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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Nanurilg Corn 1cith Salt In analyzing
the ash Of corn stalks, Prof johnson found
it to contain Of soda two hundred and eighty
six parts in one thousand, or more than one
quarter Of the mineral elements Of the stalk
The ash of wheat straw contains only two
parts Of soda in one thousand barley and
rye three each, and oats ninety-seven. Thus
it appears that soda is an important element
in the corn stalk, and the best way Of sup
plying it directly to the plant that we know
Of, is to apply a top dressing OF common
salt Chloride Of sodium.) Salt and ashes
mixed and dropped by hand in small quanti-
ties on each hill, will often have a wonder
ful effect in improving the appearance Of the
corn. Especially is that the case when the
plants look yellow, and are backward and
unthrifty. And anything which inyigorates
the young corn, and creates a rank stalk is
apt to induce an abundant yield Of grain.
This application is likewise as good as any
remedy known to prevent the depredations
of the cut-worm. We hope some Of our
readers viii try the experiment.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Dreadful Suffering an A1a6ama-Gov
Parsons of Alabama has addressed letter
to Gen. Howard, urging the necessity of the
Bureau increasing its distribution of rations.
BY a recent census Of that State 43 out of 50
counties return 50, ,92I destitute persons, and
he averages the starving poor at $4,000.
During the war Alabama lost 10000 men,
over one-half heads of families, and there
are $4,000 white widows and orphans They
could raise no crop last year on account of
the presence of the armies, and the Begisla-
ture at Its recent session authorized the is
suing of State bonds for the purpose Of pro-
curing food, but they have failed to make
them negotiable, and the Governor purposes
coming North to put them on The market for
provisions The citizens who are able con-
tribute freely, and the mortgaging of farms
and crops to raise food is almost universal.
Feeble women and decrepid old man walk
miles to obtain rations, and it is quite Gus
tomarY to meet frantic mothers on the road
side crying with their starving children.
There are 100, ,000destitute whites and blacks,
and to the 20 800 to which rations were is
sued during May, he urges that tho number
be increased for June 5000
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

The Wonders If a Vatch-There are
many who think a watch ought 70 run and
keep good time for years without even drop
Of oil, who would not think Of running a
common piece Of machinery day without
oiling, the wheels doing buta fraction CT the
service. We were forcibly struck with this
thought the other day, upon hearing per-
son remark that by way Of gratifying his
curiosity he made calculation Of the reyo-
lutions which the wheel Of a watch make in
a day and in a year The result Of this cal
culation is as suggestive as It is interesting
For example: The main wheel makes 4
revolutions in q hours or 400 in a
year; the second or centre wheel, D reyo-
lutions in q hours, or s, 100 in q year the
third wheel, 1872 in y hours, og 69i05O IN
wear: the fourth wheel (Which carries the
second hand.) 40 IN "A hours, or 52j,6O0
in q year; the fifth or 'scaps wheel, 1850
IN II hours, or 4, 4,728, 400 revolutions IN q
year; while the beats or vibrations made in
~ hours are 3ss800, or I41 $4,000 in a
year.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

The BacAeloT-In the vast flower field Of
human affection, says q cotemporary, the
old bachelor is the very scarcrow Of happi-
ness, who drives away the little birds of love
that come to steal away the hemlock seeds
of loneliness and despair. Where is there
a more pitiable object on earth than he who.
has no amiable woman interested in his vel
fare How dismal does his desolate room
appear when he comes home at night wet
and hungry and a cold hearth, barren
table, and lonely pillow, which looks like
the white urn of every earthly enjoyment
See the sick old bachelor In the dark after
noon of life, when his heart is sinking to It's
sunderancel Not a solitary star of memory
CLEANS over his opening grave No weeping
wife to bend like an angel over his dying
bed No fond daughter to draw his chilly
hand into the soft pressure of hers and
warm his icy blood with the reviVifying fires.
of unavailing affection No manly boy to
link his breaking name with the golden chain
of honorable society, and bind his history in
the vast volume Of the world he IS leaving
forever. He has eaten and drank, and drank
and died, and earth is glad she's got rid of
him, for he has done little else than cram
his soul into the circumference Of q sixpence-
and no human being save his washerwoman
viii breathe a sigh at his funeral.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Future H0asekeepTs- sometimes
catch ourselves wondering how many Of the
young ladies whom we meet with are to per
form the part Of house-keepers, when the
young gentlemen who now eye them so adj
1niringly have persuaded them to become
wives. We listen to those young ladies' Of
whom we speak, and hear them not only ae-
knowledge, but boasting of their ignorance
Of all household duties, as IF nothing would
so lower them in the estimation Of their
friends, as the confession of an ability to
bake bread and pies, or cook piece Of meat,
or a disposition to engage In any useful en-
ployment Speaking from our own youth
ful recollections, we are free to say that
taper fingers and lilly white hands are very
pretty to look at with q young man's eyes,
and sometimes we have known the artless
innocence Of practical knowledge displayed
by young miss, TO appear rather interest
ing than otherwise But we have lived long
enough to learn that life Is full of rugged
experiences, and that the most loving roman
tic, and delicate people must live on cooked
or otherwise prepared food, and the house be
kept clean and tidy by industrious haEds.
And for al the practical purposes of married
life, it is generally found that for husband
10 sit and gaze at his wife s taper fingers and
lilly hands, or for n wife to sit and be looked
at and q lmired, does not make the pot boil,
or put the smallest piece Of food therein.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Aqed Trees.-We are told that in 1910 a
noted tree, the Golynos tree was felled near
Newport, MonmOuthshire, England 1t was
284 feet In circumference, its bark sold for
e20O, It's timber for E670; the rings (4OO)
encircling It's trunk indicated that It had
continued growing 400 years. The far-famed
red oak of Mount Etna was Of precisely the
same age. 400 years appears a venerable
age even for tree. Still there were many,
the longevity Of which was greatly in excess
Of it, among the most celebrated Of which
were the following Fig tree in Damascus,
Gas years; the Peseian olive tree, 100 years
olive tree IN Palestine, 7I9; olive tree in
Asia Minor, $50; the I4ouisian an oak (still
hving), ] 600; yew trees Of Fountain Abbey,
200 yew trees of Growhurst, Yorkshire,
400; sycamore Of Hehopolis, sos; cedar
Of Mount Lebanon, 2, 10. yew wofFotheringay,
Scotland, $500; yew Of Braburn, Kent
3 600; sycamore Of theI}osphOrusI 1920.
The cypress Of Tazodinne, in Mexico IS said
to be more than 5. 900 years old. It's circum-
ference was 1T feet, 10 inches.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Il Dutchman's Temperance Lectlre.-We q
have listened to many effective arguments
in favor Of total abstinence, but we have
never heard one more exhaustive than thas
Of the honest GeEnan who was asked to
speak at aTneeting Of the friends Of total
abstinence. As to the precise locality of
this meeting, our readers are at liberty to
ezercise their guessing faculties, After
some hesitation he arose and said -"
shall tell you how it vas put mine hand
on my head, and there vas Won pig pain.
Then put mine hand on my pody, and there
vos anOder. There vas very much pains IN
ali mine pody. Then l put mine hand IN
nay pocket, and there vas nothing Vow
there vas no more pain in my head. The
pains in my pody vas all gone away. put
twenty tollars. So shall shtay mid te
temberance." Aside from the moral prospects
of the question, the Dutchman's expert
ence tells the whole story.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

It said that the condition of the liberal
forces throughout Mexico has greatly i'm
proved Of late. both in numbers and eff
Cheney. The bitter feud between Canales
and Cortina IS still kept up detcrminedlF be-
tween the two chiefs. The combined forces
Of Escobedo and Espinosa threatened Mon
terey, and it was expected that the French
would be compelled to fall back from that
vicinftv. In u report to the Minister Of War
Of Juarez, General Terrazas announces that
he had captured the city or chihuahua from
the French, taking two hundred prisoners
and a piece Of artillery. At AIasamoras the
state Of affairs was far from cheering for the
merchants, the city being virtually besieged,
except from the American side, owing to the
numerous liberal bands roaming near the
place and preventing Mejia from moving.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Only Ma lady had two children
both girls. The elder was q fair child; tho
younger q beauty, and the mothers pet.
Her whole love centeFed in It The elder
was neglected, while sweet (the petBaIae
Of the younger J received every attention
that love could bestow.
One day after severe illness, the mother
was sitting in the parior, when she heard
childish step on the stairs, and hsr thoughts
were instantly with the fayoEite
90 Is that you sweet p she inquired
s. No, mamma" was the sad and touching
reply, g It ISM sweet; its only me.
The mothers heart sm0ie heg and from
that hour, Only me was restored 60 An
equal place in her affections.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

The Galveston (fexas) News says: All the
accounts from the country 60 to show that
the prospects Of a cotton crop this year are
becoming more and more unfavorable every
day. The rains appear u &aYe extended all
over the South so far as We can hear Those
who were the most sanguine, a short time
ago, that we were going to have two or two
and q half million Of bales, are now proba-
bly, satisfied to reduce their estimate nearly
oue-haH Even our best planters now com
plain that their crops are getting hopelessly
n the grass.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

According to the new Postal law just
approved by the President prepaid and free
letters are to be forwarded at the request of
the party addressed. from one postofieo to
another, without additional postage being
charged. and returned dead letters are to be
restored to the writer's thereoffree ofpostage.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Vigilance Committees have been organized
in Southwest Missouri to exterminate the
horsothieves, two Of whom were hung under
lynch law last week
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

F." The Land lre Lore This is the title
of a new Magazine lately started ut Char
lotte, n c., by Gen d. II. Hill, late Of the
Confederate army. The first number is well
printed, after the style somewhat Of Black
woods s, and is filed with interesting reading,
containing among other things the late ad-
dress of Gen. Wise The Land we Love
is to be devoted to Southern literature, and
particularly to recording the deeds of hero
ism IN the late war. We wish it every sue
cess
Dr. Buford who resides Just over the
county line, in Fayette, has made up club
of 50 subscribers for the magazine.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

The following beautiful lines will be ap
preciated by all who read them, and espe,
cially by the mothers Of the soldier dead
and those who have had their treasured ones
hid away amid lifes mould and dust:
ONE YEAR AGO.
One year!-One year-one sad, dark year,
An awful lapse Of woe,
Since il the far-of mountain wilds
They laid darling low.
NOne-none he loved were with him there
To catch his parting sigh;
No mother fond, sister dear,
Was there to see him die.
Cold stranger hands, with careless touch
Last clasped about his own;
While needless lightly bent
To list his dying tone.
MY mother-oh! comrades tell her -
His faint voice seemed to swell
''TelI her, did fear to die,
Aud, oh, thai all is we'll 20
The blue eyes flashed with wOnted Ere,
Then softly closed in DEATH
While still the words II faith and love
Were trembling his breath.
And this al-fOnd and trusting
That faintiHg soldier said,
Before the muster-roI was called
That ranked him mid the dead.
And faded soft away,
As if the heart Of Nature
Knew not how to be gay.
The very birds then changed their tunes
Where tasseed tree-tops wave
Aud seemed a requiem to chaunt
Above fallen brave.
Aud though tho sky is bright and blue
And Spring has again,
Within this aching heart Of mine
Eternal winters reign.
No sunshine lights with golden ray
The dense and awful gloom
Which my poor life must ever know
Till in the silent tomb.
There is no joy earth holds for m
Not compassed by grave.
Which amid the mountain wiIds
where moaning pine trees wave.
have one dream-one treasured hope
Amid Life's mold and rust
When Death consigns 0 the tomb,
III mingle with his dust.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23
TREAS. DEP. Or. II. Rev.
WASHINGTON. April 26. 1866


The following instructions should be OBJ
served IN the assessment of the annual
taxes for 1866, They have been prepared
and printed to answer the questions which
have been most frequently presented by reve-
nue. officers ID their letters to the commits
siOner
Particular attention is directed to the few
notifications of the rules observed in the
last annual assessment
Assessors should instruct their assistants
to call personally upon those who have not
returned their income on the first Monday
in May. If any person is not at home, the
notice on the back of form "a should be
called out and the blank left This being
done, it becomes the duty of the taxpayer
to seek the Assistant Assessor and deliver
his return.
E. a ROLLINS,
Commissioner.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Late accounts from Mexico state that the
Liberal forces had captured number of
the Confederate Colony, and that the young
men have been pressed into the army, while
the aged ones were released. A son and
two nephews of Gen. Price were captured
and are now serving in the Liberal army.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

At last accounts upward of nine hundred
miles of the Atlantic Telegraph cable had
been slowed on the Great Eastern.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23
The Income Tax.

Instructions from the Commissioners Of In
tey1aGL ReUeHlte for the Preparation Of the
Tar Duplicates for the Year 1S65-De-
dltctioHs AllOl0ed TO be Made
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

North Carolina papers notice the preva-
lence among cattle of malignant disease
much like the rinderpest
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

The Tennessee legislature meets again on
the 8th of October next
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Our selection of SPRING AND
SUMNER Goods are daily expect
ed to arrive, and it would be well
for purchasers to note this fact, as
our purchases were all made after
the late HEAVY DECLINE.
ap m3 HARHI$GIQy CO..
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

The following circular viii be read with
interest:
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23
Memphis .qdUerFisemenfs.
Preparations.
Chronic Diseases.

DIR. SAMUEL GILBERT, so celebrated
having had for the last twenty-five years. the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

the lucrative Medical Practice in the South has
consented = allow several of his most esteemed remcieo
be prepared and sold proprietary medicines This resou
tion has been engendered by the repeated solicitations
those who experienced the beno bis remarkable pro-
fsssiona sk and BY the impossible y Of giving especial
fenti0n each Of the written applications made him
prescriptions whose pecunary
ness habits preclude the possibility Of applying person
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23
The Public

May that the manufacturers spare neither pains
the preparation Of these remedies They
made 0f very medicines known, highly c0nceu-
trated form, upon strictly scientific principles.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Dr. TATE tenders his services to the citizens
Of Bolivar aud vicinity. mch3I-3m
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-06-23

Z. P. NeNEAL, R. S. HARDY. l.. B. ADAMS JOHN
a. BAKER. JAMES PYBASS. R. C. CRAWFORD.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-22

The NATIONAL FINANCES. BY the last state
finances il appears that the amount of frac-
tional currency received by the Treasury during
the past week was nearly six hundred thousand
dollars, and the currency destroyed amounted
to about two hundred and forty thousand. The
New York Sub-Treasury received two hundred
thousand dollars worth OF the new fractional
currency and the national banks two hundred
and sixty thousand. The receipts from inter-
nal revenue show return since the 30th OF
June Of sll7,sls,s07. AT this rate the receipts
for the entire fiscal year would amount to three
hundred aud sixty millions. But they will
probably 60 above that because the returns
from income about the months Of May and
a day. The disbursements from the Treasury
last week were $4,js6,243 leaving in the
Treasury sj,269,13l.
Notwithstanding that this shows the financial
affairs OF the government TO be working
smoothly under the prodigious receipts from
all sources--receip,s, we may add, which are
besed on war footing with peace establish
ment--sill not only can the Treasury meet
all obligations and demands, interest Of the ma
ional debt and so forth, but with such receipts,
properly managed, portion Of the principal
might be paid on too, and preparations made
TO relieve the people Of a portion OF the heavy
taxation imposed upon them. II Is hardly
equitable that the same generation which bore
the brunt Of the war, with Ito life and lie prop.
erty. slsuld Hlso bear the whole burden Of
| the debt. r.- ! -.s.s -.s~:,s .s..T-
We trust that the PEssideni will recommend
&c ",c next session Of Congress such rcforma-
ton in our financial system as will accomplish
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-22

threatened radical instruction against the
Governors lawful authority, II carried out to
certain extremity, while in New Orleans the
boot is on the other leg. There Governor
Wells, radical, in accordance with his lawful
authority, is about to remove certain sheriffs
Of parishes Of alleged rebel anteoedents and
obnoxious rebel proelivities. But, on their side,
It is said that various rebel secret associations
or Boys in Gray which are known to be well
armed, will resist" the operation Of the law.
In Baltimore the threatened instruction comes
from hotheaded radicals and their misguided
"Boys in Blue;" in New Orleans the threat
ened appeal to arms and bloodshed comes
from implaoable rebels and their deluded
Boys in Gray" In both cases, If called upon,
1t will be the duty Of the President to sustain
the State Executive; but we entertain the hope
that law and order will be preserved without
a call for such Intervention. AS matters now
stand it is the duty of President johnson to use
his influence and advice in behalf Of peace;
for in the present infammable condition of
parties and factions, North and South, spark
may result in disastrous confagration.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-22

act In regard 10 Mexican matters. Mr. Campbell our
Minister TO Mexico. has been sent for and will probably
be despatched Immediately TO Mexico.
Another extxadition case, involving nice points OF
law has developed in Montreal in the case OF John
Paxton extradsd for forgery and charged on MS uia
with utterlng forged document II is argued tnas no
DO hold only the same charge under wnicn ma
extradition granted by the United states IN case
OF conviction an appeal is to be made 70 the United
States authorities
Our special correspondent in San Domingo, writing on
the 9th OF October reports General Cabra had been
elected President OF the republic by majority Of $3.50,
and had formed ministry some revolutionary move
ments took place few days before his inauguration
but II wss thought that complete peace would DO in
sured The tobacco trade was duh. The island re-
NAMED healthy
The Anti.Rent Convention assembled at Albany yes.
terday and proved to be republican olectioneerng
scheme Tho President and the general government
was denounced The Anti Rent men said to be arm.
ing themselves with Spencer rifles
A freight and a stock train on the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad colded yesterday at Parkesburg by
which conductor killed and several other per-
sons badly injured One Of the passengers drovor,
reported as from this CITY, but his is not given.
Richard Lambert Of Cincinnati was shot and fatally
wounded In Broadway concert saloon on Saturday
night by John W. Blair stranger from Ohio Lambert
was carried to the National Hotel and Blair committed
to the Tombs None Of the inmates Of the saloon we're
arrested
The Twenty. ninth precinct police made descent on
the negro gambling hell at the of Thirty
street and Sixth avenue Saturday night, and sue
ceeded In capturing thryone negroes engaged at the
time In playing faro.
Richard Kenehan, policeman OF the Fifth precinct,
Sunday morning attacked and badly beat roundsman
Ia 49, tai tai na
Tombs for trial
Richard Moore was seriously stabbed on Saturday
night by James Sullivan at No TX Allen street. Sulli-
was committed for trial
An informal offer OF compromise of the Baltimore
difficulty by of Governor Swanns friends promises
TO settle that affair without bloodshed.
Tho alleged failure of Alien, Frlnk & Co.. OF Cohoes,
for million Of dollars created much excitement yester-
day in Albany
julius Thompson, of West Hartford, Conn, was bru-
tally murdered Monday night last that CITY, by
stranger No arrests have as yet boon made.
The final obsequies the late John Van Buren,
celebrated at Albany on Saturday afternoon.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-22

INSANITY OF TUE EafREss or MEnco.-Our
European ness Of this morning contains some
very ps'nful statements, indicating that Car
.6t,s, Empress Of Mexico, had become insane
Her conduct at the Vatican and interview with
the Pope led to the suspicion that her mind
was affected. The suspicion was finally dis
covered to be correct, and II was positively
stated in Paris that her mind had given way"
A depression Of her spirits was noticed At the
time Of her Interview with Napoleon. Doubt
less the disappointment Of his refusal to aid
her husband, and that OF other sovereigns, has
brought about this sad result. Tho fact 10 sig-
niicant 70 us in that u indicates how hopeless
the cause Of Macmillan 10 considered "a
Europe.