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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
ENenInGs al Home.

1t is well for the women of the house
hold to remember that the pleasant
evenings at home are strong antidotes to
the practice of looking for enjoyment
abroad, and seeking for pleasure in by
and forbidden places, for relaxation and
recreation will be indulged in somehow
by most men, and happy are they who
find in The heme circle the diversion
they need. A lively game, an interesting
book read aloud. or in musical families,
a new song to be practiced, will make an
evening pass pleasantly.
A little forethought during the day,
little pulling of wires that need not
appear, will make the whole thing ap.
pear easy; and different ways and means
may be prepared for making the evening
pass pleasantly and time to be looked
forward to with pleasant anticipations.
We visited once large family where
it was the duty of each sister, in turn, to
provide the evenings occupation, and
there was a pleasant rivalry between
them as to whose evening should be the
most enjoyable. The brothers entered
fully into the simple home entertain
ments, and were as 10th to be obliged to
spend an evening away from home as
their sisters and parents were to have
them absent. Every one spoke of this
family as an uncOmmonly united one, for
each and every member showed such a
strong attachment for the home to which
each one contributed so much pleasure.
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Mercantile.

r. NJ. HAMMER, wholesale and retail
druggist, keeps constantly on hand oils,
paints, stationery and fancy articles. East
side of public square.
e. d. MOORE, wholesale and retail drug
cist, keeps full supply of smoking and chew
ng tobacco, oils, paints, soaps, etc. South
ide public SQUARE.
GEO. T. INGRAM& & CO., family grocers
Full stock of sugars, M eat, flour, teas coffee,
etc. South side public square.
T. p. CAMPBELL manufacturer of bots
and shoes, makes gents low-quartered
shoes a specially. Repairing neatly done.
Over Moore & Tate's.
w. II. CARUTH maehinist, opposite Boil
ivar foundry, dealer in side and harrows.
Repairing done.
r. l.. LIGHTFORT & Co, watchmak ers
and jewellers, Complete stock on hand. Re-
pairing neatly and cheaply done. Store at
ID. J. Wells old stand.
VARIETY SToRE-THOS. A. CLARK, Deal
ear in all kinds of Dry Goods, Groceries,
and Drugs. Highest price paid for all kinds
of Country Produce; also Hides and Furs.
South side Public Square. novl5-2Im
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
Fashion Notes.

Some Of the handsomest imported bon
nets are composed entirely of large dam
ask roses.
Some mutis have m0nOgrams and crests
worked upon them and others bouquets
OF flowers. DIufs are now perfumed like
satchels.
Grecan passementerie made of simple
mOhair. in small squares, is used all over
theouter garments and arranged in Greek
designs.
this season. Most garments will have
deep fur cuffs, collar and pockets with
out fur borders.
The small, embroidered kerchiefs of
crepe de chene are the choice to protect
the throat, instead of scarfs, and silk
handkerchiefs seen so long.
The Ulster rs not the ungainly belted
garment that first came under the name,
but more of polonaise, with plain skirt
and no trimming, relieved only with but
tons OF black pearl.
japanese fans, wide spread, are fastened
above the chamber doors or windows, to
give a touch of brilliant color to the
room. Those costing from three to ten
cents each are quite good enough. They
are secured with brass headed tacks.
In trimmings for rich wraps, the nov
city is the border of ostrich down, not as
formerly glued on the cloth, but woven
into it by new process kept secret by
the Parisian manufacturers, and which
renders the feather band very lasting.
Painted jewelry on silk is also another
Cf the seasons fancies, the earrings and
pendants being exquisitely decorated
with flower designs done by hand.
Dragon, moss, olive, lizard, myrtle,
seafoam, nile, salad, bottle, bronze and
hunters green are the various shades of
this one color, now the favOrite fashion.
The pea green and sea green, known to
the last generation, are never mentioned.
Real Roman beads are much used for
evening wear, and colored Roman beads
as well. Mother-of-pearl and natural
pearl, combined with Roman pearl beads,
form effective ear rings and pins, and
are quite in demand. The natural pearl
is cut into canoes.
To lessen the heat and pressure Of the
clothes as commonly worn, ladies are
making but one piece of the meriuo
garment worn next to the skin, as
women dealers in underwear inform their
customers. Thisis easily done by cutting
the belt aud a few inches OF the top OF
the drawers and sewing them directly to
the lower edge of the belt, the hem being
opened for the purpose, practice too
convenient and healthy not to be fol-
lowed at once, and indispensable to
secure the proper fit of the princesse
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
One War Of Carving a Turkey.

There is nothing young unmarried
man likes better than to go to dinner on
Christmas day at the house of a married
friend and to be asked to carve the tur>
key. He never carved a turkey in his
Ii c, and with an old maid on one side of
HIM, watching him closely, and on the
other side fair girl for whom he has a
tenderness. he feels en- mbarrassed when he
begins. First, he pushes the knife down
to one Of the thigh joints. He can't find
that Joint, and piUnges the knife around
in search of it until he makes mincemeat
out of the whole quarter of the fowl.
Then he sharpens his knife and tackles it
again. At last, while making a terrific
dig, he hits the joint suddenly, and the
leg flies into the maiden lady's Jap, while
her dress front is covered with a shower
of stUfiing. Then he goes for the ether
leg, and when the young lady tells him
he looks warm, the weather seems to
him suddenly to become 400 degrees
warmer. This leg he finally pulls loose
with his fingers. He lays it on the edge
of the plate, and while he is hacking at
the wing he gradually pushes the leg
over on the tableclOth, and when he
picks it up it slips from his hand into
the gravy dish and splashes the gravy
around for SIX square yards. just as he
has made up his mind that the turkey
has 10 JOINTS to his wings, the host asks
him il he thinks the war with Turkey
will soon be over. The girl next to him
laughs, and he says he will explain his
views upon the subject after dinner.
Then he mOps his brow with his hand
kerchief, and presses the turkey so hard
with the fork that it slides off the dish
and upsets goblet of water on the girl
next 10 him. Nearly frantic, he gouges
away again at the wings, gets them off in
a mutilated condition and digs into the
breast. Before he can cut any of, the
host asks him why he doesn't help out
the turkey. Bewildered, be puts both
legs on plate and hands them to the
maiden lady, and then helps the young
girl TO plate OF stuffing, and while tax
ing her plate in return, knocks over the
gravy dish. Then lie SITS down with the
calmness of despair, and fans him-elf with
! a napkin, while the servant girl clear
up aud takes the turkey to the other
end Of the table. He doesn't discuss the
eastern question that day. He goe,
right home after dinner, and spends the
! night tryiug 10 decide whether to com
| nit suicide or take lessons 10 carving -
! Ner Y0rk Mercury.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
Girls Attitude TO Young Hen.

Let me tell you that our sex were not
meant to be wooers. The custom preva-
lent among a certain class of young ladies
Of asking, directly or indirectly, the at
tention of young gentlemen, is not an
admirable custom. My son." said a
lady to me not long since, dis much
prejudiced against young girl, whom
admire, because she is constantly sending
him notes inviting him to be her escort
here and there and planning to have him
with her. A modest and dignifed
reserve, which is neither prudely nor
affectation, should distinguish your man
ner to gentlemen. Too great familiarity
and too evident pleasure in the society
of young men are errors into which no
delicate and pure-minded girl should
fall
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

In the express busin5 IS there are is, 900
men employed.
Seventy kinds of bricks are made by
Phlla1elphIa company.
The United States now use more postal
cards than any other nation.
OF sixty-nine words which make up the
Lords prayer, only FIVE are not Saxon,
In Austin, Nevada, has been set up
whipping-pOst for the punishment of wife,
beaters.
1t is said the duke of Norlolk's we'd
ding day cost him little short of 420, ,OO0--a
couple of months income.
The ordinance providing for the ar
of boys found on the street after o'cl,
m ., Is enforced in Virginia City, New.
\ New York court has decided that
wedding presents are the propozsy, not of the
husband and wife, but CT tLs ylfs alone.
Sixteen persons have nnysteriouslv
disappeared in New York during the pas;
nonth, and ali endeavors to trace them have
failed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
Cheaper BnggIng for Balfng Cotton.

The present tariff taxes the cotton
planter three quarters of cent on every
yard of jute bagging be uses, and this is
accomplished by a duty of six dollars
per ton on jute butts, the raw material
out of which jute bagging is made. By
ab9lishing this duty on JUICE butts, the
planter not only gains by cheapening the
cost of bagging to the extent mentioned.
but secures a better article by rendering
it less profitable to manufacture the
common grass or straw (1ax tow bag
ging, about the use of which there is 50
much complaint from dealers and spin
ners. 1t is, therefore, 10 the evident
advantage OF the whole cOtton-growing
section that any legislation on the subject
of import duties should provide for the
admission o! iute butts "free of duty"
and we trust that our representa- at
the national capital viii see the import
ance of this matter, aud use all their
infence to free the cotton states from
this tax. Friends of this measure have
no time TO lose; all interested should
sgitate the subject at once, as a con-
gressional committee is now at work in
Washington on the revision OF the tariff.
"ARTAXERKEs, my boy" said Mr..
Marrowiat, remember the dying words
a. Socrates-Never marry a woman that
kicks sideways.
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NJ antile.

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 iull stock. Goods sold at Memphis
prices.
w. w. HAWKINS, dealer in all kinds of
dry goods and genreal merchandise. New
and complete stock.
IRWIN & MAULDIN keeps constantly on
hand a complete assortment of dry goods,
groceries, etc.
COLLINS & CO., druggists, have a full
stock of drugs oils, paints lamps, glass, etc.
STINSON. WELLS & co, manufacturers
of glass monuments. Orders solicited. Work
Guaranteed. Office opposite depot
DIR. A. J. ADAMS, proprietor of the cele.
brated Asland Flour Mills, Orders solicited
and promptly filed.
DENNIS FLANNERY, proprietor of the
National Saloon. Full supply of fine liquors
Opposite Stonewall House.
I'M. PREWITT dealer in dry goods, gro,
caries, clothing, boots, shoes, hats bard ware
school books, etc. Large new stock. Cheap
for cash.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
Before the Mirror.
~ PATTI HAYRK

Where in her chamber by the southern sea,
Her I tapeTs light shoDe soft and silverly,
Fair planet IniTrOred in the main,
Fresh as a blossom bathed by april RAM
a maiden, Tobed for restful sleep Alright
stood in her musing sweetness, pure and white
As son-e shy spirit in a haunted place:
Her devil bright eyes ar family flushing face
Viewed in the glass their delicate beauty BEAM
Strange as 8 sh ,dowy dream within n dream.
With fingers lowering like white doves WINS,
Mid little, tender signs and murmuTiBgs-
joys scarce aItic ilate speech her eager hands
Doosed the light cOIf, the Iinglets golden bands
Till, by their luminous loveliRess embraced,
From lily-head to 1.-THE and lissOme waist,
Poured the free tresses like cascade S fall
Her image answered from the shimmeTing wall,
Answered and deepsned while the gracious ch arms
OF brow and cheek, barred breast and dimpling
arms,
To innocent worship stirred her happy heart:
Her lips-twin rosebud petals blown apart
QUiVered. half breathless; then, subdued ami
warm,
Around her perfect face her plant form,
a subtler air seemed gsthe ing, touched with & re
BY many a fervid thought, and swift desire,
With dreams of love- that, bee-like, came and went
To feed the hOnied core Of Gfe's content!
ClOser toward her miTrored self she pressed,
With large chiid-eyes, and gently painting breast,
Bowed flower when May-tine breeZes pass.
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ternal. The poor young musician, being
secretly in love with German princess
whom he saw when on a pilgrimage to
Vienna, recoils, and taking up his hat in
his bewilderment, supposiug it is his roll
of music, tries to stuff it into his pocket
and gets out Of the room. His want of
presence of mind leaves him an orphan.
His hopes are gone, his only chance of
patronage is Withdrawn, and if he can get
the position of o5ganist in some obscure
country town, and keep himself from
starving, it will be the future limit of his
ambition. .SqtuTdqu RevielC.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
Hotels and Saloons.

EUROPEAN HOTEL, \. F. YOpp propri-
etor. Meals at all hours. Main street, south
OF the square.
CITY SALOON, ]. p. Smith & Co., pros
Prietors. 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.
GEM SALOON, a. S. Osburn, proprietor.
Full stock of fine wines and other liquors.
South side public square,
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Mercantile.

]. X. P. LAMBETH has large and as
sorted stock of dry goods, etc, which he
offers very cheap for cash. Call and exam
inc his new arrival of merchandise.
s. c. WILSON, wholesale and retail drug
eist, dealer in drugs, paints, oils, soap and
fancy articles.
A. J. BARRUM, dealer drugs, oils,
paints, 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.
sional.

DRS. NEELY & ALEXANDER offers their
Professional services to the public. Calls
smptly attended TO.
DR.. J. ID. SASSER offers his professional
services TO the public. All orders left al his
office promptly answered.
DREW. NJ ALLEN may be found at his
Office at all hours to attend to professional
calls.
A. NJ. LAMBETH, Esq, Attorney at law
and Solicitor in Chancery.
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Postal Clerks Uniforms.

The postal clerks on the East Tennes-
&c, Virginia and Georgia railroad, and
CaptainJ J. w. Ault, of the Knoxville and
Ohio road, have all douned the new reg
ulstion uniforms required by the depart
mcnt, and they now present npbby
appearance. The suit of coat, pants and
vest, j. made of a nice article of navy
blue goods, ssck coat, trimmed with the
rezular department brass button. II
cost twenty eight dollars in ordinarily
fine goods. They also have a "Tegula5,
ton" army hat (Which they are a'iomsu nJ
beavv biue flannel ovcrshiTt or jacket,
s'od md wbite duck overalis with lapette
"uu a.1I;,,e, NJ, ever the breast. These
sA.e,ill -, ,;a- ~. reouired to wear atall times
,,f. When 1Hoa on auty, Tne whole outfit cost
,hlm M tbirty-two dollars.-Knorcille
Chronicle.
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HardGnal County Directory.
judicial.

CHANCERY COURT-ChancelIo L. J.
Livingston; Clerk and Master James Fen
tsess, jr.
CIRCUIT COUR Judge, T. J. FIippin
Clerk. }. NJ. Richardson; Attorney General,
j. J. Dupuy.
derson; Clerk, W. G. DOrion; Register, r..
f. Ammons; Sheriff, ". w. Farley; Depu.
ties, w. ]. Blair, w. c. Crawford, JEFF. Hud-
son; Surveyor, c. c. Mcdaniel; Standard
Keeper. +. \. Parran.
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T,rr man who was playing Belshszzar
"a, a western travelling troupe resigned
r. other night, on account of the pars-
,,,onv of the management. He remarked
tat he doubted whether lager and red
herriug composed the feast given by the
ancient Babylonian monarch, and he for
one didn't propose to sacrifice historical
accuracy 10 economy, any day.
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TOoN's STATION.
Mercantile.

ANDERSON 4 BRADFORD keep con-
stantly on hand a full assortment Of dry
goods groceries, etc. Great bargains to
be had for cash.
7. J. RUFFIN, dealer in family supplies,
hats, caps, boots and shoes. Libera terms
offered to buyers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
BOLIVAR.
Professional.

FRANCIS FENTRESS, Attorney at Law,
and Solicitor in Chancery. Office north side
public square.
DIR, j. ]. NEELY, Jr. Office on Market
street, in McNeai Block. Orders will receive
prompt attention.
DR. D. c. DAY. Office at the old Metho-
dist church
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SALISBURY.
NJ ercantiIe,

WRIGHT & burden have full stock
oi dry goods, groceries and general mer-
j. II. SANNONER has full and assorted
stock of drugs, paints, oils, fancy articles, etc.
M; M THURMAN; full and complete
stock of genuine merchandise, dry goods
and groceries.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
GRAND JUNCTION.
Professional.

DRS. n. H.. & T. f. PREWITT, physicians
and regular practitioners. Office over Capt.
Halls store.
w. A, TURNER, Attorney at Law, prac-
tees in Hardeman and adjoining counties.
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S 200 Per Annum.

them, like men - at the same instant
two other men fiouTished their caps and
shouted, "Hurrah for Texas ]" The
next instant there was flash and re-
port, and the three young men fell TO
the prairie grass
WITH \ DULETHUD DEAD.
Others were not so easily dispatched,
and the screams and cries of the men
after each volley were heard by DR..
ShacklefOrd in the tent of Col. Guerrler,
several hundred yards distant. Those
who were not entirely dispatched by the
carbines were dragged off and butchered
with knives in the most shocking manner.
Many attempted to escape, but only
twenty-seven succeeded. One of these
was William l.. Hunter, of the New
Orleans Grays, who was secTeted by
Mexican woman in Goliad, and his life
saved. Judge Hunter ever after resided
in Goliad, until some years ago one of
the best citizens of Texas, and took
pleasure in often recounting the terrible
scene of the slaughter of Fannin and his
men. Col. Fannin was
THE LAST To SUFFER.
He was tied in chair with his face to
his executioners, and before the fatal
shot took off his watch handed it to the
officer in command with therequest that
it be sent to his wife, then barred his
breast and asked the eXectiOners to shoot
him in the heart not in the head. At
the old Mission church $50 Texans suf-
fered death IN the bloody massacre on
Palm Sunday, March p, 1886, and the
blood of Texans, which the ruins of
" Old Goliad helps to cement and es-
tablish the deep hatred every old Texan
feels for the character of Gen. Santa
Anna, whose per6dy only equaled the
cruelty and capacity for butchery that
marked his career whenever he had the
DOWPr.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-01-03
M eFcantiIe.

IRWIN, MCFARLAND & co. have large
and well appointed saw mill. All orders
filed at short notice and upon reasonable
terms.
J. P. SMITH keeps constantly on hand
full line of desirable dry goods, groceries,
etc. Sells very cheap for cash. Call and
get bargains
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The Kind of Girl Pocahontas Was.

J. H Wheeler, the North Carolina
historian. Ia his account Of the early
times and men of Albermarle county,
quotes from S.ranchey's (secretary of
the colony OF Virginia in 1910 " HistO-
RE OF Travailo," the following notice Of
the Indian princess;
The young women 60 not shaCOwed
in their own company until they be
nigh II OF y returns OF the leaf old, nor
are they much ashamed thereof; and
PocahOntas. a weTi-featured but wanton
Yong girl, Powatan's daughter, some
times resoTting to our fort, nf the age of
10 or II years, got the boys forth with
her into tie marketPl-ce, and made them
wheel, falling or their hands, turning
their heels upwards. whom she would
.ollow and wheel 50 herself, naked AZ she
wss, ali the tort over. The great King
Pow8tau called this ycUag daughter OF
his, whom he loved - well, Pocahuntas
which may -igni;y iJ;le wanton.'
WHAT Is your chief consolation ir
life ?"asked n pastor Of p yonng lady IT
Lis bible class. The youu- ..dy blusheC
AID hesita'ed, but On Uha question being
repeated, the ingenious maiden said.
81 don't ike TO tell you his aHe, but
Z Lave no objection to tell ycu wiere h'
/ Iiyas."'
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tionaI.

WEST TENNESSEE MILITARY ACAD-
emy. Session commences Sept. %. Cons
mandant, Edward BeC;On, Grand Junction.
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GAINESVILLE.
Professional.

DIR. VIM. THOMPSON, physician, can be
found at all hours in his office to respond to
professional calls.
DIR. D. s. WEBB offers his professional
services to the public. Orders left at his
Office promptly attended to.
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Mercantile.

w. D. RAINEY, dealer in Dry Goods,
Groceries and General Merchandise. Goods
sold as low as can be bought in Tennessee
viii buy cotton and country produce. Call
and see him and you will buy.
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Hotels.

+. l.. PLEDGE, Proprietor of the Stone
wall House; excellent fare cheap rates.
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THE EXECUTION

took place on the open prairie, about 100
wards east of the church. Wien TIE
Texans marched out they wcTa arIanGt
in line and ordered tn sit down with then
backs to their guards, ard uron hear-i,t
the o. der young man named glil',
sprarg up and exclaimed, ID Iie ~ -,
ia kin rs. let Us die with cur faces 10
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THE MASSACRE.

Palm Sunday, March p, 1886, dawned
clear, bright and balmy the serene sun
l1oked down from the heavens, clear ~
the skies that bend above Italian plains !;
ard the almost holy serenity that Teigned
around made it beautiful day on which
to die. The lives of four physician
from the prisOners-Drs. Bernard, Field,
Hall and ShackelfoTd-weTe scared, n
they were wante d to attend the wound. q
in the battle of the G bleta. The balance
were marched out in separate dstach
n2ents and doomed to the massacre.