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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-10-29

SCARCELY three months ago the pres.
emit writer had the extreme pleasure
OF introducing himself to a craft who
profess to WELD the cerebral scnl,,ez
who profess to be able to turn the
sca'e of public opinion, who pro-
less to be the chroniclers of the great
events in each act of the worlds grea t
drama.
Inc writer reverts to his former in
PRODUCTION to this craft with species
ofpleasure much akin to m ,nly pride,
and now has very distinct rcmem-
orenoe and, by the way, very kind
~ feeling for certain modest, unas-
Stunning individual who, on the 23d of
July last performed the introduction
We think he was known by the very
polite name Statutory
To-day the same writer will Law
down his pen forever to the community
that have watched wi h some interest
the may ffatter himself to say his first
career in journalism. And he feels
that the citizens who evince disposi.
ton to enterprise and thrift, will think
kindly of the writer, years hence, when
they may, through curiosity or other.
wise, glance over the old files of the
STAR, and find his name upon the first
copy ever issued in Newtown l
There is peculiar pleasure when
upon removing from place of late {
residence, to have friends shake your
hand with a good honest shake and
arm IN arm, take a step or two with
you upon your destined road, and dis. a
euss the destant landscape Ger with II
real interest, and real good wishes,and ft
TO De able to say to your friends who r
have assisted you: II owe no man o
whom | have not given satisfaction" n
The writer feels that he can retire n
from Stephens City, with these plea Ii
sures to cheer him on the way. o
tie feels very happy to state that h
the STAR, will loose none of its form. fc
er orllllancy, in its present hands, but pl
mat efforts will be made to increase si
Us present facilities for lac al and edi- b
arial capacity. pc
Thanking the public for their gen so
'rous support and many kind words ha
'arlng Ills litertry efforts here, and OF
Wishing them one and all the best com tol
llments of the season, he has the rel
onor to be, sv
Your obedent servant, ms
CHAs. E. PAINTER. WI
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-10-29

We offer bargains, in Boots and shoese
examine our Challenge Boots" Hand mad
ana warrantedby Young, Kimmel & Diggs,
OF baltimore; Wewill order our 2nd supply
OF these goods this week.
Mems heavy shoes $1.25, Extra good
oo per per pair, Ladies and Misses mo-
rocco hastings: and foxed buttoed CATERS. at
all prices. Examine our stock before
making yourpurchases, as we feel confidant
tnae we can please you in this line of goods
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
FASHIONS FANCIES.
Watered silk is revived.

Watered silk is revived.
Dust cloaks are made of mOhair.
Red parasols are striking novelties.
The latest artificial roses have thorns.
Cascades of lace form the prettiest
ties.
Large bonnets are simply trimmed.
Low shoes in fanciful shapes grow in
favor.
Solid colors are most fashionable in
hosiery.
The favorite waist is the box-plaited
blouse.
Linen lustre, an old-fqshioned silk
fabric, is revived.
Dainty boots with little gilt spurs
are the latest device.
Black silk stockings are worn with
Oxford ties on the street.
Fancy buttons are decorated with
pictures from Hlsop's fables.
Blue and bottle green are fashiona-
bic colors for riding habits.
The Byron collar is of embroidery
laid over bright ribbon.
Queen Charlotte collars of immense
size are worn by English women.
Bright yellow silk mltts are worn
with toilets of black.
The obelisk hat has tail, tapering
crown and a wide brim.
Old-fashioned paste buckles now
glitter upon large poke bOnnets.
The shade of green called bronze
dart is exceedingly fashionable.
Gentlemen now wear white double
breasted duck vests with Prince All
bert at.
With the high vests and coats and
wide fat scaris worn in the daytime
the shirt trent is never seen.
There is a decided tendency to make
shirts fuller and their draPeries more
bouaaat.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
AGreat Crime.

The crime of enticing a boy into a
drinking den and making a drunkard
of him is Of high grade. 1t deserves
severe and certain punishment The
barkeeper. who does it is an enemy to
the family. He corrupts life at the
fountain. There arc few greater
wrongs that he can commit upon the
peace and purity of family life. Per
haps only one greater The fathers
and mothers of the land should create
a public sentiment that will compel
the prompt and rigid enforcement Of
all laws against selling Intoxicating
liquors to minors.
And the fathers and mothers in this
country can, if they will, make it hot
for judges, juries, solicitors, or attor-
neys who shield the shameless men
that make drunkards Of our tender
boys.
We believe the day is coining-that
it is already dawning they will
do it. Heaven help fathers and
mothers in a quarrel 50 just" in a
war 80 holyl
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
Lee On sherman.

Mr. Daniel Hayward writes frsm
New York to the Charleston News and
Courier as follows:
Il see you are paying some attention
to Gen. Sherman's address TT Hartford.
I he General appears quite nervous at
the ugly names given him by Mr.. Da-
Wis in his book. AS he attempts to
snecr ut Mr.. Davis, /, and alone,
probably can give him the opinion of
one he won't attempt to shake off with
q snecr- Gen. Robert +. Lee. / beg
for myself to say that saw the first
soldier Of Gen. Sherman's army who
crossed the Savannah river, and with
him came fire. In q very short time,
on the vest side of the river, every
dwelling, negro cabin, barn. and ev-
erything that could burn, was on fire.
From where / was | could see his fires
for forty miles. After leaving Savan-
nah he went to Beaufort and crossed
at Port Royal ferry into South Carroll
nG proper. was there again before
him, on the Combahee river. There,
again, every building, dwelling, negro
quarter and barn went down before
his torch. And 50 on did he go on his
march Of $50 miles to Columbia, dri-
wing the women and children into the
woods and swamps without cover and
without fosd. This did not cease at
Columbia, but continued to the extrem-
est verge of the State. Now, Gen.
Sherman cannot deny this, for there
stand "Shcrman's monuments" rs they
are called, the burnt chimneys. l
never believed this act would be sane
toned by the usages of war, and deter
mined if ever saw Gen. Lee to get
the opinion of one whom every one
must deem the highest authority. /
called on Gen. Lee in Savannah, when
on the way to Florida to restore his
broken health After q protracted
visit and when about to leave, 1 said:
General, have question to ask, of
the propriety of which, l am doubtful.
You will notreply il it is improper. "
He said: "Ask itsir, ask it. asked:
"Was General Sherman justified un-
der the rules ofwar in burning, as he
passed through South Carolina, the
homes of our women and children while
our men were in the field fighting him
bravely?" His eye Rashed, as on the
battlefield, and, half rising from his
seat, he said in voice more emphatic
than ever heard him: mo sir! No
sir! 1t WAS the act of savage, and
not justified by the usages of war"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
OUR YANKEE GIRLS.
United stutes Econsm:st.I

United btutes Economist.
1t Is delusion to assert that labor
in our mills is dearer than in those of
Europe, when our operatives turn out
double, triple and quadruple the guam
tity of cloth. Our machinery is much
swifter than any in use in Europe, and
our operatives are far more intelligent
and accomplish more than they do
beyond the Atlantic. 1t is enough to
state this for fact and let those who
will seek for the reasons. The reasons
can be readily ascertained by those
who choose to if they are wise enough
to seek for them from personal obser-
vatiOns. A visit to any one Of our
well appointed New England mills is
sufficient to convince the Mquisitor
that in almost all our mills the artisan
is more of Il free agent, and feels that
to labor earnestly and faithfully is II
duty that brings. more comfort to his
family, while it enlarges the profits of
his employer. 1t is only necessary to
compare the comforts Of the operatives
IN the Pacific mills, at Lawrence,
Mass, with those of the best appointed
mills abroad, and it will be readily
seen there is a world of difference. At
the Pacific Mills all can resort during
the hours Of rest to their splendid free
library and employ their spare hours
in improving their knowledge. There
Is freedom in its sweetness and no deg.
relation or slavery here. Nor can the
operatives he distinguished on the Sab
bath by their dress from the very men
who all the year round employ them,
With the girls the comparison is still
greater, for in their Sunday dresses
they rival the bon ton Of society. We
would sooner trust q Yankee girl to
set disarranged piece of machinery,
a loom, a spindle, or any other such
thing in quick motion than any of the
high paid superintendent employed in
the European mills, drawing large
salaries of two to five thousand pounds
Il wear.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
OUR BONDS.
VI he Hold the Federal BOnds--They Are
in the Hands Of S0mc 10000
People.

WAsHISGToN, June 26.-The in
vcstigation being conducted by Special
Agent r. P. Porter into the owner
ship Of the United States bonds is
completed SO far as relates to the reg
istered bonds, and the result wiz be
soo.i issued in the shape of an extra
bulletin. 1t will show that about
$40, ,0O0,O 900 of the bonds held by
private holders are owned by persons
each having amounts exceeding .s59,-
600, 600, and will rather disabuse sthe
minds Of the people Of that erroneous
idea industriously promulgated by the
great monopolists of popular loan.
The exact figures are not yet attain
able, but it is probable that not over
$4,000 and certainly not oyer 100, 900
persons own the entire debt of the
country. Indeed, it Is said that the
census will show 1900 persons and
corporations own upward of s410, ,0O0,-
600 of registered bonds, while 5000
persons are the Possessors of some
7,00O,0 in amounts less than $500
each-an aggregate of less than one
seventh Of the registered bonds held by
Vanderbilt alone Thus, to express
the matter arithmetically, $4,000 of
the masses Of the people, $1,000, 600;
G. Vanderbilt, s50,0O0,0 900; twenty
one Western States and Territories,
probably s4o.uO0.OOO. About II per
cent. Of the registered bonds are held
in the New England Statea, about AZ
per cent. in the Middle States, about
, per cent. in the Southern Sta teo,
and little over s per cent. in tie
Western. About IS per cent. are
held by corporations.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
The Agricultural Prosperity Of the south


Mr.. Edward Atkinson, who has
given much study to the material re-
sources Of the South, calls public at
tention to two things that are likely to
prove extraordinary agencies in adj
vancing the agricultural prosperity of
the South. y serious difficulty that
farmers and planters have to contend
against there is the fact that it has
cost three times It's much to feed mule
or other animal as to support field
hand. One Of the things mentioned
by Mr.. Atkinson is a machine for sep
arating the hulla from cotton seed and
cutting up the leaf and stalk of the
plant in such a way as to convert into
nutritious animal food what few
years ago was almost wholly waste /.
One result will be supply of food for
from 20,00O,0O0 to 40,000,OO0 sheep.
This number of sheep means from IS,
000. 900 to $50, 100000 pounds of
wool Il year, which, in turn, means an
annual addition of from s25, 900, 600
to $50, 0,000,0 900 directly to Southern
wealth, besides the vast indirect gain
that must follow. There is little doubt
that wool can be made staple second
only TO cotton In the South, and there
is reason to believe that it is destined
to become 80. Since the war the
Southern wool product has increased
at remarkable rate. In Texas, the
greatest of the wool-producimg States
Soath, the clip has run up from 5000
600 pounds in 1869 to $4,000, 900
pounds in 1880. In the uihor Gulf
States there has been an increase of
more than fve-fold in the product.
By following up this progress and
pushing on into the field of wooden
manufactures. the South may achieve
results that must add wonderfully to
its material prosperity and wealth.
The other thing of which Mr.. At
kinsOn speaks is newly discovered
force called "ensilage," for restoring
exhausted soils and developing pro
ductive power. In his opinion it viii
prove the means Of rejuveng ting the
South and of supplying what it has
greatly needed, namely, succulent food
during the long, hot, dry season that
is essential to the cotton crop. The
practical value of the discovery Is to
be tested at the coming cotton exhIbi-
ton in Atlanta, and should its virtues
prove what they are claimed to be, it
must open up a new era in agriculture,
and work untold advantages, not only
for the South, but also other parts of
the country.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
Aduice to a New ChoIr.SInEer.

Dear Miss: This Is an important
cpock into your life. Tie LIST thing
To make good quire singer is to giggls
II little.
Pat mp yonr hair in Girl papers every
Friday snze to have it in good shape
sunday morning. II your daddy Is
rich you can buy some store hair. If
he is very rich you can buy some more
and huiit it up high onto your head;
then git high-priced bunnet that
runs up very high. at the high part
OF it, and git the milliner to plant
some high grown artafshels onto the
highest part of IL This will help YOU
to sing high, as soprahno is the high
est part. When the tune is Civ out
1on't pay attention to it, and then gig
gle. Giggle good eel.
Whisper to the girl next to You
that En- Jones, which sets on the 2d
sect from the left hand side. has her
bunnit with the same color exact she
had last year, and then put up your
book to your face and giggle.
Object to every tune unless there is
a solow into it for the soprahno. Cof
and ham good eel before you begin
to swing.
When We begin to sing a solow shake
the artafshels off your bunnet, and
when you come TO high tone, brace
yourself back little, twist your head
to one side, and open your mouth the
widest on that side, shet the eye on
the same side jest trifle. and then
put in for dear life.
When the preacher gifts under he'd
way with his Preaehin, write note
onto the blank leaf into the fourth
part of your note book. That's what
the blank leaf made for. Git sumbody
to pass the note to sumbody else, and
yo watch them read it, and then gig
gle.
If anybody talks OF lafFs in the con-
gregashun and the preacher takes notis
of it, that's good chants for you 10
giggle a great eel. The preacher dar-
sent say anything to you, bekaso you
is in the quire, and he can't run the
at bath ends without the
quire If YOU had bow before you
went into the quire Civ him the mitten-
you ought to have sumbody better
now.
Don't forget to giggle.-Josh BN-
i0gs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
The Earth and the Comets.

One of Prof. Newcomb's assistants
says the earth meets $4,000, 900 of
comets, more or less, every year. Al
most all of them are ignited by the
rapid passage through oar atmosphere,
and become shooting stars. Now and
then one does not ignite, and strikes
the earth These are called meteoric
stones, Of which a very large specimen
Is in the Smithsonian Institution. The
universe is full of them. The assistant
adds that it is held by some astrono-
mers that the result which would fol
low, should comet strike the earth
IA large would be to resolve
both bodies AT once, by the conclusion
into clouds of incandescent mist, or
gaseous matter, a result which would
be so sudden and instantaneous that the
inhabitants of the earth would
never know what had happened.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
If COULD KEEP HER so.

Just little baby, lying in my arms,
Would that could keep you with your baby
charms;
Helpless, clinging fingers; downy golden
hair,
Where the sunshine fingers, caught from
othcrwhere;
Blne eyes asking questions. lips that cannot
speak,
Roly-poly shoulders, dimPle in your cheek;
Dainty little blossom, in II world of woe;
Thus fain would keep you, for love you
Roguish little damsel, scarcely six years
old
Feet that never weary, hnir of deeper gold;
Restless, busy fingers, all the time at play,
Tongue that never ceases talking all the day;
Blue eyes learning wonders of tho world
about,
Have come 10 tell you them-what an eager
shout!
Win=omc little dansei, all the neighbors
know;
Thus long to keep you, for love you so.
Sober little zchool-girl, with your strap OF
books,
And such grave importance in your puzzled
looks;
Solving weary problems, poring over sums,
Net with tooth for sponge-cNke and for sugar
plum7,
Reading books OF romance in yoHr bod At
night,
Waking up to study in the morning light;
Anxious a. TO ribbons, deft to tie bow,
Full Of contradiction would keep YOU 50.
Sweet and thoughtful maiden, sitting by any
side,
All the worlds before you, and the world Is
wide;
Hearts are there for winning, hearts are
there 70 break,
Has your own, -lry maiden, just begun to
wake?
Is that roe of dawning glowing on your
check,
Telling us IN blushes what you will not
speak?
Shy and tender maiden, would fain forego
All the golden future, just to keep you 80.
All tie listening angels saw that she was
fair,
Ripe for fair unfolding in the upper air;
Now the rose Of dawning turns to lily white,
And the closc-shut cyelids veil the eyes from
sight;
All the past / summon IA kiss her brow
Babe, and child, and maiden all are with me
now.
Oh! my heart is breaking; but Gods love l
know
Safe among the angels, He will keep her 50.
Louise Chandler -Hotlto..
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
TEMPERANCE.
Prospect for prohibition In Texas.


The Texas correspondent 0f the New
Orleans Democrat, writing from Dal-
las. June llth. says;
During the week State tc,aper-
ance convention has been in session at
Dallas, attended, by delegates from a
large number OF counties. They are
inrn of the highest r,Spertabillty, and.
actuntctl bY the purest nlntive4, are
curl st and sInguine The grand
point they are working for is to force
the Legislature 10 submit similar bill
to the Maine liquor law to q vote of
the people. Such a measure was be-
fore ii last winter, and lacked only a
few of enough votes. It's advocates
are confident of success neyt time, and
are laying their plans accordingly.
As little as ypu may think, should
it ever be squarely placed before the
people whisky will be voted down in
Texas. It would be more easy 10 carry
prohibition law here than in the old
States, for none of them-no other
people on earth-have suffered 20
many woes from it's use. It's blight Is
upon almost every household, its vic
TINS in every prison and graveyard.
These and ten thousand other facts
against this cube Of al crimes are too
well known for majority to deliber.
ately ask for its retention.
Thousands of men who drink wish
ut the bottom of their hearts there was
not drop on earth, and that there
WIS some chosen curse, some secret
thunder hidden in the stores of heaven,
to smite every still-house in the world.
While this is true of men, there is not
one woman to every 900 who would
not vote the same way.
The mortality among the whisky
drinkers of Texas is simply frightful.
1t is nn exaggeration to say ninety per
cent. of it is deadly poison. One day
while walking along a rather quiet
street in Houston, ran upon negro
who had just sawed whisky barrel in
two to make tubs, and taken from the
then most frequented bar in town.
Noticing peck of black sediment in
the several ends, 1 pointed to it and
asked: ''Uncle, what is that?" "Dat's
to glib it de power, bossy!"
Taking up IA handful, carried it to
ConliiE's drug store, and was informed
it was connabisintlicus berries, or the
Old-flshloned fish berries we used when
u boy to intoxic,te fish. Informed by
doctors that whisky strengthened and
diluted with such stuff would produce
certain death, the circumstances made
very strong temperance man out Of
me so far as that bar was concerned.
It is not all poison, however, but the
trouble with the consumer is he don't
know the good from the bad until too
late to prevent him from stealing "A
horse or committing some other mean
act. OF the 1000 inmates in the
penitentiary as out of 100 are there
for deeds done when the brain was
crazed thus. As an example, the
Jail. doors Of Rockwell county have not
been closed III twelve months. Under
our local option law 40 liquor has been
sold there in one year and half.
Such are few, u very few reasons
why l think prohibition, absolute and
complete, is actually demanded by a
large majority of the people of Texas.
Should it ever be adopted it will be
enforced with the utmost rigor
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-07
MOMAN,S TRIUMPH.

The women Of the country are stead
lily marching to the accomplishment Of
new efforts and triumphs. In every
position in which they hHve been
placed they expose the utter fallacy Of
mans boustcd claim to mental superb
ority. On that claim have been based
centuries Of oppression and injustice.
Tho contempt Of the priesthood, the
tyranny Of the law, sdbjugation in the
household, degradation in labor,
thousand petty prosecutions and hope
less wrongs, have ali been based on
that time-honored lie, that God made
woman inferior TO man. Under that
pretext, in all ages and lands, man has
denied woman her rights, has abridged
her liberties, circumscribed her ac-
tions, stifed her genius, dwarfed her
powers, and then appealed to the re-
suits Of his own tyranny rs proof of
the justice of his theory. But during
the last twenty years she has burst her
fetters, scared above all obstacles, and
put forth her powers to scOrn the pre-
tense of mans boosted superiority.
The world Will soon be convinced that
there is no EEK in mind. Ira
ditional errors, founded on the cruel
ties of past ages, when men made
women ignorant slaves, have been dis
PEELED by the genius Of women who
have taught the male poets new beau
ties in untried song, and who has
proved herself the equal of man
in oil the ayocaiions Of life.
The schoolfooni, and the wider
field which has been opened for the tai
ent Of women, tells the story Of her
triumph For time it was thought
there was something in the medical
profession Incompatible with womaB's
genius. But this belief is BOW expelled
by woman's triumph In Sn address
recently made by Dr. Rachel Bodley,
dean Of the Woman's Medical College
Of Pennsylvania, she reported that the
institution had pa living grad uates,
from $50 of whom letters have been
received in answer TO inquiries sent
out. Of those replying, All kut twen-
ty-three are in active practice. One
hundred and fifty repOrt that they are
accorded due social and professional
recognition, and only seven the contra
rv. Sixty-six tell how much they are
making, ag follows: Twenty fOur be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000 per annum;
twenty between $1,000 and $4,000; ten
between $4,000 and $4,000; FIVE between
$4,000 and 5000; three between 5000
and $4,000; four from sl5, 900 10 $40,
900, and ten less than $1,000. The
average Is s2907. 30. These retaats
Will surprise many ola-time conserv-
atives- PROFESSIONALLY, however,
well-edgcated female doctor is Of
great value TO her sex, and that they
are admitted 70 the ranks Of the pro-
fcssIon without being, rs formerly.
the victims Of discoGrtesy, Is marx
ef progress III 4aa5's intelligence. civil
ity aud common sense. y, h,ulpiis Ap-
peal.
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