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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-20
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.


Florida wants a new state constitu-
ton.
The moonshiners at New Orleans run
vinegar factories,
The Tennessee wheat crop is proving
better than was hoped.
Wheat harvest began in Texas lust
three weeks earlier than usual.
A father in Bremond, Tex, has been
fined 800 for beating his daughter.
Memphis rejoices that her customhouse
will be built of Tennessee MAJ BILE after all.
The sugar crop in Louisiana is re-
ported fifteen per cent. better than last year.
The state auditor of Virginia reports
satisfactory returns from the Moffett register
The New Orleans Times favors the
idea of national press convention at Louis
vile,
Recruiting for the army ofthe Mexican
revolutionists is going on in San Antonio,
Texas.
A. McGehee, assistant postmaster at
Scale, Ala, has been arrested for rifIing
money letters.
It is estimated that North Carolina has
spent $I0,000,000 in fencing in 50 2,OOO,OO
worth OF stock.
EI have no patent arrangement for
saving souls. ."-[Rev. j. B. Hawthorne, of
montgomery Ala.
Lemons. sixteen inches in diameter.
grow abundantly in the mild neighborhood
of Galveston, Texas.
Ladies of Tsrrant county, Texas, have
passed resolutions, and sent them to Gov.
Colquitt, asking that Mrs. Sothern be par
doned.
A feature of Atlanta'sr celebration of
the Fourth of July win be a trotting race
between Kemble Jackson and Storm, two
noted Georgia flyers.
Dallas (Texas) Herald: Judge Han
cock is of the opinion that the next census
will show population of three million in
Texas. This would place the state third in
population in the United States.
The Waco (Texas) banks have com
menced disco1nting Mexican silver as fol-
lows; Dollars are taken at ninety cents
halves at forty cents. and quarters at twenty
cents. This rate has been adopted in most
Texas cities.
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Inc Alamo, at san Antonio, IS now a
rum-hole.
Omaha has vigilance committee to
frighten tramps with.
Over 1, 800 criminals are arrested in
New York each week.
"A Prussian officer was lately lost in
the crater OF Vesuvius.
Ohio has voted, by large majority,
against taxing church property.
The Cincinnati authorities are trying
to close the theatres of that city on Sundays.
Boston has exiIed fruit, newspaper and
merchandise stands from the public streets.
The New York paupers and the in
mates of the hospitals get Oleomargarine
instead Of butter.
In the Indian Territory the style of
mourning has been changed from black to
spOtless white.
Joseph H. Chadwick, of Boston, now
a bankrupt, has, first and last, given over
100000 to charities. r
Colorado is the only state in the union
which does not promise an unusually heavy
harvest.
Can cash for railroad damages come
under the catalogue of musical terms, be-
cause it is harm money
The Dallas Herald makes an item of
the fact that 1000 murderers are running
around loose in Texas. :
An otter, when caught in trap, cries
so much like child, thatit Sometimes in~
duces trappers to release It.
San Francisco is to have floating sea
bathing house. The center of the boat will
be fitted up as a hotel.
The Philadelphia Press prints a calcu-
lation to show that the electric light is twen-
ty-one times cheaper than gas. -
A Cincinnati firm advertises: Visi-
tors " elcomed and shown through the ware.
rooms without being importuned to buy
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CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.

dOUSEs
In the house on the 11th, the consid-
Grafton of the appropriation bill occupied
their attention, when Mr.. Young offered an
building in Memphis be Constructed out of
Tennessee marble, provided 1t shall cost no
more than now provided by law. Adopted.
In the house on the 18th inst, Mr..
Stephens moved to increase the appropria-
ton for the signal service from 1896, 600 to
S350,OC0. Adopted, 100 to 49.-....Mr. Con-
ger moved to strike out the items of $50, 900
for New York, and $4,000 for Pennsylvania
for expenses of the troops for the use of the
United States army in the late insurreetion.
Agreed to-98 TO so.
In the house on the 18Th inst, it was
determined to go into committee of. the
whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill,
and closing all further debate ON the bill
and amendments; concurred with senate on
increase OF signal service appropriation. and
now concurred in striking out refunding to
the state of Pennsylvania S29 900 for ieX>
penses incurred in raising volunteers during
the late insurrection was defeated-yeas b7,
nays 103. The paragraph stands as origin
ally reported. At night the civil sundry
bill passed and the house adjourned
In the house on the 14th the con-
ference committee on the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill re-
ported failure to agree. The point g6 diff
terence is tue claim OF the senate to NJ the
compensation of its own employees, the rates
being considerably higher than those of the
house. On motion of Mr.. Eden, the senate
amendments to the bill making an appropri-
alton for the payment of the awards of the
southern claims commission were concurred
in. 1.-THE Judiciary committee made a re-
port on the presidential title, with accom-
| panying resolution Resolved, That the two
| houses of the forty-fourth congress having
counted the votes cast for tn president and
| vice president of the United States, and hav.
| ing declared Rutherford B. Hayes and wills
| liam A. Wheeler duly elected president and
wee president, there Is no power in any sub
| sequent congress to reverse that deeisrafien,
nor can any such power be exercised by the
! courts OF the United States or any other tri-
| bunal that congress can create under the
/ constitution. The resolution was adopted
| yeas 2S4, nays "A.
I In the house on the 10th, Mr..
| Hewitt IN. " presented the report of the
! conference committee on the array appropri-
alton bill He explained the repert, which
was agreed to-yeas 142, nays 55-......Fhe
| speaker laid before the house message from
! the president transmitting communication
! from the secretary of state enclosing the
/ documents called for by the resolution of the
| Potter investigating committee. Ordered
| printed and referred to that COMMITTEE.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-20
FOREIGN NEWS IlEMS.

A professor of Bologna claims to have
invented chemically prepared bank note
paper which cannot possibly be counter
feited.
Mrs. Hannah King cowhided a Natick
CMass.) policeman who had sIandered her
and declared that there were three more
names on her revenge list.
Russian officers lost so heavily in the
gambling saloons of ConstantinopIe that the
Grand Duke Nicholas complained to the
sui an and the saloons were closed.
India is becoming very serious com
petitor with the United States in the wheat
market. The value of wheat she exported
IN 1879 was f14 .14l in 1877, f223, ,473, and
in 1873, 65OO.733.
During 1867 theye were manufactured
in the United States ass, ,5eS tons of iron
rails and 2, $50 tons of Bessemer steel rails
total, 462, 1O8. From that time to the end of
1877 the production Of steel rails steadily
increased, so that at the end Of the latter
year, of the 764, zoe tons rolled in this couns
try, 432, ,169 tons were OF Bessenaer steel, to
332, ,450 of iron.
The Russian government IS understood
to have concluded a contract with the Rus
sian national provision company for the
Immediate supply Of 9,500,000 portions ii
preserved food, and for the supply Of ,500,-
600 annually during the succeeding seven
years. The present supply viii consist Of
5,225,OOO portions Of preserved meat and
4,273 portions OF extract Of meat.
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Rather Fine.

Experiments made by Professor Thorn
son show to what degree matter NAV be
divided, and still be sensible to the eve.
Thus, q grain of nitrate of lead; dissolved
in 500, 600 grains of water, and q current
of sulphuretted hydrogen passed through
the solution, the whole liquid be ONES
sensibly discolored. Now, a grain of
water may be regarded as being about
equal TO drop of that liquid, and drop
may be easily spread out so as to cover
square inch of surface. But under an
ordinary microscope, the millionth of a
square inch may be distinguished by the
eye, the water, therefore, could be di-
vided into 100000, 600, 900 parts But
the lead in a grain of nitrate of lead
weighs 0,62 grain, and an atom of lead
accordingly cannot weigh more than
1915, ,O00, ,OO0, ,000th of a grain; while
the atom OF sulphur, which In combina-
tion with the lead rendered it visible,
could not weigh more than I-2, Ole, 600. :
00,000-that is, the two. .biIlionth part
Of q grain.
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Mercantile.

J, G. KAESTLE, Grand Junction, boot
and shoe maker. Work done in the latest
style and a fit guaranteed.
G. L. PEELER, Grand Junction, watch
maker and jeweler. Repairing and cleaning
done on short notice and at cheap rates.
Work guaranteed.
WIN, NICK. HALL, Drugs and groceries.
New and full stock. Goods sold at Memphis
prices
w. w. HAWKINS, dealer IN all kinds of
dry goods and genreal merchandise. New
and complete stock,
IRWIN 4 MAULDIN keeps constantly on
hand complete assortment of dry goods,
groceries, etc,
AESSRS. STINSON d CO., manufacturers
of glass monuments, Orders solicited, Work
Guaranteed. Office opposite depot.
DENNIS FLANNERY, proprietor of the
National Saloon. Full supply of fine liquors.
Opposite Stonewall House.
JIM. PREWITT, dealer in dry goods, gre
ceries, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, hardware,
school books, etc. Large new stock. Cheap
for cash.
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Mercantile.

r NJ. HAMMER, wholesale and retail
druggist, keeps constantly on hand oils,
paints. stationery and fancy articles. South
side of public square.
Z. D. MOORE, wholesale and retail drug
gist, keeps full supply of smoking and chew
ing tobacco, oils, paints, soaps, etc. West
side public square.
GEO. T. INGRAM & CO., family grocers,
Full stock of sugars, meat, -four, teas, coffee,
etc. West side public square.
T. p. CAMPBELL manufacturer of bots
and shoes, makes gents low-quartered
shoes specially. Repairing neatly done.
Over Moore & Tate's.
w. II. CARUTH, machinist, opposite Boil
ivar foundry, dealer in side and v harrows
Repairing done.
r. L. LIGHTFORT & CO., watchmakers
and jewellers, Complete stock on hand. Re-
pairing neatly and oheaply done. Store in
McNeaPs Block.
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SALISBURY.
Mercantile.

WRIGHT & burden have full stock
of dry goods, groceries and general mer-
chandise.
III sANNONER has a full and assorted
stock of drugs, paints, oils fancy articles, etc.
rR. S. CLARK & BRO, cash dealers in dry
goods and groceries.
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uNDER pHE vlOLErs.
BY OLIVER wENDE1L HOLMES.

Her hands are cold her face is white
No more her pulses come and go;
Her eyes are shut to life and light
Fold the white Yestures. snow on snow.
And lay her where the violets blow.
But not beneath craven stone.
To plead for tears with alien eyes;
A slender cross Of wood alone
Snail say that here maiden lies,
In peace beneath the peaceful skies.
And gray old trees of hugest limb
shall wheel their eircling shadows round
Te make the seoTching sunlight dim.
That drinks the grsenness from the grOuu
And drop their dead leaves on her mound
When Ger their coughs the squirrels run,
and through their leaves the robins call,
And, upen1ng in the autumn sun
The scOrns and the chestnUts fall,
Doubt not that she viii need them all.
To her the morning choir shall sing
Its mathis from the branches high,
And every minstrel voice of spring
That thrills beneath the April sky
Shall greet her With its earliest cry.
When, turning round their dial track
Eastward the lengthening shadows pass
Her little mOurners, clad in black,
The cr1ckets, sliding through the grass,
Shall pipe for her evening mass.
at last the rOotlets from the trees
Shall find the prison where she lies.
And bear the buried dust they seize
In leaves and blossoms to the skies
So may the soul that Warme d it riseI
II any. born Of kindlier blood,
Should ask, What maiden lies beloW2
Say only this: A tender bud
That tried to blossom in the snow
Lies WIthered where the ViOlet5 blow.
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Mercantile.

k. P. LAMBETH has large and as
sorte stock of dry goods, etc, which he
offers very cheap for cash. Gall and exam
inc his new arrival of merchandise.
S. c. WILSON, wholesale and retail drug
gist, dealer in drugs, paints, oils, soap and
fancy articles.
A. J. BARRUM. dealer in drugs, oils,
aints, glass and fancy art cles, wholesale
and retail.
F. G.. BARTLIFF, wholesale and retail
dealer in fine wines, liquors, groceries, etc.
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MIDDLETON.
Professional.

DRS. NEELY & ALEXANDER offers their
professional services to the public. Calls
promptly attended to.
DIR. ]. d. SASSER offers his professional
services to the public. All orders left at his
Office promptly answered.
A. NJ. LAMBETH, Esq, Attorney at law
and Solicitor in Chancery.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-06-20

st. Louis and New Orleans packet com rsIf. '.
under authority granted Ia 1871. for trans
porting sugar IN hogsheads and certain other
heavy merchandise on the deck Of their ves-
sells, instead of being placed in the hold and
sealed up, packages, however, to be corded
and sealed.
Prof. Baird is about winding up his
shipments of young shad for stocking the
various states. He has supplied Virginia,
Maryland, North. Carolina, Kentucky, Ten
nessee ana all the gulf states but, large as
this addition is 10 the food supply, be says
that theresults are Insignificant compared to
what he proposes to accomplish by stocking
the cod and mackerel fisheries. One shad
will give an average of twenty thousand
eggs, but the cod gives a million each. He
expects to add two hundred and fifty mil
lions of Goldfish to the present supply, and
to extend it to the rive1s and sea fisheries as
far south as the Virginia coast, and to make
the United States quite independent of the
British provinces. For this purpose he
needs light-draught steamer, drawing FIVE
feet only, so as to carry his Matching appae
ratus up the streams. This work will begin
in the fall months and will be extended in
time to include the herring and mackerel
fisheries.
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Hotels and Saloons.

CITY SALOON, ]. P. Smith 4 Co., pros
PnetOrs. Best liquors kept constantly on
hand. South side public square,
TEMPEST SALOON, P. W. Austin, pro-
prietor. Has on hand pure liquors, fine
cigars. South side public square.
GEN SALOON, A. S, Osburn, proprietor
Full stock of fine wines and other liquors
South side public square.
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PERSONALITIES.

Mr.. Pickens, of Chattanooga, has built
a steam road wagon, which win soon be tested
in public.
Two of Brigham Young's sons have
entered West Point, and third is applying
for admission.
George Cruikshank's pension of S475
year, on the English civil list, will be con-
tinued to his widow.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Switzerland is suffering greatly from
business depression.
The secretary of the treasury has ex-
tended to Memphis and to the st. Louis pack,
ct company the privilege now held by the
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TOON'S STATION.
Mercantile.

ANDERSON & BRADFORD keep con-
stantly on hand a full assortment of dry
goods groceries, etc. Great bargains to
be had for cash.
T. j. RUFFIN, dealer in family supplies
hats, caps, boots and shoes. Liberia terms
offered 20 buyers.
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BOLIVAR.
Professional.

FRANCIS FENTRESS, Attorney at Law,
and Solicitor in Chancery. Office north side
public square.
DR., ]. J. NEELY, Jr. Office on Market
street, in McNeai Block. Orders will receive
prompt attention.
DIR D. C. DAY. Office at his residence,
near Black Hotel.
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Many people find their only happiness
in felcing themselves to be unhappy.
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PLEDGE & EVANS,
UNDERWRITERS,
GRAND JUNCTION..

Keep on hand and made to order all kinds
of ready-made cofins' Caskets furnished at
short notice.
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CIRCUIT COUB Judge, T. ]. Flippin
Clerk, J. NJ. Richardson; Attorney General,
j. j. Dupuy.
COUNTY COURT. = Chairman, A. H.
Rose; Clerk, w. G. Dorion: Register, r.
+. Ammons; Sheriff, w. w. Farley; Depu.
son; Surveyor, c. c. Mcdaniel; Standard
Keeper. I. A. Parran.
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HaTdGmaI County Directory.
judicial.

CHANCERY COURT.-Chancello L. ].
Livingston Clerk and Master, James Fem
liz
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J. 2 SMITH keeps constantly on hand a
tul line Of desirable dry goods, groceries.
etc.. Sells very cheap for cash. Cali and
get bargains.
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PocoHoNrAs.
Mercantile.

IRWIN, MCFARLAND & co. have large
and well appointed saw mill. All orders
hlled at short notice and upon reasonable
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Her hands are cold her lace Is white
No more her pulses come and go;
Her eyes are shut to life and light
Fold the white Yestures, snow on snow.
And lay her where the violets blow.
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Educa tionaI.
Hotels.

F. L. PLEDGE, Proprietor Of the Stone
wall House; excellent fare cheap rates.
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The house then resumed consideration of the
internal revenue bill, when Mr.. Hewitt IN.
" offered an amendment for the establish
ment of a bonded warehouse for the export
of tobacco. Adopted. -. Ar. Atkins, from
the conference committee on the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill,
reported disagreement, and stated that the
rock upon which they had split had been in
regard to the pay of the senate employees,
and on this point the house conferees were
directed to yield-yeas IL, nays 81. The
report of the conference committee was then
adopted, and the speaker appointed the
same conference Committee.
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GRAND JUNCTION.

w, A. TURNER, Attorney at Law, prac-
tiees in Hardeman and adjoining counties.
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PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Alamo, at San Antonio, is now a
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-25

STINeY MEM despise stingy man.
/ don't see how it is possible for man
to die worth fifty millions of dollars. or
ten millions of dollars, in a city full of
want, when he meets almost every day
the withered hand of beggary, and the
white lips of famine. How a man can
Withstand all that and hold in the clutch
of his hand twenty or thirty millions of
dollars, is past my comprehension /
do not see how he can do it. | should
not think he could do it any more than
he could keep a pile of lnmber when
hundreds and thousands were drowning
in the sea- Do you know have known
men who would trust their wives with
their hearts and their honor, but not
with their pocketbooks-not with a dol
lar. When see man of that kind. I
think he knows which is most valuable.
Think of making your wife a beegar.
Think of her asking you every day for a
dollar, or two dollars, or TO humbly beg
for fifty cents. what did Won do with
that dollar gave you ~ Think ofhav-
ing wife that Is afraid of youi What
kind Of children do you expect to have
with beggar and coward for their
mother?
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The BUSINESS FAILURES.

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-The authentic
figures of actual failures all over the
United States during the third quarter
of the year have been awaited with more
interest than usual, owing to the large
number who sought to avail themselves
of the national bankrupt law prior to ex-
piration on September 1st. Statistics for
the quarter and for the first nine months
of the year are now furnished by the
mercantile agency of Dun, Barlow &
Bro, as follows: Number of failures for
the third quarter of 1873 were 2,853, as
compared with 1915 for the same quar-
ter last year. The liabilities for the last
quarter were $50, 900, 600, as compared
with $42,0O0,O 600 for the same period OF
1877. For the first nine months of 1878
the failures numbered S76S, as compared
with 6,565 for the same period in 1877.
The liabilities for the first nine months
of 1873 were $197, O0O,0 900, against SAL
OO0, O0Q for the nine months of 1877. 1t
is admitted that the petitions in bank
ruptcy filed in the period named cOnsid-
erably exceeded the figures given above,
but it must be understood that a large
number of applicants for relief were eth.
er those whose failures had been pre-,
viously reported, or those who had gone
out of business, were not engaged in mer-
camille pursuits, and hence not included
in mercantile failures. The above fig
ures refer to failures only among those
who were in active business and sus-
pended payment during the period un
der review
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Widow Van Cot, the great revival
preacher, was interviewed the other day
by a reporter for the Times of Oaklrnd,
Cal. Speaking Of the rewards of her la
Dor, she said:
Il visit a church by invitation of the
minister and official board When in
vited they ask: What are your terms p
and my invariable reply is: "A hearty
cooperation of the church and the sal
walton of immortal souls After have
accomplished my work, on the last Sat.
urday, without word being said to me,
the minister obtains, on his own respon-
sibility, testimonial for me. That tes-
timonial will vary. If il is q large and
wealthy church, it viii average about
$75 week; but if it is a small and
poor one, it will be from 800 to $125 a
week
Widow Van Cot is more frank than
some other revival preachers are in ex-
planning how she receives her pay, and
it must be admitted that from $75 TO
1925 a week is pretty fair wages. AT
that rate the eloquent widow ought to
be able to Lay mp q snug sum against old
age.