2
Live Stock Premiums.
The Rural Sun, Nashville, Tenn is
offering a Cotswold buck, ($35.00,). a
Merino buck, ($25.00.) a bouthuown
buck, ($25.00,) a Berkshire boar,
($40.00,) and a pair or I'olantl-China
pis, ($25.00,) as premiums to canvass
ers. 1 hese animals are tnorougn-iireds,
from the most noted flocks and herds in
the United States. Wont some of our
county-men try and capture one of
them? end to the Rural Sun for
purtttttiKV,' at one. sptZS-ly
GIGANTIC LITIGATION.
A Uishty Law Suit A Portion of
Giles County Soil Claimed Under
Ancient Cession.
Abstruse umd ItoiaousLawaad Facts.
A bill is being drawn by eminent
lawyers aud will shortly be filed in
the U. S. Court setting up. a claim
to a porMou oc Exiles county in ine
interest of the descendants of Don
Hugo DaghmeedioUe, a Spaniard
who had espoused the tenets of the
Huguenots in trance and accompa
nied the bund of opoieeed oppos
ers ot monarchy and tueestut lished
church in their bauishmeut to Hi
coast ol South Carolina about the
year ibU. 1 lie interesting ques
lions of l:tw to be rained will form
a unique page in the unbroken mo
notony of humdrum decisions thai
make up our lennessee Reports;
while the 'acts upon which the
claim is founded threaten not onl
to oust us of right to possess and
peacefully enjoy the soil in ques
tion, but make up a link in the
chain of history that has hitherto
been unaccounted lor and bruiti
ht before us results that would
form a fitting sequel to the fabh-d
unearthing of the mighty buried cit
ies of Mexico. The claim of Mrs.
Gaines to New Orleans, and of Don
.Joseph Veliaire to 7.27o,80o acres
of Missouri Lands, and ol tin- claim
ants to Chicago, St. Louis', and even
New York are all founded on spec
ial government grants or treaties
and have, been so numerous that the
public is acquainted and surfeited
with the facts and law of each case
But this case goes to what might b
termed the great first cause the
cession to the aborigines by the
Creator Himself. The statutes of
jeofails, cntaiis, estates tail, etc.,
apply here neither iy wholesale or
retail, but tne cause will be tried
under tli; grand principle of light
enunciated in the unimpeachable
statue of la lian Tales, and ta
goat moral principles of right
maintained and elaborated in 1
Guild, p. 1 et teq to finit title, "Old
Times iu Tennessee." Don Huj-,
upon his arrival in South Carolina,
immediately set out across the
mountains. Whether his object
was to spread his religion among
the Indians, wash his leet in the
Mis6isippi, or to lay the very7 claim
that threatens now to engulf us is
not revealed. He may have started
simply iu obedience to the advice of
some sage Horace Greeley of early
days, to plant a fortune and build
up with the country, but he was
certainly, not imbued with any pro
phetic prescience, for he would have
seen that just two weeks before his
deceudents filed their bill the credi
tors of the great State of Tennessee
had filed their bills to enforce col
lection of money had and received
to the benefit of said g. S. ot T,
and he would nave Known tnat as
the world advanced in enlighten
ment and civilization an "Indian
Policy" would ' be substituted fo
just laws, and the mere pretense of
a white man would subrogate him
to the rights which the Creator vest
ed in the red man. ine Uon in
course of time struck into what i
now the Duck River Valley and was
on frieudliest terms with the In
dians. He gained in their coefi
dence by his pious behavior and
distributing tracts (which Iney
seemed to read with great zest)
and soon had himuelt appointed
Chaplaiu to the Chief Yum Yum
and Grand Master of the Lolge
The Don was up to the latest ago
uies of latter-day soufl'aud likewise
ropes, aiso having a superior inc
nation to take care ot No. 1., and
alter stealing the affections of the
entire harem, he appropriated all
the wampum handy and wrupped
the Chief's china-ware up in a coon
skin, mounted his finest horse and
made tracks for civilization and
more tracts. Pursuit was made
with the usual result.
The pious thief was brought back
and a new-made grave was dug
iust where our court-house now
stands and with most solemn cere
emonies and incantations the In
dians in howling conclave ceded
and deeded the grave, with all its
appurtuncuts, emoluments, belong
ings and heieditaments forever to
the Don, ami he was laid there in
solemn pomp. Now, his descend
ents, who reside on Raccoon creek,
claim th-ee feet bv six right under
our court house with privilege of
range a mile every way, hased upon
this indisputable cession by the
then owners. The defense will con
tend that this right was simply an
inchoate title to the hole in th
groumt, rendered absolute whej
he was reduced to its posses
ion, but relinquished with occu
pancy under the late homestead
acts; that the propertv in the hoi
was an incorporeal essence, void
for uncertainty, and covered by the
lien set up in digging the cellar
over it; that the general holding of
holes is wholly unwholesome and to
hold a hole for whole generations is
both unholy and a wholesale viola
tion of the Rule in Shelly's Case.
Citing the U. S. Indian Policy, a to
izzard, where it is held that it is
righteous to steal from the Indians;
Gov. M arks' Message, where it is
recommended that Tennessee bonds
held by Indians should be repudia
ted; Milton's Paradise Lost for def
inition of chaos, emptyness, noth
iugness, at a hole ground. The opin
ion of the court is already foreshad
owed and it will be held that a hole,
although not perishable with the
use (but sometimes made larger).
yet it is by its nature moveable,
blown about by every wina of doc
trine, si to speak, and the plaint-
Ms must fix and identify it; that the
essential, unsubstantial, chaotic.non
comatible elements that constituted
the particular bole claimed may, as
far as the court knows, be a part of
the far-reaching void that holds the
moon in its dead embrace, and if so,
plaintiffs must drive their stakes up
there; that if they had any proper
ty in the dirt, it i gone since u
was remove! in digging the cellar
and now probably forms part of the
Eath-Jetty stratum; that if it is
even the identical nle, adverse
possesion for more than seventy
years ousts their title; tnd even if
this is their hole and their range,
they can go to the devil on general
principles and threatens to bring
suit against plaintiffs lor recovery
for use of Chief Yum-Yum's horse
and damages for violence done a
loyal subject's affections in aliena
ting the love of his harem. On the
other hand it is possible that it may
be held thai a man may have prop
erty ia a bole, and that as manifest
destiny requires that he should be
possessed of a hole sooner or later
and hold it until Gabriel s trombone
sounds the knell of lime, it is right
and proper that courts shall assist
in rendering positive this natural
right
,N it goes, aud our people await
bre:tthlesly to see it the legislature
won t disincorporate Pulaski, re
m:tnd tiie couuty back to a wilder
ness aud repuditte our corporeal be
ing alter they gel through cutting
t-vt ry body salary down to zero ex
cept their own
m
The PaU'da Star speaks for the
whole country . when it 6ays that
"even if the appearance of the fever
ie wailed lor, certainly upon the
an nouncement of the very first case
New Orleans will find herseit hem
med in bo closely that she will have
to eat her own bananas or let them
rot on her hands. No steamer from
that city will be allowed to land any
where, and railroad travel will be so
effectually closed that the machin
ery of the different railroads termi
nating there will rust from idleness.
t he people who survived or escaped
the epidemic of last summer are ter
ribly in varnest in their determina
lion to keep it away from their lo
calities hereafter, and it has even
been predicted that lailroads will be
torn up and bridges burned, it this
purpose can be accomplished by no
other means."
Only one of tho big trees of Cali
fornia has be u felled by the hand
of inai.. To accomplish this it re
quired the work of five men for
11 dus. not chopping, but with
oi.g augurs, boring it down. After
ihe tr e was completely severed, the
veteran stood still unmoved and re
lumed to fall, until by ropes, pulleys
and wedges, the enormous trunk
was bt ought to the earth. This
tree was lound to he over 800 feet
loug, ninety-6ix feet in circumfer
ence at the kase and sound to the
very heart.
A Methodist and a Quaker hav
ing stopped at a public house
agreed to sleep tn tho same oed.
Ihe Methodist knelt down and
prayed fervently, and confessed a
long catalogue of sins. After he
rose the Quaker observed, "Really,
friend, if thou art as bad as thou
sayest thou art I think I dare not
sleep with thee.
Companies are being organized to
her.t ciiics bv steam, a single set of
generators furnishing steam for
radius of half a mile or more.
contemporary says the noise ot the
pipes on a cold night in a city th u
heated, would be equal to the thun
derof a heavy cannonade. It would
beat Macbeth in murdering sleej
i, .
iheyuada Vermont parson up
before his congregation not long
ago, chargeil with "preaching long,
dry, unciliiying sermons." It is not
known what was done with him; i
is to be hoped, though, that they
didn't hang him, for once get a thing
of thai sort started, and there s no
telling where il will stop. C.-J.
"John," said a poverty-stricken
man to his son, "I ve made my will
to-day." "Ah! replied John, "you
were liberal to me no doubt. "Yes,
John,' I came down handsome. I ve
given you the whole State of New
York to make a living in, whhpriv
ilege of going elsewhere if you can
do better.
An old deacon went to a circus
and took his grandchild, remarking
lo every acquaintance he met that
the boy wanted to see the sacred
animals, and he couldn't find it in
his heart to refuse him. Arriving
at the tent, he cried to go home, and
the deacon spanked him to make
him go in.
"Can a man belong to a brass
band and be a Christian?" asks an
exchange. We see no impediment
in the way. But if he is a member
ot a brass band, and is given to
practicing on his cornet or trombone
at home, it is an utter impossibility
tor the man livir.g next door to be a
Christian.
The religious newspapers of Eng
land are discussing the momentous
question : "Ought clergymen to wear
moustaches A contempoiaiy
thinks that as cold weather comes
on they should, and on days of ex
treme severity they might add a
pair of trowsers and a thick vest.
If you desire a killing proof of
the impurity of air that lias been
once breathed, bang up a canary
bird in a cage at the top of a close
ly curtained bedstead, and if the bed
s occupied, the biro will be dead in
the morning. A
An Illinois chap shot a girl be
cause she wouldn't marry him, and
she had married him he would
probably have beaten her first and
Buot her afterward. Girls, your on
ly safety in this country is to be
born boys.
Ic winter, rugs;
Iu summer, bugs;
In sickness, drugs;
In adversity, shrugs;
In thirst, mugs;
In courtship, hugs.
It is the confession of a widower,
who has been thrice married, that
the first wife cures a man's romance,
the second wife teaches him hu
manity, and the third makes him a
philosopher.
It is an oriental idea, that tho spi
der draws its venom from the rose;
ami thus it is that too often from the
sweetest sources comes the blight of
happiness and human affections.
... i njf ii - '
Wade Hampton's late deer hunt
demonstrates, tor the thousandeth
time, that it ii far easier to govern a
muliou people than to control one
mule. .
A polite philosopher thanked it
:tdy who ha l been singing to a prvr-
y lor an hour by saying, "Madaco,
ou have wasted our time chanc
ing ly."
BENEDICT ARNOLD.
His ITarrow Escaro frca . TearJi
at the Hands of. a
Patriotic Weraan.
A Scrap ot tn recorded History
The recent death of Mrs. Ann
Hinman Kellogg.of Fairfield, Conn.,
recalls an unrecorded incident ol
the war of the Revolution. Mrs.
Kellogg was the daughter of Capt:
Elisha Hinman, of tho United
States Navy, and her mother was
the only American who remained iu
New London when the town was
destroyed by the traitor Benedict
Arnold in 17S1. At that time Cap
tain Hinman's ship was hourly ex
pected to arrive at New London,
and it was hoped that he might
come in time to save the town.
Mrs. Hinman was well acquainted
with Arnold, as he had often dined
at her house, and had been a friend
of her husband. Induced by anxie
ty lor her husband's safety, she re
mained after all others had fled,
and watched the entry of the Brit
ish from the doorway of her house
As Arnold rode up he saw and sa
luted her, and said that if she would
point out her own property it
should be spared. She pointed out
the houses of several of her neigh
bors as her own, and thus saved
them from destruction. Arnold re
mained on horseback near her
house nearly all day noting the bat
tle that was raging at Port Gris
world, on the Groton side of the
river, where the tall monument
commemorating trie event now
stands. Three times were the Brit
ish driven down the hill by the
deadly fire from the fort. Theu
the ammunition of its defenders be
came exhausted, and they were
obliged to surrender; Tho British
officer in command of tho storming
party was so enraged at the
desperate defense of the fort that,
as he entered it, he akei, "Who
commands hereV" Colonel Lcd-
yard replied, "I did, but you do
now," at the eame time surrender
ing his sword. lhe otneer received
the sword and instantly plunged it
into the heart of the gallant
Colonel. An American officer,
standing beside his Colonel, snatch
ed his own sword from its scabbard
and in a moment the cowardly
Briton lay dead beside his victim.
An indiscriminate massacre of all
within the fort followed, and thirty
wounded Americans were piled
into a wagon that was rolled down
a steep hillside to the bottom, where
it was dashed in pieces against a
tree. Then hurried preparations
were made to evacuate their posi
tion by the British, Arnold having
learned of tho expected arrival ol
Captain Hinman.
Mrs. Hinman, having witnessed
these outrages from her housetop,
became so incensed against fl
traitor that she hurriedly descend
ed from the roof, took a musket
from a closet where it had been lclt
the day before by an American
soldier, and leveled it at Arnold, as
he sat on his horse in front of her
house. Taking a long, steady aim,
she pulled the trigger, butthe gnn
mibscd fire. Hearing the snap of
the lock, Arnold turned and asked
her what that noise was. With
great presence of mind she had
dropped the gun, so that he did not
sec it, and she answered that it was
the breaking of a chair.
This incident formed the subject
of a painting by Huntington, the
artist, whose wife 1s a grand niece
of Mrs. Hinman. This painting is
now in the possession of Mr. Iliom
as Day, of Bergen Point, N, J. In
it Mrs. Hinman is represented as
leveling a musket at Arnold from a
window of her house, and the burn
ing town is seen in the background.
The remains of both Captain and
Mrs. Hinman now lie iu the Cedar
Grove Cemetery at New London,
where their monument is one of
the finest to be seen. New York
Times.
Profitable and Unprofitable Educa
tion.'
Courier-Journal: We do not hold
to the theory that universal educa
tion, as the idea is now carried out,
is a minister of crime, or that the
higher the flight of education in
the publio schools the purer will be
the morals of the pupils. There is
a great deal of foolish talk in thai
direction but not as much as there
used to be.
A good many of our more
oughtful educators and gentle
men interested in public education
have been figuring on result ex
amining the lruit, so lo speak, oi
. . .
our school systems, win luey nave
expressed the belief that our pris
ons are fllled with people who at
tended both public and private
schools, and subsequently went to
the dogs through vicious training;
that our schools do not excercise
the proper agency in preparing pu
lls to .succeed in me; thai tue
practical is eliminated; false views
of life are inculcated, and "boys who
would make good artisans are in
flated with notions of self impor
tance and neglect the trades for
which they are adapted, ami wreck
their lives in unsuitable professions
or idleness, ine oupcnuteuucni,
of public Instruction in Pennsylva
nia says In his recent report:
For myself, l have long been
convinced .that the matter of in
struction in our flcmentary schools
s not as profitable as it might be
made. A considerable portion of
the ordinary text-books in geogra
phy might be omitted without loss.
Tens of thousands Of children are
given lessons in arithmetic every
day that they cannot possibly un
derstand, and an immense - amount
of time is thrown away iu the at
tempt to teach the principles of ab
stract grammar in primary schools.
n general, the base oi the knowl
edge imparted in our schools is not
broad enough.; nu:e cnuaren arc
crammed with abstractions, defioi
tions, formulas and calculations
that they cannot bo made to corn-
rehend. and tho whole work of
teaching is thus rendered dull, me
chanical and too often fruitless.
And not only have we included in
our courses of study much that
might well be omitted, but we have
omitted much that Cught to be in
eluded. Little children arc keen
observers. ' They fairly revel in tho
woi Id o.l nature, but our schools,
l'r the most pint, deny them les
sons on objects, animal, plants,
minerals, men, mid conlke them- to
the dry, foiiii.il lessons cf the text
books. A public sihool ought 'to
be a pewcrlul uvei.cy in this work
of preparing ii pupils to suiteed
in lite, and wtltie practical appli
cation ot the braiivhes taught if tre
queii.tly ovci iv.'l-- Ja: d.di.awlng,
the handmaid of r-o miny indus
tries, reclvt(f little atu niion. The
theory of our institutions is that
all eilizen muy lie made to under
stand the science ai d art of govern
ment, and therefore, it is wise to
intrust them with the right to suf
frage. But what arc we doing in
our schools to instruct the vouns?
in the history ami traditions of
our country, its Cnn itution ami
laws, the right and duties of citi
zens? Then, back of nil, and more
important than nil, is th. i tudy of
man himself, v.h:tt he in ph vt.ii ally,
intellectually, uiorriiily, wl.nt ho is
in his relation! to l is faniiiy, ucigli
bors.coiintry, mankind, mm ure, God.
Would it not I hi well to have some
lessons c ii a subject like this in ex
change for the deluiU of the geog
raphy of distant countries that wi 1
soon be forgottou or f r certain
half-understood abstractions in
grammar and anlh metier '
Mr. Wickci sham is a distinguish
ed teacher, anil lie lias lr more
than ordinary experience in cduca
tional matters. The need he points
out is an actual and unxiriant one.
If we must have high schools for
the qualification ot boys lor their
duties as Auieiican citizens. Ihev
should be subjected to l..th ethical
culture and iiiMiuction iu the
science of government, urd in icon
omio stibiects There nie hundreds
)f joting men who pu.--, ll : mi h
the ward and school :t.liut uc
quiring even a tllun i leu of the
composition and working ol th" ii;i
tioual and Mate government o' i m
Country and are staggered m ,,!,,.
simplest question, ll we had pub
lie schools modeled some hut alter
that of F.rnite Houlmy at Paris,
where young men are educated In
the principles, theory and practice
of di He re nt governments, as well as
their own, and if the instructions
In the primary schools was moru
entirely iu the practical and patri
otic direction pointed out by Su-
perinteridcril Wiekersham, thcro
would be a very perceptible diuun-
nation ol crime in this country,
Let the proper engineiy be used iu
public education and it will fulfill
its highest mission, that of making
good citizens and giving boys tho
tools with which they cun work out
future distinction and honors.
.
Lovo of Slaters.
There can be lew separation
more painful than thai which sinters,
who have lived together from infan
cy, aie called upon to iiidurewhen
new tics divide them, and call for
the exercise of other dulius. Even
to the woman who leaves the happy
home of her child'iood, from the
lice and unrestrained impulse of a
new and engrossing feeling, there
will recur moments ol nolitude and
thoiightfulneHs, when the heart
fondly returns to that loved spot
our lirst home, endeared by a thou
sand associations of affection, and
he who loves his wife with t'.ie moi
fervor, will feel more st curdy tho
strength of her attachment to him
self in proportion as he discovers
in that heart the warmth of mutual
affection, which c:muot put fioin a
parent and a sinter without regret,
and who cannot recall, een iu thai
society which she Jias preferred to
every other, the memory of ttieir
tenderness wit hunt gr.o eiul li rn
...-
There will In- hard tiup s In h m
k!iouL love; in familieH tli tt l.uv,.
money P.r luxury, and n n j tor
charilv; in households unun-'l to
prayer mid unblessed by lallh In
lhe realities of a world t come.
Tho way of the traugrescor i- h id;
the nervice of sin, however pi. isuiit,
must end in death, and th -y who
trust to outward tiling" u,y will
be poor indeed. If in them days
pareuts desire for their chil Km iho
highest good, let them be cm j'uI to
impart a knowledge ol the trim
riches which can nevir b lost
through the inevitable changes of
human aflairs.
A man met a liurliuton boy
walking toward town on the Au-
cy road, eiling nn spp.e. - now
many apples have your a-ked tno
man. "One half us man as I Iiuvh
eaten, added to twice us ninny ai I
am going to cat, less live Hi il.u b -g
gnr boy took nwny from me, divid
ed by two thirds of the iiuu br I
dropped in the orchatd when 1 amy
the ilog, plus six which I me on tno
orchard fence before tin- imvi sny
me, will equal one fifth ol mi that I
tried to get." How many ppl;s did
he hate' liurlingtou 1 1 i w ry e.
What this country i . ids more
thau any thing cUc is I.a 'lnj will
make dishonest men pa) 'Ii ii debts.
There has been so much lci -Jalion
done to protect and cnc.osge run
cality, that confidence between man
aud man has been aim".', entirely
destroyed; and that it ii oue of the
main things that hi Ipe I lo bring
about our present state of affairs.
, -
"The Lord loveth n el rful giv
er," but there's no us. - huiking a
copper cent into a co.it. i mlioti box
loud enough to make the folks ou
the back scat think the ci niion
service has tumbled oil ti altar.
HORSES & 1V1UL.ES
Bought arid sold at Well-' New Liv
ery and Sale Statile, and IJHri uiii jlven
Lelt Hide North Main Htreei.
Also runs a cominixlh'ii and com
fortable l'enger llacs to l.awrenr
burg try-weekly. Kxpreo or other
parage delivered al reaneiisble rtloi.
Ordera lelt at the stable or ii ihe 1'imt
olllee will be promptly atu-ivled t
mar'J-tf
The Centaur El u lux ut nr of
two kinds. The White is tor hu
man family ; the .Yellow Is '.r horea,
sheep and other aiilmsls. "IeiiiiniilaU
of theeflect produced by ll remsrk-
hls preparation are wrapped around
every bottle, snd way b prucured of
any druifUt, or by wall from the cilice
of the CajiTAVa Vu-, W Dty New
York dry. fei.avly