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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
Carlyle as a Conversationalist.

Accustomed to the infinite wit and
exhuberant richness of his writings, his
talk is still an amazement and a SPLEEN
dor scal cely to be faced with steady
eye. He does not censure, only ha-
rangues. It is the usual misfortune of
such marked men, that they cannot
allow their minds room to breathe and
show themselves in other atmosphere,
and thus miss the instruction and re-
freshment which the greatest never
cease to need from the experience of the
humblest. Carlyle allows no one a
chance, but bears down all opposition,
not only by his wit and onset of words
resistless in their sharpness as so many
bayonets, but by actual physical supe-
riority, raising his voice and rushing on
his opponent with a torrent of sound.
This is not in the least from unwilling
ness to allow freedom to others; on the
contrary no man would more enjoy
manly resistance to his thought but it
is the impulse of a mind accustomed to
follow out it's own impulses, as the hawk
it's prey, and which knows not how to
stop in its chase. Carlyle indeed is an
rogant and overbearing, but in his AFRO
gance there is no bitterness, no self
love it is the heroic arrogance of some
old Scandinavian cOnqueror. it is his
nature and the untameable impulse that
has given him power to crush the dra-
gon. You do not love him, perhaps,
nor revere-and perhaps, also, he would
only laugh at you if you did but like
him heartily and like to see him the
powerful smith, the Sigfried, melting
the old iron in his furnance till it CLOVIS
to sunset red, and burns you if you
senselessly go too near. He seemed to
be quite isolated, lonely as the desert,
yet never was a man more fitted to prize
man, could he find one to match his
mood. He finds them but only in the
past. He sings rather than talks. He
pours upon you kind of satirical, he
roical, critical poem, with regular ca
dences, and generally catching up near
the beginning some singular epithet,
which serves as a refrain when his song
is full, or with which, as with knit
ting-needle, he catches up the stitches
if he has CHANGED here and there to let
fall row.-Ifargaret Fuller.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
soto 500 F HsR.a RAy gve+ Ae TRsTs.
Particulars free. A. II. BLAIR & Co, st. Louis.
KING OF THE BLOOD,
THE MOST THOROUGH PURIFIER OF THE
BLOOD YET DISCOVERED.

THE MOST THOROUGH PURIFIER OF THE
BLOOD YET DISCOVERED.
CURES ALI, HUMORS, FROM A COMMON
ERUPTION TO THE WORST SCROFULA.
by its use Cancers are cured, and
CauCerOus tUmOrs are dispersed without the sur
geOn's Kuife-SCrOfula conquered, and COnsUmp-
ton prevented and cured.
VenereaI Diseases MeTCuTial and Miner
al POsOns, and their effects eradicatcd, and yigor
Gus health and sound constitution established.
Female Weakness and Disease:
DrOpsy General partial; Svvellings. external or
internal; and Tumors are reduced and dispersed
ErysIpeIas, Salt Rheum, scald Head. and
Fever Sores arc soon removed by this powerful
detergent medicine.
ScOrbuITc Diseases, DandruG, Scaly
or Rough Skin, and PImpirS quickly give way.
leaving the skin smooth and fair.
Chronic Diseases, Fever and ACue. Dis
ordered Liver. Dyspepsia. rheumatism Nervous
Affections. General Debility, in short, all the
numerous diseases caused by bad blood are con-
Cuc-cd. and give way before this most powerful
COrrcct0~ the King Of the Blood.
Each bottle contains between forty and
fifty ordinary doses, costing only one dollar
From one to four or five bottles viii
cure Salt Rheum. SCIld Head, Ring Worm, PIN
pies on the Face, Biles, ordinary EruptOns- etc
From two 30 eight bottles will cure
SCaly ETuptiOns OF the Skin. Ulcers, Sores, and
Canker in the Mouth and Stomach. Erysipelas, etc.
From two to tea bottles VIII restore
healthy action to the Liver and Spleen, viii reg
uiate the Bowels and Kidneys
From two TO six bottles will be found
effeCtual in curing Neuralgia, Slck-Headache, st.
Vitus' Dance. and Epilepsy
From five TO twelve bottles VIII cure
the worst cases Of SCrOfula.
From three TO twelve bottles VIII
cure severe and obstinate cases OF Catarrhs
From two to four bottles viii cure the
worst cases of Piles and regulate COstiye Bowels.
From two 10 ten bottles viii cure
Price 81 per bottle, or bottles for s..
Sold by all Druggists
D. RANSOM, SON & CO., PrOPr's,
testimonials in local column. Buffalo, n. z.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

WANTED. National Life Insur=
ance Company of the United States of
America, wants an agent in every town
in the country, and Will pay literally
for business secured. The principal
features of the company are its great
financial strength, its low premiums,
and its liberal policies. It's plans are
easily understood, and those devoting
only portion of their time to insur-
ance are enabled often times to accom-
plish gratifying results. We do not
know of company better deserving of
patronage by those wanting insurance,
nor one with which an agent could more
advantageously connect himself. E. A.
Rollins is president, and J. Cooke is
chairman of the finance committee.
Address branch Office of company, at
PHILADELPHIA.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

MANY of our readers, who are looking
about for something to do, can find
pleasant and profitable employment in
the business of life insurance. It re-
quires no capital, save a horse and bug
gy to travel through the county, and
to active men the recompense IS GER
tain. We recommend the selection of
some strong old company like the New
York Life, with large assets and liberal
plans, one that is popular wherever
known, and one too that everybody
knows. A man who takes applications
for life insurance is doing good. It is
in every sense a good business. A let
ter dropped to the home office of this
company, at 346 and 348 Broadway New
York, will meet with a ready response.
TRY it
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
What Kind Of Elastic. I"
from the Danbury News.I


A dry goods man, who is well known
for his politeness, has a father who is
an excellent citizen, but not a very
smooth talker. They were so busy at
the store Saturday afternoon that the
old gentleman was called in to help.
Among the customers was young lady
who appeared to be waiting to trade
with him whose elderly appearance in
vited her confidence. Soon an Oppor-
tunity offered, and leaning over the
counter as an invitation for him to do
the same, she whispered her order.
He bent close to her, and said, ''What's
that >" in a voice that started the per-
SEPARATION to her forehead. Again she
whispered. go elastic" said he in a
tone that could be heard on the walk,
and looking much pleased with his sue
cess. "What kind of elastic? he ad-
ded, bending his head closer to the
burning face Of the perspiring maiden.
Once more she treInblingly whispered,
% For carriers, hey?" he repeated, even
louder than before, without noticing
the horror-stIuck expression of the
almost fainting young lady. Some
thing fancy, I suppose" he went on to
say, in happy oblivion of the storeful
of people; yonng people nowadays
want things nice. Ny old woman uses
a shoe string, and sails around without
noticing the difference. Then he got
down with the box, and turned around
to show it, but the customer was gone.
He stood around with the elastic some
five minutes in waiting, but she did not
return, and it is likely that he has forgot
ten all about the circumstance now.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
A Curious Partisan Art.

A Paris paper states that in the French
capital an industrial art is prosecuted,
of the existence of which few persons
have any knowledge whatsoever. This
art consists in the restoration of old
books and manuscripts, and has been
raised by a few experts to a marvellous
perfection. The skill of these artists
Is, indeed, so great that no book is con-
sidered by them to be beyond their
transforming touch. They take out the
most nveterate stains and marks they
relnstate the surface where holes have
been gnawed by rats or eaten by worms:
they replace missing lines and leaves
IN such way that no one can discover
the interpretations they remake mar
gins, giving them exactly the color of
the original in fact, so well is all this
done, that frequently the most discrim-
mating judges cannot tell the restored
copy from the perfect original work. Or
namental frOntispieces, editors marks
Yignettes, cOats-Of arms, manuscript or
printed pages, all are initiated to de-
gree of accuracy that tasks even the
most practiced eye. Such restoration,
however, is of course expensive. Thus,
at n sale of books some time ago, a
tattered, filthy and repulsive, but in
some respects quite a unique copy of
the Breviary of Geneva brought only
800, on account of the damaged con-
dition it was in. The purchaser at once
took it to a book restC rer, who stated
his terms to be 800, and that the pro-
cess would require year.
WHEN does a man have to keep his
word? When no one will take it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
The Resources of the South.

Much as the south has been weakened
by the war, it has yet vast wealth, and
all the elements of rapid recuperation.
1t has the control of the greatest COM
mercial crop the world produces, and
it's products are increasing largely in
value every year. We have made the
following compilation from the census
reports of 1870, showing the value of
farms and farm products in each of the
ten southern states:
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

MANNERS are of more Importance
than laws. In a great measure the
laws depend on them. The law touch
e8 US but here and there, and now and
then. Manners are what vex snd soothe,
corrupt or purify, exaIt or debase, bar
barrie or refine us by constant, steady,
uniform, insensibIe operation, like that
of the air we breathe. They give their
whole color to our lives. According to
their quality they aid morals, they sup
ply them, or they totally destroy them.
Burke.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
The Power of Admiration the Meas
ure of Lofty Soul.

Voltaire was by birth a mocker and
light POGO curante which disposition
his way of life confirmed into predoni-
nant, indeed, aII-pervading habit. Far
be it from us to say that solemnity is an
essential of greatness; that no great
man can have other than rigid, vine
gar aspect of countenance, never to be
thawed or warmed by pillows of mirth
There are things in this world to be
laughed at as we'll as to be admired,
and his is no complete mind that cannot
give to such sort its due. Nevertheless
contempt is a dangerous element to
sport in; a deadly one if We habitUally
live In it. How indeed, to take the
lowest view of this matter, shall a man
accomplish great enterprises, enduring
all toll, resisting temptation, laying
aside every weight, unless he zealOusly
love what he pursues? The faculty of
love, of admiration, is to be regarded
us the sign and the measure of high
souls; unwiselv directed it leads to
many evils but without it there cannot
be any good. Ridicule, on the other
hand, is indeed faculty much priced
by its possessors yet intrinsiGally it is
a small faculty, we may say the smallest
of all faculties that other men are at
the pains to repay with esteem. It is
directly opposed to thought, to knowI-
edge, properly so called; its nourish-
ment and essence is denial, which
hovers only on the surface. While
philosophers of Noatka sound were
pleased to laugh at the maneuvres of
Cooks seamen. did that render their
maneuvres useless and were the sea-
men to stand idle, or to take to leather
canoes till the laughter abated? Let a
discerning public Carlyle.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
Medicinal PoisOns on the wane.

The patriarchs took no mercury no bismuth, no
iodine no bromide of potassium, no stryChoria, no
quinine. Happy old gentlemen! they did not even
know Of the existence Of these specifics" and
vet they lived until it seemed as If death had for
gotten them. Their medicines We're herbs and
roots They have left this fact on record, and the
world seems to be now taking note of it and re.
turning to the first principles Of medication. hos
letters Stomach Bttters the purest and most eca-
Cious vegetable restorative of the day, the
most popular. Thousands of persons who only a
few years ago believed implicitly in all the posons
which igure in the pharmacoepia, now pronounce
this paIatable and Alternative aIl-suficient
remedy for dyspepsia, nervous debility, constipa-
tion bilious complaints, headache, intermittent
fevers and ali the ordinary disturbances of the
stomach. the liver the discharging organs and the
brain. The time is not far distant when most of
the uoyverf1I and venouous drugs now so reckless
" administered by practitioners of the " heroic
school in cases that might easily be controlled by
mildpT treatment will be utterly discarded by all
nbilcsophfCal physicians. As IL Il. the thinking
1tIbIic fo are geupraIiv ahead of the profession
ais have already put the dangerous preparations
aside and adopted Hostetters Bitters in their
stead as = safe and excellent household medicine,
adapted almost every auEnenL except the organic
aud deadly CONTAGIOUS diseases For more than
twenty years this f. nous restorative and proven
tive has been annually strengthening its hold upon
the public confidence and 10 now takes the lead Of
every aevertssd medicine manufactured IN this
country.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
University Of Louisville,
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
Corner Fighth and Chestnut SIS. LOUISVILLE, &
37tn ANNUAL SESSION.

TNACULTY-G. W. Bayless, NJ. D, Professor of
II Principals and Practice of Surgery.
J. NJ BOdine, N. D., Professor OF Anatomy and
Dean Of the Faculty.
L P. YandeII, JT., NJ. D, Professor of Nateria
Medica and Clinical medicine. H
E. R. Palmer, NJ. D, Professor of Physiology and
Histology.
r 5. Bell. NJ. D. Professor Science and Practice
of Medicine and Public Hygiene.
John +. Grove. NJ. D.. PrUle sssr OF Obstetrics
and diseases of Women and Children.
I. w. Holland, NJ. D., Professor of Medical
Chemistry and TOXicOlOgy.
d. w. YandeIl. NJ. D., Prof. of Clinical Surgery.
X. o. Cowling. NJ. b, Demonstration of Anatomy.
FEES-PrOf essOTs' tickets in foil, $50; Demon
stratOr's ticket, SO: Naturalization fee 81 Gradua
ton fee, $50; Hospital ticket Gequred by the city,
$.
The reguIarsessiOn Will commence on the FIRST
MONDAY IN OC"Tt BIER, and continue un IL the
1st Of March. 4 preliminary course Of lecture
FREE TO ALL STUDENTS,
Will commence on the second Monday of Septem-
Der, and continue to the opening of the regular
term.
J. NJ. IODINE. NJ. D, Dean of Faculty.
For the annual circular. containing fun partlcu-
lars, address K r. PALMER, secretary of Faculty.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. UNIVERSITY
OF LOUIsvHLE.-We give in another column
the announcement of the medical department
of the University of Louisville. This is one
of the oldest. best established and most re-
nOwned medical schools of our country. Many
of the most distinguished American physicians
are graduates of the University of Louisville
It's faculty is able and its means of instruc-
ton very ample. We cordially commend this
school to all medical students who would avail
themselves of a first-class institution in a de-
hghtfIIl city.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

CHAPPED HANDS. face, rough skin, pImpIes,
ringworm, salt-rheum, and other cutaneous
affections cured, and the skin made soft and
smooth, by using the JUNIPER TAB SOAP, made
by CAswELL, HAZARD & Co., New York. Bs
certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made by
Us, as there are many limitations made With
common tar which ara Worthless.-CO
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

WE see that PRoOTER & GAABLE's
EXTRA OLIVE SOAP is becoming very
popular in our city, its quality we know
is superior, and being nicely perfumed
we are not surprised that consumers
prefer it, and that it has large sale.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
Memphis.
HashKfIIen

THEuniversity of Loipsic was founded
in 1909. At last accounts it had seventy
professors, thirteen hundred students,
and one hundred and ninety-six stu
dents who are studying in absentia.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
A SONG FOR THE SEASON.

Lor q lodge in a garden of cucumbers;
. Ior an iceberg or two to control;
LOT a vale which at midday the dew cumbers 4;
y iof oalloon-trip up to the pole
y Tor little one-story Thermometer.
- Win nothing but zerOs ali ranged in a row
" Ior big double-barreled hydrometer,
To measure the moisture that rolls from my
brow!
y Jhat this cold world was twenty times colder
CIhats irony red-hot, it seemeth to nell
" Ior turn of its dreadful cold shoulder;
y what comfort an ague would be
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

on which it depends. $500 reward is offered by
the proprietor of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
for a case Of catarTh which he cannot cure. 1t
is sold bv druggists. So
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
THIRTY YEARS, EXPERIENCE
OF AN OLD NURSE.

Mss. yVfnsIOvV's Soothing Syrup is the
prescription OF one Of the best female physi-
clans and nurses In the UniIed States, and has
been used for thirty years with never falling safety
and success by millions OF mothers and children,
from the feeble infant Of week old to the adult
It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
collie regulates the bowels and gives rest, health
and comfort to mother and child. We believe it to
be the best and surest remedy in the world in all
cases OF DYSENTERY and DIARRHEA IN
CHILDREN, whether ii arises from teethi7g or
from any other cause Full directions for using
will accompany each bottle. None genuine unless
We fac-simile Of CURTIS & PERKINS is on the
GEBide wrapper.
Sold by all medicine dealers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

The New York Sun says that a pro-
fessor in the East Tennessee university
married lady after one hours court
ship, and during fifty minutes of that
time the professor and the girls father
were in the parIor alone.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

SCENE on Detroit excursion steamer :
Excited individual to the steward =:
" Don't you see a man there in the cabin
there hugging a woman ?" well, yes, -
replied the stewart, g but what of that ?
Hasn't a fellow a right to embrace his
wife % ''That's what I want you to run
him off for, " replied the stranger, dane
ing around; that's my wife, and I've
stood it so long that I've got mad p
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

HI % w d1hCl > OdI1AOLllAI ' Hi
egar BitterS are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of CalifOr-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted theTefrOm without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERS?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovation and InvigOTatOr
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has a medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick Of every disease man is heir to. They
are a gentle PUTgative as web as a Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
the Liver and Visceral Organs, III Bilious
Diseases.
The properties of DIR. WALKER's
VINEGAR BITTERS are Aperient, DiaphOretie,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter Titant, SUdoritic, Altera-
tive, and Anti-Bilious.
r.. H. 1IcDONALD q CO..
Druggists and Gen. Arts. San Francisco California
and cor OF Washington and Charlton SITS. n Y.
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

HENRIK. Bond of Jefferson Maine, was
cured of splitting blood, soreness and weakness
Of the stomach, by the use of Johnson's Ano-
dyne Liniment internally.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

IF THE farmers had control of the
rain, that is, had it in their own hands,
could they all agree upon the best
time for a shower?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

PRESENTATION has no effect on EImwOod
and Warwick collars. They retain their shape
under all ordinary circumstances, and are the
best to wear in warm weather. Com.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

A WANT has been felt and expressed by
physicians for safe and reliable purgative.
Such want is now auppGed in Parsons Pur-
gative Pills.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
You who lead sedentarv lives. nri

YOU VINO lead Sedentary lives, printers,
tailOrs, shOe-makers. ETC., will find great re-
lief for the constipation from which you so Of
ten suffer by taking Simmons Liver Regula-
tor. It is a simple, harmless, vegetable COM
pound, sure to relive you, and can do no in
iury
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
A Diabolical Weapon.

A man was hanged the other day at
San Francisco for murder with a weapon
of peculiarly dangerous and for long
time mysterious nature This is a sand
club, formed by filling an eel skin with
sand. When the instrument was first
brought into are, the authorities were
greatly puzzled by deaths, apparently
from violence, yet no marks could be
found on the outside of the body. A
burglar was finally captured with a sand
club in his possession, made out of an
eel skin stuffed with sand. Being
closely questioned, he explained its use.
When the victim is struck, for instance
on the head he drops insensible and
soon dies from congestion of the brain.
Often the skull suffers no injury from
the stroke, and if the person struck re-
covers sensibility he gradually relapses
into a condition of idiocy. Sometimes
a man struck in the body will be knocked
down by the peculiar force of the blow
and feel no INN ediate results from it.
In few weeks, however, the flesh Will
begin to mortify under the line of the
blow and rot down to the bone. Heller,
the celebrated pianist, is supposed to
have met his death in Mexico from a
stroke of this diabolical weapon:
john RANDOLPH of Roanoke, was
making a speech against the United
States bank, and among other things he
remarked, that the banks were the cause
of a perpetual motion that was more
certain and reliable than anything else
of the kind due to human invention.
E" For, says he, "banks make poverty,
and poverty makes rags, and rags make
paper, and paper makes money, and
money makes banks, and so on forever
and ever, so long as banks exist. ="