The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-06-29
SALISBURY, June &c, 1876

OAULSBUhGy JUNG III lCiOs
Hcssrs Editors:
Every town has some distinguishing
features in trade or in the manners and
customs of thu people; or it may be in
particular mode of thought peculiar to
its people.
Salisbury is not without a distin-
gushing characteristic. vote as the
first, the enterprise and "go" of her
merchants, and as the second, the repu-
tation she has as cotton and chicken
market, the latter article being now at
food-tide,
From observations recently made, in
public prints and otherwise, feel salts
fed in asserting that for snap beans,
politicians, pretty girls and chick ems,
Nashville, Memphis, Bolivar and SIuls-
bury, are respectively not surpassed the
world over. Think of it, ye hungry
editors-four thousand chickens in this
village in one day If one did not
know that the magnificent prospects for
crops of all kinds were just now having
''caekling" tendency on the merchants
and farmers hereabouts. there would be
little injustice done in supposing that it
is caused by coming daily in contact,
(at table) with 80 many of the feathered
tribe. However, feel fully satisfied in
saying that the slight disposition "to
crow" noticeable in my particular
friend "Big Jim" who is my UiS-a-Uis
and whose knife and fork performances,
l have special facilities for observiRg, is
attri butable to daily association with the
fowls, both in the market and when he
takes his repast. But for a wonderful
effort of abstemiousness, your CORES
pondent would ere long develop a ten
deney to disport himself as the glyest
of chanticle ers.
It is remarked here that the farmers
are in better spirits than they have been
for three years. Crops are in fine grow
ing condition and the work is VI ell up,
much of the corn being Iaid-by.
The wheat is generally of good quail
ity, but the yield is not so large as it was
last year. There was perhaps a greater
breadth of it sOwn this year than there
was last.
The very hot weather which has pre-
vailed for the last few days has had q
preceptible influence for good on the
young cotton.
A candidate comes along occasionally,
but there is very little said about the
election. l have been asked many times
who would be candidate for the Legisla-
ture-an interrogatory [ am not even
now able to answer. Legislative mate
rial seems TO be rather slow in its de-
velopment. A service Of term in the
General Assem- bly, has of late years
turned out to be the rock that wrecks the
hopes of so many embryo Governors and
Congressman, that aspirants for political
hOnors are little 10th to try it. And
well they may be, for such obnoxious
things as the present Tax Law, the intri-
cacies of the States finances and that
profound subject, the existing Dog Law,
will worry the brain of the statesman
frsm Hardeman in the next Legislature.
The voters here are fully alive to the i'm
portance of selecting a good man for
the place, and will doubtless send a
strong delegation to the nominating
Convention on the 5th of August
When this reaches the eyes of your
readers, the St Louis Convention will
have closed its labOrs, but here's a
nickel that Hancock is the man.
YERD-AETIoUE.