The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-08-27

Of the people swing from. poles thrust out
OF the windows, Sorry specimens Of
fruit and vegetables pol!u5e the street at
one side; fish Is screamed over at the
other. This cannot be called a mere
blot on the city of Dublin; 1t 5 dis
grace to civilization. When one thinks
Of the glorions history of the cathedral;
when at glance one can SEQ the very
house IN which Swift lived the best and
worst of his life, when YOU are told that
private citizen spent $50, 600 sterling
Ia FenoyGtIng and rebuilding this pile
one Is ashamed to look al he intolerable
gutter which presses up to the very
thresholds A fne peal Of bells which
play various tunes reminds the poor
wTetches who dwell in these dens of mu-
sic and the flight of tim, but soul Is not
proved by one nor courage by th3 other.
Descending from this unhappy eminenoe,
come into the nave Of tAs church. It Is
a marvel Of ancient beauty. Fine mOnu =
ments stand beneath the groined arches,
and hluTal memorials here and there tell
of minor men and their deeds. BefIre
one Of these the sexton IS certain TO lin
ger. Beneath your feet now lies the dust
of JOhnathau Swift, the wonder of his
time and ours. You think Of TuackerY .
Acknowledgement of his genius, vast
geaIus, a magnificent genius, a genius
wonderfully bright and dazzling and
strOng-tO seize, to know, to see, to fash
it upJn laI5hood and scortch 1t inso per-
ditiUn, to Penetrats into the hidden mo
tives and expose the black thoughts Cf
men-an awful, an evil spirit. From
these words you turn 70 the dirty black
stOne-f0r it Is dirty the only memorial
ofSwjft in these kingdoms you read MS
ow0 epitaph, written by his own h md,
his birth, his age, his fate, his sleep
where savage wrath can lacerate his
heart no more from this you turn 10
other objects Of interest in the aisle.
Above your head are the banners of che
Knights Of st Patrick, their swords and
helmets, and creats and notices Ban
ner and sword and helmet and crest aud
motto are one and all as venerable as dirt
can make them You cannot get near
enough 10 see then ali, for you are shut
of bg an iron gatt. On inqairy you learn
that this gate Is the dividing line between
certain persons and certain other persons
wh0 come to worship Lere on Sundays.
Even in church there il snObbery. The
pews are locked up and bolted in n man
nerqaiJe sufficient 20 account for tue con
gregttiUn which l saw, and which Il, l
understand, the congregation every day.
1t numbered exactly three persons.
DAME STREET.-THE BANK
Out Of ~. Patrick,s iato mud and mol
sOmenoss; through Dublin Castle, dirty
as TO the Windows, prlm AMI official to
the very last; into Dame Street, lined
with magn fcent banking and me Tcantile
houses, Is not "A drive Of five minutes.
Here We are, back again to ligt ana life
and purity. Tne Bank Of Ireland alCr g
would compensate for the purljeus of st.
PatricKs : The more you know of it the
better yau Ike it 1t used to be the Par
liamsEs House Of ireland prior to the
union, AMI in that day It was spoken Of
as the grandsst, most convenient. and
iaost ex-ensive ediGce in EITope- Is 0c-
cupies an area uf seven acres.
IRISH WAYS.
Cestric ion il the ruie of life Exclu-
sion Is the sign of superiority. ! ask for
rhe best clubs, aud am told thag Kildare
Street Club i5 the best, because IL is the
most exclusive; so exclusive that 10 "a
country where Roman Catholics are as
four to one there are in this club bur
two Of that faith. | believe that however
ulucl THIS sort OF fJiiY Is GlSHkeu ltc GX~
clusigeness is still held TO be very vener-
able and excusabIe The College Park
is rallied up first by a stone wall more
than seven feet high and then by railing
IA high again as If human beings could
iniure it By lO1kiuE at It, The citT parks
in Merri3n Square, titzwiIiiam, Square,
Rutland square, and 81 Stephens green
are all rallied in and exclusivsly enjoyed
By the residents of the squares. The
people make no complaint, for they have
no sort of notion, that in this matter they
are hardly dealt with. l5 is an Irish
mans nature to admire others and en-
dure himself. If tn re we're anything
ike a helTty desire for progress, even OF
the initiative order, there never would be
such cabs and cars as there are in Dub
/ lin. They are cheap and nasty; 50 cheap
| that no man oTsrs the legal fare, and sd
nasty no man pays the greater sum con,
| tentadly- The drivers are agreeable and
/ chalfy. and desire to take strangers under
/ a wing the warm embrace Of which has
/ sturdy pressure Of It's own.