The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-27
A CALENDAR OF ANNIVERSARIES.

NOVEMBER.
''No sun, no moon,
No morn, no noon,
NO dawn, no dusk, no proper time of
No sky, no earthly view,
No distant looking blue
No road, no street, no 'pother side the way.''
No warmth, no cheerfuIness, no heaIthful ease
No comfortable feel in any member;
No shade, TO shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds
NovemberV
This shivering season was called
simply the Ninth in the old Roman
calendar, no potentate having thought
1t worth his while, apparently, to con-
fer the honor and dignity of adoption
on so ill-conditioned a weight The
SaXons called it aCjRd-mORdt, the
wind-month, when their fierce Scan
dinavian ancestors drew up their
keels upon the shore, there to lie idle
through the wild winter weather. To
the French republicans it was known
as BTungd5Te. the fog-month. On the
22nd of the month the sun enters the
sign of Sagittarius, the Archer, said
to typify the deadly power Of the in
creasing cold which now shoots into
the earth.
The first of November is a festival
of Allsaints, which takes its origin
from the conversion, in the seventh
century, of the Pantheon at Rome
into Christian place of worship, and
its dedication to the Virgin aud all
the martyrs.-On November l, 1900,
was born that cratic FIorentine
genius Benvenito Cellini, whose
airy fancies wrought themselves into
poems OF gold and silver, of bronze
and brass and whose frank autObio-
graphy is vivid picture Of his SPLEEN
did and turbulant age.-In the year
1890 the same day achieved bad en-
inence as the date of expulsion of the
Jews from England. The pious Ed
ward l., lying upon sick-bed, made
a vow that if the Almighty should re-
store him, he would undertake an
other Crusade. Having recovered,
however, and finding Palestine long
way of, and England vastly more
comfortable, he concluded to serve
Heaven by driving the Jews out of
his French province of Guienne, and
seizing their wealth and possessions.
Returning, he was welcomed by his
English subjects with such rapturous
congratulations for this chivalrous
and Christian deed that he decided to
Danish the English Israelitcs as we'll.
This course commended itself with
peculiar force to the nation, inasmuch
as king and bishops, gentry and COM
moners, were deep in debt to the OBJ
neXious sojourners, whose exile would
relieve them of their obligations. And
as the Jews were generously allowed
to take money enough to pay their
way to the nearest seaport, and al
lowed a safe conduct at a ruinous
price (Which would have insured them
a 70 al Iar,. ,.tr
headed mob had not everywhere dis
regarded iD, these unbelievers, OF
course, had nothing to complain of
But English commerce and English
learning sustained a severe loss by the
exile of the patient, plodding, thrifty
lsraelites. Nor was it until the wise
party of Cromwell invited them once
more to England, more than three
centuries and half later, that this
valuable element of the body-politi,
was restored to it.
The I'd of November is All-soull
Day, when the prayers of the faith
full are still offered for the souls O
the departed. On the Continent tn,
graves are visited and adorned will
fresh flowers, but in England the Gus
tom survives only in Monmouthshir,
and Wales.
With the 3D. OF Novemger is inwov
en- the memory of that delicate-wing
ed Ariel, the beloved Mendelssohn.
November 4th is the day of the hol,
ST. Emeric, the piOus son of the piou
King Stephen of Hungary. His sane
tity caused hes name to be bestowed
upon an Italian surnamed Vespucci
who did the age a service in extend
ing a knowledge of the new worlC
which columbus had discovered. S,
by an odd chain of circumstances tn
half-civiliZed Hungarian chieftian O
the eleventh century in choosing
name for his son and heir really
stood sponsor for a vast and then I'm
dremed-Ot-continent. On this day, il
1877, was born William of Orange
that cold, grave, repellent man, who's
frame was shaken with disease, who's
face was pallid and shrunken witt
pain, who was unlettered, and ever
rude in address, yet whose indomita
bic spirit and political genius mad
him King of England in fact as wei
as in name, and kept her in the fore
most line of progress.
November 5, 1908, was the famou
day of the Gunpowder Plot, when
small knot of departed men, resolves
Parliament, placed barrels of pOwde
in cellar beneath Parliament House
to be fired on the assembling of tn
two branches. One Guido Fawke.
soldies of fortune, was the custodiaf
of the place, and only an accident al
rested the scheme at the last moment
Till lately special service for the 5t
of November was found in the Eng
fish Book of Common PraverS now
however, with that,for the martyrdoT
of Charles l. aud the restoration G
Charles H., discontinued. But il j
still a general holiday, and bears
large significance as the day whe
William III. began the Revolution c
1858 by landing at Torbay-a move
ment whose results were perhaps tn
most critical in English history.
November 6, 33l, was born at Cor
stantinople the Emperor Julian, SUI
named the ApOstate.
On November z, 1888, took place tn
last execution on "Tyburn's tripl
tree"-a gallows cheerfully arrange
with elevated platforms about /
where the world could sit at ease All
enjoy the pleasing and insructiv
spectacle of the strangling of a fellow
creature. Tyburn, hitherto a forlor
and disreputable quarter, with til
new times put on new manners, an
now one sees, as Thackeray said, o
the spot where criminals made thei
exit from this wicked world a splendi
marble arch, vast and modern cit
clean, AIRY, painted drap, pepulou
with nursery-maids and children, I'll
abodes of wealth and comfort-th
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