The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-05-09
No. Al


WELL SAID.-The Memphis Daily Buus.
tin is a radical paper bat radical as it Is,
we must say that It is the only sheetof the
kind that has ever uttered to our knowIedee.
as kind and sensible words as those quoted
below The number from which we clip was
dated May >, 1868:
he Ceremony at EzHacoed To-Dog-
/ In heayen we are told by the highest aa-
Y thorIty, there IS neither marriage nor givin.r
/ in marriage, for the spirirs chat reach those
i blessed abodes are as the angels. If one of
the sweetest Of human sentiments finds no
4 passage beyond the sod covered hilIoek that
/ Is the gulf beyond which lies eternity
/ how much less those that are harsh and
stern We are still quivering IN e7ery nerve
from the shock and anguish of the war-but
bitterness dies by the side Of the grave Ani-
/ mostly towards an enemy has no dwelling n
/ any noble soul, when the enemy has fallen.
/ By the soldiers tomb We think but of the
soldiers fate He may hova shouted a war
ant2gonlstle TO our own-but it is recollec-
+ tlons of the sleeping warrior, not his coun-
/ tersign, that awakens solemn feelings within
as as we step lightly and with husbed voice
where his ashes repose. Today large
number of eur ladies and fellow citizens
viii visi5 the last home of mortalitY-they
viii strew flowers over the graves of their
departed friends.
Though never sympathizing with the
cause IN which these brave men laid down
their lives, the solemn and beautiful cere-
monies OF to-day inspire US only with SYM
pathY for the sorrows of che. bereaved, and
regrets for the loss Of those. who were our
friends IN the happy. years that preceded the
war.
Greely in his Busy Life" repudiates
phiianthropy, in the money giving line, most
emphatieally. He says Il consider 1t. al
most an axiom, that he who asks a stranger
to lend him money. viii never pay it: yet I
have. known an exception Once, when I
was exceedingly poor and needy, in q season
Of. commercial revulsion or panic, Iopened
a letter from Utica and found therein five
dollars, which the writer wished me to re-
ceive in satisfaction Of a loan Of that sum
which 7 made him-a needy stranger-on
an occasion which he recalled to M. re-
membranee. Perplezed by SO unusual a
message, and especially by receiving It at
such time, when every one was seeking to
borrow-no enc eondescending to fay-I
scanned the letter more closely, and at length
achieved a solution Of the problem. The
writer was patient in the State Lunatic
Asylum"
The following items were tolegraphed over
the country from Nashville on the ID inst:
Affairs in Tennessee we're never more
quiet and peaceful. Throughout the State
the farmers are busily engaged in planting,
and the prospects are that the largest crop
OF grain ever grown In the State viii be
made.
There is a growing indisposition on the
part OF the Ministry to take part N political
controversies.
So far as the last assertion IS CONCERNED,
as touching the ministers Of this section, we
emphatieallg assert it to be asfalsehood from
beginning to end. Again, if We are living
in peace it is net because we arc not tyran-.
lied oyer, but simply owing to the fact that
the masses. Of Tennessee are intelligent and.
worthy citizens They should not be com
Pelled to grin and bear always. IF We
are at peace, loosen up the chains ana re-
ward Us for our good deeds
The Trenfoa Gazette of the ID inst. hes
the following
Quite number Of strangers were ~our
streets last Monday Upon inquiry we
ascertained that they were the intensely
loya5 Tsho had lost property during thelate
civil war, and were IN to prove up then
losses before the Commissioners sitting for
that purpose.
Just think Of it tax payers, at least two
hundred and fifty of these claim commiz-
siOners are receiving large pay For the pass
ing upon these claims that VIII never be
recognized by the government These blood
teaches VIII suck ali tlaElfie out Of. you to
FIJI their pockets with the price of their re-
creancy.
We suppose officials of the same kind win
" loom up in Bolivar before many moons.
Q, how it pays to hold off and let the radicals
rule the State
TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION. The pro-
peller George Cushman, owned by Dwight
Scott, Of Cleveland, while moving out of the
creek to-day for Port Colburn3 exploded a
boiler, killing eleven persons and ipjuring
three. The vessel is a complete wreck
She was valued at S37.5O0 partly insured
She contained 10000 bushels Of wheat
Capt. Thompson was slightly hurt; his
wife escaped Peter McDermott and Bar
ney Lester, fireman Frank Smith, l. An
derson, and Herman Frowiag, deck hands,
were killed, and bodies found J. Durock,
VIM. Abbot, II. G. Stewart Geo. Lewis,
jeremiah Morris, II. s Gilbert, first en-
gineer, are missing. One Of the de K hands
was thrown entirely over Stnrges elevator,
at a height Of one hundred and fifty feet
OPEENG THElR ErEs-The Corinth
Miss Model Farmer says in It's May mum
Der:
The South has acted Ike helpless chill
dren, and toiied to make money from cotton,
but thrown it away upon such triaes as axe
helves, Plow stocks, horse hames and swingle-
trees, all Of which Should have been manu-
lactured on their own premises. Hard
times are beginning to open their eyes, and
some Of our own people are learning to
make their own tools. Some industrious
countryman has made several dozen axe
handles. and placed them in Messrs. Gala
hon Il -L.-r f,,r coli ~rltsal