The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-10-03
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ELSIE HAcLING.

! Inc following IS q rather extraordinary
! production for girl of fourteen, having a
| condensation and force which is usually met
only IN the productions of old and practiced
! pOets.-Ael0 York Express.
Only a little grave.
BY weeds half hidden;
Only mothers tear
That comes unlidden;
Only two little hands
Folded together;
o nly two violet eyes,
Now closed forever;
Only a pale, pale face
And years not ssveni
/ Only lifeiess form
All else n heaven.
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THE GREgIAN BEND.
/ When lovely woman stoops to frolic
/ And rues the ruse, alas too late,
What balm shall soothe her meoncolic?
| What art shall set her back up straight!
! The only thing for her disaster
| The only way her end
| Is 70 apply a mustard plaster
/ If she won't do it, let her bend
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The following is from the edition of
Mother Goose for 1869:
Grant and CoIfax went or tar,
To get the pubtie plumber
Grant fell down and broke his crown,
And Colfax % thunder.
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The right way-sixteen ounces to the
pound.
The route of the projected Memphis, Okla
Iona and Selma railroad is now being sur
yeyed by Major Minor Merriweather, Of
Memphis.
Remembr, the grand District meeting and
Barbecue comes off at jackson on the second
Wednesday of this month. A large number
of able Democratic orators have been in
vited to attend
A highly respectable citizen of Nashville
named Daversack, committed suicide in the
market house of that city few days ago.
Financial embarrassment was the cause of
the rash act.
The Falcon complains of the neglect of
the corporate authorities of Somerville, and
says that yawning gullies and impossible
streets should be repaired. So they should.
Peg away, friend Falcon, and expose them
if they do not do their duty.
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that Jefferson Davis will be rendered the
Presidency of Randolph Macon College, at
Ashland, Virginia, so soon as he is freed
from the legal embarrassment by which he
is now fettered
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FATTENNG HoGs.-This kind of stock
should now receive close attention; they
should be fed regular, and all they will eat !;
but no more. In addition, they should have
salt and sulphur, and also some charcoal or
rotten wood and all the drink they will take
Milk, dish-water and ofal from kitchen,
| should be given to the younger pigs and
shoats.
UNION BANK-J. w. Allen, trustee of the
Union Bank of Tennessee, gives notice that
| after the 3Ist Of December next, the notes
of this bank viii be forever barred from
being received for debts due the bank, or in
any way participating in the assets of the
Bank" All notes presented to him at the
bank in Nashville, before December 81,
1868, win be paid in full in greenbacks.
Holders should send them in Immediately.
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SENSIBLE ADvIcE.-A paper, among other
suggestions which viii enable a person to
avoid the cholera, says:
Endeavor, if possible, to keep away q
clean conscience, and two or three clean
shirts. Rise with the lark, but avoid larks
in the evening. Be above ground in all
your dwellings, and above board in all your
dealings LOYe your neighbor as yourself,
but don't have too many IN the same house
with you.
A leading Republican of West Tennessee
writes to US that our friends are in high
spirits there. All quiet and peaceable, and
no probable need of miIitla.-NasHciHe
Press and Times
What a change has come over the Rock
city radical For the love of justice, tell US
who ga leading Republican of West Ten
nessee is, that we may all know the oppo-
nent of Democracy who dares tell the truth.
Out with his name, Mr. Times, it will sub
serve the ends of justice to do so. Do not
put his light under busheI
| HE'LL on WHEELs-The Louisville Jour-
nal describes the Brownlow government of
! Tennessee thus:
It is "hell on wheels" and is disgrace
publican institutions. The men who now
control the destinies of the State are a mix
ture of malice, ignorance and rascality, such
as never before, on the American continent,
found their way to positions Of trust and
/ honor. Selfish, faithless and venomous, they
/ have taken advantage of the circumstances
! growing out of the war to erect for their
own advantage a despotism which stands
unique in its unapproachable and unblush-
ing villainy.
Hon. }. W. HARRIs.-On the 9th of
August large number of the people of
4 Fayette addressed a letter to this dis
tinguished Chancellor and requested him to
address them at his convenience at the court
house in Somerville upon the issues of the
times. On the 10Th of September His
Honor replied to the communication of his
! l.