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Year: 1877

We especially call public attention to


the Appeal accompanying this issue of
the BULLETIN. The Methodist church in
Bolivar is in an unfortunate strait. The late
financial crisis so effectually destroyed
the urcis of many of those who had
undertaken to aid in the construction of
the church edife,, that as an unforeseen
result the membership found themselves
hampered with indebtedness. In an en-
feebled condition they have since, and
are now, struggling under this weight.
The appeal that they now make for as
sistancs should not be unheeded by the
public, because foreclosure of the mort
gage on the property is certain at an
early date unless the debt is satisfed


We, therefore, feeling deeply interested
in ell that pertains to the welfare of our
community, do thus cheerfllly volunteer
to throw our influence in support Of the
plan to raise relief fund in aid of this
worthy object. Throughout our county
aud section thets are hundreds of per
sons fully able to take a share in this
enterprise and not miss in the least the
small contribution asked. Read the
Circular and let your purse practically
respond to the urgent appeal. Living
without giving is not living at all Life
is essentially perpetual series of mu-
tual dependence. Lift yourself out of
the groove of too absorbing selfsm
and become co-worker in an effort to
do good unto those that need and de-
serve helping hand We warmly COM
mend this enterprise to the public and
hope it's claims viii receive prompt
favorable response. The Rev. Robert
Y. Taylor, of Dancyyille, Tenn, who is
so favorably and widely known in West
Tennessee. is the chosen custodian Of
of this fund lie win personally apply
the proceeds of tho plan to the direct
relief of the mortgaged property.
Year: 1877

Our respected contemporary repeated
" urged the Democracy not to antago
nize the Electoral Com mission, because
it was better to be cheated than to break
plighted faith IF the appeal was right
in thus counssling dutiful observance
of the pledge to sustain tho Judgment OF
that Board, is it consistent now in at
tempting to array the country 10 open
elmity to the finding of tho Board2 They
who fought this Commission business a5
initio are excusablc for continuing their
hostility, but those who warmed it into
life and acquiesced in its protection are
not jusiifable IN stirring up strife at the
result


For consistency sake, the Dem ocratic
party is in duty bound to respect the
verdict as represented in the inaugura-
tion of Mr. Hayes. If as q party we
were constrained to be loyal to that
pledge in the face OF each successive
exhibition of extreme part'sanship by
the majority OF the Commission, surely
now after the outcome is declared and
we find Hayes unfolding an emineutly
pacific Presidential policy, we are doubly
warranted in still adhering to the vow to
bs true to the finding of that court.
Factions opposition to Mr. Hayes at this
time does not gracefully become those
who urged peacefully submitting to the
means by which he was elected to che
Chief MagistracY.


If party policy forced as to recognize
the status of the Commission a. s>oon-
demned all parliamentary fIibustsring
tactics tending TO defeat count if at
that critical period we feared that public
ooinien would not sanction opposition to
the Board, how can those who assume to
be the jealous guardians of the best IN
terests Of ths Democratic party under
take at this moment to commit the De-
mocraeY to blind, headstrong opposi-
uon TO the pronounced conservatism evi-
dencsd in the first stages of Mr. Hayes
administration To be factionsly opposed
70 his overtures of reconciliation and
;nter-stats fraternity and to trample
undsr foot bis guarantee of local self
government throughout the South, would
Year: 1877

SENATOR CoSKLINe openly exp uses
the cause of Hayes against Blaine's
attack. In allnding to the recognition
of the Packard Government, he was op-
posed to such haste in that direction and
said that che could not forget that the
late Chief Magistrate of the United
States, not more iilustrious for his great
deeds than for his common sense, was
not able to ascertain, with ali the lighs
he had after three months examination
of the subject. that Packard had been
elected Governor of Louisiana, or that
the Legislature which supported bin was
the legal Legislature of the State
Year: 1877

Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer


We learned last night that such
a coin is in existence as the Con-
federate quarter of a dollar. On
one side is stamped with the head
Of President Jefferson Davis" and
was coined in 1862. A gentleman
of undoubted veracity said that he
saw this piece of money while on
the Alabama river, and that as high
as twenty-five dollars was bid for
the same by the captain of the
steamer, Others being made from
five dollars upward, and higher
prices would have been offered, but
the owner of the "quarter said
that he would not give it for the
steamer and its contents. This, of
course, stopped the bidding, more
especially alter the gentleman said
that the memento could not be pur-
chased at any price. His object is
to sell 1t Tor an immense amount By
some means unknown TO any one.


That the Coniederacy ever coined
money is something new to us, as
the government never had a mint.
How this aforementioned piece
came into existence is a mystery,
but we do not doubt the same, as a
truthful gentleman said that he
saw it and offered five dollars for
the same.
Year: 1877

The Latest HydrOPhObia Remedy.
London Spectator


AS there have apparently been a
great number Of cases of hydropho-
bia lately, and there is at present
certainly no known remedy, or even
supposed remedy for that awful
disease, it is worth mentioning that
Mr.. Laporte writes to TUESDAYS
Times from Birkdale Park, South
port, to describe a case, dating from
three years back, in which a coolie
bitten by a mad dog was cured, sixty
days after the bite, and apparently
in the worst spasms of that fright
full malady, by having an infusion
of datura stramonium-the same
leaves which asthmatic patients
smoke for their asthma-adminis-
tered to him. A handful of the
leaves were boiled in pint of wa
ter, till they had shrunk to one-half
their original bulk, and the water
when strained off was poured down
his throat. After a violent parox.
oxysm a profuse perspiration came
on-the coolie then sank into a
deep sleep, which lasted eight hours,
and when he awoke there was no
sign Of disease. The cure, Mr.. La
porte thinks, was due to the per-
spiration, as in another case which
he saw previous to the period of
this case, the chief symptom, which
vapor baths were in vain tried to
cure, was the excessively parched
and dry condition Of the skin. 1t
would be at least worth while for
our medical men to try any alleged
remedy for a disease which is at
present supposed to be incurable.
Year: 1877

frances or shout prophecies, and
tell what wonders the Lcrd has
done for their souls. Around this
enclosure a multitude of men and
women form the "holy dance" In
this the men turn their faces out
ward and the women toward the
center of the circle, and taking
hands each steps in time to the
hymn that all are singing. Their
singing is wild and weird, and vet
there is a charm in the song of the
negro, who, untaught, sings in
strict time and with full, round
tones that seem to swell up from
the heart. 1t is like the mournful
whoop Of cur whip-poor- will"
Your correspondent has seen a ne
gro woman carried from the holy
dance in such " trance" as they
call it, that her body was perfectly
rigid, not bending in the least, al.
though one man carried her head
and the other her feet, and she lay
in this condition several hours.
While these poor deluded creatures
were wallowing in the straw before
the pulpit at this camp meeting,
one old woman, very Enthusiastically
dressed, with a queer bonnet COW
cred with plumes of various colors,
broke from the altar in holy
frenzy, and ran shouting from un-
der the shelter. Just outside the
arbor she climbed to the top of a
tall, burnt pine stump, about five
feet high, and there she stood, and
Tapping her arms much as a fowl
would its wings, she cried out
(" Hallelujahl Hallelujah! Glory to
God! Glory!.! If | Just had two
wings and a few more feathers on
my head I'd fly away to glory"
Year: 1877

1t is night, and under an exten.
aye leaf arbor swaying mass Of
black forms oscjllste to every pass.
ing emotion, while torches Of pine


throw yellow glare around and
under the canopy, and cast long
shadows on the ground outside the
covering. In front of a rough
stand used as pulpit is a small
enclosure, thickly strewn with
leaves and pine straw, and in this
enclosure The favored few lie in
Year: 1877

A.'e read By at least
Twenty Thousand PeOpIe
old aad young. every week. 1t is just to say
that the patrons of the WESTERN
METHODIST belong to the best class Of
community.


We desire our business men to mako note
Of the above facts before completing their
advertising arrangements for the coming
season.


We use our best efforts to keep our columns
free of all irregular and irresponsible adyer-
Using; for many sood people seeing an ad-
III PaPeIs especially their
church paper, take it as a guarantee of ro-
spOnsibility. Such confidence should not be-
abused whom it can be helped. We want.
therefore,
The Advertising Patronage
of such business men and firms as we can
recommend to our friends and the public
without compromising the character of the
paper.


Our Terms Shalt be In Harmon


with the business OutiOOa.


Send In Your Fsvers.
Year: 1877

SE- A Welsh engineer has in-
vented an engine Of warfare which
consists of q cannon 30 arranged as
to discharge q sharp sword blade
orosswise in the direction Of the
enemy, the knife being SO poised in
its course through the air as 10 cover
the whole space in o longitudinal
direction described by The blade
itself. An S-inch ball would carry
Q sword IL feet in length 600 yards,
moving down every obstacle in its
path. .
Year: 1877

As for the river, in talking about
London suburbs We should have come
to that first Of all. The Thames is the
great feature of suburban London; and
these neighborhoods are, for the most
part, worth describing only as they
bear some relation TO it. Londoners
appreciate their river in the highest
degree; and they manifest their regard
in a thoroughly practical fashion.
They use the Thames; it might almost
be said they abuse 1t. They use it,
mean, for pleasure; for above Chelsea
bridge there are happily few traces of
polluting traffic. When once indeed,
going up the stream, you fairly emerge
from the region of the London bridges,
the Thames turns rural with surprising
quickness. At every bend and reach it
throws off something of its metropolitan
degradation; with each successive mile
it takes on another prettiness. By the
time you reach Richmond. which is
only nine miles from London, this
suburban prettiness touches its maxi
mum. Higher in its course the Thames
is extremely pretty; but nothing can
well be so charming as what you see of
it from Richmond bridge and just above.
The bridge itself is very happy piece
of pictures9ueness. Sketches and
photographs have, ! believe, made it
more or less classical. The banks are
lined compaetly with villas embowered
in walled gardens, which lie on the
slope of Richmond hill, whose crest, as
seen from below, is formed By the long
bosky mass of Richmond park.


To speak of Richmond park is to speak
of one of the lOveliest spots in England.
IL has not the vast extent of Windsor,
but in other respects it is quite as fine.
Itis poor work talking of English parks.
for one is reduced to ringing the chang
es of few lamentably vague epithets
of praise. One talks of giant oaks and
grassy downs, of browsing deer and
glades of bracken; and yet nine-tenths
of what one would say remains unsaid.
will therefore content myself with
observing that, to take a walk in Rich
mond park and afterward repair to the
Star and Garter inn to satisfy the
appetite you have honestly stimulated,
is as complete an entertainment as you
are likely to find. 1t is rounded off by
your appreciation of the famous view
of the Thames from the windows of the
inn-the view which Turner has paint
cd and poets have versified, and which
certainly is as charming as possible,
though to an American eye it just grazes
a trifle painfully, the peril of oyer-tame-
ness. But the river makes a graceful
conscious bend, and wanders away into
that thick detail of distance character
istic of the English landscape.-7he
fyIllru.
Year: 1877

Let us ask whence old age is to de-
duce most of its consolation? There
should be some unfailing supply of
mental peace for old age. That is a
mighty change in nature when the
white hair comes. 1t would seem that
ones heart ought to break when one
finds that he has crossed the line and
will never return to youthful days
again; that for him the great sun is de-
clining and will soon set; that his
friends will be fewer in number and
these less demonstrative in their devo-
ton. But mol the heart does not break ;
for what is little in the present is atoned
for by the strange power the mind
possesses to gather up long past and
hold it as a part of the earthly day. Into
this noble consciousness the last years
can withdraw, and can there find a
blessedness which youth and beauty
might envy but could not surpass. The
orchards which the old man planted,
the shade trees by path and house, set
there years ago, the home itself, the
part he took in defending the State
against foes from without or within, the
city or village he helped TO greatness
from the condition of a trading post OF
a few wigwams, all these array them
selves around old age as so many angels
of consolation.
Year: 1877

The gospel of good taste was probably
never preached with so much energy as
it has been during the last ten years.
Looking back at the history of the
world, indeed, one might almost say
that, till the middle of the present
century, the gospel of good taste was
never preached at all. The periods in
which art was most prosperous, and
in which all the instruments of daily
life were made most beautiful, were
precisely the periods in which there was
least talk about "culture" and the least
need to sing its praises in the streets.
Even when conscious thought about the
principles and aims of art came in, it
never happened till now that discussion
of these topics passed from the studio
and the drawing room into the parlors
of the poor. There might be great
deal of fself-conscious and curious refine
ment, but it was limited to the classes
which enjoyed wealth and leisure. No
ODt VI EVDu ti-Nt
sal; but rather the aesthetic Pharisees
of the day held themselves peculiar
people, separate from fallen world
out of which they were not anxious TO
call any proselytes. They themselves
were ''the polite;" they haunted curl
osity shops and public auctions, and
went into raptures over Chinese mon
sters, or the forearm of some decrepid
Greek statue brought home by my lord
from his grand tour. The rest of
humanity was "the vulgar" and was
not expected to know anything of these
joys, or to ape the modes of dilettanti
and macaronis. The modern change is
remarkable enough. Persons of taste
and it is very much TO their credit
are of the mood of Dorothea in Middle,
march. They cannot enjoy their chintzes,
etchings, roses, and Nankin blue with
a clear conscience while an enormous
majority of people pass their existence
in the midst of foul sights, sounds, and
smells. Hence come popular lectures
on the Beautiful, hence worthy little
books on domestic art, and hence the
existence of benevolent Society which
endeavors "to bring beauty into the
homes of the poor" One might think
that the demand for soap and fresh air
was even more imperious than the need
of carved brackets in soft wood trimmed
with Berlin worsted work. A well
cooked dinner will do more to keep
man from the public-house than a
photograph of even the most admirable
design of Lorenzo Credi. Granting
this, however, it would be superfluous
cruelty, to sneer at the efforts of people
who, finding almost their chief good in
beauty, try to spread the knowledge and
love of it. One need not go all lengths
with Mr.. BrownIng's Fra Lippo Lippi:


Ifyou get simple beauty and nOught else,


You get about the best thing God invens'


That somewhat


The taste for ''simple beauty and nOught
else" has proved one of the worst quali-
ties of a man or of stage of society.
But it is not the imminent danger of the
London poor, and We need not, so far,
be afraid that workingmen will grow
too much absorbed in contemplation OF
the paintings of Lumi, or in the study
of that high class of poetry in which
sense is just swOOning in melodious
nonsense-SdtUFday RerielJ.
Year: 1877

Wars among the ants have very much
the same causes as among men. 1t is a
piece of territory that is coveted, and
the stronger tribe goes out In force, van
quishes and elects the weaker; or 1t is
the possession of its flOcks and herds,
which one colony wishes to wrest from
another; or in the slave-making species
a colony requires new relay of servants
to relieve it of all care. In this case a
number Of Formica rufd or Formica san-
guinea muster and advance against nest
of Formica nigrd, after desperate battle
for the red ants are very brave, and
fighting for their young-the aggressors
who are almost always victorious, bear
off the pupa of the black ants to their
own nests. When they hatch out into
perfect insects the slaves take upon
themselves the whole care of tho colony;
they tend the young, take charge of the
nest, and even feed and carry about
their lazy masters, who will often die
of starvation rather than help them
selves, even when food is close at hand.
The slaves, however, have something
to say in the nest. They detain their
masters when they desire to 60 out on
slave-making expedition, till after the
time that the males and females of the
negro colonies shall have taken flight,
so that the species shall not be exter-
minated. When the red ants come
home without booty, the slaves treat
them with contempt, and sometimes
even turn them Out-Of- doors. They
are willing to work for their masters so
long as they can hold them in respect.


In these combats the ants often mani
fest singular resemblance to human
beings in the effect which battle pro-
duces in the case of raw recruits. An
ant which at first seemed fearful and
hesitating, after time becomes excited
and shows a frenzy of courage, reck-
lessly throwing away its life without
accomplishing anything. When an ant
which has reached this condition of
insensate fury happens to fall in with
body of self-possessed workers, they
quietly lay hold Of it, several of them
holding its different feet, gently touch
ing it all the while with their antenne
till it calms down and is able to listen
to reason"
Year: 1877

geauent recognition Of Nichols and
Hampton. the leader Of the commission
will get all the credit for this instead Of
Hayes.


The hope Of earpet-baggers 10 that
conservative men will refuse to serve
on the com mission, thus compelling
Hayes to choose Radical partisans.


Tho determination TO send the com
mission. may be regarded as "a victory
for John Sherman and u defeat for Carl
Sohurz, who stood up manfully for the
interests Of tho Southern people to the
last, and did not Yield until he found
himself entirely alone In the Cabinet.
However. 5churz does not regard this
failure to secure his view as vote Of
want Of confidence, and will not resign
yet awhile. BUELL..
Year: 1877


Confronted with that of an Eye witness.


Some people have mania Of rushing
into print, regardless OF what they say,
and such person is John Strenna.


John Strenna, the proprietor OF an
eating saloon, No. 16 Bourbon street, In
O card published In city paper, at
tempts to controvert the facts pub
lished in the report In yesterday morn
ing's DEMOCRAT Of the outrage COM
mitted upon Miss Lovet.


Strenna says that the door OF the
dining room was open during the stay
Of Miss Lovet and Lazard; that the
young woman was not drugged, and
that they left the restaurant as they
came no detectives came to his house
to. arrest them, or In search OF them,
nor was there indicated, by any clrcum-
stance attendant upon the visit OF the
pair, aught but the utmost decorum.


This Is John Strenna's version, and
the following Is the young woman's
statement:


"On Saturday, the 18th inst, at 0
o'clock in the morning, [ went to the
restaurant Of John Strenna, No. 16
Bourbon street, In company with Napo-
leon Bonaparte Lazard, o man I have
been acquainted with for years, and
was In the habit Of calling him Pole
as q nickname. Pole ordered break
fast, with which he also ordered a
bottle Of champagne. We ate the
breakfast, but he forced me to
drink all Of the wine myself,
I had no sooner drank the wine than
very


PECULIAR FEELING


got possession of me. Polie then started
to leave the room. I would have started
after him, but I felt so peculiar that
could not get up from the sofa was
sitting on. I heard him turn the lock
in the door. I waited and waited for
his return. In the meantime / had
tried the door and found it locked. I
then knew what was the matter with
me; I had been drugged. I fell asleep
and slept until evening. When I awoke
7 found him in the room, and during
NV stupor he had consummated my
ruin. I faced him with his crime, and
he threatened


TO KILL ME-,


il ever I breathed word Of what had
happened. I found it impossible to
stay awake and again fell asleep, and
slept all Saturday night until O'Clock
Sunday evening, when I again woke up,
Suddenly somebody turned the lock OF
the door and came in. It was 'Polie :
he told me that there was detective
outside of the door who wanted to take
me home. / told Polie did not want to
go home unless he went and told my
mother how he had treated me. The
detective then came in and took
BOTH OF Us


to the Central Station.
The detective whom the young woman
speaks OF was Sergeant Ryan. of the
First Precinct, who states that he found
the young woman in room in John
Strenna's restaurant, and she was in q
stupid condition; that she was locked
| in the room; that it was as much as the
young woman could do to reach the
station.


DIR. Drew, City Physician, also states
| the horrible condition OF the woman on
Year: 1877

We understand that on Easter Mon
day Miss Rosa Rand. the leading lady
and charming actress at the Varieties
Theatre during the season just closed,
ported D m by members OF the different
amateur dramatic clubs Of this city,
who have kindly volunteered, and we
have every reason to believe that It will
prove q success. The 9 Mar BILE Heart =
will be presented.