davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
TENNESSEE SCHOOL STATS
TICS.
Interesting Facts aud Figures Re
garding the Public Schools
in Tennessee.

The annual report of the State Super
intendent of Public Instruction to the
Governor shows the following statistics,
viz:
Scholastic population (between 6 and
Is years of age), white male, 1878,
white female, i58,O34; total white, 325,
312. CnlOred male, 55 ,226; cnl0red
female 1888; total cnIored, IO8,8I9.
Making "A grand tOtai of 434 1871.
Or schonls there are: White, 3 ,070;
culored S27; total, 1897 Avera e mum
Der of days taught, Il. Number of
graded schools, I56; of consolidated
schools, l52.
The number of pupils enrolled is 1874,
1870. Average in daily attendance, l25,-
908 Per cent of attendance or schol-
astic population, % 81. Per centage of
attendance or enrolment, IS so Cost
of tuition per month per pupil enrolled,
$50
Teachers-Number of teachers en-
ployed, white male, 2.499; white female,
S97; total white, 1896 COlored male,
5S4; colored female, 230; total cOlored,
Sl4; grand total, 42lO; average c0mpen-
sauOn of teachers per month, $32.l8
School prOperty-SchOOl houses, stone
or brick, 06; frame, l,07 s. log, 1877;
total, 3 ,l56; estimated value of schOO,
houses, including sites, seats, desks, etc !,
$I,OIl ,85379.
Estimated value of school apparatus,
including globes, maps, etc, $37 O90;
tOral e-t'matrd saIue of school property,
| Sl,O48,944.7
School houses erected during the last
school year Stune or brick, 2; frame,
[ l58; log, 1875; total, 295.
County superintendent - Average
! compensation OF County Superinten denta,
! for II Ounties reported, 1925 As; aggre-
| gate compensation of same, SIG 233-
| Finance-IOtal receipts of school mo-
! ney from all sources, S83S,T35I5; total
expenditures, 69S, 22n,36 Tais includes
| the cities of Memphis, Nashville, Edge
| field, Chattanooga, and Knoxville.
| The counties report balance on hand
to Commence the school year. common.
eng August 81, last, of SI4Ii7447, and
Il to- al of past due Indebtedness of So
$50, IS, that showing heal by condition
Of tiIanc, At the close of the school
year of 1875 there was ON hand $52,
O22 u, with past due Indebtedness OF
SIS U65 VI. The favorable balance OF
1876 over that of 1878, and the greatly
reduced Indebtedness, the Superinten.
dent attributes tC a timely instruction in
a circular from his Office in June, 1878
to the school officers. to cancel all indebr.
edness in the school districts, where such
Indebtedness existed, before making new
contracts with teachers, and thus to do
Justice to the teachers and accumulate a
fund for the next year. This InsJruc-
ten, while resulting in slightly deceas-
ed enrolment for 1876, has produced
the wishen-for effect, TO accumulate a
handsome balance with which to carry
on the sch, OILS for 1851, a result
which will be seen in the report u
school statistics in the current year.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
NOBLE WORK.

The work to be performed by the
statesmen of the day is of princely
honor. If successful, - will be gloriou-;
if failure, it will chronicle dark era
in the history of free governments 1t
is to arrest a revolution whose animal
ing spirit has been hate. 1t is to estab-
lish fraternity instead of alienation be-
tween discordant States; to render the
Union a compact by consent rather than
Union by force. If American states-
manship is equal to this labor of frater-
nifty and peace, it will have done its full
duty. Nothing less should be thought
of.
We cordially endorse the nervous Ian
guage of now living and gifted Ameri
can when he says: But if this work
shall fail; if this strife of section and
spirit of hate shall continue; if those in
power shall fan the flames of passion to
keep themselves in place; if national
statesmen shall find pleasure in deVising
sectional wrongs, and the Federal Gov
eminent shall still furnish troops to To-
ment and sustain usurpations over
States, then no pen can describe the hor-
rors that await Us. Free Government
will perish; disuniou will come; disinte-
grafton will multiply"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
STATE TAXATION.
Treasurer Morrow Recommends in
His Report in Case no Adjust
ment of the State Debt that
a Tax for 1877 be not
Levied.
We give below Treasurer Morrow's
views on the subject of taxes for 1877:

We give below Treasurer Morrow's
views on the subject of taxes for 1877:
Concerning STATE taxation, the Treas
urer says: by reference to the table of
receipts, it will be seen hat trustees
have, up tn December 20, l $40, paid into
the treasury the sum of S74,O 4 IA, and
the receipts from December 20 TO Jan
uary !, 1877. from the same source
amount t" $40, 1878; making to. al of
$84 SS9.S7 This leaves due and unpaid
on January /, 1877. of the levy of 1876
(amounting to 81 ,O72,03l.34) the very
large sum Of 1887, l4l.4- 1t will also
be remembered that the railroad tax for
1876 is yet to be paid. and will reach
the treasury early in 1877. Then a con-
siderable part of the privilege tax for
1876 Will come due during the next few
months. In addition to these reliable
sources of reVrnue tn meet current ex
penses, we have several hundred thou
sand dollars of delinquent taxes'-a
large per cent. of which will be col
looted Then there will be a handsome
revenue derived from the lease of the
penit.ntiary, should such disposition be
made of that institution From these
different sources, there Is no sort of
tate Government for twelve or eighteen
months without the levy of dollar o.
State tax for the 1877, unless it should
be decided that interest payments are to
be continued In view of the great Il
nancial distress of the people of the
State, when the revenue OF whole cOun-
ties remain unpaid just because there
is not money enough in them to pay
with; when it is n struggle for the peO-
pie to provide board and clothing, nue.
less pay heavy taxes, tn demand for re
lief il so great as to force prompt recOg
milton. Under these circumstances, the
suggestion is respectfully offered that,
unless there is to be an adjustment or
compromise of the State debt it would
be wise on the part of the General A.
senbiy 20 say to the people OF the State
that we will levy no tax for the year
1877, ana thus give them at once relief
t at will be practical and substantial.
Unless we are going to pay interest on
the bonds, the revenue now due and
levied for previous years will meet our
every need and carry us VIII over into
the year 1878 There Is no need thai \
dollar beyond our necessities as State
should be collected There should be
no surplus in the treasury.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
Mr.. LAMAR.

J.. Q. Washington, the Washington
correspondent of the Richmond (Va)
Wing, says:
"Mr. Lamar's position mas been en-
tirely misunderstood He never sent
any message or messenger to Governor
Hayes, never wrote him a letter of any
kind, and has received no csmmunica-
ton from him.
1.-The opinion of careful observers
here is that the original conspiracy of
Hayes friends is unchanged that at
present the purpose of the conspirators
tn use the army to inaugurate him and
seize the Government is fixed, and that
the people may as we'll make up their
minds at once whether they will submit
or resist. Any division in the South or
any endorsement of the good Lord, good
DepiI policy Of Wells and Hampton,
would make the cause Of honesty utter
ly hope less"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
GETTING HOT.

"A man may as we'll be in hell, with
out fan, as Republican Cabinet Min
lister with a Democrat House, lately
remarked that distinguished theologian,
the Hon. Zach Chandler, Secretary of
the Interior. He strongly states the
case. His figures though full of
deep venom contains much that is
true. With a Republican House
they have no need of fans They could
keep as cool as their impudence, and
rake in their piles with steady hands,
fearing no Congressional warning But
ever since the Democrats got the ascend
ency in the House, the Republican
leaders have squirmed and twisted as
though a death ghost pursued them.
Why is this2 Certainly no such condi-
tiOn of mind would result from upright
ness ia official and honorable conduct.
No. Republican officials as class have
30 prOstituted Office and debauched them
selves by corrupt misuse of pa ron ,ge
and power that they fear such an ex-
0S hOLOob OOuUCEdI5 Will give
Of their deeds through Investigating
Committees. These committees are like
red bandanna handkerchiefs firred in
the face of an angry bull-they madden
the animal There is 50 much Of rotten
ness yet unearthed that Grant and his
party are neryed to contiaue heir rule at
any hazard. Another revO luton, even
if it leads to civil war would be better
for them than the disgrace which will GER
tainly be their lot, in case of Eildeu's
peaceful Inauguration. War would
cover up many of their dark deeds
their tracks would be lost in the throes
of revolution.
No wonder Chandler raves in antici
patton of Democratic triumph. He anC
his ring would become terror-stricker
the very hour of TiIden's elevation to thu
Presidency.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
SOUTHERN INDEBTEDNESS.
The Efforts to Reduce the
Debts Of T6mneS-
see and Other
States,
A Committee Now Considering the
Subject in New York

Washington Special to the New York Tribune
An important movement is on foot
looking to the reduction of the nominal
amount of the State debts of Virginia,
North Carolina and Tennessee, by seal
ing them down and funding them in new
bonds. The two States first named have
been in default for several years, and
manifest no disposition to fulfill their OBJ
legations. Tennessee paid her interest
until last January. The bOndhOders
thinking that half loaf is better than
no bread, are willing to surrender their
claims and take bonds of a much less
face value if the Executives and Legis-
Iatures of those States will, on their
part, undertake to put their finances on
such basis as to insure the creditors of
the puncrual payment of interest on re-
duced debt. Virginia owes about S45,-
600 600, and insists that West Virginia
is bound to shoulder SIS 100000 of it as
her fair share, but the latter State is not
willing to do this. North Carolina's debt
aggregates 100000 Tennessee owes
about S2I,OOlOOO. The bonds are
chiefly held IN New York, and the
owners have requested comm ittee of
eminent bankers who are not them
selves Interested in them to endeavOr to
secure a reorganization of the debts
upon an equitable basis Messrs. Geo.
Coe, j. d VermiIye and B. B. Sherman,
of New York; B. B. Comrgys, of Phila-
delphia, and Enuch Pratt, of Baltimore
all officers of large banking institutions,
constitute the committee who have IN
deItaken this important work. At their
request Col. J E. Peyton of New
rseY, who organized the bankers
movement at the Centennial Exhibition,
has gone Snuth to confer with the Gov
ernors and financial boards of Virginia
aud North Carolina first, and probably
of Tennessee later, if the plan meets
with success in those States. Many
prominent public men have written
letters in favor of this of the projec
among them Thurlow Weed, Peter
Cooper and w. e. Bryant, of New
York, and John Welsh, of FbiIadel-
phia.
The States in question will, it is
hoped, meet the off RS Of the creditors in
a fair and liberal spirit, and cordially
cooperate in devising plans for restoring
their shattered credit As the offer to
compound their debts comes from the
bOndholders, an arrangement for the
purpose on the part of the Governments
of the States would not SAVIOR strongly OF
equalization, and could be effected with
out dishonor. 1t is elaimed thrt it is
Impossible for them to collect taxes
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
The Scientific American

Has been the foremost IF all industrial
publications for the past 81 years. it is
the Oldest, Largest, Cheapest, and the
Best GUeekly Illustrated pepper deVOTed to
Engineering, Mechanics, & dentistry. New
Inventions, Science and Industrial Prog
Tess, published in the world.
The practical Recipes are Will wor tn
ten times the subscription price, and for
the shop and house will save many times
the cost of subscription.
Merchants. Farmers, Mechanics, Engi-
neers, Inventors, Manufacturers, Chem
lists, Lovers Of Science, and People of all
Professions, will find the SCIENTIFIC
AMERICAN useful to them. 1t should have
place IN every Family, Library, Study,
Office and Counting Room; In every
Reading Room. College and School A
new volume commences January l, 1877.
A years numbers contains 832 pages
and Several Hundred Engravings.
Thousands OF volumes are preserved for
binding and reference Terms, 50 20 a
year by mail, including postage
Discount to clubs. Special circulars
giving club rates, sent free. Singh
copies mailed on eeceipt of 10 cents
May be had of all News Dealers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
Downfall of the South Threat
ened.

In the Judgment of some thoughtful
and far-slghted men, the party in office
will never relinquish its bold upon che
National Government without flood, and
if 1t is permitted to r. main unm Tested
where it is for another Presidential term
it will perpetuate itself there Tn err
are reasons enough to give this prophecy
strong coloring of probability. rhe
Radical leaders have nev~r been at d
loss to devise some scheme for the over
throw of conservative governments in
the Southern States. Even now they
have begun to threaten the disfranchise-
ment of the Southern whites and the re-
construction of the " hole section. IL is
conceivable, therefore, thet before anuth-
er four years shall have elapsed under
the auspices of Republican administra-
ton, every State in the South will have
fallen into the clutches of a selfperpetu-
ating Returning Board, clothed with
both ministerial and judicial powers -
Ne,0 Orleans Pieay1uae.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
Living to Fast.

In our day, both married ard single
people live to fast a bachelor now has
need of an incU such as would once
have satisfied man with family; and
the husband and father requires for his
single household the means tha5 twenty
years ago would have supported two
families, f not three Daughters are
sent to fashionable schools, at an enOr-
nous cost, there to learn extravaganza,
add, IL short. to become fitted for any
thing but to become wives of poor men.
Son are ruined with unlimited pocket
m"neo, late hours, and almost total alb
sence Of patterned control. Thus we not
only wuste our own estates, but perpe-
rate the vice IN our own children. In
every way We are living too fast.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18

In the eisction of Ex-Governor Harris
to the United States Senate, Tennessee
will have a representative unsurpassed
in high character AMI enlarged states
manship National legislation has 80
long been at the mercy of third-rate
talent and purchasable mediocrity that
it is high time to bring to the front the
best culture nd purest worth the coun
t.y can command We hope Senator
Harris may have as his coadjutor the
distinguished Judge Bailey. These two
men can honorably represent the Yolun-
teer State.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18

enough to live up to the letter of their
financial obligations, and it is evidently
their interest, as well as their duty, to do
as much as they can d that direction
Especially should they seek to remove
the stain of being IN default. 1t is a Sc
rious drawback to the development of
their res, urees. because immigration ,
which all the Southern States strongly
desire, naturally shuns communities
which are living in a condition OF
chronic bankruptcy and making no eff
forts to pay thei: debts.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18

JAMES GORDON Bennett and Frederick
May have fought duel over the love
cOmphcati tons of Bennett with y sy' sis
ter. No blood spillsd-May slightly
wounded. Such brutal side-play is
shocking the moral sensiblities of
Gotham. Those Northern spriIs OF
Yankee upPer-tendom nay yet have a
chance to use firearms upon a much
broader field Wonder would they vol
unteer upder either TIlden or Hayesl
The northern mind is too practical to
prefer shot and shell to bonds and
stocks.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
He
Scientific American

Which has been published weekly for
the last 81 years, does this, to an extent
beyond that of any other publication in
fact it is the only weekly paper published
in the United States, devoted to Manu-
features, Mechanics, Inventions and New
DIS 'overies in the Arts and Sciences
Every number is profusely illustrated
ard It's contents embrace the latest and
most interesting information pertaining
to the Industrial, Mechanical, and
Scientific Progress of the World; De-
scriptions, with Beautiful EngraVings Of
New Inventions, New Implements, New
Processes, and Improved Industries of all
kinds; Ureful Notes, Recipes, Sugges-
tions and Advice by Practical Writers,
for WOrkmen and Employers, 10 all the
various arts, forming a complete roper
tory of New Inventions and Discoveries;
containing a weekly record, rot only of
the progress OF the Industrial Arts in our
own covntrY, but also of ali New Dis
cnv-ries and Inventions 10 every branch
of Engineering, Mechanics, and Science
abroad
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
NEW PRESIDENTIAL ELEC
TON

The conspirators, in the event of de-
feat in executing their fraudulent
schemes to Inaugurate Hayes, are con-
eoctiug plan by which to compromise
matters 30 as to have a new election of
President This will be stubbornly op
pressed by many Democrats and Repub-
hcaus. We doubt the propriety of such
q measure, as the same complicated
questions will surely arise to render the
result of another election as uncertain
Gs the present one.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
What Cruelty.

OF the fifteen thousand men who are
wearing away their dreary lives in the
mines of the Schuylkill coal region, ter
thousand at least are unmarried, ard five
thousand live in miners clearinghouse
They call them all men, these gnomes,
but many of them are boys. Not less
lows, who in any other community
would be in school, but who here are
kept day after day in filthy, black tun-
nels, mufied up in old coats and scarfs
to shut the Geld out, till all the young
life is worn out of them, and they are
dwarfed little men before the first signs
of beard break through the black crust
on their faces. - PHjLadel phia Tunes
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
LOUISIANA.

The recent formidable and threaten
ing mihtar display in New Orleans over
the Supreme Court ENHANCEMENT verv
happily subsidized without blood
shed or further disturbance. The two
Legislatures are in session and the re-
spective partisan4 are persistent in their
demands. Grant refuses to recognize
either, and his military satrap, General
Anger, is upon the spot to maintain
peace.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18

In the County Court of Hardeman
County, Tennessee, G. B. Foster ct ais.
petition for division of land vs.. Elijah
+, Warren ct ais. No. 1912 X. D.
In this cluse il appearing from the pe
titiOn which is sworn to, that VIM. II
Foster and Mary Foster, the defendants
are residents Of Prairie County, Arkansas
and non residents of State of Tennessee.
1t is ordered that publication be made
for four successive weeks in the Bolivar
BULLETIN for said defendants to enter
theIr appearance herein by or within the
first three days of a County Court, to be
held at the Court House in Bolivar
Tennessee, on Monday, the 9Th day Of
February, 1877, and plead, answer or de-
muir to the petition, or the same will he
taken for confessed As TO them and set
for hearing exparte.
This January 4th, 1877.
W. G. DORION,
Clerk and Master.
Jesse Eorment, Attorney for Petition
eTs.
Jan AT.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
Gov. Grover Before the Committee

WASHINGTON. -GuysTu0r Grover, be-
fore the Committee of Privileges ana
Elections of the Senate, Mountains that
he acted IN accordance wi5t. the COnstI-
tuition and laws, and that he had been
furnished some data Oy gentlemen IN the
East upon which 10 base ms action
Otning new was developed before the
T. ommlttee
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
Gov. Hampton's Position,

COLUMBIA, ). C.-Governor Hampton
said in relation to Judge Mackeys inter
view with Governor hayes, that Mackey
was not authorized to speak for him or
the Democrac Of South Carolina. He
believes Tiden fairly elected. The peo-
pie of South Car lima desire a peaceful
constitute nal solution of the question.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
Position of the Supreme Court

WAsHINGToN-In connection with the
submission of the electoral vote to the
Supreme Court one of the judges WAS
heard TO say tnat all the judges were OPP
posed to having anything to do with the
ques ion, for the reason that though they
might perform that duty honestly and
faithfully they would naturally be sus-
pected Of being Influenced By their
political opinions, which suspicion would
detract from the Judicial character of
the Court.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
THE FLORIDA COMMITTEE.

The House Committee charged with
the duty of investigating the election in
Florida, has returned to Washington,
and, ia is understood, asserts that the
evidence is complete ana overwhelming
that 7llden has carried the State. Even
the Republican members of the Com
mittee conoeie this to be the fact on the
face of the returns, and say they will SO
report.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18
MIN RESIDENT NOTICE.

Hardeman County Court Susan Alice
Knight ct ais petition for sale of land
We. J. l. Simpson ct ais, No l,U38. K.
D.
1t is ordered by the Court that publi-
cation be made for four successive weeks
in the Bolivar BULLErIN, for the defend
ant, Molie Strickland, who is a resident
Of Tunica county, Mississippi, and a non
resident of the State of Tennessee, as
shown by the return of the Sheriff made
IN this cause, to enter her appearance
herein, by or within the first three day :
of the March term, 1877, of the County
Court, to be hell at the Court House IN
Bolivar, Tennessee, on the first Monday
in Maroh. 1877, and plead, answer or
demur to the petition in this cause, OF
the same will be taken for confessed as
TO her and set for hearing exparte.
w. e.. DORION,
Clerk and Master.
J. aud F. FENTREss, Attorneys for peti.
tioners. janll #
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-01-18

Talk Of Intimidation" as much as
you please, there was no grOsser outrage
committed, in view of its immoral and
destructive effect upon our republican
system, than the forced and unlawful
SD inscriptions of ofhce-holders through
out the country for electiOneering pur-
pOpes in the late Presidential campaign.
Washington Union.