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The M.x,.,rase. ana Con.table..

PROCEEDINGS OF The LEGISLATIVE INvEs-i-
eating COMMITTEE.
The legislative committee, of which yr Long
Is chairman, TO inquire into the TIsuner in
which magistrates and constables p.rform their
duties, was in session to-day aud took some
testimony. A statement was received from Mr..
George \. Barber to the effect that on the Slst
of May his horse and wagon was taken by one
John Doch; that he found where IL was. and
went to Justice Mills for advice, and acting on
il procured a warrant for the arrest Of the party
paying 81 therefor. After some difculty he
found officers, and they went to the place and
arrested Doef, and they took him to the Police
Court. Before he got TO the Police Court the
case had been dismissed, and property ordered
to be returned to Dosh. He then went to coun-
tice Hughes, and he issued the papers and cali
ed Constable Q. G. Kimmell to serve them, and
Hughes demanded IS, which deponent paid.
Lieut. Kelly refused to hear the paper read,
soon afterwards came back with an order
to return the papers to him. He then went TO
Hughes, and he lH) said he thought at the
time that he had the power to issue the papers,
but had since discovered that he had not. He
demanded that new papers be made out at his
(HughesD expense, which was done, but In the
meantime the horse was turned over to Dosh;
bat Hughes charged him 80 more, which he
paid under protest. That while waiting for the
papers Lieut. Kelley and his reserves went to
his house and forcibly took the harness and the
wagon, and turned il over to Dosh. When Con-
stable Kimmel came with the second set OF
papers all were gone. This was on the 2d day
the papers and recovered the property from
Dosh, and the second writ was reported to
Hughes. on this X immell charged ~. 80, which
complainant paid. He asked for the property,
and Kimmell said he had put it in stable with
his own horses. The next day he again de-
manded his property, and Kimmell gave him an
order for it, and TO pay his stable bill, after
he had informed him that his counsel, Caring
ton, had advised him to make the demand. The
repleyin suit was transferred to Justice Wal
tiers, and deponent got judgment with costs;
but he has not been able to get his costs. JUS
tice Walter demanded and received his fee of
81. This made the costs paid amount TO S15 80.
Learning afterwards that some of the parties
had said he had paid too much, he called on
them. Officer Kimmell refused to refund. JUS
tice Hughes offered to refund 80; but complain
ant claimed that he was entitled to more, and
refused to take it. He sums up as follows
Warrant from Justice Mills, 81, replevin
papers from Justice Hughes, SIS; do. odd do,
50; paid c. A. Kimmell, 81 SO; counsel, IS;
horse hire for Kimmell, SIS; Justice Walter for
what i don't know about, al; necessary ex-
penses, s; witness, 80; repairs of wagon owing
to bad usage, $780, stable hire. 81; total, Sal TO
recover the property, to say nothing of losing
time. After some weeks delay the property
was sold for $3.50; deduct commission, 80 .0S;
net on sale. s35.I2-S5.31 less than was paid to
recover it,
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FALL OF Boy THRouGH A HA,czw.y
Yesterday afternoon, about 3 O'Clock, q boy
about 10 years old, named Thos. Bridget,
while PLAYING abouttae hatchway n the upper
story OF the sEmae mill at the corner OF King
and Payne streets, Alexandria, fen from the
ihird story to the ground on Payne street re-
cefying severe internal Injuries from which II IL
thought that he cannot recover,
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About CLOCK D. N. yesterday Sam1 T. Nugent
ara Charles Morgan, celored, got into q din
Guilty in the North IN MARKET, when the formsr
struck the latter on the back on the head with
ssnmer, isnicting a serious volsnd. Morgan
w removed 20 bis home, 110s X s.reet, and
1tierd'd by Dr. Young. Nagent was ar
TESTED last night BY OH.eer Brooks.
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THE SINGER SKwIH9 MAcHINx sales of 1s7
were S2f9 600. 41o-s wifi
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CUSTOM SHIRT DEPARTMENT

TEE PEE CENT. pIsoouHr ON ALL CASE
SALES Exosr1 res SPECIAL ospxss.
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FOR RELIEF FROM CoRNs, BUNIoNs,
TRoUBLEsoME NAILS, etc, visit DIR. White
surgeon chiropodist, No. 5S5 18th street, oppo-
site the U. s. Treasury. Office hours from 8
a. m. to p. m. Fee one dollar. Established
In Washington 1861 u
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PRIsoNKR DELIVERED TO THE MAINLAND
AUTHoRITIEs.-This morning, Sheriff John r.
Miller, of Montgomery county, Nd, arrived in
this city with a requisition from Gov. whyte,
o. Md, for prisoner in custody here, named
Nelson johnson, charged with the larceny of
ct ming and jewelry from one Samuel Dorsey.
Jon nson was arrested here and committed 20
lsl. several days ago. He was tarned over to
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TuRoo-RussIAs BATES; also, Medicsted Va
903 e street. 52O.6:
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WILCOX q GIBB's SHwINe MACHINE. The
celebrated Besaar Patterns. Agency at Ohas.
Baums ho0pekirt and corset factory, 9TH street,
Intelligencer Building. 1923
The COMMUNITY at large appreciate the use
fulness Of Singers Sewing Machine. is
THHknonHrlRs and Barometers are repaired
And made TO order BY Hempler. near ~ street.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21
The Province of Criticism.

OF a mans merit only his own age
has the right to judge. Bnt an age
has the right to Judge of another age.
If Voltaire has judged the man Cor
nellie, he is absurdly envious. If he has
judged the age of Corneille and the po-
sitiOn of the dramatic art of that time,
he can do so, and our age has the right
to examine the taste of proceedings ages.
I have never read Voltaire's notes on
Corneille, nor wished to read them,
Notwithstanding that they stared at me
from all the mantel-shelves of Paris
when they appeared but L have hap
pened to open the book two or three
times for detraetion, and each time I
have thrown in aside with Indignation
becauss I. have stumbled upon gram
matical notes which told me that word
or phrase of Corneille's was not good
French. This has appeared to me as
absurd as though was told that Cicero
or Virgil, though Italians did not write
in as good italian as Boccaccio or AriOs-
to. What impertinence 1! Every age
and every country has living language
and all are equally good. Each writes
its own. We do not know what will
happen to the French language who
it shall have become d cad but it may
be that posterity will write French in
the style of Montaigne and CorneiIIe,
and not in that of Voltaire. There
would be nothing strange in that. We
write Latin in the style of Plautus, Ter
ence, Lucretius, and not in that of Pru-
dentius, Sidonius, Apollinaris, though,
without question, the Romans were in
finitely better informed in the fourth
century concerning the sciences, astron-
omy, gerometry, medicine, literature,
etc, than they were in the times of Ter
ence and Lucretius. It is a matter of
taste, and we can foresee nothing about
the tastes of posterity,-if indeed we
have a posterity and a universal deIuge
does not interfere in the matter.-Abbe
GaLiani.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21
THE FIRST vI0LETs.
By SIR z. BULwER LYrToN.


Who that has loved knows not tender tale,
Which flowers reveal when lips are coy to tell
Whose youth has paused not, dreaming in the vale
We're the wrath violets dwell?
Lo, where they shrink along the lonely brake,
Under the hfeless, melancholy tree,
Not Yet the cuckoo sings, nor glides the Fnske,
Nor wild thyme lures the bee.
Yet all their sight and scent entranoed and thrill
All June seems golden in the April skies
How sweet the days we yearn for till fulfilled
o distant Paradise!
Dear land to which Desires forever fees,
Time doth no Present to the grasp allow;
Say, in the fixed eternal shall sieze
at last the heeting Now7
Dream not Of days to come, of that unknown
Whittier hope wanders (maze without a Clue:)
Give their true witchery to the flowers-thine
Youth in their youth renew.
Avarice remember when the cowslip's gold
Lured and yet lost its glitter in the grasp:
Do thy boards glad thee more than those OF old {?
Those withered in thy clasp.
From Fess the hands falls palsied-it Was zHEE
Alas, poor fool ! joy is the wealth OF men,
And care the poverty.
Come, foiled Ambition what hast thou desired 2
Empire and power 20 wanderer tempest-tossed
These once we're thine, when Hfe's gay spring in
Thy soul with glories lost
Let the flower charm thee to the jocund prime,
When Ger the stars rapt fancy traced the chart /;
Thou hadst an angels powers in that best time
Thy realm a human heart
Hark! bark again the tread of bashful feet
Hark the boughs ruftling round the tTysting
place!
Let air again with one dear breath be sweet,
Earth fair with one dear face
Brief-lived first flower, first love. the hours steal
on,
To prank the world in summers pomp of hue;
But what shall haunt beneath hercer sun
Worth what we lose in you
OFT by a flower, a leaf in some loved book
We mark the lines which charm us most. Retrace
Thy life, recall its love lest passage; look.
Dead toilets marks the place!
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21
How a Rattlesnake Bites.

A writer in Chambers Journal cor
tradicts a popular belief as to the man.
ner in which snakes bite and inject their
poison. He says: 81 can only speak
for the rattlesnake, it is true with
every other venomous reptile the ortho-
dox accounts may be correct, but the
rattlesnake does not send its poison
through it's fangs. It is always said
that the two fangs, which answer some
What to the human "sye-teeth," are
hollow and perforated at the bottom,
and that the poison flows from the re-
servoir through this canal to the point
of the fang, and thence into the wound.
The rattlesnake's fang Is certainly hOl-
low, but the point Is solid, and the pOis-
On-bag, to use a very homely simile,
may be compared in its position to a
Qun-boiI when the animal strikes the
pressure instantly causes q drop of ven
lrn to run down outside the tooth into
the punctUre.
"I dare say this Will be controverted,
and I therefore at once give an authOr;-
ty to be referred to. Mr.. W. r. Nor
ley, chief surveyor of the North and
South and United States Central rail
ways, running through Colorado and
New Mexico, is a skilled naturalist, who
has killed several hundred of these rep
tiles, has carefully examined them, and
has made them bite when in a position
to watch them, and he can speak from
more experience than almost any living
man, that the poison is injected in the
manner described. This accounts for
the fact that rattlesnake bites are some
times harmless when the sufferer is Bit
ten through cloth the poison is absorb-
ed by the cloth, and never finds its way
into the flesh at all.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21
The highest Heroism.

Is it not thst which is free even from
the appreciation Of ourfellow-men even
from the appreciation of the best and
wisest? The heroism- which is known
only to our Father who's in secret? {?
the godlike deeds done in the lonely
chamber? the godIike lives lived in
obscurity pa heroism rare among Is
me1, who live perforce in the glare and
noise of the outer world more common
among women; /; women of whom the
| world never hears who, if the world
discovered them, would only draw the
veil more closely over their faces and
! their hearts, and entreat to be leftalone
with God. True, they cannot always
hide. They must not always hide or
their fellow-creatures, would lose the
golden lession. But, nevertheless, 1t is
of the essence of the perfec1 and wo-
manly heroism, in which, rs in all
spiritual forces, woman transcFuds the
man, that it would hide if /! could.
And it was g pleasant thought to me,
when I glanced lately at the golden
deeds of woman IN Miss YOner's book
it was a pleasant thought to me, that ]
could say to myself-Ah : yes These
heroines are known, and their fame fii'
through the mouths of men. But if 81,
how many thousands of herOines theIe
must have been, how many thousands
there may be now, of whom we shall
never know! But still they are there.
They SOW in secret the seed of which
we pluck the flower and eat the fruit
and know not that we pass the sower
daily IN the street-perhaps some hum
BILE, addressed woman, earning painfully
her own small sustenance. She who
nurses a bedridden mother instead of
sending her to the work-house. She
who spends her heart and her mony en-
drunken father, a reckless brother, or
the orphans of a kinsman or a friend.
She who-but why go on with the long
list of great little heroism, with which
a clergyman at least comes in contact
daily-and it is one of the most emo
bling privileges OF a clergyman's high
calling that he does come in contact
with them-why go on, I say, save 10
commemorate one more form of great
little heroism-the cOmmOnest, and yet
the lest remembered of all-namely, tie
heroism of an average neither? All
when think of that last broad fact,
gather hope again for poor humanity;
and this dark world looks bright, this
world looks wholesome to me
once more; because whatever else 1t Is
or is not full of, it is at least full of
mothers
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21
KING BABY.

His scepter is a rattle,
His throne is his mothers arms
He reigns a tiny tyrant,
In all his dimpled charms
Yet round his royal presence
Our loving hearts entwine;
Dictator of the cradle,
And king by right divine.
Whatever be his mandates,
No COUrtiers dare rebel;
His mothers chief of the household, /,
Prime minister as well
In yOn perambulator,
His dOwny car Of state;
EIactng, rosy monarch,
What triumphs on him watt
In purple, ease and splendOr,
Long. long he seeks TO reign;
Al hints of nose disjOinted.
He smiles at with disdain
Alas that royal greatness
Should ever be disowned
Here comes q tiny stranger
King Baby Is SiethrOwned.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21
Selected Miscellany.
AN ANSWER To A QUESTION.

Do you ever wish in your lonely hour
That you were man with mans great pow
ers,
That you could hew with brawny arm,
That you speak with a Grattan's charm,
That you conld be in the Nations realm
a Cesar ruling his fellow-men
Do you never long to be strong and great
Or are you content with your Woman's fsteT
In my darkest moments of deep distress
I have never wished myself more nor less;
I have never pined for a mans strong power
Or implored my God for richer dOwsr
Than the tender heart Of q woman true
The impulse to wish and the will to do
Sweet deeds Of mercy and lovely grace
That 4" make sunshine in shady place.
I have home, where my charities have full play
To expand, like rose, in the light Of day;
I've the world, where the poor and the sac
abound,
I can pour nv balm in the aching wound
What more have yOu? from my platform high
My wOman's weak hands can touch the sky,
Can yours do more though you plan aud plot.
My friend, what are you that am not 2
Two inches there are in the worlds great wall,
We can I'LL them, and that is all;
Mans statue stands with a taller height,
Bnt wOman's CLEANS with purer white;
What If her size is somewhat low,
What if she make lesser show,
She fills her niche, man flls his, friend;
Now, what is the difference in the enp7
I thand God that in gracious mood
He gave me the crown of my wOmanhOod;
That he fenced me in with woman's state,
That he gave me all of a wOman's fate;
Her tears to shed and her woes TO feel,
Her heart true as the truest steel;
And, if to my feet narrO paths are given,
know that iii easier reach yon heaven.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21
THE RUINED TEMPLE.
An AHegOry by the Author OF the SchOn.
berg Gotta Family.

An AHegOry by the Author OF the SchOn-
berg Gotta Family.
The temple was in ruins, and the
priestess sat, a captive in-chains, among
its broken and scattered fragments. It
had been a temple of the most ancient
form, open to the sky, beautiful beyond
any temple upon earth, beautiful and
sacred and some remnants of its beauty
hung about it still-fragments of ex-
quisite carvings and broken shafts of
graceful columns. But everything was
shattered and out of place, the window
tracery shivered in athousand fragments
and strewn on theground, columns pros
trate, sacred vessels lying rusted among
the weeds, the pure spring which had
gUshed from beneath the altar choked
up and dry, and instruments of sacred
music mute and broken on the ground.
On the walls in some places were the
traces OF violence, but it was remarka-
BILE that they seemed to have been as
saulted only from within. Indeed, the
temple had been a fortress, so impreg-
nably situated and built that except
from within not one stone could ever
have been displaced.
This was, in fact, the saddest part of
its history. The temple had been
desecrated before it had been ruined,
and in it's ruin it was templestill, hut,
alas no longer sacred to Him in whose
honor it had been reared. Many sense
less or Ioathsome idol images were
carved on the walls, strangely contrast
ing, in their shapelessness or deformity,
with the symmetry of every fragment of
the original structure. On the broken
altar in the center stood an image of
the priestess herself. This was the
earliest idol which had entered there,
and with the entrance of this the ruin
had begun. The enemy who had, with
subtle batteries, introduced this idol
had ever since had access to the temple,
and step by step the priestess had sunk
beneath his power. He had led into
wild orgies, in which she herself had
defaced the delicate tracery and torn
down the walls :; and when she awoke
from the frenzy and wept, as sometimes
she would, he siIenced her tears with
| blows or with mocking threats of the
vengeance of Him to whom the temple
had been consecrated. Sometimes,
however, she woke to a moments full
consciousness of the desoIation around
her, and then she would wall and la
ment until he seemed to fear some IN
seen friend would hear; and at such
/ seasons he grew more gentle, and re-
newed the old persuasions and batteries
/ by which he had misled her at first
He would even encourage her at times,
when all other methods failed, to try
and collect the scattered stones, and
repair the breaches in the shattered
walls, and restring the broken harp for
for he knew well her puny efforts must
/ fail, and that no hands but those Of the
/ builder could ever restore the ruin she
/ had wrought. So, after a few faint
endeavors, she, as he expected, would
! give up in dispair, and sit covering
hopelessly on the ground afraid of Him,
whose priestess she was, afraid of her
| own voice.
In such better hours he would again
! grow bold, and mock her with the mem
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21
NUMBER 81.
THE LITTLE FRoCK.

Faded and worn in places,
Faded and worn and old,
Ny tears on il leave their traces,
As I smooth it out fold upon fold,
For II beareth a magic power,
The fount OF my tears to unlock,
When think OF the happy hour
fashioned that little frOck.
Ny darling sat beside me,
With his beautiful eyes Hgleam,
And that was erst denied me
Seemed into nv heart 70 beam,
As I thought Of the wOndrous mercy,
OF the goodness and the love,
That prompted ''Our Father" to send me
Such an angel down from above.
Ny needle few fast and faster,
NY thoughts took wing, II few,
To the courts Of the bessed Mast T,
From whose gates nv baby came through:
And I wondered il s'l Gods angels
looked as pure and frsn as be
II among the shining Srchangels
There was any more fair to see.
But there came pale, sad stranger
Unto my house one day;
Ny heart stood still, as IL danger
And darkness about me Law
besOught him that he would leave me,
For his touch was chill aud strange,
And he laid his hand upon my baby,
Who strsightway seemed to change
His pale little cheeks grew whittier,
His bright blue eyes grew dim,
His clasp on my finger grew lighter,
The victory was to him
To that pale and icy monarch,
Who rules with relentless sway,
Who came to my home in triumph
And bore my treasure away.
But q greater than He remaineth
Who has broken the bands Of the tomb
Who hath robbed King Death of his terrOrs
And lighted the pathway Of gloom;
Who promised us sweet consolation,
If we patiently how meath his rod,
And know he hath taken my darling
To bloom in the garden Of God.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21

MoNoPoLIEst thrives in Memphis. The
old Gas company asked an injunctIon'
against the new company, on the ground
that it wonld be impossible for it to lay
,Iovp mains without disturbing those of
the OLD company. The Judge granted
the process. restraining the new organi-
cation from laying down its mains until
the question can be decided at law, if
the old company chooses TO push it IN
less the new one will deposit 100000
to meet a possible verdict for damages.
OF course it will not do that, and the
old company remains master of the
situation, and can cheat and swindle
and extort, like any other gas company
with no fear of competition or restraint.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21
Glazed Promenades.

The almost inexhaustable possibili-
ties of glass in the amelIoration of the
winter climate of high latitudes are, as
yet, scarcely dreamed of. How easily
and inexpensively the cold, bleak, wind
swept streets of our nothern cities, in
winter, could be converted into delight
ful promenades by enclosing the side
walks of the principle streets with glass
supported In a light iron frame work
These frames would not rise from the
curbstone to the height of the lower
stories of the buildings, with an in
elined roof the width of the sidewalks.
The iron side framework would be so
constructed that the glass, formed, in
large, thick panes, could be easily taken
out in summer and replaced at the ap-
proach of winter. The glass IN the
roof would remain permanently, and in
warm weather would be covered with
awnings. The glass roof of the arcades
would be continued over the cross
streets, although the sides would ne
cestarily be opOn for the passage OF We
hicIes. Where the enclosed open upon
cross streets, there would be several
light doors, 80 hung as to swing either
way, thus permitting the tide of prom
enaders to flow through without him
trance. There doors could remain
open, except on very cold or stormy
lays. It would be the duty of the po-
lice to regulate the temperature OF the
arcadet by opening or closing the ven
tilators as occasion required. The
readers can imagine IN some degree the
change that would attend a promenade
we will say on fremont street, if the
sidewalks of that thOroughfare were en-
closed as has been described. Ladies,
even invalids, could do their shopping
or visiting, or take their needful exercise
during the most inclent weather. 1t
admits of no question that any business
street or block that first has glass arcades
along its sidewalks VIII attract to itself
trade enough to pay the cost Of the
glass and iron enclosures many times
over. 1t nees no very ardent imagina-
ton to conceive the paradise a nothern
city would become IN wieter if the side
walks of all its principal streets we're
thus enclosed in crystal. The great
annoyances of dust and cold, of wind
and rain, would be reduced almost to a
nulIity. Our civilization is hardly
worthy of the name till such consumma-
ton is brought about.-AtLdHtic.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-21

A LITTLE telegraph boy stole a $3.50
diamond ring from the house of a wo-
man to whom he had just delivered a
dispatch, and sold it to street car con-
ductor for Is cents. But the latter was
a very honest man-for q conductor
and he only bought it to restore II 70
the owner. At least 80 he told the de-
tectives.