The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1867-01-12


ing States" OF with your hats to these
Republican proconsuls Of our imperial Rad
zeal Romer States, did you say? We
Thought they went down at APPomattoz
Court House, ever so long ago. And this
resurrection, we fear, comes not through our
q governors it viii come, if it comes at
all. like the sun in the East, tomorrow morn
ing IT viii be flung up again by an All
8ferciful, Almighty hand, unwilling to let
Light and liberty die
b Some time ago. Mr. johnson said every
thing would come right before The end Of
this term: g It's only question Of time"
said he, Perhaps Mr.. HcCulloch could tell
US exactly what be meant don't know
much about finance you know, and as
your readers can see; bat say, let green
back 5-20s, 1905 and bonds Of all
colors and descriptions, burst up, blow up,
vanish into thin air; 60 where the bad mig
gers 90; anywhere, anything, SO the RAIDS
i are got down, and brought round :"
a friend at my elbow says that ought to
write you something about this hotel-the
Worsham-whch is, Pag ercollence-the
planters hotel of Memphis-says this friend
at my elbow Parrish himself always stops
here; he knows what real good, substan-
tial, excellent house It Is, AID will be glad to
let his readers know, through the columns
of his spicy and entertaining BULLETIN,
where to go to get the very best of eating
and sleeping when they visit the Bluff; city"
ToTI - L. - 4
after trying the Worsham House hundred
and fifty-two and half times both before
and since the war, endorse every word of
what is said by my friend, who, by the way,
is better Judge than | am, for he has lived
in hotels pretty much all his lifetime (The
half time mentioned in the foregoing is
of course, the present one, for I have been
here several days this " trip, and l don't in
tend to leave such fodder as they give
fellow here, until my moneys all gomez
By-the-by, did you ever know of such
panic movement in the matrimonial mar
ket before? No, we won't call it market"
either, what ever might have been the truth
about it, before the war, when nearly all
the people were rich, and the rest posI.
Now, when all are poor, l take it there is no
buying and selling in marriage as there used
to be- and all these hundreds of thousands
of marriages we see going on around US, ali
over the land, are pure =" love matches" And,
let Us thank Heaven for it, for, jesting aside,
and reverently be it said a loye-match be-
tween two young people; or any people of
marriaseable years, whether middle aged or
young; is one of the most glorious things on |
this earth Old Sobersides SAYS he had
rather see it than a horse race, or an agri |
cultural fair or a tournament any day. And |
who, that has stout heart and strong arm
cares for money in these days? or, where is
there such an one, who would hesitate to |
marry because his sweetheart and himself |
are both poor? No man, in this country, |
who has health and strength, is poor. No |
girl is poor, who, during the war, learned to |
work, and forever flung away false pride. !
Therefore L say, and Sobersides says so too /
'I,et this glorious marrying and giving in /
marriage 60 on Plainly, they are all love
Matches and they, we know, are in the
highest and best sense - the salt Of the /
earth the salt wherewith it is sagored, /
and favored and saved from being a dreary
desert Moreover, Sobersides says Take |
me- for instance, I,have been married hard /
upon thirty years. and my wife and | love
each other more, and better than we did the
day we went to church in Old Virginia, and .
] put the ring upon her finger, and said
With this ring l thee we'd We do, and
let me tell you sir, it was a love match from
the first. Many children have come to glad
den our freside, aud are all now gone out /
into the world to make ard enjoy the same
fortune, | am sure, that has blessed us for
such of them as have married made love
matches During the war, my boys fought /
for the flag that is now laid away forever, l /
suppose; and the girls stayed at home and !
worked for the soldiers, and endured all the .
hardships without a murmur gaily indeed I
so did their dear mother, who, thank God, Is /
hale and hearty, and beautiful yet; simply /
because she made love-match You needn't |
laugh, you young rascal 1 tell you, my /
wife is pretty yet-pretty rs a pink-and, old .
as ! am, | can break a lance with any raga- /
muffin who dares dispute it," And so, the /
old gentleman ran on much longer, giorify- /
ing 4" true love and sweet matrimony," !
till he put it into my head to 60 and try my /
luck with a sweet young widow mot beauti- I
ful, but sweet, mind you , who lives away
over on the other side of the -, about .
hundred - won tell you exactly where.
Nor would it be seelnly to go on romano
ing in this way any longer; my letter, /
fear, is already too long and I must defer a
wonderful yarn had to spin you, to an
other week, or when the notion strikes me-
Yours seriously,
HARDTIMES.
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