The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-01-23

/ 4dnuIOfu we uOn KNOW WHICH, was bOlu at
the depot here last Friday evening Seated
around the stove in the Office of friend
Dugan were several railroad men, telling
anecdotes and Willing away time as best
they could while waiting for the South
bound train. Gen. n had just cornercd
one Of the party, but soon his victim rallied
and related the following
Some eight or ten months ago I met
n on the cars-was going to business
point on the Central-and knowing that the
General was well posted, asked him to di-
rect me to the best hotel in the place he
did so, and assured me that would be well
car I'd for, as he always stopped there him
self The train got 60 -- at ten
clock that night, and [ went to the hotel
designated by N, booked my name, and
was shown to a room in the second story,
and as speedily as possible, retired for the
night; the servant who showed me up took
the candle away with HIM and L was thus
left In total darkness. Being unusually
fatigued, | was soon in a comfortable doze,
but the internal chinches came out in full
force and souzed their blood-suckers into
my weary flesh at such a furious rate that
they woke me up and l could sleep no more.
Recolecting that / had a box of matches in
my pocket ] got up, and with the feeble
light afforded by them, one at a time, be-
gan raking the pests into slop bucket that
was about half full of water tb rowing also,
all of the matches that relus ed TO ignite
into Aho r,olroE I II, II
matches up but one, and then laid down
again and was sound asleep in less than ten
minutes. The whistle of a passing train
woke me about two o'clock, and after the
rumbling of the cars had died ava Y in the
distance, low, soft and sweetly m elodious
strains of enchanting music, such as 1
never heard before, filed the room Per-
fectly at loss to account for this u Hooked
for serenade, got up as quietly as osSible,
went to the window, then to the d. Dor, but
could discover nothing-au was darlS. Get
ting m last lucifer, l struck it, and as a ray
of light darted into the old buck ct by the
bedside l saw, at glance, from vyhe nee the
music proceeded The chinches ad con-
structed miniature raft of the worthless
matches and were riding arour d at ease,
singing that favorite song
Life the ocean wave,
A home OF the rolling deep,
Where the wind and play.
And the waves their revels keep
Long before the words of tho narrator
were ended the General made his escape
from the room and has not been eeil in the
neighborhood since If our cote mn ooraries
of the " Eagle" should see him irl Water
Valley, we wish that they would whisper
words of comfort and say to him. th at all is
over now, and that Booker Ford has agreed
to smile no more for a month.
In the event the silly propos itic m to di-
vide Tennessee should succeed, W nat is to
become Of the radical Office seek err ; west of
the Cumberland range I'M 2TriStO1UR
b Gazette.
Why, they'll range hellward 5, that's all
Speaking of the Ku Klux KIt IN and secret
organizations supposed to be in in lical to the
safety OF thieves and scoundr,5ls generally
the Nashville Press and II mes, radical
says:
The State has proclaimed W ar against this
desperate ana dangerous ora er, ana every
citizen should give his promp and Jealous
support to aid in its supp re ssion. The
maskers have virtually decla red war upon
! the personal security of eve ry man in the
State, and cannot be treated 1t h the slight,
est indulgence or forbearaRce q the future
/ Their effectual suppression is essential to
the highest interests of societ y.
For RENT-The Store II, ouse lately oc
cupied by Fleming Ussery g. Co.
Apply to J. & 9. FENTREss
M. Al T1O,