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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-13

DUSH! PUSH! is the Word for the
Times.-Go to W. 0. THOMAS & Co.,
Bruce Building Augusta street. End door from
Main, for your fine calf-skin boots and shoes,
farmers and mechanics heavy boots, fine calf
skin sewed and pegged CATERS, all kinds Of ladies
and children's shoes. Also general assortment
of dry goods and groceries at greatly reduced
prices. Cigars smoking and chewing tobacco,
speciality. you will find it to your interest to
give us call before purchasing elsewhere.
ALL KINDS OF COUNTRY PRODUCE
taken in exchange for goods, including old scrap
iron, copper, brass lead, rags, &c. ap1-3m
VOHN w. UTLEY,
ID Grocer and Produce Dealer,
Corner of Frederick and Augusta streets,
STAUNTON, VA,
Keeps constantly on hand full stock of
CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES,,
which he sells at very low figures for cash. His
stock consists, in part, of
Sugars, Bacon,
Cofees, Rice,
Teas, Butter,
Syrups, Cheese,
Molasses, Crackers,
Salt Tobacco,
Fish, Buckets,
Brooms, Cotton Yarn,
Spices, &c.
The public will find it to their interest to give
him call.
Country produce taken in exchange at highest
market prices fell-tt
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-13
nOCTOR B. p. REESE!
~ OFFICE
and resi- dence opposite the Market House.
Special attention given to
DISEASES OF FEMALES.

ap8-Town papers copy.
ATOTTCE.-I am still in possession OF all the
forms prescribed by the Judges OF the Su-
preme Court of the United States in Bankrupt,
sEch cases. Two thousand dollars exemption in
Bankruptcy is good against all debts, both new
and old.
NV Office is in the second story of my build
bnildings. J. B. WATTS,
AMI Atty-at-law.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-13

The Crops Tobacco all important The Baths
and Goshen Pass-Rock6ridges Future ana
Staagstoms Destany-I1'os and other Mines
Capt. Jos Sherrard, Jr., &c.
BALCONY FALLS, Va, May 6, 1878.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-05-13
Professional Directory.
A LFRED SMITH,

BRITISH ARcHTTECTS,
having designed and carried out some OF the
finest Buildings in the old country, Is now lora. na
pIoyed in the capacity of an Architect and Sur
yeyor. or wherever skilled labor is required IL
making plans, drawings and designs:
@s- Office near the First National Bank, Isl
floor back, over DR.. Wayfs drug store
an15-3m
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
A Rim Roaring Sermon.

The Tree Methodists constitute an of.
shoot from the Methodist Episcopal
Church. They believe that the parent
denomination has drifted from simplicity
and primitive godliness, and is closely fol-
lowing the ways of the world They as
sert that Methodism has progressed rap
idly, but with an all too carnal tendency.
Their purpose substantially is to return
to the manners, customs, and faith Of the
Methodist of fifty years ago. On the
3lst ult., in the woods near Dover, \. y,
this peculiar scot had an immense gathr
ering, much preaching and great rejoic>
ing. a San reporter was on the ground,
and among the many interesting items
sent back to his journal VIC find the fol-
lowing account of Brother Terry 5
squash story"
When the venerable Rev. Mr.. Terry
spoke the enthusiasm was irresistible,
and there was Babel of voices all over
the enclosure.
He wore q long, swallow tailed, tam
colored coat, and his OratOrical style was
as quaint and humorous as his dress.
Here is literal rendering of the story
with which he illustrated a point, the
peculiar way he has Of beginning a sent
ence and never ending it, and the char
acteristic ordinations of the Pilgrims
! believe, my brethren, in gOin' slow.
E"Glory r. I've been CROWN in grace
forty years, d-C"Who-OsOsch ! Bless
Brother Terry I've got garden home
amen /! and l like sguRshes,
brethren. 1 don't like crooked necked
squashes, C'Ha ha ha! God bless you,
Brother Terry planted some in the
-. There amt no use in gOin' wrong
Go slow. I've been CROWN forty.
don't know but Id planted the wrong
seed. | didn't know but Id have crook
ed-necked squases after. But d been
careful, and they've come out all
They're little bits of things now, but
they're all right. They're scOlloped-
amen amen amen glory !" So
you Just plant right, and "Oh, true
true-tr-F TT ne. Shout forever T. BE
sure you hoe deep and get the right seed
Il Yes, yesl Hallelujah Glory, glory
glory = Be sure you don't come Oul
cIooked-necked! l"WhO-o Osch T.
Bare words, however. can give but g
faint conception of the varied tones and
vocal pitches of these intersections
Sometimes a dozen voices mingled in ont
tremendous shout Again it would be
the shrill cry of a woman. Nothing like
it is seen on the camp grounds Of the
regular Methodist Church.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
Plain Talk.

The Changers are refreshingly plain in
their resolutions. There is no machine
ring about the following, passed by a
farmers meeting held at Clifton, Ill:
"Rcsolred, That we believe that theft
should be called a thief, without regard
to social or political standing, and we
characterize the recent salary grab by
our Congressman and President as no
better than steal.
Nor is there any ambiguity in the fol-
lowing notices inscribed on the banners
of the farmers who celebrated Indepen-
dence Day at Lanark, in Carroll county,
ILL.,
No more Republicans No more De-
mocrats We want and must have hon.
est men to fill public positions.
Salary grabbers hunt your holes "
Salary of our Congressman, one Hmm
dred bushels of corn day. Poor fellow
They might have added that the salary
of President Grant is over six hundred
bushels of corn a day, with house, fuel,
lights, stables, and grounds free. Poor
fellow
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
Cut This out and Keen II.

Franklin Dyre, a highly RESP ectable
and intelligent farmer of Gaiena, Kent
county, Maryland, give the following as
a sure cure for the bite of mad dog As
will be seen, he has tested il with the
most gratifying results
ElecImpane IS a plant we'll known to
most persons, and Is to be found in many
of our gardens Immediately after being
bitten, take one ounce Of the root of the
plant-the green root IS perhaps prefer
able, but the dried viii answer and may
be found in our drug stores, and was
used by me--slice or bruise, put it in
pint of fresh milk, boil down to half
pint, strain, and when cold drink it, fast
ing at least six hours aGterward The
next morning repeat the dose prepared
as the last, and this will be sufficient 1t
is recommended that after each does
nothing be eaten for at least six hours.
have q son that was bitten by 4 mad
dog eighteen years ago, and four other
children in the neighborhhod were also
bitten they took the above dose and are
alive and well to this day. And / have
known a number Of others who were bis
ten and applied the same remedy. 1t Is
supposed the root contains q principle
which, being taken by the blood in its
circulation, cOunseTacts or neutraiiLes
the deadly effect Of tie virus Of hydrOphO-
bia.
| feel so much confidence in this sin y
pie remedy that am willing yoa should
rive my name IN connection with this
statement.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
ReOrganized.
WHITEvILLE, Aug. >.

HITEVILLE, Aug. :, 1878.
The Whiteville Agricultural Society
met to day 10 reorganize sir. w. Ii
Nuckolds was appointed temporary chair.
man and J. g. johnson Secretary. The
House was called to order by the Presi~
dent. BY request of the society, w. A.
Caruthers made a short and appropriate
address, urging on the members the ne
cessity of such an organization, etc.
The society then proceeded to ballot
for the election of officers, which resulted
in the election of the following:
w A. Caruthers, President; J. G.
johnson, Secretary; J. S. Crutchfield,
Treasurer On motion n committee was
appointed to present at our next meeting
a written report an the proper culture of
wheat, viz: w. H. Nuckolds, w. Al.
johnson, a. n. Clayton, and by motion
w. A Caruthers was added to said com
mittee.
On motion the following committee
was appointed: Moses Campbell, w. NJ.
johnson, W. J. Redd, s. g. Needham,
e. T. Allen, Mark jackson and w. 4.
Caruthers to attend at Bolivar on Monday
next and co operate with that society if il
should be necessary. The society then
adjourned to meet again on the first
Saturday in September at . o'clock P. NJ
J. q. JOHNSON, Seetv.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
Strange to the Eye.
or the BoliyaT Bull6tia :

For the Boliyar Bull5Ga:
As for back in the vista of time as the
minds eye can penetrate, existed such
things as candidates, even in the days of
Cain and Abel; and in the present age
they infest all the varied circles of sOcie-
ty. Are they fowl, flesh, or fish Some>
times you can see them mixing with the
vast multitude, embracing plebeian, pa
tricians, lords and tenants; at other
times you can see them in legislative as
semblies, with their Chesterfield like bow,
and their remarkable afFibilities Oc~
cassiOnaily you can witness their COM
placent smiles in judicial bodies, and to
satisfy the reader of their great anxiety
for prominence they will dare to enter
the sanctity Of our liberal Courts some-
times assembled in our State to guard and
protect the interest of the people Of the
various counties, whose extraordinary
liberality Gust before liberaD will justify
its members in putting their sacred hands
in the county's pockets ana extracting
therefrom thousands of dollars of the
peoples money to complete their i'm
poyerishment, and perfect the financial
! degradation Of the county, rather thar
back their sympathy with their OWL
funds, should there be in their midst any
| one whose unfortunate act rendered as
sistance necessary. Thus, you see, q
candidate is a strangely constructed
! quadrubi-fbious animal.
At an earlier age in history we fnt
! that candidate meant white or clothed
with a white toga There seems to have
been a uniformity in appearance, but in
this degenerated age we find them vary
ing in dress, style, statue, and sometimes
we think, in sociability; in fact, al th,
attributes If it Is not an animal wha
! Is it If not an annual, the reader vii
coucede they are everywhere You car
look, see hear from or send to, til 4 Ger,
tain period in their pomposity an,
verbosity where they seem TO cocoon Hk
. caterpillar, and retire from the publ,
gaze, and really it will make any maj
in kingdom come lonesome to think 0
the profound silence that follows the co.
cooning Of candidate.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
Caught Mapping.

The following good joke on a party of
our former fellow citizens is told by the
Fort Worth, Texas, Democrat of the Doth
ult.
A number of Tennesseeans, who have
settled in Clay comfy, and built them~
selves rock house, as a protection
against the Indians, have been in the
habit of sleeping out of doors during the
recent hot weather, keeping a. guard dU-
ring the night to apprise them of the APP
proach of the red men. Becoming a lit
tie careless, they went to sleep one night
last week, emitting to station a watch.
About midnight they were attacked by a
party of Indians, and barely escaped to
the stone house, leaving their arms and
blankets on the ground.
The Indians exchanged their bows
and arrows for guns and blankets, and
went on. their way rejoicing. Nobody
bDrE
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
An EIoa uent Appeal.

81 have been thinking, since | came
into the meeting tonight, about the loss
es We met with since | signed the total
abstinence pledge. | tell you there ism {
Il man in the society has lost more by
stopping drink than what / have Wait
a bit till tell you what ! mean. There
was d nice job o work to be done in the
Office to-day, and the boss called for me.
Give it to Law. rays he he : the best
hand in she shop Well, told my wife
at supper time, and says she, why, Laurie,
he used to call you the worst You We
lost your bad name, haVn t you D?
That a fact wife, says l. And it not
all ! We lost in the last sixteen months,
either. l had poverty and Indebtedness,
and ] We lost them. | had ragged old
coat, and n shOckin bad hat, and some
waterproof boots that let out at the toe
as fast as they took in at the heel We
lost them. ] had a red face and trembling
hands, and pair Of shaky legs that gave
me an awkward tumble now and then.
| had a habit of cursing aud swearing
and I've lost that | had an aching
head sometimes, and a heavy heart and
worse than all the rest, guilty con-
cience. Thank God re lost them all
Then told my wife what she had lost.
You had az old ragged gown, Mary,
says |, and you had trouble and sorrow,
and a poor wretched home, and plenty Of
heartaches, and miserable drunkard
for a husband. Mary Mary thank
the Lord for all you and have lost since
signed the Good Samaritan pledgcl d"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
Crime.

If any one supposes that crime is not
on the increase in this country he GER
tainly does not read the papers. Just to
show what is going on in the annals Of
rhine we copy headings to various articles
Just as they appeared in the ARPeDL Of
the 5rh instant:
"Crime and cansulty: Found Dead !;
Raped by Seven Brutes; Insurbordina-
ton among colored troops 10 Texas !;
Negro Baptist killed KukIuz Troubles
in Kentucky; More Indian murders !;
Rumpus Over a Change of County Seats;
Anothe Coal mine Explosion; Several
killed and Injured; a man kills his
Brother-BOth horse thieves and muir.
derersi Serious Accident; Stabbins Az
fray Fatal Accident; A white woman
outraged by a negro; Shooting Scimmage;
Dangerous Stabbing ARRAY; Four Texas
Desperadoes make trouble at OkOIona !;
Terrible tragedy at Roya!ston, Ark; Re-
ward for the capture Of murderers Two
brothers drowned; The Lynchvrs of
Wyatt Accidents to children; Particu-
lars of The murda r of John jackson;
RAID by policemen on pick pockets 4; A
wife kicked to death An infant killed
with water pitcher; The Fort Garry
muss; Yillainous Dissertation Of church;
Middle weights; Liquor dealers arrested;
Bank robber captured; A safe broken
open; suIcide!"
In the name of humanity, is there no
way to rid the world of such horrors g?
We are sick and tired Of the bloody re-
cord daily retailed by the press of the
country, and would like to get hold Of
just one paper that does not mention
crime
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
Editorial Items.

| Congress meets in December. Mean
while every member CT that body is re
ceiying $50 day for doing nothing.
80" hat is the date Of your hustle "
was what an anxious papa asked his well
dressed daughter after searching for the
latest copy Of his paper.
The revolt of the Cuban patriots still
progresses, although for five years they
have lee most obstinately confronted by
the Spanish troops and slaughtered like
dogs when ever occasion offered. From
first to last Spain has employed no less
! than one hundred thousand soldiers to
qupll the outbreak.
Each of the little boys of the Mount
Emory (Tennessee) Sabbath School,
| plants twelve hills of corn, and each of
the little girls sets one hen, and with the
proceeds the school is supported in luxs
ury.
Matthew Gaines, a colored State Sena-
tor in Texas, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary for bigamy.
The Bolivar BuIltiu calls for cores
| pondence from all parts of the county.
Nose is going to try to run live papar.
Brownsville Bee.
| And will never allow self conceit to
| dwarf common sense while he is about
it'll
Water Valley, Miss, has an ak handle
factory, which is being patronized by
merchants from all parts of the State
Mississippi politicians arc in bad
/ plight, and tho extreme radicals seem to
have things pretty much their own way.
Indeed there is but q poor showing for
Democratic success.
A negro named John Fields White
shot and killed another negro named
John Jackson at Masen Depot IN TIpton
county last Sunday. The murderer was
arrested.
The respectable portion of the radical
party in Massachusetts is working hard
to defeat old spooney Butler for Govern
or.
In case the new State movement sue
ceeds it is suggested by the Columbio
Mail that the new commonwealth be
called "Dixie" Too thin.
A party is now surveying from The
head of the Gulf of California inland TO-
ward Utah, with a view to fill large
basin that will form a lake nearly 81,
hundred miles long, and change the eli
mate of all that desert country. The LAM
is from 100 to 800 feet below the It'd
lie. ell on the Gulf The command o
water is said to be not expensive.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
Twenty Negroes Arrested.
The Lynchers Come to Grief
A MYSTERY.

On Friday last, after we went to press.
twenty negro men charged with the
iynehing of William Hamilton WYATT
(named by US last week through misiE-
formation, Ham, } were arrested and
brought to this City by a large guard of
citizens and lodged in jail. They had a
preliminary trial on Monday, and all but
fonF of them were admitted to bail in the
sum of s 500 each. Joe Rice, Monroe
Ethredge, Nathan Fain and Charles Reid
were the four denied bail Nine of those
admitted to bail gave the same and were
discharged. The murder of Wyatt was
one Of the most brutal ever recorded in
the bloody book of crime. The negroes
were drunk, and at late hour in the
night, when their drunken passions were
at fever heat, they went to the house of
their Wet m, rending the very air with
their demOniac yells. The doomed man
seemed to know his peril, and before
the maddened fiends reached his house
he took refuge underneath the floor of
his bedroom. But his hiding place was
soon found out and every devil incarnate
discharged his wepOn, until Wyatt 8
dOdy was perforated in every Part by the
deadly lead. When dead, his murder
ers retired, singing and shouting like the
demons that hate and revenge had made
| them, while the frightened frenzied wife
and her helpless little ones were left in
darkness and solitude with the dead.
The story of Wyatt having outraged
an old negro woman is false. The wo-
man whom it is charged he had violated
lives on the farm of William Manly, and
utterly denies the story, so far as she is
concerned. Wyatt was an East Tennes
saean and did not sustain a very good
character, bat his tragic death shocked
the whole community, and the widest ex-
cItement coupled with the most startling
rumors prevail There is a MYSTERY,
dark, and Impenetrable, about this ter
rible affair. We can not believe all we
have heard and caution the people to be-
ware of hasty conclusions and hurtfuI
insinuatiOns. When fully developed We
will ventilate the whole affair.
John T. and IL G. Hogan are presses
cuting the criminals and Campbell i Nc
Cory defending, which guarantees a
thorough investigation and trial
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
Words of Cheer.

In the following article which we copy
from the appeal, there is much cheering
news for the friends of the NJ. 4 K.
Railroad, although it speaks of another
enterprise altogether:
The Ripley Narrow~gauge railroad
(three feet twenty FIVE miles in length,
from Middleton, Tennessee, sixty-fi7e
miles east of Memphis, to Ripley, Mis-
sissippi. has been in daily use for one
year. No car has ever turned over, no
life or limb has been injured, no wheel
or axle has been broken. 1t is making a
profit on first cost and yet runs through
a comparatively poor country, sparely
settled, tC an interior town of not more
than one thousand inhabitants. The
success of the road has been such that
arrangements have been made TO complete
it at once to New Albany, nineteen miles
furthur south. Thence the road will be
steadily and constantly continued Down
the back bone" Of the State to Missis-
seppi City on the gulf coast Colonel
Falkner, president of the narrOw-gauge
company, expects to reach that point
within three years at the furtherest.
What is said of Col FaIkner road
now can soon be said of the NJ Il K.
road if the subscribers. will only pay up
promptly.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08

Some of the papers in West Tennes-
SIC are foolish enough to intimate to the
other Divisions of the State that the
pcople west of the Tennessee river should
be allowed to name the next Governor
The packers" on the east side Of the
river say that they most solemnly enter
their protest TO any such procedure un>
less the gentleman named is friend of
the Funders Here's the rock upon which
they stand West Tenuessoeans can save
timo and trouble by dropping the subject
where it is. We would not like to have
rs little hope of a life hereafter as we
have of seeing a West Tennessee hash
eater occupying the Governors chair at
Nashville. Such sight is not in the
bills by long shot.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-08
a Genuine Arkansas Dodge.
Complete Wreck of one Of the
Hopefuls.

We copy from the Lonoke Democrat
of last week the following:
Asa Hodges, who represents the ninth
district in our State Senate, and who
claims to have been elected to Con,
gress from this (the frst) district, and
who lives in Little Rock, out side of tits
district, has suddenly come to grief
For months past, MIR, Cause, his op.
majority over Hodges, has BEEN taking
testimony to show that he received a ma
jUrity of votes for Congressman but in
some of the counties, where the greatest
frauds were perpetrated, Mr.. q. has
been unable to obtain testimony, at least
such as is calculated to be very beneficial
to him 10 his contest, on account of
Hodges co-workers and co-manipulatOrs
refusing to testify. Judge Fitzpatrick
the notorious Mississippi county outlaw,
q ruftian whose deeds are of the darkest
hue; a william who has the fear of nei'
Their God nor man before his eyes, IS
one of the worthless who helped Asa do
the thing, and he did it well; and through
him and Hardin brOthers-Will and
Lutte, both well known in this section
the maiOrities in some of our eastern
-
ures-in some instances largely exceed
ing the voting population of the county.
But Asa failed to do the right thing
for the noble and self sacrificing Judge /;
wherefore, he put himself in communi-
cation with Col Cause, and soon these
two gentlemen had a meeting appointed
at Memphis, when Fitz. went before a
United States Commissioner and made
clean breast, Notwithstanding Hodges
and Mclaughlin and Hardin, his pets
were there to visit COndiGn punishment
upon the unfortunate FitZ-' head. Fail
ing to intimidate, they changed their
tactics, and Hodges approached his fOr>
mer friend and ally, and agreed to give
him one thousand dollars if he would se>
cure the affidavit lie made of the frauds
and place it in his hands, and keep
mum This Fitzpatrick agreed to do
that evening He at once went to Cause,
and let him into the secret, when the
said Fitz. went to work making n true
/ com of his affidavit which was vOIumi-
nous and after completing it, and after
nightfal, he proceeded with the desired
papers to the h4unts of Hodges ct ais,
/ where be aroused them from a game
| of sell out" so goes the story, and
one hand extended with the coveted
document, tightly grasped, he demanded
/ the spondulic in the other, which was
1 promptly handed over, and the parties
/ separated feeling highly elated. But
/ Hodges disappointment the next mo m
! ing; when he found that he only had a
COPY instead Of the original can better be
immagined than written. lie had paid
/ Fitzpatrick one thousand dollars for abso,
/ Iuteiy nothing. The original w"s still
( on file and would preclude the POSSIBLE
+ isg Of him ever taking his seat in Con-
gress. lie was hopelessIy undone, and
he retired to his plantation in the swamPe
/ of Crittenden to give himself up to med
iration and prayer In tue meantime
Fitzpatrick is taking a little voyage Il
Mexico, where he hopes to meet up witt
/ the Ike again o Temporal, o Hl0res-