The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-16
TIE GRAND DUCK.
A Glorious Old Time in BollVar-The
Enthusiasm Of Our People
Fully Demonstrated.

| I'll s0GAU4otA GJSHs.
According to the programme pub
Iished in our last issue, the Grand Duke
Alexis and bis suite arrived in our city
on Monday evening at 4 o'clock sharp,
via the Memphis md Knoxville Narrow |
Gauge Railroad The colored reception
committee met him out short distance |
from the city and escorted him in with |
flying colors and to the. strains Of lively
music
On his arrival at the Public Square
a royal salute was fred and bells rang
and in every way possible our citizens
displayed patriotic homage to royalty
but such shouts Of welcome as would
have been more BETTING to SO distin-
suished guest as the noble Kuss did
not resound from our housetops and
balconies, as would otherwise have been
the case, haiit not been for the misfor-
tune that all our ladders were IN use at a
FIRE ia another part Of the city. However,
/ there were. some Of more than ordinary
energy, who managed to reach the tops
]
means Of steps in the chimneys, while
some Others preferred to climb lightning
catehers. One flag was displayed at
corner store, having been swung to the
breeze the day previous, and we heard
promin ent colored assert that he saw
another displayed at half st at one Of
the leading ''hash houses" in the city.
Oar new hotel not having been com
I pleted in time for this event, and the one
ordered from our neighboring city Of
Jackson failing to arrive, the mmittee
were compelled to quarter the royal party
, out in the open air, upon the large vacant
: spot upon which is soon to be erected
t that mammoth cotton seed factory by
some Of our enterprising ~ citizens, the
S names of whom just now slips our memo.
Try. But then this little Inconvenience
! did not entirely dampen the spirits of
g those assembled, for the day was deei-
dedly pleasant one for the season ofthe
year, and the breeze just stiff enough to
induce all to be familiar. siA
g Everything having been prepared, the
boss caterer. zon this occasion, Colonel
Charley JawitoutsISyhigh invited all to
assemble around the festive board, aud
e judge for themselves as to the excellence
of the cooks Bolivar can boastof And
that every body assembled the possum
e bones that now lie bleaching on the ever
3 to be remembered spot viii testify. AL
Il having expressed themselves full" and
= satisfied, Mai Nimrod Criss proposed that
s. every body indulgein little water julep
r which was agreed to, whereupon tbs
lt corporation buckets were at once manned
- by willing rquad Of nackerals, undel
', command of old Uncle Benny the tops
l. were raised from some half dozen or 81
is of our public eisterns.. the word given
y and then the speed with which Adam
ID beverage passed up The line was sur
te prising AMI to one not knowing for. wha
z purpose it was intended, he would have
- been leadto believe that ''our ere laddies'
IS were merely smothering blaze in tht
City Hail. or some other public or private
= building sHa
= Every body's thirst Laving been
J. quenched, and the ducal party havin,
ID fpished picking their teeth, the night-in-
re a-gale, Mrs. Jane Jiner (colored), wa
= called on for song, and the way she df.
St (1e)rinG out that "Soapsudsianatowsk
in was enough to put the robins to roost
er and this suggested the idea that the lin
i he reformed and al hands proceed t
d Hatchie Bottom and attack the birds il
ID their stronghold, which proposition wa
st carried unanimously.
= The procession was lead by a platoon
adj from the man of war PoniwouskY, unde
r command of Lieutenant Dick Umha1
y (eolored), in the absence of Commodor
aS Martin Bright, who was Unexpected
80 called into the country to attend on sic
be cow. They were followed by the orche'
80 ira, under the leadership Of Prof Pune
ne Nicely Next came the committees, anC
4, after them, two standard bearers. prect
IS, ding the royal party His Impsri'
So IIighness Alexis, some seven feet O
~ more high, stood erect in a 20 cart wit
,st buffllo on hiG right and Jane on to
nd left, either of whom he could have carrie
ur in his arms Next came the Grand Arm
re of the Ku Klux. ten thousand strons
l. under command Of General j. DC Maple
a (colored), and then behind these, th
= last person in the procession, came
ec- oolored nine feet long. On the way
de the bottom, while passing over the beau
ey tiful HatchIe, Alexis expressed himse
es Is highly delighted with our system
% free" bridges. @ ~ s-"g
NV The iroost having been reachJ d !
nd safety, his highness was escorted throug
Tor all the briar patches ard swamps of an
lc- interest as many robins slaughtered
he Alexis would care to toat home with hit
o. and then all again. returned to the Cit
when, after Alexis and Jane had ascen
~, 10 ed the platform and executed sShoo Fly
''1' to the delight of ali present the processil
@ dispersed sine die, all appearing satis6,
=. and happy at having had smell
- royalty. aE all
20 The Duck remained with US an
30 10 Thursday evening, when, with tears
ON his eyes. and an aching keart he bid Far
en-. well to Bolivar. and took passage wi
at Commodore Bright for Pinsy, where
CT CT is expected to remain long enough f
e. his little buffalo oshed his coat -of ara
III To say Tint qjs bigbness wasnot honoF
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