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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-25
Humorists of England.

Without humor society would exist
in Icelandic SHOWS: wit, like the winter
sun. might CLINT upon the icebergs, but
they would not be plastic in his glance:
calm, lofty, and cold they must remain.
But humor Is the summer heat that gen
crates while it smiles-the power which
touches dead things and revivifes them
with its generous warmth and geniality.
Wit engages and amuses the individual
intellect; humor knits hearts together
is, in truth, in a broad sense, that
''touch of nature which makes the
whole world kin" Now the world may
be regarded as being composed of three
classes, namely. those of US who laugh,
those with whom we laugh, and those at
whom we laugh and the tenderest so
licitude is experienced by each unit of
humanity lest, through some fortuitous
circumstances, he should irretrievably
find himself a denizen of the last-nam-
ed class. To some of the first class is
given the power of directing the laugh
ter of others, and this power Is current
as wit when to the faculty of criginat-
ing ridicule is added the power of con-
centrating pity or pathos upon the sub
iect, this may be styled humor. But
the irony must be subiugated to the
feeling. The heart must love while the
countenonce may smile. 1t will, then,
be perceived, in view of these distinc-
tions, how the humorist may assert a
claim in all great and essential things
superior to that which can be advanced
by the wit. Humorists are the salt of
the national intellectual life. England,
who occasionally claims a questionable
superiority in some respects over the
nations, may, in the growth of genuine
humOr, be allowed the pre-eminence.
Germany approaching her perhaps in
the nearest degree. What other hters-
ture, since the days of Elizabeth, can
show such a roll of humorists as that
which is inscribed with the names
amongst Others) of Richardson, Addi-
son, Steele, PtiOr, Gay, SmOllett, Field
ing, Sterne, and Goldsmith Yet after
the closing names of this galaxy dearth
was witnessed like that which immedi-
ately preceded their advent. It appears
as though the soil of literature, having
grown to its utmost capacity the pro-
duct of humor, demanded time to re-
cuperate its powers. During the past
80 or 40 years another growth sprang
up, and Hood, Lamb, and other inheri-
tors of the marvellous gift, have enr c'l-
ed the world with the perfume of their
lives and works. Amongst the latest
band of humorists, however, there is no
name more remarkable or more Justly
distinguished than that of Thackeray.
Edinburgh RcUiet0.
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FOREIGN NOTES.

GENERAL VoN MANTEUFIB viii be aP-
pointed Governor General of Berlin i'm
mediately after the evacuation of the
french provinces.
THE Bishop of Ermeland has carried
out his threat against the Prussian
Government by lodging his complaint
against it at the Berlin Law Court and
suing the Crown for the temporalities
settled npon his See and withheld from
him by order of the King since 1st
October last.
PROFESSOR FRTEDRICH, one of the
leaders of the Old Catholics at Munich,
has stated that Governing Council Of
this thismatic body had decided shortly
to proceed with the election of a Bishop.
JOURNALISM is fast extending through
ont Japan, a new paper making its ap-
pearance most every week. Convicted
criminals who are hired out to work are
encouraged to buy newspapers and
books with the earnings they obtain, to
read on Sundays, which is now a day
of rest to them.
THE last English files contain the par
ticuIars Of the trial at Durham of Mary
Ann Cotton, the West Auckland
poisoner, who, in order to obtain an in
surance of from S25 to $50 on the life
of each victim, poisoned during the last
twelve years three husbands, her moth
er, all her children and those of her
husbands, numbering in all thirty per
sons. The woman Cotton appears IN
Court with her two months old child at
her breast, the only one Of her offspring
that has been spared the fate Of the
others. The child was born in Durham
! Prison since the incarceration Of its
mother a few months ago, and the name
of its father is unknown. A description
Of Mrs. Cotton's personal appearance
represents her as having handsome
and prepossessing face and fine black
eyes. These is no doubt Of her guilt
and of her certain conviction.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-25
A sIGN-BOARD.

viii paint you sign, rum-selier,
And hang 1t above your door,
A tTuer and better sign-bOard
Than ever you had before.
I will paint with the skill of q ma ster,
And many shall pause to see
This wonderful piece of painting,
So like the reality.
I viii paint yourself, rum-seller,
AS you wait for that fair young boy,
Just in the morn Of manhood,
A mothers pride and joy.
He has no thought of stopping,
But yOu greet him with a smile,
And you seem so blithe and friendly
That he pauses to chat awhile
will paint you again, rum-seller,
I viii paint you as you stand,
With foaming glass of liquor
Holding IN either hand.
he wavers, but you urge him;
Drink pledge me just this oneW
And he lifts the glass and drains 1t,
And the hellish work is done.
And the next will paint a drunkard;
Only a year has flown,
But into tLis loathsome creature
This fair young boy has grown.
The work was quick and rapid;
I viii paint him as he lies,
In a torpid, drunken slumber,
Under the wintry skies.
Will paint the form Of the mother
As she kneels at her darling's side
Her beautiful boy that was dearer
Than all the world beside.
I will paint the shape of a coffin
Labelled with the one word "LOsti"
will paint all this, rum-seller,
And paint It free Of cost.
The sin, and the shame, and sorrow,
The crime and want and woe,
That is born there in your rum-shop,
No hand can paint, you know;
But III paint you a sign. rumseller,
And many shall pause TO view
This wonderful swinging sign-board,
So terribly, fearfully true.
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INSECTS
BIZ JoHE CLARE.

These tiny lOiterers on the Iarley'z beard
And happy units Of a numerous herd
Of playfellows. the laughing summer brings;
MOcking the sunshine en- their giittering wings,
How merriIy they creep, aud run. and fly!
No kin they bear 20 lsbOr's DIR dgsry,
Smoothing the velvet Of the pale uedge-rOse,
And where they dy for dinner no one knows .
The dew-drops feed them not; they love the shine
Of noon, whose suns may bring them golden wine
All day they're playing in their Sunday dress;
When night repOses they can do no less
Then to the heath-bell's purple hood they fly,
And, like to princes in their siumber, lie
Secure from rain and dropping dews, and all
On silken beds in rOOmy, painted hall.
So merrily they spend their summer day,
Now in the coTn-delds, new the new-mOwn hay.
One almost fancies that such happy things,
With eOlOred hoods and richly FURNISHED wings,
And fairy folk in splendid masquerade
Disguised, as if of mortal folk afrait,,
Keeping their Joyous pranks mystery still,
Lest glaring day should 90 their secrets i'll.
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il strengthened by the bodies being buried in
the sand, which Is unusual among the Indians.
They scalp and leave the bodies exposed. The
investigation viii be pursued especially with
Indians Oh their arrival at the agency to which
thov are moving. and we expect no further
trouble.
The third section Of the postal appropri-
alton act Of last session repeats all laws per-
mittiDg the transmission by mail Of any free
matter whatever, from and after June 9Oth.
Under this law, quarterly prepayments Of pos
tage will be required on all newspaper ex-
changes and county newspaper, the same as
now. and viii be then required in the case of
all mail subscriptions, namely: five cents per
quarter for weekly newspapers; thirty cents
per quarter for papers published six times per
week, and thirty-fve cents per quarter for
daily papers-prepayment per quarter or per
year. to be made either at the Office where
mailed OF at the Office where delivered. In
other words, the same rule will be applied to
all newspapers by whomsoever sent or re-
ceived.
The Washington Star has an article on
tho O'Kelly case, which is believed to reflect
the opinions and feelings in official quarters.
In the case of O'Kelly. it must be remember
ed that ne went to Cuba as an independent
naturalized American citizen, not as q parti-
san, and that he has never disguised nor at
tempted to disguise his true character. He
requested permission to go into the Cuban
lines as a newspaper correspondent, and the
Spanish authorities gave him leave to go, but
also gave him the comforting assurance that
he would be shot if he returned. Subsequent
ly the Spanish General, in whose jurisdiction
O'Kelly was, modified his threat, and said he
would Danish him If lie returned. OKely re-
turned, was arrested, and orders given for his
trial rs spy by court martial. A late dispatch
says that two letters from President Cespedes
we're found on his person, and if this is true,
his case is made considerably worse. There
is no Disgusting the fact that O'Kelly has been
guilty OF a serious offenBe, that the Spanish
authorities would be justified in sending him
out of the country, but they are not warranted
by the fact in treating him as a spy, for the
reasons that he lacks the distinctive features
If a spy, viz: disguise. We trust that Gen.
Torbett, the American Consul-General at Ha-
yana, has taken firm stand in the matter,
and has placed O'Kelly's case in such q light
TO the Spanish authorities that they will con
tent themselves by sending him out of the
country. As a matter of policy they would
find it great blunder to execute him
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-25
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE.

In the last instaIment of Mr.. Herbert
exposition of the philosophical
system which is to give us an explana
tion-so far as an explanation can be
given-of the whole universe, we meet
with an interesting passage upon the
passion of love. The advocates of the
evolution hypothesis are sometimes
called materialists. That word is too
ofte used, as % atheist is used in theo-
logical or a good round oath in pouIar
discussion, simply to indicate disagree
ment coupled with moral disapprOval.
The fallacy which it involves in this case
might be asily exhibited. The genuine
materialists of the last century were, in
fact, given to maintaining that our
loftiest sentiments were merely mOdifi-
cations of the most earthly instincts.
Lust through some certain strainers well refined
Is gentle love-"
according to Pope; and some very
equivocal sermons have been preached
upon this text. Superficial readers
have fancied that, because Mr.. Darwin
or Mr.. Herbert Spencer believes that
man has been evolved by inconceivably
minute changes from some inferior
organism, therefore our emotions and
thoughts are nothing but transforma-
tions of the blind sensations of the low
est forms eff life. The misconception is
palpable. Science might cOnceivably
show under what condition intellect
first manifested itself, but it would not
be one step the nearer to discovering
what was the essence of intellect. 1t
might explain the how, but can throw
no light upon the what. Thus we find
that Mr.. Herbert Spencer's description
of the passion called love has nothing in
it calculated to shock the most spiritual
philosopher. It is, he says, an emotion
of the highest complexity, and conse-
quently ofthe greatest strength. Around
the purely physical elements gather all
varieties of powerful emotions, which
blend and unite in the closest harmony.
First come all the impressions which are
produced by the beautiful, the expla-
nation of which would involve long
and most difficult analysis. Then we
have the sentiments of affection, which
may exist between persons of the same
sex, but which undergoes a special ex
altation when existing between lovers
! Next come the sentiments of admiration
or reverence; and, beyond them again
the love of appreciation, which is keenly
excited by the knowl edge that we are
preferred to all the world, and preferred
by one whom we admire beyond al
others. Allied TO this is the sentimen
of self-approval, when we are fattereC
by the sense of the great merits to whicl
we owe so great a triumph. BeyOnC
this is the proprietary" or the pleas
ure of mutual possession. And, finally
there is an exaltatiOn of the sympathie
when our pleasures are heightened b,
the close participation of another persol
in all our enioyments. We not inquir
whether this analysis is complete o
accurate; at any rate, it illustrate
pretty fairly the amazing complexity c
a passion which we are apt to describ
as simple When a young gentlema
at a ball sees the young. lady who
above ell other young ladies enter th
room, he is conscious only of kes
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LOoKI

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ONE, TWO, THREE.

know a shady bower,
A sweet secluded nook,
Where many a bright-eyed flower
Bends down to kiss the brook,
My path lies down 3 hollow,
Where ripping waters run;
I hope no one viii follow,
For there's only room for one
But If q bonnie maiden
(WhOse name I dare not teiD
Should, with wild flowers laden,
Draw near my bOsky dell,
I, in voice caressing,
Would tell, and tell her true,
That with a little pressing
There might be room for two.
I'd crown her with Wild roses,
I'd throne her on the green,
And whilst she there repOses,
I'd kneei before my queen.
Should any one perceive US,
In this we'd both agree
We'd tell them to believe us
There was not room for three.
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News of the Week.
DO WV EAST.

George H. Stuart, of the Board of Peace
Commissioners, says the murderers of Geuer-
al Candy and party viii be properly punished
but the act Of Capt. Jack will not alter the
policy OF the Board.
The White Star agents have agreed to paw
$50 for every cabin body recovered, and 800
for every steerage.
1t is stated that the Eastern Railroad of
Maine, has consented to pay Colonel Palmer,
mail agent, injured by the seabrook disaster,
S25OOO.
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BRING ME WORD HOW TAIL SIZE IS"
By DoRA GREEswELL.

By DORA GREESwELL-
Tloeyftk Night; or, What YoH wiz.
"a How tail is your ROsalind7 p
Just Gs high as my heart"
As You Ike It.
Within a garden shade,
A garden sweet and dim,
Two happy children played
Together; he was made,
For God. and she TO- him.
Beyond the gardens shade,
In deserts drear and dim,
Two Outcast children strsyed
Together, he betrayed
By her, and she by him
Together, girl and boy,
They wandered, ne'er apart;
Each wrought to each annoy,
Yet each knew never joy
Save in the others heart.
By her 50 oft deceived;
By him so sore oppressed;
They each the other grieved,
Yet each of each was best
Beloved, and still caressed.
And she wGs in his sight
Found fairest, still s prize,
His constant chief delight;
She raised to him her eyes
That led her not Alright.
And ever by his side
a patient huntress ran
Through forests dark and wide,
And still the WOman's pride
And glory was the man.
When her he would despise,
She kept him captive bound;
FOrbidding her TO rise,
By many cords and ties
She held him to the ground.
AZ length, in stature grown,
Z stands erect and free;
Yet stands he not alone,
For his beloved would be
Like him she lOveth wise, like him she
lOveth free.
81 wins she her desire,
Yet stand they not apart;
For as she doth aspire
He grows, nor stands she higher
Than her BelOved's heart.
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The San Francisco expedition, which
went out to recover the treasure sup
posed 10 be contained in the sunken
Spanish frigate Laoeadia on the coast OF
Ecuador, has proved q dead failure IL
ter months of labor and great expense.
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Medical Experts in Europe.

It appears that medical experts in
Europe can stultify themselves as sue
cessfully as some of their brethren
here in Yankeeland. A writer in Apple
tons Journal gives an account of the
trial of a man in Belgium, charged with
the crime of poisoning. The alleged
victim of poison, NJ Rigaud, resided in
Bruges the trial of the person accused
took place in that city, and at that very
time was held meeting of the royal
medical society, of which the deceased
was a member. On the trial two doc
tors testified confnently to the pres
ence of arsenic, their testimony being
of the highest interest, to professional
men especially. A third expert gave
his opinion that the evidence was en-
tirely inadequate to prove the presence
of poison in the stomach of the deceas-
ed. He is reported to have said furth-
ermore that the process employed
would generate arsenic. Somebody
must have blundered here, however; :;
either the chemist in his testimony. or
the reporters. The last witness sum-
moned was a physician, who produced
a letter which was handed by the de-
ceased, while in the death agony. TO his
landlady. That letter was addressed
to the witness, by whom it was produc-
ed, and it states that the deceased died
by his own act, and that the poison he
used wrs antimony. This evidence was
reserved to the last, in order to test the
reliability. of the evidence of experts.
To these the result was not ,gratifying.
| THE Shah of Persia is TO be gratified
/ by a chamois hunt while on his visit t"
Austria. He is reported to be a great
/ sportsman and a good shot, and to
oblige his OrintaI guest the Emperor
Francis Joseph has ordained an arrange
men to be made for an imperial charnois
/ hunt as a new feature IN the programme
! of festivities.
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FROM WA6RLNGTOM

Senator Boutwell, emphatcally contradiGts
the recent statement of Phelps Dodge 4 Co
that the S271 900 was forced out OF them by
way of compromise. The department in no
case accepts money of any party charged who
claims to be innocent, being allowed by law to
compromise with offenders only after gilt is
admitted, and it was on this distinct under
standing that the compromise with Phelps,
Dodge & Co. was made.
Between fifteen and twenty-five tons of
free matter now leaves the postOfice in Wash
4ngton, for t.le States, daily Heretofore
many public document belonging to members
Of Congress have been stored at the Capitol,
but as the franking privilege cannot be exer-
eised after the first of next July, this accumu-
alton of year is bring transmitted to the
enators and Representatives. From fifty to
xty bags of documents addressed to mem.
bers, are forwarded daily in different direc
tions, and probably by tho first of July al
dead-head matter of this description will have
been sent to its destination.
The Secretary of State has laid before the
President a letter from Minister DeLong
somewhat in the nature of resignation, bu
leaving it optional with the President to &C
cept il as such
AAS L NHsoAANS LOlJdl llAl6llJ hltLlOuLlCGh bLlh
it will commence issuing postal cards on the
first of May next.
President Grant has pardoned JOSEPH
Hartnell, sentenced last March to ten year
imprisonment for embezzling letters from thu
New York Postofiice.
The Secretary of the Interior has decided
that the Northern Pacific Railroad Compan,
is entitled to lands along the line laid down OF
its maps of preliminary location, az agains
all persons who made settlements on suel
lands after said preliminary map had been &C
cepted by the Secretary of the Interior bu
before the lands had been formally withdrawn
This decision is adverse to several hundre,
claimants, and involves about 200 sections o
land in Minnesota Washington Territory, an,
elsewhere
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THE Empress Eugene, since the
death of her husband, has only once
taken a walk and twice gone out in "A
carriage. Except in these, and frequent
visits to the little chapel where the i'm
perial remains repose, she does not
leave the house.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-04-25

The estimated expenses of the Vienna
Exhibition Is eight and half million
dellara.
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A GIRL of thirteen was married TO
boy of sixteen in Omaha last week. The
united wealth Of the young couple
amounts to S275, 900.
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ANHoUNCEA CEAENTs.-AnnOuncinR the name OF
person Tor County Office, IS; State Office $40;
Fsaeral Office Sl5. Invariably in advance.
EsS, The above Terms and Ratea will b
tnctly adhered to.
RELIGIOUS, Marriage, Birth and Death
Notices solicited, and will be willingly ipser-
ed rkEE OF CHArsE. Obituaries will be charRG
advertising rateS-
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FOREIGN LNTELLIGENCE

Halifax f. Mcdonald of the custom
house, gave Judgment in the Atlantic Inquiry
in open court. He commended the conduct of
the officers after the ship struck, but codemn-
ed her management from the time she bore up
for Halifax, at l p. NJ. on the 3lst OF March
especially, and the Captains conduct in leav-
ing the deck at midnight. His certificate
might DO cancelled, but in consideration of
his efforts to save life, it shall be revoked for
two years, John Brown, fourth officer, is to
bs suspended for three months.
The Vienna Exposition building is il, a
backward state, and can not be finished by the
first of May
Late adyices state that the Imperial Gov
ernment will spend half n million sterling on
Qualifications la Halifax this year.
News having important bearing on the fu-
ture of the Khivan Expedition has been re-
ceived. I lrernal disseutions have broken ont
in Khiva. The reigning Khan has executed
his Chief Councillor and imprisoned his uncle
and other influential khivaus who were eue-
mics Of Russia lie has also released the
Russians long held as prisoners In Khiva. ana
sent them 70 meet detschment Of the expo
dition. which 10 advancing from Orenburg. An
American correspondent and the Secretary OF
the United States legation at this city have
left St Petersburg for Khiya.
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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE

GENERAL LNJLEELIT ENCE
The salary of members of the Dominion
Of Canada Parliament, for the session, Is to be
raised from 5000 to 81 900.
-Advices from Adelaide say the wheat crop
of South Australia is satisfactory. 10000
tons Will be available for export.
Air. Corcoran has sold two hundred acres
of land near Washionton to the government
"A an addition TO the Soldiers Home for the
Sum Of 1915, OOO He will donate the money
to Al endowment to Louise Home charity
created by him for Impoverished ladies who
are unable to support themselves.
superintendent Hoag has informed the In-
dian bureau that he has ordered thorough in
vestigation into the murder Of the surveyors
by Indians. In his communication he en-
closes letter from special agent Jno. +. Will
liams, who says it appears il said outrage WAS
sommitted by Cheyennes it was proba ly done
by some OF the Young men in the absence OF
their chiefs, and while intoxicated. TINS view