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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-18
Snake e-Charmer.

The most charming snake-charmer is
Mrs. NJ, whom an inquirer, "not very
much afraid of snakes" has been kind
ly allowed to interview. Mr.. NJ, who
received the visitor, after remarks up
on the weather, produced out of a cup
board large Demonstration, a python,
and several small snakes, which at once
made themselves at home on the wri-
ting-table, among pens, inks and books.
interviewer was a good deal startled,
when the two large snakes coiled round
and round Mr.. NJ, and began to notice
himself with their bright eyes and
forked tongues. Mr.. NJ. then went to
call Mrs NJ, leaving him alone with
the boa deposited on an armchair. He
felt queer when the animal began gradu-
ally to come near him, to improve their
tete-G-tete, but was soon relieved by the
entrance of his hosts, followend by two
little children, charming and charmers
also. The lady and the children went
the most endearing names allowed it to
twine itself most gracefully round about
them. This boa-constrictOr, as thick
round as a small tree, twined playfully
round the lady's waist and neck, form
ing kind of turban round her head,
and expected to be petted and made
much of like a kitten. The children
over and over again took its head in
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pushing aside its fOrked tongue in do
ing so. every one to his taste," as
the old man said when he kissed the
COW. The animal seemed much pleased,
but kept continually turning its head
toward interviewer, until he allowed it
for q moment to nestle its head upon
his sleeve. This splendid serpent coiled
all round Mrs. NJ, while she moved
about the room and when she stood up
to pour out coffee.
About a year ago Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
were away for six weeks, and left the
boa in charge of the keeper at the Zoo.
The poor reptile moped, slept, and re-
fused to be comforted; but, when his
master and mistress appeared, he
sprang upon them with delight, coiling
himself round them, and showing every
symtom of intense delight. The chill
dren are devoted to their darling
1 Cleo, as they call the snake, and smiled
when interviewer asked If they were
ever frightened by it.
/ Interviewer's conclusion. It is mere
prejudice, when snakes are not veno-
nous, to abhor them as we do. They
are intelligent and harmless, perfectly
clean, with no sort of smell, make nc
kind of noise, and move about far more
gracefully than lap-dOgs or other pets.
These seemed very obedieut, and re-
mained in their cupboard when told tc
do so.-AU the Year Found.
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the name Of the captain-generaI and the re-
public to lay down their arms and enjoy the
benefits of republican government. The re-
publicans have appointed a committee to go to
Madrid and represent them before the govern
ment and cortes.
"A special from the Hague to the Pail Mall
Gazette denies that any settlement has
been made between the Dutch and the Achee-
nese. In the States-GeneraI of Holland, July
I'd, the colonial minister announced that all
the supplies requisite for the equipment of the
second expedition against Atcheen have been
furnished. He added that no negotiations
with the sultan Of Atcheen were pending, as
had been reported in public prints but it was
not improbable that they might be opened
through the intermediary offices of a friendly
Rajah. The government of Holland was will
ing to conclude an honorable peace, but the
reported conditions of settlement were wholly
inadmissibIe.
The government at Madrid has decided to
employ every resource to crush the Carlists.
Bounties are offered for soldiers, and if this
does not succeed, the government Will appeal
to the patriotism of the country to supply
combatants against the Carlists stating frank
ly the situation and means of saving Spain.
The proposed constitution for federal re-
public divides Spain into eleven states, Cuba,
etc, being made territories. Each state is to
elect four senators, and deputies are to be
chosen by the people. The president is limi-
ted to one term of four years. The cortes are
to hold two sessions each year, and members
are to receive salaries. The vigorous mea-
sures taken by the government have prevented
the declaration of independence, which the If
reconcilabIes were intending to issue at
Barcelona.
"A dispatch from Bombay gives intelligence
of rising among the Hindoo peasants in the
district of Poonah. They refuse to pay rents,
and have plundered and burned several
houses. Two bands have been dispersed by
the police.
Birmingham and Wolverhampton journals
express alarm at the decrease of orders for
hardware from America, and at the remark
able development of the trade in the United
States, whose manufacturers are supplanting
those of England in the colonies and South
America.
London An advertisement appears call
ing a meeting of all persons who have claims
against the United States, which arose after
the terminal date fixed in the treaty of Wash
ington for the purpose of taking joint action
for the advancement of their interests.
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few female ventriloGuists, and these
have always manifested deficiency of
power. Only one ever attained any
considerable celebrity, ard even her
name is unknown. She lived in Am
sterdam in the sixteenth century, and is
referred to incidentally by writer's of
that period as possessing a remarkable
gift. The art seems to be known even
by the savage races. We have anthem
tic accounts of its practice in the most
expert manner by the Esquimaux, some
of whom are reported to have produced
extraordinary acoustic effects by this
means /; and it is quite certain that ven
triloquism is known among the African
negroes. 1t is upon record that re-
Gently imported negro in the island of
St. Thomas, in the last century, was
burned alive as a sorcerer for having
caused voices to emanate from mani
mate objects, such as earthen vessels,
walking-sticks, statues, etc.
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only above the limits of their brain
power, but is beyond the average of Or
dinary men. When they break they go
to pieces mentally and live sad monu-
ments of the folly of men who will not
obey what is almost intuitiveIy tauoht
by the very body which they injure. It
is more remarkable than we see these
instances of failure and yet heed not the
example. We think we are to be ex-
empt from such results, but each day
the story is told again and again.
Instances are not rare of men who
appear to lead an industrious life, and
rarely know sickness. They work hard,
but do not appear to be over worked.
When you meet such a case if you will
inquire closely you Will find that he is
a man who takes his meals regularly,
has his seven or eight hours sleep, does
not overeat, is not incorporate in the
use of anything, and takes his rest as
he goes along. We are like Iocomo-
tives. We need oiIing all the time, not
once a week or once a month. When
you overhead locomotive by overuse,
you take the temper out of it, and it is
used up. 1t is the same with men, wo-
men and children. When shall we grow
wise
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Rest.
The Ordinary Rules Of

The Ordinary Rules Of Health.
A man who observes the ordinary
rules of health and is careful every day
that he obeys the demand of his body
for exercise and the requirements of
his mind for relaxation Will not only
stand a large amount work, but VIII
continue to a good old age to fulfill the
duties of life. Men break down in mid
die life not because they are over
worked but on account of their igno-
rance of the imperative demands Of
their physical system. In some cases
it is not ignorance of these demands
but wilfull neglect of their duty to
themselves. Not long since a mer-
chant, hearty and apparently strong,
was taken i'll, and his doctor prOnoun-
ced it a case of over work. Perhaps the
doctor thought so, but if he had in
quired closely into the habits of the pa
tient he would have found that it was
not over work, but gross abuse of him
self. Confined In a close apartment
ten hours a day in the business season,
eating trash at cheap restaurants, or
not eating at all during the daytime,
at night making a late meal, retiring to
bed with load of indigestible food, to
wake up IN the morning feeling heavy
| and seeking relief by some invigorating
cordial, the merchant finally yielded tc
! these personal assaults, and the doc
tor pronounced it a case of over work
Men do not guage themselves as they
should. The engineer who would at
tempt to carry a hundred pounds o
steam when he knew his boilers wer'
only guaged for seventy would be pro
nOunced an idiot, but sensible men to
day are carrying a pressure which thei-
common sense should tell them is no
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-18
A Blunder.

Another fatal blunder by drug clerk
is reported. A man who had discus
sion about family matters with his wife,
and came ont second best, threatened
to commit suicide, and went out to a
drugstore and asked for twenty-five
cents worth of strychnine. The ignorant
drug clerk, instead of putting up poison
gave him some harmless drug in mistake,
blunderingly labelled it strychnine. "
The man took it home, gulped 1t down
IN the presence of his wife, and then
threw himself on the loungeto die. His
wife, instead of running for a physician
and stomach pump, waited until she
thought he was dead, and then COM
menced to rifle his pockets for his loose
change. He was on his feet IN an
instant, and instead of dying he made it
very lively for his better-half for about
ten minutes; and then he threatened to
get a shot gun and shoot the drug clerk,
and his wife said if he didn't she would.
And now discord and such things dwell
In that house, all on account of a blum
dering drug clerk.
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A REVOLUTIONARY "REMINISCENCES.


Here's the spot. Look around you. Above on the
Lay the Hessians encamped. By that church on
Stood the sa7nt Jersey farmers. And here ran a
wall
YQu may dig anywhere and you'll turn up ball.
Nothing more. Grasses spring, waters run, flowers
Pretty much as they did ninety-three years ago.
Nothing more, did say? Stay one moment
Of Caldwell, the parson, who once preached the
Down at "SiT spTingfelda What. No? Come-that's
All the Jerseys afame! And they gave him the
OF the "rebeI high priest" He stuck in their
For he loved the Lord God, and he hated King
George!
He had cause, you might say! When the Hesssns,
that day,
Marched up With Knyphausen, they stopped on
At the q Farms" where his wife, with child in
her aims,
Sat alone in the house. How it happened none
knew
But God, and that one of the hireling crew
Who fired the shot Enough there she lay
And Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband, away
Did he preach, did he pray? Think of him, as you
By the old church to-day;--think of him and that
band
Of militant plough-boys! See the smoke and the
Of the reckless advance of the struggling retreat
Keep the ghost of that wife, fOuly slain, in your
view
And what could you, what should you, what would
you do?
Why, just what he did! They were left in the
lurCh
For the want of more wadding. He ran to the
church,
Broke the door, stripped the pews, and dashed out
in the road
With his arms full of hymn-bOoks, and threw down
his load
At their feet Then, above all the shouting and
suOJS,
Rang his voice. 'Put Watts into 'e, boys, give 'em
Watts ~
And they did. This is all. Grasses spring, flow
blow
Pretty much they did ninety-three years ago,
You may dig anywhere and yOuH turn up a ball
Bret H0rfe.
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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 n strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such =
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without delay. We solicit your favor.
e We enter no new names on our
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News of the Week.
EAST

HAOL.
--Duden, Freres & Co., New York, lace i'm
porters, are charged with having, during a
long series of years, carried on a systematic
course of swindling on the revenue depart
ment. Their house in that city was established
about 1853. Their principal house is in BEus-
sells, and they have branch houses in Noting
ham, London, st. Petersburgh, San Francisco,
aud New York. Richard Muser and Frederick
Muser carry on the busines in New York, and
Otto Muser manages the San Francisco house.
According to the affidavits the penalties will
reach the enormous sum of 90, 500 900. 1t is
alleged that this house is trying to form itself
into joint stock company so as to evade part
of the liability.
When Walworth donned the prison uni
form at Sing Sing, he remarked: 81 have
gained seven pounds in clothes since I came
here. feel now like engaging in a base ball
match" He remarked of the handouts which
linked him to Gillen, the wife-murderer,
They are the starchiest cuffs ever wore"
-Philadelphia-The mint is engaged in re-
melting vast quantities of light gold coins.
Since January l, some twenty-three million
dollars worth have been melted, and ten mil
lions more will be received this week Orders
for the new trade dollars will be filed in the
early part OF next week.
The total amount to be raised by taxes.
this year in New York city, is slightly in excess
of S27, 600, ,00O of which SIC, 700, 900 are re-
quired for city purposes, and so, 300, 900 for
state purposes.
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ANNoUNOEdRTs.-AnnO the name oa
person for a County Office, S.; State Office S1O;
Federal Office SIS. 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 will be charged
advertising rates.
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NICKEL.-Within the past three years,
more especially since the discovery OF
practical methods for electrO-Platlng
with nickel, the demand for this metal
has greatly increased, and its price has
advanced. It has risen from 81 to 8 10
per pound, and its expense has become
so great that substitute for 1t in the
art is now sought. 4 good substitute,
II is stated. may be found in the metal
manganese. DIR. Percy, in letter to
the London Times, states that twenty
wears ago he made an alloy, in which
manganese was used in place Of nickel
and tbe resemblance of the alloy to the
ordinary German silver was perfect.
Conner 70 per cent, manganese % per
cent. makes an alloy resembling Ger
man silver, and better in its qualities.
He who follows truth carries his star
in his brain
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-07-18

THE French are the court-players of
the dear Lord. French history some
times seems to me like a great comedy
which Is being performed for the
amusement of all mankind. HeiHe.
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WHEN we read we fancy we could be
martyrs when we come to act we find
we canuot bear a provoking word
Hannah Moore.
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He who follows truth carries his star
in his brain.
, 1873-11-20

EIGHT YEARS WITHOUT EATING. There
is young woman named Mary Pincher.
residing at the corner of Gates avenue
and Downing street. Brooklyn, who has,
it is asserted by hor physician, DR.. S. F.
Speir, taken no food for sight years.
She is twenty five years of age bright
and intelligent. As girl she was a
close applicant to her studies,, and was
wont to abandon her Iaeals to ponder
over her books until the strain upon her
intellectual and physical strength over
came her. She also sustained injuries
by being thrown from a horse. Subse-
quently she fell off Fulton avenue car,
and was dragged along the street for a
distance of forty feet by her crinoline
catching in the car. She was then af-
hicted by absolute nervous prostration
ana has since been confined to her bed.
Her legs are twisted and her hands are
drawn up behind her head. She sleeps
but little, and is said to be endoe ed with
clairvoyant faculties. She works en-
broidery in colors with great facility,
and has made slippers and smoking caps
with initials worked In them. The doc
tor is positive that there is no deception
in tho case. and has used every effort
possible to detect any sign of imposi-
ton, but to no purpose. The case has
baffled the skill of hundreds Of physi-
clans who have examined it.-N. Y.
Herald, Oct. 23d.
, 1873-11-20

FROM FoRT GARRY.-Among the pas
senger5 from the Mainland last night
were Mr.. c. Roberts and Mr.. P. Beres
ford Hope, two English gentlemen who
have just crossed the continent through
British Territory. Starting from Tor
onto in June last, they proceeded to
Fort Garry uia the Dawson route. and
starting out from Fort Garry on the %
of July, they came through Yellowhead
Pass, following the course travelled by
Lord Milton, descending the Thompson
to Kamloops, and arrived here in good
health and spirits without any mishap
About foot of snow was n ct with in
the mountains. We understand that
these gentlemen, who are travelling
partly for pleasure and partly for the
purpose of reporting upon the color les
as field for emigration, viii! take the
next steamer to San Francisco, and pro-
ceed thence to China and Japan, "do-
ing . Australasia on their way home
CclOniSt. ~ ~ @
, 1873-11-20

RECENT GUNNErY TniALs.-1he spe
ciel board appointed to make compafa-
tive trials of howitzers, field guns, anu
mitrilleuses. assembled at Fortress Mon
roe on the 1st of October and closed
their labors on the 9th. The trials were
made under direction of General Gll7
more, President of the Hoard, assisted
b, Colonel Treadwell Of the Ordinance
Department. and Captain Lorraine Of
the Artillery The trials were made on
the seashore near the Fort, the largest
being feet high and 40 feet long
The guns tried consisted of the ofdi-
nary Napoleon FOUNDER field gun. car
rying ~ @1bs canisters; weight Of gun
about 900 lbs.; worked by s men; range
of firing 800 yards; the small Gstling
gun, caliber 40, weight of gun 200 lbs.,
worked by two men. range of firing 800
and l, 200 yards; the one inch Calling
gun, 800 fbs., worked by four men us
ing canister cartridges each containing 2l
half inch balls, range of firing 800 and
200 yards. aA'
The remarkable advantages of the
Gaftling gun were never more thorough,
ly established than on this trial. AT
800 yards she small gun threw 600 shots
in 20 seconds, of which SIS hit the tar
get. being from s to 10 times more than
the hits made by the howitzer and the
field guns. 0'-' -'
At 1900 yards range the latter guns,
owing to some defect in the ammunition,
were not so effective. -
, 1873-11-20

The FASHIONABLE SCANT EFFECT
The EXTREMIST phase of the fashionable
scant effect was reached Sunday bv a
lady who walked mp Fifth Avenue in a
navy blue camel's hair dress. Not a
pucker or visible seam, or particle
of trimming, broke up the beautiful sur
face Of that woman. She was one un-
bending level. and how she got into that
stralght-jacket Of dress, could not
imagine till l took rear view of her,
and found she was buttoned up behind
from neck to hem. Two unobtrusive
box-plaits lurked in shy way each side
the opening; otherwise that garment
looked lik. bloated pantaloon leg
And walk-well she couldn't walk very
we'll, and in case of fire that women
would be fried in her own fat. Mrs.
Burnhdm' S Letter. , ......., h.
, 1873-11-20

A CHILD Born WITH CHIGNoN. "A
respectable lady living in the western
portion Of the county has given birth to
child, which lived four days. the most
extraordinary of any of which I ever
heard. 1t was born with well develop.
ed Chi mon on the top Of its head. In
deed, it was so plain no person could
fail to see the perfect resemblance to
that piece of head gear. The peculiar
appendage was composed of muscular
or fleshy substance exactly resembling
chignon. 1t was the wonder of the
neighborhood, and large numbers called
to see this remarkable natural curiosity
Some time before the birth of the child
quite a lumber of ladies, incluoing the
mother, were talking and jesting abou,
chignons. The above in vodched for by
one of our most respectable citizens -
Lebanon, hy., Standard.
, 1873-11-20


e News has just been received of
the murder of Wallace Goodwin of this
place on Snake river, below Fort Hall
on the 17th ult. He. was travelling with
a white man and half breed. He was
shot and robbed and thrown into the
river. Goodrich had in his possession
about $4O0 in currency. Citizens of
that vicinity are on the track Of the muir
derers, and are confident Of capturing
them. Goodwin left here in August
last in company with two men who had
bo ught band of Indian horses to drive
to Fort Hall and was on his return when
he was murdered.-La Grandc Sentinel.
, 1873-11-20

A TREMENDOUS ECHO. Lake Awosting
on the Shawangunk mountain. has a
most remarkable echo. Eight distinct
words rapidly uttered are repeated plain
" eleven times in succession, and when
the innumerable reiterations that follow
have seemingly died away in the dis
tance, the whole sentence comes back
from central focus of sound with tev.
1ific shout, followed by dead silence
The firing of gun is succeeded by a
perfect fusilade of musketry among the
lifts, ending in clap Of thunder.
, 1873-11-20


GOLD TOUCHES ITS LOWEST PoINT.--A
New York dispatch of November 9th
SAYS: The advances in Bank of Eng
gland rates and reported railroad defal-
cations here have demoralized foreign
exehar ge. The prominent feature of the
day arises out Of the scarcity Of money
among merchants and some fear aboui
the situation at London. The price Of
gold fell to the lowest point since the
early part OF 1S62,when the issue of pa
per money by Government commenced.
The result of the November elections is
interpreted as meaning no further issue
of paper and an effort to return to spe.
els payments. The day closed with lit.
tie recovery f1om extreme depression.
, 1873-11-20

USEFUL BoY.-T There is a twelye~year-
old boy at Pennington, Me-, who for
five or six weeks last year did all the
h1 use work for his helpless mother and
three children all under three years of
age. The Chronicle says ne made butter.
pies, biscuit, etc., and d; dn't shirk from
the task of preparing meals for . party
of threshers at work in the barn. Will
lie Radcliffe is his name, and he has
ma le it name to be proud of.
, 1873-11-20

A VALUABLE OPINIcN.--An exchange
quotes the remark of an eminent Eastern
lawyer to the effect that at the age of
three score man should take for his
three rules of life employment with
out labor, exercise without weariness,
and temperance without abstinence. -
Many client has paid his attorney a
thousand dollar fee for an opinion not
worth half So much as this.
, 1873-11-20

"LET lie Kiss YoU?"-From Wor-
cester, Mass, we got the story OF wife
who killed her husband while kissing
him. There have been treacherous
kisses in romance before bat this was in
real life and literal. Enoch Hill an6 his
wife lived unhappy together on account
of disposition to jealousy. Meeting
her the other night, by agreement, after
she had been visiting her father, they
disputed es usual. Suddenly Mrs. Hill
asked her husband to hold her sun-shade,
and, having given it te him, she put her
hand in her pocket, took out pistol un-
noticed by him, saying, "Let me kiss
you ?' and. reaching her arms around
him, fired ball into his left side. He
may recover, and if he should he has
received q lesson which he will be like
ly to remember against both jealousy
and kisses.