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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
A MOTHERS INFLUENCE.
An Incident Of the Early Career Of the
Late Senator Pratt, as Related
by Himself.
Toledo Commercial.

In the article the late ex-senator
Pratt was debating at the time of his
death, this incident of his own life is
related: cit was late in the fall of 1885
that having collected for the different
mercantile firms in Cincinnati about
$4,000, / was sent on horseback by the
Lawrenceburg road to deliver to the
several parties interested the money so
collected. As | was passing the branch
morning of my departure, the cashier
hailed me and brought out some bun
dies of bank notes folded up and stow
ed them away in my saddle-bags, and
handed me letters to the banks to
whom the packages were to be deliv-
cred. He stunned me by saying they
amounted to $4,000. There was
moment, a supreme and critical one,
when the voice of the tempter pene-
trated my ear. 1t was when l reach
the crown of those imperial hills that
overlook the Ohio river when APP
preaching Lawrenceburg from the in
terror. This noble stream was the
great artery of commerce at that day,
before a railroad west of Boston had
been built. What a gay spectacle it
presented, flashing in the bright sun
light, covered with fiatboats, with
RATS, with gay steamers ascending and
descending, and transporting their pas
sengers in brief time to the Gulf of
Mexico, the gateway to all parts of the
world l had but to sell my horse and
90 aboard one of those with my treas
ure, and was absolutely beyond the
reach of pursuit. There were no tele-
graphs then flashing intelligence by an
agency more subtle than steam and far
outrunning it; no extraditiOn treaties
requiring foreign governments to re-
turn the felOn. The world was before
me, and at the age of twenty-One, with
feeble ties connecting me with those
left behind, | was in the possession of
a fortune for those early days. l re-
call the fact that this thought was the
tenant of my mind for Il moment only
Bless God, it found no hospitable lodg-
ment any longer. And what think
you, gentle reader, were the associate
/ thoughts that came to my rescue?
Away, over rivers and mountains, a
thousand miles distant, in a humble
farmhouse, on n bench, an aged moth
er reading to her boy from the Oraclcs
| of God.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
Good, if True.

James Moore, an ex-Confedcrate
soldier, living in Burke county, n. c.,
was in battle in Virginia where a
federal officer fell wounded before him
and began begging Piteously for water.
Moore, needless Of the hot shot pour
ing upon the breast work, behind
which he was concealed, filled a can
teen and gave it to his enemy. The
grateful soldier offered his gold watch
to Moore, which he refused, but gave
his name the man insisting upon it.
\ few weeks ago Moore received a let
ter from the officer to whom he had Civ
en- a cup of cold water, saying he had
settled $4,000 upon him, to be paid in.
four annual installments of 81, 800
The Raleigh On. c. News says this
story is strictly true.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
FREE THINKERS CAMP.MEETING.

In the western part Of New York
State this month the disciples of ma
tural religion assemble in tented en-
campment in the propagation of their
opinions. Bob IngersOll, of Illinois,
Julian, Of Indiana, Russell, the Presi-
dent of Cornell University, Mundy, of
Syracuse, Mann, of Rochester, and
other distinguished representatives of
advanced infidel free thought are re-
solved, if possible, to popularize the
plausible heresies of their profane sys-
tenn of belief. What sacrilege of
natural surroundings! While under
the great armament itself, the blue
tent of the Lord, these men would
mock the all-pervading, supernatural
Being who guides the course of clouds
and paints the skies with gorgeous
tints at eve and morn. These men
scout the idea of Gods direct agency
in the manifestations of nature, in the
vicissitudes of human life and teach
that all these results are deducible from
long processes that swerve not at the
bidding of any divine personal power.
Thus infidelity, assuming the guise of
a higher law in religion, has the cffron-
terry to leave the R4eture hall where
for years it was content to strengthen
itself among its VoteEies, and now
seeks the grotto and grove as a more
extended and popular channel through
which to reach the masses, Thus the
Evil One in his efforts TO apostatize
this generation fOEsakes the cramped
fOrmularies of a speeious stilted phi
losopy, and adzoitly uses that eff
eient and long-eherishsd mode of wor-
Shipping God III some quiet, shady for
est walk. It Is evident, even to the
casual observer, that Satan is cunning
" taking advantage of the materiali-
zing spirit of the times, and drifting in
this current Of pssblsc thought, aims to
stab revealed religion by forcing its
defenders to prove their faith upon the
PrOcrusteaB bed of mere intellectualism.
We grant that the human mind is
daringly active at this day, but these
free thinkers need not suppose that by
pampcring mans pride of intellect they
can win people away from the simple
and sacred truths wrapped up in Christ,
the Goodman, The Christian church
is called to return to first principles in
faith and practice. The orbit in which
the Apostles worked and taught was
so truthfully limited to the paramount
needs of the human soul that their
teachings abashed the polished philOs-
Ophy of Greece and humbled the fierce
ness of Caesars pro-cOnsulship. Mod
ern infidelity may panOply itself in the
most exact esthetic culture and appeal
to cold human reason to make good its
theories, but the followers of Christ
need have no fears for the integrity of
His kingdom as long as their lives are
a living, moving vindication of scrip
tural faith. Inidelity may hurl its
shafts at Doctrinal Christianity, but
these same shafts fall harmless at the
feet of an everyday, pure, practical
religion.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Dr. Townscnd's Oxygen
ated Air viii purify the
blood in One-third the
time that any known
remedy can. Why2 Be
cause 10 iuhale Oxygen
atcd Air II goes direct to
the lungs and passes
through the TISSUES and
comes i'm direct contact
with the blood a. IL j.
forced into the lungs by
the action Of the heart
All the blood ia our veins
returns to the hcrrt every
four minutes If the blood
Is good and forced from
the heart 10 the lungs,
and the more you 5Uhaie
Oxygen into the lungs the
more you purify the blood
When Oxygen comes in
contact with the impuTi-
ties in the blood IL ear
bOnizas and burns, caus-
Ing the blood e. be heated
20 that IL warns every
part uf the body, a. IL
guas on its revolutions
through the system. If
your blood T. pure YOU
cannot Ic sick. We drive
Mercury and all other
impurities out Of the
blOSd. We guarantee 10
purify the blood iu one
third the time Of any
other known remedy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

This l. the only line running Pullman Southern
Sleeping q ar- from New Orleans, Mobile. jackson,
Mis-, Montgomery. Grenada, Drcffur, Jackson,
Rem, and Nashville 60 CiuriuuaiG without change,
connecting al that point with all lines running Pull
man and Wagner Palarc Slecprr- 90 Toledo, 3tFnlir
Grand Rapids. Baltimore. Washington. ~Itfriu-lsv
Cleveland, Buffalo, Albany, -alanauca, and New
York without change
This j. the only Zinc running it, entire trains Dec
tween Louisville and Cincinnati and fhc only line
by which passengers from tire south ca rs'uti 10
Eastern and Northern cities not iu through s}frplhI
tarsB eau avoid q tedious hrul through Che cItF ~
Louisville. hy changing carr 40 Else ~i.tFt i~.
lion with Louisville * Eleat southern f'1lii''l'
three miles south nf the city where ore ri'iiit
dining hall j. I1cited under tic management g" 'i'r
railroad cuinpaHies-
Little Rock Memphis aud Nirk-iiufs, made dirrei
connection at short Line Junction With through
.iecperi ID New York. I'hiludclphia- and othar
cities via this lime. AK fur tickets via Louisville
ana short Line No other line can equal IT,
O. r.. KELLY. Eru'l Ticket Agent.
JOHN ETTElNN, tisu'l a.. augHr Ascent.
JONI MAt LEDp, 1cul Stri., Louisville.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
The Force Of Truth.

Dreadful limits are set in nature to
the powers Of dissimulatiOn. Truth
tyrannizes over the unwilling members
of the body. Faces never lie, it is
said. No man ueed be deceived who
will study the changes of expression.
When a man speaks the truth in the
spirit Of truth, his eye is as clear as
the heavens. When he has base ends,
and speaks falsely, his eye is muddy,
and sometimes asquint. l have heard
an experienced counsellor say that he
never feared the effect upon a jury Of
a lawyer who does not believe iii his
heart that his client ought to have Il
verdict.-Emerson's Essays on Spiritual
Lars.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
4 Cure for Small Pox.

Il am willing to risk my reputation
as public man" wrote Edward Hine
to the Liverpool Mercury, IF the
worst case ofsmall-pox cannot be cured
in three days simply by the use of
cream Of tarter.-One ounce of cream
OF tarter dissolved in a pint of water
drank at intervals when cold, Is a Ger
tain never failing remedy. 1t has cur
ed thousands, never leaves a mark, ne
yer causes blindness and avoids tedi-
Gus lingering
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Many causes tend to produce this painful
and distressing state. The blood is retarded
in it, return; the too frequent Use of gastric
purgativcs tends to produce congestion of
the bowels, torpid action of the liver, and
numerous other causes are the source of this
complaint, and hitherto nothing efiectual
has been presented to the public, which
would rapidly alleviate symptoms and ulti-
matcly prove an effective cure. In PILON
We have Il remedy which not only acts al
most instantly, but Will remove the largest
tumors of the parts Piles 10y absorption,
and many who have received not only hem
eft, but have been gradually cured, have
been assured (prior to this treatment by
eminent surgeons that the only relief they
ever could expect in life would be by an OPP
Grafton, and removing it or them from the
body by procedure which ncco-sitates the
knife This remedy has been hailed with
delight and Is now prescribed by many prac-
ticing physicians who are cognizant of its
merits, a. the only known sure cure for
PILES. Price Fifty Cents per package, or
six for $3.50
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Why? Because Asthma Is
Il contraction Of the BrOn-
chial Tubes, caused by in
Illumination and irritation
Of the mucous membrane
lining the bronchial tubes
Use oxygcnated air as we
direct, and we viii war
rant a cure We have
cured cases Of 20 years
f standing.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

REV. DAVID WALK in last Sunday 5
Memphis Avalanche, in giving i'm
pressions of his seeings and hearings in
the Northern States says that immense
Teachers Associations are held in which
not colorcd teacher is permitted to show
his head or air his learning. Meetings
of the colored people have been held in
which the startling fact is disclosed
that in sanity Ohio every avenue of
labor is closed against the colOred race.
Peter II. Clark, of Cincinnati, who
is one of the most highly accomplished
colored men in the Nation, and man
who enjoys the hearty respect and con-
fidence of all classes of citizens, puts
the case thus:
At home where it was easier for a
colOred man to make lawyer or a
doctor of his son than n mechanic, it
was absolutely necessary that the col
ored people should strive for them
selves in a new direction. At the
doors of the factories the trade union
lists barred the enterence for colored
people; and if a first class cOlored me-
chanic got work in some manufaactur
ing establishment where 500 white
men were employed, 400 of them would
at once throw down their tools and
stroke rather than work with him.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
,eeiai rates given on application,

Special rates given on application.
Local notices charged Is cents line fof hFSt IN
serion and 10 cents line for subsequent insertions.
The nav for YEARLY and hatf-yeeFly advertise
ents 4 aAc quarterly, and those inserted for lcSs
than three months must be paid for when their time
expire,
Announcing cahrifllate fsf city Offices s. 90;
county $40 90 District ard State $50 90; invari-
ably In advance.
IB-Personal cards, when admissible, charged
double rates.
Marriages and deaths announced free.
Obituary notices over eight lines charged for as
advertisements.
BeS- All letters on business must be addressed TO
ARMISTEAD BROTHERS,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

GEORGIA through the Convention
now in session, has repudiated the in
famous and fraudulent bond issues of
Bullock q Co., amounting to eight
millions of dollars. Carpet-bag Radi-
caiism is a stencil in the nostriIs of the
people by reason of the most unblush-
ing villanies traceable to Bullock and
his associates.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
THE Chinese in California, through

THE Chinese in California, through
Senator Morton, viii petition Congress
to abrogate the BurHngame treaty
which encouraged Chinese immigra-
ton to the country, and to pass a law
levying a tax of one hundred dol
lars on every Chinaman landing IN
America, the proceeds of this tax to be
devoted to paving the passage back to
China of those Cinnamon who desire
to return but have not the means. 1t
seems that it is not the native but the
foreign element on the Pacific coast
that unite in hostility to the Chinese.
Old Ben Wade in bowling about
Democratic supremacy, says we have
got to give up the government to the
Democrats, and that the South is
more powerful now than before the
war. That is true. In wrestling
with Radicalism, the South, through
the might of right has busted the back
of the North. The acknowledgements
Of the negro will prove to be cord
with which the South can tie the hands
of the North.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Why? For the same rea-
son aS given above. The
bronchial Tubes are SIM
ply conductors to carry
air to the Lungs, hence
inhalation must go direct
TO the seat Of the disease,
and, if YOU will follow our
directions we guarantee
. to cure Bronchitis.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
Farmers Daughters.

The Indiana Farmer says: When
will farmers see that life is more than
meat, and the body than raIment?"
When will they cease considering it a
waste of time to send their chill
dren to school, or a waste of money
to pay for books or magazines? Why
will they spend their money giving the
heather a chance to be lost when their
daughters are absolutely suffering for
something to read? They toll and
sweat, wasting the souls best earnings
in providing for the poor, frail body,
that, were it not that it is the temple
of the soul, would be worth no more
to us than piece of wood or a stone.
They reverse the positions and make
the rightful master servant. Their
time is wholly occupied in providing
for the temporal wants.
Holland tells us that farmers are
afraid to be educated, or refined, or to
cultivate the beauties of nature, lest
they be thought ''stuck up" He says
that their finer nature, being neglected,
becomes sluggish and dormant. When
they go to sleep they merely ego to
roost;" when they eat they "tuck away
grub" that they Surprise theiri blacks
with clean shirts" and when they
marry they Glitch on" In all this
we recognize mere of truth than
poetry.
We hear a great deal about the dig
nifty and nobility of labor; we see the
truth of this in the results of the lives
of such men as Hugh Miller, Agassiz
and our old time patriots. But labor
having no good end in view; labor that
is not a means Of attaining some
higher good; labor that is merely mus
cular expansion and contraction for the
sake of making and keeping money,
is only method of soul-murder. We
need never be afraid of labor, pro-
vided we work in the right spirit
Anna Dickinson used to clean street
crossings to earn money to pay for
bookS
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Can lie cured. Why Be
cause we have cured hun
dreds Of cases, some Of
them being given ever tu
die by all physicians OF
other schools Of practices
Consumption Is = disease
of the air passages and
over twO-thiTds Of the
cases are caused by Ca
tarrh. We guarantee Il
cuase if you viii come in
season.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
DR.. TOWNSHIPS
ORIGINATED AIR.

Why Because inhala-
tion Is the only way that
the air passages can be
reached, and Catarrh Is
q disease Of the Air Pas
sagcs of the Head. Use
the Treatment as we di-
rect, which Is easy and
pleasant, and we guaran-
tee a perfect cure for Ca
tarrh.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

In the Commissioners late report he
states the average wheat yield in Ten
nessee is as follows: East Tennessee,
about eight bushels per acre; Middle
Tennessee, about ten bushels per acre;
and West Tennessee, nearly twelve
bushels per acre. This statement
should encourage our farmers to in
crease the wheat area in this district.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
Consumption

Dyspepsia We cure
Liver and Kidney com
plants are effectually
reached by Oxygcnateo
Air.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
BrOnchitiSi

All persons that read
this are invitnd to send
for our large and bcauti-
fully illustrated paper,
sect free TO any address.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Address all letters heretofore. l.. +. TOWN
SEND NJ D.. 122 High street, Providence, T. l.
Physicians wishing 60 locate l. some town city
ia this business, be furnished with territory and
our illustrated papers Tor advertising the SAME by
addressing Is above.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
CAUTION !!

There arc unprincipled persons in Boston aud
elsewhere that are putting up a bogus liquid and
trying % palm IL on my treatment, or Oxygen
ated Air and claiming IL % be- like mine. Nome
genuine unless the words CDR TOWNSEND'S
AIR are blown ia bottle and portrait on label.
f.bs IT,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
Asthma Z!

We guarantee to cure
coughs, cold, diptheTia.
Pneumonia, Neuralgia
and nearly all ether So
we're attacks when all 9th
or remedies fail.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

The Georgia Constitutional Conven-
ton has decided to elect Judges of the
Supreme and Superior Courts by a
Joint ballot of the Legislature. The
election occurs IN 1880.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
BLOOD
DISEASES!
CAN GERS
ND
JUNIORS!

Cured without cutting OF
drawing blood, with very
little or 10 pain Any
person troubled with Can
Ger andTumors will please
write for testimonials, &c.
from patients cured. We
warrant d perfect cure
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
W. d. PARK, H. D.,

Late II the Mcclellan I
:. 4. Hospital, Philadcl-
phia, Pa, who has been
- successful throughout
New England in the cure
Of cancers and tumurS
takes charge Of this dc
partment.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

GEN'L GIBBONS command, opera
ting in Montana against the Nez Perces
Indians, have had one of the hardest
and bloodiest Indian fights on record,
He lost half his command, which num-
bered 1S2 men. The hostiles lost 100.
The troops are in great distress. Gen.
Howard failed to effect communica-
ton with Gibbon.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16
Catarrh :

We make a speciality OF
treating patients by Mail.
Please write ad describe
your symptoms
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Three years ago Great Britain abol-
ished the customs duties on sugars, and
since then her customs revenue has
been raised almost exclusively from to-
baccO, spirits, tea, and wine. Yet her
receipts for the last three months show
an increase of 50, 800, 900 over the re-
ceipts of the same period in 1876
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

French affairs are in condition of
perilous unrest. The Bonapartist in
fuence is intriguing for supremacy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Constantinople is being strongly for
titled and gaIrisOned Seventy thou
sand Turkish troops are in an cntrench-
cd camp, awaiting an emergency.
Russia experiences great difficulty in
filling the ranks of the landwehr.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

One of the largest women in the
world Fannie Wallace, died at Ephrata
Pa, few days ago. She was fifty
four years old, seven feet four inches
in height. and weighed five hundred
and eighty-five pounds. Her coffin
was seven feet eight inches in length,
three feet six inches in depth, four feet
wide at the centre and two feet wide
ut the foot
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Telegraphic operator, not far from
Boston received a telegram for an Irish
man from girl whom he had been pre-
viously trotting round inviting him to
come and spend a holiday with her.
The operator sent the message, and
received the following answer: I'm
married, and to me grief.'"-Boston
Transcript.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

A New York Times correspondent
from the mining region of Pennsylva-
MIA states that potatoes, sOda-crackers
and water constitute the miners daily
fare. Despotie capital has made as
many slaves of the laboring whites in
the North as there were negro slaves
in the South before the war. What a
change! The South has a citizenship
of freemen, the North is full of enslav-
ed men, women and children. That
old demon, Abolitionism, is still
grinding its mill, but the grist this
time is white and not negro muscle.
The next revolution for the rights Of
labor will be in the heart of the man
ufacturnig and commercial North.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

Send for our large and beautifully illustrated
paper, sent free to any address.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-16

THE workingmen in Cincinnati,
Philadelphia and Louisville, are NOV
ing to forming a party in defence of
labor against the entertainments ofcor-
porated capital. Success to the move
ment. The North is yet to reap the
whirlwind. 1t sowed unwisely and its
reaping will be bitter.