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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19

4uimaux who had wintered with Buddington's
oarty, counted by moons, so that the exact
lime Of Buddington's departure is not known
It is believed to be the middle of June. No
records were round indicating the intentions
If the party. except from a memorandum,
written in pencil, dated May IS, 1878, and
stating that Chester, the mate, had finished
making oars from the buIwarks of the Polaris,
md had made good job of it. The Esqui-
maux were very reticent. They wished to be
taken to Rand's bay, whence they came. It
vas clearly mistake to leave them behind. It
WAS stated that Joe. the interpreter, could not
talk their dialect, but when questioned at
Good Haven, Joe said he did not have time to
converse with them. The instruments are
supposed to have cen broken by the Esqui-
maux. When the Tigress returned to Good
Haven, she was ordered to prosecute the search
in the track of the whalers to the westward
and northward. The season was an open one,
and very little ice is afoat. 1t is not known
when the Tigress will return. She had thirty
days coal August 81
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
The War Ship of the Future.


The London Times has the following:
The preparation of designs for the
war ships of the future is making con-
siderable progress, and the application
of the science of hydraulic to the art of
gunnery will in these designs receive
considerable development, and prove in
practice of very great assistance in IA
cilitating the working and loading the
monster weapons with which the turrets
of the iron-clads Will be armed. These
guns will far surpass the most powerful
artillery at present in existence-the
Woolwich Infants, of thirty-fve tons
weight, and bore of twelve inches IN
diameter, and the great guns which
Krupp is now making for the Germans
being alike ecIipsed by the new weapon,
which viii have a bore of nearly fifteen
inches, and weigh sixty tons. These
guns will be built upon the system
which originated and has now been in
such successful operation at the Royal
gun factories, Royal arsenal, Woolwich,
for several years-by coil upon coil of
wrought iron and steel tube; a system
which insures the greatest possible
strength and immunity from danger of
bursting, and practically imposes no
limit to the size of the guns. They
Will be fitted with a movable breech-
loading arrangement. The WOOlwich
Infant will throw a 7OO-Pound shot six
CT seven miles; the new gun viii hurl
proiectiIe weighing 100 pounds, half a
ton, over a range which has yet TO be
determined. As the antithesis Of this
enormous gun, the new steel mountain
gun has Just been placed IN the model
room of the Royal gun factories. This
gun weighs 200 pounds, but it can FIRE
shell of seven pounds with good effect
up TO 5000 yards, and with its little
carriage is designed to be conveyed on
the backs of mules, for which pack
saddles are specially constructed. It is
also admirably adapted for boat ser
vice.
IDEAS receive their best setting when
incorporated in works of art. From the
beautiful form they draw their breath
Of life. They do not attack and make
enemies, but wait for acknowIedg
ment. .. -....
TALnss Of corn, a man out west says
he has tive ears twenty inches long.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19
Queer Things About Bees.

The poppy-bee makes her nest in
the ground, burrowing down about
three inches. At the bottom, she
makes a large, round hole, and lines
it splendIy with the scarlet leaves of
the poppy. She cuts and fits the pref
ty tapestry, till it is thick and soft and
warm, then partly Alls the cell with
honey, lays an egg, folds down the red
blankets, and closes up the hole, so
it cannot be distinguished and there in
its rosy cradle, with food to eat, and
a safe nook to rest In, she leaves her
baby-bee to take care of itself The
leaf-cutting bee makes her cell of green
leaves, shaping them like thimbIes.
These little jars she half fills with a
rose cOlored paste of honey aud pollen
from thistles, lays her eggs, and covers
the pots with round leaf-Iids, that fit it
exactly The mason bee makes her
nest of mud or mortar. It looks like a
bit of dirt sticking to a wall, but has
little cells within. The mother bee
does all the work, sticking little grains
of sand and earth together with her
glue. --.-.-
THE following are the reasons why
a ship is called she They are useless
without employment, they bring news
from abroad, they wear caps and bon
nets, they are put il stays, they are Of
ten painted, and man never knows the
expense till he gets ons."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19

HENII

deputy COmmissioher Sweet telegraphs to
the commissioner of internal revenue that he
has caused the arrest of Smith, the chief
deputy of the defaulting Collector Harper of
Springfield, Ill, for completely in the frauds
OF the latter, and had also issued warrants for
the arrest Of several other persons employed
by Harper. .- . -
Postmaster Filley of st. Louis telegraphs
to Washington demanding an immediate.
thorough investigation into his official conduct.
and especially as to the allegation that ne i'm
properly assessed the employees of his Office
i've per cent. of their salaries, the money to
be used for political purposes. T4e- letter
relating to the latter subject, which was writ
tor by some Of the employees of the St Louis
post-otice. has been referred 20 the president
by tho acting Postmastergeneral, who is of
opinion that the president viii remove FiIlev
If bis assessments were of the character
alleged
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19

"A French provincial paper has been
sentenced to pay 80 francs and each to
II persons whose names il published on
list of pilgrims. The publication was
true and harmless, but French Law for
bids journals to meddIe with the Pri-
vate affairs Oi individuals.
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] q
| Joaquin MiU.r.
IT is said that the Digger Indians are
never known to smile. They are grave
diggers. - .-.f ..-r
A LITTLE boy in school gave one of
the best definitions ever given of econ
omy: PAIRING potatoes thin. !"
INTERESTING invalid" Doctor, l
want my husband to take me to Paris.
Now, do tell me, what complaint ought
to have?" And that's what the bill
was for.
A WESTERN paper explains joaquin
MilIer's frenzied style of saying that
he has had three wives. Some men
die under it, and some so crazy and
write poetry.
A NEBRASKA man, on his dying bed,
remembered that his wife was smoking
some hams, and he said ; Now, Hen
rietta, don't go to snufiing round and
forget them hams.
CALFORNIA grape-growers have found
out that it pays to dry their fruit One
hundred pounds of fresh grapes are
worth 81 when dried they are reduced
to twenty pounds, and are worth y. 50.
THE force of habit Is fully illustrL-
ted in the case of a retired milkmaT,
who says he never sees a can of water
without having an almost irresistible
desire to put some milk into it.
A STUDENT who had been afflicted with
a sermon one hour and a half lopg
grumblinRIy says that these professors
study so muco about eternity that they
have no conception of time.
A CANADIAN editor announced that
g he had keen rspier to prick all fools
and knaves. His contemporary over
the way said he hoped his friends would
take it from him, for he might commit
suicide.
A NEAT, clean, fresh-aired, sweet,
cheerful, weII-arranged house exerts a
moral influence over its inmates, and
makes the members of family peace
able and eonsiderate of each others
feelings and happiness.
A FASHIONABLE woman, reading that
the HOOsac tunnel cost nine hundred
dollars a yard, declared, with emphasis.
that she'd " have a dress pattern off
that piece if the old man didn't lay up
a cent for the next two years.
COLERIDGE says there are four kinds Of
readers: the hour glass, whose reading
runs in and ont and leaves no trace of
gain; the second, like the sponge, takes
everything; the third retains only refuse
that some would throw away; but the
fourth, like the miner among gems,
keeps the pure and casts aside the clip
pings.
Who makes bv force his merit known,
And lives to clutch the golden KEYS,
To mold a mighty states decreesY
And shape the whisper Of the throne
And moving up from high to higher.
Becomes fortunes GROWING slope
The pillar OF peoples hope
The center Of q worlds desire TsuHVspH.
WHEE JOnes's board bill was presen-
ted, he said he did not have enough
money to pay it, opening his wallet at
the same time. his landlady, seeing
quite a number of bank notes, rather
doubted his word, and inquired what
denomination those bills were. " De
nomination said Jones. Well, I
don't know; but I guess they must be
of the Unitarian denomination, for they
are all ones.
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ANNOUNCEnTENTs.

Announcing the name of person for a county Of
fee, S5 state office, so; federal Office SIS. Invsr-
ably in advance
The above terms and rates will be strictly ad-
hered 10.
Religious, marriage, birth and death notices sOic
tied, and will be willingly inserted free Of charge
Obituaries will be charged advertising rates.
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PecuHarities of the English Language.


The following exhibitienrof the pecu-
larities of the English languauge, aa
given by Thomas Blaine, is, we think,
somewhat amusing. Its richness seems
to consist entirely in its truth. It
must be teasing puzzler to foreigners,
who essay to learn to speak as we do.
Here is the exhibition:
The construction of the English
language must appear most formidable
to foreigners. One of them, looking at
a picture of number of vessels, said
"See what flock of ships?" He was
told that a flock of ships was called a
feet, and that feet of sheep was called
a flock And it was added, for his gui-
dance in mastering the intricacies of our
language, that ga flock of girls is
called bevy, and bevy of wolves is
called pack, and pack of thieves is
called q gang, and a gang of angels is
called host, and host of porpoises is
called a shoal, and shOal of buffaloes
is called herd, and a herd of children
is called troop, and troop of par
6ridges is called a covey, and a coYey of
beauties is called galaxy, and a gal
axy of rIfians is called a horde, and a
horde of rubbish is called heap, and
heap of oxen is called a drove, and
drove of bIackguards is called mob,
and mod of whales is called a school,
and school of worshippers is called a
congregation, and a congregation of en-
gineers is called a corps, and corps of
robbers is called band, and band of
lOcusts is called a swan, and a swan of
people is called crowd. :"
ALL the Prussian cavalry regiments
have had to report to the Emperor vii
liam their experience of the French
horses which they captured and utilized
during the war. Though differing on
many points, the reports agree in gene
raj that the German military horses are
preferable in nearly every respect to the
French, and especially those of the Arad
race. This confirms what was stated to
a correspondent of the Pail Mall Ga
zette in September, 1870, at the camp of
BerVerloo, in Belgium, when he went to
see the French prisoners there, who had
a number of their horses with them.
The Belgian officers, as we'll as the
FreRch cavalry sergeants (there were no
French officers in the camp declared to
him that the Arab horses, of which there
We're some fine specimens in the camp.
could be considered in military point
of view only as pretty toys
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.aEaa E#EH z-s

pears to be holding up a bunch of
snakes, and the muscles of the arm
perfectly rigid. This wretched man
| will consent to bring his hand down
again Che says he would have to soak
the muscles in oil for three weeks in
order to do,) if anyone Will feast. for
him three thousands Brahmans. ~
Truly there is not much that is pleas
ing In Jatra-childish amusements
and miserabIy corrupt superstition.
Still, Angle-Saxons at least must admire
that hundreds of thousands of persons
are content TO take their holiday where
no liquor is allowed to be sold, and
that, great as are the crowds, there is
no quarrelling, and, helpless and unpro-
tected as the people are, scarcely any
crime. Macmillan Magazine. -
----------. BE-. .
Evil of Interruption in Intellectual
Work.
Few people realize the full evil of an
interruption, few people know all that
is implied by it. Florence Nightingale
says: :" IF we consider as with sick as
with well, every thought decomposes
some nervous matter, that to obtrude
another thought upon the brain whilst
it is in the act of destroying nervous
matter by thinking, is calling upon it to
make new exertiOn, we shall remem-
Der that we are doing positive injury by
interrupting. If the invalid is forced
by his avocations to continue occupa-
tiOns reqiring much thinking, the injury
is dOubly great. If you offer the brain
a thought, especially one requiring
decision, abruptly, you do it real, not
fanciful injury. This rule applies to
the well quite as much as to the sick. I
have never known persons who exposed
themselves for years to constant inter-
ruptiOn who did not muddIe away their
intellects by it at last. The process,
with them, may be accomplished with
out pain. With the sick, pain gives
warning of the injury" interruption
is an evil to the reader which must be esti- |
mated very differently from ordinary
business Interruptions. The great ques- !
tion about interruption is not whether
it compeIs you to divert your attention
to other facts, but whether it compeIs
you to tune your whole mind to another
diapason. Suppose a reader perfectly
absorbed in his author, an author be-
longing very likely to another age and
another civilization entirely different
from ours. IF you are reading in the
daytime in a house where there women !
and children, or where people can fas-
ten upon you for pottering details of
business, you may be sure that you will |
not be able to get to the end of the pas
sage without IN some way or other being |
rudely awakened from your dream, and |
suddenly brought back into the COM
mon world. The loss intellectually is |
greater than any one who had not suf- |
fered from it could imagine People |
think that an interruption is merely the
unlocking of an electric chain, and |
that the current will flow, when the |
chain is hooked on again, just as it did |
before TIE the intellectual and imagi- /
native student an interruption is not |
that it is the destruction of picture. !
PhiEi11 Gilbert TGDIeTtOH
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RATEs OF ADVERTIsING.

inch, or 10 lines Of type, constitutes square
One square, first insertion 4 90
Each subseueunt insertion IN
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-19

IDEAS receive their best setting when
incorporated in works of art. From the
beautiful form they draw their breath
of life. They do not attack and make
enemies. but wait for acknOwIedg
rnank
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Who makes by force his merit known,
And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mold a mighty states DEGREES,
And shape the whisper Of the throne
And moving up from high to higher.
Becomes on fortunes CrOWuiuR slope
The pillar OF a peoples hope
Tho center Of a v-0rIdta z iglre - TeUgps
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TALKISs- Of corn, man out west says
he has tive ears twenty inches long.
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GRAVE AND. GAY.

In men whom men condemn as III
/ find so much of goodness still
In men whom men pronounce divine,
l find SO much of sin blot
hesitate to draw line
Between the two, where God has not.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-23
The Election Laws.

All admit that the true intent of the
Constitution is that elections shall be held
biennially. The only difference of opin-
ion relates to the proper Interpretation of
the laws regulating the matter. The
difficulty is of easy solution by the Legis-
lature. If the laws which have been
passed to carry out that provision Of the
Constitution are not sufficiently plain,
let that body provide such additional
legislation as will remove all doubt on
the subject. An amendment explana-
tory of existing laws will settle the 4ues-
ton. IF the Republicans intend in good
faith to conform to the Constitution
which they themselves have adopted,
there need be no division on the ques-
ton. The anti-Radicals are in favor
of biennial elections. Let all par
ties meet on the common ground of
the Constitution with determination to
execute its requirements in spirit and
letter. And let the work be done with
out delay. If biennial elections are re-
quired, as is the case by the admission
of all, the system should be commenced
at once. To postpone action until next
fall, would certainly violate the intention
of the Constitution, without avoiding the
difficulty which would again arise in the
election Of members of Congress. If the
Republican lawmakers in their greed of
Office, are not insensible to the demands
of the instrument of their own creation,
they will not hesitate to cooperate in the
enactment of such additional legislation
as may be needed to carry them into
effect.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-23
Cas- sae Gordian KnOt.

Tue purpose of the Constitution Is that
the people shall not be called to the polls
oftener than once in two years. This all
admit; but how is the Constitution to be
executed if those who administer 1t pro-
coed as they have been dOing2 Two
years ago they elected Legislature and
county officers. Last year they elected
members of Congress and Presidential
Electors. This year they are called upon
to elect State and county officers and
members of the Legislature. Next year
they will be required to elect members of
Congress again and so it will be one
eternal round of election excitement,
voting and deviltry without end if the
wishes of the ofice-seeking adventures
are to be consulted, and all in direct vio-
lation of the Supreme Law. Let this
mischievous trifing be ended at once. 1t
costs the plundered and impoverished
people too dearly. Let the Legislature
cut the Gordian knot by passing an act
to take effect Immediately, at once de-
clairing that the election shall be held
next fall, and thenceforth every two years
from that date.
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Election Of Speaker.

The House of representatives, by a
vote of 55 to 32-twenty-three over the
opposition-have elected Hon. H. NJ
Street to ELI the vacancy in the Speakers
chair. The selection reflects credit on
the House, and is high testimonial to
Mr.. Street. To be thus chosen presiding
officer of a body having an opposition
majority of nearly two-thirds, is a COM
pliment due TO the integrity and capacity
of Mr.. Street, whose political creed and
antecedents are SO decidedly at variance
with this majority. 1t is cheering
promise of a better day when men are
prepared thus to subordinate partisan
feeling to a conviction of public duty.
The people of Prentiss are fortunate in
the choice of a member who, by honor
able bearing and faithful service, has
been elevated to the highest distinction
of the body of which he is a part, not
withstanding his political sentiments are
obnoxious to the majority Of its members
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-10-23
The Legislature.

This body is in session. 1t has a sol
emn duty TO perform. 1t devolves upon
it to carry out by an explicit declaratory
act the constitutional requirement that
elections shall be held biennially. Such
action will disappoint the hopes of the
professional office-seekers. 1t will turn a
goodly number of this pestiferous class
out to grass on the commons but it will
thrill with delight the people who make
their living by honest toll, and who are
sick unto death at the continued and
never-ending round of elections, with
their attendant vexations, excitements
and enormous expense.
To the members of the Legislature,
speaking for the people, we would say
that this is no time for sophistry and
hair-splitting subtleties. They are ex-
pected to disregard the earnings of dem
agogues and adventures, and to stand
by the PEOPLE, whose patience has been
SO long outraged and abused. Now is
the accepted time. The State can be
saved from the perilous abyss on which
she stands trembling. and the votes
probably of one or two Representatives
or Senators may decide the issue Put
off the election one year, and the Consti-
tuition will be vindicated. The grooming
taxpayers will be spared the burden of
an extensive election and a sly months
legislative session next year, with its in
evitable costs. The State viii take
new departure on the highway of pros
perity, and the gloom that now over
shadows her future with clouds of por-
tentous blackness will be dispelled. With
never more unanimity than now are the
eyes of the taxpayers turned to the Leg
islature.
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OUR PLATFORM.


self-rule for the States; the supremacy OF
the civil over military authority; hands of
the people by the Federal authorities in the
exercise of their right of local self-goVern-
ment.
A reduction of taxes.
Retrenchment to lessen the burden of
taxation, and consequently, reduction of
salaries, which are dispropOrtioned to the
Iabors performed, in the various depart
ments of the State government.
The necessity of a thorough scrutiny into
the conduct of public agents, and expulsion
from office on conviction of crime.
No legislation insidiously to aggrandize
individuals and classes at the expense of
the many.
The public domain should be held sacred
from the touch of -grabbers, no matter
what their plausible pretencc of public i'm
provement.
No more Railroad subsidies except by
consent of the people first ascertained,
Good faith in the disposition of the grants
by Congress for educational purposes.
No payment, nor recognition in any form
whatever, of Bonds created during former
generations and repudiatel by the people
concerned as unconstitutional and not bind
ing upon them.
Opposition to all Credit Mobilier transac-
tions; to the increase of the pay of the
President and of Congressman, and to the
Back Salary Grab by which Congress seized
from the Treasury large sums in excess of
the amount for which it contracted to serve.
No agitation of the questions settled by
tho Constitutional Amendments. Euual
Rights, without regard to race or nativity :;
and good will to all but the fomenters of
strife and the spectators of our people.
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We learn from parties who were pres
ent at a meeting, in Washington county
on the 18th, which Ames harrangued
fire hours (only think Of Addlepate going
through the motions of a FIVE hours
speech > that at the conclusion, resolu-
ton, offered by one of his partizans, en-
dorsing him, was voted down by four to
one. AddIepate did not succeed in CIV
ing birth to sensible idea, but he did
succeed in killing five hours and prevent
ing his competitor from replying until
the next day with results which may wei
be imagined by those who know the
men.
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Tax.E'ayers GseIieE.

The proposition to suspend the collec-
ton of taxes until the panic is over and a
sufficiency of currency flows into the
channels of trade to enable farmers &c
sell their crops, is favored by the Con
servatives in the Legislature. A proPo-
sition of the sort emanating from a Re-
publican in the Senate, was fiercely
assailed by Warner, the man-of-work OF
the Ames Executive Committee. We
are inclined to believe it will pass never
theless. The people ought to have an
extension of sixty days at least within
which to weather the storm.