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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14
Interesting TO Bald heads.

It Is an Acknowledged tact that
Memphis contains more pretty women
and bald headed men than any city Of
its size on the continent. Bald-headed-
ness Is not suggestive Of poetry, an I
those who are afflicted IN this
way are truly to be pitied. It re-
quires an expert 70 distinguish the
difference between 4 bald-head and
an ostrich egg. They are similar
The Scientific American comes TO their
relief, however, in the following case:
In cases Of confirmed badness the new
remedy proposed Is to remove the scalp
bit by bit, and substitute by skin graft
ing, pieces Of healthy scalp taken from
the heads Of Young persons. The sue
cess which has heretofore attended 0p-
erations of this nature in cases Of scalp
wounds gives a promising outlook for
this new mode Of curing baldness; and
perhaps the day IS not far distant when
the shining pates Of our venerable faith
ers viii bloom with the flowing locks
of youth.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14
How He was Hurt.

One day, down IN the Peninsula, nj
ter McCleIlan's battles, a wounded ne
gro was really, very badly hurt He
was plantation negro, and entirely
a non combatant. After be got better
he was describing TO The doctor one af-
teruoou haw he had been hurt. and did
It IN this manner: "Ye sec, boss, was
on de ole plantation when dem Yankee
gun boats dey cum up de ribbcr. Ole
massa and misses had gone days before
and we Diggers were lcf' on de planla-
ton. When we ali seed dc Yankees
a comm up de ribbcr we I'll run away
and hid IN de woods. By-um by de
boats began 10 she'll de woods, and lors
a rnassa what noise dey did make.
Shells as big as Gou' barls was frowed
into de woods and knocked trees down.
It ,yas awful hot, tell yoH; ] thot dc
world war comm 10 dc cnd. DE
niggers prayed, but 1t didn't do no
good, as dc Yankees only lrowcd de
mo- shells, and de Lord seemed deaf
to de petitions of the cullcd pussons.
Some Of dem shells would so high up
in dc air aud say, 'Whar is he? whar
IL hep like as if he war lookin' for
sumbo,ly, Den by-em-by deg would
say, 4 see him, ] see him, aud wild
dat dey'd bust and all de litile pieces
20 stumishing around dc woods after
dc niggers. lt was one ob desc little
pieces dat kotch me in dc leg, and
dat's how ! gow hurt. Il was pow
erful warm dty. nnassa, Q mouShiy
war day, tell yc-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14
TEMPERANCE.
The Four-Kile L.aI4.

II"n. y. w M,.> onnrll, Ju.l-e of
the Fiftn Ju,licial Circuit. IN = pah-
li-hcl letter, Shows u,e working uf the
-four mile llw, the repeal of Which
Is now attempted Taxpayers aud
peaccable, orderly ciliarns would do
weIi - read nni srri,rtlsly consider
wh:It hc savs:
The -four mile law" has been in
force since 1917. 1t shoull be Judged
by the fruits ii has horne. It has
been thoroughly tried IN the fifth ju-
iicial circuit.
In the eight counties composing this
circuit there is not single town that
has net surrendered Its charter, in
order To get the benefit of this law,
unless 1t be that Rome, in Smith
county, has not yet had its charter re
pealed. The law has thus had an OPP
portunity to be abundantIy tested
here. It has completely revolution
lied the condition Of these counties.
Before the saloons were closed it was
no uncommon thing to sec - many
drunken and bOisterous men on the
streets on public days chat it would
take an able bodied man to navigate
them. Now J seldom see a man out
Of the large crowds that attend my
courts under tho influence of liquor.
The people on these public days are
as quiet and orderly as if they bad
met on Sabbath day for religious
worship Drunkenness il an admitted
evil which threatens the very life Of
society. Then, why not let this law
stand when it is doing 50 much to re-
move it2 1t has had the effect to re-
duce the amount Of crime was
commissioned Judge of this circuit on
February 9th, 1879, and have held
every CiTcuit Court here since except
one. The charter of COokville was
repealed IN 1879, and the saloons were
closed at the June tenn of the court Of
that year. Four courts have been
held since, including the one now
about closing The whole number of
indictments found during those four
courts is Al an average Of IL. The
whole number of indictments found
during the last foHr courts under the
reign of liquor IS 1@2, an average Of
So. The closing e4 saloons, then, re-
ducet the amount OF crime IN Putnam
county GG3 per cent The whole DUm-
Der Of indictments from February,
1879, to June, 1879, embracing four
teen courts under the reign of saloons,
is 436-an average Of 81 II per cent.
The ratio between 4 and 81 II VIII
then fairly represent the decrease #
crime under the operation Of this l'e-
nefcent law. IF the tree, then, has
borne good fruit, why cut it down?
The effect of the law in decrease of
crime IN Putnam county is substan-
italy the result in the other counties
of this circuit. Under the set Of
1875, FIVE men can Incorporate a
school and close any saloon within four
miles Of il, not in an incorporated
town. It is objected that this is tyr
amy and the one man power princi
pie. But the saloon keeper and the
clerk of the county court can put one
up; why not Eve men put it down, if
two can put it up2
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14
JOHNSTON, LEE AND DAVIS.
A Brief Sketch of the Three Great
Confederate Officials.

Phlla. Press Interview with Senator Ben HILL
81 see that Gen: Johnston thinks
that Mr. Davis was responsible for the
Tennessee campaign. That is most
unjust accusation. / have given you
the facts in considerable detnil to show
exactly what part President Davis
took in that whole campaign after
Gen. Johnston was removed. The
difficulty with Gen. Johnston is that
he is suspicious, selfwilled and over
bearing. Davis never had any ii
will toward Johnston, and removed
him with great regret. He regarded
Johnston as good general and one OF
the best fighters in the army If he
would only fight. He often said that
if Johnston would only make battle
there would be no fault found with
his plans or their execution. John
ston is very unjust to Davis"
"For what reasOn?"
''That l cannot tell, unless it was
the dispute about the difference in
rank between himself and Gen. Lee.
which took place early in the war.
The bitterest fight / ever saw in an
executive session of the Confederate
Senate was introduced by Gen. John
ston's friends over this question of rank
between himself and Gen. Lee. Gen.
Lee had no part or lot in the cOntrO-
versy He was the most unselfsh
man ever knew. He would have
come to Richmond and been night
policeman if the good of the COnfed-
eracy had required it. Technically, l
suppose Gen. Johnston would have
ranked Lee and been entitled to the
command of the army, under the law
to encourage designations from the
United States army, but the majority
of the Senate thought that Lee should
rank Johnston Notwithstanding that,
and it was so decided after this terri
bly, bitter fight Inaugurated by Mr..
Johnston's friends to determine the
question"
"DO you know anything about the
differences between Lee and Davis as
to the surrender of the army?"
"Yes, sir. 1 have read with a great
deal of amusement much of the stuff
that has been printed about it. In
January, 1865, the two houses of the
Confederate Congress created a joint
committee to inquire into the condi-
ton of the army and the means of
continuing the war. l was on the
committee upon the part of the Senate.
That committee held secret sessions,
and examined almost every man IN
the Confederacy from JEFF Davis
down. When Gen. Lee was on the
stand I examined him myself, and in
great details When askedsabout his
holding Richmond he said that he
could do SO until Gen. Grant could
get the men and the time to push
around upon his flanks 80 as to threaten
his communication with the South.
HE explained that Grants forces
were constantly increasing, and that
he had unlimited supplies of men and
munitions, both Of which Gen. Lee
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14
THE DEVIL.
BY REV. ALFRED ) IIoUGH.

Men don't believe in devil now, as theiI
fathers used to do;
They've forced the door OF the broades
creed, to let his Majesty through.
There isn't print OF his cloven foot, or :
fiery dart from his bow
To be found in the earth or air to-day, fol
the world has voted so.
But who is it mixing the fatal draught that
palsies heart and brain,
And loads the bier Of each passing year with
ten hundred thousand slain?
Who blights the bloom of the land to-day
with the fiery breath of hell,
If the Devil isn't, and never was? Won't
somebody rise and tell?
Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint and
digs the pit for his fOet2
Who sows his tares in the field of time
wherever God sows his wheat?
The Devil is voted not to be, and Of course
the thing is true;
But who is doing the kind of work the Devil
alone should do?
We are told he docs not go about like roar
ing lion now;
But who shall we hold responsible for the
everlasting row
To be heard in home, in Church and State, to
the earth's remotest bound,
1.-THE Devil by a unar imous vote is nowhere
to be found?
Wort somebody stepto the front forthwith,
and make their bow and show
How the frauds and crimes of single day
spring up? We want to know.
The Devil was fairly voted out, and, of course
the Devils gone,
But simple people would like to know who
carries his business on?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14

Monsieur Pifre has perfected an ap-
Paratus al Paris by which twenty gal
Ions of water a minute is pumped ten
feet high. The motive power Is the
concentrated heat Of the sun. Those
who have examined the invention say
the time is near when residents of
southern countries VIII get what power
they want, for next to nothing. When
we can sit and smoke our cigars while
the sun does our laborious work for US
"the good time coming" viii have
come.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14

John, do you know why you are
like monkey Like a monkey?"
echoed John, opening his eyes wide;
'.no, I don't" ''Do you give it up2"
Il do" because your better half
is stubborness itself ~That's not
bad. Hal hal I'll give thai to ny
wife when ] get home" Ny dear"
he asked, as he sat down to supper,
''do you know why arn like . monkey
He waited a minute, expecting her 10
give it up. But she didn't. She looked
at him somewhat commiseratingly as
she answered: i suppose because
YOU were born -.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14

French relations are not amicable.
The Sultan will not receive the French
ambassador, and the ambassador SOL
emnlY warns the Sultan 10 ''lOok out
All the European government wants
to do, is to settle Turkey, and that
rantankerous bird is not settled vet.
Memphis appeal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14
Hearth and Homo.

The parental HEARTH, that raliying
place of the affections. 1t was the policy
of tho good old gentleman to make his
children feel that HOME was the happiest
place in the world and ! value this
delicious bOme-feeling as one OF the choicest
gifts a parent an bestow -WAsHINGToN
IRVING.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14

= General Grant denies, with some as
perity, that he has sold his Missouri
farm 70 Jay Gould He is outraged
that the careless reporter should have
set down at 70. instead Of 200. He
don't want to sell it, for be may want
TO 60 back TO tho tranquil joys OF coun-
try Iffe.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14

When a Boston young lady is asked
whether she viii 60 to hear a lecture
@On Autozone or Peroxide Of Hydro
ga" or visit the opera, she imPulsive-
j. replies: Oh, 70 the lecture by all
means.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-07-14
BOLIVAR BULLETIN.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING

One square of eight lines 81 50 for the first fR,cr
ton and - cents for each subsequent insersian.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30
TO BE REGRETTED.

Hon. Jefferson Davis book on the
"Rise aud Fall OF the Confederscy,"
is bristIing with reflections On Gen.
Joseph f. Johnston. The latter
gentleman comes back with caustic
defence, and now other parties are
joining the controversy. All Of this
is very unfortunate and to be deeply
regretted 1t is useless to revive
old issues Of war that brought 80
much evil on our people Our. brave
men from General, down to privstes
fought with beroism and pluck that
challenged the admiration of the
world. All are beloved by our peo-
pie and did the best they could for
success, and there should be no dis
position TO make i'll naturcd fiipgs at
one another. Let the dead past
bury the dead. This is a new era
1t is time to leave the things of the
past and press forward to grsnder
achievements in industrial, mechsn~
zeal, agricultural aud manufacturing
pursuits.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30
EMORY EPEER.

The Washington correspondent ct
the Savannah News thinks lion.
Emory Speer will vote with the
Radicals in the organization Of the
next House. The correspondent
Gays Emory is very hot after Andres
Clark, and the chances are that he
will take his head off on a charger.
To an ioterView with President Gar
field, Mr.. Speer spoke about Clark
and the other things that be wanted.
According to the News correspon
dent, President Garfield said: "Mr.
Speer, | am told by friend Of yours
that you intend to vote with the Re-
publicans in the organization of the
House. desire to know from you
exactly how you stand. Mr.. Speer
replied in words Of this import: 81
expect at the opening of the next
session of Congress that an attack
will be made upon me similar to that
made upon Gen Malone by Mr..
Hill. | expect to be fiercely assaul.
ted by the Democrats "Then,"
said the President, III am to under
stand that you will act with the Re-
pubIicans in organizing the next
Housei" II will" was the reply.
1t will do to look with interest for
the House version Of the Malone
tragic farce.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30

The EImira Gazette tells a little
story concerning an innocent young
lady who had for a friend one Sam
Harrison. The young lady and
some other girls were talking o.
their likes and dislikes. One said
she liked the smell of tobacco smoke
much another said the same, and
the whole crowd echoed the senti-
ment. Then Sans girl said Yes,
smell of fresh smoke is delightful,
but don't like the taste of it when
its stale
Taste of it = said another, how
taste of it 7 You don't smoke, |
hope 7"
NO. was the answer. 'of course |
don't lsmoke, but you know Sam
does all the time, and it gets into his
moustsche, and -and-.and"- by
this time the girls had recovered and
locke at each other, and the speak
or began to blush, and the pressure
was only relieved by some one ask :
ing if the church fair was an assur>
ed success.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30

The Louisville Courier Journals
Washington correspondent says that
"if Gen. Longstreet does not
attempt to reorganize the Republican
party in Georgia, on the Malone
plan, minus the Register element, he
will disappOint the hopes OF those
who first moved his appointment as
United State Marshal. They certain
" expect him to set as their leader,
and so represented to the President,
who approved ofthe plan 1t would
be interesting to know what is the
Malone plan, minus the Readjust
element.
1t matters very little whether
Geperel Lopgstreet does or does not
"attewps to reorgsnize the Republi-
can party 10 Georgia on the Mshone
plan" Ia either case the "hopes"
Of those who look for split 10 the
Democrat party and triumph of
Radicalism under the lead of Gen.
eral Lougstreet or any other political
sposta.a are doomed to disappOint-
ment.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30

The latest ''new departure in
newspaper enterprise is reported
from New Orleans, La. The Dem
oorat of that city has fitted up q
branch office on a barge, which
having been towed up the Mis-
siesippi river to Memphis, is now
floating down to New Orleans again
stopping st all points of interest on
the way to gather inform alton con-
corning the country along the river
and for some distance back into the
interior. The barge is sixty feet
long, With twelve feet width of beam.
Its interior accommodations comprise
business, editorial and job Offices
composing and press rooms, sleeping
apartments. dining room, kitchen,
and stable for the horses used in
making land trips back from the
river. 1t is practically fully equip
ped newspaper establishment aAoat.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30

A new and most ingenious speak
ing machine has lately been exhibits
ed by Herr Faber before the Physi-
cal Society, London. 1t is designed
to more perfectly initiate, mechsni
caIIy, the utterance of the human
voice, by means of artificial organs
of articulation made on the human
model, and its is worked by keys like
musical instrument. A bellows made
of wood and india rubber serves for
lungs a smaaAwind mill is placed 10
front of the bellows ito give trilliug
sounds; the lsrynx is made of a
single membrane of hippopotamus
hide and india rubber and mouth
with Two lips, tongue, and an india
nose complete the organs of the ap
paratus. Fourteen dis,incts sounds
al e uttered by it, aud by combining
these, sny word 10 any language can
be produced-also laughing and
whisp ering.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30

A shoe msuufactury nowadays,
that is, one OF any considerable Ca
paci,y, will cost from $4,000 to
$4,000 to equip with machinery
and improved appliances. The econ
omies in the old times were necesss>
rily few. Now they are such that
not only are the waste scraps of up
per leather utilized 10 extracting the
oil from them, but after oil is ex>
tracted they are found to make gOod
fuel. At one Massachusetts factory
about two barrels of this oil are ex,
,racted each day, and used in one Of
the processes of finishing the shoes.
The scraps of sole leather remaining
after cutting out the sOles and up,
pers are utilized for making heels,
while the tleshings, sO-cslled, saved
from the splitting machines where
the soles are turned up, are sold to
be made into leather board.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30
AN ERRArIc CONGRESSMAN


Emory Speer proposes to initiate
the (, aitor Malone and vote with the
Republicans in the organization of
the next House. The young mans
desertion of the democratic party is
said to have been brought about by
Garfield Offering him certain official
patronage in Georgia, which is equal
to selling out for a mess of pottage.
The young mans prominence in
Georgia politics was enhanced by
pandering to the Radical party as a
so. called independent, and it might
have been expected that his leaning
in that direction would overbalance
his judgment and that he would fall
on the Radical side. lie doomed up
as Congressman, like the present
visible comet-sudden and startling
blu, his proposed new alliance will
din his brilliancy, and soon, like the
preset ut comet, be will disappear
from the political sky. He is GER
tainly going northward, tail fore~
most, in a most cratic manner.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30

No, DON. learn a trade, young
man. You might soil your hands,
wilt your shirt collar, and spoil your
complexion sweating Go hang your
chin over a O. learn to talk
tawddle to thee ,21isS; part your
hair 10 the middle ; make an ass OF
yourself generally, and work for wa
ges that would not support a Chs
nese laundrymsn on rice fed rats,
and leave big enough balance to
pay his wash woman-just because
it is little more genteel in the eyes
of people whose pride prevents them
from pounding rock or hewing wood,
and whose poverty pincbes worse
than one of those patent cross-legged
clothes rEiius; nc NJ truth we're only
told : Elmira Gazette.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30

IT is proposed that the Legisla
ture OF Georgia appropriate $40, 900
for tho purpose of making through
the State Geologist such an exhibit
of maps, specimens of minerals, tim
Der, water power, etc, etc, as may
fully represent the capacity of the
State for the profitable investment of
capital, the inducements of immigfa-
tion, and for giving remunerative la
Dor to settlers within her sbordeFs.s7-
We are not vet prepared 10 endorse
THIS movement. II Georgia has any
surplus cash, there are many worthy
objects to bestow il upon.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30
GEGRGIA-Paulding County :

Whereas, Mary Anu LestherwOOd, Admins
tra,rix of Jesse Leatherwoods estate, repre-
sents to the court in her petition filed on re-
cord that she has fully administered Jesse
Leaiherwoods estate. This Is to cite all per-
sons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show
cause if any they can why said admit istratrix
should not be discharged from her administers
ron and receive letters of dismission on the
II st Monday in October next. This June 23d
lcsl. T C. DUNCAN, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30

DR.. Howard Crosby, in bis bac>
calsureate, Sunday, told the students
of The University of the city of New
York that "the prominent vice of
our social system was the lack OF
subsection of children to their pa
rents" He had seen young men
order their fathers round shops and
chad often seen others pack off their
mothers to the garnet to live to give
the young people moSsyoom." He
might have mentions how Tom
-0cmfrree, IN his sire's ~Osonoe
changed his law firm sign so cs to
read "Thomas OchiItree and Fath~
err"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-06-30
GEORGIA-Cobb County :

RULE NfSI: Ia Cobb Superior Court
Presiding. the Honorable james K. Brown,
Judge S C. B r. C.
A. Il II. V. REYNOLDS vs. NOSES HCTCHENS
Mortgage, March Term. 1881.
1t appearing to the Court by the petition OF
A. & II. V. Reynolds, accompanied by the
NOES and mortgage deed that ON the 18th day
of January 1875 the defendant made and de-
livered ss1piainlitfs his two certain pronissory
aotes for Sos. 90 each, total Sl36 90, due one
day after date with interest Nj IL per cent per
annnm and 10 per cent attorneys fees; where
by be promised to pay the same. principal, in
ierest and attorney fees aud that on the 18th
day of January, ISIS, the defendant, the bet
ter 10 secure the payment of the aforesaid notes,
executed aud delivered to plaintiffs his certain
deed OF mortgage. whereby the said defendant
mnrtgsged 10 plaintiffs lot of land No (5S4 }
Five tnndred and Eighty four. and IT, east
1 haEf Oi m M 6l31- six Hundred and Ihir
teen in all -iXiy acres in the 18th district and
ID section of ~obb county. Ga. And IT further
appearing that said notes remain unpaid, ii is
therefore ordered hat the said defendant do
ma 8 into court ON or before the first day Of the
next term thereof the III Monday in Novem-
bet. lSSl the principal sl36 %, Interest So M.
attorney fees SIS IL. aud costs with the inter
est that accrues on said notes from the date Of
this Rule till % Monday in November next or
show cause to the contrary, il any he can. and
that ON failure of defendant TO do the same, the
equity of redemption in and to said mOrtgsged
premises be forever thereafter barred and tore
closed. II is further ordered that this Rule b.
publish .d in the Marietta Journal once month
for four months previous 10 the next term of
this Cour, or served ON ihs defendant or his
special agent or attorney three months previous
10 the next term OF this Court March 18th.
ISL. JAMES X. Brown,
Judge s. L. Z. c.
A true extract from the minutes Of the court.
his March 30ib. ISL.
W. Il. MONTGOMERY, Clerk 5, c,