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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17
now TO REST.

The best mode of resting when ia
tigued depends upon the cause of the
fatigue, and the condition of the person
at the time. There is one thing, how
ever, which will always rest a tired per
son, and that is a sponge or towel bath
over the entire surface of the body, fol-
lowed by thorough rubbing and fric-
ton of the surface. OF course the tenn
perature of the water and the vigor and
amount of rubbing must be graduated
to the strength of the person. When
the fatigue is mental, arising from over
exertion of the brain, the muscles should
be called into action, as by walking,
horseback riding, rowing, playing ball,
pitching quoits, gymnastics, etc. Gen
eraI muscular fatigue is quickly reliev-
ed by lying on the face and having some
one rub and percuss the back vigorous
Iy. Also, but less readily, by lying fiat
upon the back upon a hard couch OF
bed, or upon the floor, with the hands
back or under the head, but the head
not otherwise raised, and taking full
deep breaths. Local muscular fatigue
may be relieved by rubbing and percus
sing the part, or by changing the posi-
ton and bringing other parts of the
body into action.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17
LOST.
BY T. d WILKINS.

BY T. D WILKINS.
Lost Lost Lost
a thousand jewels rare;
A thousand gems Of priceless cost,
thousand visions fair.
Lost treasures we can ne'er regain,
Lost joys, that will not come again!
The weary heart will weep
O'er hopes that could not last;
Ger well beloved forms that sleep
Within the cIouded past,
The hopes that once were bright are fed
The Summers blooming flowers are dead.
We have lost some gem,
Which to our hearts was dear:
Some flower broken from the stem
That we had cherished there.
We wept, but all our tears were vain;
Twas gone to ne'er return again.
The stream of time rolls on
Along it's misty shore,
And watts load Of pleasure gone
That from the past it bore.
It bears them to a boundless sea,
The ocean of eternity
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

erty stalking through the land, while
we are engaged in political metaphysics,
and, amidst our filth and vermin, like
the Spanish and Portuguese, look down
with contempt on other nations. We
hug our lousy cloaks around us, take
another char Of tu6backer, float the
room with nastiness, or ruin the CRATE
and fire-irons, where they happen not to
be nasty, and try conclusions upon con-
stitutional points. Poor old Virginia |!
Poor old Virciniai''
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17
NUMBER %.
SONG.

We sail toward evenings lonely star
That trembles in the tender blue;
One simple cloud, dusty bar
Burnt with duU carmine through and throue
Slow smOUldering in the summer sky,
Lies low along the fading west;
How sweet to watch its splendOrs die,
Wsve-cradled thus, and wind-caressed!
The soft breeze freshens leaps the spray
To kiss our cheeks with sudden cheer.
Upon the dark edge of the bay
Lighthouses hndled far and near.
And through the warm depths of the sky
Steal faint star-clusters while we rest
In deep refreshment, thou and I,
Wave-cradled thus, and wind-caressed.
How like dream are earth and heaven.
Star beam and darkness, sky and sea;
Thy face, pale in the shadOwy even,
Thy quiet eyes that gaze on me!
realize the moments charm
Thou dearest! We are at hfe's best,
Folded in Gods encircling arm,
Wave-cradled thus, and wind-caressed!
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REMEMBRANCE.

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surIy, sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fed
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
o, if, say, you look upon this verse
When I, perhaps, compounded am with clay,
Do not so much my name rehearse,
But let your love even with my life decay
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me, after I am gone.
iShdEsDedre.
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ABSENCE or FEAR IN WILD CREA
TURES.

In letter from the Galapagos Islands
the writer remarks the wonderful tame
ness of the wild creatures that have
hitherto been unmolested. The seals,
he says, seemed to be fond of crawling
under bushes, just above high-water
mark, and sleeping two or three in more
place. Under one bush lay q mother
and her cubs, and so fearless was the
old one, that when one of the officers
held a piece of cracker to her nose she
smeIled at it as fearlessly as if she had
been a pet dog. The taIneness of many
Of the birds was also surprising, for the
fingers might be put within half an
inch of little yellow-birds, and within
six inches Of mocking- birds.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

oEhENTs.-Announcing the name OF
person for County Office, s.; State Office $40;
Federal Office Sl5. Invariably in advance.
~ The above Terms and Rates will be
trictly adhered to.
t51F- RELIGIOUS, Marriage, Birth aud Death
Notices solicited, and will be willingly inser-
ed FREE OF CHARGE. Obituaries will be charged
advertising rateAs
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17
THE MAN REVIVED.

AsI looked upon this lonesome au-
tumn Virginia scene, and the deliberate
and warning poem of Whittier came to
nv mind, with its too truthful ending,
o. more than all thy dead renown,
We're now one hero living,
I endeavored to believe what manner OF
man might this have been who in our
day would be an impossibility in public
life. For nearly thirty years he was in
Congress. Like Thaddeus Stevens,
who possessed some of his power of
scorn, he was a bachelor; for years he
was Chairman of the Committee of
WAYS and Means, and jefferson habitu-
ally consulted him. BentOn-a cold,
dignifed critic-says that for thirty
years he was the political meteor of
Congress, and often the planetary
plague, and, as the scourger of preten-
sion, meanness, vice and demagogery,
the benefactOr of the House.
And on that hilltop he lies, like the
Indians of whose blood he boasted
felt upon his fellow-sinners. g / am the
victim, " he wrote, 'of my own uncon-
trolled and uncomfortable sensations. .
He was the inheritor of a decimated
and artificial gentility, which had run
along in Tidewater Virginia, like the
friable soil, steadily toward barrenness,
for nearly two centuries; and he could
not distinguish between the affectations
of this social inheritance and the simple
sympathies of n new Republic. With
out a slave to own, he might have riser
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

THEY tell of young Iady in West
chester County, named Louise, who
thought mournfully of the leap-year fast
going out and of certain hopes she had
cherished that would go out with it.
Finally, growing desperate, she went to
one Bennie Hops, and, holding a re-
volver to his ears, made an elaborate
proposal, Bennie consented with really
unnecessary speed and energy but
when the girl was gone, went away from
that locality and has not since been
seen by Louise or any of his friends
The girl, however, may have the conso-
lation of suing him for a breach of
promise and recovering, of course, dam
ages commensurate with his little prop
ertv.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

MISS TEMPERANCE AsDERsoN, a resi-
dent of Baden, Beaver County, Penn
sylvania, has hair six feet and half
long. It is quite thick and fine, blonde
ia color.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

PERSONS having occasion to drive in
the dark viii find the advantage of Sc
curing a lantern beneath the body of
the carriage, and not inside, as is gener-
ally the case The light Is thus thrown
several feet IN front of the horse, and
the usual nervous, uncertain step of the
animal Is at once checked.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

A COUNTRY merchant, having pro-
cured a new clerk, walked him mp IN the
morning after he was hired, at most
unreasonable early hour, by calling out
that the family was sitting down to the
table. ''Thank you, " said the boy as
he turned over IN the bed to adjust
himself for a new nap Thank you
but I never allow myself to eat any
thing during the night.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

THE balloon style of dress seems to
have gone out of fashion. Grin
oline, tournure, panier, each have all
been discarded, and all our bellies,
to use a homely expression, look " as if
they had been drawn through a knot
hole"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17
THE DEUCE CONFESSED.

1t is quite refreshing to find one fact
mentioned in the Bible, which the mod
ernmen of science are willing to admit is
confirmed by the progress of discovery.
Mr.. George Smith, of the British
Museum, makes the subjoined most in
teresting account of t.e record of the
Deluge, which he has lately deciphered
from the Assyrian monuments
"The cuneiform inscription which I
have recently found and translated
gives a long and full account of the
Deluge. 1t contains the version or ira
dition of this event which existed in the
early Chaldean period of the city of
Erech Zone of the cities of Nimrod),
now represented by the ruins of Warka.
In this newly discovered inscription the
account of the Deluge is put as a narra-
tive into the mouth of Xisuthrus or
Noah. He relates the wickedness of
the world, the command to build the
ark, its building, the filling of it, the
Deluge, the resting of the ark on the
amOuntain, the sending out of the birds
and other matters. The narrative has a
closer resemblance to the account trans
mitted by the Greeks from Berosus, the
Chaldean historian, than the Biblical
history, but it does differ materially
from either. The principal differences
are as to the duration of the Deluge, the
name of the mountain on which the
ark rested, the sending out of the birds,
&c. The cuneiform account is much
longer and fuller than that of BerOsus,
and has several details omitted both by
the Bible and the Chaldean historian.
This inscription opens up many ques-
tions of which we knew nothing pre-
vious, and it is connected with number
of other details of Chaldean history
which will be both interesting and i'm
portant. This is the first time any in
scriptiOn has been found with an ac-
count of an event mentioned in Gen
esis.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17
UNDERNEATH ALL.

Nature appears to have gifted him
with the melancholy talent of perceiv-
ing the wrong that he himself did, and
of generalizing the tortures which he
among the naked trees, a man without
a monument as he never created any IN
stitution or public measure. Night he
arise and look around his country now,
it would seem to deserve less of his ter
rible excoriation forty years ago. ''POv-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

THE Sisters of Silence" is a Michl-
gan association of women. Their by,
laws are written in three colors OF INK
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17
.mHN RANDOLPH.

VISIT TO HIS HOME-HIS NEIGH
BORHOOD REPUTA TION-PERSONA
CHARA CTERISTICS.
LGath in Chicago Tribune.l
"Yonder is the house of John Ran
dolph. of Roanoke, said an engineer of
the railroad, who sat at my side. "Wood
Bouldin, of the Virginia Court of APP
peals, lives there now. He is no kin to
Randolph that I know of. BOuldin's
father, Tom, succeeded Randolph in
Congress and died of paralysis in his
seat. as he rose to announce Randolph's s
death, in 1884. Yes, sir, this is Ran
dolph's country, and Patrick Henry
died here also. The land is worth $l5
an acre"
[ looked up and saw on a high hill
top, among large forest-trees, and back
ed by dense and extensive woods, the
hermit-like home of this celebrated od-
dity and human riddle. The place had
been altered by its later proprietors, but
there still remained the small clump OF
negro quarters, and the two wooden
houses separated from each other-One
of logs, the other clapboarded-where,
in sort of savage lawn, the great slave
holder passed so many years. 1t was
hardly more than Indian comfort as it
seemed-low buildings, only One-stOry
and garret high, with few and small
windows, and on one a low, log porch.
How different are the ideas of comfort
in different ages What American states
man now would live like Randolph fol
his land? And yet he merited the re
spect of widely different types Of men
The Quaker poet of New England sang
of him with mistaken ideas of the geo
graphy:
There, where with living ear and eye
He heard Potomac's flowing,
And through his tall, ancestral trees
Saw Autumn's sunset glowing,
He sleeps, still looking to the West,
Beneath the dark wood shadow,
As if he still would see the sun
Sink down on wave and meadow.
The second line ought to be: II,
heard the Staunton's flowing" if it il
meant to denote his resting-place; 70.
Randolph's ashes still rest here, in tn,
midst of the forest near his log-cabins
a tree by the grave, and formerly als'
an unmarked stone. He was the last o
his race.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17

VISIT TO HIS HOME-HIS NEIGH
BORHOOD REPUTA TT TJON-PERSONAL
CLARA CTERISTICS.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02

If you feel dull, Respondent, drowsy, debilita
ted. have frequent headaches, mouth tastes bad
~, poor appetite, and tongue coated. you are
suffering from torpid liver, or Billiousness. Moth
ing will cure you SO speedily and permanently
as DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
"CAN'r DO WITHOUT ir.'-This is what the
stage and horse car companies, livery stable
keepers, members Of the turf, and all grooms and
trainers say of the Mustang Liniment. They
.'cant do without it, And why? Because it
lnfallbly reduces the external swellings, &C.,
which, under various names, impair the useful
ness and value of the king of quadrupeds, and
also because for sprains, strains, CALLS and other
injuries to which horse-fes is liable, it is the
most trustworthy preparation in the market. Yet
these Recommendations comprise only portion
OF the claims to public confidence. During pc
Rod Of more than sixteen years, it has been re-
cognized as specific for many of the most ago
MIXING disorders whichsaflict the human family,
such as rheumatism, govt. neuralgia, lumbago,
ticdoloreux sore throat, earache, toothaehe; and
likewise as apeerlcss application for CUTS bruis-
es, burns and scalds
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02
Marriages.

December 9th, by Rev. J. B. Fitzpatrick, WIN
MAaALIs and Miss JUNIATA Price, all Of Harri
sonburg.
December oath, by Rev. J. B. Fitzpatrick. R.
H. HARTIGAN and Miss LILLE MILLER, of Har
risonburg.
December 25th, by Rev. s. s. Ryder, L. A.
SwANEY, Of Hokomis, ILL.,, and Miss JENNIE l.
CARRIER, of Rockingham.
December oath, by Rev. A. W. Wedlell, JOHN
ALLEN and Miss MARGARET A. SLUss, all of Rock
ingham.
December 18th. by Rev. H Talhem JOHN l.
WHlTsEL, of Rockingham, and Miss JENETTA C.
BowERs, of Augusta
December 18th, by Rev. Kinlock Nielsen, DR..
THURsToN WOLFE and Miss JENNIE AsHBy, all OF
Fauquier county.
December Gath, at Covington. by Rev. Jas
NJ. Rice. VIM. 7. MCCLURE, formerly of Pa, and
late Of Nd and Miss SUE J. PETERS, of Allegha-
ny county. Va.
December 9th, at Memphis, Tenn, Dr. R. B
CHRISTIAN, of Fulton, Arkansas, and Miss ANNA
NJ, youngest daughter Of the late John S. Chris
tian of New Orleans
December 29'h at Augusta church, by Rev
Mr.. Handy, JACOB MYERS, of Augusta. and NJ iss
MINERVA A. KENT, formerly of Fluvanna county
December 25th, by Rev. J. c. Hensel, J.
WH1TMoRE and Miss LuE NJ. RUEBusu, all OF
Augusta.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02
MnrEets.
STANTON MARKETS, Jan. 2.

There has been no material change in our
markets since last reported Prices for Produce
generally are firm and well maintained The re-
cent advance IN wheat and flour is still sustained.
the former rather bringing a better price than
the latter. We cannot say with what degree Of
permanency the present prices will keep up, and
it occurs to us that farmers might do we'll to sell
at the present ruling rates. without waiting for
greater advance in these staples There are quite
number and variety of causes always affecting
the markets for those articles of greatest ccnsup
ton. Some Of these causes are fictitious, some
are real. We think it advisable for producers to
sell their products when they bring fair prices
Below this brief summary and review, you will
find reliable quotations of our present ruling
prices at wholesale rates.
RICHARDSON BELL,
Groceries and Produce Dealers,
Augusta street.
Corrected every week nv P r Hocr 3 Rpo
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02
Deaths.

December 18th, near Cross Keys, Rockingham
county, JonN KENNEDY, aged about 55 years.
December 18th. at the residence of Madison
Moore, Esq, 'of Rockingham, Mrs. MARY WAL
TON, wife Of Reuben Walton, of Woodstock.
December 22nd, near New Market, Shenando-
ali county, Mrs. MARY NEWMAN, in the 92d year
of her age
December 23rd, in New Market, Mrs. sNYnER.
wife Of Rev. j. A. Snyder, Pastor of the Luthe-
ran Church of New Market.
December 2sth in Stanton, Mrs. LYDIA wooD
WARD, wife Of Ephriam Woodward.
December 26th, in Greenville, RETHA, daught-
er Of David and Eliza Parrack, aged years
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02

THE .sARTIc STORM as the remarkable weath
er that has visited us for the last ten days, has
been not inaptly termed, seems to have been gen
eral all over the country. In Minnesota, the
thermometer stood ~ degrees below zero in
Maine, 43, and varying from that to zero as it
reached the Mi ddle States, until it was about 4
degrees above zero in the Valley of Virginia.
The Arkansas river was frozen to the thickness,
of four inches, and sleighing was excellent in
Eastern and estern cities, business was stopped
for a time by reason of the street snow block
AIDES, and suffering to human beings and animals
greater than has been known for many years.
In this vicinity, the snow fell about s inches
on frozen, dry ground, aud sleighing has been
the past-tme for week. Our livery men have
been doing thriving business, all their ayaila-
BILE stock having been in demand at $3.50 per
hour for team aud sleigh The active sympathy
expressed for the noble animal. the horse, du
ring the prevalence of the epizooty seems to have
been forgotten, AMI the best speed of which he is
capable has been the gait at which he has whirlsd
the merry, happy parties through the streets.
The young ladies of our various schools have
generally participated in the exhilirating exer-
else, and enjoyed the sleighing season with great
zest. The snow came at an opportune time for
them just in the holiday time, and light hearts
and cherry, ringing laugh, have mingled with
the sleigh bells, to signalize the occasion.
Many of our citizens were caught without the
necessary supplies Of wood to meet the exigen-
cies Of the protracted cold spell. This defcien-
cy has been partially relieved by the energy Of
Mr. H. L. Powell and Mayor Trout. who made
arrangements with the authorities of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railroad, to deliver at Powells
Coal Yard large quantity Of wood, which has
been distributed among the citizens at cost. On
Saturday evening last. the rush to the yard Gre
ated almost a blockade. Carts drays, and wag
ons were pressed into service, and in some in
stances, individuals carried few days supply
on their shoulders.
Much suffering has doubtless existed in this
community among the poor, by reason of want
of sufficient supply of fuel and food. 1t is
duty citizens owe to themselves and to hui
anity to look after them, and contribute of their
abundance to alleviate their wants. To many of
them Christmas has been gloomy season. The
cold, piercing winds, and drifting chilling snow.
have driven away the bright cheer usually at
tendant upon these holiday festivities. Not only
during this brief Christmas week, but through
out the winter months should our gifts be ex
tended to them. In such instances it is 'smore
blessed to give than receive"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02

DOUGLAS WAR CLAIM --Robt. II and
Stephen A. Douglas, sons of the late Senator
Douglas, have prepared, and were to presen'.
to Congress last week, claim for $4,000
for their private cotton and other property
taken used and appropriated in March, 1863
in Mississippi. by portion OF the army of the
United States 80
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02

R6r Elegant wide Home made White Flannels,
Twilled and Untwilled, for sale by J. J. McMa-
hon. dec 10
Another big lot of Mems and Boys Boots com
ing in TO- day, and for sale very low at J. J. Nc
Mahou's, Augusta street. dec 10
A nice selection of new calicoes just received.
at j. j. McMahon's, 129, Augusta street. decl9
A splendid lot of Cotton and Osnaburg Checks
at J. J. McMahon's, l29, Augusta st. dec 1e
Mems and boys Caps, all styles, low, at John
]. McMahon's.
A big lot of heavy Cottons, Laurel D. Mt. Yer
non, JOHN Washington and other good brands, at
John J. McMahen's, l29 Augusta street.
Call OIL Bantz and get him to make you q wa.
ter proof Boot or Shoe. dec 5
CIaARs.-We have in store q large assortment
of fine and common Cigars, in whole and hall
Boxes BURKE & BRADLEY. If
dec s
Celebrated water proof Greese for sale at
Bantz's.
Bantz's is the place to get your fine Boots, made
to order.
Bantz makes nothing but Gents fine Calf Boot.
md Shoes.
Banz always gives perfect fit and warrants
Ill his work.
C. L WELLER has in store and is receiving
laily his Fall and Winter stock of BOOTS, SHOES
and HATS for mems, ladies', misses, boys. chill
Iren's and infants wear. His stock is larger
han ever before, and embraces the finest as wei
IS the medium grades Of goods, which he offers
the public at very small advance on cost.
oct lott
REMEMBER Farmers that Weller keeps just the
goods you want at the Lowest PRICE,.
REMEMBER Boys to buy your Hats at Weilsr's.
REMEMBER to go to Weler's to buy your Hats
prices from so cents to $500
REMEMBER to buy your Boys Boots and Shoes
at Wellers.
n B. Hendry is receiving nice line of ladies'
suits, millinery, notions and trimmings. nov
REMEMBER all C. L. Weller has the latest styi,
in Gsntlemen's fine Hats.
REMEMBER Ladies and Gentlemen's Slippers al
Wellers in great varsety. F@
REMEMBER to go to Wet1sr's for A,sses
dren's Shoes.
REMEMBER and buy your Ladies Shoes at Vel
ters.
REMEMBER that gum shoes are sold at Wellsr's
10 per cent. lower than elewhere. ID
Send your undertaking orders to S. NJ Wilkes
Furniture House-new styles of Baskets and case
always on hand. Terms moderate.
For the celebrated copper tipped shoes for
misses and children, 50 to Geo A. Saaask.
GOV 16-4t.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02

There is an unavailable letter in the Richmond
post Office for John T. Johnson, Eot Springs,
Bath county
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02

CoNFIRMATIoN.-On Sabbath next confirmation
and communion service will take place in the Lu-
theran church of this city.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-01-02

Mr.. Edward Lorraine, Chief Engineer of
the James River and Kanawha Canal, died
in Richmond on the morning of the Both ult
aged IS years, of continent smallpox. We
met Col. Lorraine in Washington last month
when he was looking vigorous and healthy.