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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11
WHEN I DIE.
By JOHN 1IOGOvERN.

By JOHN 1IOGOvERN.
When life eludes me, and I die,
viii funeral-shFOuded vessels ply
A sObbing sea !;
Or jagged, minOr-keyed refrains
And sUIubre-deCoratec trains
COrOlIries be 2 .E
VIII gloomy flags and pennOns float
At solemn half-mast /: viii remote
Humanity
Feel that force hath disappeared. r-
And left earth nOught but stark and biered
Insanity .e. --..
VIII on stately staging lie,
While lutes-attune to grief-Ode's cry
And laureates rhyme
VIII centuries effulge my fame,
VIII history shout out my name,
To clOckless timer
wonder, when have to die,
If, as the asking years flash by,
can reply
Zen when feel the rattle's thrill,
90 I've been of earthly use, and will
That be a lie?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11
NUMBER 46.
A" Across the Plains. ~

Notes from the DRnbury News Mans
TraVeis-Denver and Elsewhere.
In Kansas City they speak of Denver
as fourishing hamlet, and then shrug
their shoulders. In Denver they think
that Kansas City would be a passabIe
place if it was on earth.
The favorite expression here is "in
time" Such ''town will in time be a
big city" Such a ''man viii in time
make fortune" Aud so on. In time y
is the popular qualifer used in every
connection.
They tell me here that grave-yards
are not needed for residents; they are
merely Iaid-out as an act of courtesy to
visitors. This intelligence affected me
very much, and visibly shortened my
stay In Denver. Kindness always did
overcome me.
We passed a number of settlements
on the line of the Kansas Pacific. They
were in fourishing condition, and am
ply provided with printing offices and
churches, but I would bave freely
traded them all for one buffalo. 1t is
an awful thing to want to see a buffalo
and not see it.
The markets of Denver are superior,
the saloons are elegant, and in one of
these places are billiard tables, which
are pronounced by people who know to
be equal to anything in New York. To
see shirt-sleeved miners and buIl-whack-
ers punch balls over these tables is next
in impressiveness to the eternal
SHOWS"
We found the populations of the
cities at the depots. The men were
whiting, not slashing off chips as you
see in the east, but softly tapering down
the stick, lovingly fondling it like a
man would do if he was whiting off
the end of his nose. Only the wealthy
whittle, anyway, because timber is
scarce.
These are admirable grazing lands. I
did not see cattle on a thousand hills,
but saw a thousand cattle on no hill.
Herd after herd we passed as we
whirled along, and attending them were
rough-Iooking men on horses. Men
who have been idealized In novels, only
in novels they are known as rangers,
but here they are simply denominated
bull-wbackers.
IF you come across any statements in
this letter that appear to be rather figu-
rative, so to speak, you must remember
that the letter IS written on the cars
while in motion, which are apt to make
the soundest statements and the most
awful truths appear yague-like. The
motion of running train is uncertain.
I start to give some facts which would
make a river open its mouth, when a
sudden move sends the pencil out of the
golden realms of truth into the obscene
atmosphere of levity. wish now that [
had written this pamphlet at the hotel,
because Denver is most delicate sub
jeet to handle under the most favorable
circumstances.
P. ST may be mistaken, but I feel
certain that a careful survey of the
above letter will not reveal the least
reference to the Pixies Peak and Longs
Peak as being so far distant and yet so
wonderfully discernible from Denver
I am the only writer who has performed
this feat, and I feel proportionateIy
proud of it, but I should hardly at
tempt it again.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

HORACE F. CLARK, the late deceased
" railroad king, is reported to have
left an estate of the value of S1O,OOO.-
600, which, it may be said, is doing
very well for one who had to make his
living out of the " scanty earnings
and profits of railroads.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

THE cynic of the st. Louis Democrat
says: The clerks IN the new Grand
Pacific hotel of Chicago have not had
charge of the cash drawer long enough
yet to sport diamonds, but one wears
the bottom of beer glass set in silver
on his bosom, and the other, the night
clerk, has small bull's-eye lantern set
in his shirt front with a revolving light. y
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11
~ NGENER

Preparations to print new national bank
currency authorized by congress, have already
been commenced, an appropriation of 5000. :
600 to pay therefor having become available
Work upon plates will be commenced next
week, and Ave, ten and twenty dollar notes
will be first issued. 1t will probably occupv
three months to complete the plates and print
and number the notes. sufficient quantity
of those denominations will be placed in cir
culation be ore ecommencingw upon others.
Two and fifty dollar notes viii be next printed
but as to the exact amount of these denoni-
nations 10 be issued, no determination has
been reached, that matter being left with the
banks to arrange with comptrollers
The Mexican border commission has
lodged it's final report with the state depart
ment. Four hundred cases have been exam
ied, aggregating in amount only s11 .OOO.-
600, and not $4,000, 900, as has been represen-
tod
The secretary OF the interior has made
the following important ruling: When a
homestead is Cancelled and a homestead claim
ant is found on the land a the date of suoh
oancellation, together with others, who all de-
sign taking the land under pre-emption laws.
the homesteader being legally upon the land,
his settlement rights rests instantly on such
cancellation, while the claimants, having gone
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11
How the Ladies of Pompeii Dressed

The fair Pompeiian laved her body IN
warm, scented baths of asses or goats
milk, lying in IuxuriOusness for an
hour; nay, an hour was the merest
point of time with her when so en-
ployed often a bath occupied the en-
tire morning. In consequence, her
flesh was as delicately-tinted white as
the inner leaf of a newly opened tea
rose, of satin-like texture as the petals
of Gala lily. Venus Aphrodite, com
ing in all her lovely perfectness from
the sea-foam, was her essential type.
These same POmpeiian beauties, by the
way, dressed, walked, talked and strove
to be enchanting after the Greek styles
as thorougIy as any of our own fair ones
strive, to-day, to emulate the seductive
grace of the Parisienne. Next to the
skin, the bellies of that buried age, and
their Greek models also, wore a garment
of cambria then band of strophium,
which supported the bosom without
confning it, since nothing would have
been considered more shocking than
Strengthening up the figure in corsets,
binding it up in whalebOne splints :
the softly natural curves, the undula-
ting swell, being thought the true line
of beauty in all sorts of artistic forms,
in life as well as stone. The maker of
the strophium was as much priced as
the corset-maker in our day. Over this
band was always worn jacket, with
sleeves, made of the finest wool. Then
came the graceful tunics, the length of
which was evidence of the character of
the dame it adorned. This form of
dress was equally the custom among
Roman fairs, as among the Greek and
Pompeiian. A mantle, the artistic grace
in the arrangement of which the most
celebrated French modiste of to-day
cannot equal, the manner of wearing
which, under the right breast, over the
left, and thrown across the shoulder,
was as unvarying as the color, which
was always white, and which one of
their poets called "woven wind-clouds, y
was the invariable dress of walking.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

The Memphis Appeal says that the
priest of st. Patrick's church at Sunday
mornings mass not only gave the mem
bers of his congregation permission to
eat meat on Friday, but recommended
it as necessary to health during the e1-
igtence of the prevailing sickness.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

RETIRING FROM BUSINESS. Dlo
Lewis, retiring from business, common
and popular as it is, Is a great humbug.
No man should retire from business TIL
he retires to the grave. When his fac
mites become slow and dull, from age,
he should reduce the number of hours
in his daily work reduce them just as
his strength declines but IN no case
sbould he change or drop his occupa-
ton, unless disease actually comPels
him. He may purchase an estate IN the
country, to which he retires at an early
bour in the afternoon, and he may
postpone his morning hours after the
Young people have begun, but he must
not Quit or make a radical change. We
know of nothing so sure to lead to dys-
pepsia, insanity and suicide, as retiring
from business,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

THE st. Louis Democrat refuses a
a young lady's "pomelet" because it
isn't long enough it has only a dozen
and a half or two dozen verses In it.
The Democrat requires sixty verses. 1t
gives four linesof the "pomelet, " mere
ly to whet the readers appetite. They
are as follows :
ago see what / have sawn,
Go feel what have felt;
60 out at early dawn,
And smell what have Emelt'
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

ANNoUNCElIENTs.-Ann the name Of
person for County Office, S.; State Office S1O,
Federal Office SIS. Invariably in advance.
- The above Terms and Rates will Be
trictly adhered to. r..#lf
~ Religious, Marriage, Birth aud Death
Notices solicited, and will be willingly inser-
ed FREE OF CHARGE. Obituaries will be charged
advertising ratess
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

JOHN G. SAKE is on the PerilOus verge
of so.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-11

THE thin coating of piety and morali-
ty that the typhoid fever threw over
the Prince of Wales is beginning to
wear through in places. In fact the
prince is growing rapid again.
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, 1873-10-12

which owe no part Of sucl rnilrond~aid lobtB will
pay OIL the 1ovy Of 1879 10000 of tax to
pay tho interest OH tho ralroal MD dobtH ant to
o'ca1o fund |" pAy tho principal OF such dcht.
1tcrr, then. In the motive for increasing
tlls nsHrHsAcnt uf 1878 from t50O, ,O0p.-
nan to a{,2on. nm. INN. II tho ruatlor will
Turn ba;]s to tho statement Of tllo Inv,
ho will find that when tl,oro Is mur.oy to
tho credit Of any county, town, &c., In tho
TronBury, thuH obtained, It will bo awful to 1850
tho samo to purchase any Of said bonds Mt par.
With 9t0, ,6000 600 Of thoBo boutu atloat, and ono
ha1f of these, perhaps, to bo litigated on tho
ground Of fraud and illegalty in their iasuo,
with tho interest on neariy al1 Of them unpaid,
tlorc is a promising field for speculation. Tho
purchaser Of 1alf d million Of them in 1879 at
40 cents Oh tho dollar, who can havo them ro-
deemo<l O yoar lence as par with all tho buck iu-
torost, will mako handsome thing Of It.
Tho sharo Of this plundor which Ia to bo taken
from Chicago will DO, Perhaps Aatf a million Of
dollars yoar, which, with the million and half
taken from otlor counties, will pay tho whole
dcbt, principal and interest, in about thirty
yoars. The conspiracy betwoon tho bonllolders
and thoir confodoratos at Springfield Is to secure
the payment Of tho principal and interest OF
these bonds by tax on tho counties owing no
part thcroof, aud, to mnko tho samo as unobjec-
tionnblo as poasib1o, to oxtort tho larger uhare
of it from Chicago.
, 1873-10-12

The managers Of tue Torraco-uart1en Thohtrc,
In Now York, announced grand aaorel concert
last Sunday III Which Milo. Aimee and her entire
troupe appeared in STA Grande Duohosae." OF
courno 1t ia very difficult to dofno exactly what
ia Hacrod music. We have hoard In tho churches
Of this city Offonbaoh's music sot to sacred
words, and there is acareoly Sunday on which
music Of tho most secular sort is not giyen
in this mannor. But the managers OF
tho theatre in question have carrIod
tho sacrod-musio busineBs to tho limits
of tho ridiculous. Thoro is no possible
ahado OF meaning in the English word "sacrod T"
which can apply to Oifeubachs bur1esques.
Rather than dosecrate the word In this manner,
it would bo much moro desirable for managers
to announce their concerts as exactly whnt they
aro. 30 long as concerts arc not prohibited on
Sunday evenings md 30 long aa roligious poo
plo do not attend them, thors seoms to be no spo-
oa1 reason why tho word should bo uael at all.
, 1873-10-12

Good Tomptar Lodge in miniature, consisting
Of not fewor than ton moubors, from to 10
years Of age. All mombors lavo to tako tho
Tomplo pledge, which Is to abstain from alt spir-
ituous nnd malt liquors, vino and cidor, to-
bacco, and all othor narcotics. gambling, and
Ind language Tho Juvonilo Temples havo no
seorct work. and visitors aro admitted by por-
mission Of tho Superintendent. There aro four
toen Offices, to which aorno Of tho children aro
appointed to attond to tho Templo-work. It ia
stated TINT tloro aro now 650 TomplcH, with
totnl membership Of $4,000, mud tho number Ia
rapidly increasing.
, 1873-10-12
DARWINIsM AND THE EVANGELICAL
ALLIANCE,


Tho subject Of Darwinisn was brought up one
day last week in tho Evangelical Alliance now
In session in Now York, and was fairly met by
Dr.. Dawson, or, as lo is most commonly called,
Principal Dawson, Of Montreal. This gentle
man's remarkR on Darwiniem haye a special
importance, because they Indicate how far an
orthodox churcl>man Of real scientific attain
ments may go in tho now school Of tho origin
Of specieB, aud wnoro le must stop.
Dr.. DawAon is tho only mombor Of
tho Alliance. go fur as TO know, OF
any assured position in tho scientific world
THO circumstance tint ho waH asked to detlno
the relations of Darwinism and revelation i'm
plies that his authority III scientific as we'll rs
theological matters is fully recognized by tho
Conference. He is, in fact, q man Of large learn
Ing aud distinguished attainmen:s. Sir Charles
Lyall, though believer in tho Darwinian by
pothoHis, and Mr. Huxley, though altogether
hctorolox in his philosophy, both accord
DR.. Dawson 4 high place In the gcologi-
cal researches Of Canada, md particularly
commend hiH original Investigations Of tie coal
formation of Nova scotia. We mention this to
show t1at Dr.. Dawaon'a view Of Darwinism is
not simply that Of IN orthodox Christian, but OF
u sauaut Of considerable omiuence.
Dr.. Dawson makes distinction botwoon Dar-
winiBm and tho theory Of Evolution, Which arc
commonly regarded as ono and tho na,ne thing.
Tue theory Of Evolution, Of which Horbort spon.
;a in Tint 1tn,t ne
only two things in the universe mattor
and force; that no mover find ono With
out tho other; and that tho world, as wo
know it, is tho result Of an uudosgning,
necoasito1s action Of matter aud force. In oth-
or words, force IL nothing but result Of mat
tor, which acts IN obedience to all Inherent law,
aud nil tho changes aud varieties which wo noto
aro the necessary results Of this force. Dur
winism, DR.. Dawson thinks, is quito another
thing.> It Is nn assumption that "Hpecics arc
tho result of "natural soloctlon," aud Of !" tho
survival of tho Attost" In tho struggle for OK
iytenco. Whilo thero are some factB which 20
to show tho possibility Of the origin Of species
In tls wny, DR.. Dawson thinks that Darwinlsm
has 1lQL y9t uLiAIuGu BCl9ulIuG uuhGa AuQ tunE+
| regarded III aystom Of philosophy, 1t III
| altogether bad. II Dr.. Dawson'a dolnitEon q!
the spcncerien doctrine Of Evolution is correct
then slr. Darwln's theory is certainly departure
from it, though most Of tho sciontitio ,non wllc
have glyon in their alhoronco to Darwin havt
not found their new faith incompatible with Mr.
Rponceru toachings. In faot, it has beon
clalmod by A1r. sroncor's admirorB that ho III tLt
puront anil originator Of what is now known NJ
Darwinlaln.
While Dr.. Dawson admits that h1r. Darwin
| Inns discovered and verified, to Homo OK
tont, to differentiation OF species, HI
dentos TINT lo hcs eyer yot trace
his theory Of "natural solootiou" among tA'
different genera, by this, DR.. Dawson unaoubt
edy moans that tho changes donoting "natura
selection and "Ruryiyal Of tue attest" hay
, 1873-10-12

The vampire superstition Inns once more re-
yiyod III Europe, asll HoolnB to be spreading.
THIS supel latition-ouo Of tho strangeat which
has over afflicted the human race-is that a
buried man Or woman, with It's life still con-
soious, rises from its gravo by night and sucks
the lifo blood of its nearest relatives; end, what
Ia worse thau this, every person bitten by tho
vampire ulso bccomca vampire, a,sd is forever
doomed to follow this dreadful vocation. It il now
many years sinco anything bus boon heard Of
tho suporHtition but two Or tbroo lawsuits re-
ceutly decided III Prussia Hhow that tits notdoal.
yoars of wraugliug. On tho 9th Of February,
1870, Polish nobloman Of tho name Of Pobloli
died iu Western Prussia. A short time after
ward. tho eldest son died also. lmtnoaiato-
ly afterwards, four mo,nbora Of tho fun
tly woro takon sick, and, upon CONSUL
tation together. they decided that thoiE
father was thu vampire eugagod In drinking
their blood. Ono OF them therefore determined
to apply romody, which WIS, to behead the
corpsc, aud placo 1t mouth downward This he
succeoded in doing BY bribiug the undertaken.
Subsequently, however, tho hitter Informed tho
yillago clcrgynun. and the son OF Poboloki was
arrested for desoorating his fathers grave. On
tho trial. It was also shown that tho blood
had boon removed from tho body, and that
tho yarioua mombora Of tho famly drank it..
Aftor two yoars' wrangling. the caso WIS dis
missed upon tho ground that no harm had been
done, and that tho accused thought thoy wore
acting In sell-dofonse. Since that tlmo, throo Or
four moro casos Of u smilar nature layo boon
tried, ontllng in acquiltal also. To crush out
this horrible superstition, 1t will yot become
necessary Tor Germany to pass luw against
canuibaliam which Of itHclf ia striking com.
mont OIL niuotcontll-ceutury civilization.
, 1873-10-12

not got boon tracol botwoon tho general diyia-
ions Of tho Mammal Ago, thong1, thoy arc at
toatcd In tho progross OF man, tho apo, etc., III
their specific development. 1Io ia therefore ablo
without doing injustice to his scientific obsorva-
ton, to teclaro TINT tho assumption that man
Is tho product Of tho apo Ia contrary
to tho rovolnt.on OF tho Scriptures. It would DO
premature to ask what position DR.. Dawson
would tako IT Nrr. Darwin or his disciples should
supply tho "miBa[ng linhB," and demonstrate
"nat1rnf selection to be 4 characteristic Of tho
differentiation into gonora. 11is answer to any
s'ioh suggestion Us this would probably DO that
tho Darwinists will noyor be nb1o to do
It, whtlo tho Darwinists claim that thoY
will he able to do 1t, aud, In tho
meantime, asaumo tint common origin
Of cortain epocios atsoBts ooi,..on origin Of tho
various genora, such as man aud the apo. Thus
fur, DR.. Dawson can maintain TINT no scientific
facts havo boon developed to dtsprovo tho cor
rcctness of tho origin Of man ns revealed in the
Bible, whatovor may DO said rs to the period
Of tir1o man has oxiated upon tho oarth.
Tho position tahon by DR.. Dawson in relation
to tho Darwinian theory is an entirely safo
Que for orthodox Christians who arc not
disposcd to mako a general denial Of all
Of Mr, Darwin's diacoverieH. It is mucl,
more reasonable, and moro in consonance
with tho spirit of the ago, than to maintain, er
cathedra, TINT, when aoiontido mon 1nako dis
coyorioH which do not apparently harmonizo
with revelation, they must DO put down as inf
dolls aud dangerous members Of society,