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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

The steamer Tagus on her next trip
to England will take out ten locomotives for
the Russian government and 900 stand of arms
for the Turkish government.
A Washington dispatch states that
Secretary Fish declares that the story of the
proposed cession of Porto Rico to Germany
is without foundation, and that the alleged
dispatches are forgeries.
Sixteen million dollars are invested
in silk factories in this country, employing TO-
O51 operatives. There is a shrinkage of 25
to 95 per cent. this year from the amount of
raw silks produced last year.
John D. Miles, the Indian agent of
the Cheyennes, whose resignation is demand
ed by the Quaker commissioners because he
called for troops, says ne did no more than
any good citizen calling for the police against
burglars and murderers.
The Freeman's Journal makes the as
sertion that Admiral Polo late Spanish minis
ter to Washington, was recalled because he
refused to sanction the transfer of Porto Rico
Island to Germany, in return for help to put
down the carlist insurrection and the rebellion
in Cuba. The Journal publishes the docu-
ments, and says Admiral Polo will not say
there is one word mistranslated
Up to last week the amount of Fcir-
culation Withdrawn by national banks by de-
positors of legal tenders, is greater than the
amount issued since the passage of the new
law by about 81, ,OOO, 900, thus working con-
traction of currency to that extent. major
ity of the banks thus Withdrawing their circu-
lation are located in the south and west.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
How slIrer-Plate Ware is Made.

The process by which silver-plated
goods are made is a rather curious one,
and quite different from any the unin-
itiated are led to suppose. Let us fol-
low the process of making a teapot, for
instance A fiat piece of Britannia
which is the basis for most plated goods
circular in form and about the size of
common dinner-plate, is fastened upon
lathe next wooden form or mould,
and the lathe is set in motion. The
workman with the requisite tools presses
upon this revolving disc and shapes it
over the wooden block, giving it the re-
is thus turned off " in a moment or
two. The top is turned off in the same
way, also the lid, and at the proper time
they are put together. The legs,
handles, and whatever other ornaments
of a solid nature are to be added, are
generally cast in moulds and fastened
upon the pots by workmen skilled in
that line.
If the pot is to be engraved or chased
it wiz be necessary to hammer upon it's
surface, and, as the metal is soft and
yiel ding, the pot must in some way be
made solid. This is done by filing the
vessel with hot pitch, and allowing it to
cool, when the whole mass is as flint al
most, and will bear any amount of bang
ing The engraving and chasing finish
ed, the pot Is hung upside down on the
top of the tank of pitch, and the heat
soon empties it of its contents. It Is
then placed in solutions of turpentine
and soda respectively, and all traces of
the pitch are removed.
From here If goes to the polishing,
and then to the 50 bathroom, where the
silver is added to the surface. The
great requisite in silver-plating is a
clear and smooth surface. Without
this the work would he very unsatisfac-
tory. In order 10 attain this, each piece
is thoroughly polished, and then thor
Oughly boiled in a strong solution of
potash and riused in clean cold water
before going into the bath of silver, in
which it remains a sufficient length of
time to obtain the coating required,
and is again thoroughly cleansed.
Another polisher gets it next, and by
means Of revolving brush of copper
wire takes off the heavy white appear
ance which the silver bath leaves, inter
| stices of the lngraved or chased parts.
| The burnisher handles it next, and
| with a steel instrument about one
eighth of an inch thick, shaped like a
trowel but smaller, by constant attrition
brings into brightness the now dull
| looking body, furnishing such portions
as are Intended to be acted upon. The
remaining processes are those of finish
! ing and packing, mainly.
The girls who are employed as burn
ishers work by the piece and get the
| same compensation as men for the same
| class of work. They earn from 81 tC
S15 per week, according to capacity.
" shaped, like large walters, ETC., are
made bv the lathe and pressure process
we have described, but the heavy worH
is "struck up" with dross, much ST
iewelry is.
The process Is q very interesting one
and can be thoroughly understood only
by personal inspection.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28

to the minister of the interior, in which he
says: "That neither Colonel ViIlette or anv
other of the prisoners in custody are respon-
sible for my escape from prison" He declares
that he had no accomplces III the fort or else
where, except his wife and nephew. The
marshal describes how he eluded the surveiI-
ance of his jailer, and in conclusion says ::
. Resenting the humiliating prison regula-
tions, felt justified in an attempt to recover
my liberty. As I was not tried by my peers
my sentence was Illegal"
The Mark Lane Express, London, in
its weekly review of breadstuffs market, has
the following. Bad weather has prevailed
throughout the past week, but or farmers
have kept sharp look out, and have secured
their crop. There are no reports OF sprout-
ing, though much wheat was packed in poor
condition in consequence of high winds
and low temperature. The same
weather has ruled on the continent This
will bring good samples to the front,
and increase the value Of the old
stock. There is little difference in prices since
last report, although the tendency is down
ward. France is sending back here cargoes
shipped thence. The crops here and in France
are mostly secured, and the dependence Of
both countries on foreigners is materially les
sened. The fastest estimates put our crop
at 7 per centum below the average.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WEST.

The Union Pacific railroad company
has commenced suit in the United States
courts, to restrain the counties through which
the road passes from collecting the tax of
1878.
At the recent election in the Choctaw
and Chickasaw nations Indian territory.
Coleman Cole was elected governor of the
Choctaws, and Frank Overton, governor of
the Chickasaws
A report comes from Fort SuIIy that
Indians to the number of four thousand at
tackled Custar's expedition on the 18th and
and were repulsed with heavy loss. Oustar's
loes is reported at fifty killed and wounded
The cavalry ab Rawlings, Wyoming,
have instructions to thoroughly scout the
Sweetwater, Powder and Big Horn rivers and
country to the southern extremity of the yell
low Stone lake. and administer the severest
punishment possible to all Indians found out
of their reservations. Much is expected Of
this expedition, which is finely equipped and
win be in the field about three months A
body of Shoshone Indians join in the expe-
dition
The following telegram has been re-
ceived by Gen. Ord from Fort Fetterman,
wyoming: "A Cheyenne half-breed from
Powder river reports that at the council of
Cheyenne and Araphoes it was decided to re-
call all hostile parties from the vicinity of the
railroad, and return to the agency; that about
two hundred lodges of Cheyennes passed
thirty-fve miles north OF this post Friday en-
route to the agency they we're very hungry
and eating their horses. I send this rumor
for what it is worth"
The following telegram has been re-
ceived from Gov Osborn, OF Kansas have
information through Indian agent stubbs and
other sources, that the Usage tribe of Indians
have at a general council declared war against
this state. Depredations have already been
committed by them on our southern border.
The state has but few arms, and the United
Statestroops heretofore guarding the line being
now in the Indian territory, at great distance
from the Usage reservation, exposes the from
tier settlements of this state to great danger.
With arms we can defend our own borders
Can You furnish two thousand carbines and
aocoutrements and one million cartridges on
account Of the state of Kansas
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
FOREIGN.

The recognition of theSpanish repub-
lie by England, France and Austria, is Off
cialy promulgated.
The investigation into Bazaine's es-
cape show that most of the guards were in
conniyance, and he left by an open door.
The carlist chieftain Tristany has
captured Leo De Urgel sixty-seven miles
southeast of sera1a. The fighting was dez-
perate and losses heavy on both sides. An
immense quantity Of stores fell into the hands
OF the carlists
The Russian government has refused
to recognize the Spanish republic. 1t is in
consequence of this that the other powers de-
lay complete recognition, but it is reported
that the governments of Austria and Germany
have sent credentials to their representives
at Madrid
An European says that Italy seems to
become more hopelessly bankrupt The peo-
pie are sincerely loyalg to their king The
ministers are almost pedantically attached to
the English theory of parliamentary gov
ernment. He states that they ask nothing bet
ter than to leave the church alone, but they
have no bread and no specie, and they have
floods, malaria, bandits and paper money.
The Swiss Times published Father
Hyacinthe'a letter >resigning the care of Ge-
neva to Consore De Etat 1t is az follows !;
Attached from the very depths of my5heart to
the church in which I was baptized, whose
reform wish for but not it's overthrow. con-
vinced besides, by experience now sufficiently
heightened, that the liberal Catholicism of
Geneva is neither liberal in politics nor Cath
ollc in religion, have the honor to tender my
resignationof OF my functions as cure OF this city
arshal Bazaine has written letter
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
The Yesper Bell.

To the traveller in South America, the
striking of the vesper bell exercises a
potent charm. AS the usage requires
every one to halt, no matter where he
may be, at the first stroke of the bell,
to interrupt his conversation, no matter
how important, and listen without stir
ring to the conclusion of the chime, the
singularity of a whole population sur
priced in a moment as it comes and
goes, held IN q state of petrifcation,
and paralyzed as if by an encounter,
may be imagined. On every side you
see gestures interrupted, mouths half
open for the arrested remarks, smiles
lingering or passing into an expression
of prayer. You would fancy them ma
tion of statues. A town in South
America, at the Angelus, resembles the
city in the 'Arabian Nights, whose in
habitants were turned into stones. The
magician here is the bell ringer. But
hardly has the vibration ceased when a
universal marmur arises from these
thousands of oppressed lungs. Hand
meets hand, questions seek answer, con-
versations resume their course; horses
feel the Ioosened bride, and paw the
ground; dogs bark, and babies cry; the
mothers chatter. The accidental turns
thus given to conversation are many.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
why the South Failed.

In his address at the late commence
ment of the University of Georgia,
Gen. John B. Gordon incidentally made
the following allusion to the war, and
the failure of the southern cause. He
said:
'And just here I am tempted to
break the thread of my argument to
make a remark which think ought to
be made in this connection. Tt is this. {:
That their civilization and these institu-
tions, whatever may be said of their
evils, were also the sources from which
sprung the matchless prowess and self
sacrifice exhibited by the south in the
late war. And as I have introduced
this subject, let me add also that I
mean no mimic regret when [ deplOre
the efforts to pl ce the responsibility of
our failure at the door of this or that
man, or upon this or that cause. The
truth ia, we have failed because it was
impossible to succeed; and if, with all
the experience of both sides, we had
the war to fight over again, we should
accomplish no more; nor has any other
race, under like circumstances, ever ac-
complished SO much in the past, nor
can ever accomplish so much in the fu-
ture. What is it you ought to have
done that was left UndOne ? You did
all that human hands could accomplish,
| human intellect suggest, human skill
| devise, or human hearts endure. Aud
you yielded at last only to overwhelm,
| ing calamities, to crushing impossible.
! ties, to the DEGREES of a destiny as in.
exorable as death-to resist which you
brought public and private economy,
/ public and private devOteduess and
unitedness, skill, intellect, courage, will
energy, sacrifices, prayers, churches
states, manhood and womanhood; en-
during suffering, struggling with {
| faith, q heroism and martial spirit un
exampled in history and lustrous in de
| feat
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
SouTH-

The bark Mermaid, from New Lon
don to New Orleans, is reported sunk, and the
captain and five of the crew were drowned.
H. D. Newcombe, president of the
Louisville and Nashville RAILROAD company,
died at Louisville on the 18th, of paralysis
Old John Harper. owner of the cele-
brated Longfellow, died at his residence, near
Midway KY, on the 10Th instant, leaving a
large fortune
7. W. CORDOBA, of Mississippi, col
ored, superintendent of public instruction,
sues the st. Louis Dispatch for $50, 900 dam
ages. The Dispatch apoIcgised on the second
day for its offensive publication.
The following defaications are re-
ported from Now Orleans Paul Lessasier,
cashier Of James Hernandez, $4,000; J. L,
Dellery, cashier of the Citizens bank, $4O,-
OOO The defaulters have absconded.
A duel occurred-in St. James parish,
La, last week, between DR.. Charles Gray and
Deputy Sheriff Prichard. They fought with
reyolvers distance fifteen PAGES. Both fell at
the third fire, and expired in a few minutes.
There is now in Tennessee over 4, 900
white schools and over 800 colored schools,
and about 6.OOO teachers. OF the number of
teachers fully 1000 are colored, the colored
teachers being employed wholly in colored
schools.
Anderson Perry, John Ross, Antoine
Maurice, James Williams and John Robertson,
associates in the murder of Elisha Eastwood,
an old aat-boatman, on the 25th of April last,
were hung at Napoleon, Assumption parish,
La, on the 2lst instant.l
At Brookhaven, Miss, last wee k,
three negroes, Dick Cooper, Anthony Grant
and Silas johnson, who forcibly entered the
residence of a Mrs. Burnley, and violated
her person, were taken from the jail and hung
by the citizens, about 1000 of whom were
present. They all confessed their guilt or
the gallows.
A Memphis dispatch says the exces
sive hot weather of the past week has produ
ced more cases of sunsIroke than were eve
known before in this latitude The board o.
health reports fourteen deaths from thii
cause. Reports from the surrounding countr,
state that the crops are suffering very mucl
from drouth.
Capt. A. 7. Butler, who was shot by
negro at Atlanta, Ga, died ON the 18th inst
The citizens were so exasperated at the un
provoked murder that several hundred o
them armed themselves and marched to tn
jail, where the Murrell brothers were con
fined, took both of them out, and carrie
them to the parade grounds. A jury was i'm
provised, when both Gabriel and Mike MuT
reu asserted their innocence. After thre
hours investigation on the sworn testiTaon
of eye-witnessss of the murder, Gabriel wa
taken back to Jail, and Mike shot to death.
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Dexter EcIiDsed.

Bonner Is not much of a horseman,
after all. His fastest specimen of
equine feetness, Dexter, is now sur
passed IN trotting record by half
dozen animals. The magic Maid, with
her mile in 2:14f the American Girl,
with time but a little slower Red
Cloud, who has just circled the track
IN 2:17, and Lulu, who was spun around
the course in 2:16f, are all so many
pangs Of envy IN the soul of Bonner.
The day has flown in which any one
man could hope to secure for his private
stable the best trotting stock of the
country. Tt has been a red-letter sea-
son In the history of American racing.
Horses of known swiftness have
eelipsed their previous records, while
animals hitherto obscure, as IN the case
of Lulu and Lucille Golddust, have
dashed down the most astonishing fig
ures. "a two-forty gait" once the
symbol of supreme feetness, has be-
come a mere turtle pace.
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fore an offended Deity, with stains of
blood so deep that none but Almighty
God can wash them out. Let your time
be improved in reconciliation with that
being you have so desperately Knocked 7
San awful stiffness shut down upon
that cIowded room. Yet upon the face
of the prisoner was a villainous sneer,
and struggling In his eyes were the
blackest passions I ever saw flashed
upon man. His teeth were firmly set
and his hands griped the rails so hard
that his very nails were dark with his
base blood.
's' But the sentence I
You, Philip Wing, will be taken to
the prison, and on Friday the seventh
day of September, between the hours
of eight and twelve, will be hung by
the neck until you are dead, and may
God have mercy on your soul =
"'A And may He condemn yours =
screamed the wretch, pointing his fin
ger directly at the judge. 'Ay, yours,
Frank Lavender Do you remember
Dick Perry, now? Ha hai mur ier-
er for judge r
Through the athletic frame of the
judge a violent tremor was discernable.
Falling heavily over in his velvet chair,
his arm hung Estlessly, and his face
grew black. 'At Iastp he gasped, while
a purple stream gushed from nostril
and mouth.
&c Gone first = again yelled the pris-
oner, still standing with outstretched
hand and demons grin upon his livid
features. 'And dead first. Ha ha =
% Beside the dead judge there was
another carried from that room insen-
sible. It was the son, the inheritor of
the judges wealth and of Mangrove
hall p
Shadows were creeping down Anem-
one vale as my friend finished the man
uscript.
'I have no doubt R. S. is the uncle
of the weird sisters of the Redwood
mansion" he added. There is a dilap-
idated headstone in Jt. Johns church
yard bearing this inscription erich
ard Stepley, obit October 10, 1871, while
recruiting his health at St. Thomas,
West Indies, @tat thirty-eight years"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
Custer,s Gold Discoveries.

It is possible that the report of gold
discoveries by Gen. Clusters command
may presently stimulate a new gold fe-
yer among the adventurous classes Of
the west. They need to bear IN mind
two or three things. First of all, as
Mr.. Greeley used to put it, statistics
demonstrate that, on the average, more
money has been made in proportion to
those engaged in the work by men dig
ging potatoes than by men digging
gold. Then the country is covered by
Indian claims, and although these are
not likely to stand against determined
invasion of gold diggers, they are pret-
ty certain to be wiped out only in a
good deal of blood. Old geld miners
have less faith now in surface diggings,
and it must be remembered that only
surface diggings viii be possible in the
new region for some time to come
And, finally, it is fortunate that the
new Eldorado appears to be attractive
for other reasons than because of its
gold. If the emigrants viii only take
plOws as well as picks, the country will
be the better off for their movement. -.
Netg York Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
No Ear For Music.

Our neighbor, Chubb, had not much
OF an ear for music, but he spent a con-
siderable sum in having his daughter
taught how to hammer the piano, and
he IS proud Of her accomplishments.
He was talking with US over the fence
the other day when a series of dreadful
sounds came from his piano through
the open window. Presently Chubb
remarked "D'you hear that, AdeIer (?
Just listen to that, viii you? That's
what I call music"
Then there were a few additional
bangs on the instrument, flourish or
two, and then more discordant thump-
ing.
''Splendid, isn't it" said Chubb.
" Mary James Dustin the music right
out of that machine, you observe.
Them's the Strauss waltzes, believe,
she's raslin' with now. just listen"
We remarked that from the energy
displayed Mary Jane seemed at least
really in earnest. But whether she was
treating Mr.. Strauss exactly right was
an open question.
'I don't know nOthin' about music,
Adeler," observed Chubb, "but I can
tell the real thing when hear it, and
can sit and hear Mary Jane play them
WdllEDb hLA1 TIC 1Ahlutu 1LaFEI, TIL
til it makes me cry like a child"
We asserted that If she played these
compositions as she was doing now, it
would make anybody cry. A deaf mute
would shed tears.
"Listen to that now, will you?' e1-
claimed Chubb, as a wild tumult of
sound came from the parlor. "Isn't it
nice? If I didn't know it was Mary
Jane a tearin' around among them
waltzes, I'd think it was one of those
fellows who played at the concert. Let's
90 over and hear her."
We entered the house and sought the
parlor. Mary Jane was nowhere to be
| found, but, to the infinite disgust of
Chubb, there was a red-haired man,
with fists as big as loaf of bread, tam
inn n q7Sqz1O ,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-28
TEARS
BIZ FATHER RYAN.


Tears that trickIe down her eyes,
They do not fall to earth and dry;
They soar like angels to the skies,
And like the angels cannot die.
For oh our immortality
Flows through each tear, sounds in each sigh.
What waves Of tears surge Ger the deep
OF sorrows in our restless souls
And they are strong, not weak, who weep,
These drops from out the sea that rolls
Within their heart forevermore:
Without depth-without a shore!
But ali, the tears that are not wept-
The tears that never outward fall
Tie tears that grief for years has kept
Within us-they are best of all
The tears our eyes sha1 never ki-Ow,
And deeper than the tears that fiow.
Each night, upon earth's flowers below,
The dew comes down from darkest skies,
And every night our tears Of woe
Go up, like dews, to Paradise,
To keep in gloom and make more fair
The flowers Of crowns We yet shall wear.
For all the surest way to God
Is up the lonely stream Of tears
That flow, when bending heath the rod,
And fill the tide of our past years.
On laughter's pillows hearts are tossed
On waves of tears no heart is lost.
Flow on, ye tears and bear me home!
Flow on, ye tears Of deepest woe
Flow on, We tears, that are but foam,
Of deeper waves that will not flow
A little while-I reach the shore
Where tears flow wnot-forevermore.
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IT MAY seem strange, but 1t IS never
theiess true, that alcohol, regularly ap-
piled to a thrifty farmers stomach, viii
remove the boards from his fence, let
cattle into his crops, kill his fruit trees,
mortgage his farm, and SOW his fields
with wild oats and thistles. IL viii take
the paint off his buildings, break the
glass out OF the windows, aud fill them
with rags. IT viii take the gloss from
his clothes and polish from his manners,
snbdue his reason, arouse his passions,
bring sorrow and disgrace upon his
family, and topple him into drunkard's