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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25

Gathering behind them. As for the al
legged front-gate exploit, it must have
been a large gate that held a King, q
Princess, and two Cabinet Ministers,
and in the circumstances we can but
regard the gate-swinging as prOsaic
failure. Nevertheless, Alfonso has had
a little experience of real courtship, and
in that respect he is far in advance of
any other King of modern times.
But, alasl the good young Queen Mer-
cedes died, and Alfonso had not even the
poor privilege of mourning her and re-
naming constant to her memory. His
advisers tell him that he must marry,
provided he intends to carry on the bust
ness of a reigning monarch, and he
neekly obeys them. There remain to
him only few days in which he can
smoke quietly in the front parlor, and
can 90 to bed with consoling pipe.
Before very long the Prime Minister will
say: Please your Majesty, the Arch
duchess has arrived, and you must bear
up and be married like a man. After
all, her nose isn't as bad as it might be,
and she has only two brothers" And
the poor young King viii meekly go to
the altar, envying the lackey that opens
his coach-doOr, and who can court the
third assistant chambermaid when,
where, and how it may please him.
Nel0 York Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
A Wandering Heir.

The Boston Herald publishes a highly
interesting story, of which the following
is the substance: In 1869 there disappear
ed from the City of London boy of four
years, named Harry Gilbert Stratton.
Since that time until yesterday, the
whereabouts of himself and his only sis
ter has been unknown, although for the
last nine years persistent search has
been made for the children, both in
Europe and America, the British Con-
sul-General at New York having been
deeply interested in the case. 1t should
be stated that the children fell heirs,
nine years ago, by the death of their
parents, to a considerable property in
London. Harry was found in the
tramps' lodging-hOuse in this city yes
terday, and told reporter his story,
which is that he was kidnapped by one
D'Atalie, a noted circus performer, who
died a short time since. He was brought
by D'Atalie to this country, and, al
though but five years old, subjected to
a fiendiSh system of training for
the profession of a contortiOnist. The
inhuman trainer began by bending his
tender back over his (the trainer's)
knees to make it supple, and interrupt
ed his experiments only to fog the poor
child for not yielding readily enough.
Among other courses to which poor Har-
ry was subjected was being hoisted high
in the air by his teeth, and whirled
around at the end of a strap. He natu-
rally became proficient, and travelled
several seasons with Barnum and other
circus proprietOrs. He will doubtless be
remembered by many as the boy who
used to stand on a cannon held by a
woman. The woman was D'Atalie's s
wife, and is now married to a man
named Austin. One day Harry made a
break and secured his freedom, since
which time he has been on the tramp in
the Middle and Eastern States. He is a
very bright lad, and is overjoyed at find
ing that some one has an interest in him.
He states that his sister lived, at last ad-
vices, at Upper KensingtOn, London.
To-day he was given in charge of the
British Consul General, and will at once
be sent to England to claim his new
found position among civilized beings.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
The Dignity Of once.

A Detroiter, who was rusticating in
one of the wilderness counties of Michi-
gan, was one day out hunting when he
came upon a hamlet consisting of a saw
mill, two houses and log-barn. The
sign of 81 Post-office - greeted his vision
over door in one of the houses, and he
investigated. The office was an eight
by ten room, and the boxes for mail
matter numbered just four. a written
sign on the wall announced that the
mail arrived and departed once week,
and the Postmaster sat behind a pine
table reading the Postal Guide and chew
ing a sassafras root.
- Any letter for John --P'' asked
the Detroiter as he looked around.
The p. NJ. didn't shake his head and
crush the inquirer's hopes all at once,
as some officials do, but slowly arose,
looked carefully into each one of the
six empty boxes, peered into an old
cigar-bOx on the window-sill, and then
answered:
q don't see any thing just now, but
it is only four days till the next mail. p"
'' Is this Il money-Order ofice?' con-
tinued the stranger.
"Well, no, not exactly, though we
handle considerable money here"
=
threesP'' asked the Detroiter after a
pause.
"Wen, no, not exactly" replied the
official, looking into his wallet. q l guess
can spare you five or six now and the
rest next week.
There was another pause as the Post
master vainly tried to make change for
quarter, and the Deuroiter finally re-
marked:
"This isn't rated as a first-class Post
office, is it?''
"Well, no, not exactly" was the con-
fidential reply. '' Fact is, we don't do a
very rushing business here, and some
times think it would pay me better to
90 back to the farm
81 don't suppose you make $50 year
here, do youP'
"Well, no, not exactly, but l don't
look at that altogether. The position
that it gives us in society here must be
taken into consideration, you knOwi"
The population of the hamlet, includ-
ing a tame bear and a dog, was only Is
souls.-DetrOEt Free Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
A Project Killed.

Official proceedings of the Limekiln
Club, as reported in Detroit Free Press /:
Maj. Ahbury COngreeve gained the
floor and the recognition of the Chair
and SAID he had matter of great i'm
portance to communicate to the Club.
He had long been of the idea that Para
disc Hall should be connected with a
gymnasium for the use Of colored peo-
pie only, and he was willing for one to
take a liberal amount of stock in a prof.
ect of the kind and become a liberal
patron. He believed that muscular de-
velOpment meant long life, and it had
panied him to discover that the colored
people of Detroit had of late years en-
tirely neglected muscular development,
and that death was busy in their ranks.
Gem'len, replied Brother Gardner
as he pushed up his sleeve, - lie got
muscle huff to frow tramp over two
fences an row of 'tater-hills, an cot
it all at de wood-pile. Right in dis room
are ober Is members who am above 60
var ole an in de bes' of health. We
hevn't los but one member by death in
ober two V y'ars, an green apples was de
cause of dat. We doan' want any bet
ter health, an we doan' want mo- mus
Gle. If we do we kin secure it at de
wood-pile, in de garden, or by handlin
de brush. De man who keeps hisself
clean, goes to bed airly, has solid food
an lets whisky alone viii live list as
long as de Lawd intended he should, an
dat's long 'nuff for any body. If Brud-
der Congreeve wants more muscle l kin
git him job of unloading a sand-scow
We viii now strike de triangle, raise our
voices in song, an den walk de sev'ral
ways to our homes, grateful dat catfish
hev got down to six cents per pound, an ;
thankful dat de price Of whitewashin'
remains firm an de market steady
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
The Russian Peasantry.

In an article on the Russian peasantrv
the MoEUG observes that the chief peas
ant in a village sometimes has more
power than any man in the Empire ex-
cept the Czar. He has the power, for
instance, of ordering a culprit to be
fiogged, right which is denied bv law
to any other public functionary or citi-
zen in the Empire. Further, a majority
of the peasants in a commune can SEN
tence one of their number to be beaten
with sticks, and there is no appeal
against the sentence, and the commune
can still sentence a man to banishment
to Siberia for life. This sentence has
been passed for such petty offenses as
stealing a handkerchief or a little honey,
or opening a brandy shop without the
permission of the commune. In the
Government of Samara a man was SEN
fenced to be banished, together with his
family. Shortly after, however, the
Senate, to whom the case was referred,
decided that the man should be per-
mitted to remain in his village, on the
ground that his health would not permit
of his going TO Siberia. The case of the
mans wife, however, was not consid-
cred; and the sentence was carried out,
so lar as she was concerned, though she
was innocent of any crime, and had been
directed to go to Siberia merely in or
der that she should not be separated
from her husband.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
How a Brave Lad Killed a Panther.

A few days ago, says the Lockhaven
(Pa.) Democrat, while Mr.. w. II. Hig-
gins, living about two and half miles
from Remove, on the dividing ridge be-
tween Paddy's and Druid's Run, was
working in his field making hay, he saw
an animal in distant part of the field
making off with a hen. He thought it
fox, and called the attention of his
son George, a lad of fourteen, to it
George is fond of hunting, and, getting
his gun, he started off for the fox, ac-
companied by his five-year-old brother
and a hound. They had not been gone
long when Mr.. Higgins heard several
continuous yells of the most terrible
kind. The animal had been treed by
the dog, and its half-human shrieks rent
the air with terrible distinctness, like the
shrill, agonized voice of a woman in
dire distress. The excited father and
his field hands at once made for the
point whence came these foreboding
sounds, and ere they had reached the
spot they met George dragging huge
female panther, measuring five feet one
inch in length, and standing two feet
high. The boys had followed the dog
to big tree, up which the panther had
gone about siXty-five feet When the
eldest lad saw the animal, crouched and
glaring above, he felt that it was either to
be a dead panther or a death-struggle
between it and himself and little brother
He was good shot generally, but here
was to be the severest test his young eye
and nerves had ever been put to, and
one that might well have tried an older
and stouter hunter. He drew the bead
and fired, feeling, as he did so, he says,
as if he had been lifted clear off his feet
But there was the hungry brute yet,
crouching on the limb, its eyes fairly fit
to burst in there malignant glare. Bang
went the gun of our brave young hunter
just as the panther sprang. 1t seemed,
said the lad, as though the animal sprang
out from tho tree about % feet, then
came straight down, lighting on the dog
about 16 feet from the boys. The young
hunter again thought he had missed.
Clubbing his gun he advanced upon the
brute to strike it, but it rolled over dead
before he could do so. Examination
proved that his first shot had struck
about four inches back of the heart, the
last one in the heart. 1t was bravely and
well done, and but for the steady nerve
and true aim of the lad he and his little
brother would doubtless have fallen vic
Tins to the animals ravenOus hunger.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
A Simple and Practicable Telephone.

The Chicago Times says: Mr.. o. P.
Hathaway, of No. LOOP West Madison
Street, has connected his place of busi-
ness with his residence and two other
localities with a new kind of telephone
which for short distances has several
points of superiority over those of Gray
and Bell, the chief point being economy.
On Mr.. Hatheway's invitation, a Times
reporter inspected his telephones and
found that they were capable of being
very useful. A hole six inches in diam
eter is in piece of board, and a piece
of drum-head is well wetted and secure
ly fastened to the edges of this hole. An
old-fashiOned copper cent is laid on the
center of the drum-head and wire is
fastened to the cent, or metallic button,
or whatever it may be, and passed
through the parchment, which is then
allowed to dry with the board lying hori-
zontal, and heavy weight attached to
the wire. The weight draws the wet
parchment out into funnel shape,
which it retains when dry. The board
is then set up perpendicularly and the
line wire is. connected with the metallic
button. As the sound is conveyed not
by electric waves but by the vibration of
the wire, the line wire must be drawn as
tight rs possible, and the freer it is from
turns the better. 1t is supported by
loops of twine or wire through which it
is run. The signal is given by rapping
on the board. The speaker then stands
in front of the drum-head funnel, but
need not stand very close to it, and talks.
The air waves started by his voice are
taken up by the drum-head, transmitted
to the wire, and delivered at the other
end with great faithfulness. 1t isn't
necessary to put ones ear to an orifice
and listen attentiyely. Any one within
few feet of the receiver can hear, and
under favorable conditions Mr.. Hathe-
way has heard remarks coming over the
wire when standing dozen feet away.
The voice sounds as if coming out of a
long and large speaking tube. The
largest line Mr.. Hathaway has is 800
feet He is confident that these tele-
phones are good for mile, and are
available at a distance of two miles when
there is no wind. This device is not his
invention, and there is no patent on it.
1t has no battery or mechanism, and is
subject to no rent or royalty. tits capa-
BILE of doing good service between a
mans home and his store or Office when
not too far away, or between an office
and shop or yard, or between a drug
store and the residence of physicians,
and it possesses the great merit of being
quite inexpensive.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
SHAD0WED.


The robins In the maple build
Their dwelling, as OF old;
Again the breaking dawn Is thrilled
With love in music told,
And sunny fields, by no man tLeds
Are brave I'm cloth of gold
The summer wears her former grace,
Her sweet winds wander by;
We miss no beauty from her face,
No glory from her sky;
And yet-ah yet-eaeh pleasant place
In shadow seems 70 lie.
The rapture of the blue birds note
Hath now its minor strain;
The very robins tuneful throat
For us hath edge OF pain;
The peffumed zephyrs O'er us nOat,
And sigh a sad refrain.
Last year-ahl some were with us then
To breath soft summer air,
Now passed beyond our utmost ken
Beyond our lOftiest prayer;
Our hearts were wen nigh broken when
God took them to his care.
Lift us, o, Father, ever l0indl
To SUBMITS more divine;
Let us no more be deaf and blind
To look and voice of thine;
In darkest ways still may we find
Thy beams. OF light to shine.
So shall we bear these summer DAYS.
Nor deem our GTiefs they mock;
So shall our tears be changed TO praise
Our souls, mid sudden shock,
Or slowly pressing troubles, raise
Their psalms to Christ the Rock
Margaret =. S0ngsteT, iR the ChTistfGn linton.
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The Champion SpeIIer.

The Oneida On. " Historical Society
has secured the following order in the
handwriting of the Revolutionary Gen
eral Herkimer:
Ser you will order your bodellyn to merchs
immiedeetleh do fOrdeward weld for das
brOtiesen and amOnieschen fed for on betell.
Dis you will disben your berril-from friend
NICOLAS HERCHHEIMER.
To Cornell pieder bellinger
ad de fiets,
ochdober is, ,1776.
The translation is:
SIR-You will order your battalion to march
Immediately TO Fort Edward, with four davs'
provisions and ammunition ft for one bat
tIe This you will disobey Cat) your peril
From Cyour) friend.
NICHOLAS HERKEIER.
To Colonel Peter Bellinger;
A. the Flats, October IS, Ire.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
THE HALCYON DAYS.

Where are the halcyOn days?
The seasons come and go
Flower-fruit-snO
And bitter cOld-till lot
Upon the blossomingw we gaze.
Filling with beauty all the ways,
Again the Spring is here;
Again the Autumn sere;
Again the-Winter drear,
Nor either stops or stays
Or brings these tabled days.
But care comes with the Spring
Care doth the Summer bring,
And Autumn, following,
Finds meath the misty haze
Heavy the touch she lays
Finds care within her fields,
Blighting the good she Yields.
Nor Winters icy shields,
Nor Summers sunny rays, .t
Fer bring these happy days
Or keep the earth from care!
And seasons, foul or fair,
Alike her presence bear.
Whntc'er their changing phase
On all the burden weighs
All, all do sorrow know,
Flowcr-fTuit-snOw
The seasons come and go,
Nor bring the halcyon days.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
PFTH AND POINT.

] "A MONARGh "a AllC SCALC = AAc DAASAA-A
THE Boston Transcript says 1t is easy
enough in the evening to get up In the
morning
81 NEVER saw such delicious oys-
ters,'' said Smythekins. "What, new
er?'' said the oyster. He was fOrked on
the spot.
TIMELY WARNING.
Young men and girls as you by night
Inspect the silent stars
Orion, Saturn, Venus bright
st. Louis Times Journal
ONE of party of six Highland Dis
trict boys who were spending their va
cation at Kennebunk sent the following
expressive letter: ave dug a wood
chuck out of its whole; it was a skunk;
we sleptin the barn that night. boston
journal.
DID YOU ever notice the downward
| plunge of young lady's jaw when she
| gives utterance to one of those "ands"
/ that serves as convenient resting places
in her speech while awaiting the brain's
catching up with the tongue eP--BOStOH
| Transcript.
"IN pursuing my theme, 1 should Ike
to cover more ground, but "Buy
shoes big enough for your feet, and you'll
do it, was the impudent suggestion
from the crowd, and the orator adjourn
ed his remarks until n more refined
audience could be present.
AND now 16 or Il new stars and COM
cts have been discovered. If this thing
isn't stopped pretty soon, the young
couple who succeed in finding that par
ticular star by half past 10, won't be
able to get home before midnight, Give
the children a rest--BOStOn Post.
THE effort of Nature Is to produce the
greatest possible quantity of seed. 1t is
this seed producing which so eXhausts
the trees, so that by thinning the fruit
we not only save the tree from eXhaus-
ton, (and thus aid it to bear also the
next year,) but we turn the juices of the
tree to a good account.-P Potomac Fruit
GrO1oerS' Report.
"WHEN young man has learned to
watt says a writer in the Boston
Journal, 4" he has mastered the hardest
lesson.'' Indeed he has, and this truth
is particularly applicable when the
young man has called to take his girl
riding, and she keeps him waiting two
solid hours while she '' fixes up" Keeps
him waiting in the stable with the
team which costs him dollar an hour.
-RocbIGnad Courier.
"I WAS once very shy," said Sydney
Smith, @ but 1t was not long before
made two very useful discoveries; first,
that all mankind were not wholly en-
ployed in observing me Ga belief that all
young people have); and next, that
shamming was of no use; that the world
was very clear-sighted, and soon esti-
mated a man at his just value. This
cured me, and determined to be natu-
raj and let the world find me OUT
SING me, mine own, - he whispered,
lovingly, as they both sat down on the
one piano stool, - sing me 80, whisper
what thou feelest. s" al will, young
man, will, said the tremulOus tones
of her papa, from the direction of the
door 1--WE viii sing it as n duet, you
and 1. will feel, and you can whisper
what it is'' And then he felt for the
boy with his feet, and went on, with un-
feeling Indifference. "And you needn't
confine yourself to n whisper, necessari-
ly, in telling what you feel, and what it
feels like. Give it voice, young man;
give it voice"
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GENERAL j. L. GEDDEs, writing in
the Lo,0G agricultural College Quarterly,
says, with much truth-what perhaps
some humane persons have not thought
of-that he.attempt to draw a horses
head from its natural angle by the con-
slant restraint of the check-rein IS a
very cruel thing. in throwing him
self into the collar the horse viii always,
if not prevented, project his head for
ward, the action aiding him greatly in
his work. And indeed, it may be safely
the exercise of the horses power in any
way, can only be attained when the ami
NAL has unrestrained use of his head
and neck
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25
Soft Soap. Twenty pounds of pu

Soft Soap; Twenty pounds of pure
grease to "A pounds of potash viii make
a clean fish-barrel full; dissolve it in
water in brass kettle over the fire; put
the grease in the barrel; first pour the
solution Of potash over the grease, and
stir it with a stick; let it stand q hours,
then pour a pail Of cold water in the
barrel and stir it thoroughly; let it
stand u hours, and as it thickens add a
pail of cold water and stir again, and
add water every u hours and stir until
the barrel is full. In cold weather we
use warm water. Be particular to have
the barrel tight, as lye will leak through
where water will not. A barrel viii not
answer more than twice, as the lye de-
strOys it.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25

A FARMER has experimental with ma
nure taken from his barn-cellar under
cover and exactly the same kind of ma
nure dropped just outside the cellar and
of course exposed to the weather. The
crop from the former was just about
double that from the latter.-LOiCeH
No7gy5er
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25

PROF. GRANT ALLEN believes that
the food of birds has much to do with
the plainness or beauty of their plumage,
and recalls the fact that the dingy
crows who feed upon carriOn are first
cousins to the beautiful birds-Of-para-
disc who live upon highly colored and
delicious tropical fruits. 1t is equally
true, and has been more often re-
marked, that a persons complexion IS
made better or worse by their selection
of food.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25

AS compared with 1877, there is an
increase in English pauperism Of s per
cent, and as compared with 1873 of 9
per cent. The increase has been gen
eral all over the country, and is likely to
be greater
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25

II mems morals were half as stiff as
their shirt collars, what would the
world do for sensations?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25

A LITTLE boy being asked, - What is
the chief end Of man?'' replied The
end what's got the head on.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-09-25

GOV. SPRAGUE's mansion at Canon
chet contains 80 rooms.