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The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-02-02

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The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-02-02
ASHLAND FURNITURE R0oNs.

Manufacturers and dealers in
. all kinds Of Furniture. Gilt and
Rosewood Mouldings, Metalic ca
ses and Gaskef&. Collins and
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16
The wheat Crop.

The Knoxville Daily Whig thus speaks
of the wheat crop in East Tennessee
The abundant wheat crop which has al
ready. for the most part, yielded to the sickle
throughout East Tennessee, together with
the immense breadth of oats and corn,
which promise remunerative returns, have
inspired degree of hope of a prosperous
future, that cannot fail to lift our suffering
section from her former despondent condi-
ton, and to push her forward in her renew
ed attempts to repair broken fortunes A
few weeks viii develop wide spread cheer
fulness among all classes, but no class viii
feel 1t so sensibly and so gratefully as the
farmers. Their lot, at best, is hard one
one of incessant toll and eeaseless ankle.
ty; and, if they fail, at any time, in their
crops, they have nothing to fall back upon.
For one year they must live scantily, econ
omize their remaining means and live
strictly within their income.
The present prosperous year will enable
them to pay their taxes, to meet many of
their outstanding obligations, to open up
fresh land, to repair their old fences, to
build new ones, and to pat their premises in
good order. Not only this, but they will
have some surplus funds with which to re-
plenish their scanty supply of stock We
should not be astonished if many of them
went to Kentucky or to Virginia to pur-
chase thorough bred cattle, horses and
sheep. We know of some few who have
already done this. Two or three from this
county have done so, and several from
Hawkins county. Good crops will contri-
butte vastly to stimulate the farmers to i'm
prove their stock, for which there is ample
room. East Tennessee is considerably be-
hind in this regard, so much SO, indeed,
that she should regret it, and exert herself
to do better in the future.
After all, we now look forward to a bright
and prosperous future, at least, for the en-
suing year. The farmers need not be alarm
ed about low prices for their products. Ev-
erything in the shape of breadstuffs, as we
confidently believe, will bear remunerative
prices; and, especially, wheat
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

Here are the "straws" thus far: The
defeat OF the Republicans in Connecticut,
in April. the $1,000 Democratic majority
in New York at the June election; the loss
of the State of Oregon, including Repub-
liean United States Senator, Mr.. Williams,
whose successor will be a Democrat, and
the defeat of Bowen, the regular Radical
negro nominee for Mayor of Washington
by 5000 majority. Still another political
straw has been thrown up, and again the
indications are in favor Of strong current
from the Democratic quarter This time it
was away out in Idaho, and here is the way
it is spoken of by a Republican journal-the
Elko Independent
Idaho has gone Democratic, electing Sam
Merritt delegate to Congress by majority
of from 800 to 900. Every county in the
Territory heard from gives Democratic ma
jorities on the general ticket with the ex-
ception of the Mormon county of Oneida,
where there is said to be a tie vote. All
the county officers elected, with few ex-
ceptions, are Democrats"
Not bad for the season, that. As a con-
temporary observes, when the autumn gales
begin to blow, we may look out for the
whole straw stack.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16
An Extraordinary story.

A Western railway conductor tells this
horrible story. l was running on a train
between Detroit and Chicago, in 1856. A
gentleman of Chicago was taking East the
dead body Of his brother fer burial among
the family friends in New England Du-
ring the night the wooden coffin, by reason
of the friction of the nails against those of a
large rough box which enclosed it, or in
some more mysterious way, caught fire, and,
before discovered, the corpse was burned to
a crisp, the outer covering of the coffin being
but little injured. When the horrible fact
was made known by me to the brother
after taking him aside, thought he would
then die. His grief unnamed me more
and broke me down more completely than
all the killing and mangling l had ever
seen. "His sister must never know this, +"
said he, after long paroxysm of grief; sit
will kill her." All the employees of the
company acquainted with what had hap
pened were sworn to secresy. An elegant
new coffin was procured at Detroit, in which
the burned remains were carefully fastened,
and the grief-stricken brother conveyed the
ashes, literally, Of the dead, East, and they
were buried without any friend save one
knowing that the coffin contained no corpse.
And that brother has kept this sad secret
from his people and from the press to this
day.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

A ROMANTIC LIFE AND LONELY DEATH.-
An old lady died the other day at Uxbridge;
in England, who proved herself to have
been in more ways than one remarkable
person. Not only had she for many years
successfully defed the inquisitoriai gossip
of a country town, but she really had in
early days lived romantic life, although
her latter years had been passed in the
deepest seclusion. Having been found
dead in her bed, at the age of ninety two,
an inquest was held, when it came TO light
that she was the daughter of a Spanish
nobleman of high distinction. In early
life she contracted c.andestine marriage
with the Count de Chantal, of France, who
was o General in the French army under
the first Napoleon, and who fell at Waterloo.
Exiled from her native country, as we'll as
from France, she took refuge in England
soon after the restoration Of peace, and
lived on her scanty income at Uxbridge in
the manner described. 1t is supposed that
she had lain dead for several days before
her body was found, and it would be hard
to find case presenting stronger features
of the utter loneliness to which human
being may be reduced.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

A student in a South Carolina College,
was arraigned before the Faculty for shoot
ing the dog of citizen. he defended
himself as follows:
"Mr President and Gentlemen of the
Faculty AS I was taking one of my noe
turnal perambulations, for the better preser-
vation of my health, met one of the canine
species, who made an attack upon my out
ward tabernacle and lacerated my pedestals;
whereupon 1 drew forth one of those eylin.
drical instruments, which were invented by
man for his better defense against the hos
tility of his neighbor, and excOriated the
epidermis of his pericranium."
The Faculty burst out intoa ft of bolster
GUS laughter, and dismissed the accused
with impunity.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16
VIC Woula b aRor Again.


In company one evening, when the song,
Would Were Boy Again" was called
for, gray-hesded "old boy" discourssd
thus:
"a boy again Tho would be. q boy
again, if he could to have msasels, itch
and mumps; to get licked by bigger boys
and scolded by older brothers, to stab toes
to slip up on the ice to get whaled BY
thick-headsd school master; to be made to
stand up as the Ounce for the amusement Of
the whole school and tell you how misera-
bic, weak and stupid you were when you
were born, and to ask you what would have
become of you at that interesting time il
life If your parents had not been so patient
with and so kind to you; to eat at the
second table when company comes to set
out cabbage plants and thin corn because
you are little, and consequently it wouldn't
make your back ache so much; to be made
to 60 to school when you don't want to; to
have your sled broken, to get hit in the eyes
with frozen apples and soggy snow balls
to cut your fingers lose your knife, TO have
a hole in the seat ef your only pair of pants
when your pretty cousin from the city
comes to see you; to be called a coward at
school if you don't fight; to be whaled at
home if you do fight at school; to be struck
after little girl and dare not tell her; to
have boy too big for you to lick to tell you
that your sweetheart squints; to have your
sweetheart cut you dead and affiliate with
that boy John Smith, whom you hate par
ticularly because he set your nose out of
joint the week before; to be made go to bed
when you know you amt a bit sleepy; to
have no fre-crackers on the Fouth of July,
no skates on Christmas; to want piece Of
bread and butter with honey and get your
ears pulled to be kept from the circus
when it comes to town, and when all the
other boys go; to get pounded for stealing
roasting ears; to get run by bull dogs for
trying to nip water-melons to have the
canker rash, cateehism, stone bruises; to
be called up to kiss old women that visit
your mother, to be scolded because you like
Maggie Love better than your own sister;
to be told of a scorching time little boys
will have who tell lies, and are not like
George Washington; to catch your big
brother kissing the pretty school madam on
the sly; and wish you were big so you
could kiss her too, and-and-Why, who'd
be boy again2
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

A Paris letter says: "a worthy trades
man had just sat down to his dinner few
evenings ago, surrounded by his olive
branches and the fruitful vine. Suddenly
he observed before the plate of one of his
little girls drop of blood; believing she
had cut her finger, he rose to examine, and
was surprised to find other drops of blood
on the table-eloth On looking toward the
ceiling, the blood was found to be dropping
therefrom. Calling the house porter, they
forced open the door of their neighbor' s
room overhead, and found a young woman,
having failed to destroy herself by charcoal
fumes, had opened the veins of her neck
with razor All attempts to aid her she
repelled by endeavoring to bite the assist
ants She was but three weeks married,
bad found matrimony sad, sour sober
beverage, and resolved to find in death
--'that opiate Of the soaI
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

"SHoo Fly" IN CHURcH-The Lima (Ohio)
Gazette says "a lady in one of our churches
rested her head on the back of the pew in
'front.' as all devout people do in the time of
prayer, but in the pew before her sat a
young man who neither bowed his head nor
kneeled A beautiful plume nodded and
danced upon the head of the fair one be-
hind him, occasionally touching the neck of
the youth, who evidently considered it fly
or some other troublesome insect For a
time he bore the unpleasant sensation with
out a murmur, but at last patience ceased
to be virtue, and from the flash of his
eagle eye one could plainly see that the
hour of 'that fly" had come Instead of
saying "Shoo Fly, don't bodder me-" eau
tiously his hand moved toward the supposed
offending insect then followed frantic
clutch and a spring behind him. Imagine
the horror of the youth to find in his hand
the nobby hat of the fair one, which he had
torn violently from her head, sadly disar-
ranging the contour of braids and chignon.
The lady was indignant, of course, and the
youth could have been purchased at an
immense sacrifice about that time. Ezpla-
nations and apologies followed, the dIsor-
ganized was put in order as soon as posi-
bic, and the devotional exercises were re-
sumed
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

A Radical member of an Ohio school
board recently delivered himself of the fol-
lowing:
"Mr. Cheerman, I rise for to-that is to
make motion, which is as follows: Re-
SolUed that there are no need to build such
costive school housen as some Of this ere
board is proposin to rect No, Mr. Cheer
man, I'm posed to spendin money for more
housen. The old ones are pretty good yit,
and for to go for to build pretty slick
house which will cost ten thousand dollars,
or more yet, It's all wasted. Its no economy
to throw away money we don't need. Taxes
cost money, and money has to go to pay
taxes and let US expense with any more
school housen.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16
The Fourth at Knoxville.

The conservative citizens of Knox county
held grand mass meeting at Knoxville on
the Fourth of July, in celebration of the
day. 1t was expected ex President Johnson
would be present to deliver an address, but
he was prevented by illness Among the
persons present and who spoke were Gen
eral Quarles, Hon J. NJ Clementson, Sena-
tor from McMinn county, Hon. A. Blizzard,
of Athens, and Hon John NJ. Fleming, of
the Press and Herald. The last named
gentleman read the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. None of the speakers expressed
anything above mediocrity except Mr.. Flem
ing. We quote from the published pro-
ceedings the following;
At the conclusion of Mr. Billiards. re-
marks, Colonel Fleming stated that with
the exception of himself the announced list
of speakers present was exhausted 1t
would afford i'm pleasure to address his
fellow citizens, and especially his immediate
constituents of Knox county. But this was
not now fit occasion. All that it was pro-
per for him to do was to pronounce bene
dietiOn. In doing so he begged to propose
a sentiment He expressed the hope that,
touched and moved by the sad memories Of
the eventful and mournful past, and in
spired with the hopes now Frightening for
the future, as the sod grows thicker and
greener over the graves of brothers slain by
each others hands, we might lose all re
membrance of the animosities and asperi-
ties of the war, and that the fraternity of our
people might soon be secured Then, said
he, may each one of US, pointing to that
STARRY flag, say in all sinc0rity
Forever float that standard sheet,
Where breathes the foe but falls before usg
With freedom soil beneath feet
And freedoms banner streaming Ger us!"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

The Murfreesboro Monitor says that the
venerable Gates, editor of the West Tenn
essee Whig, has started on a mission to
destroy, demolish, annihilate and otherwise
fatally iDjure the Democratic party. He
fumes from the lecture stand, and is mighty
in the columns of his paper. We believe
the amiable old gentleman has been en-
gagged in this profitable warfare ever since
the discovery of this continent by Christie
pher Columbus, with the intermission of
only few years. and this rest appears to
have given him renewed en- ergy. We hope
he may find much amusement in his novel
employment. But, badinage aside, what
can possess any sensible, true Southern man
to throw obstacles in the way of the sue
cess of-the only party in which the South
in truth the whole country the
slightest hopes ofa restorationAo of her politi-
cal rights We must embrace Democracy
or Radicalism There is no intermediate
stopping place.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

Among the curiosities of the civil appro-
priation BILL is an item of FIVE thousand dol
lars for fuel for the Presidents house; one
of a thousand dollars for Presidential
flower pots, mats and twine; one of twenty
FIVE hundred dollars for repairs to the Presi-
dents green house; one of ten thousand for
a fence around the grounds, and another of
forty thousand dollars for lighting the whole
affair up. This being reform administra
tic-. there will, of course, be no trouble in
ding these little items through.-St
Louis Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

A FATAL DRINK-Ghe Franklin ReUieac
of last week has the following:
"On last Saturday evening, Messrs. r.
Bailey and B. Chambers left the town of
Somerville for their homes, three miles in
the country On their way home Mr.. Bailey
found bottle neatly wrapped with paper,
which, upon examination, proved to contain
whiskey. Mr.. Baileys companion advised
him to throw the bottle away and suggested
that it might have been put there for evil
purposes. He disEegarded the admonition
and carried the whiskey home, and in so
doing carried death and woe into his family
circle. He gave some of the contents of
the accursed bottle to his three children,
girl eleven, and two boys, aged respectfully
eight and four years-took drink himself
and gave a drought of the noxious liquid to
a negro man. In few brief hours his ins
teresting and beautiful children were paid
in death; he himself was convulsed and
withered in the agonies of death, the poor
negro was tortured with unuterable pain
and gasped for breath. The whiskey was
poisoned. We do not excuIpate the wicked
devil who put the whiskey in the road, but,
at the same time, Mr.. Bailey is highly culpa-
BILE for carrying the whisky home and giving
it to his family. 1t was decidedly wrong
even though the liquor had been pure. Let
the horrible fate of this man be warning.
Whiskey is always dangerous, for though,
Its surface like diamonds
May glisten in beauty,
It's depth with the tints
Of bright ru5ies may glow;
Yet touch it not, taste It not,
Shun it in duty,
For death its blackness
Is hidden below"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

The following new pater noster is circu-
lating among the Americans at Rome:
"Our Father who art in the Vatican /:
InfallibIe be thy name: Thy Temporal Sow
ereignty come: Thy will be done IN Europe
and America as in IrelanI. Give as this
day our tithes and titles. and forgive our
trespasses as we give plenary indulgence to
those who pay penitently unto US: And
lead as not into Ecumenical Councils, but
deliver us from thinking; for thine is the
crozer, the key, and the tiara. Rome with
out end Amen"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

An amusing incident occurred recently
at a rural school The subject was the
history of Sampson, and the question, What
foolish thing did Sampson once do7 Ez-
pectation was on tiptoe to ascertain his
peculiar weakness, when from front seat
came the reply, given with solemn precise.
ness and irresistibly ludicrous accent, she
went down among the Philistines and got
wife"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16
Memphis & Charleston
RAILROAD.
TRAINS ARRIVE At AND LEAVE MEMPHIS

TRAINS ARRIVE AT AND LEAVE MEMPHIS AS
FOLLOWS;
DEPART
Through hail-DAILY-.... ..........l2 IS u 40
Through Express....... .......-1l 10 90 m
CoTinth Accommodate u-DAILY-eX-
eept sunday, at........-................ 5 O5 a m
Grand Junction Accommodation, daily
except Sunday, at..............-.-... IS IS
Express Grand Junction with morning train
the Mississippi Central Railroad for Holly Springs Water
Valley, Grenada jackson, Veksbnrg Miss, New Orleans
La, etc.
At Corinth Okoona Col9mbus, Miss Mobile Ala
At Decatur, for Columbs, Nashville, Loivsuies Gin
einnat
Chattanooga all places Eastern Alabama Geor-
ga South Carolina Virginia. Washington, Balti-
more Philadelphia, New York. etc.
Through Mail at Grand Junction with trains
Bolivar and jackson, Tenn.
At Decatur Athens. Pulaski. Ala, Columbia Nash
Vile, etc.
Express Trains.
Baggage checked through.
tickets and further information apply at the oce
corner Main and South Court street
W.. ROSS. GerT Superintendent.
A. A BARNES, Gsn1 Ticket Agent. Oct5
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16
Lucretia's dagger. ROsamOada's bowl. J"

They have aqueer way of amusing them
selves in Auburn. A party catch a toad
then a couple dozen fre-fies, or lightning
bugs" They make the toad swallow the
bugs, and afterward pat him under glass
dish. The little flies keep up flashing in
toad all over. The toad likes it, Too.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

BRIEF AND ToUcHISs Daniel
Boone, the celebrated pioneer of Kentucky,
died, a member ef the Illinois Legislature
announced the mourBful event. and his
desire for an adjournment of the house, in
the following brief but touching terms;
"Mr. Cheerman, Dan Boone are dead
move we put"
And the House "put."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

a Hibernian, entering 8 menagerie. was
asked if the pony he saw there was not a
very small one7 "Ah, faith, said Pat,
I've seen many one in swate Ireland as
little as two Of him"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

A Western editor consoled q man who
complained that justice had not been done
him, by the remark that it was "very lucky
for him"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

a young lady Gays there is nothing more
touching in this life than to see poor but
virtuOus young man struggling With 8 weak
moustache
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16

Missouri insists that Saline whisky is a
good thing to drink when man isn't thirsty
enough for ordinary Bourbon.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-07-16
Baptist Church.
Elder DAY breaches every Saturday the month
Mississippi Central r. r.
GEO. NJ. DUGAN..................................

GEO. NJ AGENT, BoLIvAR
Trains pass Bolivar follows:
MAIL TRAIN South-ll05 North, $40
EXPRESS train Seuth-l45 North, 532
Freight train, ,South-l0lO North, 40 n
e. Mail train every day. Express train runs
every day-MOEEAYS EXCEPTED. -EEa
Connection made by the southwa bound Mail and Ex
trains Grand junction with trains the NJ g.
and by the trains going north at Jackson Tenn with
trains on the Nj. 4 o. r. r.
The above schedule took effect May %. 1863