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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25
Items,

The Masons of New York propose a for
NAL reception of Earl DeGray on his arrival
in. this country. He is Grand Master Of
Masons in England. -.-~ s...j
The German societies of New York are
considering the propriety of grand demon
stratienl On the conclusion Ofpeaee between
France and Germany IA
Mr.. John Baxter, Of Kh64tiilIe, has OBJ
tanned a judgment against the prOprietorS of
the Wing and Register of that place, for
$4,000, on the charge of libel against him
The Attorneys Of Washington have, made
liberal donations for the relief of the late
ChisfJ1stios Fancy 3 faRiys
Garabaldir has resigned his command,
quilted with regret the French. seEvice, and
started for his home on the Island of Ca
prera, in Italy
Fears of q general Indian war on the
frontier are entertained. +e#lra HEa Pr ~.
Provisions in immense quantities are ar
irving in Paris. -.as.s.s .,.----a. b.
Miss Nellie Grant drives a span with great
ease. ~
Seventy thousand liquor dealers keep up
the spirits of the PennsyIVanians.
'0neVf the hGrdereJs hbhsgs in Maryland
last week was too drunk to stand
Miss. Nellie Marshall, daughter of Gen.
Humphrey Marshall, was married, at Frank
fort, Kentucky, last Monday night, to Rep
resenta tive McAfee
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25
How a Whole Family Became
Blind

There lives family N Dorchester county,
every dark-eyed male member of which for
the past fifty years has gone blind at the age
of twenty TO twenty-five years. Those with
blue eyes escape the terrible affliction.
There is tradition about this singular cir
cumstance which we lay before our readers
as we heard it: Some sixty years since, so
goes the story beautiful blackseyed girl Of
twenty, from some cause or other lost her
eyesight. Her misfortune brought penury
and want with It. Being reduced to beg,
gary, she was wont to 90 abroad asking
aims. During one Of her journeys she vis-
tied the neigh borhood in which resided the
ancestors of those who are now sIghtless
Instead of her bel pless condition exciting,
as it should have done, a feeling Of sympa-
thy, she was treated with ridicule by some
of the younger members of the house her
evil star had led her into, Two of the boys
as matter, Of mere deviltry, took her out,
promising to conduct her to place where
plenty awaited. Instead of giving her a safe
conduct, they carried her into a swamp and
left her. 1t is said that she cried out, be
seeding them to put her on the public road,
but they needed not her lamentatio MS
Finding herself about to be deserted among
the tangled brushwood, she TUNED her
prayer to a curse, asking her Maker, in her
reyeugefnl anguish, to punish her betrayers
by making their offspring for seven genera
tions, as helpless as she was. 1t is said that
she was found dead in the swamp, having
persisted from hunger and, cold. This may
appear somewhat romantic, but whether the
tradition&ry part Of it be true or false, it is
pssuredly fact that. the male offspring of
the family referred to lose their sight as in
dieated Hundreds of persons IN D6Tches..
ter county will verify it-Cambridge
Mass Herald.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25
.Ikza "Reminiscences.
ALL ABOUT AN OFFICER WHO WANTED 10 !,

MONEY
u UOJ VA M3IIkd .aAYIl
A few days after the capture of Fort
Sumpter, m prIil,5 1861, when the voice Of
the whole ceEntrY was, for war, we had
conversation With a gentleman who was an
officer in the Naxieani3 war, and
who, besides, in Ohio, has obtained emf
hence as a civilian that. we, have often
thought of since,t Said he 70 us: l saw
to day an old comrade of mine in Mexico,
a West Pointer, but who resigned his posi-.
ton in the army a few years ago. = 1 asked
HIM why he was not IN uniform, aud ex
pressed my surprise that he was not already
a Colonel or General Of volunteers, His
reply was l think You and have had fight
ing enough already What want in this
war is a place by which can make some
money. He sought to get that place here.
He made an effort to be selected by the Gov
eminent as buyer of horses, but failed.
He next endeavored to borrow few hum
dred dollars.ofa military friend of ours, then
and now in the regular army, for the pur-
pose of going into a business where he would
get army patronage. Being refused, he ap-
piled, as we understand, 60 General Burns
for position in the CommlssarY Depart
ment in this city, but failed also in getting
it. There being nothing here to suit him,
he wendell his way back to Illinois, and be-
came sort of Secretary to Governor Y ates,
and, everything else being unsuccessful, he
chose at last to go into the army But he
did not want to go where there was fighting
at all, 1t was money he was after, and
money he has made as General and Presi-
dent of the United States If he had OBJ
tanned the position he asked for as a buyer
Of horses, the country would have had a COM
petent, if not an honest man in that posi-
ten, and we should not now have had a bad
President, who makes the filing of his purse
his principal business. res -s.s " s.t -
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St.LOuiS Home } Journal

Hereafter, insolvent notices and transient
advertisements of all kinds will not find a
place in this paper snIess paid for in ad-
vance Calls on persons to become candi-
dates for ofice-strictIy personal affairs
and replies thereto viii be charged for at the
rate Of 20 cents per line. /
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

The authoress, Alice Cary, was buried at
Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, last week
The pail bearers were Horace Greeley,
George Ripley, Bayard Taylor, P T. Bar
mum, w. w. Hall, and A j. johnson
Fanny Fern and other literary celebrities
were present at the funeral and also the
editors of most of the newspapers, and Pc
rIodicals
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

LOOK OUT You know that
you are indebted to US for this pa
per. fyou do not pay up before
the first Saturday in March your
name will be stricken from our list
Of subscribers. Fair warning.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

BI~ Correspondents will please remem-
Der that we will not publish any cOmmuni-
cation unless the real name of the author IL
furnished. This is an old rule that always
works we'll
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

Along the Mississippi river, below Mem
phis, there are hundreds of aces of good
cotton not yet picked, for the want of a suf>
fcient laboring force to do it The owners,
it is said, are offering one, half the crop to
any one that will gather it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

The first triumph of just reason achieved
by the Democratic members of the United
States House of Representatives was on the
passage of the supplemental enforcement
bill. The discussion on the part of the
Democrats resulted in striking out the ab-
surd feature contained in the section which
gave hedeputy marshals power to cali the
military and naval forces to their assistance.
Making such an overwhelming number of
sub-satraps was little more than the House
could stand, especially when the Northern
members saw the demonstration of the
ubiquitous manner in with it might be APP
piled to themselves. We hail it as happy
omen when the ear of Congress is so far
opened that truth can be heard by it5eoming
from a Democratic source 'ss
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25
SPAIN.
THE NEW QUEEN DYING.

n MADRID, Feb. 20-Queen Maria Victoria
is dangerously i'll with malarious fever at
Alassio, and has received the last sacra-
merits.g Her excessively nervous tempera-
ment makes the case hopeless. a sC2s Hal
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25
The CrOvyning Enfam1y.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says the-passage.
of what is known as the Elec ton bill, in the
House of Representatives, is the erowniDg.
sheaf of infamy which the desperate knaves,
who are now controlling the Government
have, in order to maintain their i'll, gotten
power, put upon the country. is remark
able for ats holiness and audaeity in rascal
ity, being nothing more nor less than
grand scheme to take the control of the bal
lot box from the people, where it now is,
and to invest it in creatures of the United
States Marshals, who will cheat and deprive
by fraudulent counting and terrorism and
violence at the polls. g. 1t is a measure which
is utterly subversive of every principle of
popular government and severe as was the
Democratic members in debate, they could
and ought to have INDUCED in still stronger
terms respecting it. Only men of brazens
effrontery like Churchill and Bingham es-
sayed to defend this proposed organized viii
lainv. We verify believe that there is not a
Legislative body on the globe which is base
and corrupt enough to pass such a law bat
the American Congress of 1871. That in
some measure it will be defeated; that the
scanps who passed it will not get the aid
and comfort from 1t which they expect, we
are confident, for any other supposition
would be disgraceful to the American peO-
Mo Meropbis T,edGAr ara
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25
Grants Family.
TsCentg-StD already Provided .fopg Ho 10
usf Manly More an iSir Years? 7ssh-.

u.f Many More IN Sfn Years? o3eh-g
The Cincinnati Times, a paper that has
always identified itself with the Republican
party, thus goes for the trucking Senate
what q trucking Senate It dare not
d:sobey its master in the White House.
Another member of the Grant family was
confirmed on Saturday, CFamer, of Ken,
lucky, brotherin-law to his 'Exeellency,"
was confirmed as Minister to Denmark. 1t
was a nomination unfit to be made--eyen
setting aside the fact that the Grant family
are ruling the whole cOuntry-or will likely
do SO should he go in for another term.
just twentyrsix members of the family have
been provided for in two y ears.. How many
more would the six coming. years bring to
light ,. ....-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

The translation of the letter sent by Hor-
ace Greeley to his gainesville, Ohio, birth
day celebrators, Feb. LIST, was completed on
the 9th inst.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

a man stopping MS paper wrote to the
editor II think folks ottent to spend ter
mummy for payer, nj dadda dident and
everybody ised he. was the inteligentest
man in heseountry and had the smartest
family of boiz that ever dugged taters.
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patch states that the infammatory character
of the proceedings at Little Rock, Ark, and
the fear that violent collision viii super
Fyene7are exciting considerably ankietyyin
administration circles. The President has
reeeisedzsdEieesz direct FROM the State, and
some precautionary measures hage been or
dered with a view to prevent, and if neces~
sary, to suppress any outbreak by either or
both paries-to the controversy now raging
there a.lg. dtgise sna Eis.sr rs-
The following telegram was receives this
evening from Halifax, dated the 2lst and
addressed to Davis, Assistan Secretary of
State:
The British ship Zoe, from Boston, bound
FOR France, with provisions contributed by
American citizens, was wrecked last night
on Belle Rock, near Halifax. The vessel
and cargo are reported a total loss.
NJ NJ. JACKSON,
r..a-.. a... 4t-s.f U. S. Consul.
The President to-day signed the bill to
provide territorial government for the Dis
trict of Columbia. r-r-- ...
A bill introduced In the House yesterday
morning by Mr. Ian Loiek, to prevent frau
dulent practices, provides that any person
printing or depositing in post Office, or
causing to be so printed or deposited, or
having possession with intent to circulate,
any circular, hand bill, or advertisement CT
fering or purp5rting to offer for sale, or as a
gift, any false forged or counterfeit Treas
ury notes, bonds, coupons, stamps or any
fac SMILES of such, shall be punished by
imprisonment for term not less than one
nor more than three years, and by fine Of
not less than $l00 nor more than 5000
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

Hf YO5s do not PAY Your
Subs CFIptfOIE before the LIST
Saturdayin March. the Pa
pen villa ZEE B5scOmtim ued 10
YOUF Address. BE
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

The Secretary of War is in receipt of a
letter from the commanding officer at Fort
Dodge, Kansas, stating that a. general out
break on the part of the Cheyennes and Ar
rapahoes is expected early in spring and
that the objective points of attack viii be
the frontier settlements of.Kansas.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-02-25

In the country about Memphis, heavy in
vestments are being made in seeds aud fer
tilizers.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-20

PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION.

The President of the United States has
found it necessary to issue his proclama-
ton, sunspending the writ of habeas cor
pus in the counties of Spartanburg, York,
Marion, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield,
Lancaster, and Chesterfield, South Caro-
lima.
No one can but regret the necessity
which exists for declaring martial law in
any portion of the South; but recent devel-
opments have convinced even the most in-
credulous of both parties, that desperate
condition of affairs exists in some of the
Southern States requiring desperate reme-
dies.
President Grant and his advisers are de-
termined that the rights of all men shall be
respected, and that their persons and pro-
perty shall be protected, even if it requires
the whole military power of the Govern
ment to do it.
1t is impossible for us to be in possession
of the facts which are on record before the
Congressional Committee, formed to inyes-
tigate the condition of Southern States,
nevertheless we are satisfied such evidence
does exist as convinced the President of his
duty in the premises.
We had hoped the conviction of num-
ber of lawless men in North Carolina, and
the swift but just punishment meted to
them, would have the effect to destroy the
vitality of similar organizations in every
State where they heretofore existed, there
by relieving the President of the duty OF
declaring martial law but in this we were
mistaken, and President Grant could do no
less than he has done.
The prompt PRONUNCIATION of this procla-
nation entities the President to the lasting
gratitude of the loyal people of the South.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-20
New York Items,

Neto York, Oct. 19.-The wholesale dry
goods merchants are advancing their prices
on account of the Chicago fire.
Eight hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars' worth of vouchers have been found,
which were paid on the account of Keyser,
and which Keyser pronounces as forgeries.
They were paid by the Tenth National
bank.
The Insurance Convention has adopted a
resolution to memorialiZe Congress to ex-
empt life policies from the bankrupt act.
A committee of three was appointed to re-
port the best method Of working up insol-
vent companies.
There was another race between the CO.
lumbia and Livonia to-day. The Columbia
lost five minutes in the start, and the race
was won by the Livonia by ten minutes.
An injunction has been granted against
the Irving Insurance company, and NJ. j..
Grove appointed receiver.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-20
COMMUNICATED.
THE ELECTIONS.
A Few Plain Remarks.
NO III.

nv liz
l urged in my first No. that the displace-
ment Of the Republican party and the sub
stitution of the Democracy would undo the
whole policy of the country, and result in
ruinous damage to the South, and especially
to Virginia.
l submit it, secondly, to the ruined peo-
pie of Virginia: Where is the good sense OF
reinstating in authority the very party that
broke up the Union, and brought on them
and the whole South woes unnumbered and
blasting ruin?
Is it safe, on common sense principles, to
trust Secessionists with a new lease OF
power
1t should be borne in mind by every vo-
ter going to the polls, that those who broke
up the Union, did it with the coolest ma
lice.
The country was never in state Of high
er prosperity than when the the SECESSION
lists began their work of INSURRECTIoN.
There was not even a semblance of rea-
son for secession. No, not the slightest
There was no practical oppression what
ever.
There had never been a single aggression
on single right of the people OF the South.
If there was, let the statute be quoted.
On the other hand, there were at least two
important enactmentS, the two fugitive
slave laws, designed in express protection
of peculiar property of the South.
Now, should those who, without the
slightest provocation, deliberately plotted
the destruction of the best government on
earth-who did their work of iniquty with
malice aforethought'-i cold blood-be
re-entrusted with any share in public rule
until after long-continued probation and
unmistakable repentance and atonement?
Have we had satisfactory proofs of con-
triton even i'll Virginia?
Look at the singular unanimity with
which her Legislature spurned the mild and
easy condition of Article Fourteen. Its
adoption would have instantly readmitted
her to the Union, and put her on the high
way of recuperation, and yet it was spit
upon.
Look at the defiant Withers' movement
las it was called which was designed ex-
pressly in contempt of the whole recon-
struction policy OF Congress, and which in
dicated total indifference to a return to the
Union.
Look at the bitter hate and ruthless pro.
| scription, fiercier now than ever, which
have been visited on every Unicn man from
the first moment the State got back into thu
Union.
What do these signs signify but deep
rooted hostility to the Government of TIN
United States? And with these instruc
tive indications before them, will the peo
pie of Virginia be gulled by the designing
pretext that 1t is Conservative party tina
is asking predominance at their hands ?
They. Conservatives who pulled dow
the pillars of the Union, and drenched, tn
land with blood "God save the mark J
HAMILTON.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-20
THE PARTY LASH STILL WHiRRJNG
THROUGH THE AIR.

The Democratic press generally through
out the State is very severe on the Wing,
because of it's failure to retract its language
in relation to independent candidates. Sew
eral of them express gratitude for the past
conduct of the Whig, but are unwilling to
excuse its present refusal to obey party die
tations.
The Wing maintains its dignity with 81
lence, and can well afford to treat with con-
tempt the snappings and snarlings of the
chained slaves Of its party.
We hope its friends will keep up the
cruel fight against it until it will be forced
to its proper position with the Republican
partg, where it will find an ever-ready well
come. Keep on, gentlemen, with your par
ty lash--you may find when it is too late
that all men are not ready to bow the knee
to the despotism of Democracy.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-20
REGISTER REGisrER.! REGIsrER!!.

On Tuesday and Wednesday the 23rd
and oath of this month, books of registra-
ton will be opened at the different voting
places throughout the State. We trust no
Republican will fail to register, and to see
that his neighbors do likewise.
We give the following boundaries and
precincts of the different Wards of Rich
mond as last laid off.
CLAY WARD.
lst Precinct--All that portion fthe ward situa-
ted west of Belvidere north of Main, west of
Henry, and south of Broad streets.
I'd Precinct-That portion of the ward north of
Broad, west of Henry, and south of Leigh
streets.
Sd Precinct--That portion of the ward north of
Main, west of Adams, south OF Leigh, and east
of Henry streets.
MONROE WARD.
lst Prectnct-An that portion of the ward east
of Belvidere, south of Main, and west of Fifth
streets.
I'd Preciact-That portion of the ward north of
Main, east of Adams, south of Broad, and west
of Fifth streets.
u Sd Precinct-That portion of the ward north OF
Broad and Leigh, east of Adams and ST. Peters,
south of Jackson, and west of Second streets.
4h Prectac'-North of Broad. east of Second,
south of Jackson, and west of Fifth streets.
MADISON WARD.
LIST Precinct-All that portion of the ward north
of Broad east of Fifth, south of the gully rum
ming east of Fifth, and west of Eighth streets.
I'd Precinct-The portion of the ward north of
Broad, east of Eighth, south of the gully running
east to Twelfth west of Twelfth streets.
Sd Precinct-That portion of the ward north of
Man, east of Fifth, south of Broad and west of
Twelfth streets.
4h Precinct-The portion of the ward east of
Fifth, south of Main, and west of Twelfth
streets.
JEFFERSON WARD.
1st Precina-Au that portion of the ward east
of Twelfth, south of Clay Marshall and Broad,
and west of Fifteenth streets.
2d Precinct-The portion of the ward east OF
Fifteenth, south of Broad, and west of Twentieth
streets.
Sd Precinct East of Twentieth, south of Broad,
and west of Twenty-fifth streets.
4th Preci7,ct-The portion of the ward north OF
Broad, east of Fifteenth, and west of Twenty
fourth streets
MARSHALL WARD.
LIST Precinct-All that portion of the ward east
of Twenly-tifth and south of Main streets.
2d Preciact-That portion of the ward north
of Main and Broad, east of Twenty-fifth and
Twenty fourth, and south of Clay.
Sd Prectnct-That portion of the ward north
of Clay, east of Twenty fourth.
JACKSON WARD.
lst Precinct-An that portion of the ware
north of Leigh and Jackson, and west Of st
Peters and ST. James streets.
I'd Precinct-That portion of the ward nortf
of Jackson and the gulley, east Of st. James
and west of Fifth and Shockoe creek opposite th
gulley.
3d Precinct-The portion of the ward north 0
Broad, Marshall and Clay, east of Twelfth an,
ShoclSoe creek and west of Eighteenth streets.