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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-14
BE JUST BEFORE GENEROUS.

The local editor of the Appeal,
March the 18th, says it is estimated
that the Office of Attorney General of
Memphis, pays $4,000 per annnm,
and that of clerk of the court pays the
same amount. Three-fourths of these
princely salaries should be diverted
from the pockets of these Off cials and
be placed in the hands of the State
Treasurer to help pay interest on the
public debt. Justice to State creditor
demands Just such wholesome rctrench-
ment, and the taxpayer, outraged by
just such costly office-holding, impera-
lively commands halt in this waste
full expenditure of public money. The
people are weary of contributing their
substance TO the enrichment of PAM
pered few, especially when the credit
of the State requires the most rigid
economy in every branch of the public
service, so that Reputation may never
have an excuse to despoil the State Of
her honor. In flush times we might
allow big salaries, but now in our ex
tremity it i disereditable to ourselves
and dishonesty to our creditors to
wink at sueL an enormous and I'M
necessary drain upon the State Treas
INV
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A Delicate Situation.

A Richmond (Va.) telegram mar
rates the following adventure: In a
palatial brown-stone front on Church
Hill, fashionable locality, lives Mr..
G.. B. n. Smith, and with him lives
his wife and two charming daughters,
the latter respectively seventeen and
eighteen. Last night at late hour
Mrs. Smith went into the bedchamber
of the two girls to see that they were
resting well. To her horror she be-
held in bed, lying fast asleep between
the maids, stranger red faced
man. She tripped hurriedly back to
her husbands room, and whispered
the awful scene. He jumped up and
ran to his daughters room where he
saw that his wife's statement was
true. He rushed out for a policeman.
Officer Talman happened to be passing
at the time. The two men ran into
the house and made for the bedcham-
Der. All this time the strange man
and the two girls were asleep. The
officer iostled the villain out of bed
and the girls were aroused. First one
SClGdLIlSu Jul anu tIlCl lIlG OIlCI, anu
they finally all shrieked out together,
and the girls tainted. The strange
man was half tight and seemed much
embarrassed. The policeman made
him dress, and marched him to the
station-house. This morning the pris-
oner was before the police justice, and
explained he was passing the fine
house described above and took it to
be a clearinghouse. He was halt
drunk and wanted a warm place in
which to sleep. He found the door
unfastened and got in the ladies room.
He said the two parties in bed he
thought to be men. He turned out
the gas, undressed and crawled in.
He gave his name as Charles Kelley,
from Ohio. The court gave him six
months in jail.
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1t DID u.

That snug-looking and pretty faced ht1le
thing which says II an receivable for ell
State Ju>s, is the silent but deadly seuttls-
fish that has stranded the Old Dominion on
the lee-shore of bankruptcy. Virginia
might have outlived the storm of pressing
financial embarrassment, but the stern de-
votiOn and brave sclf-denial of that heroic
people, which never flinched amid the car
mage and danger OF hundred hercely fought
battles, are now the sport and plaything of
that seemingly Insignificant, but despOtic
chAttel, the unredeemed interest-cOupon.
She should never have placed herself in the
power of that coupon slavery. In doing
that she sold her birthright of indePend-
encs to fint-hcarted money-chaneers, and
became the prey OF avaricious bondholdsra.
Let Tennessee take warning. In the Sot-
element of her Indebtedness never let her
interest-coupons be made receivable for
taxcs. Such a conrse would be her ire
tIieFsble ruin. BE careful
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-14

One of the editors of the Appeal, e. sPs-
cial correspondent, writes that Journal .
letter from Washington dated March Gth,
in which, speaking of the Texas Pacific
bill, says:
Memphis, left out as il Is, and the liae
confined TO the thirty second parallel Of
north latitude rs il is, Vicksburg being thus
designated as the eastern terminus, notWith-
standing the provision for commissioners,
the merchants, business men and property
owners OF eur city have no option but to
oppose il in justice to their own interests.
That Governor Brown ii he could, would
favor Memphis, / have no doubt But he
is powCrless, and must exert himself 20 Sc
cure whatever the needs and policy of the
Texas and Pacific railroad company may
dictate. As one of the vice-presidents of
that road, be cannot do any less. IL
working where his interests are, and the
people of Memphis must do the same. They
must oppose this bill of Mr.. House, and
only eOHntenauce one that will dG3uitely
name Memphis as the eastern terminus OF n
Pacific road to the Mississippi river. The
Sapp bill docs this, and is the only bill 60
far reported by committee that does.
"Hc is working where his interests are,
and the people of Memphis must do the
sarre." This gives plain daylight insight
into the policy pursued by Governor Brown
in his Jealous advocacy OF the Texas Pacific
bill. That railroad corporation would cajole
and pet the South merely to get its support,
not caring n fig for It's real prosperity.
Governor Brown ia for the road, and not
the south We ecademn the policy OF sur
rendering everything into the hands of such
a great corporation. Such railroads have
been AID aye nov lcgalized commercial
highwaymen.
we need public Improvements, but not
those that yili in the fltnre inpeEil the
Interests of the country thrOHgh which
,bey 20. we sincerely hope that the Mem
,,bis people will go TO work and have the
sapp bill passed, as it will be the makiHg q
ony section, But, ~hatever corporation Is
.nnyoved by Congress, we trust Viii be ned
.Iaru to speeilI requirements, 40 that 1t
m not bceoHss ia few years IN OpPreSsor
.,,be, than friend OF the South. we
,he golj-bags Of Tom Scott are more
n,,,,rtiyc 10 sonac persons than ias 0sSdF 81
lhciy ycltidn.
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facts and figures before this question is
settled, that the State can easily meet
the interest on fifty cent compromise
without material increase of taxation.
Property-owners are willing to bear a
just proportion of taxation but in the
namc of common sense do not con-
vert property into a beast of burden
simply because it has halter around
its neck in the shape of registry
record, and hence is easy Of capture
and confscation. Let other equally
responsible and equally concerned in
terests in the State be made to become
a co-equal and joint support in up
holding the good name and fair fame
of the Commonwealth. The true
principle involved in the preservation
of State credit demands that the legis-
lative, executive and judicial depart
ments of the Government should be
as economically administered as the
people are forced 60 do in their own
private affairs in order to save their
homes from foreclosure sales.
We repeat, that after the Legislature
has done what every honest debtor
should do-econ6mize and retrench,
putting in operation every possible
means of raising additional funds, and
a deficit in receipts becomes apparent
then, and not till then, will it be in
order to appeal to the manhood OF
every Tennesseean to favor an increase
of taxation, rather than the State be
dishonored. The people will not be
deaf to an appeal made under such
circumstances.
We hope however the State credit
men, who believe high taxation is the
only hope of relief, will go slow anc
not exasperate those who differ with
them as to the mere ways and means
of settling satisfactorily the State deb
question. 1t is inopportune and I'm
wise for brethren to quarrel and fgh
each other at the very moment wher
their dear old Mother State is in al
agony of despair over her imperilleC
honor.
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Col. Heating, one of the editors of the Ap-
peal, writing from Washington. says of our
State debt:
learn, on what is considered reliable
authority, that the creditors of the State,
moved thereto by the test of public opinion
afforded by the late extra session of the legis-
lature, have all but reached the conclusion
that the best thing they can do will be to ac-
cept fifty cents in bonds having thirty years
to run, and bearing four per cent for the first
ten years, five per cent for the second, and
six for the third. These, if l remember
Alright, were the terms of the bill which pass
ed the Senate and which the House refused to
consent to.
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duction of winter butter, and we learn
that one farmer of Tennessee and
another of Arkansas are sending fresh
grass butter to Boston this winter.
These farmers keep Jersey cows,
which pasture during the winter on
the native grasses, of which blue grass
is the chief Blue grass for winter
pasture, and Bermuda grass for the
summer, will sustain cows in fine or
der, and there is the whole winter for
the production of butter. Why should
not southern farmers avail themselves
of the advantages of their climate and
raise dairy products at the time when
northern diaries are suspending opera
ton ?
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Good Move,

A bill is now before Congress providing
for the withdrawal of the National bank
notes and the substitution of Greenbacks.
Adopt this measure, and the amount of
twenty million dollars per annum will be
saved to the labor Of the country. The ma
tional bank circulation draws a premium,
while the proposed treasury note will bear
no interest and be receivable for all public
dues. This is a most important bill, and
the people will hail its passage as a sub
stantial victory for the protection of labor.
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How to be Independent.

The Southern Farmer says it will
be an easy matter for a SOutherner
to be entirely independent. The key
to the secret lies in two plain PROPOSE
tons:
Make your own fertilizers by rest
ing, cropping. grassing and manuring
your lands. Thus you become indie
pendent of guano merchants. Raise
your own provisions. Thus you be-
come independent of your provision
merchants. Your cheapest and SAT-
est line of transportation runs from
your own fields and hog pens to your
own barn and meat house. With no
debts for your supplies, you will need
no accommodation credits at two per
cent. per month. Thus you become
Independent Of brokers, cotton factor
and lien merchants. You can then
sell your cotton at your own time, to
your own chosen buyers, and will get
your own money. None of these
things can cotton planter do who
plants on credit, and borrows money
to buy his provisions.
If you wish to become powerful as
well as independent, make cotton
your surplus crop"
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A Step-NIother's Protest.
The following appears in the Springfield
Tenn Record:

NOTICE.
To all whom it may concern: That if
Mr. Archie Thomas meddling neighbors,
friends and relatives want TO "raise" his
first wife's children, they have my permits
sion TO do so, if they will bind them to
themselves according to law. Since my
marriage they have manifested such ex
treme-such Intense interest in the children
that it has been a mystery to me why
they did not come forward and take charge
of them when they needed somebody's care.
If ! did become one of n maligned class
who generally go through life with ever
newly crucified heart, have sufficient COM
mon seHse left to mind my own business.
And it is my private opinion, publicly ex-
pressed, that if certain persons would turn
their attention to the cultivation Of the ex
cecdingly small portion of common sense
that they possess, it would he much more
commendable than busying themselves
about my az airs. Lest some Of Mr.. Archie
Thomas dear friends should censure him
for the publicity OF this matter / will say
that the Junior inserted this at my special,
urgent request. IF this article offends any
one will be rejoiced, Tor it viii prove that
the shoe fits them, and that they and every
body know il. MRS. A. 1HOMAs.
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A New Industry for the South.

It would be strange, indeed, if the
rich soil and fine climate Of the south
ern States should be fitted for the pro-
duction of one staple article only, viz,
cotton. The fact is that the southern
States will in time become the richest
norton of the country, agriculturally,
because of the great diversity of pro
ducts possible. a new opening has
horn found fer enterprise, viz. the pro-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-14
Washington Correspondence of Columbia Herald
and Mail.
THOSE RUFFLE-SHIRTED MINIONS.


THOSE RUFFLE-SHIRTED MINIONS.
The truth is, that there are more
victims of the ruinous and hellish
financial policy of the Republican par
ty up East and in the North than any
where else. The people arc right.
The masses are clamoring for bread
and work, but these ruftled-shirted
minions of banks and bondhOlders
misrepresent their people just as Den
ny, of Maryland, Bayard, Eaton,
Herman, Lamar and Hill misrepre-
sent constituencies who we know
have specially instructed them to vote
otherwise. 1t is an awful calamity
for such men to be in public life in
great crises. They do a world of
mischief. If the men [ have named
were to put their shoulders to the
wheel of reform and relief, not twenty
days would elapse before the Resump-
ton Law would be repealed silver
be remonetized without the dead
weights, which Sherman had influence
enough to fasten upon 1.-THE Nation
al Banks and their currency wO I'D be
wiped out of existence, and plenty of
Sub-Treasury notes would be issued.
Then do you blame the friends of re
form and relief for wishing that these
false and recreant men were dead and
in heaven? 1t is a pity that either
one Of them is a Democrat.
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We are indebted to Representative Young
for valuable public documents. AS chair
man of the select committee on ventilati0a
81 the HAll, his report is an able scientific
statement of the principles involved. HE
appropriation bill for building the Memphis
Custom-house will soon be adopted. Col.
Young is one of the most active business
men in Congress. He is for work, and net
gush.
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G. B. Raum, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue of Washington, in re-
ply to a letter from Representative
House on the subject, says: THAT
farmer or planter is not liable to
tax for manufacturing leaf tobacco of
his own production, in any way he
pleases, for his own use exclusively"
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Speoe1 rates given on application
Local Rotices charged Is cents a line Hof hfst In
scrtiOn and 10 cents line foT sbeeQ uent insertions
Tho pay for yearly and kasf~yearly advertise.
tnents Is due quarterly, aaS 4se inserted for less
than three months rSss e paid for when their time
expire,
Announcing cAaSs4ato for city offices IS 90
county. s. 90, District $50 COS State $40 90 invari-
ably Ia advance.
HS-PersonaI cards, When admissible, charged
double tsse~,
Marriages and deaths announced free.
Obituafy notices over eight lines charged for as
adVcrtiseSacAtS.
SEAn letters on business must be addressed 10
AEMISTEAD BROTHERS.
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We deeply sympathize with the citizens
of Hot Springs, Ark, in their heavy losses
by the late disastrous fire, which destroyed
over thrSe hundred houses and made home
less one thousand people.
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Tennessee Bonds closed in New York
yesterday, at 36f for old and So for
new.
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For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley,
northeast to southeast aei,,ds,. cooler aud
partly cloudy aceather, rising .toIIo,oed By
FILLING barometer and possibly occasional
rains.
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Gold closed in New York, yes
terday at 1903 and, with sales during
the day at 101 and 1907.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-14

The New York cotton market was
steady yesterday, middling upland
closing ut 11@114c.
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Commercial, independence.

From the New Orleans Times of the Goth
of February we clip the following state.
ment, which throws light upon q subject of
the deepest interest to the people of the
South aud West. The trade of this entire
inner empire, embraced within the limlts of
the great Mississippi valley, has been here
totore eastward, over rail lines whose man.
ngeuaent enriched commercial centers hostile
to those of our own section. Our grain, cot
ton, naval Ebores and manufactured pro-
ducts have been at the mercy Of few mo-
nopoliEing lines through whose agency our
shipments to Europe were forced to be made.
But now the scene changes, The Illinois
Central Company have continuous rail
line from Chicago te Rev Orleans. Grain
direct nom the lake elevators can be poured
en- Hassse into foreign-bound bottoms at
New Orleans and be charged the same
freight rates as over eastern reads. Gin
cinEati, st. Louis and Chicago merchants
can carry on export and import trade with
Europe and South America via New Orleans
Is cheaply as through eastern ports. This
movement by the Illinois Central company
is the forerunner of northwestern, south
western and southern commercial independ-
ence: These sections have been in trade
slavery to the East, pouring untold wealth
into the lap of Atlantic cities But way
is now opened by which trade centers all
along from the headwaters of the Missis-
siPpi down through the valley to the Crcs-
cent City can hold direct communication
with Europe without paying tribute to cast
ern shippers. Having this important rail
line, and our great river waterway, we can
be independent. Competition will cheaper
rates and encourage trade. Prospects indi-
cate that the future will reward the sagacity
and enterprise of the Illinois Central com
! pany with the largest success. The drift of
trade and enterprise ia southwark, and
hence this company is destined to reap a
golden harvest. It's position commands the
! situation.
The correspondent Of the New York daily
Bulletin, writing from Chicago under date
of February eleventh, says: On the sixth Of
December in our regular letter we stated
that the Illinois Central railroad company
had just completed their connections with
New Orleans, and would ship grain from
Chicago to that city for forty cents per hun
dred, and seventy cents to Liverpool-the
same as now charged by the eastern lines
Believing the matter as one of such vast
Importance to net only the trade of the
West, but also move which must ulti
mately affect the business of your city. We
addressed letter for more information OF
the subject to Mr.. ]. F. Tucker, master Of
transportation of the Illinois Central rail
road, and received the following reply:
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-03-14

James Gordon Benefits Arctic eKplOrr-
ton scheme is endorsed by the Senate com
Mittee on commerce.
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WOODSTOCK

a town in the Valley, fifty miles from Staun-
ton. gives similar accounts. DIR. Hanson,
well known VI. D., says that he believes
there is something in the morphine of the
SheuauIogh Valley dat creates the cr2vin"
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WHERE THIS EVIL WILL END.

The general feeling seems to be that the
only way to stop it is to force legislation.
Opium ought not to be allowed to come in
to the Valley. But the trouble is that so
many people use it that it will be a hard
matter to find clean skirts to carry public
sentiment against it. y. Y.
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Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

General Banning, by dint of hard
labor, has succeeded in getting some
valuable statistics as to the cost of
maintaining army officers at Wash
ington. Exclusive of pay of officers
stationed here, it costs the government
for communication of quarters $780,
1880 per year. One-half of the
money thus paid is to officers wives,
who own the property for which the
government thus pays rent. 1t costs
to keep officers warm in the matter of
fuel 928, 65367 per annum, and for
f.rage and straw-half which is sold
to livery stable keepers-s3C, 1916 "a.
He has also obtained the cost per capita
of enlisted soldiers of the nations of
the world The cheapest of European
nations is Switzerland, at 80 per
man. Other nations, except England,
range from $50 to $3.50, while it
costs the United States 81 ,854 per an
mum to support each enlisted soldier.
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CHICAGO. Dec. 9th. 1873.

Dear SRI have your favor of the 25th
instant. Naturally We cannot see why the
expectation line through New Orleans is
not one of the best, if not the best We
have accomplished our part in reaching
New Orleans; and in the way of rates those
to New Orleans will now compare favorably
with those to eastern seaboard cities. 1t
rests with the steamboats, az to whether the
rates and facilities from and at New Or
leans equal those from or at eastern sea-
board cities. We feel very sanguine indeed
a. to the final result of this route.
Yours truly, J. F. TUCKER.
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Gao. "; A-v-tsfeSS, Hest s. ArRtisss1d.
ARAISTEAE BROS, Editors and PrGpristGrS
TEags OF SUBSCRIPTION.
TERMS c. ADVERTISING,

Tor year lin advance, so
For six 90
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says that the farmers in his vicinity have
recently become terribly addicted to opium
eating. He says there were three Yankees
who removed to the Winchester neighbor-
hood. About year ago they went to farm
ing. Neither of them had ever tasted OPT
UNI. Now they each eat pound month.
There is no telling
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A practical farmer says that the
land of upper Georgia will yield 1900
pounds of tobacco per acre, which at
the ordinary price Of 12c. viii yield
the net sum FER acre of All.
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HARRIsONBURG

is small city down the Valley. The evil
is as great in proportion to the size OF the
place is it is here. Mr.. Baker, one OF the
druggists of the town, was in Staunton a day
or two ago, and in conversation with the
writer, remarked 81 don't believe there
are twenty people in Harrisonburg who are
free from the use of opium. Harrisonburg
used to be great place for barrooms, but
now believe the apothecaries beat them"
The reports from
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SOMETHING MUST BE DONE"

said Mr.. Mar kland, an elder of the church.
"The evil is one of the saddest l ever beheld.
The church doesn't seem TO be any safeguard,
for believe that half of the church mem
hers in town are addicted to the deploTable
habit in question" AT the meeting OF citl-
zens held some days ago a resolution was
passed requesting druggists not TO sell opium
unless on doctors prescription, but the
druggists said that they would have to sell ii
unless there was some law passed against 1t.