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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23

ciiated Snuuid q fertilizer be neces-
sary. he examines the sotl, finds what
viii nust affiliate nad he most condu-
Give to the crop he wishes he I'M
d rstanis the debtor and credit side Of
his ledger, and N settling with his
iaborers or his nleroha Il, gains conf
dcnce with ali 10y Icing familiar and
accurate in lis accounts. The true
teachor talSs to his class, draws cut
their iicas concerning the Lesson, and
will make tint sweet, delicious and
paiatAbie 80 their riinds which was
dull and prosy before.
CoFCLUsTOz.
In this country each citizen is SOW
ereign, sIfd should be intelligent, vir-
tuous and industrious. TO .bis end
the public education Is maintained
The public schools can at least con
tribute 20 the general development of
virtue and industry, aud to degree
of intelligence. The safety and perpe-
tuity Of the State expect and require
Of tho public school ct least that the
masses may be educated therein to the
extent Of safe citizenship, no matter
what the expense Of such public edu-
cation, provided it secures TO the
State industrious, virtuous and intelli-
gent citizens Almost any expendi-
ture of money producing these re
suits would be W Use economy. The
schools should be the peacemnkers
the promoters &c harmony, and OF
honest and skilled profitable industry
Their Intelligent support at any cos'
is wisdom. National support, lie
and school houses are cheaper am
more respectable than jails and
poor houses, and they are more reli-
| able and less expensive consorvators
Of the peace than are Qualifications
and armies. One civilises and har
monies, while the other tends tC
| decentralization.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23

Concerning this showing several
things may ae said:
First. Economy in the manage
meut ofschools is commendable. That
schools cost less from year to year is,
other things being equal, cause for
congo atulation.
Second. 1t does not appear that our
schools are diminishing in value.
There is indeed reason TO affirm the
contrary, and to claim for our schools
an increase in teaching power and in
governing force.
Third. But it needs to be borne in
mind that teachers wages have been
and are very low; so Low that many
of the best teachers, as soon as they
become qualified by experience to do
really good work, make haste to en-
gage in other business which pays
higher wages, and their best services
as teachers are lest. Others who de-
sign to teach for livelihood leave the
State for fields offering q larger COM
pensatiOn. And so the service Ian
guishes, and schools are turned over
semi-snnually to new beginners,
teachers whose thoughts are but
shavings and whose works are worse
than worthless.
/ desire TO thank all members of
the county court, all school officers
and teachers for pleasant courtesies
and kind and earnest cooperation
during the Prst four years of my
official service. I regret that 1 have
ut times been compelled to leave I'M
done many things that l wanted to
do. Respectfully,
w. r. HALL,
Superintendent.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23
observation-disclosures Cheap.

I will have here, next week, a full
car load of the well-known Joseph
Murphy Wagons of St. Louis. All
sizes, either with or without Brake and
seats, which 1 will sell at Factory pri-
ces, freight added, and by getting in
car load lots, the reduction in freight
enables me to sell at prices that defy
competition. Those in need of wag-
ons are requested to give me a
trial.
Respectfully,
z. w. TATUH.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23
Bethel Springs, Tenn.
TAKES 1879.
DELINQUENTS TAKE NOTICE!

DELINQUENTS TAKE NOTICE.
On the first Monday in January
next Q88D, at the Courthouse door
in Bolivar; Hardeman county, Tenn,
1 Will offer for public sale the real
real estate belonging to delinquent
taxpayers in said county, for the year
1879, which real estate can be seen
upon my books in my office.
j. c. SAVAGE.
County Trustee.
Dec. End, 1880.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23

Mess. Moore & Harvey, having
a thorough acquaintance with the re
fined tastes Of the gentlemen in and
around Bolivar, have had manufac-
tured to order ten thousand cigars,
which they have given the title of
Bolivar Belle" in compliment to the
unexcelled ladies Of the town. Those
do not ignore the compliment, when
they inhale the delightful odor that
emanates from the smoke. Mhese
cigars at nickle are the best and
cheapest IN America, or Hardeman
county either.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23
NOTICE.

The County Trustee has removed
his Office to GenI Neely's building one
door East Of the Pcs. Office
Those who Rave not paid their taxes
vii save Costs h. making prompt PAY
rent. +. 9 SAVAGE,
Eoy. @ath Trcstee.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23
DESHMAN,
ST. JAMES HALL,

COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
Tor Young Ladies ard GiEis. Board
RS SIS, 20 weeks. AL departments
Tor "a finished edocation. Apply Q"
REv. J. -. LEE. D. D, Rector,
Bolivar, Tenn
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23
How They feel at Adrian, Mich.

Reed, Beach & Smith, druggists of
this city say that days Kidney PAD
is giving the very best of satisfaction.
Oae oftheir customers says he would
not take two hundred dollars for the
one he has, if he could not get anoth-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23
TEACHING.

Too much Of our teaching is done in
the parrot-like way, and it accom-
plishes but little good The teacher
who will sit before his class with an
open book of questions and answers is
an impostOr on the profession, stigma
to learning, bastard intellectually,
and a rainer Of youth. Such q man
is not fit for Che field, for lasiness
laughs at his ignorance, and ignorance
oufweichs the balance Of sense. It
O Tres men of inte.h. e &c 10 make
god farmers. IN ditching, certain
siopes must be considered, certalq
outlets studied aa1 certain re ults co
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23

..ng their superb
or;+v o,1 ,l,e advantages they offer
They are like parent birds-they
nurse the fedgling till it's wings are
strong, then teach it how to fly.
Zach department is a stepping-stone-
n glance ut something higher. Ever
holding in Wow pictures of another
room, whero lessons are harder, and
tcoch2Ts more exact Ambition car.
ries the pupil onward il these schools.
lie or che secs the finished student
pass out into the busy world of bust.
ness, and each primary pupil will
struggle to reach the same round in
the ladder OF life, the same laurels OF
the t'ymost bough, and the same ap-
plause dat others receive. A graded
echool should be in every village,
town and hamlet Of our county. They
will strengthen trade, build up in.
dustry, improve morality, lessen
crime, and make happier homes for
the people.
Our directors and teachers are turn
ing their attention TO school room up
pNratus, which few years ago was
unthought OF. Reading charts and
naTs hang on many walls that were
once undecoraicd. Comfortable pat
ent seats have in some places taken
tho place OF 5ackless benches. Houses
once half rooEless, with FIVE minutes
intermission all around, are now being
made warm and comfortable, and
school directors, once so indifferent to
duty, arc now found visiting their
schools, encouraging child and teacher,
and la5oring for their success. But
our school boards are not all as they
should be. We are, and should be
proud OF the we'll established efficiency
Of our public 5, hool teachers; but
these are the earnest, well informed,
broadly cultured, capable teachers
and these are every day cramped and
dwarfed and hinderod by the incapa-
bics who sre made their equals in
place and wages by orimiually indif-
terentor destractiYely ignorant board,
of education. That some Of our
teachers are possessed of such skill
and ability, as has given our public
schools good reputation, should net
Justify us in concluding that the pub
lie supply of teachers is as good as it
can. or need be, and nothing need be
done TO guard against the sguander
ing of public moneys on worthless OF
vicious school keepers. Not as a mat
ter Of opinion, but as matter Of fact,
apparent 10 every intelligent and care
fgf observer. I assert that many Of the
so-pa.led teachers in public schools are
Incompetent, worse than worthless as
teachers, because they are IN many
cases TOO young 10 takd charge of the
instruction ane training eff children;
because they know nothing Of self
government, and cannot, therefore,
govern others; because three-iourths Of
all employed have not sufficient text
book knowledge TO enable them to
give proper instruction in the branches
of-,udv enumerated IN the law; be
{ a many Of them are not possessed
a. inc Unborn capacity to teach and
cannot, therefore, ny any process, De
into teaChere; because
many # them have u t that degroo Of
raiGuAsg acuse which is essen l2i 10
-ucccsXcl teaching, OF, having this
essential. thcv DO not exercise It "a
,asiy school work; because some OF
tte. ayc exceedingly limited IN tee
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23
8I9s!sf.as Nia.s5sia Male as Female
INSTITUTE.

Seven teachers constitute the Faculty. The work
is distributed among them rs in the best colleges.
Especial care given 10 English in sdditi TO the
usual cOUTs Of instruction, Anglo Saxon, Old
English, and modern classics being added t. give
depth to English scholarship. Lectures on Physi-
Iogy and Il ygene by Dr. W. J. Crook, special lee
ures given to tbs young ladies and the young gen
tcyneu separately. 40 charge for Latin
Greek, German, French, Hebrew Apparatus 10
illustrate the subjects Of Natural Science well
hanged, Heately printed monthly magazinej a
library and reading room three literary societies
Music, Painting, Drawing, Calistheuics,-these
Of the advantages Of the Institute. Churches,
Sunday-schOols daily mails and the telegraph inc
zbssuc- q vice, some Of the banehts in the
community For catalogue write 10 J. z. lrman OF
G. NJ. Savage TIL September. then 70 n z. Hackett
Secretary Of Faculty z7-u-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-12-23
THE PUBLIC.

Whatever imperfections, careless
ness, incompetence, extravaganza, H.
be a iiy, evils Of any character, are
conn ctcd with, or enter into sch, O
management are largely, if not en-
tirelv, due 10 culpable or criminal
apathy on the part Of the public. The
public is responsible for the destitu-
ton of proper legislation, securing
wiser economy and wiser Hberality in
school provision, and completer, more
competent instruction in and manage
ment of the public schools. The pub
lie is responsible for the election of
every incompetent or unfit school
officer; for the employment of incom-
cent and incapable teachers, and
for whatever of evil there may be in
school provision and management; and
the public can cause all i,uperfections
and evils to be remedied whene, er 1t
shall demand such remedy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-10
immigration.

AT the rate immigrants are pouring
in upon our shores, it will not be
many years before the western states.
where nearly all of them seek to found
new homes, may be able to control,
temporarily, at least, the politics of
some sections in that quarter. The
amazing growth they have already
made is beginning, even now, to give
them a predominating influence in
public affairs at certain points, but
the rate at which they are filling up
by natural increase, and by continual
accessiOns from other states and from
foreign immigration, must add RAPIDLY
to their population and power-only
to be assimilated and absorbed, how.
ever, in due time, to and by the true
American spirit and ideas. Since the
first day Of January nearly 10000
immigrants have arrived on our shores.
For the most part they are of a
good class, and are a welcome acquisi-
ton. There is roem for all, and work
for all so long as there are fields to
till, and these people are nearly all of
the agricultural class. The reports
from abroad indicate that the current
Of immigration that has set in so
strongly there will be continued in
nearly if not quite equal strength
throughout the whole Of the summer
and autumn. 1t is from German and
Scandinavian countries that the bulk
Of the emigrsnts thus far for this year
have come. England is beginning TO
furnish some, but the movement will
be slow in that quarter until the nu-
cleus Of colonies arc established. The
Irish emigatiOn will set in late, as the
custom seems TO be to wait until
spring remittances from their relatives
In the United States enable the
greater part of them to engage their
passage. The only Objectionable i'm.
migrants are the paupers sent over
here occasionally by some one or other
Of the petty German states, to rid
themselves Of their maintenance At
home.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-10

Bolivar Bulletin, sth,l

Bolivar Bulletin, Sth.l
This distinguished gentleman ar.
rived at Bolivar on Tuesday, and that
night in the court house delivered
a short but appropriate address on the
democratic candidates. He did NOT
go into a lengthy discussion of the
subject, as he will be on hand on the
Ath, to make a formal address at the
ratification rally.
Col. Young is justly esteemed to be
one OF the most faithful represen-
tives at Washington. His great abil-
tiles have brought him to the front as
a leading member in the southern del
egation Of congressman. While be
Is highly appreciated by public men
as a vigilant and indefatigable worker.
he is at the same time equally popular
among the masses. No man in the dis.
trict has such a hold as he on the
good will Of the people.
He will be a candidate for r~e.elec-
ton and the majority he will receive
will attest the fact that his fitness for
public service will always be in de-
mand, even for more responsible
public positions. He is of the people.
for the people, and they through their
vote will honor him as the able and
fearless champion of their best inter-
ests.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-10
Impure Water Produces an Epi.
demic.

II
The recent epidemic at North
Adams, Mass, has been traced to the
water supply. Engineer Locke has
made a map of the town, indicating
by red dots every house where there
was a case of sickness, and by small
circles every house which escaped,
covering both the village proper and
all the roads leading out Of it. After
ward he drew the line of the water
pipe on his map, and everywhere the
red dots stop with the pipe and fol-
low its course He cites numerous
instances to prove that the water was
the sole cause of the trouble, and
shows that everybody who was pointed
out as not using the town water, al
though sick, had been in the district
and drank the water. He locates the
impurity in an old MILD dan through
which the water passes, and says he
found it full of decaying vegetable
matter, which gave forth an offensive
odor perceived at some distance from
the pond. This, he thinks, was sufi-
cient to cause the outbreak, in con-
n%ection with the peculiar weather
which had prepared the people for
the epidemic.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-10
Motto for 1850.

have no sort of sympathy with the
republican party because Of that act
1.-THE presidential theft), and because il
justified, and sustained it. After such an
act | have no desire to sustain the re.
publican party in any way. l would
not vote for a party that would carry
through such a fraud. | think Mr..
Hayes was elected by a fraud, and
do not mean to have it said that al
the next election l had forgotten it.
| do not say that Mr.. Hayes com
mitted the fraud, but it was com
mitted by his party. l have no en-
nifty to Mr.. Hayes, but after the
fraud by which he became president
| could not vote for any person put up
for president on the republican side
who did not disavow the fraud com
mitted. / would not support any
member of that party who had any
SORT ofmixture with that fraud. ]
feel that the counting out is just as
much a fraud now as at the time it
was perpetrated.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-10
Some Adj TEXTS.

The Lodon Daily News has a tale of
q university preacher who, las a pre-
Jude to a funeral sermon on Princess
Charlotte, quoted the words: go. see
10Y this cursed woman and bury her.
for she is a kings daughter?"' The
preacher. it is added, was sincerely
though ludicrously inapt." What
does this mean2 Surely there was mn
point of view, religious or political
from which the Princess Charlotte
could be spoken of as cursed "
Anyhow, the story is commonly told
of a Jacobite preacher who took those
words as the text of a sermon on the
death of the second Queen Mary; and
from this point of view, however bru.
tai might be the application of the
words, they at least had plenty of
point. But it is certain hat scripture
could be quoted in the pulpit, if not
against the Princess Charlotte, yet at
least against her father. A prebend.
ary of Bristol who had looked for
greater preferment from the Prince
Regent than he had got. chose the day
Of George Tvs coronation and coro-
nation banquet-or possibly the Sun
lay after it-for a sermon from the
ext, Belsha2zar, the king, made a
sreat feast to a thousand Of his lords,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-10
The Cause Discovered.

Most of the readers whose eyes scan
these pages have suffered from head.
ache, lassitude, nausea or pains in the
back; but we doubt if they knew what
the cause was. In nine cases ont OF
ten it was some trouble with the kid
neys or liver. This is a truth which
has just become known, and the result
which Warmers Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure has accomplished. The
above named troubles are caused by
disordered kidneys and liver, and the
remedy which cures the cause ban.
ishes the pains which arise from it.
Sold wholesale by s. Mansfield &
Co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-10
GEN.
To Resign his Commission In
the Army-The Reasons
for the Step.

New YORK, July IA special
from Washington says it is under.
stood among the personal friends of
Gen. Hancock, that he will, prior to
the publication Of his letter Of accept
ance, tender his resignation to the
president as majOr-general of the
United States army.
One reason assigned for the pro-
posed resignation of Gen. Hancock
from the army, according to the Her
AIDS Washington special, is that
pending the election, Gen. Hancock,
if he remained in the army, would be
restrained by the rules and customs
governing army officers who are sup
posed to be men with political prefer
enoes.
Another reason is the objection
which his candidacy presents in a
person being elected to the highest
civil Office in the land while still an
officer in the regular army. 1t is also
said in explanation that General Han.
cock does not wish to embarrass or in
the slightest degree retard the success
of his party, and as a citizen he will
be wholly tree and OF inequality with the
republican nominee.
Those who are familiar with Gen.
eral Hancock's circumstances say that
in event of defeat he would no Longer
care to serve on the active list of The
army, aud his friends would, at The
next session of congress, see that he i.
put upon the retired list, a position
he is now entitled to if he asks Il
having been over thirty-fve years il
service.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-10
Trustees sale.

-
Under and by virtue of q certain deed Of
~ trust, executed to me as trustee, bearing
date the 4th day Of January. 1875, duly record
cd in book No, l0l, page 525, ofthe Registers
Office Of Shelby county, Tennessee, default
having been made therein. 1 will, on
Tuesday, the 18th day of July, 1880,
at the southwest corner of Main and Madison
streets. in the Taxing District of Shelby
county, Tennessee, late city of Memphis, &C
u O'Clock, noon, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, u certain lot of land
in the city Of Memphis, now Taxing District
Of Shelby county, Tenn, commencing at n,
point on the north line Of Carolina street 800
feet east Of the intersection Of Carolina and
Ninth streets and running thence east with
the north line Of Caroiina street 60 feet; thence
at right angles with Carolina street and paral-
lei with Ninth street $50 feet north; thence
west and parallel with Carolina street 60 feet
to a 1T tho east line Of q lot heretofore
conveyed by John @. Saint to Lindauer, Ar
nold IL Co.; thence south with the line Of
said lot 1850 feet to the beginning. being a por-'
ton Of block No. SO in that portion of said
city Of Memphis heretofore known ms Fort
Pickering, and the same conveyed 10 Lon
Taffe by John Thumbs.
Equity Of redemption waived. Title be-
hevod to be good, but | will only convey M,
trustee. SIMON STURM. Trnstee -
'uhe llth' 1851 s01i5