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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15
Death at the Grave.

Death is sad at all times, but doubtly so
under circumstances like the following:
AT noon on Monday, IN the town of
FreepOrt, Armstrong county. young man,
the son of Mr.. Goering, of Freeport, died,
and his body lay in his fathers house
awaiting burial. In the afternoon, Mr.
Goering, accompanied by three sons and
William Hines, went about four o'clock to
the cemetry on the hillside, back of the
town, TO select site for the grave of the
dead man. While they were there a storm
came upon them in all It's force Louis
Goering, one of the brothers. and William
Hines, stOnd together under one umbrella
Jacob Goeriag stood by himself nnder
another. The father and the third brother
stood together without any flash of
lightning and deafening crash of thunder
came simultaneously, and did such sad and
terrible work as is rarely recorded. Louis
and Jacob Goering and William Hines
were instantly killed, and the father and
his remaining son were severity shocked
1t is belived that the metal ferules on the
umbrella tops attracted the lightning which
killed the unfortunate holders. Thus in
one day, three brothers were taken away by
death, and another family was made desolate
by the sudden taking off ofthe husband and
the father. Louis GOering leaves a wife
and three children, as does also William
Hines. Jacob Goering was unmarried
PjttSbUrq Post
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

THE indemnity which it is said Bismarck
demands of France is no small matter.
Besides the cession of Alsace, Lorraine and
the Notifications of Strasbourg and Metz, he
demands the following:
1. Payment by France of German war
loans.
2. Pecuniary reparation to families of
soldiers killed in the war and to the wound
ed
3. Compensation for all captured ships.
f. Compensation for cannonading Sasr-
brucken and Kehl, and expulsion of Ger
mans from France.
5. Payment for crimes by French SOL
diers on German subjects or wounded SOL
diers
g. Compensation for parochial burdens
caused by the war.
The total, as footed up, amounts to 4,93O,-
100000 francs, or $3.50, 100000.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

The Bombay correspondent of the Lon
don Times gives the first parti cular account
of a terrible earthquake at Bantango, on the
confines of Thibet and China. A shock at
5 o'clock in the morning, and stronger one
at noon, were followed at sunset by an
earthquake which levelled the whole town,
and killed OF buried half of the population.
The missionaries escaped to their garden,
and only one of their servants perished.
The large and splendid lamazrat, inhabited
by 5000 I.amas, fell with a crash. The
Chinese officials report the loss of human
life at 43I Lama priests, 81 soldiers and 21lS
native inhabitants. This village and many
others were destroyed, and great number
/ of the authorities and soldiers were buried
under the ruins of the houses. The imperi-
al highway from Pekin to Lehassa is said to
be totally impossible near Kong Detin, by
the fall of mountain and the upheavnl Of
new one.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

Paris letter of the Sd ult says Louis
Blanc has:writen letter to the English
people He says the siege Of Paris is a
monstrous phenomenon which is the scan.
dal of history Civilization is prisoner in
Paris and the King of Prussia is the Attila
of the nineteenth century He describes
the war as Pan-Germanism gone mad. The
King of Prussia olght to have stopped the
war after the capitulation of Sedan, when
the Empire had disappeared and the Repub
lie was proclaimed. The King of Prussia is
a desperate gambler but the bloody game OF
war may turn against him.
NJ. Louis Blanc concludes: If the
English people understand that our cause
is that of the whole world-being that oI
justiee-it's for it to act; to ponder on what
concerns it. The consequences Of leaving
the right OF conquest unbridled, which, By
its Indifference, sanctions the saturnalia ol
force, risks experiencing them, and deserves
to do so. It is the business Of the English
people to look to it Ours is to prove to the
world that our cause isjust; and this being
understood, to die for the right which nevel
dies or conquer with it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

A boy was once watching some of his
school-fellows as they pelted an old gentle
mans window with snow balls. The old
gentleman finally rushed out of the house,
determined, if possible, to infict some severe
punishment on the offender, saying. when
he caught the boy, "NOw, you rascal, III
whip you within an inch of your life |" Ac'
cordingly he began to thrash him, when the
boy Immediately commenced laughing and
continued until the old gentleman desistsd
with the exclamation what are you laughin
at 2" well, "saId boy, "Pm laughing
because you are sold: I amt the boyf
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15
The National HOG.

Jim Fisk, Jr., has been interviewed by
a New York Sun reporter in reference to
his having issued instructions to charge
Grant full fare on his railroad and steam
boat. Fisk acknowledged the corn, and
went on to state how Grant subscribed one
Thousand dollars to the Rawlins monument
which was paid by himself and Jay Gould.
Thereupon the following conversation oc
Cured
"One question more, Colonel, as to that
Rawlins subscription by Grant That sub
scription was made in honor of the memory
of his dearest friend. It was a sacred
Offering upon the altar of friendship How
then could he allow it to be paid by q
stranger ?"
Fisk-"Tll tell you how. Grant is not only
a greedy little wretch, but he is fool He
don't know anything; he hasn't brains
enough to comprehend the position in which
such a thing places him before the country
All he can see in the matter is, that he
saved a thousand dollars by it; he is toe
destitute of sensibility to comprehend what
you say about the subscription being q
sacred offering upon the altar Of friendship.
He is incapable of true friendship, and never
felt 8ny of the sentiments which true
friendship inspires. To sum him up in one
sentence, he is the national hog"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

Executive Document No. 267, as pub
lished by order of Congress, contains letter
from Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell,, in
answer to a resolution of Congress, directing
him to furnish that body with statement
Of the balances due from Collectors of In
ternal Revenue, not now in Office which is
unanswerable as setting forth in glaring
colOrs the corruption of the Radical party.
In that letter Mr.. Boutwell, gives eight solid
pages of tie names of three hundred and
forty defaulters ten only of whom we will
give that our readers may form an idea OF
what the remaining three hundred and
thirty amount to;
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15
Baptist Church.

Sabbath Service IO1l a and ~ Sunday School
II PRAYER Meeting Tuesday Evening" Regular Month
y Meeting Saturday before the TArd Sabbath in each
month Communion Service the SABBATH following.
ELD. A TuMLINSON PAsToR.
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Preabvterian Church.

Sunday School A.
Bible Glass Tuesdays. P.
Prayer Meeting Thursdays. Gt................7
Services every Sabbath, At lO5I A. NJ. and 81
Seats all FREE.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

There is within a fraction of six million
dollars of taxes gobbIed up by ten defaulters
not one of whom has been prosecuted or
ordered to be prosecuted. In all these
three hundred and forty defalcations, civil
suits have only been ordered in thirty cases,
and not one criminal prosecution Memphis
Appeal
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15
Methodist Church.

Services every Sabbath, 1913 A. NJ. aud P. N. By
the Rev s. B. SURRAT.
SABBATH SCHOOL at 81 A. n.
Singing Sabbath School Scholars every Sunday evening
at 21z o'clock Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night
Choir meeting every Friday night Regular Church meet
nrst Wednesday night iE each month. Young Mems
prayer meeting every Monday night.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

The West has increased very rapidly
during the past ten years. The sensus of
Wisconsin, complete, give a total population
of 1 I.O52, ,720-a gain of 276, 100 since 1850.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15
Mississippi Central Il. r.
Trains mas Bolivar As follows:

Trains pass Bolivar follows:
MAIL TRAIN South-Il05 North, $50 u
EXPRESS train Ssuth-I45 North, 532 n
Freight train. .South-i0lO North, 420
E- Mail train every day. Express train runs
every day-MOEEAYS EXCEPTED. ga
Connection the southwark bound Mail and Ex
press trains Grand junction with trains the NJ g. r
the going north jackson, Tenn, with
trains the NJ. L o. Il. II.
The above schedule took effect May %. 1868
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

We can't understand says the Appeal,
how farmer, or hired laborer or mechanic
can be Induced to vote for Radical candi-
date for Congress. No. man that uses or
consumes iron in any of its forms would
sustain party which devetes itself exciu-
sively to the interests of Pennsylvania iron
mongers and adds from fifty to one hundred
per cent, through the high tariff, to the cost
of iron and steel Men that use salted beef
or pork OF bacon should nOt forget that the
Radical high tariff party have fxed q duty
of 1OS per cent on the salt we use, while
New England fishermen, protected by the
supreme potency of New England in the
supreme tariff making Radical Government,
pays not one copper of this duty on, salt
furnished free from this Government exae
ton. 1t would be delightful spectacle to
see the stupidity ignorant tax payers and
consumers of imported steel, iron and salt
voting for the Radical candidate for Congress.
In truth, workingmen everywhere, when
suffered to vote by their employers as they
choose, have uniformly and wisely voted the
Democratic ticket Freetraders and anti
monopolists of the country are all Demo
Gratis.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15
& Charleston
RAILROAD.

TRAINS ARRIVE AT AND LEAVE MEMPHIS AS
F0LLOWS
Through MaiI-DAILY... . ............ 30 10 40
CoFinth hAccommodatOu-DAILY-eX-
cept Sunday, at....................-... 5 O5 q
Grand Junction Accommodation, daily
exeept SUNDAY, at ,...............-....
Through at Grand Junction with trains
Bolivar and jackson, Tenn.
At Decatur Athens. Pulaski Ala. Columbia, Nash
At Chattanooga, mail trains points
Express Trains.
Baggage checked through
For further information, apply at the once
corner Ma and South Court street.
w. J. ROSS, GsnT Superintendent.
4. A BARNES, GsnI Ticket Agent. oct5
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Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Services as follows Second Sabbath month"; by
DR., A A. HoOREMAN Fourth Sabbath il each month by
VIZ. n. HoRNENT.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15
SWINEBROAD'S
TNHPRoVED
COTTON PRESS!

As have succeeded in getting new in
vsntOn granted me on PRESSES. propose place
them before the people for general use.
NV invention is reduced SIMPLICITY. DU-
RABILITY and STRENGTH, much that any Of
field hands can work it with good
All those who wish Press in working or
der = this place.
1 propose to sell ROYALTY. COUNTY and STATE
RIGHTS only.
mo EICE.
claim fOr my the Utey and all ether
Presses this
Ny gripping used in pressing cast in solid
boeFs which grip the upright iron bars the
power is applied and the power
taken or the blocks will slide down the bar perfectly
loose ready for holt which renders entirely
impossible to get of ordeE-s virtue which ether
Press has The lever that use a the common straight
lever applied the gripping blocks. Ny follower
is up and dowz Of snd iEdlss aAd il
arranged to work very easy.
g. For further i1fsEnstion address
..t G. ". SWINEBROAD.
July SOSa BoLIvAR' TETE-
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St. James Church, Bolivar, Tenn.

orviess every Sunday on tAs Holy Days by
RECTOR w. G.. GRAY.
TIE hour for opening Sunday School is.. So o'clock
Morning Se<vics undayb................. 1913
evening Service Sundays s..-...--..-.....- DO
Holy Days......... and az N
Services twice each day during Lent.
From IL A. M, and 10 P. NJ. the Rector
bs found in his study at the Of the Church.
s4- The seats Of this Church are ALL FREE.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

The Acting Commissioner of Internal
Revenue states that where persons held two
cent revenue stamps on the let inst, they
can exchange them for other stamps at any
collectors Office by paying q per cent. on
the amount exchanged. In answer to the
question whether the charge of q per cent.
is law or regulation, he replies that it is lsw
and regulation both.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

Poor MEN.-The poorest me to be met
with, especially these stirring times, is the
man who is too poor to take newspaper.
We pity such a man, especially if he is
man of property. Who ever heard Of
man too poor to smoke or chew tobacco, if
addicted to either? And yet may who spend
ten or fifteen cents day for the weed, are
too poor to take newspaper, in the intel
lectuaI enjoyment of which their families
might participate. Really, such men are
poor. They are an object of pity.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

Horse thieves are annoying farmers in
the vicinity of Somerviile, in Fayetse county
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15
.V1esO advertisements
HILL, FONTAINE & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS.
Wholesale GrOCerS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
no. 32e FRONT STREET,
MEMPHIS. TENN
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
no. s2e FRONT STREET,
MEMPHIS. TENN

-:O:-
Here in store, and are now receiving:
500 Barrels of Fine Flour.
$50 Sacks Of Coffee.
500 Packages of Mackeral.
100 Gases of Sardines.
200 Barrels of Syrups.
1000 Pieces of Bagging.
100 Tons of Iron Ties, Beard &
Arrow)
1000 Barrels of Flour.
SO Tierces S. @. Hams.
SO Hhds. of Bacon.
200 Barrels of Pork.
90 Barrels of-5 year old-Bur-
bon Whisky.
And many other articles appertaining to
their business. Orders solicited and salts
faction guaranteed.
~ Special attention Will be given to
sale of Cotton, and shipments are reques-
ted. sepI0.
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Nothing Like Grammar.

Nothing ike Grammar Better go with
oat that There are numberless professors
who go tramp, tramp, tramp, my boys +"
around the county, peddling a weak article,
by which in twenty days" they garantee
to seta man thoroughly in the English
language An instance in point comes from
Greenville, Alabama, where professor
had labored with the youth of that people,
and taught them to dote on grammar accord
ing to Morris system. During one of the
lectures the sentence, Mary milks the cow
was given out to be parsed Each word had
been parsed save one, which fell to Bob
l., a sixteen-year-old, near the foot of
the class, who commenced thus: "Cow Re
noun, feminine gender, singular number,
third person, and stands for Mary" "Stands
for Mary!" said the excited professor
1" How do you make that out7" Because
answered the noble pupil, if the COW didn't
stand for Mary, how could Mary milk her >
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1870-10-15

HAMILTON FIsH. oec'ty of State.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-15

The French papers report the death of an
electrical child, aged ten months, at ST. Urbain
near Lyons. This interesting but inconyenient
infant was, ii is stated SO endowed with elec-
tricity that nobody could enter the room where
II was without receiving constant electric shocks
1t Is stated to have passed away painessly so far
as it was concerned ITSELF but there is reason to
fear that the survivors who attended it must
have suffered much for it is affirmed by the
doctors that at the instant of death luminous
eiliuyia proceeded from its body and continued
for several minutes after its decease. The Msdi-
cal Times ds,d Gazette, alluding to the case saws
that 1t is supposed to be quite unprecedented
in the world OF science. We hope 1t is so,
for, however much we may regret the
untimely end of this little prodigy, we confess
we cannot look forward without some uneasi-
ness TO the possibility of a recurrence of babies
of this nature. Every person with any preten-
sion to amiability must be, or ought to be, fond
of children, and his must indeed be an unenthu-
siastic temperament who does not appreciate the
maryels OF electricity; but combination of
babies and batteries would, there can be no
doubt seriously interfere with domestic
comfort. The most tender father that ever
existed would shrink from clasping his child 20
his bosom II he felt that this proceeding rem
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Personal.

After the STYLE of the Sensation Papers.
Colonel Dodge wanted to turn Fenian. But
they said he did not look dirty enough. That
was cruel, considering the pains he takes not to
wash his face.
Senator Jones has got new set of false teeth.
They don't fit.
Mrs. Wrinkles, Fifth avenue, has her knocker
tied up. Welcome, little stranger But the
white glove might be winter, Winkles?
Bob Bagster's new poem will be bad. Well,
praise to him for not surprising anybody; sur
prises are vulgar But SOS Bob.
Elegant Lorimer Briggs has made tracks.
Glad he can make anything. Didn't think it in
him.
Roomy Toutle shouldn't go to the theatre
without pocket handkerchief They are cheap
enough at friend Shoddy's, in Broadway, who is
good fellow and refined-minded gentleman.
Another new piece by Vamp announced.
Where are the French detectives?
Peter Wilkinson overdrew his account last
week. But we hear that his grandmother has
squared things. Good old lady. Wish she were
our grandmother.
Pretty Mrs. Chikabiddy refused to be COM
forted for beautiful Mrs. Chollychowcow' dia-
monds. Wipe your eyes, dear, they are false
the diamonds we mean.
on Saturday, but what's the use of whistling
jigs to milestone? Yes, you, Judge Blk.
We saw the note, Miss Jemima P. You
dropped the ball-card very neatly, and ne picked
it up very gallantly, but we saw. Don't blush.
He would be very nice young man, if he were
not so old.
Jefferson Brick wanted $4,000 for his novel
This was to make up for his disappointment be-
cause the last didn't sell. However Sharp and
Koe didn't see it. We hear his wife wrote part
of 1.-THE love business Not from her own ex-
periences, we should say.
President Grant uses cold cream after shaving
He will not eat hard boiled eggs. He is right as
to the first, wrong as to the second But this is
a free country, and men NAV do as they like.
The Signora Sallibetti blew up considerable
behind the scenes last night. Fonr carpenters
tainted at her language. Sam Davis didn't, but
then he was raised in Indiana, where they talk
like that.
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NONSENSE.

If you should an Oxide wed
To Cyanide, instead
Of the Citrate it admires,
Vain are all abnormal fires.
For the heart that's set upon
That Moncotyledon
Cannot readily revolt
In Blastodermic moult!
No! Bacteria first shall quail,
And e,en methyltoluol fail,
Lamellation shall hold sway
Till pseudopodians melt away.
So until then let Oxides bride
Be the blushing Cyanide;
And Hypsilophodon be dumb
AS the pale Chrysanthemum.
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Il CANNON, ETC.
BUREAU OF ORDNANCE,
NAVY DEPART,IENT
WAsnINarnN OIrY. Lannarr Z 1a1n

WASHINGTON CITY, January 4, 1870
Sealed Proposals for the purchase OF 3O-pounder
and 20-pounder Parrott Rifles, with Carriages I'm
pemeDts, and Projectiles, now on hand in the NAVY
Yards at Portsmouth, N. Ii. Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Washington, and Norfolk viii be re-
ceiyed at this Bureau until IL O'Clock noon, January
81, 1870
In the aggregate there are about 800 Guns s54 Car
riages and &c. 157 Projectes. Schedules in detail OF
the articles at each yard will be furnished on appli-
cation to this Bureau rtT7
Bidders VIII state the number OF guns, carriages
implements, and projectes they desire to purchase
at each yard separately, specifying the calibre OF
gun, KIND OF carriage, whether broadsde or pivot,
and the kind OF projectiles.
The guns, etc, will be delivered at the respec-
tive navy yards, and must be removed by the pur-
chaser or purchasers within ten days after the
ceptance OF his their bid. But no deliveries will
be made OF any article until the parties purchasing
shall have deposited with the paymaster Of the navy
case.
Many OF the guns are new and all are Service
able Bidders will therefore offer accordingly. No
oner Tor these articles as old iron or wood Will be
considered.
The Bureau reserves the right to reject any all
bids which II may not consider TO the interest OF the
Government to accept.
Proposals should be endorsed on the envelope
Proposals for Purchase OF Rined Cannon, etc
A. LUDLOW CASE,
s VISIT Chief OF Bureau.
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TIE coon TTNEg LONG AGO.

THE GOOD TIMES LONG 400.
Lovers OF old WERE so ] am told,
Far better of than we
II the lady we're coy they force would employ
And carry away of she,
And wed her off-hand-
Yes, wed her Off hand
Whether she would or no;
But that was in (you understand)
The Good Times Long Ago.
Debtors of yore no duns could bore
As duns bore you and me-
They discharged their notes by cutting their
throats,
Instead of by Bankruptcie--
They scattered their brains
Yes, scattered their brains
Whether they would or no:
But that was in Gas a friend explains)
The Good Times Long Ago.
Masters as well, as have heard tell,
Had servants worth more than ours.
If they wouldn't obey they sent them away
To hang from the topmost towers.
They throttled the knave-
Yes throttled the knave-
Whether he would or no:
But that was in (remember, crave)
The Good Times Long Ago.
So, truly, if we had CHANGED 10 be
Lover or debtor or master,
Why, of course, 'twould exactly have suited we
By deal, than this present. vaster!
But had we been
Poor fellows mean
Whether we would or no.
We should not quite
Have felt delight
In the Good Times Long Ago