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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20
Death Bed of Gen. Forrest.

Another bright light has gone out One I,v one
the soldiers OF the Lost Cause cross the river.
And now the great Forrest has gone. Our picture
represents his last hour, when family and friends
are grouped soTrOwfully around the great Cavalry
ChieftRin's death bed This is magnif scent pir-
ture one that will touch every SOut bern heart and
should place in the paTor OF every Southern home
II Is I4xlS inches in size and finely finished A
sample copy will be sent by mail, postage prerad
receipt OF p cents three copies Tor 30 cents seven
copies for 81 in currency postage stamps. All
orders filled promptly. Agents wanted to sell this
and a variety Of other pictures No troublr te sell
them. Catalogue and particulars sent free Address
ROBERT BURROW,
Bristol, Tenn.
Also Canvasscrs wanted for the sale of our cheap
saeablc publications. Our books embrace truthful
personal narratives lives and trials Of criminals,
such mUTdcrcrs. asSaSsinS, PRISONERS, &c. IheSe
books mostly a sensational order commanding
rapid sale, and we continually getting out new
books Full Instructions explaining cNCcllcCt
system Of canyassing sent free. Address
ROBERT BURROW,
Bristol, Tenn.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20
( Charleston
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GOING EAST.

MEMPHIS, Nov. 24.-On and after Nov. D, 1877
the following passenger schedule Will be operated
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20

The Legislature is still discus s
ing the 80 cents proposition and
kindred resolutions. The rate of
interest seems to be the great
bone of contention.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20

\ correspondent OF the Valley Herald who
has been TO California, writes: q can find
better lands in Tennessee at lower figures,
aud where one can have a great deal more
I.!e1saa: lone, according to my notion"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20
NOTICE.

All persons indebted to the firm Of Moore & Tate
viii please make arrangements pay Us the amount
due Us, DESTROYS Of settling up our bust
neSs II you can't pay all, do the best YOU can and
settle the balance by note. Respectfully,
Oct Is. 1S74.-tf MOORE < TATE
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20

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expire.
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county, $40 o. District and State $50 co. inyari-
ably in advance.
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advertisements.
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ARNUSTEAD BROTHERS
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20

Gov. Vance of North Carolina attrib-
utes the destruction of the pure agri-
cultural fair system to horse racing;
thrce-card monte, and prize candy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20
Terms OF SUBSCRIPTION
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.

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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-12-20
ToOE's, Dec. L, 1877.
SUEERIFFS SALE.


BY virtue of a vcnditioni eyponas to me directed
from the Circuit Court Of Hardeman county Ten
nceer at the NovembeT tenn thereof, 1877 will sell
TO the highest bidder for cash, at the Court House
door, in the town Of Bolivar,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

Mr.. HAYES has one decided advan-
tage over the malcontents of his par
ty which they will do well to take
into serious consideration. He is
completely Independent ofthem. He
is not a candidate for a second term.
They can make his administration
uncomfortable and perhaps unsatis-
factory, but they can't drive him
from the place he holds, and he
does not want to hold it again. He
is therefore beyond the reach of that
powerful club which has been shaken
over the heads of so many Presidents
and compelled not a few of them to
bow to the commands of the party.
Fully one-half of the misgovernment
and political Generalization which
have cursed the country in later
years is traceable to the morbid
ambition of every President to be
his own successor. We are not with
out hope that at no very distant day
the people, who suffer most from these
evils, will recognize their source and
demand a constitutional amendment
which, by making second terms i'm
possible, will strike at the root of a
very dangerous disease.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
A Special to Sundays Cincinn

A Special to Sundays CINCINNATI
Commercial gives this rather glow
ing picture of the restitution in
Washington occasioned by the dis
charge of many of the Government
employees:
The announcement that the Sec
rotary of the Treasury has decided
that only n member of a family
can be employed in the Treasury
Department has created consterna-
ton in the ranks of the unfortunates.
The result will be that about thirty
persons will be dismissed. This win
add somewhat to the distress among
the poor of the city, many of whom
have been brought to affect destitu-
ton by losing their places in the
Government service. There is the
greatest restitution here of such
proportion and kind as is absolutely
appalling. Many of the families
who were drawing their maintenance
from the Government a few months
ago are now living upon charity, and
the kindly disposed have unparallel-
ed demands made upon them with nc
immediate prospect of relief, as the
objects of their charity are not able
to leave the city. The reductions in
great part were proper and just, SO
far as the interests of economy to the
Government are concerned, but they
have operated most disastrously up,
on individuals"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

Two recent elections in South
Carolina show how the people vote in
that State now that the power of the
carpet-baggers to cheat has come to
an end. Last fall fairfield county
gave Chamberlain a majority of 600
and chose two Republican Represen-
tatives. The Democrats now carry
the county by a majority of 1000.
An election to fill vacancy for State
Senator has been held in Chester
county, and has resulted in the cleo
ton of the Democratic candidate by
a majority of 1900. In 1874 Cham
berlain had amaiority of 1,200i in the
county, and last November his ma
jority was 400. 1t does not seem that
the policy of dividing the Democracy
of South Carolina is much of a sue
cess.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

Senator MoRToN's letter is virtu-
al confession that HAYES surrender
ed the Republican position on South
ern affairs because he UaS unable to
maintain it, and adopted the Demo
cratic policy because he Was forced
to do so by circumstances beyond his
control. Aside from this, the whole
letter is a carpet-bag TRADE against
the home governments of the SoIth.
Commenting on the letter the New
York Herald says:
"Mr. Morton's fierce and almost fe-
rocious denunciation ofthe Southern
whites, and his dolorous, and, we
must add, absurd prophecies that
unless there is q solid North the
Southern leaders will some day re-
peal the constitutional amendments,
extort pay for their slaves and pay
the rebel war debt, are really a con-
fession that Mr.. Morton sees his own
party going to pieces and seeks to
hold them together by a danger sig
nal" Ia
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14


The St. Louis Globe Democrat,
which has always been one of the
most earnest and consistent Repub-
lican papers in the country, takes
this honest and comprehensive, as
well as sensible, view of the political
situation:
"At the present rate of appoint
ment it is pretty certain that Ohio
will go Democratic at the next cleo
ton, in consequence of the absence
Of the leading Republicans VINO have
taken Consulships, gone abroad as
ENJOYS, or otherwise sacrificed them
selves for the good of their country.
But if the Presidents policy is right,
we don't see why the State might
net just as well go Democratic.
Such a result if not a Republican
victory, is, when properly looked at,
quite as valuable as some of the VIC
tories we have recently rejoiced over,
and a good Republican might COM
nit grayer blunders than installing
a Democratic victory for a triumph
of the Presidents policy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
There are about 1000 voting plac-

There are about 1000 voting plac-
es in Ohio. In years past the cost
of holding elections at these places
did not exceed $4,000. Under the
registration law, passed by the Re-
publican Legislature, we will have
about 2O,266 precincts! The law
only allows 300 votes in each subdi-
vision, and as there we're 659,266
votes cast at the last presidential
election, it will be observed that vot-
ing will be an expensive luxury to
voters. They will lose one day in
registering, one day in voting and
the cost of the registration and
printing will be enormous. The old
cost of election can be summed up as
follows:
1000 precincts, $40 5 10000
20, 266 precincts, $40 $202, $50
Additional cost of Eolding State
election, simply for judges and clerks,
$1S2,660!! Here is Republican
economy! In addition to the extra
cost for judges the cost of registra-
tion will amount to at least another
$100,000! The Republican Legisla-
ture thought there was no need OF
economy. Taxpayers were rich and
could stand additional taxation
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

Under the new Ohio registration
law it is made the duty of the town
council for towns and the trustees of
to .5nships to appoint this year, on
Monday the 18th day of September,
two suitable persons of opposite
politics for the registration of voters
in each election precinct in the coun-
ty, such registrars to be electors of
their proper election precincts and
shall hold their Office for one year.
Such Registrars shall be in attend
ance at their respective voting plac-
es for the registration of votes on
the third Friday next preceding ev-
cry general election in October from
s O'Clock a. m. until 9 o'clock p. N.
for the purpose of registration, for
two days, and shall personally su
pervise all registrations.-Yan Vert
Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

The General Assembly of the
Northern Presbyterian church, which
met in Chicago on the 18th ultimo,
was composed Of more than 600 del
egates elected by 172 Presbyteries.
The statistics at the meeting of the
Assembly of 1876 showed SO Synods,
172 Presbyteries, 705 candidates for
the ministry, 4,744 ministers, SOFT
churches, $685. 30 COMMITMENTS
The increase since the reunion of the
Old and New school bodies in 1870
was SOC ministers, 551 churches and
1854 members.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

The Greenbackers, representing
twenty-one counties in Ohio, held a
Convention in Columbus on We'd
nesday of last week.. passed some
very excellent resolutions and nom
mated STEPHEN JOHNSON, of Miami,
as their candidate for Governor, and
JOHN B. POWELL, of Columbiana, as
their candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. We really can't see what these
few men expect to accomplish in this
movement. If they r sincere and
honest in their greenback advocacy,
let them come over and vote and act
with the Democratic party, and they
will succeed in getting what they
ask.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

Gen. JOHN BEATTY, one of the
members of the Republican State
Central Committee of Ohio, has been
interviewed with this result:
edo I like the Presidents Southern
policy? No sir, I do not. I did not
like it last fall, when it was Mr. Til
denis policy, and 1 have no faith in
it now. We must either assume that
the President has made a cruel blum
der, or that the Republican party is
a fraud. Those holding office and
those expecting office do their best
tc sustain the President; half the
others are ashamed to confess that
they have been disappointed, deceiv-
ed and betrayed, while the other half
cannot talk on the subject without
swearing, and therefore prefer not to
talk at all. Ohio will not indorse
the Presidents Southern policy"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
AS the time for holding the extra

AS the time for holding the extra
session of Congress approaches, it
becomes more and more apparent
that the extreme radical Republican
leaders have determined to wage a
bitter and un~relenting war against
the President of their own creation.
II cannot be doubted or denied, that
the liberal and conservative policy of
administration shown by Mr.. HAYES
in withdrawing military support
from political carpet-baggers and
usurpers in South Carolina and Lou
isiana, is a bitter disappointment to
that clique of cunning and unscru-
pulous men whose business is poll
tics, whose stock in trade is section
al animosity and the humiliation of
the South, and whose prospective
gains are office and emolument. The
widest predictions have been made
as to the course these disafected
Radicals may take. 1t was even said
at one time that BLAINE was prepar-
ing a series of resolutions to lay be-
fore the coming Congress, looking to
| the submission of HAYES title to the
Presidency to a grand court of in
quiry composed of the Chief Justices
of the Supreme Courts Of each State
in the Union. When it is known
that considerably more than half OF
the Court thus composed would be
of those politically opposed to Mr.
HAYES in the late Presidential cleo,
ton, the Interior design of BLAINE
becomes at once apparent. 1t would
be neither more nor less than to cal
in question thu. Justice of the decis.
ion of the Electoral Commission, anG
give cover to Gov. TILDEN and his
friends should they show any willing
ness to try the title to the Presidency
under a writ of quo aodrranto. This
however, is denied by BLAINE and
his friends, but whatever may be the
plan of attack to be pursued, the ev
idence falls around us as thick a:
leaves in October, that a determined
stand will be made against Mr.. HAYE'
and his conservative Cabinet, agains
his compromising Southern policy
and his promised civil service reform
BLAINE, CAMERON and CHANDLER con
~stitute the trio of patriot-warrior'
who will defend with their lives thu
bridge of public plumber that lead
to place and power.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

The Democratic State Central
Committee has fixed the proportion
of representation for the coming
State Convention, to be one for each
county and one for every five hun
bred votes cast for Gov. TILDEN for
President, and one for every fraction
of two hundred and fifty and up
ward. They recommend that the
Delegates be chosen in such manner
as the Committees of the several
counties may determine. The call
for the Convention will be issued in
a few days. 1t will be the largest
one ever held in Ohio.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

Hon. J. K. TARBox, of Massachu-
sets, recently wrote to a friend in
Washington as follows:
"The Administration runs the
Democratic policy as cleverly as
though it had been born to it. Is
Mr.. Hayes a Democrat or am I a
Republican? Really l don't feel
quite sure of my political identity
Mr.. Tarbox can dismiss all doubt
from his mind. His political iden-
tity is all right; it's only the other
fellows who, when they look in their
political looking-glass are in doubt.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

New York San: Last january,
Louisiana's consolidated bonds were
selling as low as so. Within the
past fortnight they have reached 80.
These facts make their own common
tary. 1t is worthy of remembrance
that before the fate of the Packard
sham Government had been pro.
nounced, Republicans who protested
to regard it as legitimate were spec
ulating in these very securities upon
the theory of a rise in case Nichols
was recognized, and many Of them
have since made fortunes by the APP
probation of the bonds.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

HAYES civil service reform hum
buggery is most excellently touched
up in the following item from the N.
Y. Sun: Unfortunately for the Re-
public, Brevet Brig.-Gen. Comfy of
the Ohio State Journal, the recogniz-
ed home organ of the Fraudulent
President, one of the managers of his
nomination at Cincinnati is not in
the best ofhealth. The doctors think
the climate of Honolulu would help
his malady and as Ohio has thus far
been shamefully neglected in the pro-
gress of civil service reform, Mr..
Hayes has with great generosity Civ
en- Comfy the mission to the Hawaiian
Islands, which carries along with it
the snug salary of $4,000 per annum
in gold any nc work to do in return.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

The harmony of the Republican
party, as to the Southern policy of
Fraud Hayes was recently exhibited
in the Michigan Legislature. The
following resolution was introduced
president Hayes has been actuated,
in adopting his Southern policy, by
pure and patriotic motives and is de-
serving the hearty support of all who
place the good of the country before
the temporary success o ftheir party"
etc. The resolution failed to receive
votes enough to call it up for action,
Go on with the Radical show.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that a pc
IN tition was presented to the Board
of County Commissioners of Preble
county, Ohio, at their special session
of May 18th, 1877, asking for the i'm
provement of the Sonora free pike,
under an act passed March 18th, 1877,
with the amendments thereto, OH the
line of the road bed as now located.
Beginning at the Lewisburg and Cas-
tine pike, on the section line between
sections I and - in Harrison town
ship: thence east OH section line be-
tween sections 8 and II and sections
9 and l6, terminating at the Euphe-
mia and Ithica pike in West Sonora.
And the Viewers and Surveyor are
notified to meet at the place of begin
ming, above described, OIL the 10th
day of June, 1877.
By order of the Board.
SAM'L OLDFATHER, Aud.
naval
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

The Gin. Gazette is the first of the
leading Republican papers to go
back upon the colored voters. The
editor says ''the great mistake of his
party was the comforting of the elect
i've franchise upon the ignorant ne
groes; that they were the aus of
all our trouble, and the making of
the ignorant class the governing class
was the surrender of the States TO
degradation and spoliation."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

The Cleveland Plain Dealer Says
that when the Republicans were car
rying Ohio by from 10000 to $4,000
majority they never thought of a
registry law. Now that the tide has
turned against them, they have es-
tablished an expensive registration
law, hoping by making good men
lose two days, one in registering and
the other in voting, to prevent them
from registering, thus save the State.
Their trick will not serve them, for
every Democrat is determined to vote
against the party of fraud and trick
ary
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14
He TOOK a PHILADELPHIA Pa
PER!

Inc following good hit on persons
who prefer taking some large city
paper instead of their own home
journal, is taken from the Wayne
County Democrat, and is so applica-
bic in this "neck of woods" that we
copy it for the benefit of this class:
A short time ago, we had occas-
ion to stop at a small hotel in a small
town in an adjoining county. We
asked the landlord whether he had a
county paper in the house.
"No." he replied. "The County
paper is of no account. 1t has moth
ing in it but advertisements. Here
is a Philadelphia paper"
1.-The Philadelphia paper is not the
paper We want to see," we answered.
ats a first-rate paper-full of read
ing NATTER" he answered us.
"That may be, but we want to see
a county paper"
We then asked several questions
of this gentleman who drew his in
telligence from a Philadelphia paper,
and the questions and answers were
about as follows:
"What do you think ofthe propos-
ed amendments to the Judiciary ar
ticle of the Constitution of Ohio to
be voted on this fall?"
Don't know. Is there one to be
voted onF'
ayes. Don't your Philadelphia pa
per discuss it,"
"No. 1t has not said anything a.
bout it yet"
"What satisfaction does the legis-
lation of the late Legislature give in
your neighborhoodF"
"Well, there is nothing said about
it."
"Has your Philadelphia paper not
referred to it?"
"No. 1t has said nothing about
it."
"Who are the people talking about
for Governor around here?"
"There is nothing said"
aDoes your Philadelphia paper not
discuss the matterT"
"No. 1t has not said a word on
the subject"
"What cases were disposed Of at
the late session of the Court of Com
mon Pleas?'
"The fact is I do not know"
"Your Philadelphia paper has not
yet printed a report, has it"
"No. 1t never does"
"Who are the leading business
men at your county seat?"
don't know them all"
"They do not advertise in your
Philadelphia paper, do they?"
"No. There are no advertisements
to speak of in it."
"Well, you had Il boiler explosion
in the northern part of your county
a few days ago, had you not?'
eyes, | heard there was"
"What are the particulars about
it?'
Don't just know.
care the particulars not in your
Philadelphia paperF'
"No. Nothing about it"
@Are they not in your county pa,
per?"
81 suppose So" .
"Well, what is your Philadelphia
paper good for, then, if it does not
give YOU information as to what is
occurring in your own county and
LfStateY"
"Oh, it's full of reading matter"
"Yes, and so is the Bible. Better
buy one, read it and say the money
that you spend for the Philadelphia
paper"
At dinner, the landlord was pro
fuse in his apologies that his dinner
was not just as good as it should be
We remarked that while he did moi
have the variety to be found at the
! Girard or Continental hotels in Phil
adelphia, it nevertheless was salts
factory.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

If a man wants to go straight to
heaven nowadays, all he has to do
is to commit a horrible murder. The
gallows seems to be a sure passport
to that land of the "pure and holy"
for all its blood-stained victims. How
ridiculous.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

Here is q paper in Pennsylvania
that is not pacifed-the Pottstown
Republican. 1t announces that
Hayes surrender is complete, and
adds: =
"The great Republican party, so
far as it can be affected by the weak
ness, faithlessness and cowardice of
one man and his senile advisers has
been Inundated to the dust"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

A SUBSCRIBER to the Eaton Demo-
crat, who lives at Gratis, Preble
County, was down here on Monday
and called to see US. After the usu-
al common place remarks he asked
us if we knew Gould. We answered
in the affirmative. "Well," said the
old man, with a comical look, "Ijust
called to ask you to give him hell on
the Wabash."-GermantoWn Press.
Well take ours straight now, Bro.
HARK.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

The latest eastern war news is an
account ola battle between the Turks
and the Montenegrins, -the former
losing over 1000, the latter only a.
bout 700. 1t looks as if the Turks
will have to go under in this con-
test, unless they get more assistance.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-06-14

Postmaster General KEY has made
a visit to the South and returned,
and gives it as his opinion that the
Southern Democrats have not much
ly swayed from their party by Mr..
HAYES coquetting with them. Very
likely,