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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05
Hope and Courag

True hope is based on energy of charac-
ter. A strong mind always hopes, and has
always cause to hope, because it knows the
mutability OF human affairs, and how slight
a circumstance may change the whole
course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests
upon itself; it is not confined to particular
Objects and if at last all should be lost, it
has saved itself its own integrity and worth
Hope awakens courage, while despondency
is the last of all evils; it is the abandon
ment of good-the giving up of the battle Of
life with dead nothingness. He who can
implaut courage in the human soul, is its
best physician. To seek to govern men by
their fears and their wants, is an unworthy
purpose; the desire to rule by means of
cowardice is Of itself cowardice Love in
spires courage and hope, and this is doubly
the giver and preserver Of life. Whatever
teaches US boldly to combat the manifold
evils and assaults of life, enables US to win
the crown of victory. Special care, there
fore, ought to be taken in education to teach
what true courage is-as well in social and
domestic as in public afairs-and by what
means it may be best sustained.
+sr--az----
The Bowling Green Democrat has the
following suggestive article, which we hope
our patrons viii read and act upon:
The CITIZEN AND NEWSPAPER rela-
tions existing between the newspaper and
the reader, are similar, in one respect, to
those existing between a community of peo-
pie and the merchant with whom they deal
Every one resorts to the merchant to dispose
Of his surplus, and to procure necessities
that he does not possess, the merchant act
ing as a medium of exchange, supplying the
deficiencies Of one with the surplus Of an
other. Every person looks to the paper for
interesting local news as the consumer looks
to the merchant for his supplies, but it is
not every person that thinks of keeping the
newspaper supplied with news as the con
sumer does the merchant with any OVerplus
in his productions. People viii ask, Z" why
don't you have more local news p and yet
if they knew an interesting item, would
never think of imparting it to the editor for
the benefit of the paper and Of those who do
not know it. The increase of interesting
reading matter will more than counterbal-
ance any trouble or expense encountered
by giving in these little items that 90 so far
toward making a paper lively and useful
Let our friends tell US of events worthy of
note that have transpired in their midst, or
of any new enterprise being inaugurated
among them. Let them send US information
by mail, giving the points of anything that
may have taken place. If the readers of
the Democrat would all pursue this course,
they could soon make it a compendium of
information far more reliable and valuable
than it now IS. 1t would, in many instances,
be Of incalculable benefit to them, by direct.
ing the attention of capital and enterprise
to any local advantages for manufacturing
or other improvements in their several sec
tions of country VIII all of you heed this,
or viii many of you continue in the p" good
old way p
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

From the Louisville Courier Journal,
we clip the following good ones:
The Chicago Republican says that the in
stincts of the people prevailed in the late
election. lis pity that their reason didn' t
prevail. Instinct is the brute part of our
nature reason is purely human and divine.
The Cincinnati Times says that, in the
late war, God and Gen Grant worked to
gether" We wonder which Of the two
radicalism thinks would have prevailed if
they had worked apart and against each
other
Senator Sumner says that " it is sweet to
die for ones country" 1t seems a pity that,
in his case, the sweetness of the thing
should remain so long unenjoyed by himself
and the country.
"The Augean Stable is the heading of
an article in the Chicago Tribune. 1t would
do very well as the title of the paper.
Gen Grants political record has been a
blank. Every radical has filled it up for
himself according to his own taste, liking,
whim, or prejudice.
The Philadelphia Telegraph calls Gen.
Grant "the greatest general of his age"
Pray what's his age
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05
.REE.WPHES, TEyVGV".

Dry Goods.
NJ Wolf & Co., $50 Main street.
Walker, Bros. & Co. 229 Main street.
Wells q Coll, 267 Main street.
Rice, Stix & Co., 3l9 Main street.
Cotton and Commission.
Mosby & Dorion, 304 Front street.
j. f. Dowdy, 264 Front street.
Norment & Graves, No. 4, Howard s Row.
Hugh Torrance, No. 10 Jefferson street
Ralph Wormeley, No. 3l6 Front street
Norton & Joy, 334 Front street.
Williamson, Hill q Co, 226 Front street.
Owen, McNutt d Co, Lee Block, Union St.
Milan, Bowling q Co, $50 Front street.
w. s. Pickett & Co.
Meacham q Treadwell, 9 Union street
Liquors, Etc.
B. J. Semmes & Co., 254 Second street.
J O'Connor, lis Main street.
w G. Wear d Co., 3 Howard's Row.
Hardware, Etc.
Allison Bros, 270 Front street.
Urgill Bros q Co., 3I2 Front street
Chas. Stout d Bros. 227 Second street.
Wall Paper, Shades, Etc.
J. Grieshaber, 237 Main street.
Guns, Ammunition, Etc.
Lullman q Vienna, 345 Main street.
Hotels.
Worsham House, cor Main & Adams sts.
Life Insurance
Mcmahon & Otis, Madison street, Kit
William Block.
Fire Insurance.
Geo. w L. Crook, 2794 Main street.
Oils, Lamps. Etc.
o. f. Prescott & Co., 40 Jefferson street.
Lawyers.
Stephens & Smith, % Madison street.
Millinery.
Mrs. Emma g. Carter
Dental.
w. F. Southern, 354 Main street
Seeds.
R. G. Craig & Co, 379 Main street.
Undertakers.
J. c. Hoist & Co., $50 Main street
Clothing.
Robson, Sneed, & Co, 26l Main street
Hats, Etc.
]. T. Haudlan & CO., 279 Main street.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05
Advantages of Crying.

We know how much relief is experienced
by the grief-worn heart if it can vent its
deep emotion in a gush of tears Appreci-
ating the philosophy of tears, French ply
sician publishes a long dissertation on the
advantages of groaning and crying in gen
eral, and especially during surgical opera
tions. He contends that groaning and cry
iyg are TWO grand operations by which ma
ture allays anguish that those patients who
give way to their natural feelings more
speedily recover from accidents and opera
tions than those who suppose it unworthy a
man to betray such symptoms OF cOwardlce
as either to grOan or cry. He tells of a man
who reduced his pulse from one hundred
and twenty-six to sixty, In the course Of a
few hours, by giving full vent to his emo
tons. If people are at all unhappy about
anything let them go into their rooms and
comfort themselves with a loud boOhOe, and
they viii feel hundred per cent. better af
te-w ard. In accordance with the above, the
crying Of children should not be too greatly
discouraged If it is systematically re-
pressed, the result may be St Vitus' dance,
epiieptic fits, or some other disease of the
nervous system. What is natural IS nearly
always useful; and nothing can be more
natural than the crying Of children, when
ANYTHING occurs to give them either physi-
cal or mental pain. Probably most persons
have experienced the effect Of tears in re-
lieving great sorrow. 1t is even curious how
the feelings are allayed by their free induI-
gence in grOans and sighs. Then let parents
and friends show more indulgence to noisy
bursts of grief-on the part of children as
well as of older persons-and regard the
eyes aud the mouth as the safety valves
through which nature discharges her surplus
ST
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05
. JUST T"-NEITHER MORE NOR LESS.

GLOVE wOREEFH NO ILL"
What IS it to lie truly just.
When fully lis de6ned2
And who dares say that he himself
Is Just to all mankindl
To say ones Just, is q small thing
When we don't weigh the thought,
But quite another thing to be
On scales Of justice brought.
When every sin of every hue
Has weIght, and form, and size.
When ia ke means theft, love means do right,
And all untruths are lies,-
When thoughts and words. and acts conjoin
To form one whole, however small.
Though there be bud, and flower, and fruit,
The germ contains them all.
In the strict sense are any Just!
God knows-and 50 might We.
If we but brush the mists away.
That We may PLAINLY see
To do by one what's MAINLY Just
When wishes pie ase,
Is not enough to make Us just
lis only loving ease.
But if wen speak the truth Of all,
Whether we please or not,
If we viii ACT the truth in full
If we are true to the unjust,
E'en when they are uRkind
And state each case JUST AS IT Is
By zeal nor hate made blind
And then, if to ali this we add
Those finer 81 ades of thought
With deIicacy and love combined
Do all the just One taught
Then may claim the title JUST
Applied to mortaIs here,
And fearing naught that may asssl,
May, with conscience clear,
Stand rook-frm mid all shocks Of time.
Unmoved amid dismay,
And linking this with life to come,
March forth to endless day.
'Tis well " all evil to abhor,'
And yet love one another;
To "cleave to all that's pure and good
Let's aid-ROt wrong, brother
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

JAN DELIvERY-The Clarksville ChrOni-
Gle of the goth inst, contains the following ::
On last Monday morning during the
temporary absense of Mr.. Rich, the jailor,
a negro man entered the Jail through the
family room, took an axe and broke the lock
of the dungeon door, and released eight
prisoners. Our energetic policeman, James
Welsh, went in pursuit and captured six of
them. One of the negroes shot him through
the hand, MIR. Welsh in return shot the ne
gro in the thigh. The other two are still at
large.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Dry Goods.
Hardy & Wilson; Henry Kahn, Wilker
son Bros, Swinebroad d Warren
Lawyers.
J. b. Dennis
Furniture.
Baker & Reynolds.
Drugs.
c. NJ O'Hara.
Lumber, Etc,
Toone & Dunlap, Bailey Macon.
Saloons.
T. Owens, Brilliant" W. S. Brooks,
Z" Tempest"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

WATER WIrCHBRY--We find the follow
ing query and answer in late number Of
the Dirie Farmer
I have been digging well, and have seen
a man find where water was by carrying a
forked peach tree twig. Many tried it and
failed, but in the hands eff some who had no
faith in it, it would turn down at the stream.
D. D. CATE.
The finding water by switch is a very
old practice CALLED " Water Witchery."
Some years ago, we remember to have read
a French book or prophet On the theory Of
electricity. The reasoning was very plausi-
bic, and in the absence of anything better,
we accept it As to the fact, there can be no
reasonable doubt, that the switch does turn,
and does find water
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Jones was, or believed he was, near his
death; and, the doctor calling, he held n
long and earnest conversation with him
about his chances for life. Why. man,
said the physician, you are likely to die
any hour. You have been living for the last
fifteen years without a cOnstitution,-Iungs
gone, liver diseased, and all that sort of
thing" You don't mean to say" replied
Jones, questioningly, that man can live
for fifteen years without a constitution p
" Y es, / do" retorted the doctor. " and you
are an example" "Then, doctor and a
bright smile Illuminated the palhd face of
the doomed man" then, doctor, III 20 it
ten years more on the bylaws" And he
did.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

When we inquired of a friend few days
since what business he now followed he
replied
q Dentistry-the insertion of teeth in
roast beef and bread and butter"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

4 genius has conceived the brilliant idea
to press all the lawyers into the military
service-because their charges are so great
that no one could stand them.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Weston is preparing for pedestrian trip
from Bangor to St. Paul and back to New
York, distance of 5000 miles. He will
start from Bangor, December lst.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

At the bank Of the river of death and the
hill Of eternity begins on the other side.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Gen. H e Read, brave and gallant sol
der in the war with Mexico, and afterwards
a member of the Confederate congress, com
mitted suicide in Louisville, Kentucky, on
the 9Th inst. Penury and want, 1t is said,
drove the heroic Read to the commission of
this awful deed. He leaves a wife and
several children. For galIantry displayed
upon the bloody battle field of Chapultepec,
the General Assembly Of Kentucky voted
Gen Read a magnificent sword, and as a
reward for his learning and high manly
traits of character, the people of his district
had time and again elected him to Offices Of
emolument and profit In speaking OF his
many virtues, the Louisville Democrat says
that he was one of the nobIest men in the
State, and that thousands of admiring
friends deplore the rash act which forever
stilIed as brave heart as ever beat within
the breast of a gentleman.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

How TO Cook A BEEFsTEAk. follow
ing were the rules adopted by the celebrated
" Beefsteak Club" started in England II
1874:
Pound well your meat sntl the fbrss break;
Be sure that next you have to broiI the steak,
Good coal in plenty; moment leave,
But it this way and then that,
The lean should be quite rare-not the fat ~
The platter and then the Juice receive
Put on your butter. place it your meat.
Salt pepper, turn it over, serve and eat
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

The last number of the Trenton Gazette
contains the 70 Glowing:
We hear frequent complaints from the
quiet and peaceable citizens of this county,
of disturbances by large squads Of disguised
men. They are known to be men who are
called loyal The freedmen say they know
them but fear to expose them. They are no
Ku Klux. 1t is difficult to hire labor for the
ensuing year as the negroes feel insecure.
They are robbed Of their money and all
other valuabIes found in their possession.
Something ought to be done to suppress
such Outrages.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05
W WEY?

Why, ali why, must priceless jewels
Clean on lives that heed them not1
Or, If for one moment treasured,
Flung aside, and soon forgot.
Fairest flowers spring up and blossom
All uncared for, on their way,
Who with idle listless footsteps,
Bruise and crush them carelessIy.
While the lives where gems might glitter,
Proud to deck thing so fair;
An mthroTned unlocked, and crownless
Lie forever cold and bare.
Hungry human hearts go starving
O'er dark and lonely way,
While around life's choicest blessing,
Love is idly flung away.
Why, alas! are royal natures
Dvarfed into a narrow cell.
TIL how they had bIoomed and broadeued
Only God alone can tell?
Why must souls which He made kindred.
And by closest bonds allied
Hearts which ever beat acoordant,
Fate with cruel hand divide?
Leaving each on darksome pathways,
Ger which lowers-a suIleu sky,
Life which might have bloomsd all barren,
And weean but murmur, Why
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Last Saturday night a masked party
stopped the passenger train, on the Decatur
road, near Decatur junction, took conductor
Crozier off and warned him not to come
there again, and then allowed him to 60.
Crozier stands well, and it is believed
the maskers were revenging a comrade
recently put of for non payment
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

a true friend is distinguished in the cri-
sis of hazard and necessity; when the
gallantry of his aid may show the worth of
his soul and the loyalty of his heart
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Monday night fire destroyed all but two
business houses on one side of the public
square at Dresden, Weakley county. Loss
fifty thousand dollars
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

If man be given to liquor, let not liquor
be given to him.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

II. r. Pollard editor of the Southern
Opinion, was shot and killed by James
Grant in Richmond, on the 24th inst An
offensive article concerning one of the Grant
family was the cause.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Grant carried Pennsylvania by 28,878.
Where were the Hebrew children Bee.
Selling sheep cloding and tending to
puisness
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Gen. W T. Haskell, and his three sons,
Sheperd, William and Joshua, are buried
side by side in the grave yard at Jackson,
Tennessee.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

A radical paper is to be published at
jackson, Tennessee. Go for EN-, Gates.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Judge William L. Harris formerly Of
Mississippi died in Memphis last Friday
week, aged 81 years.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

The Southern Eagle, printed at Water
Valley, makes bold stroke at the railroad
eating houses and charges them with extor-
ton. The Eagle says that so cents is
enough for a traveller to pay for a single
meal. We think so, too. Reduce your
rates, and thus increase your business, Sir
feedists
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

%. S. M.-Ir is with feelings of joy that
we announce the fact that the ancient and
time honored association, Independent Or
der Sons of Malta, is to be reorganized in
Memphis LET it be RECORDED !"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

On the night of the 24th ult., the resi-
dence of Judge G. w. Reeves, Of Somer-
vile, was consumed by fire. Loss $4,000;
no insurance.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Wood Lawn Church, six miles from
Brownsville, was consumed by fire on the
night of the 23d of November.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

The residence of J. B. Hill, in Covington,
was destroyed by fire one night last week
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

" Do you consider lager beer intozica-
ting?'
Vel, as for dat, CANT zay. I trink
feefty or seezty glasses in day, end it tosh
not hurt me, put | ton't know how it would
De if a man vosh to make hog of himself"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

One night last week negro jumped of
the cars on the Nashville and Chattanooga
railroad and broke his neck
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

There are now 394 convicts in the State's
rorison
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

The man who fell into error was lifted
out by the lever Of public opinion.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

The city stables of Memphis were con
sumed by fire a few nights ago. The keeper,
Edwin O'Donnen, and old and respected
citizen, lost his life while attempting to save
the horses.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Buffers eve is like the hammer Of mus
ket; it viii stand cooked til the dog wears
out
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

It may be said Of an ugly man, that Ma
ture, when she has made him, was 80
of her work that she could Mt
even put a good face upon the thing.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

gin. Not q bit Of it, unless you spell gin
backwards.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

At Westbrooke, on the Penobscot river,
land slide took place on the 23d inst, which
caused the Iosss of over 100000 Of prop
ertv
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Rev Az Mizeu, of CIarksvine, has been
appointed State agent for the Tennessee
Orphan ASYLUM.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

There are $4,000 women in the city of
New York who do literally nothing except
to dress, promenade, dwadle, eat, and sleep
-ReUielo
What does dwadle mean? ? Come, Mr.
Regiele, let US have the answer
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Women never truly command till they
have given their promise to obey.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

The Legislature will soon appoint Su-
perintendent of the Police force of Memphis,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Coal has been found in Williamson
county, seven miles from Franklin.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

On the 25th ult, in Somerville, G. "
Starry, town constable, in selfdeFense, shot
and killed }. b. Stafford.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

There are 77,74I farmers in Tennessee
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

ISING-One Square. Of ten lines OF less. 81 90
each subsequent insertion 20 cents; Loca
Nltlee. 2n ~
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

sUBsCRIPTION-One Cory One Year Three dollars tnva
riably in advances One Copy One Month
delivered. Fifty Cents.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-12-05

Holy HoRRoR-Sugar Hamilton, it
seems, is aspiring to the Gubernatorah chair
of Tennessee!