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The New York herald., 1873-12-15

beached and forbldding What sad history has
this shorel We ali know the story of poor Captain
Riley His story thousand times told would not
complete the history or misfortunes which the
inhosptable strand could relate were IL able to
speak. Besides the many, many OF foreign
vessels wrecked with their crews plundered,
stripped and hurried into the interior into hellsh
slavery, how many o poor Canary fisherman has
found a home far inland in calling servitude of
which we know knothngl The sea along the
coast swarms with fish, for which the Canary
fishermen have been bold enough to leave the
neighborhood or their own snug little isles. Glad
dened at heart at the prospect OF soon filling their
vessels, they approach close to the shore and
anchor, storm rises and the unlucky
mariners are driven on the beach by the cruel
waves where the Moors lie in wait to bind and take
them into lifelong captivity. While looking at the
serrated line OF sandy shore we cannot help fan
cying ourselves trudgng across that torrid extent
with blisterlng feet and backs with the remorse-
less man-drivers behind us urging US to quicken
pace with point OF lance and snaky kurbash. But
kind Heaven forbid the mlschance and speed US
on our way TO more auspicious shores
sorTHING TOWARDS SIERRA LEONE.
However, imagination Is assisted in the above
doleful picture by the fervid atmosphere through
which we move we steer south towards sierra
Leone. we are impatient OF tne slignteSt vesture.
The cabin is sufocating, for the thermometer Is SO
degrees Fahrenheit on deck we have the
cruel glare OF the ocean, which lies ruffle-
less all around. Sharks frequently
seen either side Of the vessel. l suppose their
traditions have deluded them into the belief that
here, more than anywhere else, man meat is
found. The Benin. however, disappoints them
and as we glide ahead their black fins are seen
cutting the water at random, while they are look
ing for that which we cannot afford them.
INsALUBRITY OF THB POSITION.
on the sixth day from TencrifIe, and the fifteenth
day from Liverpool, the Benin enters By night the
mouth OF the river OF Sierra Leone. and In the
morning the Lion Range ootrudes itself as the
thick mist dissolves before the light OF day.
one glance at the position OF the town reveals
the cause fits insalubrity TO the traveller. 1t is
placed in an amphitaeatral terrace or shelf Of
ground, with an immense and lofty crescent OF
mountain at the back OF it, rising TO height OF
1000 and 1900 feet above 1t. Between the
town and sea few spires and outlying ridges
prevent the full benefit OF the pure sea breeze, and
as the breeze does not always come from seaward-
when 1t comes from the interior-the town be-
comes steamy, muggy and vaporous; very hot
bed OF sickness and fever. Nature has pointed man
" the breezy upland above the t0Xu - tina sste
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slowed opprobrious epithets upon the Press Corps,
among which is the term camp loafers.


THE GENERAL-IN-cHIEF AND HIS STAFF.
Dropping the book on my knee, picture to my
sell the kind OF man the military author must be.
have never seen him, and have only this excess
sive animus to the Press Corps to guide me in my
fancy portrait-a primmish appearing man, OF
Spanish cast OF face, very stiff, formal, sour,
crusty vain and afraid OF criticism, conscious,
perhaps, that he might commit faults and would
fear being reviewed.
ask gentleman on board who are on Sir Gar
nets stan. / am answered.
captain Brackenbury for one"
"Ah, yes Brackennury, OF course. The London
Times man ; military correspondent a fire. eating
special! Nothing would ever stop HIM from writ
ing to the Times. Strange that Sir Garnet, with
his unconcealed hatred to newspaper people,
should choose such an indefatgable caterer to the
press as Captain Brackenburyl"
"who else pray ?"
"Captain Norris"
''What, Morris the author OF the wellington
Prize Essay. He Is another press writer. / would
bet anything he writes for one II not two news
papers. You need not name the others. l VIII
take it for granted that they are mostly all news
paper writers in military Clothes"
Apart from his hatred OF the gentlemen OF the
press. as he facetiously terms them, Sir Garnet
shows himself In his book as q man who would
himself energetic and master OF all military de-
tail, from the smallest minutie OF an ofllcer's
outfit to the most difficult tactics for an army.
Were the book reviewed bit by bit there is many
place where Sir Garnet might be hit very strong
on tender points. Taken as whole, II is good in
structor for officers, treasury OF knowledge for
engineers, doctors, mechanics, drillmasters, gen.
erals commssarats, Tor anybody you please con.
nected with army; in short. 1t is the work OF
thorough soldier. N
OFF MADEIRA.
This exciting theme being over. we are now ap-
preaching Madeira, and the trade wind bowls us
southwark and eastward at a cheering rate, and
the sixth morning, about the time for breakfast,
the anchor was dropped
IN THE HARBoR OF FUNCHAL.
But we were not permitted to land. The Span
ish Consul with malice could not understand,
had written in his own language across the Eng
lish bill OF health an account OF the cholera case
which had occurred az Liverpool on board o French
brig and we were at once, rs the phrase is, put
In quarantine" If had only set my foot on Ma
dcira, had intended TO have written you all about
the island, from Its rst colonization to its present
period. 1t would have been laborious, perhaps, q
little, but J would have aQpa Ii Xbe RIRAIp
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expects every to do his duty.
Your readers have been saved a repe.
tition OF what old Cada Masto began
first, and have been spared much labor. One
thing l regretted very much-viz., that the cable
between Madeira and Lisbon was broken for 1t
would have been such satisfaction for the HERALD
TO know tnat there was cable.
TAcKING FOR TESERIFFE.
Venting her spite upon the imannered Doors
who refused us permission to land upon the beauti-
ful 'Ise OF Woodsn the Benin turned her stern in
dignantly toward the port OF Funchal and pointed
her stem for Tenerife, ut which port we arrived
in "a hours. Nor at Tenerife were we permitted
to land The yellow Dag was at our fore peak and
we were thing to be dreaded. For the discourtesy
with which we were treated, shall say anything
good OF these isles Shall when one cheek has
been smitten desire the other to be smitten also
Shall for a curse give a blessingS have my pri-
vate opinion Of these islands and their people.
CURIOUS FACT
Twin tell you story about them. Occupying
the ladies' cabin OF the steamer Benin were three
passengers OF the family of jacob Doeging, of
Chicago, the husband, wife and daughter. The
wife was In bad health and the husband, out of
love for her, left far Chicago to give his wife and
daughter the benefit OF the salubrious air OF Ma
deira. Arriving at Madeira they were refused
permission TO land, and, as there was no place to
receive passengers put in quarantine In the port,
they were taken to Tenerine in the hope that they
could have accommodation there. When we came
to Tenerine the same refusal to land met them.
They were compelled to journey on to Sierra
Leone, on the West Coast OF Africa, 1,4oo miles
further still. Sierra Leone is the last
place in the world to Danish delicate
women to, unless they are to be got rid of, when.
II such is the case, Sierra Leone offers special ad
vantages from Its well known insaiubrious posi-
tion Fortunately, however we met steamer
coming from the southwark, and the sick woman,
the daughter and loving husband were put on
board, either TO be landed at Madeira or to be
taken back to England.
SIGHTING THE SAHARA.
Three days after leaving Madeira the breezy
trade wind died away, and the browny- white Sa-
hara desert hove In view.
Freilegrath's apostrophe to Africa comes to the
mind as we sight the burning shores:-
zone, so hot and glowing,
Queen OF the earth art thou.
Sand Is thy mantle nowing,
The sun doth crown thy brow.
or gold, thou queenIy woman,
Are all the clasps and rims
That fasten with nery splendor
The garment 10 thy burning limbs
TAe sandy dunes and hills along the shores are
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whereon to build home, yet the European has
neglected the warning and, consequently, has
sickened and died. Hence Sierra Leones bad repu-
tation. English Governors have endeavored to
mitigate the evil by sanitary regulations by indus
trousy circulating clear fresh water through every
street. but it has not been enough. The evil lies in
the air. 1t is the noXious exhalation from the
leafy outrageous, close crescent 1t the want of
that fresh air which bends the tall grass on the top
OF yonder mountain that has caused the fragile
constitution of the European to sicken and fade
and die.
THE TOWN AS IT IS.
The first view OF Sierra Leone is very deceptive
The stranger, on seeing the apparently strong SUBJ
stantial, civilized looking houses, rich in their
luxuriant tropical surroundings velvet green palm
fronds, rusting and waving over steeple and roof,
papaw and bread fruit trees oranges and lines
and every tree that is delightful to the eye and
taste growing thickly about-would be apt TO say,
"Ah, here is the fuinlment OF my dream at last.
This Is the initial footsep OF civilization into Gen.
tral Africa" He enters the town hopeful and san
guine, but the truth slowly penetrates into his
brain that this town has been ABOUT 100 years pro-
crossing towards Its present pitch OF prosperity.
Alter 100 years of occupation the English are build
ing wharf, After 100 years OF occupation the
Episcopal church is but half constructed, and I
should fear to say how much precious money has
been spent already on the rickety looking edince.
After 100 years OF occupation the jealous English
missionaries have not been able to inculcate in
the negro's mind that 1t is sinful to lie, to steal
and to be lazy And this is the result OF Christian
izing Africa at Sierra Leone. II | were asked
where could find the most insolent, lying, thiev-
ing negroes l should undoubtedly say at Sierra
Leone. Through some strange caprice, evidently,
the English have permitted colony OF semi civil
lized Africans to grow up In order to experiment
perhaps. how wild and how rank colony or ne
groes can become when lett to their own sinful
ane wicked devices, unchecked and uncurbed by
the hand Of law. The English
WILL PERHAPS PLEAD
as an excuse that the climate Is against the exer-
else OF strong will tnat, no matter how valiant
man may be In his intentions when he sets out TO
govern the blatant, wooly-headed rabble OF TINS
colony, he finds his nerve and will Frustrated before
the unconquerable lassitude which the cnmate
quickly engcnders in him soon as ne sets 1901 on
Its shores,
To which reply that It was mistake 70 expect
a European to live In that steamy hollow where
the town has been planted; that though Africans,
able to bear up against the strengthsappng
damp heat, might through natural inertia be dis.
iucllued 70 brave the steep slopes VI the breezy
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THE AFRICAN GOLD COAST:

Showing the Seat Of War Between England and Ashantee
the Western Coast Of the African Continent
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20
What to Do in Case Of Accidents.

Prof. Wilder of Cornell university,
gives the following short rules in case
of accident, which it Will be found use
full to preserve and remember For
dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing; dash
water into them remove cinders, ETC.,
with the round point of a lead pencil
Remove water from the ear by cold wa
ter; never put hard instrument into
the ear. If choked, get upon alI-fours
and cough. For slight burns, slip the
parts IN cold water; if the skin is de-
strOyed, cover with varnish. Smother
a fire with carpets, etc.; water will of
ten spread burning oil and increase
danger. Before passing through smoke,
take full breath and then stoop low;
but if carbonie acid gas is expected,
walk erect. In case of poisoning, ex-
cite vomiting by tickling the throat, OF
by warm water and mustard. For aci6
poisons, give alkalies FOR alkaline
poisons, use acids-white of an egg il
good in most cases ; in a case of opium
poisoning, give strong coffee and keel
moving. eff in water, float on the back
with the .nese and mouth projecting
For apoplexy, raise the head and body
for fainting, lay the person fiat.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20

How TO MAKE MUSTARD PLASTER.
How many people are there who
really know how to make a mustard
plaster? Not one in a hundred, at the
most, perhaps, and yet mustard plas-
tiers are used in every family, and physi-
clans prescribe their application, never
telling anybody how to make them, for
the simple reason that the doctors do
not know, as a rule. The ordinary way
is to mix the mustard with water, tenn
pering it with a little -four, but such a
plaster as that makes is simply abOmi-
nabIe. Before it has half done it's work
it begins to blister the patient, and
leaves him finally with painful, fayed
spot, after having produced far less eff
feet in a beneficial way than was in
tended. Now a mustard plaster should
neUer make q blister at ALL If a bis
ter is wanted, their are other pIasters
far better than mustard for the pur-
pose. When you make a mustard plas-
ter, then, use no water whatever, but
mix the mustard with the white of an
egg, and the result viii be a plaster
that will " draw" perfectly, but will
not produce a blister even upon the
skin of an infant, no matter how long it
is allowed to remain upon the part.
For this we have the word of an old and
eminent physician, as well as our own
experience,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20
Sensible.

The press everywhere clamors for life
insurance at low rates. The National
Life Insurance Company of the United
States of America offers it at three
fourths the rates of mutual companies.
It guarantees their suficiency by their
million dollars capital, and has two dol
lars assets for every dollar of liability.
It wants an agent in every locality not
now supplied, and will give liberal com
missions for reliable service. E. A.
Rollins is president, and Jay Cooke is
chairman of the finance committee.
Persons seeking insurance or employ
ment cannot do better than to write to
the branch office of the company at
PHILADELPHIA.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20

IT frequently happens that farm will
not divide we'll among children /; there
is trouble in making an equitable dis
tribution of the property. In such in
stances it is we'll to consider the subject
of life insurance. For small sum paid
annually, a large amount of ready
money may be left to the widow or
daughter at the period of ones death i;
and they will be Just as independent as
the sons who divide and keep the farm.
This suggestion is well worth needing
by thousands who are interested, and
we commend them to the old New
York Life Insurance Co. at 346 and 348
Broadway. New York. Full particulars
mailed free on application.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20

The summer sunshine that clothes the earth
with Iuxuriant vegetation, evaporates a vast
amount of crude, unwhoIesome moisture from its
surface, which, mingIIng with the cir in the form
of mephitlc gases, produces variety of febrfIe
and other diseases. The body being debiIItated by
the warmth of the season, and the pores being
wide OPEN gaping as it were for the seeds of sick
ness. any infectious principle that may exist in
the atmosphere is readily received into tho sys-
tenn when it bears banefuI fruit in the shape Of
maaIious fever, biliousness, diarrhoeR, dysentery
collie, sickness at the stomach, headache, or ner-
vOus prostration. In order to prevent these vista
TONS put the system in a condition resist all
morbid influences. Brace the inner man with
Hostetter's stomach Bitters the purest invigoraut
and the most invincible antagonist of all causes
of disease whether present in the air breathe,
the water we drink, or connected with our mama
of life the nature of pursuits that science
| has yet given to the world. The experience of
twenty-five years has taught an observant people,
that this uneKceptionaI and agreeable tonic and
Alternative possesses preventive and remedial viz
] tues that are shared by no other medicine OF the
present age. It has taught them also that while it
is Infinitely more efficient than any of the poison
Gus aIkaIoids prescribed tonics it is absolutely
| and entirely harmless.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20

CHICKEN CHOLERA. following
prescription we find in the Southern
CttLtiv0tor, and is said to be very effica-
cious in chicken cholera Glycerine
and water, each a half-ounce carbolic
acid, ten drops. When the first symp-
toms of the disease are apparent give
five drops, and repeat at intervals OF
twelve hours. Usually the second dose
effects cure. A neighbor informed me
that cholera was very destructive among
his poultry, and at my suggestion he
tried the foregoing recipe. He reports
that the progress of the disease was
promptly arrested, and in almost every
case a cure was accomplished.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20
Remarkable Progress.


We have already alluded to the prosperous CON
diUion of the Phoenix Life Insurance Company,
located in this city, of which Edison Fessende Is
president and James F. Burns secretary. A more
careful investigation of its last annual statement,
just published, warrants us in submitting to the
readers of the Times some further remarks upon
its rapid progress to popular favor and its remar
kably prosperous condition at the present time
Let US compare its condition ten years ago with
what it Is at the present time. in the years 1852
and 1855 it issued I7I7 policies; its income was
s125s72 dividends 81 24i; losses by death $5ssOo;
assets a437 . Here the business of two years.
In 1872 it issued 1857 policies: its income was
Sab 75245 dividends s94s al Il losses by death
sS3l ,Il6 b; net assets IS 5935.G.
This Increase Of iness and assets in the short
period Of is worthy Of special notice. n
iRcome IN Is72 Of near s3SOg0o0 against sI255z2 in
1882 and 1888; it is nearly thirty to over ten
thousand policies last year against seventeen hun
dred in two years only ten years ago. It's net as
sets amount to over eight millions now; then less
than half milliOn-mOrc than sixteen 70 one
This wonderful increase is not the result Of sin
gle jump 1t comes OF regular yearly advances !;
showing the sOlidity and psrmanency OF this signal
prosperity. For instance, the net assets Of the
company at the opening Of the y, n 1872 amounted
to S7.5IO.6l4-5; at the commencement OF the year
1873 they were 6, 3 Us Gan increase during the
The Phoenix has now 1900 policies in force.
covering Il9to 81 Valued by ths N s ~ foIk s
ri her liabilities carry It's obligations up 70 e. J %
cnmuany has a surplus OF 81 ,I99, s5lSo.
The officers lay these facts before the public win
The assurance that they cannot be equRlrd In com
paratlve strength BY the statement OF any com
nguv in New England. II, indeed, by any In the
country. though = lew others have iaFRer aEkFt
gate uf assets. No company In this city equaled "
last wear ia the number % policies issued OhiJ
one came within 2.gU8 Of IL, and the others were
from 5 90 tn $50 below it. a.
In this sterling condition Of Its finances. N us
great and increasing pros perity, and in the firm
hold IL has upon public confidence, the Phoenix
may. with due degree Of pride and satisfaction,
publish the details Of its business and It's solid con-
dtion.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20

FAMILY likeness has often a deep sad
ness in it. Nature, that great tragic
dramatist, knits us together by bone
and muscle, and divides us by the sub
tier web of our brains blends yearning
and repuIsion; and ties us by our heart
strings to the beings that jar us at every
movement. We hear voice with the
very cadence of our own uttering the
thoughts we despise: we see eyes, ah
so like our mothers, averted from us in
cold alienation and our last darling
child startIes us with the air and CUES
ture of the sister we parted from in Bit
terness long years ago. The father to
whom we owe our best heritage, the me-
chanical instinct, the keen sensibility to
harmony, the unconscious skill of the
modelling hand, gals us and puts us to
shame by daily errors; the long-lost
mother, whose face we begin to see in
the glass as our own wrinkles come,
once freeted our young souls with her
anxious humOrs and irrational persis-
tence.- George Elliot.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-20

BAKING APPLEs.-I do not think that
house-keepers have cooked apples near
ly as often as they should. There is
nothing more wholesome for dessert
than apples baked in various forms.
They should be cored, put in a dish
with a little warm water, each with a
teaspoonful of sugar over it; bake until
soft, and serve cold, with cream or
good milk. Or make an apple float, by
taking a dozen tart apples, stew and
prepare them as if for sauce when
cold, add the whites of two eggs, beat
en-; then beat the whole until quite
stiff; having made previously a soft
custard with the yelks, using about a
pint of milk. Or make an apple pud-
ding, by filling the cored apple with
nutmeg, sugar and butter make a bat
ter of one egg, -four and milk, and pour
around the apples. Or pare, core and
spice say ten large tart apples bake
until nearly done; put away to get cold
then prepare icing as usual. Pour of
the juice, lay the icings on the tops and
sides as thickly as you can then re-
turn to the oven to just harden and
set. To be eaten with cream, but if
you haven't that, as the article is scarce
nowadays, good milk will answer, if you
can get it.