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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
Running a shot-Gun Quarantine.

The Memphis AUaEa3scle of the 10th
says: Messrs. Charles Quentel, Jr,
and Henry QuenteI, with their wives
and several cODlDGg71OHS dts UOydge, left
town yesterday in carriages, with the
intention of taking the Louisville and
Nashville train at Bartlett, and depart
ing for more salubrious cline. Every
thing went well until the party neared
Bartlett; not a single murderOuS quar-
antine guard was met with, and hope,
that springs eternal in the human breast,
lent an additional charm to the beauties
of nature so lavishly displayed on every
hand. But, as some one, probably Mark
Twain, has said, "AI that's bright
must fade" On reaching the bridge
this side of Bartlett, solitary hOrseman
bearing the typical shotgun was seen,
not approaching, but immOvably fixed
in the road. When the party drove up,
this party of the first part halted
them.
"You can't pass said he, with he
roic firmness.
" Wherefore? was asked.
"Because you can't;'' was the re-
spOnse.
" Well, but we will
g If you do it viii be with load in
you
g If you draw that gun, you'll be de
strOyed without remedy" replied one
of the travellers. He drove on; the rest
followed. He got no load in him.
When Bartlett was reached, the train
was still there, and the refugees were
beginning to lay the flattering JUNCTION
to their souls that all would yet be well,
when suddenly a committee appeared
barring the waV They said, - Thus
far, and no farther" Twas vain to
speak, to weep, to sigh-the incorrupti-
bic guardians of the Bartlett health were
not to be moved.
They said, however: eff you'll 90 on
to Bonds station (six miles further On) q,
you can get aboard the train there, -
and with this the refugees were forced
to be content. Then they asked the
conductor to take their baggage on
there. He said, eff do they will elm
mate me from off the face of the earth. -
So they went on to Bonds Station and
waited for the train. 1t came along and
was duly signaled, but passed on with
out stopping. The conductor, however,
had not forgotten them. He called all
the passengers to the window of the car,
and exhibited the forlOrn Memphians.
The scene was enjoyed by all present,
with few exceptions. The left -
then tried to get quarters in the country
until tomorrow, when they hoped to
get a train, but the inhabitants declared
they wouldn't take them in if there was
millions in it. This was the last straw,
and the bright hopes that animated the
party in the morning had been succeed
ed by the bitterness of despair Mem
phis was now the only place remaining
open to them, and to Memphis they re-
turned, arriving yesterday evening i'm
bued with monumental disgust at
country quarantine.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
$1.5O per Annum.

children in the East, for an old gentle
man sat squat in the middle of the cir
Gle, grinning like an old fool. He hap
pened to catch my eye as [ looked at
him, and l fear he saw a quizzical or
cOntemptuous look on my face, for at
once he keeled over backwards.
and then, rising to his feet, put his
thumb to his nose and twirled his
fingers at me, whereupOn the old ladies
turned around and made faces at me.
saying that l was stuck up thing,
and they wouldn't play with me as long
as they lived" Much l marveled these
ungainly fowls to hear discourse so
plainly, and turned to 90 away only to
find an immensely stout woman of some
90 summers standing behind me with
her finger in her mouth, and saying, as
she put her hand on my shoulder: . Lit
tie boy, 1 likes you. Won't you play
with me? I think oOr real putty In
utter dismay l hastened from the
grounds determined not to remain long
in so dangerous a place, but still the
fascination of the odd was upon me. and
l returned the next day and shall remain
until the camp meeting breaks up. Per-
haps l may be converted and become a
- Peculiar Child " myself. Who can
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
Another Personal PrOnOun Wanted.

At a recent meeting of the philOlo-
gists in Newport some wise words were
said in regard to the superiority of the
English tongue in the matter of gender
over those languages where all things,
inanimate as well as animate, are en-
dOwed with sex distinction, thereby ne
cessitating corresponding biSeXual forms
to articles, adjectives, &c. Yes, our
language has the bulge on these others,
but step further would fill a want long
felt. We allude to the crying necessity
of having a prOnoun that will apply
equally to either sex, in place of the in
flexible "he" and - she, - q his - and
q her. of our present speech. This
may be considered by some persons a
vain longing, but it is not so. For in
stance, you lose your pocket book; and
in advertising it you wish to have it Un-
derstOOd that the person picking it up
was seen in the act; SO you say, - If the
person who was seen to pick up Il
POcketbOok thine and place viii return
the same to No. 4444 Washington street,
they there You are right up a stump
80 viii save themselves there YOU
are again. some trouble But this
isn't all When a young lady is repeat
ing to YOU what third person has told
her, how she Will twist and turn in lin
quail Iabyrinths in order either to con-
ceal the sex of the third person, or to
make YOU think that she was a he, or
the he a she, rs the case may be- She
SAYS, - A person told me last evening
that h they did so and so, and h
they saw h them - and SO on to the
end. Oh, give us a personal pronoun
of common gender Boston TrdHscrIpt.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
PITH AND POINT.

HENS are now indulging in summer
sets.
IT is evident that the earth is feminine
from the persistence with which she re-
fuses to tell her age.
THE clock, like a jolly fellow, always
has round Waterloo Observer.
And is a regular beat, always going on
tick.-The People.
EAT oysters only in the months that
have an 'r'' in their names, and drink
whisky only in the months that have a
g ks in their names.-AEbanV Journal.
STUDENT, fresh from college, to con
ductor: g l wish to get on the penul-
innate car" Conductor: - We have no
peanut car; you can take the smoker"
Mutually disgusted.
Don't ever whip your baby boy
Till he's old enough to spank,
Don't force him to the treadmin work,
Till he can turn the crank
Don't attempt to air your knowledge
Till you're old enough to know,
That potatoes don't amount to much
Till they've had time to grow.
He was a disgusted boy. He had eX-
erciSed great caution and had finally
succeeded in crawling, unobserved, un-
der the canvas into the tent. And he
found it was not n circus but a revival
meeting in progress.
WHEN an editor finds that COW has
got into the yard and has eaten off one
leg of his white trousers, which were on
the clOthes-line, he goes to his office and
writes an editorial on " The Gloomy
Outlook"
THE three proudest moments of ~
mans life, between the cradle and the
grave, are when he gets his first pair of
red-tOp boots, when the girls first call
him . Mister,n and when the doctor tells
h -
Is EVERY time a man is seen coming out
of a saloon he gets the credit of having
taken a glass Of rum, though he drank
nothing but lemonade. Better far 90 to
church, as every time man is seen
coming out of a sacred edifice he gets the
credit of being religious, although he
may have been plotting any number of
financial eccentricities all through the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
SMALL girl, very harshly, to her doll
in toy carriage, dolly having tumbled
from the seat: - Sit right up, you hor-
rid old thing. Don't you dare do that
again, or I'll whip YOU Seeing
passer, who had approached unobserved,
she modified her voice and continued in
dulcet tones: "Now sit up straight,
darling, and be careful not to fall and
hurt yourself. ''-LO1CeH HCtiI.
BAsE-BALL definitions: The right
field-the field of duty. A base hit
a blow below the belt. A dead ball
dancing without music. A good catch
one of the Rothschild girls. Put on the
iirst-the man who gets April fooled.
Never reaches his secOnd-the man who
refuses to fight duel. The champion
pitcher that goes often to
and remains albany
EUeHillg journal.
THEY had an amateur brass band at
funeral while ago, and when they had
squelched out the - Sweet By-and-By "
at the graye-side, the minister in his add
dress said that ''the deceased was in
one respect most fortunate in being
called thus early" That was all he
said, but the mOurners grinned, and the
is Internally out of place at a funeral,
Won know -
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
The Great Swimming Match Between
Webb and BOytOI.

NEWPORT, r. l., August 22.-The
swimming match between the noted
swimmers Captain Paul Boyton and
Captain Matthew Webb began at 3
O'Clock this morning off EastOn's Beach.
The buoyS, around which the men SWAN
in mile courses, were placed as follows /:
First, near the west side of the beach,
almost directly opposite the Chandler
Villa, which is occupied by James Cor
don Bennett; second, nearly opposite
the Forty Steps, at the foot of Nara
gansett Avenue. Thus the swimming
was in plain view of great crowds as
sembled on the beach and along the
cliffs. Captain Webb wore bathing
tights and firm-fitting blue cap. Cap
tain Boyton was dressed in his famous
rubber suit. The swimmers kept at
work steadily up to 10:30 O'Clock, when
a mishap occurred which threatened to
end the race.
Boyton had made ten miles and Webb
eight and a quarter, when the latter was
seized with violent cramps, rendering
both legs powerless. He was taken from
the water by his trainer and put on
board the yacht Active, remaining out
of the water an hour and a half. He
began to swim again at IL 40, and gain
ed rapidly on BOyton. Capt. Webb's
trainer attributes the attack to the fact
of his not being acclimated. When
Webb succumbed, the men had been in
the water seven hours, and the strong
breeze, which had been blowing from
the southwest, made swimming against
the wind both slow and difficult.
At 6 O'Clock Boyton had made nine
teen miles and was looking somewhat
tired from the labor of the day. At Z
O'Clock he had made his twentieth mile,
and was feeling his way along slowly.
Heavy bets were made that he would
not cover twenty-five miles by u O'Clock
tonight. BOyton, however, finished his
race at IL :07 p. m. The first person to
meet and congratulate him upon his
success was James Gordon Bennett In
accordance with the articles of agree
ment, Webb was out of the race the mo-
ment he left the water to 90 on board
the yacht. There were immense crowds
of spectators on the beach to day, and
the city wore a holiday appearance
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
The Butcher and the Lawyer.

A butcher, in provincial town, call
ed one day upon his friend, the lawyer,
to consult him upon the following
points: a lady had just been in his shop
buying a choice bit of meat for her
worthy husbands dinner. Herpet dog,
which accompanied her, forgetting its
good manners in the shop, had, either in
snuffing at or tasting a nice roast, tum-
bled it among the slwdust wherewith
the floor was strewn, and soiled it. His
question to the lawyer was:
% Is this lady bound to pay me for and
receive the said roast? and if so, how
may payment be enforced"
The lawyer inquired if the lady was a
good customer; and, being answered in
the affirmative, he said:
My advice to you, as friend, would
be not to enforce payment of the S1.75
(fOr that was the full value of the rOast)
because, if you do, you will most likely
lose the family's custom, and that of
some of their friends. But, when the
lady's husband looks in, you may take
an opportunity of mentioning the cir
cumstance to him, in as gentle and pO-
lite way as you can, and very probably
he will pay it at once"
q dare say you're right; I'll just
AOAAON ,NOhl elNAN1OGs anu Atlht lIlC l1J-
erty of telling you the lady was your
own wife,
The lawyer gave a good-natured laugh,
put his hand in his pocket, and paid
the S1.75. The butcher went away in
great glee, for he was proud of his
shrewdness in doing" the lawyer.
In his eXultatiOn he hurried to his
neighbors, the confectioner, the grocer
and the aDOthecaTy to fell them of the
capital joke; and great was the chuck
ling of these crOnies over it. The
butchers dreams that night were pleas
ant, and on the morrow his temper was
placid and serene; he mused of spend
ing the half-crowps in treating the gro
Ger, cOnfectiOner and apothecary.
While in this delighted mood, the
pOstman handed him note. 1t was
from his friend, the lawyer, and contain
ed an account:
4 Z, n To,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04

board or piece of thick paste-board,
which should extend sufficiently beyond
the margin of the picture to support the
frame. The plated or shirred muslin is
then fastened by tiny tacks to the board,
and large bow of ribbon is placed in
each corner. The wired frame should
bulge outward at the center, and the
plated frame may be left perfectly fiat,
or the opposite ends of the plaits may
be caught together with charming eff
feet.
A PRETTY ORNAMENT.
A goblet, from which the shank has
been broken, may be utilized in the fol
lowing pretty way 1t must be first con-
cealed in a crocheted or knitted cover
of some bright-colored wOrsted, and sus-
pended by picture-wire from the center
of the ceiling or window. 1t is then
filed with water, in which may be
placed myrtle, wandering Jew, sweet
potato, or any two or three vines that
viii grow in water. If climbing and
trailing vines are both used, the climber
may be trained up along the suspension
wire, while the other will drOOp prettily
over the sides. The water must be re-
newed at least weekly, if the room be
any way warm.
FERNERY.
The crowning ornament of all is the
fireplace fernery. 1t is very simply and
cheaply made, and yet is one of the
handsomest decorations for parlor,
sitting-room or dining-rOOm. A box,
about three or four inches deep and fit
ted perfectly to the fireplace, so as to
present the appearance of being por-
ton of the mantel, Is made of common
wood, lined with tin or zinc so as not to
leak, and then painted in any color that
will best accord with the color of the
mantel. If the mantel is white marble,
the box is more effective when black. A
very simple and inexpensive method of
initiating ebony is to blacken the box
with burnt wood and then coat it with
black varnish, which must be well ap-
piled so as to produce a good polish.
All communication with the chimney
should be well shut off, and the back of
the fireplace covered with panel-paper,
which may portray ''deep and gloomy
wood" a cleaner, a stork, Cupid
in bower of roses, or any
scenery preferred. The box is then
furnished with rich soil, and well filled,
but not crowded, with ferns surrounded
by moss; and if the fireplace is very
large, mOss-covered rocks may be used
with charming effect for filling in. In
this event, the ferns should be planted
between the rocks; and the more natu-
raj the arrangement, the handsomer the
result. Every particle of earth should be
covered with moss, and an ivy placed in
each end of the box should be carefully
trained along the margin of the fire
place to simulate a bower. The roots
and foliage of the plants should be well
watered every day, as ferns require a
great deal of moisture.
This arrangement makes an exceed
ingly handsome fireplace ornament, and
so long as careful attention is bestowed
upon it, the fernery win keep nice and
green and will continually be improving
in appearance. A fancy mat of some
kind placed in front of the fernery will
heighten the pretty effect of the room so
decorated. -De5ineGtOr for Augatst.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
A POcketfuI of TarantuIass

When Mr.. Nat. Silver took his last
summers linen duster out of the clothes
press, it was q good thing for him that
he didn't rife the pockets in his usual
energetic style, or he might not be
around TO tell the tale which he poured
into our sympathetic ear this morning.
He took hold of the end of a handker-
chief in one Of the pockets, and pulled
it out. 1t was covered with tarantulas,
nearly all of them small, but full of
poison and fight. While he was gazing
at them two enormous tarantulas,
neither of which could BE covered with
saucer, emerged from the same pOck-
ct, and began climbing up the coat to-
ward his hand. He just noticed them
in time to drop the garment and call for
help All of the spiders began scuttling
away, and it was with much difficulty
that they were all killed. Nat. is posi-
tive that there were at least fifty taran-
tulas in the pocket.-Nerada Wil1neDlaS-
can.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
The Skeleton of ain Ancient Whale
Found in a Sand Hill.

We have received authentic informa-
tiOn that at that portion of our sea-cOast
known as Little Kennckeet a valuable
historic relic in the form of the complete
skeleton of a whale, sixty feet long,
has been found, well preserved. The
peculiarly of the affair is that the skele-
ton was found imbedded in a sand hill,
which has been covered with an extensive
forest from - time whereof the memory
of man runneth not to the contrary. -
The sand Of this hill, being recently
changed by storms during the past two
years, was gradually removed from the
place where the remains of this ancient
monster of the deep must have been re-
posing for hundreds, yea, thousands of
years. Another circumstances, besides
the fact that large trees of slow growth
are directly over the skeleton, is that
the hill in which it was found is on the
sound side of the beach, showing con
clusively that the entire coast must have
been deeply submerged at the time when
this specimen Of our greatest sea MANI
mails was driven from his ocean home
and left on the coast by the receding
waters. What great flood could this
have been? Verify has a prehistoric
relic been found.-EIizdJeth City IN. q.
/ Falcon.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04

To HAVE GREEN CORN TIE YEAR
ROUND.-Gather it with the husks on,
put in the bottom of clean barrel some
salt, proceed and fill the barrel as with
pork, layer of corn, then a layer of
salt; when full put on a large stone for
pressure, add little pickle of salt and
water. Set the barrel in a cool place
in the cellar; do not let it freeze, and it
viii keep perfect year or more. When
you wish to use it, take off the husks,
soak it twenty hours in cold water, boil
it and eat. Some days in February you
can eat succotash and laugh at the storm
For this purpose Stowell's Evergreen is
the best, but any good sweet corn will
do. Used in this way it can be enjoyed,
as it is never hurtful.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04

the vessel he is on would never see port
again. But if ne should happen TO i'm
agine such a thing, his fears would prob
ably be well founded, for the records of
the Chinese coast service are filed with
accounts of vessels which have been at
tackled and destroyed by pirates that
were cruising about in the guise of just
such Misunderstanding traders as he sees
about him.-lSt. Nicholas for September.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
Remembering His Old Slaves.

Jesse II. Drake, known to the people
of Nash County as having been Chair
man of the old County Court, a very
bright Mason and a high officer in the
order, and a most miserly man, died at
his home, six miles from Rocky Mount,
in Nash County, on Friday, the 1st of
August. Born in 1900 he would have
attained his 10Th year on September 8
prOximO. He left very fair estate,
worth perhaps $4,000, to three of his
former slaves to-wit, Calvin Drake,
Aaron Drake, Judah Drake, for their
lives, with remainder to their children.
His will, written on the Doth of March,
1877, was witnessed by DIR. Whitehead,
Mr.. Samuel Marshbourne and another.
He leaves all his estate, real, personal
and mixed, of whatsoever nature, to
these parties, as above stated, after re-
hearsing that . they had been his faith
full slaves and had remained with him
since freedom, nursing and caring for
him in his old age, and he desired thus
to show his gratitude" Calvin and
Aaron are named executors without liza
bility. The executors found 81 400 in
gold and $3, ,031 "A good paper on c. w.
Grundy & Sons of Norfolk. The tract
of land contains 400 acres Tarboro ". }
c. SOaStherner.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
SEPTEMBER.

The gOlden-rOd is yellow;
The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.
The gentian's biuest fringes
Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkWeed
Its hidden silk has spun.
The sedVes ffaunt their harvest,
In every meadow nook;
And asters by the DrOOk-side
Make asters in the brook.
From dewy lanes at morning
The grapes sweet odOrs rise;
At noon the roads all fiutter
With yellow butterflies.
BY all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summers best of weather,
And autunn's best of cheer.
But none of all this beauty
Which floods the earth and air,
Is unto me the secret
Which makes September fair.
'Tis n thing which / remember;
To name il thrills me yet;
One day of one September
never can forget.
II. r., iIl SeT-ibner for September
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04

SOME railway memoranda lately pub
lished in Germany give the highest
points yet reached by existing railways
passing over mountain ranges or through
mountain passes. The Appenine line
reaches a height of 2,024 feet; the Black
Forest line, 2,789 feet; the Semmering,
1920 feet; the Caucasian line, 3,19s
feet; the st. Gothard (tunneD, 1886
the Brenner, 4,475 feet; Mont Gents
(tunneD, 1890 feet; the North Pacific,
5,420 feet; the Central Pacific, 1921
feet; the Union Pacific, S,57S feet; while
a railway over the Andes climbs to To-
GIG feet
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04
Dangers of Salmon Fishing.

A correspondent writing from the
mouth of the Columbia River says
The salmon fishing extends down as far
as this, quiet number of fishermen
making this their base of operations
The fish Just now are running quite
freely, one man the other night having
caught los salmon. This, at 90 cents
per salmon, was good nights work,
but they seldom do so well, 100 being
considered a very large catch, and about
10 or 40 being the usual result of a night S
fishing. 1t is a dangerous and hard way
to make money. Quite n number of
boats have been swept out to sea this
season, and some boats and lives lost.
Mr.. Stout informed me a few days since
of a boat with two men that came
through the surf on the weather beach a
few weeks ago opposite his house, about
three miles north of the bar. Their
boat had been swept outside the bar and
swamped, filling with water; their oars
were lost and the sail also; fortunately
they had their net with them which they
took and managed to work it under
their boat, owing TO the floats or corks
belonging to it having so much lifting
power. They were then able to bail out
their boat and Chamber into it again
improvising an oar and a sail, by great
good fortune they managed to come
safely through the surf to the beach as
above stated.-P Portland OregoHidH.
ABOUT the hardest thing a fellow kan
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-04

A SMALL boy was sent to the country
to board short time ago. He promised
his mother that he would write n good
long letter, describing his trip and
boarding place, etc. A week went by,
and his poor mother was nearly dis
tracted when she got the following inter-
esting letter: Il am here, and l snapped
my watch for a pup; and l went in
swimmin' fourteen times yesterday. and
the fellow stole my pocket-book, and /
want some money; and l shall bring the
pup home. Boston Globe.