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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-08
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-08

-. p. Campbell is now located in
Bolivar and prepared to serve the public
in all kinds of boot and shoe making and
mendipg.
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moth 16 page (64 eolumHs) family paper,
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and short stories, sketches, poetry, wit,
hurnor, etc, etc 1t is entertaining,
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quality Of matter considered-that we
have seen. The price is 81 20 per year,
including as premium genuine fac line
steel engraving, called "The Mitherless
BARN, printed on 22x2S plate paper,
which the publishers claim is superior
IN point of merit and attraetiveness to
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psper in this country, and is alone worth
the money asked for both. The pub
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street. New York, autherizs us to say.
that in order to introduce the paper in
this vicinity they make special offer to
every one of our readers to send them
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who avail themselves of this offer will,
we feel certain, thank US for having
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employ some one in every place to can
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The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08

The school for girls, lately established by
the third wife Of the Khedive Of Egypt
which is one Of the greatest innovations
the country of the pharaohs has ever seen
is turning ont great success. The lady
bought a large house in a. tiliekly peopled
locality, near tho dancing dcrvishes, erect
ed around it quadrangle of spacious build
inrs, handed thcm over to the Education
Department, but herself defrays the whole
cost of maintenance Tho school is free t
oil, apd when it had beon open only four
p,oAths there were 2o6 boarders and loc
day-scholars, all Arabs or slaves. They
discard the Oriental vail. and are dressed
III frocks, pinafores, and shoes, in English
fashion and they sit, not squatting on the
ground. but at desks. They must find life
rather irksome and barbarous when they
return home.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
A CITY WITH sIEvER-PAvED STREETS.

Our principal streets says the Virginia
(Nev.) Enterprise. is being macadamized
with re fuse ore taken from the mines in
early days, and being coatei with rich or,
that has been year after year silted down
upon them from the ore wagons, are nov
eve4yp here more or less argentiferous. In
deed there is not tho slighteet stretch OF
imagination in saying that we never take
4 step in tho town but we are walking Cd
silver-that our streets are literally paved
with Silver. While spe king Of this fact
day OF two since, II young man bet his
friend the price Of the asseying and "cigars,
that he would take q lump of mud of tie
wheel of bus, the standing before them,
aud would get out Of it precious metals to
the value of over s. per ton. An ounce cs
two of mud was taken from the wheel c.
fhe vehicle ard xlae Cd IN tie halids OF -
lss;tyer, who was not told where the sample
was obtained, and who no doubt supposed
that he was deaiing with dccomposed ore
vein matter from one Of our mines. The
assay WAS made, and the asstyer's cer:it-
cate showed that the sample contained
"Silser, S7.54, gold. S2.32; total $Js6.'
After this VIC r.ay put Oh airs, even though
our streets are vil!ainously muddy occs
sionally, for the worry mud on our hoots
contains both silver and goll-is not the
vulgar mui of tho Cow country towns.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
ABOUT EATING.

"Do not 90 10 bed when you are hungry"
ay5 one pAysoln, while another counsels
II opposite course; but the following ad-
ice 6ecms reasonable. Eating a hearty
meal at tk9 c!ose OF the day is like giving
l.borinG man a full days work to do just
rs night sets in although he has been toll
ing all day. The vAole body is fatigued
-, ,'tt 4e,i i. lL--szstonawh es,&vs -rt,
due share, and to AT hearty at supper and
then &C to bel is giving al she other por-
tions and functions Of tn " repose
while the stomach has thrown upon it four
or FIVE hours more of additional work, after
having already labored four or Eve hour,
to dispose Of breakfast and a still longer
time for dinner. This ten or twelve hours
Of almost incessant work has nearly OK
tausted its power it cannot promptly di
long hours together. like an exhausted gal
ley-slave on newly imposed task. Hao
1t voice, it might "strike;' lacking it, the
duty is silently performed. The result
is that By the unnatural length Of time
which the fool is kept IL the stomach, ant
the imperfect manner in which the ex
haustel organ manages it. it become
more or less acid this generates wind, this
iistends the stomach, this presses up it
self against the more yielding lun rs, con-
fininG them to largely diminished space
hence every breath taken is insufficient foi
the wants of the system, the blood become7
Foni. black, and th OK, refuses to flow, aud
the man dies, or it, iciiriam OF fright leaps
from :. vErt>r, o. commits suicide. Let
any r4a1ter who follows an inactive life for
the most part, try the experiment. fc-
week Of eating absolutely nothing e-fer
one or two O'Clock dinner, AMI zee II
souuder sleep AMI q visorous~ppetite Tor
breakfast and a hearty din .er are not the
plcasurable results. to IS nothing of th'
happy deIivarlnce fy,in that Disagree ,ble
fullness, wci-hb oppression, or scidit!
which attend. overeating. The grest ren
oyatinr e.d vivacity which long, deli
cious md connecting steep imparts, boil
to rhnd and body, will Of themselves moro
than compensate for the certainly short
and rather dubious pleasure of ealing
supper with no special relish.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
TRAITS or TIL. sIARH.

When all the blubbar and fat has been
removed from the carcass 2g the whale by
the Trinidad fishermen il is usually towed
out, md allowed 10 drift With the current
as \ bait for sharks, while large canoes,
filled somewhat in the style Of whalebo&ts,
follow it, 10 halpoon any Of these fish that
may come within range. oharklng i-
rather good sport in lis III, ald Is at the
same time Very re:uunerItiye, on account
of the quality Of oil thtt may be obtained
from the liver. The sh nh i kllIe mnl
iu the same WY rs the whtle. I3ins frs
haruooned ana th4u ltucei TIL it WIS ey-
haustel. after wiicl It's live: is cut out ar
placed in the boat.
The hyer is four or five feet long, .nd
large one will give rs much ns tift. N or
sixtcon gallons ol OIL. Though shaI Ks i'll
these parts are numerous, yet accidents
while bAth.ps, OF even when boats arc
.wanped at sen, ars rare; and t.ey vii.
not touch Il human being, even when IN
.ha water aloE Isl 80 . whale that III cut up
Several instances are well authenticated
Rhera persons have tlus fallen among thsl-
and escaped injury, the shark preierring
the blubber and fesl OF the wh +le TO hu
man flesh No doubt If the person i'm
uersed was woundci, 90 rs to cause blood
to flow, sharks would eat him as readily "a
the whale When il gtoAt numbers, they
will eat one Of thsir own Kind that has
been severely wouo led, and on such ooca-
sions rush at the body 20 hercsly as to
force it above the surface.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
mis- hxrhaiENCm

"No. sir. never rcrratted marrying
Mollie here She's tecn the making OF
me. ] was AL idle dog when | met her
and thought nothing lut spending my
money at saloons Just as fast ~ I earned
it. She was only a poor eeamstress. that
was industrious, honest, AMI frugal in
habits, for she'd had hard XIV to hoo,
poor girl Well, for her sake grew saw
ing and careful and soan had a little money
in the bank. Finally we wero married and
after furnishing two rooms had just hun
dred dollars left. 1t was not nuth but it
was our own. That was fourteen months
back. Now We have this little house. We
have carpets on the floor OF two rooms,
line pictures on the walls, and nearly fifty
books in that case of shelves up there
which | made. Our house is small, but
there is no envy; no fear of the future,
fault-fnding or selfishaess in it. We have
nearly hundred dollars saved, besides
these things in the house. Our rent Is
paid for the entire year til next spring
We 90 to church regularly, attend concerts
and lectures and amusement when the
price is not too high. Sometimes the prices
are so high we cannot afford to go. Tnen
we stay at home, read to each other, have
visitors or 90 out little while to visit q
,cu trends close Dy. haven't been In
,alo}n since WAS married, sir, and will
aever enter one again. had rather these
books, pictures, clrpata and that organ
should b, in ottr house chan In the house
of the man who makes his saloon attrac-
tive SO AS to s1uce men there to spend
their earnings. We find that this life is as
We make it. We are helping each other,
and the more we do for each other, the
better we love each other. and thus my
wife is leading me to heaven. And from
the bottom Of my heart I wish that all
Young men who are now travelling the
roud Travelled two years ago would fol-
low my example. for, sir, the'd never re-
grct it,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08

"But, sir, ! shall be sold out if some
kind gentleman does not"
"What the dickens do | care wheth-
er you are sold out or not?" snarled
Mr.. St. Felix, showing his front teeth
like an ill-tempered dog.
II shall have to go into the poor
house, sir.
$50 into it, then, and be hanged to
yap!" viciously retorted this pink Of
generosity. Its the best place you
can be in. Dye s'pose I've nothing to
do with my money bnt to throw it away
on you? Come clear out!'
And Mr.. St Felix, rising. fairly
frowned the old woman out of his Office
shutting the door mercilessly upon her
But before he could rescat himself
she opened The door, and rcarp"ared.
"Wqman" he ronrci, ho. dare
you"
"Stop moment, Mr.. st. Felix,
said a clear, cain vo.cr, as unlike the
falsetto accents in which the old We
man had spoken, as possible, aud fling
ing aside her thin disguise, Juliet Har
per stood before the astounled broker
"Jul;cl.'
"AIiss Harper, if you please. And |
wish you, sir, fully to understand; that
the man who can treat with rudeness
and contumely the poorest of her sex,
deserves no quarter at the hands Of a
woman. Good mornine?'
And Miss Harper walked away with
great dignity, leaving her midd'c-agcd
admirer staring in the middle of his
Office floor.
lirs. bennington listened 10 TIE story
repeated by her young friend with great
interest She did not even say, "Didn't
[ tell you so?" She merely folded Juliet
to her breast, and whispered;
Thank God, darling, that vou have
had such an escape from one who would
have ground you cruelty to the earth,
under the heel Of his tylnnny.
Juliet herself paid Mrs. H"pp.r's
taxes the next day. "The experience is
worth it, )" said she, with shrug Of he
shoulders.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08


4. certain sense al attractive female.
are firts. Remembering that Irritation is
playing at being in love. | shall assert,
without fear of contradiction, that every
woman whose attractions viii permit her
to choose her husband and who is not com.
PEELED to snap at the first chance, like
hungry dog at a bone, begins to play at
this game from her earliest years. In wha'
ether manner, pray, is o. young female 70
acquire any knowledge of the men VINO arc
seeking to engage her afscIonsS She IN
derstands perfectly well that marriage M
the end and aim Of feminine existence, that
eighty-two per cent. of her sisters become
wives and mothers, and that of the eigh-
teen per cont. who remain single almost AL
are unhappy at their lot. Hence, even De-
fore girl begins to attract the attention
of gentlemen, her dreams of the future
have all turned in this direction. She has
thought for years of the delight OF having
beau, long before that beau comes. When
=
person, she will ondeavour to learn some
thing of his disposition. temper, and eiar-
acser. And how can she do this save BY
Irritation? She may have been favorably
impressed at first, but rs, under the in
fuence Of the game. the man shows him
uef as he really is, as his minute grain ap.
pears under the yarnish of manner and 30
cicty politeness. she may have just cause to
think less kindly of him. But he. having
measureless seif-esteem, makes love more
and moro fervidly. untA with him the game
becomes downright earnest. He proposes
and is rejected, and goes round everywhere
swearing that that girl is the most consam'
mate fiirt that ever existed. But docs h
speak the truth7 Is she net r'ghs % y
careful to look before she leapsf Coed Peo
pie. do not judge her too harshiy ossAsA'
she is hard to please
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
ANCIENT WHEAT.

| have before M, says writer, heads OF
wbeat gr9:;n on the eastern side Of the
Miss;seinpi, within ten miles of Memphis,
from grains taken from an ancient EGyp
tan slrcophagu5 sent some y.trs ago by
the American Consul at Alexandria to the
patent Office at Washington. The stake
and leaves are very like those Of Indian
corn. though smaller. and the heads OF
grain Ike that Of rshum or broom corn.
Strange but true it is that this very wheat,
degenerate but perfect in all it, Incidents.
still grows among the weeds and grass that
cover mounds in the lowlands eighteen
miles west Of 4rlemphs. How m,ny CEN
tur es sine, ta>sc kindred products oi
Egyptian agriculture were separated, the
one to move slowly, perhaps with nomadic
tribes, around the globe, crossing Asia and
the Pacific; and the other moving west
IN our tims, across the Atlantic, and bott.
growing green even hero, III the year Of ou,
Lord 1874 beneath the shadows Of another
sIaol,,tIis on the shores of another Nile
The same writer says that the same race O
nnople cultivated tho same crops and s;ai
uerei .bem in the sune peculiar mama
many and many century ago.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
TOBACCO AND FAD MhHNpsES.

Iarveg. the art writer, pr)nounces tobac-
mar..ers in Europe. WhatcTer the bene.
| fit or the harm the use Of tobacco may do
the coneamer's body. its commoa tenlcncy
| is to render the mind Indifferent to the
we!l-bc;ng of his ne:ghbois. The supreme
test of the virtue of the knight in the
davs of chivalry, which WIS the highest
ideal of fine marners WAS his self-deuial
and desire to succor the oppressed. TIE
severest test of the modern gentleman is
his willingness to forego his pipe for the
comfort and health Of another. 1t takes
thoroughly well bred man to withstand
this form Of ge,f-indulgcncs when i! can
only be practicei to the annoyance OF an
other. Germans are the worst examples
Of bad manners in this respect, for it never
seems TO enter into their comprehension,
however courteous aud willing to oblige in
other matters, that what is a sensual hap-
piness to them may be absolute misery to
another Frcnchmen are rapidly losing
their provcrbial politeness also by this spe-
:,e, Of self-indulgenoe. Englshmen and
Americans, to a certain extent invoke tha
law to protect them, AMI with both peoples
there is more consideration for the right
and welfare OF others than obtains in gen.
eral among ciyiliz,i nations. But selfish
ness OF this sort has taken less firm root IN
Italy than elsewhere, precisely because
emeuity Of manners an1 consideration Of
others in pu3lic are still the social rule.
Not only 10 Italians refrlin from smoking
where it is prohibited. but l have seen
them voluntarily give it up, when they
noticed that it incommolel, where by reg
ulation they we're entitled TO smoke. and
.his not only by geatlemon but by peas
ants. On the other hand have known a
German OF rank with his daughter get into
ladies' compartment in railway carriage
and insist on using his pipe, despite the
eypostulations Of the lady occupants. who
were compelled to apply 10 the guard for
protection when he was made to go into
sne smoking carriage, the scene occurring
IN Italy. AS he reluctantly went, hi,
daughter angrily turned to the ladies, e&
claiming, See what you have done to my
poor papa; you make him leave his place
to smoke away from me-" The tendency
Of an inordinatc Use of toIacco TO develop
boorish manners requires no better illus.
tration, Tor it ie one which is now w-a-daya
too common not to have been experienced
BY most persons who travel.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
A 5AD PERIOD.

1t is vain to cling to the youth which Ia
past, be our ulbelief of the fact ever 30
stubborn. Ra ther should it be gracefully
resigned for tie CT esrful acceptance Of the
duties which mature life is sure to bring.
Why, for example, should single woman
of forty Gang to the dress and manners of
a girl, instetl Of owning to herself and
others that she has fully reached middle
age? Countless advertisements show but
too plainly how many have n horror of
growing old, and snatch creIulously AZ
every device for hiding the unwelconie fact.
Success in such arts means a walking de-
cep.ion, and whore there is fAls.hood on
the surface, there is not mach hope OF
trnth beneath; failure means an absurd
qnomoly-b4ight hair does not harmonize
with faded cheek, or rouas with n fur
rowel brow. Beside, lovely as i'll the
bloom of youth, it is hardly missed whsn
the beauty OF expression beams forth in
its stead. IN mourning oger, and nagni-
flying, what is past. there is always danger
Of neglecting, # 10. losing, the treasures
which remain. Yet, in middle age often
only the brighter aspects Of youth are re-
called. My good days are done" we can
imagin, o,ie nusng in melancholy woman
hood chow different il WAS at twenty;
sheltered by the tenlerest love. free from
care and anxiety, and happy in what had
and, VII It WAS more ltnguid, ra3fa', fe>l-
ing, witch gave assurance OF having en-
joyed myself 10 the utmost Aroand mo
were intimate rrieuds. W .th whom | coHld
exchange thoughts and &c 'lirgs unchecked
by doubt Cr reserve health of boiy mad
it a Joy to live and hra.t 70, w4ile an cEts-
tic spirit sprlng freshly from every tfou-
bic and then the enchantt>'ss Hope, how
sweetly sh. wAisptrol But now, many
sorrows have ch ,stenel boly and mind.
Reaction has cone to b. d tllia,5 Of dread
most usurious payment for every excite
ment. The dear old home is broken up.
OF carly friends, some ere dead. others arc
distant or occupied, SO that We rarely CON
municute, and fewer still remain unchang
ed. Many times have | been deceived and
in others, and, bitterer still.
have been deceived and disappointed i'll
myself. | have 10 bear my burden alone,
and hide my griefs, lest tease some care
less ear, or hinder some busy hand.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
AN IMPORTANT INVENTION.

An inventive genius at Minneapolis
Minnesota, has patented an apparatus
which. he calls car-shoe, for preventing
cars from leaving the track i'll collisions OF
by running upon a broken or dislodgei
rail 1t was given a trial short time
since, in which it did all and more than
was claimed for it. A rail was taken from
one side Of the track, and car with the
shoe attached, backed down at the rate OF
twenty miles an hour. just before reach
ine the break, the engine was detached.
and the car few across the break, the front
truck striking the track all right, ard the
rear truck missing it by few inches. the
shoe gripping the track and stopping the
ear without damage about SIX rods from
,he break. On the second trial the car
struck the track all right. and went on b
half mile as if nothing had happened. In
this are Of railroads. such an appliance q.
that if placed upon all cars, would ne ths
@eans Of saving thousands Of lives "a
uually.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08

ONE Of the officers at West Point receut-
" rcsorted to the following experirusas
TO determine whether the ice OF rivers anti
cre,ks thi2kcns ON the bottom or on tiT
tor He cu. a. hole in the ice oppos' e
W,.st Point, and bolte,i piec, of board to
the under side. Examining it three q
four days afterward, ne found the bolt
head on The top Just AS he left 1t; and cut
ting through the ice found the board sand
wiched brtween the upper layer of ire te
which it had beer bolted, and about four
inches Of solid ice which haa folsacd nn'
dcrneati, it, showing eonclnsively that ice
thickens on the under size and no. en the
top.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08

kCuriosity and excitement are the biggest
BART of the nature Of some women. Bllklns
SAYS: Now, thar's my wife. She'll get up
Out of a warm bed, pnt on my boots and
Ulster leave me cussin' an the baby with
collie, get lamp and light out at MD
night, run four miles follerin a steam en-
zine or the coal waggin, jist to see tha roof
hu,n ofI'n ole wood shed. Chief Levi toe
me that she's tie best runner he had,
,cause she wasalltrs fust one to the hire,
an would hold the nozzle ef he'd let her.
Fires is her Weakness an wen want her
TO 90 To church on Sunday she's a'ier3
fired out
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1877-03-08
a DEADLY 81 1.l4SGs

A writer in Californian newst.,',
ays: About half a milo over e mount&in
from Bartlett Springs taere IS what is
ssasea the Gas Spring Isis IL probably
The gretos- nre.ri.y ofstAe Mountains.
The water y bec9A. bsat bubblins and
saaaaanisg it boiled. and the greatest
sender lathe inevitable destruction Of life
produced by inhaling the gas. Nc live
thing is to be found within y circuit OF
ane hundred yards Of the spring. The
very birds, if they happen to fly over it,
drop dead. We experimental with lizard
on its destructive properties by holding it
asfew feet above the water; it stretched
dead in two minutes. 1t will kill human
being in twenty minutes. We stood over
it about Eve minutes, when dull, hsav!'
aching sensation crept over us, are our
eyes began to swim. The gas which es-
capes here is the raskest kind of carbonic'
herne its sure destruction of life: also
II fnuaash;.,s Of fnme 1nstantaneously.