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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

One of the mysteries of life, and one
which we have never been able to
solve, Is how temperance men can fail
in being in favor of prohibition. You
may talk with them on the subject,
and you will not find one in twenty
that he will say he is not in favor of
it, and yet when it comes to the ballot
box you will only find about one in
twenty that will vote for it. Now
why is this? What right has a tenn
perance man to go and vote against
his principles and convictions. Tenn
perance men, get down off the fence
and be men! Be true to the princi-
Piles you profess to believe in. What
If your party is the weaker one now,
you should not desert it. The Re-
publican party did not come into
power in day, or in a year. If you
think you arc helping the cause #
temperance by voting the Republican
or Democratic ticket, you are mis-
taken. If you think either of these
great parties are friends of temper
ance you have only to look at what
they are trying to do in Maine, Kan
sas and other States, to have this hal
lucination removed. No, we cannot
depend on others, and let temperance
men stand firm for their cause and
vote as they talk. We must act for
ourselves. Too long already have we
relied on smooth tongued promises
only 10 be deceived. We must now
rely on ourselves.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08
Luxury in New York.

The luxury and perfection of detail
in New York dwellings is passing in
to a proYerb. Nowhere in the world,
probably, is so much time and money
expended upon the furnishing and or
Hamenting of the homes of the rich as
In this city. The draping Of curtains
has become a distinct branch of art,
and every decorator or uphOlsterer
has one or more employees, whose sole
business is to arrange in graceful folds
the drap aperieS, which are now indis-
pensible, at doors, windows, and fire
place. Even the banisfers must now
be stuffed and tufted and draped on
either side with heavy fringe. Cell
ings are frescoed and painted in the
studios of distinguished artists, and
then transferred to the houses they are
to embellish. Hundreds of women
are employed, at au expense Of thOus-
ands of dollars, upon embroidery and
art necdleWOrk which is TO adUrn the
sumptuous. places in which our rich
men live. Paintings, statuary, carv-
ings in stone and wood, the richest
fabrics of French and Indian looms,
indeed, all that is most rare and beau
tiful in nature and art, are brought to
bear upon the decoration Of these re-
publican palaces. Even the stables, in
which the horses, cOachmen, and
grooms are to be housed, are far more
luxurious than the simple homes in
which the fathers of our race passed
their lives. The newly finished stables
of Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt in Fifty
eighth street far Outshine those of the
Roman Emperor whose sumptUOUs ap-
pointments have become a matter Of
history.-Netc TOTb; Sun.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08
Speculation In Cotton.

A writer Of the October Nineteenth
Century draws the attention Of tlle
public to the necessity of regulating
speculation in cotton by law. Cotton
is bought and sold in the future mar
ket" to the amount of SOOOO,OOO bales
when actually very little overt, 100000
bales were raised in this country.
The dealing in 100000 bales Of
cotton implies the changing hands Of
five thousand million dollars. This is
of no benefit to the real trade of the
country. What shall we do about it?
To stop speculation by law is impossi-
bic. To license limited number Of
peculators will create moBOpolies.
To place the ''buket-shOps" in the
hands of government agents like the
pawn-brokers' shops are in Austria,
is making the government a partner
in the crime.
All admit the necessity Of doing
something to stop cotton and corn
speculation, which is running the le-
gitimate trade of the country. But
what must we do.-HemphiS Free
Trader
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08
nisnnrifY in ApAs.

The old man who marrieS a young
girl does not do wise thing, and his
bride risks her happiness and often
loses it. But there is certain beauty
i'll the admiring protection of the hus-
band, and, whatever the disappOint-
ment may be, in nine cases out of ten
she keeps her own secret. Her ro-
nance may be dormant, but affection
is very strong in women, and she may
be fond and proud of very old man
who retains his faculties and his emo
tiOns, and loves her well. But of the
old woman who marrieS a boy, what
can we say, what can we think in
such union there can be neither dig
nifty nor beauty. The mans motive
is usually a merCenary one, and the
woman is simply his dupe. The cler-
gyman who performs the marriag ge GER
emOny knows that at the altar; the
friends who 90 TO church to see them
married feel it acutely. The cOngrat-
ulatiOns are hollow and forced. Even
where an old wOman's lingering beau
ty has temporarily captivated youth,
the lOOkers-on can feel nothing but
sOTrOw-the infatuatiOn must be so
brief, the rebound so terrible. Mans
love Is often so light a thing, even
when youth and beauty rivet it! A
wife has often so much to suffer, even
when she has chosen wisely The con-
tempt one cannot help feeling for the
woman who barters her freedom, the
scOrn one must cherish for the man
who sells himself for a fortune, are
scarcely so strong as the pity that
arises for two bound together for life
under such circumstances as to make
even ordinary cOntentment an utter
impOssibilitv.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08
A Prison Incident.

Mrs. Emma Molloy relates the fol-
lowing incident in one of her speeches
referring to the relation of intemper-
ance to crime:
In a recent visit to the Leaven-
worth, Kan. prison, during my ad-
dress on Sabbath morning / observed
a young boy, not more than II or Is
years OF age, on the front seat, intent
Is eyeing me. The look he gave was
so full of earnest longing, il spoke vol
umes to me. At the close of the SER
vice l asked the Warden for an inter-
view with him, which was readily
granted. As he approached me his
face grew deathlY pale, and as grasp
cd his hand he could not restrain the
fast falling tears. Choking with his
emotion ne said;
Il have been in this prison two
years, and you are the first person that
has called for me, the first woman
that has spoken to me-"
How is this, my child p l asked.
Have YOU no friends that love YOU ?
Where Is your mother?
The great brown eyes, swimming
with tears, were slowly uplifted ts
mine as he replied: "My friends are
all in Texas. My mother is
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08
FOREIGN.

In few days, hunting in Ireland will be
entirely stopped, and 100000 will be di-
yerted into other channels.
One thousand tenants in Roscommon re-
fuse to pay rent.
Three COWS belonging to a rent-paying
farmer near Fearns, county Cork, were
found ripped open,
Lord Donvale has discharged all the la
bOrers on his estate because he was unable
to discover who battered an entire flock of
sheep to death.
All suspects in KiImainham jail have
commenced subsisting on prison fare.
The Kirksdale cotton mills, the largest in
Liverpool, were burned on the Both.
Samuel Marley, Liberal member of Par
lament for Bristol, addressing his consti-
tuents, said strong feeling in favor Of free
trade was growing in New York,
Senor Vicuna, Secretary of the Chilian
Legation at Paris, writes, stating that the
relations between Chill and the United
States have not for a moment ceased to be
friendly,
The survivors Of the Calf Rock light
house disaster are still upon the rock.
Samuel Mastry, in his London speech,
said that he could bear testimony to the
hearty feeling which peryaded America TO
ward England. If anybody, he said, should
90, as he did, into the Western States, they
would see the attractions they offered for
certain classes of the surplus population of
Great Britain. He recommended the
farmers to go there.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

| that /, for one, had once no thought
! IF alcohol except as food. I thought
it warmed us. l thenght it gave adj
ditional strength. l thought il en-
abled us to endure mental and bodily
fatigue. l thought it cheered the
heart, and lifted up the mind into
greater activity. But it so happened
that was asked to study the action
Of alcohol along with a whole series of
chemical bodies, and to investigate
their bearing in relation to each other.
And so l took alcohol from nv shelf
IN the laboratory, as l mi ght any other
drug or chemical there, and l asked it
In the course of experiments extend
ing over heightened period, What
do you do? ? l asked it, DO you warm
the animal body when you are taken
into it !? The reply came invariably,
L do not, except in mere flush of
surface excitement Then l turn
around to it i'm another direction, and
L ask 1t, Do you give muscular
strength ? / test it by the most rigid
analyses and experiment l can adopt,
and its reply is, II give 40 muscular
strength
Il turn to its effect upon the organs
of the body, and find that, while it
expedites the hearts action, it reduces
tOnicity, and. in the nervous system,
| find the same reply; that is to say,
l find the nervous system more quick
ly worn out under the influence of
this agent than if none were taken at
all. l ask ii, Can you build up any
of the tissues of the body? The an
swer again is in the negative; I build
nothing. If I do anything, [ add fatty
matter to the body, but that is a de-
structive agent, piercing the tissues,
destroying their powers, and making
them less active for their work Next
l turn around to the facts of expert
ence. 1 think, well, as L have come
to the above conclusion, will expe-
riment on myself I do so. L gave
up that which I thought warmed and
helped me, and 1 can declare, after
considering the whole period in which
l have subjected myself to this ordeal,
L never did more work I never did
more varied work; 1 never did work
with equal facility-with so much IA
cility; l never did work with such a
complete sense of freedom from anx-
iety and worry, as l have done during
the period that l have abstained alto
gether. Let this fallacy then, as to
the necessity of moderate drinking,
be removed.-MedicG Temperance
Journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08
Inc Llterature of the South.

The literature of people is the en-
e2ation, the Towering Of the
brain and soul Of that peo-
pie. Tne emenation, the flow
cring, from the brain, the soul of any
other people, of widely different peo-
pie, most inevitably have a foreign
flavor. We, Of the South, read Eng
lish and Northern literature and like
them both, but we feel the foreignness
just as We feel the foreignness of Ger
man or French or Spanish works-on-
ly IN a less degree. Anything in the
English tongue is nearer akin 10 as
than any other tongue. But for
eign thought, foreign sentiment, for
eign poetry, foreign music, may please
the Southern mind, but they do not
touch the Southern heart, they do not
awake in the Southern soul that an
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08
The Cranberry Man in a Predieament.

George Smith, the Berlin cranberry
man, who offered to marry the wo-
man picking the most cranberries on
his marsh, now wishes he had accept
ed our offer TO send colored girl from
here to compete. He kicked on the
colored girl with great deal ofihdig-
nation and barred her out. The result
is that he has got to marry an ancient
Pollock widow, who has twelve chill
dren up to now. She picked the most
berries and waits for Mr.. Smith 10 fill
his part of the contract, and he sits on
a barrel of cranberries and sigls while
the widow sits on a doorstep across
the street and corrals her children,
waiting for the cranberry step-father
to come and claim his own. While
our sympathies are with Mr.. Smith in
the irving situation in which he finds
himself, we must insist that he marry
the woman and support the children.
OF course lac thought that some pretty
girl would pick the most berries; but
ne should have known that, while a
pretty girl might start in and pick
berries well for day, she could not
hold out faithful to the end of the
cranberry season. Mr.. Smith might
as well begin to learn the language Of
Kosriosko and clasp to his bosom the
family that he has so nobly wOn.-
MiI9raubee Sun.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

There is no more fallaciOus idea
than that one should use brandy or
other liquors to purify the blood, 10
aid digestion. or to build mp the sys-
tenn. Since il has been proven by sci
entific investigation that alcohol can
not be digested, that il can not be
changed into blood, that II can not as
simulate with any other substance
taken into the stomach, that il floats
about. being "waste matter" Ia the
truest sense, and as il has also been
proven that alcohol exists in all vinous
and fermented liquors, IL becomes
matter of wonder that 50 many women
Young and old, will use these stimu-
lants in any form, be it wine, beer, or
brandy. If food does not digest, they
certainly have no need to take into
their stomach additional indigesdble
matter, in the shape Of liquor or light
wine, and most certainly not the lOggy
beer. II the nervous force is exhausted
or the physical strength weakened, IL
is wise to rebuild them by using, as
remedies, the very substances that in
the end. will surely pull them down.
To come down 10 the plain, practical
question, is there any necessity for q
woman using liquor at all Are there
anv circumstances under which she
needs them Stimulants do not Gre
ate nervous power; they simply en-
able one to use mp that which remains
and the idea that they aid IN digestion
is equally false.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08
Another Rod in Pickle for John Sher.
man.


The Sunday Gazette, which has
been publishing a series of articles in
the form of interviews, adds to its re-
cent charges that Government work
men were employed upon Mr.. Sher-
mans new house while he was Secre-
tary, and that he also managed to
have il furnished at public expense.
The G0zette'S informant saws. re-
ferring to the house: "When it is fin
ished the next thing requiring the at
tention ofits Treasury Secretary owner
was the furnishing. The problem to
the solution of which he addressed
himself was how to furnish the house
without personal cost. Supervising
Architect Hill and the Treasury De-
partment Contingent fund constituted
his conclusion. Hill detailed an en-
ploye Of his office to go to New York
City and select the furniture Sherman
desired, and it was paid for out of the
contingent fund of the Treasury De-
partment. The money so illegally
disbursed was charged to the pur-
chase of furniture for public buildings.
The amount was in the neighbOrhOOd
of$75OO, a mere trif1e to a country con-
tanning 50 many taxpayers as does
CIt - HlCeu Otdtcs' purpOstly WlIh-
hold the more minute details of this
little operation at the country's ex-
pense in order to draw out the ex-
Secretary and present Supervising
Architect. This matter should seem
to them as worthy Of denial as the
work of Mr.. w. Paul Brown, and it
may partly explain the eX-Secretary's
anxiety TO have the fast approaching
Senate investigation &C so far back
into the past of Treasury Department
contingent fund disbursements. a
witness to this can be produced"
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swering thrill as if sister spirit had
touched its tenderest chords. No mat
ter how fine the sentiment, how splen-
did the diction, how true the pathOs
of foreign works, they do not 60 to
the very center of our hearts, they do
not awake that responsive emotion,
that even humber productions of our
own people would arouse.
This is especially and strongly true
since the South's subiugation by the
North. A common suffering, a COM
mon humiliation, common wrong,
has knit our people together and
made of Southerners one people.
Only a Frenchman with the MEM
Ories of the mad revolution which
overthrow thrones and tyrants, is
fired to patriotic ferver by the melan-
cholly notes of the "AIarsellaise."
Only an Englishman with the memo
ries CT England's many battles is
reused to martial pride by "Britania
Rules the Waves" Only a poor con-
quered SOutherner, with memories of
all the South has suffered, memories of
her brave four years fl ight for freedom,
is melted to tears by the sound of
''Dixie." To Northern, to European
ears, ''Dixie" is only the commonest
piece Of music, the most ordinary play
of notes.-the cultivated ear might
scorn it, to the Southerner it possesses
the mournfulest beauty-strange
and magic power. What world of
memories it evokesl What legions of
long buried hopes-pale phan-
toms of the civil war l-rises up from
the dead past, and stalk before the
Southern vision. was in Washing
ton city hotel once when some street
musicians struck up "Dixie." The
lady was talking with burst into
tears at the sound, and her husband,
who had been a Southern soldier,
turned away to hide the tears that
rose to his eyes.
Southerners think and Southerners
feel. Genius is the child of thought
and feeling. Southern genius dies in
its infancy, it perishes for want of
space wherein to exercise its wings.
Forty years ago Poe said that no
Southern writer ever received justice
at the hands of Northern critics.
Northern critics judgments are so
distorted by sectional bias, they have
so long been in the habit of looking
down on Southerners as their inferi-
ors, they cannot believe that anything
good can come out of Nazareth. This
sectional bias has been greatly increas-
ed since the war-conquerers always
feel themselves mentally and morally
the superiOrs of the conquered. New
er will the South make herself re-
spected by her conquerers until she
has a literature of her own,
until she ceases to depend on
the North for her mental
food. Southern writers who contri-
butte to Northern magazines or papers,
find 10 countenance or support at the
hands Of Northern publishers unless
they pander to Northern sentiment,
unless they suppress Southern feeling,
and Southern sympathy. The South
owes it to herself to foster the talent,
the genius OF her own children
HeHlDhis Free Trader
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08
murdered nv His Wife's Side.

IVicksburg Special to the y. o. Democrat.l
Information was received here to-
day of the assassination of Mr.. Rob-
ert Catlin, on his plantation OF the
Yazoo River, Friday night. Mr.. Cat
Inns plantation is located near Hunts
vile Landing on the Yazoo river
about 100 miles above Yazoe City.
He was one of the wealthiest men IN
that section Of the country. and
seemed to be universally esteemed by
white and colored people on or about
his place. The dastardly deed was
committed about II o'clock Friday
night-the assassin firing through a
window of the sitting room in which
Mr. Catlin and his wife were sitting
together talking ever the topics Of the
day. The bali penetrated CatliHs
spine, killing him instantly. A ne
gro who fed the country after the as
sassination is accused of the crime,
and the officers Of the law are ia lot
pursuit of him.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

The alliance of the administration
with reputation in Virginia and Ten
nessee, and Greenbackism in Missis-
sippi and Missouri clears our skirts eff
fectually of both stains, and loads the
Republicans in Congress with added
ard offensive burdens. To carry
measures, they must have the help of
Malone in the Senate and House
alike. They must be his servile slaves
in return. All right. Let them have
Malone and his Congressman, and
Hyatt Smith and his Congressman.
Let them drink their fill of such
alliances and pay all the penalties of
them. Let the Democratic minority
be content to use its really great pow
er within party lines for the party's
good, and leave the speakership alone.
- Utica Observer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

SmPPMGPoRT, Kentucky. is at pres
ent suffering all the horrors of an cpl
demic oftyphoid fever. The dreadful
disease has invaded nearly every fam
lily in the place. The Louisville Com
merc'd quotes DIR. w. b. Doherty as
authority for the statement which fol-
lows:
In one house the Doctor says five of
the family are down at once, in anOth-
er family two, in thiId three, and so
on. The people there mostly make
their living by fishing, and none of
them are well-to-do. The sickness
they have suffered has taken all the
money they had. Their cases certain
ly demand attention.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

Tweed dying in Jail, Sweeney in
exile, Connolly forced to fly, Genet in
prison, Garvey made to wear stripes,
and Ingersoll, Keyser and the rest
prosecuted to conviction, while all OF
them were forced to disgorge, make a
chapter of Mr.. Tilden's prosecution OF
municipal robbers to be put in con-
trast with the escape of the Republi-
can Star Route plunderers. The two
facts explain the policy,ot each party
toward its own rascals. Democracy
destroys its specularors. Republican
ism makes its Cabinets and its courts
the factors in a conspiracy to acquit
them.--4Ib6ny ArguS.
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AConyerted Doctor.

DIR. B. W, Richardson, of England
"the foremost physiologist of the age
has become a teetotaler, and most
active and successful temperance
worker. The following Is his own
account Of his conviction and cOnver-
sion, in a speech in Exeter Hall, Lon
don:
q am recording a matter of personal
history on this question, when / say
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

The mail carrier, Geo. McCutcheon,
who was arrested for robbing the
mail, pleaded guilty in the United
States Court at Fort Smith, and in
view of his reputable family connec-
tons and tender years, was sentenced
to one year and six months impris-
onment. lie carried the mail from
Rally Hill, Boone county, to Dover,
Pope county, and by means of a du-
plicate key obtained access to the
pouch and absfracted the registered
letters. 1t is understoo the amount
Ofhis populations will be made good
by his relatives.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

A young couple from Valley Head,
one widower of nineteen, and the
other widow of eighteen, were mar
ried at the Office of the Alabama
Great Southern Road, at Chattanooga
OH Monday.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

The GAINESVILLE, Green county, (Ark. }
Press says; "All is life and work on
the railroads IN this county. Two
railroads are being built along the
ridge, and everybody as busy as bees,
and dirt and timber flying in every
direction. Parties are coming into
Greene county almost daily looking
for land and most all who come hei e
buy farms. Mill men along the Iron
Mountain road complain of lack of
cars by which to ship their lumber.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-12-08

Pat Doneland and Joe K. Morgan,
confessed TO robbing a registered
Irtter pouch on the Iron Mountain
railway, near KnOble Station, and
were sentenced by the court at Little
Rock, the former to one year in thu
Arkansas peBitentiary, and the latter
to three years in the Detroit prison.
The robbery took place On the 18th OF
November.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A CHINESE student committed sui
eide in Marietta, Ohio, the other day
because a pretty servant girl would
not accept his suit Is this the result
of American training on the Mongo-
liam mind ?