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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
Rebuilding the Column vendome.

The London Builder gives the first
definite information as to the progress
and difficulties of the work of recon
structing the Column Vendome, at
Paris. It appears that the masonry
work is only just begun. There are
more difficulties in the way of this part
of the undertaking than most of the un-
initiated outsiders imagine. It is i'm
agined that the foundation and pedestal
base can be built like an ordinary wall.
This is impossible. From motives of
economy it is intended to utilize the
stone-work of the old column, at least
all those portions of it which have not
been excessively attenuated or deformed
by the demolition. Two-thirds of the
materials can be so used the remainder
of the work will have to be executed as
at the first erection of the column.
But even among the two-thirds judged
servieeable there are only two steps alb
soIuteIy intact. The others require to
be repaired, and will be replaced or re-
Joined by means of cement in the Place
Yendome itself. But this reparation is
not the most difficult operation. The
interior of the column is formed by
huge square blocks of stone pierced at
intervals with large holes, into which
are soldered cramp-irons that hook the
outer bronze plates by a species of
horseshoe eye let attached to the in
most surface of the plates in the foun-
dry. The problem to be solved now is
one that requires the incest precision.
TIE completed column will be sur
mounted not by the little barelegged
Caesar placed there in 1864-65, but the
old statue, relegated to CourbevOle, of
the emperor in gray redjngOte and jack
boots, with the arms crossed in the
legendary attitude. The statue is con-
siderably injured, but not irreparably.
The, new column is not likely to be
completed before the end of the year.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

then dies away again in low muttering.
Lions coming from different directions
viii often keep it up for half an hour
answering one another, and it shows how
the animal is dreaded, that the moment
it is heard near camp there is a dead 81
Ience. More wood is hastily heaped on
the fire, and all TIE natives uneasiIy shift
their positions, and take up their guns
and spears. More than once I have lost
a nights sleep by a serenade of this de-
scription. d." IN Land and Water.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
LOOK


The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that Won, s,,b
scriptior IS ont or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in. extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses. and
we are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such ?
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor
E9 We enter no new names on our
books without the money in adv-l, ee-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
Housekeeping Amenities Among the
Cannibals.

Housekeepers will be surprised to
learn that their custom of sending in to
a neighbor to borrow a little butter or
sugar or other articles of diet is quite
common among the savages Of the Fee
ice. When a lady in Feejee has some
friends to dinner unexpectedly, she
goes over to the woman across the way
and says, 'Yak yak and his family have
Just dropped in to dine, and haven't a
thing in the house. How do you think
your hired girl would work up into a
stew? Can borrow her for few days? ?"
drags her over, chops her up with pars-
ley and carrots, and celery-tops and
cloves, and lets her simmer over the fire.
Or maybe the other woman sends over
and says "Tm entirely out of meat !;
can you lend me your little William
Henry for hash, or your Mary Jane for
a pie ?" And over go William Henry
and Mary Jane, and they are stuck with
fork and basted and put on to cook
gently, and the debt is paid off the next
week by the borrower sending back her
aunt, already boiled and suitable for
cutting down for tea, or one of her
twins corned so as to make a nice lunch.
Sometimes a woman in this manner will
work off a couple of her mothers-in-law,
or a rich uncle, or a plump second cou-
sin, and then she will sit at her window
and sniff them as they are cooking in
he kitchen next door, or watch one of
the company in the dinner room nib
bling at the elbow of her late hired girls
The custom seems to us an excellent one,
particularly, when it is applied to hired
girls. We have had girls whom we
would have loaned to neighbor at any
time under a solemn promise that they
should be butchered and boiled as
quickly as possible.-A0E Adeler.
JOSH BILLINGS having become tired of
study said 90 1t is better not to know
too much than to know SO many
hings that are not true.
A GERMAN philosopher has satisfied
himself that the number of marriages in
| any country is in direct proportion to
the quantity of rain that falls III that
country.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
Hot Talk from California.

The Sacramento Union!h has been serv-
ing up some delightful thermometrical
"reminiscences of the old mining days of
the golden state. In 1853 the mercury
in the shade marked 115 degrees at
COloma for many days. In 1854 it rose
in Diamond springs several times to ia
and lis. In 1859, one day. it rose to
1T at San Andreas : the same day to
121 at Knights ferry, and to 1873, in the
shade, at several places In Santa Bar
bara and San Bernardino. The last
feat of the mercury pushed things a
little too far. Birds fell dead from the
trees, and cattle in the fields. But
from 1850 to 1857 it was not regarded
as exceptional at the towns of Jackson,
Placerville, Coloma, Sonora, NIokelumne
hill and other mining places, when the
mercury rose in the shade to 10 degrees.
Since then the introduction and distri-
button of water through canals, and
the cultivation of shade trees and
shrUbbery among the originally naked
volcanic hills, has tempered the sum-
mer heat, and it is as great a phenO-
menOn now to read in those mountain
towns 100 degrees as it was ia degrees
in the early days of mining. The
Union says THE most remarkable
thing about the extreme heat that used
to prevail is that it never caused sun
stroke, and seldom, even at ia in the
shade, prevented men in working out in
the sun in deep canyons, among glisten-
ing waters and shining powders, where
the mercury would have assembled to
14O degrees and probably higher"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
-rnbroken sunsbine and perpetual heat
Make deserts only Clouds that bring no ram
Shelter no gardens and thine eyes, my sweet,
Must know what tears are, fond eyes 70 refualI
u " RIranna.

4. W. BdrsOnas
AN enthusiastic African, who had
8. spent de winter in Jamaky, " found it
an earthly paradise. He said he could
g lie abed, and, putting his arms out de
windy, pick oranges, Pine-aPples and
Jamaky rum right off de trees. "
WHY do they call the peoplet hat live
in some of the South sea islands cannI-
balls ? asked an old man of a sailor. Be
cause they live on other people, answered
the sailor Then, said the old man,
pensively, my sons-in-laW must be cannl-
balls, for they live on me.
In a recent eulogy of the Paris
commune and the international Carr
baldi said eff the devil were to
found a society for the purpose Of put
ting down sovereigns and priests, L
would proudly enroll myself IN its
ranks"
! A sCHooLBoY being asked by q teach
er of what the German Diet was consti-
tuted, replied, sourkrout, schnapps, Ia
ger beer and nix cum rous. That lad
must be a cousin-German to the boy
who, when showed picture of Luther
at the Diet of Worms, said, papa, L see
Luther, but where are the worms?
ITIs not merely the multiplicity Of
tints, the gIadness of tone, or the balm
mess of the air which delight in the
( spring it is the still consecrated spin
of hope, the prospect of happy days yet
to come the endless variety of nature,
with presentiments Of eternal flowers
which never shall fade, sympathy with
the blessedness of the ever developing
( world. ld.-NOUdEjS.
! WHEN the first time of love is over,
there comes a something better still
/ There comes that other love; that faith
full friendship which never changes, and
which will accompany you with its calm
light through the whole of life. 1t Is
only needfuI to place yourself so that 1t
may come, and then it comes Of ITSELF
And then everything turns and changes
itself for the best.-Jfiss BreH1er.
THE greatest part of the utility OF
wealth. saws John Stuart Mill, beyond
a very considerable quantity, IS not the
I indulgence it Procures, but the reserved
power which the Possessor holds ID ms
hand of attaining purposes generally
and this power no other kind of wealth
/ oo,fers on men so immediately and SO
certainly as money. But money
as money satisfies no want. To
mistake money for wealth is like mis-
taking the highway which is the easiest
way of getting TO your houses and land
/ or the houses and lands themselves.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
THE CLOUD.

A cloud came over land of leaves
% hush, little leaves, lest it pass you by y
How they had waited and watch'd for the rain,
Mountain and valley, and vineyard and plain,
With never a sign from the sky!
Day after day had the pitiless sun
LOOkd down with a hdless eye.
But nOwi On a sudden whisper went
Through the tOpmOst twigs of the poplar-spire;
Out of the east light wind blew
(All the leaves tTembled, and murmur'd, and drew
Hope to ths help of desire,)
1t stirred the faint pulse of the fOrest-tree
And breathed through the brake and the brier.
Slowly the cloud came; then the wind died,
Dumb lay the land in its hot suspense;
The thrush on the elm-bOugh suddenly stopped,
The weather-warn'd swallow in mid-fying drop
ped, ...T
The Hnnet ceased song in the fence,
Mute the cloud moved, till it hung overhead,
Heavy, big-bOsOmd, and dense.
All ! the cool rush through the dry-tOngued trees,
The patter and plash on the thirsty earth,
The eager bubbling Of runnel and riu,
The llsping of leaves that have drunk their fill,
The freshness that follows the dearth
New life for the woodland the vineyard, the vale,
New life with the worlds new birth
AL the Year Round.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
MGENER

No more Of the ku-klux suits now pend
iug in the United States are TO be prosecuted
by the government, except in a few unusually
heinOus cases.
The marine hospital, on Common street.
New Orleans which cost the government
/, for S5l 600.
--Vice-President Wilson, it is now said
walks with ease, and shows little signs of
paralysis except in his face, over one side of
which he wears black patch, the right eve
not having recovered completely.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
FORETGN TNTELLUGENCE

The marriage allowance of E25, 900 per
annum (s125, ,OOO) to Prince Alfred, duke of
Edinburgh, who is about to marry the czar's
only daughter, Marie Alexandrovns, was in
stanty voted by the British house of lords,
and more reluctantly by the commons. On
the second reading, the yeas were 162 and the
nays 1S. The stout protest of the minority
was accompanied however, with such an sx-
precision of the people as indicates that there
must be an end and not long hence, to these
frequent applications by the crown for grants
or annuities to the royal children" Premier
Gladstone did not help the case any, for his
royal mistress, by his contemptuous treat
ment of the opposition.
Spanish republicanism is fast assuming
the red and disordered complexion of the re-
publcanism of France in 1889 and 1880 His
tory can scarcely reveal a more dreadful mas
sacre than that at Alcoy the other day, in
which even the women of the International
lists joined in tearing apart the naked bodies
of the town authorities. The insurgents have
fired Seville with petroleum, and, to add the
last element Of social and industrial copfu-
sion - this sad picture of Spanish self-gov-
ernment, the revolutionary Junta OF Seville
has decreed that all rents and prices of neces-
saries of life shall be reduced so per cent, and
divided all uncultivated lands among the peo-
pie. The Csrlists are increasing in numbers
in the Basque provinces, Navarro and Cata-
lonia.
-Rome.-The statement made by the min
lister of finance shows a great increase in the
number Of vessels engaged in commerce be-
tween Italy and the United States The duty
on raw material is officially abrogated. Diff
culties ha arisen in the execution OF the
law for the reorganization Of the amy.
-London.-Nearly all the large cotton mills
or Rochdale are closed, in consequence of a
strike OF the operatives.
Reports OF the harvest in France shows
that the yield generally is only middling, both
regards quality and quantity. In the south
the quality Of wheat is good, but the crop is
scarce and prices have advanced. Millers are
using foreign wheat. They expect soon to
experience difficulty in running their mills in
consequence OF the low condition of the
streams, caused by continued droughts.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

BATHING IN LAKE TAHOE IN THE
SIERRA NHvADAs.-It is well known that
it is more difficult to swim in Lake
Tahoe than in any of our lower-country
water. This is due toiits great purity
and consequent want of density of the
water. It Is easy to strike ont with the
arms and legs, but difficult to keep the
body afOat. Swimming in Tahoe and
swimming in the river at Sacramento
are, for instance, two different exercises
altogether. In the one case, one softly
paddles through water so mingled with
mud as to have reached the consistency
Of thick pea-soup or Cruel of not very
tremulous thinness while swimming
in Lake Tahoe seems like slow flying
through cold air, with the wings left
off. The water of the lake is so pure
that the body and limbs while immersed
are as white as marble they are, in
fact, ghastly in their whiteness.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

If those insignificant Dutch princes
don't stop sending their criminals over
here, we shall have TO extradite Reddy
the Blacksmiths and few other to make
the thing even. The grand duke of
Hesse Darmstadt has just pardoned two
murderers on condition that they come
to the United States, but when they
arrive, Gov. Dix Is going to send them
back at once.
WHY are your eyes like friends sepa-
rated by distant cIimes They cores
pond but never meet.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

LORD AvoSMoBE was subject to fits
of absence Of mind, which rendered
him frequently insensibIe to the CONVEX
sation that was going on. At profess
sional dinner Given by Mr.. Burke, Cur
ran, who was sitting next to his lord
ship, having been called upon for a
toast, gave All our absent friends, -
patting at the same time Lord Avon
more on the shoulder and telling him
he hssd just drunk his health. Taking
the intimatinn as a serious one, Avon
more rose, and apOlogizing for his in
attention, returned thanks to the com
pany for the honor they had conferred
on him.
WHOEVER makes the truth appear un-
pleasant, commits high treason against
Me-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

NCEIKNTs.-Announcing the name q
person for County Office, S.; State Office $40,
Federal Office Sl6. Invariably in advance.
~ The above Terms and Rates will Be
trictly adhered to.
- Religious, Marriage, Birth and Death
Notices solicited, and will be willingly inser-
ed FREE OF CHARGE. Obituaries win be charged
advertising rates.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

THE PROBLEMS BEFORE Us.-What
will future discoveries do for the secrets
that are throbbing to be revealed ?
What influence will they have upon so
ciety, law, politics, industry, philoso-
ply, life? VIII they give US a cheaper
motive power than steam, better build
ing material than wood, brick and NOR
tar, stone and iron? Will they make
land more productive, and aerial navi-
cation possible? viii they give bread
to the poor, check concentration of
capital and population, equalize distri-
button, make the voter more intelligent,
the officer more honest, reduce taxes
and the friction of government, do
away with soldiers, make powder a
blasting agent and war a memory -?
VIII they alleviate the pains of sick
ness and soften the bed of death ? viii
they give us clearer vision, make the
heart beat quicker, the blood run red
der, send a finer nerve-force to the
brain, diffuse more ethereal presence
through this corporal frame and reveal
the thrilling secrets of the spirits birth ?
We seem to be drawing nearer to the
waters for which our souls are athirst
It may be a mirage. It may be the
rustling of the winds, not the ripping
of the waves, that falls upon our ears.
Coz. Booth Of California.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
News of the Week.
EAST.

EANI. II
-Twenty-three thousand six hundred emf
grants arrived at New York last week.
The contract for building two new iron
sloops-of-war has been awarded John Roach &
Son, New York, at $29 900 each.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15
The Relative Size of Stars.

It is a very cOmmOnly-received idea
that the stars are really about of a size
and brightness, differing no more from
each other than so many men would
differ or so many cattle or trees of one
species. This is taught in most of our
school and college textbooks, and with
it the coroIlary that the apparent differ
ences in the brightness of the stars are
almost wholly due to differences of dis
tance. Upon these notions also are
founded many of the specuIations as to
the constitution of the stellar universe,
which seem to form favorite amuse-
ment of those whose deficiency In exact
scientific training leaves them only such
topic for discussion as are cOnfessedly
at present beyond the reach of accurate
investigation. But the fundamental
idea is utterly baseless. The stars are
no more alike in magnitude than rocks.
The minutest gain of impalpable dust
and the hugest mountain mass prOba-
bly, differ no more in size than large and
small stars, and similar facts holds
good as to their brightness. As BesseI
expressed it g the black stars are proba-
bly, Just as numerous as the white ones.
Every new Investigation puts these
truths in clearer light, and the discovery
of the minute companions Of Procyon
and Sirius alluded to in the preceding
paragraph is one of their most striking
confirmations for in those cases we
have a star, evidently large and bright,
associated with another hundreds of
times less brilliant, and yet demonstra-
bly, (from the motions of the pair of
about the same weight as the apparently
larger one.-THe Eldepende1lt.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

A GERMAN philosopher has satisfied
himself that the number of marriages in
any country is in direct proportion to
the quantity of rain that falls in that
country.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-15

JOSH BILLINGS having become tired of
study said g 1t is better not to know
too much than to know SO many
hings that are not true
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-03-31

EOR RENT, THREE LARGE ffsSH
T. ROOMS In new brick house ne>.t door TO -
corner OF Brook avenue aud Baker street No. ou5l.
viii rent cheap to u good tcuant. Apply on the
nrcmii,a NH 20-3t
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-03-31
BY GrubDS L williams,
AuctIoneers and Real Estate Agents.
Eleventh street between Main and Bank

SALE OF THE RI Fl NJ 0 N d AND
~ YORK RIVER RAILROAD.-By virtue OF u
decree of the thancery Court Of the city OF KEN.
mond In The causes Of the Richmond and York
River Railroad Company rs j. Prosser IabD ano
Robert Ii. Maury, trustees, and D. ProSser Iab6 ano
Robert Is. Maury, trustees. Us. The Richmond aug
York River Railroad Company, entered on the loth
day of Dccembcr 1872. we. the undersigned, or the
survivor of us, shall sell by public auction, at tie
nucion-ruoIns Of AIcsSrs Grubbs + Williams, 20;
Eleventh street, Richmond, Va, on thiDan uie
I'd day Of May 1873. at the hour OF y NJ, aii uie
Of Of The the RICHMOND AND YORK RIVER RAIL
ROAD COMPANY. including Its roadway. ralls
cross-tics, depots sihiugs, cars, engines, lenders
and all other property whatsoever, including also
thc franchises Of said company and excepting from
such sale nothing whatsoever belonging 10 saia com
many except It's chooses In action and debts due or TO
become due 10 1t.
TWE TERMS or SALE WILL BE AS. FOLLOWS ::
The sam Of $4,000 shall be paid In CASH and the
residue of the purchase money Shall be payable as
follows $4,000 the lst OF january. 1871 with III
terct nj thc rate Of per cent. per annun from the
day Of sale. payable scm-anniiiiy; 100000 on The
LIST ay of January, 1885, with Interest 1t the rate OF
per cent. yer from the dry Of sale. payable
scni-anrliIy: and the remainder OF such purchase
money on the lst day Of January, 1877 with Interest
at the rate Of per cent. per aniim from the day oil
sale payable srmi-annlialiytie sale to be subject
10 the ratification rejection u the court, anf pos
session not To be delivered ,mtN the sale has been
ratified by the court; the dc ferrcd payments TO lie
secured hy deed Of trust Oh The property SOLO, sicn
decd TO lc subject TO the approval oil the court.
Capitalists will take notice that The effect OF sale
and conveyance viii! hc to eXtinguish the said COM
pauy and make the purchaser or purchasers body
corporate.
Furfurlher particulars apply to Mossrs. PAGE &
MAURY, l. chmold, Va, attorneys for the trus-
tees. j.. PROSSEk IABB,
ROBERT ii. YIAURY,
n gid Surviving Trustees.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-03-31

THE PRESIDENTS SOUTHERN TR1p.-So
hearty welcome came up from the South
when it was announced that President Grant
would visit the principal cities of that section
and extend his tour rs far as New Orleans
that we could not but regret that public busi-
ness interfercd with the fulfment OF his in
testtioHs, IT, was highly creditable to the
spokesmen.. of southern sentiment that they
should have extended the warmest invita-
tons 10 the President, and bespoke in ad-
vance for him the earnest Inequalities of the
people. Their temper might very well he ac-
scepted as desire to clasp hands across the
! closed chastn OF sectional animositics and
heast-burnings. Even aithouglithe purpose
which elected this pleasant display Of good
feeling was indefinitely postponed of COM
plete fruition, yet the substantial fact of these
gratifying expressions remains, to the honor
OF tilo&s who uttered them. We do not
doubt that they sensibly affected the Presi-
dent, for although he finds it impossible to
undertake the heightened trip at first laid
I down, he will go as far as Norfolk and Rich
sinond, there to meet yireinians face to face,
create mutual kind expressions, and renew
old friendships. Baltimore american.