The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-03-06
LOCAL NOTES.


pull four bales OF cotton to Salisbury last
week.
A speck of war was in the elements
around here Saturday. Two negroes were
the beligerants.
A COW was killed by lightning in the 18th
district OF this cOunay, during the storm of
Tuesday two weeks ago.
March came in With 9 h0~l over the
snowy locks of old wiEiAr The old tyrant
yields up The ghost slowly Wnd with reluc-
tance.
A cold stove, with no coal to be had is
poor fountain to draw inspiration IRON.
There is no coal to be had in Bolivar, even
at the modest figures of 81 per barrel, or
S.. 20 per ton.
Salisbury, in this county, on the Mem
Phis & Charleston railroad has shipped
5000 bales Of cotton this season, and it isl
estimated that there are yet between one
thousand and twelve hundred bales to come
in as soon as the roads are passable.
We publish the card this week Of Jesse
Norment, Esq, attorney at law Bolivar,
Tennessee. Nr. Norment is we'll known
throughout West Tennessee, and ranks
with the best lawyers of the state. lie will
practice in ali the courts of the state. See
his card:
The /. C. Railroad has graded of the plot
of land belonging to it in Bolivar, across
the railroad from the dePSt, aRd sown it in
orchard grass and Put out q number Of
young trees, and We learn will plant some
shrubbery this spring. The grounds ara to
be made into q neat little park, and will
add to the attractions Of Bolivar.
1t is impossible for US to give the news
from each district in the county unless par
tics in each district will furnish us with
such items of interest as transpire in their
respective localities. This the only way
first-class local paper can be made. WO
hope some one in every neighborhOod will
take an interest and keep US posted.
Dickens says: ''The part of the holding
of farmer or landhOlder which pays best
for cultivation 10 the small estate within the
ring fence of his skull"
Give the boys who are to make farmers,
and the girls who are to make farmers
wives, the advantage of good schools within
the reach of all, and they will reap a rich
harvest from the cultivation of the 'small
estate" Let Hardeman do as so many of
her sister counties ia West Tennessee have
done. Make her public school sffectual by
levying tax sufficient to run them FIVE
months in the year, at least.
We have heard of one party of cattle
buyers who have bought, or will buy 1900
head in this and adjoining counties, for
shipment to Missouri. They let out con-
tracts in neighborhoOdR to local buyers who
gather the stock in lots of from 25 to 90
head, on a small margin. There are other
buyers securing the country in this section
and we learn that cattle is becoming very
scarce, some farmers not reServing young
hsifers enough to insure them mich cows
in future. This Is bad policy and when il
is too late to remedy the evil, farmers will
zee their mistake in allowing the cORntry
to be pa ged Of its choice stock by sPCcula-
tors.
What this country needs is free school
aystem that will result in more benefit to
those whom it is intended to benefit than
the present system has ever DONE Dres-
den Era.
The free school system is all right. If
your people had the grit and backbone to
levy a tax under the present law sufi-
cient to run school long enough in the
year to benefit the children, you would be
far happier. 1t il rot the system that is at
fault--it is the people Cast your eye over
at Gibson and behold her fourishing schools
we are working under the same law. Our
county is running 30-cent school tax, ard
corporations run special tax for school
purposes. What's your county doing !?
Nothing but grumbling at the free school
system, as many otherp are Fl Humboldt
RaportaF.
Hardsman might profit by the advice to
Weakly.
ThaEo IL no reason why Hardeman should
not have = more Thorough system of free
schoolG. We heard IL argued by those ep-
posed - an extra tax for schOol purposes
that scAools dos not fl farmers son to
raise cotton aid corn, end that as soon as
he got little learning he dropped the pillow
handles for the professions and mercantile
pursuits. Educate the young farmer and
he becomes better farmer. He is enabled
to know why the grass grows and why the
rain fallR. He knows the nature of the soil
and is enabled TO appropriate by reading,
the experience Of others to his own interest.
Ho Is abreast with the times and will step
In the front ranks OF progress toward de-
velopiIsg THE great country. Keep Kim
back, deprive him of education, buckle him
between the pillow handles as soon as he il
! able 10 hold tie point to the place, and
never let him know that there IL a sphere
higher in his calling than raising cotton for
spectators 10 grow rich upon, and it is nat
ural for him to be disguised with the farm
and seek other pursuits. Give him fair
education and his knowledge of men and
| things will lead him TO the conclusion that
the farm is after all the best place TO live,
aud that in this section diversity of pro-
ducts on the farm is necessary to success
| and the preservation of his lands The
balance of the world is marching onward
| too fast for tn" young farmer to be content
with the old and ruinous system of cotton
and debt Educate him and give him the
chance in his business that a man in every
] nAhnr r,n1rslnit hna uhnr he sLarts n11t and