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New-York tribune., 1872-04-26

BecCher, rs n politician, IL the term can DC
applied 10 him. may bo set down as decided success
His speech at the Brooklyn Grant meeting the DINER
night. tickled tho Administration folks immensely whlie
the Liberal Republicans generally are almost equally
we'll pleased. fhe Nec York Times. sinking the news
paper In the PARTISAN purposely omitted publishing that
part of the great diviaes speech paying warm ana e
served tribute to Sumner Trumbu and Schurz but tht
not only showed how churlIsb and unfair tho Admins
traton organ could be- but actually made more signi,
fcant the suppressed euoey Beccher's effort was
manly. charitable and patriotic and being entirely frec
from malice and misrepresentation, 1t Is no wonder ~
has elected such general admiration. The only WONDER
Is how such man can still cling TO the Administration
gau
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
Fayette Items.

From the SomervilIe Falcon of the
Dist, we learn that Chancellor Fentress
will hold special term of his Court in
Someryille on Friday, the 18th of Apri!
next.
SomerviIIe has improved more in the
past four months than it had done pre-
viously since the war.
They are talking Of holding a conven-
ton in Fayettc fer the purpose Of NOM
mating Candidates for county officers
No such thing is needed in Hardeman
The !tarry case, says the Falcon, occu-
pied the entire time of the court up to
the hour of its adjournment last Satur.
day. The argument was opened by E.
r. Scruggs in behalf of the State. r. NJ.
Tayl Tor and E. H. Shelton followed for
the defense. Attorney General J. J.
Dupuy closed the case with lengthy ar
gument for the State. The jury retired
for several hours, but failed to agree
! Seven were for conviction and five for ac-
quittal. They were discharged, and all
four of tie defendants were remanded to
Jail. No application for bail has been
made for any of the parties as far as we
are advised. They will have a second
hearing at the next term of the court,
| which meets next June.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29

As ! succeeded in getting n patent
granted me, on the 10th day of August,
1870 on Cotton and Hay Presses, and
have manufactured and sold tor the two
seasons past, | now feel fully assured that
can give perfect satisfaction to all who
may want to purchase a Press. / will
manufacture and sell at Bolivar, Tenn,
for 5000 cash, and guarantee each Press
to work well. will also sell St0te,
County and Royalty Rights on good
terms.
claim for my invention over all other
presses this: that my gripping blocks
used in pressing are cast in solid blocks
with steel points therein, which grips the
upright iron bar as soon as the power is
applied, and holds fast As soon as the
power is taken of the blocks will slide
down the bar perfectly losse, ready for
renewal of hold, virtue which no other
press has. The steel points mentioned
can be taken out and put IN at pleasure
bv any common smith in the country
The leaver that | use is the common
straight ieaYer applied 1irect tO the grip
ing blocks, which forces the fnllower
down on the cotton with great force and
without friction. The working Of the
gripping blocks on main bars forms 4 cum-
plcte rachel as natural "a though they
were cast thereon, rendering it safe from
slipping. My follower is run up and
down by rope and windlass, so arranged
as to work very easily.
For further information apply to me,
mt Bolivar, Tennessee.
G. W. SWINEBROsD.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
A {" Practical" Lawyer.

A curious case is on trial in one OF the
courts Of Maine. A nan who held some
old bonds of the Maine Central Raj
road, amounting to ono hundred and sew
enty Thousand dollars, coHtended that
they should be paid in gold, but fually
agreed to take greenbacks Tor them, with
the proyiso that il the United States Su.
Preme Court decision was reversed in six
months time he was to have no more /;
while f it should not be rSve sed he
should receive ten per cent. additional,
amounting to seventeen thousand dollars.
He went to q lawyer in Portland to
draw up the agreement, after which, he
says, the lawyer offered to deposit the
bonds in the First National Bank, which
acted for the railroad company, and
bring him certificate of deposit for tho
proceeds. For doing this the sharp law
yer charged his client seventeen hundred
dollars, OF the ground that by the rules
of the Cumberland Bar he was Compelled
to charge one per cent. on all amGunts
collected. The spunky client proposes
to see whether that by Just crossing tho
street to a bank and making a deposit
ctn be considered as making q collection,
and charged for accordingly,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
Humboldt Items.

We gather from the Journal of last
Saturday the following Humboldt items
The Annual Spring Fair of the uum~
boldt Agricultural and Mechanical Asso-
citation Will be held on the 18th and 18th
of May next.
Two negroes, both sentenced to the
Psnitentiary, broke GU. of the Humboldt
calaboose and made good their escape.
Work is slowly but surely progressing
on the "Odd Fellows College" 1t will
be an excellent building when completed,
and it is the intention of the Trustees of
the institution to establish a good chool
on a permanent basis.
Wheat in the region of Humboldt is
said to be in very good condition.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
Colonel r. F Loonev.

Once on time We took occasion to
speak of this gentleman in reference to'a
seat in Congress, thinking that his politi-
ca! disabilities would be removed, but
they were not, and like q great many
other true and &, cd m n, he had to 90 to
the rear while small fry came buzzing to
the front. Time has wrought changes
since then, and now Col. II. F. Looney,
of Shelby, is once moro free man in his
native land, and again we call attention
to the fact that he is, in our humble opin-
ion, one Of the most available men in the
Ninth Congressional District for seatin
Congress. no one can doubt his ability,
DO one questions his high, social stand
ing; no one can impeach his unsullisd
reharacter. In politics he is sound to the
core, and we want to vote for just such q
man and have just such man to repre-
sent Hardeman county in the White
House. We know net whether ColOne!
Looney desires his name to be brought
before the public or not in this connec'
ten, but we know that there is many a
man in this District who who would hail
with delight any movement on his part
indicative of the fact that he is, ms heres
toforc, willing to serve his people at any
time and in any way that may rebound
to their welfare. W ZEN the Democratic
Congressional Convention does meet, We
hope Colonel LooneY will not hesitate to
allow his name to 60 before that creative
body-wc say creative, because whoever
gets the nomination at the hands of the
Democracy of the ninth District, is GER
tain to be a Congressman.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
The Pirate Crew Resting on Their
Oars.

The Legislature Of South Carolina has
adjourned after a session of four months,
during which tine the public plundcrers,
headed by Governor Scott, have ooDtin-
ued their audacious robberies of the peo-
pie, apparently as indifferent to the force
. of public opinion which has found utter
.anee in ali parts Of the Union in refer
ence to their crimes, as to the ultimate
consequences to the State of their reck-
less and corrupt proceedings. Within
the last year eight million of dollars has
been added to the public debt, being
twice as much as was incurred In eighty
years before the war, and that, while
three times the amount of money was be-
ing collected by taxation that was form
srly required to pay the expenses of Gov
eminent, for an equal length of time.
This Legislature has enacted that bonds
which were fTaudu ent'y issued shall be
held valid, and has given the State Off
GERS authority to go on and issue and
convert bonds without limit in the future
There can be but one result of such leg
islAtion, and that is reputation. Many
who now look with equanimity upon the
expressions which the people of South
Carolina are compelled to endure may
come to view the matter in different
light when they feel in their own pOCk-
cts the effects Of the reckless and crimi-
nal course of the carpet bag robbers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
On Bell! Ring!!
One of our friends away over at POca.
goes for the Bell County Commissioners
as follows:

One of our friends away over at Poca.
goes for the Bell County Commissioners
as follows:
BELL CoUNrY, March Dc. 1872.
ME EDIroR-if you will allow one of
the citizens of the territory Of the pro-
posed new county of Bell, would like to
say something about the actions of the
Commissioners of said county.
As you are aware, the General Assem-
bly, at its last session passed an act amen.
datory of the act to create and establish
the county Of Bell We all thought then
that we would have the county ~ SOON
as the provisions of the act could be com.
Piled with But so Tar the Commission
ers have failed to effect anything looking
to the establishment Of the said county
and the whole thing rests just like it did
last enthusiastically nothing done.
They advertised an election to take place
on the lst instant to test the sense of the
qualified voters thereon; but by their al
most superhuman sagaeity they discov>
cred about three days before the election
was to take place that the territory had
not been surveyed and the Gems us
of the voting population taken, as
the law required, henc9 they postponed
the election Indefinitely.
As matter of course the people have
been expecting something great to ema-
nate from this Slnhedrim ever sin C the
postponerasnt of the election, but they
open not their ponderous jaws, so we
ire entirely in the dark as to their Gutur:
operations.
cannot say whether any of them ever
expect to wear the glorious appellation OF
"Father of His Country" but do believe
each of them have a special desire to be
called "Bell County Pap"
Their actions thus far seems to be
characterized by a total ignorance of pub
lie business and if this assumption be
correct, the county would suffer no detris
ment by them resigning at onse and Civ
ing place to others who would bring
things to q close, for we have had enough
of childs play in the effort to establish
the county. The whole thing reminds
me of the saying that a Mountain hac
labored and c mouse was born"
More anon. Yours,
BUSINESS
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
Postal Affairs.

During the month of February last,
the following Postofices wero established
in this State
Locust Grove, Weakly county, 1924
Trenton to Locust Grove Idepende Mt
Hill, Rutherford, special from Holens-
Vile; Lincoln, special from Flinsville
Granville, Montgomery, special from
Clarkville; Woodford, Montgomery
special from GAINESVILLE Calf Killer
Putnam, special from Sparta; Muddy
Greek, Loudon, l0002, Knoxville to Chat
tanooga; Pittsburgh Landing, Hardin,
GIL, Paducah, Kentucy, to EastpOrt,
Mississippi, Kinds Greek, Anderson,
l0227, Clinton to Wallace's Crossroads
WOshaIn, Sumner, special from Hender-
sonville Winston, Weakly, special from
Dresden Mounts CIR ssrOads, Jefferson,
special from New Market; Tay r.,
White, special from Sparta.
Many errors occur by person not OBJ
serving the following regulations in de-
posting letters, papers or miscellaneous
publications in the Office for mailing:
All drop letters must be prepaid by
Postage Stamps.
all letters to places within the United
States. Full prepayment by stamps re-
CURED on all transient printed matter,
foreign or domestic.
BY inserting the county in which the
Office is located, upon all letters, many
errors in superscription might be de-
tected, and mistakes in mailing be avoid
ed.
All new railroads being at once made
postal routes, the P o. Department has
accurate knowledge Of the development
of railroad enterprises During the last
month the amount of such new service
ordered exceeds any former month, and
was almost double the average for the
last year. The number Of miles was nine
hundred and sixty eight upon twenty nine
new railroads, OF more than one for each
working daO in the month These new
railroads were in fourteen different States
in all parts of the Union.
Dead letters contained 100000 last
| wear
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
Good for Once.

The Ninth Con gressional District Of
Tennessee Is to be composed of the
counties Of Shelby, Upton, Fayette and
Hardeman. This is good, and secures to
us for ali time to come Democratic
district that no man, or set Of n en-, can
change by fair and honorable voting, for
We are even now, in the counties named
at least ten thousand votes ahead Of the
opposition, and are gaining strength
every day. DuBose, Of Shelby, in q
speech in the Senate the other day, while
the Apportionment Bill was being diss
cusssd, said that if the Ninth District
WAS 90 made up, it would not be Demo-
craticl Q, that was a binder, was it
not What is the Senator going to do
with Sheloy's four thousand majority; or
with Hardeman's two thousand Eve hum
dred Does he not know that Upton
and Fayette never can toppls these fig,
ures; and does he not know that the Der
mocracy are gaming strength in the four
counties every day Our own Repre-
sentative may feel assured that in casting
his vote for the Isill IS it passed the House
that he did righteous aet-an act which
meets with the hearty approval Of his con-
stituents, and although he was at first in
clined to vote against the bill, he has done
noblY and no apologies are necessary.
However 10th we may be to part COM
pany with Haywood, Madison and
McNairy-our brothers of the glorious
old Eighth--still we say, hurrnh for the
Ninth, the irrepressible Democratic Ninth
Congressional District of Tennessee.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
Advertising.

We don't recommend advertising as
the best way to get eife; but we know
that 1t is the best way to get q good trade.
You can't eat enough in one week to
last whole year, and you cant advertise
on that plan either
IniudiciOus advertising is Ike fishing
where there is no fish. You need to let
the lines fall in the right places.
A constant dropping Will wear rock.
Keep dropping your advertisements on
the public and they will soon melt under
it like rock salt. .-
Large type is not necessary in adver-
Using. Blind folks don't read news pa
pers.
If you can arouse curiosity by an adj
vertisement it. is great point gained The
fair sex don't hold all the curiosity in
the woI lG.
Don't be afraid to invest in printers
ink, lest your sands of life be nearly run
out
When you advertise, see that you do
it on the same principle that YOU buy
goods. Get the most you can for the
money.
People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks can t
remember anything longer than about
seven OtJ
When people see a man advertise they
knoT he is a business man, and his ad-
vsrtising proclaims that he is not above
! business, but anxious to do it
Dull times" it said, "are the beet
! for advertisers" Because when money
is tight and people are forced to econo-
mize, they always read the advertisements
to ascertain who sells the cheapest and
where they can trade to the best advan-
! taEe.
! Some say that it is no Use to adve tise ;
they have been in that place in business
all their lives, and every body knows
! them. Such people forget to take into
cOuside ration that our country is increas-
ing in population nearly forty per cent.
every ten years, and no matter how old
the place may be there are c,nstant
changes taking place; some move to
other parts, and strangers fill their places.
n this age of the world, unless the name
of business firm is kept instantly be-
fore the public, some new firm may start
mp, ndlby literally advertising, in Il
very short time take the place of the o.
der ones, and the latter russ out, as it
! were, and be forgotten
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
Still Another One.

Judge Mark II. DelahaY, United States
Circuit Judge of Kansas, is charged with
offences so grave that his immediate i'm.
parchment and removal must follow if
they are sustained by evidence. Persons
of unquestioned veracity have accused
him before the Judiciary Committee of
the House with appropriating to his own
use a large amount of money belonging
to the United States, accruing from the
sale of property during the war, under
the Confsc alton act The embezzlement
is said to have come to light only when
some persons whose property was sold
obtained pardons, and applied for its re-
storation. It was then discovered that
the money paid into the court had been
deposited in a bank, and afterwad drawn
out by the Judge on his own checks, and
used for his personal expenses The
Judge is also accused of gross and habit
ual drunkenness The Judiciary Com
mittee were so well satisfied that there is
foundation for the charges against Della
hay, that they directed Gen. Butler to
offer a resolution in the House instruct
ing them to send for persons and papers.
and make an investigation.-Ne,0 York
Tribune
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
A Scene on the Pacific Railroad

A Scene on the Pacific Railroad
F. a corr espondent of the st Louis Re
Uiele, writing of the late snow storm
along the line of the Pacific Railroad,
says:
The train was caught in bank it
could neither back nor go ahead. The
wires were tapped and dispatches sent
to three different quarters for men and
shovels. While the train was waiting the
buffaloes gathered from the plains to the
lee side for shelter If any one had felt
disposed he might, from his seat IN the
cars, pop them over with his revolver;
the rest would not move; they could not
be driven away by the engine whistling
or the human voices, bat crowded their
shaggy sides close up to the cars and
there stood, with bowed heads, for the
storm to pass. Many were seen to fall in
their tracks dead from cold, and when
at last the train was dug out and moved
off, the track was lined with the huge
shaggy frozen earcasses.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
Vernon Lodge No, S24, F. and a. M
RESOLUTIONS


WHEREAS, God IN his providence has
called, this day. Elder w VI. HornsbE
from his labors among us here below,
to rest with his departed brethren al owe,
in consequence of which there is va
cant seat among US; therefore.
Resolced That this Lodge bows in
humble submission to this painful dispen
satiOn of Divine Providence, and feel that
they have lost one of their best members ;;
one who adorned every circle in which
he moved, because every moral and social
virtue possessed by fallen and fallible
mortals clustered about him, and were
exhibited by him. And therefore be it
further
Resolred, That we deeply sympathize
with his bereaved and disconsOiate wild
ow, and his dear orphaned children that
We will wear the usual b rdge for thirty
days in token of our sOrToWi that we
will on to morrow, in due form attend
the funeral aud burial of our departed
brother; that a copy of these resolutions
be furnished his widow, and copy be
forwarded to the editor Ct the BOLIVAR
BULLETIN, with n request that he publish
the same. G. g. MCDANIEL,
p. s. STANFIELD,
J. +. LOCKMAN,
A. ID. NELSON,
Committee.
Signed by order of the Lodge.
J. n. BRINT, Secretary.
March %, 1872
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29
war, War, War!
ROMEMANUFACTUREs
Prices Greatly Reduced-EUer Lo,csr
Than the Lo1resf

We say buy your Saddles, Harness,
Brides, Saddle-bags, and all other work
in the line, Of Your Home Ifanufactur-
er, instead of buying the northern slop
shop, good for nothing work that is
brought here and sold by merchants to
break down home mechanics, knowing
that is is inferior to home made work. /
Will sell you Saddles, Harness, and any
other kind of work in this line as cheap
or cheaper, than the merchant will his
trashy, no account northe rn made work
Small PTotts and Quick Sales IS my
motto, ,aol0 and toyeUer. CALL AND
TRY ME. Come one, Come all, and let
as put down this unstable northern work
1t Is to your interest as well as mine to do
so. am determined not to be ltHdersold
by any one REPAIRING done on short
/ not'es and reasonable terms. Thankful
for so generous patronage the past year,
| would solicit a continuation of your
| favors in the future. BD- Shop on iCest
side of public square, tn the Harrington
! building I. A. OSBORN.
EErth L. Is71 sa
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-03-29

From the jackson Whig and Tribune
of the 23l instant, we clip the following
account Of the death of H. \. Stothart,
brakeman on the Mississippi, Central
Railroad, and a citizen of Jackson, who
was killed on Saturday night st,while in
discharge Of his duties on the North
bound freight train, due in that city at
IL o'clock, P. ~:
Mr.. Redwine was conductor and E. a.
Campbell the engineer. After passing
leagues Station, l I miles south of this
city. Stothart was sent from the cabOOse
by conductor Redwine to notify the en-
gineer to stop at a certain place between
leagues and Medon, and to remain on
tor, one brakesman being sufficient as the
train was small He was never seen alter
wards by any one on the train until his
dead body was brought up by the Z
clock A NJ train next morning. Next
to the engine was ii 1t car; the night
was dark and lowering, and the smoke of
the engine Rugged the train closely. One
theory of the railroad men Is, that in 60
ing from the cabOOse 30 the engine,
St0thart misscounted the cars, and fell
through the train on reaching the fat car
ncxt to the engine. Coroner Chapel, of
this city, empaneIled jury on sunday
morning, and after a thorough examina-
ton of witnesses and the body of the de-
ceased, the jury agreed upon the follow
ing verdict:
The jury upon their oath do say, that,
from the evidence before them, the de-
ceased was n brakeman on a freight
train on said railroad, and that there
was bullet or bali hole in the body of
deceased entering just under the jawbone
and ranging upward to the brain, shot
by some person unknown to the jury;
and that from further examination, the
body had been passed over by one or
more trains of cars from the mutilated
condition it now exhibits.
DR.. John S. Fenner assisted the jury,
and or examining the wound in the neck
of the deceased, pronounced it the result
Of bullet from pistol, ranging as above
stated in the verdict OF the jury. DR.
Fenner was a distinguished surgeon dur
ing the war, is physician of learning
and experience, and his theory in regard
to the bullet wound in Stothart's neck
ca mot be reasonably doubted.
Two men got on the train at Bolivar,
got on at Me6On and were put off by the
conductor at Harrisburg, ) miles South OF
the city.
There vas no misunderstanding or
unpleasantness between the deceased
and the Cficers or employees of his train
lie was a quiet, sober, attentive man,
and enjoyed the confidence and esteem
of his officers AVID comrades No motive
for his murder is even remotely conject-
ured. That he was killed by pistol
ball is further strengthened by the fact
that on one of the cars, near brake, was
found a fresh bullet hole, the ball being
slightly imbeded in the roof of the car.
The body was frightiully mangledr che or
more trains having evidently passed over
it. Such are the fact'. Was he shot by
some. unknown person, or did ne shoot
himselfP If he came to his death by fall
ing through the train, how came the bull
let wound in his neck, or the ball in the
roof of the carr 1t is al mystery. lie
leaves wife and two children.