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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
Early Marriage.

There are hundreds of young men
that should be married who are not
married. To marry early is discreet
and wise. And when men and women
are of a manageable age, I think it to
be, in general, true, that it Is whole
some for them to be married. It is not
necessary that they should remain sin
gle because they stand in poverty; for
two can live cheaper than one, if they
live with discretion, if they live with
cooperative zeal, if they live as they
ought to live. If the young man is
willing to seem poor when he is poor :;
If the young woman, being poor, is viii
ling to live poorly; if they are willing
to plant their lives together like two
seeds, and wait for their growth, and
look for their abundance by and by,
when they have fairly earned II, then it
is good thing for them to come early
into this partnership. For characters
adapt themselves to each other in the
early periods of life far more easily
than they do afterward. They who
marry early are like vines growing to-
gether, and twining round and round
each other; whereas, multitudes of
those who marry late in life stand side
by side like two iron columns, which,
being separated at the beginning, never
come any nearer to each ether There
is no school which God ever opened, or
permitted to be opened, which young
people can so i'll afford to avoid as the
school of care and responsibility and
labor in the household; and a young
man and young woman marrying, no
matter from what source they came to-
gether, no matter how high their
fathers have stood, one of the most
wholesome things that they can do, hav-
ing married for love, and with discre-
ton, is to be willing to begin at the
bottom, and bear the burdens of house
hold life, so that they shall have its
education. I tell you, there are pleas
ures which many young married people
miss. [ would not give up the first two
years of my married life for all I have
now. I live in a big house, with a
brown-stone front, and very fairly fur
nished; but, after all, among the
choicest experiences of my life were
those which I passed through in In
/ diana, when hired two chambers up
stairs when all my furniture was given
/ to me, and was secondhand at that
and when the very clothes which had
on my back had been worn by Judge
Birney before me. We were not able
to hire a servant. We had to serve
ourselves. It was a study every day
how to get along with our small means,
and it was study never to be forgot
ten. owe many of the pleasures
which have run through my life to be
ing willing to begin where had to be-
gin, and to fight poverty with love, and
to overcome it, and to learn how to live
in service and heIpfulness, and in all
the thousani ingenuities which love
sweetens and makes more and more
| delightful. Beecher,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
THE SOHTH

Says Macon, Georgia, telegram: A
freight and passenger train colided near Sea-
go station, on the Southwestern railroad, and
j. W. Chik, express messenger, VIM. Miller,
mail agent and one colored passenger were fa-
tally and two of the train hands seriously
burt.
The surgeon of marines, who shot the
members Of the naval academy for plundering
his strawberry beds, has been suspended fer
two years.
The South Carolina Legislature met in ex-
ira session last week. The governor repre-
sents the funded debt of the state at SIS. .O27,-
sos, and tho floating debt at S5, 800, ,s97.
The friends of Col. Hughes of Virginia
say that he is eligible for governor, as he
acted as a mediator instead OF bearing a chaI-
lenge, and also carried the challenge outside
the state.
"A dispatch from A. z. Clemmons. presi-
dent Howard association Of Marshall Texas,
says the yellow fever has been declared epi-
demic there, and asks assistance in money and
supplies,
-Lorenz Paul, an aged resident of Rich.
moad, Va, who was present when Blucher ar
rived at Waterloo, has just died. He bequeath-
cd his pension to the widows and orphans OF
the late Franco-Prussian war
salisbury, n. C.-Detectives sent from
PhilHdelphia made a raid on counterfeters
here, and arTesting several respectable farmers
got 1886 900 on one man, aud smaller amounts
on others. Detectives arc scattered along the
line OF the North Carolina railroad, and it is
supposed there are many more to arrest. Con-
siderable excitement was occasioned at Salus-
bury, as many of the parties are respectfully
connected
Louisville, Ky.-A man named Joseph
Crawford entered Magistrate LincoIn's Office
on 7th street, with q companion, and walking
to the small back room, spoke few words to
John Mccarthy, we'll known lawyer and
then drawing pistol fired at him at a distance
OF five feet the ball passing into McCarthv's
head, near the right ear. Crawford turned to
so out, but was caught by Squire Lincoln and
sent to jail. Mccarthy ia said to have kept
$3.50 bounty money from Crawford since 1866.
he having collected it for him after the war.
After repeated demands for it, Crawford went
FOR his money. Crawford companion states
that Mccarthy threatened to kill Crawford,
with the result as stated. Crawford is = veal
thy Tennesseesn. Mccarthy was taken home.
and is IN critical condition.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK
EAST.

New York engineers and machiuists in
view OF the panic, propose settling all dis
putes with employers by arbitration.
New York The Times says: The ques-
tion Of general currency payments in green
Backs and national bank notes is about to
solve itself. Most of the banks are paying
AL demands when preferred to the certifca-
Sion Of checks, and the difference against the
cnecks OF other banks that from their position
decline to pay out large sums of currency. ia
only q and = per cent. Some first class banks
ara not only helping their neighborn to green.
hScAs and sending currency to their country
correspondents, but they are paying their
debtor balances at the clearing house in green
backs in place Of relief certificates. The prac-
teal condition of the question is in favor Of
the voluntary resumption of currency paw
ments in very few days. No bank that
hopes to retain their old accounts of value or
expects to acquire new accounts Of desira-
bic character, city or country viii deem it
prudent to have it known that It is behind its
DaPt thDOTs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
A PARABLE.
BY JAsrEs RrgsEL LOWELL


said Christ, our Lord. 81 will 20 and see
How the men, my brethren, believe in me-
He passed not again through the gate Of birth,
But made himself known TO the children of earth.
Then said the chief priests, and rulers and kings
: Behold, now, the gtyer of all things;
Go to, let as welcome, with pomp and state,
Him who alone is mighty and great
With carpets Of gold the ground they spread
Wherever the Son of Man should tread;
And in the palace chambers, lofty and rare,
They lodged him, and served him with kingly fare
Great organs surged, throU 81 arches dim,
Their jubilant foods in praise of Him;
ana IN church, in palace, and judgment hall,
de saw his image high over all.
But still, wherever his steps they led,
The Lord in sorrow bent down his head;
And from under the heavy foundation stones
The Son Of Mary heard bitter groans.
And in church, and palace. and Judgment hall.
He marked great assures that rent the wall,
And opened wider and still more wide,
Ana the lVlnS foundation heayed and sighed.
" Have ye founded your thrones and aItars, then,
On the bodies and souls Of living men
And think ye that building shall endure
Which shelters the noble and crushes the poor?
g With gates of silver and bars of gold
Ye have fenced my sheep from their Fathers fold :
have heard the dropping OF their tears
In heaven these eighteen hundred years."
a." o Lord and Master, not ours the gust,
We'built but fathers built
Behold thine images, now they stand
Sovereign and sole through all the land.
d" Our task is hsrd-with sword and flame
To hold thy earth for ever the same
And with sharp crooks of steel to keep
Still, as thou leftest them, thy sheep.
Then Christ sought ont an artisan
lOw-brOwed, stunted, haggard man,
And motherless girl, who with fingers thin,
Pushed from her family want and sin.
These set He in the midst of them
And, as they drew back their garments hem
For fear OF dehlement, " Lo, here" said he,
80 The images ye have made Of me.7
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

The Boston Globe is vexed to see the
statement going the rounds of the press
that beetle is capable of lifting 315
times its own weight, while a man of or
dinary muscular power is fully 100 times
feebler. Why should a mBn forever, it
asks, be brought into unfavorable COM
parison with beetles? Has it ever struck
anybody how many beetles a man can
lift ? We are also told for the thou
sandth time that the flea, g scarcely
three-hundredths of an inch in height
manages to leap without difficulty over
a barrier fully 500 times its own alti-
tude. For a man six feet is an unusu-
ally high leap. Imagine him Jump
ing 5000 feet, or nearly three-ffths of
a mile" We shall imagine no such
thing. It is we'll enough for a flea to
jump. He never does anything else,
except to make a dogs life a burden to
him. He never leaves his footprints on
the sands of time, or sounds the light
guitar. He never hired himself out to
turn a derrick in Chicago, or gave us
the least assistance during the great fire.
He has done nothing but jump 500
times his own altitude ever since he
was first created, and he Will continue
to do nothing else until his race becomes
extinct. 1t is ine1pressibiy painful to
us to be continually taunted with the
fact that mankind are not feas. ants,
beetles, or something of that sort.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

A STORY Is told of an army officers
mess in France. A brother-soldier from
a neighboring detachment having come
in, and champenoise having been un,
corked in his homer, Gentlemen, d
said the guest, raising his glass, am
about to propose a toast at once patriotic
and political" " A chorus Of hasty eiac-
uIatiOns and of murmers at once greeted
him. eyes, gentlemen" oOOlly pro-
ceeded the orator, g I drink to a thing
which-an object that-Bab I Will
out with it at once. It begins with an
r and ends with an e" Capital y
whispers a young lieutenant Of Bordeaux
promotion. "He proposes the repub-
Iioue. without offending the old fogies
bv saying the word. - Nonsense He
means the radicals, " replies the other,
an old captain from Cassel. " Upon
nv word, +" says a third, as he lifts his
glass, "our friend must mean Ia Roy
aute. 81 seew cries a one-legged
veteran Of Froschweiler, we drink to
la Revanche." In fact, t he whole party
drank the toast heartily, each interpre-
ting it to liking. -LiPptncotCs Mag
1zine.
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BOLIVAR, HARDEMAN CO.. TENNESSEE OCTOBER 81, 1873

and an eyewitness describes the whole
appearance of the vessel as he saw it re-
Gently in the harbor of southampton as
that of an ordinary ocean steamer
pearched on the back of a whale" Mr..
Winans hopes to obtain a speed of
twenty miles an hour by propulsion
alone with his strange craft.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
NUMBER u.
A SONNET.
By sHAKEsPFARE

Tired with all these, for restfuI death cry
As TO behold desert beggar born,
And needy nothing trimmed in iollity
And purest faith unhappily fOrswOrn,
And g1lded honor shamefully misplaced,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wronCfUlly disgracsd,
And strength by Emping sway disa6[e)ed.
And art made tOngue-tied by authority,
And folly tdOctOr-nke) controlling skin,
And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
And captive good attending captain Ill;
Tired with all these, from these would begOne,
Save that, to die leave my love alone.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
Collisions at Sea.

On the first of next month, the fol-
lowing provision in the merchant ship
ping act Of the United Kingdom, passed
last session of parliament, as TO the du-
ties of masters of British ships in case
of collision will come into operation ::
" In every case of collision between
two vessels it shall be the duty of the
master or person in charge of each YES
gel if, and so far as he can do so with
out danger to his own vessel, crew, and
passengers (if any to stay by the other
vessel until he has ascertained that she
has no further need of assistance, and
to render to the other vessel, her mas
ter, crew, and passengers (if any such
assistance as may be practicable and as
NAV be necessary In order to save them
from any danger caused by the collision
and also to give to the master or person
in charge of the other vessel the name
of his own vessel and of he port of
registry or place to which she belongs,
and also the names of the ports and
places from which and to which she is
bound. If she fail to do so, and no
reasonable cause for such failure is
shown, the collision shall, in the alb
sence of proof to the contrary, be
deemed to have caused by his wrongful
act, neglect or default. Every master
or person in charge of British vessel
who fails, without reasonable cause, to
render such assistance or give such in
formation as aforesaid, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanOr, and, II he Is
certificated officer, an inquiry into his
conduct may be held, and his certificate
may be cancelled or suspended"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

SWEENEY RElKDY.-An Indianian
says he has cured a valuable horse IN
this way: Take an old stocking: make
little bag out of some part of it four
or five inches long; I'LL it with salt
sew the end up; take bucket with
some water In it dip ia the bag with
salt; now double up your shirt sleeves,
and rub the sunken part for fifteen OF
twenty minutes. Rub freely, occasion
ally pulling the skin 50 as to loosen 1t
after rubbing. Grease it fresh butter
is best, although other grease will do.
Rub it In also. By so doing several
mornings successfully, no doubt the
mare Will get we'll. 1t will take two or
three months for the sunken part to
grow out even with tire other parts II
the hair rubs on, it will grow again.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
GENERAL

The NeWburgh steam mills, owned by
Garnes Co, of New York, have stopped.
throwing four hundred persons out Of employ
ment.
The hrst step in resumption has been taken,
II having been asoertained from secretary of
the treasury that the government will pay out
silver as soon as 1t can be prohtably and CON
veniently coined for that purpose
Pursuant 70 the views regarding resump-
ton expressed by the president and secretary
Of the treasury, recently, the director Of the
mint has been making extensive arrangements
for the coinage OF both gold and silver to an
extent heretofore unprecedented so A. to b,
ready for the resumption OF specie payments
There are now large quantities Of tnsss 1us
tsls awaiting coinage.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Bonapsrtists' lie GsuIois publishes a
document signed by many delegates who favor
Plebiscilum, protesting against restoration
OF monarchy without consulting the country
A dispatch from central Asia brings intel
hgence Of frightful scenes in Khiva, upon the
evacuation OF that city by Russian troops.
The Goumeds revolted and plundered and des-
troyed the town. In addition to these excess
ess, they slaughtered / 500 Of emzciated Per
slams
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
aNEouNCEErEETs.

Announcing the name OF person for q county Of
Gee S5; state once, SO; federal ofce, S15 Invar<
ably in advance
The above terms aud rates viii be strictly sd-
hered 20.
Religious, marriage, birth and cath no4icss soIi.
tied, and Will be willingly lusr-red fTaa ~ Cbsr.S
Obituaries Will be charged .dyertising Tafas
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

The GERM OF GREATNEss.-He that
can understand and delight IN greatness
was created to partake of it; the germ
is in him and sometimes this admira-
ton. in what we deem inferior minds,
discovers q nobler spirit than belongs
to the great man who awakens it; for
sometimes the great man is so absorbed
in his own greatness as to admire no
other and should not hesitate to say
that a common mind. which is yet capa-
BILE of a generous admiration, is des-
tined to rise higher than the man of
eminent capacities, who can enjoy no
power or excellence but his own.
CbanHilto.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

A prudent matchmaking mamma
gave the following candid advice to her
daughter 90 marry the man you
love, girl, if ne Is - rich a. Crosus."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

TIE two cigar steamers of Mr.. Ross
Winans of Baltimore make frequent
trips in the British channel, although
their officers taken pains to prevent any
knowledge of their capacity for speed
from becoming public. One of these
steamers was built at Cherbourg and
the other on the Clyde. The latter Is
about 400 feet long, and is built on
different plan from the original cigar
steamer, which now lies at her wharf In
Baltimore. Instead of a wheel IN the
center the vessel has two propellers at
the extreme points Of the cigar The
cigar portion of the hull Is submerged,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

ONE of the late John Leech's drolIest
pictures in Punch represented church
interior during service, and a bright
eyed youngster, startled by old farmer
BIuebottle blowing his nose, askes the
question, "Ma, was that the organ p
Quite as droL an incident occurred in a
fashionable London church, the other
Sunday. The clergyman was eloquent
" enIarging upon the duty of forgiving
ones enemies, and among the questions
which ne put to the congregation. with
out, Of course, expecting an answer to
them, was, "Do you love your enc
mies?" To his surprise, some one i'm
mediately replied, "No, sir" The
speaker who thus Unexpectedly made
answer was a little boy sitting in one
of the front seats.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

SERENITY OF sOUL.-Peace is necessa-
~ to all the higher intellectual opera
tiOns. Great feats may be done while
the soul is tempest-tossed; great nights
achieved-no poets may strike out
splendid passages, sparkling with a pas
sionate beauty and a sort of gorgeous
and turpid inspiration, and orators may
astonish us with brilliant flights Of
power and pathos redolent of the ex-
citement which gave them birth; and
all this may be done while the heart IS
torn by internal conflict, or by Wild
emotion, or yearning with unanswered
love, or sick and faint with passionate
desire nay, it may be done while the
conscience is heavy with the load OF re-
cent sin, OF distracted in a danger
wherein it sees no light and Is concious
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31
Fat Wives.

The people in portions of Africa have
many curious customs and supersti-
tions. Among the former may be men
toned the fashion of having fat wives.
Being introduced to great chiefs wife,
Spoke thus describes her: "I was
struck with the extraordinary dimen-
sions, yet pleasing beauty, of the i'm,
moderately fat fair one. She could not
rise, and so large we're her arms that
the flesh between the joints hung down
like large, loose, stuffed puddings.
The chief, pointing to his wife, said ::
This is the product of our miIk-pots !;
from early youth upward we keep these
pots to their mouths, as it is the fash
ion at the court to have very fat wives. ="
A sister-in-law of the king was a per-
feet wonder of hypertrophy. She was
unable to stand except on alI-fours.
Spoke unbIushingly requested per-
mission to measure her. This is the re-
suit :
"Round the arm, % inches chest,
50 inches thigh, 81 inches calf, 20
inches height, feet inches. All of
these are exact except the height, and I
believe I could have obtained this more
accurately if I could have laid her on
the floor. Not knowing what difficult
ties should have to contend with in
such a piece of engineering, tried to
get her height by raising her up. This,
after infinite exertioDs on the part of as
both, was accomplished, when she sank
down again fainting, for her blood had
rushed into her head. Meanwhile the
daughter had sat before us sucking at a
a milk-pOt, on which the father kept
her at work by holding the rod in his
hand; for, as fattening is the first duty
of fashionable female life, it must be
duty enforced by the rod, if necessary. ~
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

The question of accomplishments
seems to me to depend on the indi-
vidual woman. OF two equally beloved
and amiable women, one looks better IN
an evening, the other in a morning,
dress. 1t is just as it suits. and so with
accomplishments COleridge.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-31

"HEd time ahan hang up his scyths
he viii be no mower.
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Hints to a Young Ball Goer.

Be very careful not to pull down your
shirt sleeves, or up your collar, or, in
fact, to do anything to your costume as
you enter the ball room. It implies
nervousness or uneasiness with yourself
to do so; and your one great endeavor
in all societies, should be to thoroughly
at your ease, and satisfied, without van
ity and coxcombry, with your dress and
appearance. Do not stand idle; but do
not dance overmuch. The one implies
small number of friends, the other
wastes valuable time, and prevents your
keeping that constant lookout all around
you which is essential to success. Be
introduced to movable people quietly {;
there is no necessity to advertise to by
standers that you did not know them
before. Never talk much to a woman
you have only just made the acquaint-
ance of nor eagerly. She may be al
lowed to suppose you wished to know
her, but not that her acquaintance is
any particular acquisition to you. Above
all things, my dear boy, I entreat you
not to stand in the dOorways, nor herd
with other men upon the landing. It is
simply advertising yourself a failure
Tie yourself to the veriest wall flower,
gossip with the dowdiest mother, dance
with the most disappointed OF the
maidenhood, rather than sink to this.
Sitting Ia the corners comprises a very
large subject, or, rather, array of sub
iects. To know how to sit IN the cor
ners we'll and prudently, requires a vast
experience and a steady head so, until
you have much extended your acquaint-
ance and your knowledge of humanity,
I would recommend you to avoid that
most agreeable of the pleasures of ball
going. It is not for a novice at once to
penetrate to the inner depth of fashions g
mysteries, and I shall, therefore, put of
my advice on this subject until I come,
in future letter, to the great subject
of flirting, which, of course, comprises
the art of sitting in eorners.-LO7lotO7a
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said Christ, our Lord. 81 will 90 and see
How the men, my brethren, believe in me-"
He passed not again through the gate Of birth,
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