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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Can't Afford to Marry.
BY HOWARD CROSBY, E D.

1t is a common and startling re.
mark nowadays that young meu can
not afford to marry. If only the
rich can take to themselves wives,
not only Will the race dwindle, but
it viii dwindle through vicious chan
nels. I am inclined to think that
the aphOrism is Santanic, and there
fore lie. I do not believe young
men cannot afford to marry, any
more than that they could afford to
marry fifty or hundred years ago.
I believe that society, with all it's in
genuity In the devils service, cannot
so order things as to prevent the
honest union of young man and
maiden and a happy married life.
God has not constituted marriage
as the normal condition of humani-
ty, and then rendered the condition
IN impossibility to the mass of man
kind. The order to Noah's posteri-
ty, BE fruitful and multiply" was
no special appointment of the rich
as the inheritors of the earth. God
has no respect for persons, and if it
were possible to conceive of partial
ity in God, We should say that He
leaned to the side-of the poor. The
Scriptures take it for granted that
every man has a wife and every wo-
man has husband, e1ceptis ercipi-
ends. Any idea that resists this
sexual symmetry is perVerse and
pestiferous.
I have seen very many cases of
the supposed cdn't-aford- to marry
disease, and examined many, and
always found the symptoms to prove
another complaint altogether. The
diagnosis had been utterly false. It
was a. don't-lCant-to marry trouble
that was affecting the patient. This
was the story: Formosa has dwelt
in marble halls, and clothed herself
in acres of purple and fine linen.
Marriage with her means twenty
thousand a year. So I look at my
two thousand, and can't afford to
marry. Or the story was this Pull
chra aUiSheS to dwell in marble halls,
and clothe herself in acres of pur-
pie and fine linen. Married with
her, therefore, means twenty thous-
and a year. So look at my two
thousand, and can't afford t. marry.
Formula-wise and truth-wise, it is
this: Foolish girls wish to live idle,
pampered, and fashionable lives, and
foolish young men are seeking after
the foolish girls. In such a compi-
cation, marriage looses its meaning;
and it is very natural for a young
man to say, 81 can't afford to mar
ry." The truth is he cannot afford
to marry after the style aforesaid.
Do not say any more, 81 can't af-
ford to marry" Go, find the true
woman, and you can. Throw away
that cigar, and burn up that switch
cane, be sensible yourself, and seek
your wife in sensible way.-ASSO-
citation Monthly.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
CONNUBfALITIES.

A ONE hundred dollar boquet will
win O feeting smile from a Long
Branch belle.
A DELAWARE widow has been mar
ried four times, and always to a
bank president. Faro
THE complete census returns make
out 1859 more males than females
in the country.
The young ladies of the period
must be given to dreamy specula-
tions, they build such castles in the
(h)air.-Judy.
SPrKs told his wife that she could
have all the Dolly Warden things she
wanted, or a new piano. He says
now that the piano would have been
cheaper.
IMITATION jewelry IS made so per-
fectly nowadays that fashionable
ladies can get themselves up quite
georgeously at very slight expense.
A DETROIT paper says that Mr..
George Barrell committed suicide
because disappointed in a love affair.
He couldn't bear the thought of re-
manning single Barrell.
ToMRKINs, who is terribly hen
pecked, says that the greatest miss
take he ever made in his life was on
his wedding-day. His wife denies it
and says it was she that was miss
led.
Bows are worn in profusion on
- -N 70
sleeves, shoulders, and in all odd and
unmanageable places, fastening doRn
fichus, scarfs, collars, sashes, belts,
etc.
SPINKs is not going to do any more
in conundrums. He asked his wife
Why he was like q donkey, and she
saId because he was born so, and he
says the answer is quite different
from that
The flirting at the watering places
this season has all been done by
married people. The matrimonial
crop is small but the balance Will
be made up IN divorces.
Two sisters have eloped from Ber-
lin, Prussia, with a young man whom
| they are both IN love with and whom
they both intend to marry when they
reach Salt Lake, which is their dest-
nation.
A RHODE Island reporter gives this
as a positive fact: "A young lady,
on returning from a walk with her
lover the other evening raped him
on the face and kissed the door"
AN IDAHO woman was ordered by
a physician to take three ounces OF
brandy day, and knowing that
sixteen drachms make and ounce,
has patiently been taking forty-eigbt
drinks a day ever since.
THE BOsToN Cuorier says " A
thrifty citizen effected insurance on
the life of his wife to the amount Of
$4,000 the other day, took a box OF
the little red Maryland plums, and
} enjoyed q whole evening in watching
/ his wife eat them. His enterprisa
had its reward. Deducting S29S for
funeral expenses. he is now S9,7O2
richer than he was a week ago..
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
A Beautiful Experiment.

The following beautiful chemical
experiment may be easily performed
ty lady, to the great astonishment
of circle at her tea party:
Take two or three leaves of red
cabbage, cut them into small bits,
put them into a basin, and pour a
pint of boiling water on them let
it stand an hour, then pour it of
into a decanter. It will be a fine
blue color. Then take four wine
glasses: into one put six drops of
strong vinegar into another six
drops of solution of soda ; into a
third strong solution Of alum and
let the fourth remain empty. The
glasses may be prepared some time
before, and the few drops of color
less liquid that have been placed In
them will not be noticed. Fill up
the glasses from the decanter, and
the liquid poured into the glass con.
tanning the acid will become a beau
tiful red the glass containing the
soda will be fine green that pour
ed into the empty one will remain
unchanged. By adding a little vine
gar to the green it will Immediately
change to a red, and on adding a
little solution of soda to the red il
will assume a fine green, thus show.
ing the action of acids and ak kalief
on vegetables blues.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Successful Apple Growing.

Joshua Jeffries is mentioned by
the PrGnticaL Planter as one of the
most successful apple growers in
Pennsylvania. His orchard is locat-
ed on hillside sloping gently to
the south and southwest, is of lime
stone soil, and made fertile by sur
face application of manure. This
system be has pursued for fifteen
years. Trees, he maintains, should
be fed regularly, not too much, but
just enough to enable them to main
tain a healthy, moderate, uniform
growth. He applies the washings
of the roads on his own farm, all the
refuse ashes and those made in the
neighboring lime kilns in burning
lime with wood, and also manure
from the cattle yards. Whenever he
has a spare load of fertilizing mat
ter it goes to the orchard. Spread
ing these materials on the surface,
although a green grass sod is on the
ground all over it, the soil is so mel
low he can kick it up with his foot
the young roots coming to the sur
face, or nearly SO, not being more
than an inch or so under it for their
food. There they come In contact
with light, heat, moisture, the i'm,
portant elements of plant food
Trees treated under this system are
healthy, strong and vigorous. al.
though in a deep valley, liable to the
late spring frosts, he secures crops
Of fruit, while his neighbors in more
| favored localities fail.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Abroad.

Aberdeen, Scotland, and vicinity, is
flooded by rain. Tue crops are ruined.
Immigration from AIsace and Lor-
raine continues, and is increasing.
Gambetta, ia a speech at AIbertville,
demanded the dissolution OF the Ma
tiOnal Assembly of France.
The Right Hon. Robert Low, in a
speech delivered at Glasgow, alluded to
tive result of the Geneva arbitration.
He expressed the opinion that the
Americans had come out of the strrg-
gle very much irritated; but Eug-
lands object was not to gain a legal
triumph. She acted therefore not as
a litigant, but as friend. The money
declared due should be paid without
murmur or delay.
The French having been applied to
by Minister Washburne to join our Gov
Grnment in taking such action as will
put an end to the persecution of the
Jews in Roumania, has received the
proposition favorably, and will insist
that residents of that Province, of all
creeds, be accorded with equal protec-
ton.
Cespedes, accredited Minister of the
Cuban Republic to the United States,
has applied for the restoration of the
Cuban cruiser, the Pioneer, captured of
Newport, r. l., by United States YES
sci, aud since condemned to be sold as
a prize. The Attorney General, not
Eelng able to see the matter in the
same light as that possessed by the ex-
traordinary Minister, the latter gentle
man will bring his claim to the notice
of the State Department.
Grain men of Chicago estimate tbe
corn crop of this year at twelve hun
dred an fifty million bushels - tn,
largest ever raised in the United States
'They have had killing frost in all TIT
y Northeastern States, but corn is gen
orally out of the reach of harm.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Industry Of Birds.

Some curious statistics about
small birds have recently been laid
before the House of Commons. The
thrush is said 10 work from 2.30 In
the morning until $50 in the even
ing, or nineteen hours. During this
time he feeds his young POS times.
BlackbIrds work seventeen hours.
The male feeds the young A times
and the females 55 times per day.
The industrious titmoUse manages
to spread Alt meals day before its
voracious offspring. According to
one naturalist, their food consists
largely of catepillars. These state
ments, and a hundred more quite SIS
curious, were made in an eloquent
plea for law to protect small birds
from being shared and shot. Un-
fortunately, although the speech
seems to prove that they are really
the allies, instead of the enemies o.
the farmer, the old prejudices against
them were strong enough to defeat
the bill.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
HEAV VEN.

No sickness there
No weorY vast ting of the frame away
No fearful shrinking froR the midnight air
No dread of summers bright and torrid ray
No hidden grief
No will and choerless vision Of despair
No vain petition for a swift relief
No fearful eyes; no broken hesrts are there
Care has 4 home
Within the realms of ceaseless praise and
song;
The billows break away and melt in foam,
Far from the mansions of the spirit throng
The storm s black wing
Is never Spread athwart celestial skies;
AS some too tender loweret fades and dies.
No night distiIs
Its chilling dews upon the tender frame;
No moon is needed there, the light which fills
That land of glory from which its Maker came.
No parted friends
Der mournfuI recoIlectiOns faint and weep
No bed of death endsaring love attends,
To watch the coming of a pulseless sleep.
Let US depart
Ifhome like this await the weary soul,
Look up, then stricken one! thy wounded
Shall beat no more meath sorrows stern
control.
Angels abide.
White Tobed and innocent to leod the way:
Why fear to plunge in Jordan's swelling tide,
And find the ocean of eternal day?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
News of the Week.
At Home.

A wonderful discovery was made
recently, six miles west of Carbott,
Utah, of an enormous silver ledge, or
system of ledges so locked or woven to-
gether as to be practically one lode. It
measures sixty feet in width, and can
already be traced over five miles, car
rying ore the entire distance that assays
from $75 to 81 900 per ton. The sur
rounding formation is remarkable-one
carries galina, black and gray sulphur,
etc. A large number of men are al
ready at work on it, and it is the sensa-
tion OF the whole mining region.
New York Custom house officials
state that the actual value Of the silks
stolen from the public store will not ex-
eeed s., 600.
The vessel reported wrecked on ms
kar Rock on the I4th inst, was the
bark Newcastle, Capt. Wilkins, which
cleared at Liverpool, Sept. 1, for Savan-
nah 1t has been ascertained that thir-
ty of the crew were lost.
1t Is said that efforts are being made.
which have not yet assumed any official
form, to req uiIe Messrs. Laird, the con
structOrs of the Confederate privateer
Alabama, to pay portion OF the sum
awarded to the United States by the
Geneva tribunal.
A Reading, Pa, dispatch says there
is great excitement there, owing to the
warfare now going on between the
Philadelphia and Reading and Viii
mingtOn and Reading railroads. The
Inhabitants are in great alarm at the
symtoms of an impending riot, and
special detachment of 1000 policemen
has been ordered out. The PhiIadel-
phia and Reading road has sought to
Obstruct the line of the Wilmington and
Reading, which was recently construct
ed as an opposition company, and the
matter Is already in the courts.
Attorney-General Williams decides
that the remitter Of postal money or
der cannot, under the existing law, re-
woke an order or stop its payment by
merely giving notice to the POstoffice
authorities but that he must present
the money order itself before he can .Se-
ceive back the money or prevent its be-
ing paid to the person in whose favor
the order is drawn.
a Philadelphia despatch says City
Treasurer Mercer and Charles f. Yer
kes, the broker sentenced to the East
ern Penitentiary last winter for en-
bezzling city funds, have been released
upon a pardon by the Governor. There
is a condition which states that if there
is any money paid for services in con-
nectios with the receiving of the par
dons, then they are to be null and
void.
Henry +. AtvOid, special Indian
Commissioner, and Enoch Hoag, Su-
perintendant of Indian Affairs, ar
rived at st. Louis with fifty-one wild
Indians from the country west of Ar
kansas and Texas, and five interpre-
tors. The party consists of twelve
Comanches and seven squaws, four
Kiowas and two squaws, six Arapa-
hoes, three Goddess, three Wachitas,
six TowOccas, one Waco, one Keeshie,
one Delaware. Capt. Alvord states
that he don't want this considered a
peace commission.
Workmen in clearing away debris at
the asylum at Newburg, Ohio, discov-
cred the bodies of Miss Walker, Benz
Burghs and that of an iron peddIer of
Newburg who has been missing since
TIE fire. Two other persons are still
missing.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

IF young person viii begin and
persevere IN learning by heart, four
lines of good poetry every day, there
will be laid up in the treasury-house9
of memory fourteen hundred and
sixty lines in a year. So Of facts
and various kinds of information.
All great things are done little by
little. Atoms make worlds. The
greatest fortunes consist of farthiDgs.
Life is made up of moments, and q
succession of well-spent moments
make a well-spent life.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Subscription.

ANNOUNOEMESTs.-Annou the name Of
person for a County Office, IS; State Office $40.
Federal Office $l5. Invariably in advance.
~ The above Terms and Rates will h
trictly adhered to.
- RELIGIOUS, Marriage, Birth and Death
Notices solicited, and will be willingly inser
ed TREE OF cHAsGE. Obituaries will be charged
advertising rates.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

WHATS that p said a teacher,
pointing out the letter Y, to a little
ragged urchin. "Daddy's name.
" No, no, my boy" Yes, it is I've
seen him write it a good many
times"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

"WHY doesn't your father take q
newspaper" asked a man of little
boy whom he found pilfering one
from his door step" Cause he'd
rather send me to take it" was the
reply.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

CHINESE papers report that the
crop does not come up to first ex-
pectatiOns. It had been thought
that it would been largely in excess
Of last year; instead of which, the
shipments thus far have fall, con-
siderably below.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

One OF those thing no fellow can
find out''-A good husband after II
P. II.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

Is VIRGINIA old maids are called
" belated sisters"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

Hark! the thunder's awful voice
Rends the tempest stricken air
Spirits of the storm, rejoice
Trembling earth is fill'd with fear
Loud winds shrek with angry wall -
Mountain bilioWs lift their heads
Ocean heaYes before the gale,
While its watery path it treads-
See. the proud ship falterS now;
Now behold her rapid dight
See her tall masts shake and bow;
See her mOunt-she sinks in nj ight!
The New York herald., 1872-12-08
PAYMENT OF PENSIONS.
Two Thousand Persons Already Paid
and the END Not Yet-Emincnt and
Aged Pensioners Draw Their Stipe ntls.

Two Thousand Persons Already Paid
and the End Not Yet-Emincnt md
Aged Pensioners Draw Their Stipe ntls.
Up to past eight O'Clock last evening the Pen
sion Agent Mr.. Silas b. butcher continued to pay
the pensioners assembled in and around his Office,
he being determined that. notwithstanding the
law does not require him to keep his bureau open
after regular hours, he, nevertheless, would not
allow those assembled TO go away empty handed,
they having probably come several miles to obtain
the petty sum OF $24 or less due from the govern
ment for the last three months pension.
While the payments have already been progress
ing four days, there yet signs OF the crowd
abating. H. is, however, gratifying fact to record
that notwithstanding the assembly is OF the most
heterogeneous description, STILL so far, the utmost
sion apparently appreciate the great efforts made
by the agent to expedite business much pos
sible; they patiently await their turn and
when called rejoicingly take their departure on
the receipt OF the long-expected, come at last and
welcome check.
Mr. butcher reports having paid upwards OF two
ments on the Attn inst. IL must be taken into con-
sidcration that each check Is signed by him twice
and the number inscribed In duplicate on the
vouchers; hence IL may he imagined that his Office
Is by no means a snecure.
Among those who obtained their allotted pen
si0ns were General John A. Dix, Governor elect Of
Weed, and the following named veterans Of the
war Of 1872 12:-Charles Oakley, aged 80; J. q. vree
land, aged SO; Joseph T. Simpson, aged s5
Edward Dennisen, nIiss, aged 81; Isaac W. Briggs
William Troay, aged 49,; Thomas Woods, aged so;
william b. Latourett, aged so: william u. Avery
aged rs; Isaac Pher aged n; John Allen, aged II !;
II Is safe to assume that IT win consume this
and great portion Of next week to dulsh the pay
mept VI the pensions Tor tbis district.
The New York herald., 1872-12-08
THE CONTRIBUTION or A BROTHER JOURNALIST.
METK0pOIIIAN RECORD ALEIcE
AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.

BOSTON, Mass. Dec. !. 1872.
An adjourned annual meeting OF the American
Social Science Association was held here to-day.
The constitution was so amended as TO provide
for the election OF Vice President to conduct the
local work OF the association aud to facilitate the
establishment OF branches.
The following Vice Presidents were elected
Josiah quincy, Professor Wocott Gibbs, of
Boston; Il. l.. Gadkin DIR. c. l.. Agnew, OF New
York; G. ). stills LID H. g. Lea, OF Philadelphia;
Theodore ID. Woosey, OF New Haven; Dr. Hoyt, OF
Madison, Wis., W. j. Harris. OF ST. Louis and Pro-
lessor George Davidson OF san Francisco George
W. Curtis, OF New York, was elected presidents
ton, Treasurer.
The constitution was also amended so as to in-
crease the number OF directors to twenty or more.
An able Board was elected, insluding Samuel Eliot.
LID, Professor l.. Agassiz, Ex-Governor wash
burn, Hon. william G.ay, President e. w. Eliot.
James NJ. Barnard. r. u. Sanborn. I. {. Amogy ana
Others
The New York herald., 1872-12-08
THE LOSS OF THE GUATEMALA.
The Captain mt Last i'm Port-Thc Story
of the Shipwreck.


of the Shipwreck.
Captain Andrew T. Douglas, who distinguished
himself on the Pacific Ocean, coast OF Mexico, in
saving ffty-s six or the ana passengers OF the
iilfated steam vessel-the Guatemala-which was
wrecked on the 18th of last October, arrived here
yesterday, and Is now sojourning at the.
Metropolitan Hotel Tomorrow he will appear be-
fore the Pacific Mair Steamship Company and tell
how the ship was wrecked through no fault of his,
how he captured the Alcaldes OF two villages at the
point OF the sword VINO refused to give him assist
ance for his shipwreckcd people, how he man
aged to feed them on tortlllas and to drag
them sixty miles foot and sixty in
carts, till they eventually reached rehuantepec,
and of the noble conduct Of Mr.. Cemans, who went
out into the streets borrowing money Tor his
starving people from the Indians, and of the
miserable conduct Of Mr.. Pewyes, the United
States Commercial Agent, who, absent rom
his post, abandoned them to their fate,
and refused to come to their aid
in pecunlary any other manner.
With reference TO the shipwreck. II appears that
after being on deck all night and being thoroughly
exhausted, he lett the command to the third
officer when abreast Bornar, VINO run the ship
straight to the breakers, although he
had seen them ahead Tor fully twenty minutes
and failed to alter the ships course and hence the
destruction OF noble craft. The Captain men
tiOns as a heroine Mrs Lewis, OF Nicaragua, who
showed more courage than great many men, al.
though all dd their duty nObiy.
The New York herald., 1872-12-08
Comptroller Green reports the receipt Of the
following amounts OF taxes for the week ending
ARREST OF AN ALLEGED MURDERER.
RALrINoRR. Nd. Dec. 6. lsI

BALTIMORE, Nd, Dec g, 1872.
Levin Palmer, coiorcd, aged thirty.nve years.
who was arrested In Talbot county, passed through
this city last night In charge OF deputy sheriff, ON
his way TO Towscntown, Baltimore county. Palmer
is charged with being an accomplicc pf william
pritchard. also coloreG n:ed eighteen years. who
was hanged - yowtUnto~E IN September 1871
for outraping GcrmaD g.,l d. 1rar Road, iour OF
ave miles rom thIg si,J, la th> ssHiIleT OF 1870