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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
DORSEY THOMAS.

This itinsraut political huekster has
bssn in our midst selling his wares at
any price. The article he packs and
peddIss about is q curious com pound Of
independently mixed with radicalism
the whole mass over laid with bare
faced demagogusry. Some Of our best
citizens are taken with his plausible low
tax and reform doctrines. We do not
upbraid them for thinking and decidin z
such questions for themselves, They
have a clear right to do as they list,
and no ono can justly inpugn their
motives We Ike Ar. Thomas as a
gentleman, and admire his attainm ents,
bat this We do condemn in him-ho ID
diaorganizing she Democratic party in
Tennessee in the face of the foe he is
weakening. our cause in the home of
it's friends, and imper.lls the present i'm
portant Federal election. And for what
That Mr.. Dorsey Thomas may sharpen
his own ak on the Gubernatorial grind
stone. lie is for himself, that he may
feather his nest and have the official
goose lay for him golden eggs. If he
we're an elevated, Sc lfsacri6cing patriot
he would neser dare to intrude his per
sonal ambition to the ris of defeating
the Tennessee Democracy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
ANOTHER rHnmAsrrE

Here comes W. F. Jones, of Madison
County Independent candidate for SEN
ator from this District independence
Is becoming contagious. It is worse
than yellow fever for violence, when It
attacks.a eross-road politician. II seems
to make bis personal ambition for office
swell forth ike unto the windy proper
tions of an old FASHIONED sea-coast toad.
Only rub him and be becomes taus with
wild IDEAS of his ability to save the
country and rsgenerits State and Ma
tional life. Mr.. jones' is mere STRAW
to show that departure from true De-
noeracy is but an alliance with Radi-
caEsm
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
A REGRET.

We are clearly for every citizen think
ing and acting for himself in all matters,
especially in politics. There are some
persons ia our community whose charae-
ter and culture We respect, and whose
friendship we cherish; who are carried
away with the lOw-tax Vagariss of Dorsey
Thomas. We have not = word to say
against the purity of intention moving
these gentlemen to support Mr.. Thomas.
They have as much right to cling to him
as TO any public man, but we do regret,
in their case, that as Democrats they do
not sec that the election of Themas is
now in advance claimed By Republicans
as q radical victory. They so look at it,
and will use him accordingly, if elected.
We have no idea that he will be elected
bat it is pity that our State ticket
cannot got the full support of the party
If these gentlemen want reform in State
affairs, they can more certainly get il
through Democrat than through mon.
grel Republican.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
The Money Lender.

The money lender will own the whole
United States, with all the people can
produce in u few years if the presen
financial policy is continued The 10
dustrial classes must quickly decide
whether there shall DC a change, OF
whether they are to Be perpetual slaves.
There is no middle course Either labor
must combine to assert its rights now or
not at all Every year adds to the pow
er Of the possessOrs of wealth and
makes them more difficult to defeat.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
TAFTIsM AT WORK.

Poor South Carolina Is now in the
Clatchss of the military, by reason OF
the Presidents recent ordsr. Chamber
lain, fearing defeat, has so infamed and
magnifed the disorders in that State
that the strong arm of the Federal Gov
eminent is outstretched to intimidate
the whites, and omboldsn the negroes.
BSt Gen. Hampton, in the exercise of =
lofty and pure conservatism, Is needing
not lhi5 war-liks display, but quietly
and psaceably works to arouse all classes
and conditions to reform the State de
partmsnt, telling the negroes to vote
for Hayes and himself, and not for Hayes
and Chamberlain. This plan is work
ing nightly to the downfall Of that ear
pet bag usurpation Of Patterson and
his confrsres. The late outbreak Of the
Radicals may, however, delugs the State
in blood. Both sides are armed, and
terrible deeds may be enacted. God
forbid such a fatality But the Rspub
lican leaders in that State are ready fol
any revolution rather than to suffer de-
feat They are of the Morton and
Blaine stripe. They are Vindictive and
bloodthirSIy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
TURN OUT IN FORCE.

Col Young will appear once more in
our county. He and Randolph will soon
speak at Grand Junction, Pocahontas
and Bolivar. We urge upon all citizens
to come out and hear and soc for them
selves. We especially invite the colOred
people TO be present At a certain jolli-
hcation il South Carolina lately eighteen
hundred colorsd voters formed q pro-
cession in the interest of Gsn. Hampton,
the Democratic nominee for Governor
WHY not have the oolOred people OF
Tennessee working along with US in
the reformation of the Government
If they would only break loose from
such creatures as bsWis and his allies,
both races would soon work together ia
the political harness and mutually ben
eft and bless each other. The Northern
people are no warmer and truer friends
Of the eolorsd race than the Southern
people. Time will prove this. We re-
fer not to Northern and Southern hot
hsadsd marplots, bat to the masses Of
both sections. SslEinterest and self-pro
tsotion force us to bsfriend the negro
To degrade him We injure ourselves
Come out to the discussions.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
Honest Men Wanted.

IF ever there shall come a mi.Isnnial
day of honesty and moral integrity, a
day in which it will not be difficult to
fad worthy men to fill positions of
trust, then the last decade of the frst
hundred years of our national existence
will be remembered with shame. In
politics we look for dishonest mon. This
civil service Is under tbs control of poll
sicians, whose tenure of ofics is IN
certain, and who, therefore, have an in
cen;iV1 to make hay when the sun
shines" Men are placed Ia Office as n
reward for services for what they
have done, and for what it is thought
they may do; and then they arc ousted,
no master how we'll qualified to serve
their country, whenever new party is
in power, or when they cease to he Of
use to the party they have served. Tbs
whole system Is demoralzing 10 the ex
treme, and breeds class of bad men.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
rIrMousE D. ELDRIpGE.

This politico>parsonicus character Is
in the harness as Republican candidate
for the Senate. We are glad he has
something to do. He has been kicked
and cuffed so much by his party, and
beaten 80 badly in ofice-sseking, that
now like "a drowning man, he catches
ut even a straw: He and his friends
know there is no chance of his election,
but they think, in case Hayes is elected,
and he Is defeated, he can come forward
and show his wounds and bruises, and
demand some grist at the hands of his
Republican keepers.
We want Eldridgs defeated, and at
the same time we want him to have a
crust of bread. Barbour Lewis and his
gang have q monopoly and won't allow
any native to present claim for Office.
If, hewever, as we opIne viii be the
case, Mr.. Tilden Is sleoted, what will
become of all these radical confederates
Up salt river they go, packed and strap
ped, to lingsr in its shades until anothe 7
quadrsnnial political resurrection shall
summon them to GENE forth Eldridge
thinks he has bean on short rations 50
long he can't be worsted by defeat.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
AUTUMN.

The fields are white in the calm moon
light,
Where the glittering hoar-frost shining,
Cleans clear and pale as a bridal veil
OF pearls mid emeralds twining.
The leaves droop low with crimson
Like hectic beauty shading,
With bright deceit, the faces sweet,
OF human flowers, when fading!
The wind sweep down from the far hills
crswa,
But it bears no note Of gladness,
a solemn spell in It's moaning swell
Seems waking the hearts to saduessi
The present, drear as the autumn sere,
We turn with a lonely yearniDg
To the sunny ways of our early days,
And the summer lights there burning.
We wander again DER the past's dim
plain.
Some wrecked and broken-hearted,
To bind in sheaves the withered leaves
OF happiness departed!
We step ia tears Ger the mound of years
Mid faces and idols shattered,
And brush the rust of times thick dust
From jewels lost! there scattered!
Oh never more shall that fresh, fair yore
Return, save by memOry's river
Ger the golden sands of these dream
lands,
Rolls darkened tide forever
And like wall of the autumn gale,
The spirit its vigils keeping,
CiObs oar the tom Of Iifa3S first b1OoT,,
And the hope and trust there sleep ing
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
Congressional appointments.

Hon. CASEY You've and Col W. NJ.
RANDOLPH, candidates for Congress,
will address the citizens of the Tenth
Congressional District of Tennessee at
the following times and places, viz
Memphis, Assembly Hall, Tuesday,
Oct 24th.
Grand Junction, Thursday, Oct Goth.
Pocahontas, Friday, Oct 9th,
Bolivar, Saturday, Oets28th.
Collisrville, Monday, Oct. 30:h.
Germantown, Tuesday, Dot. 3Ist.
Memphis, Exchange Building, We'd
nSsday, Nov LIST.
Bartlett, Thursday, Nov. Cd.
Withe, Friday, Nov. So.
Lucy, Saturday, Nov 4th.
Memphis, Opera House, Monday
Nov. 9th.
At each Of the above appointments,
except Menphis, the discussion will be-
gin at l o'clock p. M, and at Memphis
Alta clock, p. NJ.
NJ. D. L. STEWART,
Chm Dem. Elk Com. 10th Dist
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
THESE GOODS

have been purchased at the low
est Cash rates, and will be sold
cheap for Cash. Examine the
following items of interest,"
Best brands Calico, So cents, cash.
Dress Goods, MeIanges, Dsbeges, Ser.
ges, Cashmeres, black and coIors, in al
the new shades in fne assortnents.
Black Alpaca aud Mohair.
White and Red Flannels for 25@6O
cents.
Good assortment Of Opera FlanDeIs.
Check Linseys.
Corsets, 60 cents to $3.50.
Ladies Hosiery. Cotton and Wooden
Fine assortment of Misses and Chill
s1en's Cotton and Wooden Hosiery.
Bleached and Brown Canton Flan }
1925 cents.
Jeans, 1890 cents, cash.
Tweeds and Casslmeres.
BIeached and Brown 1914 SbeetiDgs
Bed Tickings, all grades.
BIeaohed Domestic 6@l23 cents
cas-
Brown Donestios, 5@Io cents, cash.
Boots and Shoes, all kinds and quail
ities.
Lowell Carpets,
Gents Furnishing Goods, all kinds.
Merino Undershirts, 50@s2. 90, cash
Linen Bosom Shirts, sloo@2.5O, cash
Paper and Linen Collars.
Linen HandkerchieFe
Umbrellas.
Full Stock Of Clothing and Hats
Hardware.
Queens ware.
Farmers and Ne chanics' TosIs
Saddlery and Harness.
Trunks
Blankets, brown, grey and white.
Gum Betting, 2 to inches.
Grass and Cotton Rope.
You will save money by Civ
ing us a call before buying.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
Debt.

Living beyond their income is the ruin
Of many Of my neighbors they can
hardly afford to keep a rabbit, and must
needs drive pony and chaiss. l am
afraid eztra7agance is the common dis
ease of the times, and many protesting
Christians have caught 1t, to their shame
and sorrow. Good cotton or stuff gowns
are net good enough nowadays; girls
must have silks and satins, and there is
q bills at the dressmakers as long as
winters night. and quite as dismal
SHOW and style and smartneSs run away
with a mans means, keep the family
poor, and the fathers nose on the grind
st one. Frogs try to look as big as bulls
and burst themselves. a pound a week
apes five hundred r year, and comes to
the county court. Men burn the candle
at both ends, and then say they are very
unfortunate Why don't they put the
saddle On the right horse, and say that
they are extra7agant? Economy is
half the battle in life; it is not half SO
hard to earn money 5 to spend it well.
Hundreds would have never known
want if they had not first known waste.
l f all poor mems wives knew how to
cook, how far a little might go.-Jobn
! PIoughmdR.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
Advice to Girls.

An exchange says why will girls
run away to get married p eve give 1t
up" answers the Louisville Courier
journal. "But we know lot here who
would be glad enough to stay at home,
or jump at the chance to walk off and
get married. The boys amt around
asking them like tEey did. IL takes
more money to run oas Of them nova
days than it does to run steamboat
All girls, lis your own fault Swap
of your silks aud satins for lawns and
calieossi shut ap the piano and dive
into Wash-tub; throw Away your fancy
needle work and tackle a red-hot stove
in the kitchen. Instead Of receiving
Brown, the bankers sos, IN the psrlOr,
keep your eye skinned for Bill Burns,
the blacksmith's son, as he goes home
from work; kiss his dirty face through
broFen pane of glass in the kitchen
window, and after a while, when he
learns his trade and you know your
business, get married, go to housekesP-
ing By yourselves, help each other, live
happy, raise a family that will be an
honor to your names and credit to them
selves, die happy, and the angels will not
turn their backs upon you up there
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
The Bar Room as a Bank.

You deposit your money-and lose it.
Your time-snd lose it. Your chGrac-
ter-and lose it. Your health-and lose
it. Your strength and lose it. Your
manly ndependenee-and lose it. Your
selEcontroI-and Ioae it. Your home
comfort-asd lose it. Your wIfe's hap
pincss-snd loose it. Your childrsn's
happiness-and lose it. Your OWN soul
and lose it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26

Abraham Lincoln gets all the credit
for the emancipation proclamation,
though he wrote to Horace Greeley: ''If
I could save the Union without freeing
any slave, would do il"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26

"a a Minnesota firm has adopted
new method of doing business No books
are kept. When a customer desirsa
credit he goes to the desk and borrows
the money, for which he gives his notes,
payable with interest. He then buys
bis goods and pays for them.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26

PoTATo PUDDING One pound Of pota-
toes. boiled, half pound of fresh butter,
half q pound Of sugar, the yelks of ak
eggs, and the whites of three, one gill Of
cream, one gill of wine, one tea-spoonful
of mace and one nutmeg. Bake N q
puff Paste.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26
JUST RECEIVED.

We have just received from
the East a large and varied
Stock of the most desirable
Goods.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26

Long experience in Merchan-
dizing justifes US in saying we
are now prepared to offer the
best and cheapest stock ever
seen in Bolivar.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-10-26

We ask a trial, to. convince
you Of the reason why you should
buy alone of
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
Around the World.

\ Paris correspondent of the Lon
don D"jly Tsleyroph writes to that
journal: "a French naval Lieutenant
is organizing scheme which is like
ly to find as much favor in England
Is in France. NJ. Georges Biard is
getting up an association whose name,
La Societte des Voyages attitudes
aniour du Monda,' explains, to GER
tain extent, its object. Butthe scheme
merits few words of additional eX-
planation. NJ Bi,rd, in the various
voyages he has already made around
the world, in his official capacity, has
been struck by the loss of time and
Inconvenience incurred by tourists,
in contradistinction to business tray
elers, in consequence of the constant
shittings of the travellers baggage
from land to sea, or from one ship to
another. He has, therefore, conceiv-
ed the idea of having a first class
vessel built which should be the YER
liable home of the tourist during the
entire period of his absence from
France. NJ. Biard's intention is to
make such arrangements that each of
the fifty passengers she'll have a cabin
to himself. The journey around the
world shall occupy not eighty days,
as in the play, but ten months, 1913
days being taken upin mere travelling,
and 100 in stopp 'ges made at various
halting-places. The vessel is to be
constructed with view to comtor,
and safety rather than swiftness; but
she is to make an average Of 10 knots
an hour, and on an emergency l2.-
Books and maps are to be furnished
in profuSion; professors are to be en-
gagged, lectures to be delivered, and
the education of the boys and young
men, for whom the scheme is mainly
devised, kept up rs much as may be.
Study is, however, to he a more mat
ter of choice, not of rule, so that
gentlemen of any age will he invited
to Join the aqueous carnival, but no
women are to be allowed on board.
1t is proposed that the vessel shall
start from Hayre once year, always
on the same date, and that the num-
Der of passengers shall always be
limited to fifty The fare is to be
10000 francs, or $500. The scheme
is patronized by the Societe de Geo
graphic and the Societe dc FEncour-
agemcnt pour rIndustre Rationale,
and the Committee is made up of i'm
portant men whose recommendations
are likely to facilitate the progress of
the tra, ellcrs wherever they put foot
on terra tirma."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
The Science OF Apple Eating.


The boy is indeed the tue apple
eater, and is not to be questioned how
he came by the fruit with which his
pockets are filled. 1t belongs to him,
and he may steal it if it can not be
had in any other way. His own
juicy flesh Graves the juicy flesh of
the apple. Sap draws sap. His fruit
eating has little reference to the state
of his appetite. Whether he be full
OF meat or empty of meat he wants
the apple just the same. Before meal
or after meal it never comes amiss.-
The farm boy munches apples all day
long. He has nests of them in the
haymow, mellowing, to which he
makes frequent visits. sometimes
old Brindle, having access through
the open door, smells them out and
makes short work Of them.
The apple is indeed the fruit of
youth. AS we grow old we crave
apples less. 1t is an ominous sign.
When YOU are ashamed to be seen
eating them on the street; when you
can carry them in your pocket and
your hand not constantly find its way
to them; when your neighbor has
apples and you have none, and you
make no nocturnal visits to his or
chard; when your lunch-basket is with
out them, and you can pass winters
night by the fireside with no thought
OF the fruit at your elbow, then be
assured you are no longer boy,
either in heart or years.
The genuine apple-eater comforts
himself with an apple in their seasons
as others with apipe or cigar, When
he has nothing else to do or is bored,
he eats an apple. While he Is wait
ing for the train he eats an apple,
sometime several of them. When
he takes Il walk he arms himself with
apples. His travelling bag is full of
apples. He offers IN apple to his
companion, and takes one himself
They are his chief solace when on
the road. He sows their seed all
along the route. He tosses the core
from the car window and from the
top of the stagecoach. lie would, in
time, make the land one vast orchard
He dispcnses with a knife. He pre-
ters that his teeth shall have the first
taste Then he knows the best flavor
Is Immediately beneath the skin, and
that in a pared apple this is lost. II
you will stew the apple, he says
instead of baking it, by all means
leave the skin on. 1t improves the
color, and vastly heightens the flavor
of the dish.
The apple is a masculine fruit:
hence WON II are poor apPlc-eaters
1t belongs to the open alr, and re.
quires an open air taste and relish.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
A Great Oversight,


The lawyer who drew up the "pro-
visions" printed on the back of acci-
dent insurance cards, thought he had
provided for every possible centin-
gency, but he was short-Slghted
mortal. He should have added sew
eral other provisions as follows:
4. Provided, that the insured is
not on his way to prizc-fight, or a
horsc-race, or anywhere else.
5. Provided, that his wife wasn't
down to the depot to see him off.
6. Provided, he has never wrench
ed himself saving wood, nor crippled
any of his limbs crawling into the
pantry window after midnight.
I. Provided, that he does not oc-
cupy a seat with man who has a
can of ro-glyccrine in his coat-tail
pocket.
8. Provided that the accident
didn't happen in time OF war, peace,
daylight, darkness, or troll any good
or bad cause.
o. Provided, that the injury is
plainly visible, is on his eye, or his
thumb, and was received in the regu
lar manner laid down for accidents
to happen.
10. Provided, that it didn't hap
pen from any brake-down, smash-up,
run-otf, collision, or any other acci-
dent.
Provided, that he can get his cash.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
Larg Families

The Elmira Gnzette says: "The
forthcoming census report of New
York for 1875 will contain some
curious items. No family has done
more to increase the population of
the State than that Of Peter Morgan,
of Oswego. lie is forty-five years
old, and his wife forty. They have
had five single births and four pairs
of twins recorded in their family.-
The oldest child is "a years old, aud
the youngest between two and three
years. The single births all preceded
the twins. In the four pair of twins
there are four boys and four girls
In Tully, Onondaga county, there are
triplets, two boys and one girl, ten
years old. In Lockport there is a
quartette of four girls, eight years
old. Although the census makes no
note of the fact, there were actually
six children born at once in this fam
lily, two of which have since died,
leaving the four as above noted
There is in Warrensburg, Warren
county, six year-old boy. named
Frank Conway, that weighed i'll June
last-when the census was taken
1ls4 pounds.