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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21
Scandal.

There Is nothing IN social life more
ignoble and contemptible than what
Byron calls f" the abominable little. tat
tle'' of those who delight in circulating
scandal, who gloat over, even while
they profess to deplore, the details of a
slanderoUs story, whose very manner of
deprecating credence in the tale con-
firms the listeners belief in its truth
fulness. How many there are Of these
mischief-makeTs in every circle, who
know how, with a skillful touch, to
heighten the tints of a slanderoUs rumor
with insinuatioDs worse than open lies,
because they can not be met by open
denial by mingling sneers with smiles,
and by pretense of candor. And the
pity of it is that they shoUnd fiud so
many people willing TO listen that so
many would rather believe evil than
good of their neighbor. Nothing spreads
like a scandal, and the worse and more
unlikely it is the more readily 1t OBJ
tains circulation and credence. Society
is quite as much to blame as the scan
dal-mongers themselves. It is as mean
and disgraceful to listen to a slander as
to utter one.
1t is a common trick with slanderers
and scandal -mOngers to scatter their
vile inventions broadcast among the
community, and then point triumphant
" to the wide circulation their stories
have obtained as confirmation of their
truth. They bespattsr q man with mud,
and CRY out upon him for dirty fellow.
's CaIumniatei calumniate % is their
motto {" some of it will stick" Per
haps the most effective, as well as the
meanest, way of slandering is do it
with affected pain and reluctance, as if
well-nigh heart-broken at hearing evil
things whispered round about man so
dearly loved and honered. An adept III
this method of slander can work infinite
mischief. III
There is something marvellous in the
way a slander grows as it passes from
mouth to mouth, well illustrated by the
the welI-known story of three black
crows. Without intending, perhaps, to
exaggerate or be untruthful, each one
who repeats the story adds something
of his own, and by the time it has gone
the rounds of society it has grown into
a hideous Frankenstein, monster of
untrUth and malignity. This may be
tested by the game of "exaggeraGOn, !"
where one whispers a story, eouched in
as few words as possible, to the person
sitting next him. He repeats it IN the
ear of his neighbor, and so on through
q circle of ten or twelve, each one try
ing to tell the story just as he heard
it. The last person in the circle tells it
aloud, and in nine cases out of ten 1t
viii be found that it has gained some
thing every time it has been told. The
moral of all this is expressed in the line
already quoted from Tennyson, "Speak
no slander no, nor listen to it. y
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21
FOREIGN

Holland and Italy have recognized
Spain.
A dispatch from Gen. Mariones to the
war Office, reports that the cariists lost 700
men in the engagement at Oteiza.
A London letter says there are ugly
rumors buzzing about the military service
clubs, to the effect that official news from
Gold Coast is of such character, that another
expedition to Ashantee is more than probable.
A statement of the sugar crop of Ash
land, of Cuba, shows that 1858 per cent. Of
the total exports OF sugar and molasses went
to the United States or was sent to the United
States
Three socialist members Of the German
Reichstag, Hszlmaun, Rejner and sHazen-
clever, we're tried at Berlin for attending
meetings OF the workmens society after it
had been ordered by the police to discon-
tinue its gatherings. Hazenelever was con-
victed and sentenced to two months impris-
onment
The United States consul at Swatow
reports a wreck OF the island Of Nomoh, with
the probability that all on board were lost
The American bark Scotland is for many days
overdue and the consul applied to the Chinese
admiral for information The admiral replied
that there had been a storm, IN which one
hundred native boats and 800 lives were lost,
bat lac hai heard nothing OF foreign wreck
Tie Old Catholic movement is ex-
tending TO southern Germany. In Bavaria,
At Limbaehby, Bishop Reinkens has Just con-
seerated new church, the first building
which the Old Catholics have erected in Ger
many. It Is stated the Emperor William pre-
sented a quantity Of metal from French guns
captured in the late war, to be cast into q
bsu An Old Catholic community has just
been started at Stuttgart
Gen. Marchi, governor Of the island
Of Santa Marguerite, protests his in
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-08-21
FAMINE IN ASIA MINOR.
Five Thousand starve to Death i'm ON
.E~- DisfH.Ic6.- -t 30

Five Thousand Starye to Death i'm one
E1e- District. cs
Rev. DIR. Clark of the American Board
of Foreign Missions has received a let
ter from the Rev. J. o. Barrows, of
Cesarea, dated July 10, in which he
gives some thrilling details of the ter
rible famine now prevailing in that re-
gion. Mr.. Barrows writes:
While al Yodegat, which is eighty or
ninety miles. north of us noticed raw
ages of the famine, which is very Sc
we're, and also beyond and toward An
goria, many villages are entirely de-
serted. In some only one or two, three
or four families, or parts of families,
remain. In the district of Sungarte,
which is beyond Yodegat, and in which
city there is a Protestant church, as
many as 8, 900 persons have died of star
vation. But the horrors of this famine
are indescribable. Many people have
subsisted on grass for weeks and then
died. Beggars have fiocked to the
cities and there many of them have
died because they could not get NOR
sci of bread. OLD men, mothers with
babes at their breasts, young children,
boys and girls, are all half naked, beg
ging and crying. Dying bodies have
4diu III GlS SUf6GUS OuO, Two, anu OV0u
three or four days, before burial. and
the dogs have feasted on them. Many
OF our Protestant communities and
families have suffered greatly. e
At Sungarte some of the brethren
have sold house, shop, household fur
niture, everything, and now must beg
or starve, and perhaps both. In one
village there was one Protestant family.
The father mother and all the children
but two have died OF starvation. In
the village of Ingierlie there was
pleasant little Protestant community,
several of whom we're members of the
church, with a preacher residing with
them, but they were poor. This
preacher went to Yodegat and pur-
chased -four, becoming responsible for
the pay himself, and so kept a live six
families. Now, unless the preacher
can be paid, his creditors will take
everything from him.
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nocence of the escape of Bazaine. and
accuses Col. Villette, the marshars aid-de
camp, Of having perfected the plan to seeur,
his fight. Eight persons are now in eustod,
on suspicion of having aided Bazaine's ca.
cape. La Gazette. des Trebanaux savs that
on the night of Marshal Bazaine's escape
one soldier was twice on guard, and eael
time jailer engaged him in conversation.
and kept him in the sentry box. This jailel
has been arrested.
1t has been 9seArtained that the plan
for Marshal 5azaine's escape was arranged six
weeks ago. It was entirely the work of Mad
! arne Bazaine. The marshal refused at first to
fly but finally owing to his failure to obtain
modification of his sentence yielded. He
| sailed from the island in the steam yacht Ba-
ron Ricasoh, belonging to an Italian company.
The prisoner refused to employ French YES
sci. He was accompanied in his flight by his
wife and brother, His place of refuge is not
known, Some persons say he is in Spain.
The domestics at the fort where the marshal
was imprisoned have been arrested.
A European correspondent writes that
news has reached Berlin that China has
pushed forward 100000 additional picked
troops to the Kashgar frontier, aud in addition
placed large garrisons in the towns Of Barke-
ret and Chants. Troops have moreover been
concentrated in the north in Tandakatia, Ked-
do and Ulyasuta which can be readily made
available for war with Kashgar. It is proposed
to attack the country simultaneously from two
sides. At st. Petersburg it is believed that in
that event Russia would at once come to the
assistance of Kashgar, the more so since
China is known to be arrning also for new
war with Russia.
The Turkish government is having
trouble with its subjects in Crete The
christians and Mussulpans are arrayed against
each other, and a strong garrison is required
to keep the peace. The christians demand
that fun political rights be accorded them,
and complain that they are oppressed by the
Turks with impunity in the presence of the
troops. Both parties are willing to be rid of
Turkish rule The christians favor annexa-
ton to Greece. while Mussulmans want to be
under the protection of Egypt Consultation
is believed to be impossible, and a serious
outbreak, it is said, may occur an any nc
ment.
Marshal Bazaine escaped from the
island of st, Marguerette some time during
the night of the 10th, The details of the
manner in which he succeeded in getting away
are unknown except that he used a rope lad
der and got on board a vessel bound for Italy
The night was dark and stormy The jour
nails declare that the government viii act
promptly and energetically in Furnishing all
who eonnived at his escape. It is reported
that Marshal Bazaine landed at San Reto and
travelled via Turin to Basle. At the latter
place he took the train to Brussels, where he
arrived Tuesday morning It is believed that
the rope found on the cliff at St. Marguerite
was Suspended there to misiead the authori-
ties as to the manner of the Marshal's escape,
which was effected in some other way through
the conniYance Of the guards
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SOUTH.

A diamond rattlesGake was killed
near Piiatkas Fla, recently. 1t was ten feet
long and had eighte en- rattIes.
The president has appointed W. H.
Fl. Clayton UPited States attorney for the
western district of Arkansas
Inc caterpillar has made its appear
anee IN several cotton fields of Levy and
Alachus. counties, Fla. Rust has alsoappeared.
ana tie prospects are not so good as they
WerFJ two weeks ago. &. rttrts s.s
The August returns of the department
of agriculture show improvements in the pros-
poets of the cotton crop in all the large cot
ton states except Alabama in which during
July, the average declined two per cent. Vir-
ginia also declined per cent. Arkansas :
per cent, and Tennessee 6 pei. cent. The
Na5tate averages we're as follows Virginia rs
per cent-:of average crop, North Carolina lO1
cent, South Carolina 90 per cent, Georgia
"a per cent, Florida 102 per cent. Mississippi
80 per cent, Louisiana SO per cent, Texas IOf
per cent, Arkansas 81 per cent, Tennessee IS
per cent.
Madame Fortinmyre, a midwife, re.
siding at No. 1877 Morgan street, st. Louis
was arrested last week It is stated she has
praeticed abortion several years; that mum
Der of infants have been cremated by her
and that several highly respectable persons
are involved in the matter Nine. Fortin.
meyer made confession to the general effect
that she had been in the business two years
and has produced several hundred abortions
and duplicates quite number OF highly re-
spectacle people of the city. It had been
her custom to burn all premature births or
the ground, as she expressed i, that ashes tel
no tales.
Col. Richard Ten Broeck, the well.
known horse owner, was shot at Gillman's
station, KY, last week by Gen. Walter Whit
taker, alawyer. Whitalert had already killed
two men and is regarded as a desperate char
acter. 1t will be remembered that Ten Broecl
took number of American horses to Eng
land some years since and matched then
against English runners. Ten Brock is not
dangerously wounded. Whitaker fred foul
Shots the last shot hitting him in the center
ot the forehead, and fort unateIy glancing up
wards, cutting through the skin and hair, but
not fracturing the skull. Ten Broeck's es-
cape IS regarded as very extraordinary. Whit
taker had an examining trial, and was admit.
ted to 80 500 bail. His attack seems to have
been unDTovokad #
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NEWS OF TBH WEEK.
WEST.

-enroute east.
kobt. o.iIlatin and g. W. Adams.
wealthy r4rmers of Iowa, have been arrested
a. Str' ee, No., as extensive showers of the
The grassheppers have literally de
FVoured everything in northern and south
western Kansas and Nebraska. The damage
inflicted On vegetation is far greater than Ia
1863. The corn crop through all this region
is totally destroyed
Gen. Pope telegraphs Iieutensnt-
General Sheridan that the Indians who have
Deen marauding in southwestern Kansas
haze gone to the borders OF the Iiano Estac-
s"o' seouhty hlied with game, and that they
have abundance Of ammunition The three
'colunns OF troops now operating will con-
verge on the section named.
information from Fort IIaromier saws
the Sioux Ine4ians report that the Arapahoes
and oheye'nnes are getting ready for war.
many Sioux will go with them, should this be
true. The military are very active, but the
movements are as quiet as possible that the
Ind ans may not be Informed thereof through
EeT Tiegade whites and half-breeds.
News received at Eieutanant- General
Sherldan's headquarters indicates that the
Oheyennes, KiowRs and Comanches seeing
uhe formidable preparations made to punish
them Tor their recent depredations are asking
Tor peace, and for the military to call it even.
orders have, however, been issued not to let
these hostile bands enter the reservations.
but fnr the troops to follow and punish them
wherever found
Heports from various portions of
Minnesota, represent the wheat harvest
neSTly completed. The wheat has been saved
Id good condition, and although the yield is
mot quite equal to that of last wear. it is bet
tier than expected. The quality is generally
No. 1, in many portions of the grasshopper
districts the yield of wheat is fair Oats and
barley are good. Corn and potatoes promise
Xcellently.
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The Mormon Girls.

The following is from Capt. COdman's s
recent work on the MOrmons. 1t IS the
story of a Utah teamster, and shows
that the Mormon girls have some pecU-
liarities Of=tsste on the marriage ques-
tion.
4 never tried to get married but once,
he said, sand that was to Mormon gal
up here to Logan. She was just about
the slickest little critter ever you see.
Fust time I come across her was where
her folks and I camped one night right
about here. I followed on her trail
pretty close for six months, and thought
L was going to trap her sure. She
wanted me to be Mormon. I wasn't
pertickIer about that, for I didn't Ike to
Join any church. 1 never did belong to
a church nor an engine company in the
States. However, I told her finally, as
she crowded me, that I'd sWaller Brig.
ham, tabernacle and all, for the love OF
her. So we got things about fixed, and
If she hadn't gone too far ] must have
been a bishop by this time. But she
had an old maid sister, and che wanted
me- to marry that Susan Jane, too
that burned, dried up, Susan Janel
Emmy says I, cant and won {.
So I EOb my fost down, and there's
whore we split. You see the old man
was kind Of sickly, and just as sure as
I'd agreed to take Susan Jane, when he
died 1 would have had to marry the old
wJman too. I hain't hunted after 8
wife sence.
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EsIr gaR zE
BOLIVAR, HARDEMAN CO,
TnE FoRsAKEN,


This poem, written by 81 Stella = MRS. Estell
Anna lewis, at the age of fourteen, Poe said wg
: the most beautiful ballad of the kind ever vgri
ten, We have read 1t, % he remarked, 81 more tina
tion.n And on the strength Of this opinion we re
prlnt-it.l
1t hath been said, for all who die
Some pining, bleeding heart to sigh
Ger every bier
But in that hour of pain and dread
Who VIII draw near
Around my humble couch and shed ----
One farewell tear2 -
Who'd watch LIES last departing ray
In deep despair,
And sOothe my spirit on its way
With holy prayer7
What mourner round my bier VIII come,
In weeds of woe
And follow me to my long honne,7
Solemn and slow?
When lying on my clayey bed,
In icy sleep,
Who there, by pure affection led,
VIII come and weep;
BY the pale moer inplant the rose
Upon my breast, ... - .a-
And bid it cheer my dark repOsesi at...
My iOwly rest
Could but know, when am sleeping s
Low in the ground,
One faithful heart wouId there be keeping
Watch all night round,
AS if some gem lay shrined beneath
.'- That sod's cold gloom, 5.-
'TwouId mitigate the pangs OF death
And light the tomb.
Yes in that hour, if I could feel rE
From halls of glee
And Beauty'5 presence one would steal
In secercy
And come and sit and weep by me
In nights deep noon,
Oh would ask of memory
No other boon.
But all Ionelier fateis mine, e. -.--
deeper woe .. . -
From al love in youths sweet time Es1
soon must go; -- --- b E.
Drawn round me my pale robes Of white,
In a dark spot 0-- .-a a4tls
8 To sleep through deaths long, dreamless night,
Lone and forgot. .-.E - +
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BEGAN to build their nests in the green
orchard. Afterward, when she had been
my wife for some time, Nellie told me,
under those very apple trees how she
had found my picture one day when no
one saw her, and worn it afterward for
love of me-worn it and wept over it
while was far away, and trying to for
get her-trying, but never succeeding,
for the love I had for Nellie Brodie was
part of my life, and will be, I believe,
part of the eternity, where, when death
sewers us here, we shall be reunited.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The encouragement has received a
letter from Gov. Cooke, of Colorado, in which
the latter states that he has ordered militia to
cross the Rio Grande, if necessary, in pursuit
of the mauraders from Mexico.
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Gentle WOman's Way

Who can help admiring the Roman
stoicism of the Arkansas Judge who said
after one lawyer had shot another dead
in court room, "Look yeer, IL you
keep on fOOiing around in this yeer way,
I'll commit some of you for contempt -
Equal to this in patient suffering was
the gentleman who lives IN Philadel-
phia, who, when he entered the base
nent dinniug room the other evening,
found no one there and no preparations
for the evening meal, went up to the
parlOr and there he found his wife
sitting On the sofa with young man by
her side, and that young mans arm
abOut her waist.
" See here" said the mild husband,
Sc [ don't like this kind of a thing. Why
isn't my supper ready?"
Because I didn't like to make it, "
said the loving wife.
"What are you sitting there, letting
that fellow hing yOu for ?"
-" Because j do like it. "
sc tell you what it is, Annie, and
his face assumed a fierce look of pas
sion, g If this state of things continues
much longer, III get mad, you bet your
Iife." .,
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THEY have now found an old finger
ring with g General Lafayette" engraved
on it, aud the next congress should
make an appropriation.
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MILWAUKEE SEETISEL g Notes of
the storm still come In. q visitor
from Louisville was struck by the
wind, and - hs heW up Wisconsin
street with bis ear unfurled, a gentle
man remarked, knew that wind
ygould fetch the eircus-tent.' >"
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ANNIE FRANKUNI IN court It wasn't
her first time, and when recognized by
the Judge she didn't seem TO feel fat
tered. q Got drunk, eh ?" he asked.
&c No, I didn't get drunk, eh?" she
sneered. The officer said It was the
neanest case of drunkenness he had
ever seen, and he had seen about three
thousand cases. WhereupOn Annie af-
firmed that his father was a pirate, his
mother a smuggler and all his relatives
were horse thieves from Texas. His
Honor said he feared she had an evil
disposition. She said he was a sea
walrus, a hippOpotamus, a sturgeon, a
rhinoceros, a giraffe, a buffalo, an ana
conda, hamingo, an ostrich, a Rocky
Mountain wolf, a sea serpent, and a tel
egraph pole. He replied that he would
make it $50. She said he was a whale,
a gas retOrt, an elephant, q saw-milI
a tug-boat, a tyrant, and an old red
barn with the ends caved in BE said
he'd make it $50, and she shut up and
listened TO a long lecture on the subject
Of too much blab. ."-DctrOU FTee
Press.
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PARLEY and surrender signify the
same thing where virtue Is concerned.
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q JAPANESE young lady who had come
over to our shores three years ago, bore
of four Of the higest prizes at a Wash
ington seminary.
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SAYINS AND DOINGS.

Who is the straightest man mentioned
In the Bible? Joseph, because Pharaoh
made a ruler of him.
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A DELAwARE mon thrashed his wife
almost to death because their baby
didn't get prize at baby show. and
then he offered to trade the bady for
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A GENTLEMAN, on presenting a lace
collar TO his adored one. said, carefully:
" Do not let any one else rumple 1t. "
'' No, dear" she replied, {" I'll take it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-04-03
AL EXANDRIA,

DANGEROUS WoUNDs.-Frank Scott, the man
who was shot in the head by John Lentlher, in
Washington township, Tuesday evening, Is in
critical condition. After he was shot he
fought the officers desperately, and it was not
until they had used their clubs quite freely tn at
that his wounds could not be dressed to-day.
INSPECTING IRON ORRs.-A committee con-
sisting Of President Barbour aud Messrs. Coffi q
OF Maryland, Taylor Of Orange, Mason Of Al
bemarle, and 3. G. Neaie and s. r. Gregory OF
Alexandria, are now inspecting the iron ores
along the Virginia Midland and Manassas
roads, to report TO the meeting to be held here
for the purpose Of starting an iron furnace.
FisH.-Since our report Of yesterday, 1000
shad, IS 900 herring and 1 900 6unches OF rock
and perch have arrived. Shad, Sf3a$l5 Der
hundred; herring. s11as14 per thousand; rock
and perch, 15a25c. per bunch.-.Sentinei, last
erening.
PROPERTY SALIs.-Green s. Wise, real e.
tate agents, sold yesterday the farm called Rose
Bank, belonging to g. II. Banks, ESQ.,, located
near Warrenton, Fsuquier county, Va, con-
tanning H6k acres, with good Improvements
snd fine orchards. to John McGinty, ESQ.,, OF
Carroll county, Ohio, for 5000. Me-. Enos
McMullen, also Of Carroll county, Ohio, has
purchased the house in Warrenton belonging 60
Rice w. Payne, tor OIL 500.
MIR. w. r. yfnoanT, OF this city, has obtained
the contract for building handsome residence
at Franconia, on the A. s. +. K. Re-, for Mr..
MARX Young, OF Washington. There were sew
eIai bids for the work, but Mr.. Vincent's-
$3,256-was the lowest.
TN soEoohsR dos MILLRR, belonging to
repairs here, while on her way down the river
yesterday was capsixed and sunk OF Indian
nesd. her crew were saved.-Gzse.ts, last
evening.