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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-22
Fashionable Women.

There is passage in Lord JEFF,
frcy's view of Miss Edgeworth' 8
"Talos Cf a Fashionable Life;' in
which the great critic describes,
with admirable force, the miseries
of the fashionable. This wretched
hunt, after reputation for fashion,
with its constant heart burnings and
defeats, is, he considers, moro pro-
ductivo of real misery than the Sc
rious calamitics of life. This may
seem a strong assertion, ho adds, but
is his deliberate conviction, and his
statements on this head are strength
ened by the opinions of one fully
as competent to form just conclu-
sions-Sir Henry Holland.
In his recent autobiographical
sketch that celebrated person says
he has known people to be male
absolutely ill by their anxiety and
disappointment in regard to tickets
of admission for Almack's balls in
London.
Speaking of fashionable women,
the London Lancet has lately had
some very sound remarks in the
anne strain. " Fashion," it says,
kills more than toll or sorrow.
| Obedience to fashion is a greater
transgression of the laws of woman's
nature, greater injury to her phys
ical and mental constitution, than
the hardships eff poverty and neg
| lect. The slave-woman at her task
still lives and grows old, and secs
two or three generations of her
mistresses pass away. The washer
woman, with scarcely a ray of hope
to cheer her in her tolls. will live to
see her fashionable sisters all ex-
tinct. The kitchen-maid is hearty
and strong, when her lady has to
be nursed ike a sick baby. 1t is 9
sad truth that fashion -pampcred wo
men are worthless for all good ends
of life; they have but little force ot
character; they have still less pow.
er of moral will, and quite as little
physical energy. They live for nc
great ends They are dolls, formed
in the hands of miIliners and ser.
wants, TO be fed to order. If they
have children, servants and nurses
do all save to conceive and give
them birth; and when reared wha
are thoy2 What do they amoun
to but weak scions of the old stock
Who ever heard of a fashionabl,
woman's child exhibiting any virtu,
and power of mind for which it be
came eminent? Read the biogra
phies Of our good men and women
None of them had Fashionable
mother"
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stripped them. Two persons were
wounded, an English passenger and

stripped them. Two persons were
wounded, an English passenger and a
position.
The golden wedding of the King and
Queen of Saxony was celebrated with
splendid ceremonies. The occasion
was made remarkable by the presence
OF the Emperor, Empress and Crown
Prince of Germany.
Mi'an-Tbe town of PalaZzoIa, near
Bresseia, has been visited by terrible
hurricane very recently. Half of the
buildings in the town were destroyed.
Thirty-twO persons were killed by fall
ing walls and timbeTs. One thousand
families were made homeless.
The ship Mangolde, from Queebec
for QueentOwD, put into Greennock,
having been disabled in q storm. The
crew experienced dreadful suffering,
having been ten days without provis-
ions and constantly exposed to the seas.
All survived but reached this port in a
fearfully emacIated condition.
Germany-The Emperor of Russia
has written an autograph letter to
Prince Charles, brother of the Emperor
of Germany, on the occasion OF the
tiftieth anniversary of his appointment
ty the honorary Colonelcy of he Rus
sian regiment. Fhe Czsr calls o mind
the glorious deeds of the allied armies
of Prussia and Russia when fighting
in the holy cause, and hopes the ties of
friendship between the countries will
endure for generations.
LOndOn-An American seaman was
before the courts on Bow street, on a
charge of murder committed on the
high seas. He was arrested under the
extraditiOn treaty with the United
States at the instance of Num-, Amer
lean Vice. -COnsul-G General. At the ex-
| animation of the accused, representa-
tives of the United States failed to make
out a IDriBtu Jttcic case of murder. The
evidence showed that the case was only
one of mansIaughter, and the Justice
decided that that degree of crimes did
not come under the provisions of the
treaty. Vice Consul Num- concurred
and the prisoner was discharged.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-11-22
BENEATH THE TRIES.

Underneath the trees we sit;
And the breezes as they fit
Softly by
Throw the shadows of the boughs
over little Maudie's brows
Prettily.
Watchet, winning. wond'ring eyes,
Gazing on the land that lies
Ger the lea.
Building castles in the air
How, 1 wonder, do you there
Picture me7
Lying near my longing lips
Are her dainty finger tips.
Little hand!
Much I'm tempted you to kiss:
Very hard it is such bliss
To Withstand!
There it lies, so soft and white;
If she knew what dear delight,
lid size choose,
To me it might now impart,
Could she find it in her heart
To refuse?
Were brave enough to dare,
Would that fringe of golden hair,
sweet to see,
On her forehead lower down,
Till she turned cruel frown
Upon me?
No one near, aud no one coming.
All is still, save for the humming
Of a bee
Hov'ring near my darIfng's dress
$50 should I, 1 must CON- 'ess.
Were L he.)
That kiss might the preface be
To the opportunity
That need,
All my longing to express.
And my loving tenderness
Humbiy plead.
Sweet white forehead, do not frown
Do not, pretty eyes, look down
Angriiy
When that little hand I've kissed
Love, too naughty to resist,
Urges me!
Fly away, you noisy bee;
Do not use my property
For throne.
Maudie, that most priceless prize
Maudie, hand, and hair, and eyes,
Is my own!
London Society
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ONLYA WORD.
s word. a sharp retors

a frivolous word, a sharp retort
A parting in angry haste,
The sun that rose on a bower of bliss
The loving look and the tender kiss,
Has sent on barren waste,
Where the piI grims tread with weary feet
Paths destined never more TO meet.
A frivolous word, a sharp retort,
A moment that bIots out years,
Two lives are wrecked on stormy shore
Where biIIows of passion surge and roar
To break in a spray OF tears
Tears shed to blind the severed pair,
Drifted seaward, and drowning there.
A frivolous word, sharp retort,
A flush from a passing cloud,
Two hearts are seathed to their fnmOst core
Are ashes and dust forever mole.
Two faces turn to the crowd,
Masked by pride with lifelong lie,
To hide the scars of that agony,
A frivolous word, a sharp retort,
An arrow at random sped.
L. has cut in twain the mystic tie
That had bound two souls in harmony,
Sweet love lies bleeding or dead.
4 poisoned shaft with scarce an aim,
Has done mischief sad as shame.
A frivolous word, a sharp retort,
Alas! for the loves and lives
So little a cause has rent apart,
Tearing the fondest heart from heart
As the whiTIwind rends and r1vess
Never to reunite again,
But live and diein secret pain
A frivolous word, a sharp retOrt-
Alas! that IL should be SO
The petulant speech, the careless tongue
Have wrought more evil and more wrong,
Have brought to the world more woe,
Than ali the armies age to age
Record on hist'ry's bloOd-stained page.
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antly. "Pve got piece of news
for you"
What should you think of a step
father. eh, little one ?''
Juliet looked up this time in real
and genuine astonishment
A stepfather, Harry ?"
My uncle has confded to mo
this evening that he thinks of mar
rying, Juliet, and from all that I
can gather. the bride is none other
than your mother. SO when we are
married there will be a nice little
family circle of us, eh ?"
And the audaciOus young man
belted her Slender waist with his
arm, ana ventured to draw her a lit
tie closer to him.
"Oh, but Harry, you are all
wrong" cried Juliet, crimsoning
and smiling like June flower, 81
meant 10 tell you of it. Your
uncle told me also that he had con-
cluded to marry again, and-he ask
ed me to be his wife"
"The mischief he did :" cried
Harry, starting back as if some one
had struck him a blow.
"You! Why, Juliet, you are
young enough to be his daughter l''
"Perhaps am, /" said Juliet meek
ly.
"And what did you tell him
You accepted him of course? He
is rich, and I am poor, and all the
girls like gold"
"Harryr"
"Te me quickly, Juliet, he cried,
almost passiOnately. "DOn't keep
me in lorger in. suspense"
&" [ told him." Juliet answered in
nocently, that had already prom
ised to marry you"
"My little dove r"' and Harry
Avenel's dark face frightened into
sunshine once again. And you
were right, for May and November
never yet were happily mated. Ny
uncle is an old fool; and yet can't
blame him, Juliet, when 1 look at
your sweet face"
The countenance of Mr.. Avcnel,
was slightly confused when he met
his nephew at the breakfast table
the next morning, but, further than
that, there was no sign of the dis
comfiture he had undergone. He
gave Juliet an exquisite set of wed
ding pearls when she was married,
and congratulated Harry after q
very cordial fashion. But he never
proposed to Mrs. Hawkhurst, and
as she never expected anything OF
the sort, no harm was done.
And everything goes on at Aven-
el Place just precisely as it ought tC
do. Mr.. Avenel kept his house
keeper and Harry has gained g
wife.
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Greeley Ideas on Farming.

In AIr. Greeley's speech at BaltI-
more he threw out the following
sensible views on farming:
I. That the area under cultivation
should be within the limits of the
capital and labor employed or, in
other words, that on impoverished
soils no one should cultivate more
land than he can enrich with man
uro and fertilizers, be 1t one acre or
twenty.
2. That there should be a law
compelling every man to prevent
his stock from depredatIng on kis
neighbor's fields.
3 That green soiliDg is more
economical than loose pasturage.
/. That deep lila e Is essential TO
good farming
5. That the muck heap is the
farmers bank, aud that everything
should be added to 1t that will en-
large it, and increase at the same
time its fertiIizinH properties.
6. That No .rmer or planter
should depend upon one staple
alone, but should seek to secure
himself agai lst serious loss IN bad
| seasons by diversity OF products.
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The Russian Government recalls the
expedition against Khiva.
The Irish government has prohibited
the importation of horses from the
United States.
The election for President of Mexico
resulted in the almost unanimous
choice OF Lerdes Detejada.
Close upon the ravages of the Po
comes the tiding of hurricane which
destroyed half the town OF Palazzolo,
killed thirty-two persons, and un-
housed one thousand families.
Enough new Peers are to he appoint
ed 10y the Prussian Government to
overcome the majority i'm the Upper
House, which defeated the County Re-
form bill pressed by the Government at
the last session.
Tho cholera has spread beyond Hun
gary, and appears at Vienna, Berlin,
aud Prague.
The Halifax steamer Hope, owned
by Adam Mckay, was burned to the
waters edge while lying at her wharf,
at Mill Cove, Dartmouth. Loss rot
stated.
CauRda-A special states that a train
on the Toronto aud Bruce railway ran
fl the track near Owen Sound, killing
@. Davidson and Isaiah and James
Sherman, and seriously wounding
four others.
Chiua-The Emperor was married
on the 10th Of October. There was no
outside ceremony other than a process
sion which escorted the bride from her
residence To the imperial palace.
NitnuR-Post, American consul
here, has receiv ed under his protection
35 Jewish families who fled from per
secution In Wsllachia. \ subscription
has been opened at the consulate to en-.
able exiles to emigrate to the United
States.
Spain Armed CarIlsts have appear
I'd on the frontier near the town o
Figueras. They stopped three dill
gcnces, turned the passengers out, sn,
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
At Home.

Thomas Carl, of Cassapolis, wa
burned to death at Dowagiac, Mich,
on Saturday.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Titusville Saving Bank, held recently
a resolution subscribing $25 600 to the
stock of the Petroleum Producers AS
sOciatiOn was unanimously adopted.
A man was found floating in CharIes
River, Cambridge, in two barrels, the
body in one and the head and legs in
another The remains were taken
ashore and found to be horribly mutt
lated. The legs and head had been
chopped Off The trunk of the body
was well dressed. A gold watch was
found in one of the barrels.
The POst-OlIice department is in re-
ceipt of numerous reports, detentiOns
and failures Ia the transportation of
mails, owing to the prevalence of the
horse disease. Complaints are most
numerous from New EugIand, al
though there many from New York
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and
some from as far West as Wisconsin
In fight in Little Cottonwood,
Sunday, VIM. Haines, native at New
York, was killed by Miller. The lat
ter was shot through the waist. The
narrow gauge railway to little Cotton
wood has been commenced The af-
fair has no charter, and there is not
much faith in it. The officials of the
Grand Trunk railroad left for the East
after days visit about the city.
Large discoveries are made by the
Windsor Mining Company in Little
Cottonwood.
At West Chester, Pa, Geo Grant, un-
der sentence to be hanged made des-
perate attempt To escape. He attacked
the keeper, Ben Haines, while the lat
ter was going his rounds, and nearly
killed him. Cooper, the under keeper,
was attracted by the cries of Haines,
and fired four shots at Grant
without woundiDg him. Grant
was finally forced back into his cell
and handcufTed. He had padded his
body with blankets, and the pistol balls
did nor take effect.
It is understood that either Brigadier
General A. II. Terry, now command
ing the department of the South, or
e. r. T. Candy, commanding the de-
partment of Columbia, will be appoint
ed Maior-General in place of General
Meade, deceased.
At the meeting of the Army of
Northern Virginia, resolutions were
passed commencing the sarcOphagus
now in the course of construction at
Lexington, Virginia, to the memory
of Gen. Lee, and recommending that
the ladies hold memorial meetings,
and, on the next anniversary of the
birth of the Southern Chieftain, take
such measures as seem to them best for
collecting money on that day, to be
specially appropriated to the decoration
of his tomb.
The Ute Indian delegation called OH
the President this morning, to say
goodbye and express their entire salts
faction with the arrangements for the
maintenance of friendly relations with
the whites in future, by virtue o.
which the present reservation of seven
hundred and fifty thousand acres is tC
be thrown open TO all the Utes of Utaf
and Colorado, some thirty thousand il
number, and stocked so as to give
them start in civilized life.
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AGAIN.
A:2O A II.

Boston, Nov. 1.-The fire broke
out with renewed vigor. at or about
midnight, in almost the same part
where it first originated. 1t was
caused by the explosion of gas III
the building occupied by VIM. r.
Storms Il Co.
Had the proper authorities shut
off the gas from the burnt district,
early Sunday morning, the present
dreadful visitation would have been
avoided AS seen from the Providence
Depot, where the Western Telegraph
Com pany has established its Office,
the flames are higher and apparent
ly spreading. The report is that
the whole blocks on Washington
street and Temple Place viii be de
strOyed.
The special train from Manches-
ter, which arrived at 5 o'clock,
brought two steam engines and one
hose carriage with men enough to
run all three.
Several soldiers and firemen were
prostrated by the great heat.
5 a. ".
At this hour the fire is still making
rapid headway. One gas explosion
follows another IN quick succession.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ono owns the $1OO.OOO,OOO worth
of live stock.
NEARLY S1,2OO,OOO are invested
in herds in Colorado.
A RUSSIAN farmer of Odessa has
half million Merino sheep.
THE HOG crop of Illinois will be
a fourth larger than last year.
LINCOLN COUNTY, Tenn, raised 25OO
/ bales of cotton this season.
DULUTH has million and a half
bushels Of wheat to ship this fall.
A CHESHIRE, Conn, farmer barvests
/ 5000 bushels of apples this year.
| THE INCREASE of values IN Boston
last year was seventy million OF dol
lars.
WHEAT yields eighty bushels to
the acre at Prickly Pear Valley, Mon
tana.
THREE thousand species of grass
are now known to botanists.
The NILES, Mich, drying estab-
lishment dries 800 bushels of apples
a day.
The TOTAL value of the grass crsp
in the United States is not far from
$500, 100000.
RHODE IsLA,;D is the only New
England State where farms are IN
creasing in value.
The GRAPE crop of Ohio is reported
as having been harvested in excellent
condition.
A SINGLE cheese factory in South
western Virginia will turn cut 25,-
900 pounds this season.
The STATE of Tennessee contains
about 100000 acres, of which
only 100000 are improved.
OATS are selling in the Fort Scott,
Kansas, market at twelve and half
cents per bushel.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, has thirty-one
flour mills that use 10000 bushels
of grain per day.
The ANNUAL product of hay is not
far from 25,O00,O00 tons.
SOME of the Michigan pastures are
so dry that farmers have to feed
hay already.
AUSTRALIA and New Zealand have
now about five million of horned
cattle and fifty millions of sheep.
A TRACT of pine land in the north
part of Kent county, Mich, was re-
Gently sold for $I4,625-over $75 per
acre.
Mr.. ELMsLEY, of Montcalm, raised
this year from nineteen acres of pine
stump land 700 bushels of wheat.
In THE single item of wheat, the
product of Iowa in 1850, was .5OO,-
900 bushels, and in 1870 it swelled
to 2O,O0O,OOu.
/ A SINGLE orchard at Santa Barbara
Cal, has yielded this year $4,000,
gallon Of olive oil.
! CHARLESTON, S. c., received last
cotton year 28O,OOO bales of cotton,
against $4,000 in years 1866.
THE Cincinnati Southern Is sur
veying from Cleveland, Bradley
county, Tenn, to Smiths y roads.
THE Edgefeld and Kentucky road
will hereafter be known as tho
Nashville, Chicago and st. Louis
Railroad.
SPEAKING of theoretical farming,
Josh Billings says that he once knew
a man who wouldn't even set gate
post without having the ground an
alyzed to see if it possessed tha prop
er ingredients for post holes.
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Visible Supply Of Corn.

The visible supply of corn, June
2gsh, was 12,OS7, ,l89 bushels against
7.493 900 bushels at the correspond
ing date in 1871. The exports from
the principal Atlantic pOr from
Septem Der l, 1871. to July 2, 1872,
were to Great Britain %, ,538 go
bushels, and CSC, ,46O bushels to the
continent, against 5,71O,9G6 bushels
ponding period IN 1912. The
clearances from New York duriEg
the last, four weeks for Europe have
been 4,6i5, ,597 bushels and the ag-
to Great Britain, and 428. .31S bush
els to the continent for the corres-
gregate exports from Boston, New
YORK, Montreal, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, and New Orleans during the
same time have been Z 7,5l4, ,S76 bush
els. The Cunard steamer Siberia,
which left this port yesterday for
Liverpool, took out ntarly 24,eOO
bushels of corn as part OF her
cargo.
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Discomfort.

Some people are never content
with their lot, let what will happen.
Clouds and darkness are over their
heads, alike, whether it rain or
shine TO them every incident is
an accident or caIamit,. Even
when they have their own way they
like it no better than your way,
and, indeed, consider their most
voluntary acts as matters of com
pulsion. We saw striking illus
tration the other day OF lhe intirmity
we speak OF, in the conduct of a
chill about three years old. He
was crying because the mother had
shut the parlor door
"P or thing, said a neighbor,
compassionateiy, you have shut
the child out.
"It's all the same TO him." said
the mother: che would cry if I
called him in and shut the door.
It's peculiarly of that boy, tnat il
he is left rather suddenly on either
side OF p door, he considers himself
shut out, and rebels accordingly
There are older children who
take the same view of things.
THE Houston, Texas, and Great
Northern railway is to extend it,
houston Tap and BrazoriapurchasC
from Columbus to Velasco, at tho
mouth ol the Brazos, where it vii
buila mp 'great seaport"
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Postnee on Seeds and Plants

One of the greatest post Office
boons was the permission to send
seeds, gratis, plants and cuttings by
mail at the rate of two cents for
every four ounces, in quantities of
not less than four pounds. It was
thankfully accepted, and by this
means innum erable varieties of
valuable vegetable articles have been
introduced into paris of the coun-
try where railroads and express
companies failed to reach. No one
ever complained of the law that we
have heard of. It was thought that
it might operate to the disadvantage
of the express companies hut, in
the main, the parties who have
availed themselves to this acconmo-
dation would not have used the ex-
press. Besides, the matter is so
small an item in the express bust
ness that it is unlikely it would
seriously interfere with them. At
any rate, this good step in progress
is virtually repealed by the new
postal code, and the horticultural
and agricultural community feel
very indignant tLereat the more
SO, as no one can see any particular
reason why this retrograde step
should have been taken.
By the present law packages of
only twelve ounces can be mailed.
Some of the smaller kind of seeds
and roots can yet go in ihis way,
but of larger varieties not enough
can be sent to be of any service to
any one except to raise halt-dozeE
specimens for a botanic garden
and as for living vegetation, where
so much of packing material has to
be employed to preserve them fresh
and from injury by the pressure oI
other mail matter, the postal limit
will be reached before the plant is
enclosed.
Tie great topic of conversation in
rural circles just now is what inter
est, public or private, is to be served
b. this anasked and unexpected
change. But it is probably no more
than a piece of hasty legislation
adopted without rejecting much or
the. consequences, and which, il
brought to the notice of their Re
representatives. by those interested
will no doubt be remedied mex
session.-The Gardeners Monthh.
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IT IS estimated that OF the present
great crop of fruit throughout the
United States, more apples viii have
been lost by rottiDg and waste than
an average crop would ha7eamount-
ed TO.
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A whiteield County, Ga, scamp
sprinkles salt on the railroad track
TO attract the attention of cattle TO
the place, so they will get killed,
and the owner get pay from the
road
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A cOlOred girl eleven years old,
at Hopewell station. Nd, with sew
eral needles and pins stCcI IN her
dress, fell with her breast on fence
rail and drove a needle into her
heart. She walked hundred yards
before she died.
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TEXAS papers boast that the oys-
ters off their coast are, without ex-
ception, the finest in the whole
world, and predict that the trade IN
Texan bivalves will soon become
one of the most important ID the
Gtafa
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WAnar CAKE.-One cup OF sugar,
one of butter, one of sour milk,
teaspoonful saleratus, two eggs
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The FIRE has broken out on both
sides of Pearl street, corntr OF High,
and threatens the destruction of