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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
The SeyastOpOI OF To-

Iwenty-eight times the earth has run
around the sun since the last bomb
/ burst over the august city, of Sevas-
! tOpOI, and yet the ruins of houses
churches and forts are as fresh and
| plentiful as if they had been made but
| yesterday. The least sea breeze raises
| the clouds of dust and sand, and the
unhappy city stands a sad reprOach to
| Russian neglect. And vet it is n holy
| place. There are the historical earth
! works, and MalakOff Hill saturated
| with Russian blood. There fought. suf-
! tered and died-nay, marched to a sure
| death-hundreds of thousands of Rus
| sian soldiers. There is the historical
! grave of legion of Russian heroes, but
no proud mausoleum crowns that tomb.
1t is covered with yellow grass, thistIes
and heaps of dust. Alas! such a grave
never suggests the thought: in glori-
Gus death there is immortal glory No;
It rather says: Nations, like men, are
ungratefulh
During twenty-eight years our coun-
try has not done ANYTHING to assist in
the resurrection of SevastOpOl, and the
authorities have seemed to thwart every
sign of life there. Seyastopol is one OF
the best commercial ports in the world.
but the Ministry of the Navy greedilv
sucks to every piece of land indispensa-
bic to the merchants. And so the Sc
vastopOl of to-day is neither CONNER
cial nor naval port. Before the Cri-
mean war there were in SevastOpoI 80
600 inhabitants, and now it hardly
counts third of that number Certain
", under the present circumstances, the
SeVastOpOlians can not rebuild their CITY
with their own means
Nature has made SevastopOl and
the Crimea in general a real gem.
Winter is not known there, and delicate
semi-tropical fruits and the beautiful
sea make it a most desirable resort for
invaldS and tourists. 1t is our italy or
our Florida. But our countrymen are
50 accustomed to frosts, snow and ice
that they do not appear to care at all
for that semi-tropical paradise, the
Crimea. In SevastOpol there is a small
cape call ''the Cape of Free Contempla-
tons" We wonder what thoughts are
in the minds of our cOuntrymen who
visit that cape. In view of the ruins,
OF the dust and dirt of the august
city" of the forgotten graves of a hun
dred thousand heroes, of the rare natu-
raj forts not utilized, does it not occur
to them that Russia is playing the part
of stepmother toward her bravest and
most unfortunate child, SevastopOl?-
ST. petersburg NOUOc TrcHid.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
Ton Dressing Meadows.

When farmers have succeeded in
getting good varieties of grass well es-
tablished in a field they should endeav-
or to preserve it as long as possible
Considerable risk always attends the
sowing of grass-seed. a good stand is
not always secured, no matter how
much pains are taken in the prepara-
ton of the soil and the sowing of the
seed. The seed itself costs a considera-
bic sum. In many eases only a very
small crop of grain is produced on the
land the year the seed is sown. Every
thing considered the cost of seeding a
field to grass is large. 1t is according
ly desirable to keep it productive as
long as practicable. The yield of grass
may be kept up by the iudicious appli-
cation of fertilizers. Ashes, lime, land
plaster, salt and commercial fertilizers
are all highly beneficial, but stable ma
nure is generally productive of the most
satisfactory results. 1t should be well
rotted, and ought to be finely pulver-
lied before it is applied, or at least be-
fore it is left on the grass. The best
time to apply it is in the fall. The sod
Is then firm, and teams can be driven
over 1t without doing any great amount
of damage. The weather is then cool
and the vOlative portions will not evap-
crate as fast as in summer. Dews are
ordinarily heavy and Aey will keep the
moist. Rains are frequent and they
will dissolve the soluble parts of the
manure and will carry the remainder
close to the surface of the ground Grass
will come very early in the spring on
land MANFRED in this way. 1t will make
large growth, but will have no often
sive TASTE Chicago Times,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
End Of a Corslcan Vendetta.

The vendetta between the two Co7si.
can families of Nicoll and Pietri, which
mas lasted for seven years, has only
now been brought 10 a conclusion.
through the Intervention of Nj. JACQUES
ole Peretti, a friend of both families.
The feud arose during the municipal
elections in the village of San Garino.
to which both families belonged. The
PIetris defeated the Nicolls at the poll.
and the head of the family was elected
Mayor. A few days afterward he was
shot through the head; and though
there was no proof that the Nicolls had
murdered him, this was taken for
granted by his family, and two men of
the NlcolI family were soon afterward
found dead" After this three of the
F1etris were murdered; and so the feud
went on for seven years; the other in
habitants being compelled to 90 about
armed, and being so eXasperated that
they talked about killing off both fami-
lies as the only means of securing tran
guilty.
Fortunately, M. Jacques de Peretti,
Mayor OF Levie, neighboring town,
determined to intervene, and he sue
ceeded after some difficulty in effecting
a reconciliation. A regular treaty was
signed between the belligerents: and
upon given day the members of both
families assembled in the parish church
and took the following oath, which was
administered to them by the priest:
Here in the presence of God and of the
congregation, we swear, upon the faith
of Christians and upon the honor of
Corsicans to lay down our arms from
this day and abandon all idea of re-
venge, living in peace, as we should |
have done heretofore, and declaring I'M
worthy the name of Corsican any mem !
Der of our families, should any such |
there 5e-which may God forbid-who |
is false to his or her plighted troth."
1 he two families then exchanged the |
kiss of peace, and a formal report ofthe
proceedings was forwarded to and pub |
lished in all the Corsican newspapers
ST. James Gazette
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
The Wide. Vida World.

LIMA, REPUBLIC OF PERU.-Senor A. de
La E Delgado, L. L. D. and Counsellor,
Tribunal of Justice, Lima, Republic of
Peru, says: One single application of St.
Jacobs Oil cured me completely of rheu-
matte pains in my left arm. Recommended
it to two of my friends, the Mrs. Dona
Juana Garcia, widow, and Mr.. D. Herman
Decker, German gentleman. Madam
Garcia was relieved entirely by the pain
cure from terrible neuralgia pains of ten
months standing. Mr.. Decker was cured
of inexplicable pains by a single applica-
ton of the cure. My brother used the great
remedy for a species of paralysis of the
arm. He was entirely relieved from his
ailment by one or two applications, after
having tried numberless other remedies
without effect.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
Artemus Wards Borhood .

Artemus' father died when the hoy
was about fifteen years old, and as tho
1 family circumstances were somewhat
/ limited thereby, he was apprenticed tc
Mr. y. NJ. RiX, who published the Coos
Dcnlocrdt, at Lancaster, n. II. The
stage line to Lancaster ran by the Brown
homestead, and the drivers were not
unfamiliar with the ability of the future
genial Snowman in the way of prac-
teal jokes. They knew how he organ
lied shows, wherein his fathers red
COW, with a coat sleeve stuffed full OF
hay hanging from her nose. served as
| the elephant, upon which innocent
country youth wore invited to ride, with
startling results. They knew, too. how
old Deacon Hale's white horse had been
induced to wander away for miles fol-
lowing a tempting bit of hay, hung Just
beyond reach by means of a iath
strapped to the horses neck.
There was an endless series of prauks
gotten up by the boy to mystifv the vii
layers in general, and his mother in
particular, and all these were well
known to the stage drivers. So when
the young humorist started for Lancas-
ter, eager to know as much as possible
about his future residence, the veteran
driver, Steve Seary, having previously
cOnspired with the boys in Rix's office
to give young Brown fitting receDtiOn.
assured him that Mr.. Rix was a pious
man, and that his hands were. if any
thing, more piOus than he, and that the
sooner the wOuld-be apprentice
crammed on the catechism the better
Charles listened dOlefully. 1t was late
at night when the stage reached Lam
caster, and in the morning young Brown
hied himself to the office. The ..force''
consisted of iOurnevman and
an apprentice named Smith. They
received him sOlemnlv. The
Journeyman handed him a Bible
and made him read 4 chapter, after
which he was examined on the cate
chISm. His ignorance was commented
upon, but he was permitted to 90 to
work. At noon similar performance
was enacted, while intense gloom rest
ed on the office during the day. The
next morning Charles went to the Office
resolved to run away at the end of the
week, but, on looking about, failed to
lind his fellOw-craftsmen. Further
search revealed them under the rarret
stairs 100 intoxicated to walk. Young
Brown was so angry over the sell that
he wrote note to the driver threaten
NC vengeance, which was never car
lied out.
Brown fame as a humorist was a
surprise to all who knew him. and even
o himself A greater surprise to his
linfolk now is the interest still mani
ested in the dead merry-maker and his
work. They thought that all attention
would cease with his life, but every
ear the number of people who visit
Waterford to see his mOther-now al
most eighty years Old-increases.- |
IatcrIOrd (He.l Cor " Y SIN.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

SINCE LAST OCTOBER have suffered from
acute inflammation in my nose and head
often in the night having to get up and in
hale salt and water for relief. NY eve has
not see. / have used no end of remedies.
also employed a doctor, who said it was
impure blood-but l got no help. l used
Ely's Cream Balm on the recommendation
of a friend. was faithless, but in a few
days was cured. My nose now, and also
my eye, is well. 1t is wonderful how quick
it helped me. MRS. GEORGIE S. JUDsoN,
Hartford, Conn.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

Inc impatient old man, who cuts him short
With quaint gesticulatiOn
: No more o that, please understand
He seen jim Wldder' This time the hand
owes into the pocket and brings out
doubt ~
But what WEI oughter give her a lift:
L was poOty nigh forgittln'
tteHlU her rent the comm wear.
= hd d like 70 remit to her now this ere
By-the-way!" drawls he. with 81 gidelono
leer,
pa J ever notice-it's kind o. queer
1here 6 tew ways o. remittfn?''
-HdTpeT's MIqazille.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

May be taken at liver and bilious disorders
with DR.. r. V. Pierce's " Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets" Mild yet certain in opera
ton; and there is none of the reaction con-
sequent upon taking severe and drastic
cathartics. By druggists.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

ton of the Throat caused by diphtheria,
and have used various remedies, but have
never found anything equal to BRowN's
BRONCHIAL TROCHEs.-ReU. q. NJ. FHGnp-
ton, PitetOn, Ky. Sold only in boxes.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

HAVE been entirely cured of terrible
case Of Blood Poisoning by the use of
Swift's Specific IS. S. S. after trying ev-
erything known to the medical people
without relief. JNO. S. TAGGART,
Salamanca, N. Y.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

THE only remedy sold in the United
States to-day that actually cures rheuma-
tism is DuTang's. It never has and never
can fail to cure the worst case. Write for
free pamphlet. r. &. Helphenstine, drug
gist, Washington, d. G.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

Young men or middle aged ones suffer-
ing from nervous debility and kindred
weaknesses should send three stamps for
Part VII. of Worlds Dispensary Dime
Series of books. Address WORLDS Dis
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

Is the title of an interesting treatise (96
pages) sent, postpaid, for three stamps.
Address WORLDS DBPENsARY MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION Buffalo, N. Y.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

SwIFT's SPECIFIC Is. S. s. has cured mo
entirely of bad Blood Poison. 1 went one
hundred miles to get it, and it made me as
sound as a new dollar.
j. w. WEYLEs, MeadviIle, Pa.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

81 AM at your service, madam" said the
polite burglar, when caught with his arms
full of silverwars.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

Wendell Phillips, speaking of So
journer Truth since her death, saws:
Her natural wit and happiness in re
tort l have hardly ever seen equaled.
Her cloquence was at times marvellous
/ once heard her describe the Captain
OF slave-ship going up to Judgment,
followed by his victims rs they gathered
from the depth of the sea. in a strain
that reminded me of Clarence's dream
in Shakespeare, and equaled it. The
anecdotes of her ready wit and quick,
striking replies are numerous. She
used TO say to us: You read books; God
Himself talks to me.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

not debate and therefore has to content
himself with making motions. - L0agell
Citizen.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

Hale's Honey of HOrehound aud Tar
Has the largest sale of any cough medicine.
Pixies toothache drops cure in one minute.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
ARDead Shot

JOKING about her nose, a young lady
said: 81 had nothing to do with shaping it.
1t was a birthday present"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
That Small Boy.

Parents can not be too careful about
their method of answering the numer-
Gus quotations of the rising generation.
A youngster on Cass avenue had noticed
tall black bottle on his fathers dress
ing table and asked what it held.
That, my son, is hair oil, > answered
his father, with a furtiye and wander
ing look, land it is not at all nice for
little boys"
The youthful questioner took a smell
OF the contents and asked no more in
formation upon the subject. He kept
up a good bit of thinking, however.
Last Sunday the family entert aimed
some friends at dinner, and there was
plum pudding with brandy sauce. The
small boy had found his opportunity.
When he was helped to the pudding he
sized it up with large eyes.
Pa he said, in a loud. shril tone,
as he shifted the sauce afar off, the
hair-oil on this puddin' smells awful
good"
Total collapse of "pa. Detroit Free
Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
THE MARKETS.

NOTHING better for Asthma than Piso's
Cure for COnsumption. 25c. per bottls.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
SINCE LAST OCTOBER have suffered from

IT is the sausage manufacturer who
makes both ends meat.-N. T. hide
pendent.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

TIE first wager-Phe alpha bot.-M Y.
Journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

THE adoption of standard time appears
to have been thoroughly watched.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

MAN with a wooden leg may be said
to be stumpiug the Chicago Her
aid.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

A deer was killed in Twigg County,
Ga, by railroad hand, who hit it with
shovel as it was running by him
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

IT is probable that walking matches will
have another rUn.-DetrO5t Post.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

In New York there are 1880 IL
censed draymen and expressmen. ~
J, Sun.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

A TRUMPED-UP charge "A gambling
debt.-TeCGS SiftiRqS.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

II afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

A LAZY policeman, like q good piece OF
cloth, is known by his nap.-N. J. Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

Cd AAA Year at home Terms and costly outet
STgPT-T free. Address H. A. ELLIS q Co, CHICAGO,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

10GC Books and BTBEEs for AGENTS
M Send for Circulars and EXTRA LIBERAL
TERMS to SUN PUBLISHING Co., st. Louis Mo-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

ringer and eye ran down the page:
IRA RE"-hC was flushed with rage:
"REMEMBER-tE IND-REMIT!'-a last
The terrible talon had it fast,
With definition against it set:
send back he read; but, lower yet,
TO release, to forgive, Il sin or a debit
All through that mesh i'm the treachcrOus net
Had slipped the WIDOWS pittanCc!
Twas so! twas strange! twas very absurd
That thus from phrase, or a single word,
with equal reason could be inferred
Collection of debt, or quittauCCl
Words have their forks, like highways, whence
To left and right run the roads of sense;
And, taking the wrong dcrfVutiVc,
Tho needless Old parsou had come to give
Remission instead of remittance.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

His window Is over the factory fiume;
And Elkanah there, in his cOunting-rOom
Sits huggiug "a Uttered table.
His beard is white as the foam. and his check
Is weather-bcaten and withcrCd and bleak
AS the old brown factory gable.
Christmas is near; and he, it is clear.
Is squaring accounts with the parting wear:
Setting forth, ia column and row,
Whatever penny of gain can show
Mortgages, dividends and rents,
CITY bonds and Cover mCnts,
A factory here ana a tanncry there
Good bank stock and railroad share
As fast rs his busy brain can count,
Or his busy pen indlte EN-,
Figuring profit and gross amount
And adding item TO item.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-12-20

Ekanah glarcd for q moment, and then,
With Il snort at the book, and IA scor at the
men
Who invented the language, siczed his pen,
Tore one letter, ana wrote again,
PrOtruding his chin, while the hard dry grin
49, Grew terribly savage and sinister;
Till, too impatient to brook delay,
Tie quite forgot il was ChriStmaS-day,
swung on his ulster, and sWOOpCd away
Toward Ianncry Town and the Widow
Brown
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-16

first medal, which he has held for some
time. Knowles was second, killing 10
birds, and winning upon ties shot off with
Walsh, who also killed TO- Walsh took
third place. TIE match was for three
gold club medals, elegantly mounted. first,
second and third prizes. at twelve live
pigeons, thirty yards rice, eighty yards
fall, ground traps, under Hurlingham rules
The Carson Appeal says that the surface
Of the water of Washoe lake is a mass of
dead fish, that they are piled up along the
shore by thousands, and the air is filled
with the stencil of their decaying bodies.
No cause can be assigned for this unless
the intense heat Of the sun, acting upon
the shallow water, made it too warm fer
them. Most of the fish are perch, cat
fish and whitefish. Many Of the
perch weigh pound and half
Al the Colusa Club shoot held last Sat.
urday, to contest for ar elegant gold medal,
in clay pigeon match. eighteen yards
rise, as. W. Porter won. The score
stood Porter Is, Crane and Haneh IA
each Murdoch, Basford and Cutler Is
each; Burton and Totteu II each Gil
more IL; Jennison and Wilson 10 eacn
F. Miller 8; Wilbur s; Bridgeford 7
Radcliffe 5, and De Jarnett 3.
Commissioner Dibble, upon recent
visit to Lake Tahoe, found that parties
were violating the law there by catching
trout in weirs in the inlets to the lske.
By this mode of capture a great part OF
the spawn is lost, and ruinous depletion
of the fnny tribe is made Adequate
means will De taken to prevent further
violation OF law. Fishing was found to be
excellent at the lake.