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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10
NUMBER 9.
A Word About Babies.


The New York Sun contains the fol.
lowing excellent and timely sugges.
tions:
Once the helpless innocents were
made to suffer untold misery of the ex-
| perience of their mothers, who clad
their darlings in the dainty Geld linen
shirts and overskirts with linen bands ;
next CANA the low-necked dresses, pret-
ty but thoroughly unhealthy, leaving as
they did the sensitive neck and arms of
the little ones exposed. It is difficult
to convince oneself that vanity is the
root of that terror of mothers, the collie,
and that proper warmth viii do more
toward relieving the child, and in truth,
keeping it entirely free from the terri
BILE pain than all the soothing syrups
and paregoric that can be be bought.
Little knit flannel shirts are far better
than linen, for they are warm to the
delicate skin. The bands of the fan
mel shirts should be of thin fine flannel,
Linen or cotton bands should be used
in other skirts and the slips or robes
should all have long sleeves and be high
in the neck Fresh air never Injuries a
child if its body is properly protected.
Again if our friends are at all credu-
lous, let them try the following exper-
pertinent. If the little one is much
troubled with the colics, and has not
been accustomed to narcotics, let the
mother put flannel next to its skin, and
keep its hands, arms and feet warm for
a few days, or if the babe has been IN
healthy, and flannel that has been worn
next to the body is removed, tho exper
iment will cause the unsat isfactory re
suit of pain to the child, and anxiety to
the mother. While we advocate warmth,
we do not approve of too much cover
ing. A sleeping child requires much
less than an adult; if too many blan-
kets are over it, the head is covered with
beads of perspiration, and the child
will become weak and half-sick use
Just enough, and the babe will wake up
laughing and happy. With simple food,
air, exercise, and warmth, there is no
reason why our little ones may not be
well without the use of medicine.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10
Home Feeling.

Oye fathers and mothers who have
sons and daughters growing up around
you, do you ever think of your respon-
sibilfy in this regard, your responsible
ty for keeping alive the home sentiment
in the hearts of your children? With
in the limits of your means, remember
that the obligation rests on you to make
their home the pleasantest place upon
this rolling earth to make the word
''home" for them the synonym fer
"happiness. I would not have yon
import the vices of the outside world
into your homes for any purpose; but
would have you go to the utmost verge
of what is moral, to provide at home
those things which entice young and
growing persons away from home. Let
me assure you that you had better spend
your money in doing this than in Osten-
tation or luxury, and far, far better
spend it thus, than to amass a fortune
for your children to squander in the
future. And not only as regards amuse-
ments, but also comfort and refinement,
for children have keen appreciation of
these things; this is much the best
policy. Don't send your boy to school
in ill-fittting garments, collar all awry
and chafin his neck, buttons missing,
and shoes down at the heel Don't
make a warehouse or clothes-press of
his bedroom. Don't feed him on sour
bread, and tough meat, and burnt
coffee. Don't let noise and dissension
and misruIe spoil the hours he spends
at home. Don't do any of these things
if you can possible avoid it especially
don't do them for the purpose of laying
up money for his future use. The rich
est legacy you can leave him is a life
long, inextinguishabIe and fragrant re-
collection of his home, when time and
death have forever dissolved the en-
chantment. Give him that, and he will,
in the strength of it, make his own way
in the world but let his recOllections
of home be repulsive, and the fortune
you may leave him will be a poor com
pension for the loss of that tenderness of
heart and purity of life which not only
a pleasant home, but the memory of
one, would nave secured. Remember
this, too, that, while he Will never feel
grateful for your money when once you
are under ground, he viii go to your
green grave and bless your very ashes
for that sanctuary of quiet, comfort and
refinement into which you may, if you
possess the means, transform your home.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10
Effect of Extra Feed.

The Farm and Preside Journal thus
summarizes the results of some expe-
riments in feeding pigs:
During the warm weather two and
one-half pounds of extra food produ-
ced one pound live weight. This would
be a most extraordinary result, if aP-
piled to all the food taken by the pigs !;
but they had all the good grass they
could eat, and this food supplied the
vast of the system, the animal heat,
and kept the pig growing moderately,
and this extra food was used solely to
lay on flesh. Here is the secret Of
high feeding. The extra food diges-
ted all goes to profit, whereas the food
that supplies animal waste produces no
gain in the flesh, and if no more is fed
than to supply waste In the young ami
NAL, the food is all thrown away. Full
feeding is the only profitable feeding,
and this leads to early maturity and
early profit. The most profitable feed
ing of pigs Is before they are ten months
old. No profit results In keeping pigs to
eighteen months and two years old, e1-
cept for breeding purposes and be
sides, these eighteen to twenty-tour
months hogs do not generally average
more than $50 to 400 pounds, live
weight. and $50 pounds may be reached
in ren or twelve months. Many mil
lions of dollars worth of grain Is
thrown away every year by half feeding
or feeding principally in cold instead
of warm weather.
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Winter Care of Horses.

Considerable is written nowadays
about false economy in various ways.
Ny observation leads to the conclusion
that one important item is almost en-
tirely overlooked, and that thousands
of dollars are lost each year by the
reless wintering of farm horses. For
instance, farmer A. owns a fine span of
horses he is not much of a horseman,
but in the summer he works them, and
keeps man who takes good care o
them. In the fall, after work is over,
the horses are put into the stable and
fed all the hay they will eat (be the
same good or bad } or left perhaps a
week or two weeks at time, with little
or no exercise, and when they are dri-
ven, are let go at the topof their speed.
Fast driving, with stomachs full of un-
digested hay, is the very worst OF treat
ment. The result is that, in a year or
two, the horses have the heaves badly,
are spoiled for market, and are unable
to do the usual amount of service on
the farm or road; and this alone causes
a loss each year so long as the team is
used.
This:could in some degree be avoided,
by building a shed with yard for ex-
ercise, and by feeding food of sufficient
strength to keep the muscles in full
strength. Some say that wintering
horses in the field on hay alone, will
cause a falling away of muscles and
strength difficult to regain. No doubt,
being chilled by standing in a cold barn
is very injurious to horses. Country
Gentleman.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Col Clay Cox, pension agent for the dis
.trict of Columbia, has recently paid 400
pounds to American citizens in Scotlanl Ire
land, Wales, Prussia, and in many instances to
pensioners residing on the islands of the
Pacific and Atlantic oceans, not belonging to
the United States. All these are paid by bills
of exchange. The United States is the only
government that pays pensions to citizens who
have taken up an abode in other countries.
The department of state has been in
formed by Gen1 Shenck that the Nttional as
ISOLATION of science Of London Las offered
prize of $500 to the person who shall write
the most able essay on the following subject:
In what way ought an international assembly
to be constituted for the formation of a code
of public interna ,ional law, and what ought
to be the principles on which such code should
be formed? f.? The association invites the COM
petition of Americans for the prize. The
essay is to be sent to the association on or
before the 1st of Jure. 1874.
p The dispatches from every section of the
country indicate decided Improvement in the
financial situation. The general feeling seems
to be cheerful and confident.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10
BOLIVAR, HARDEMAN CO, TENNEssEE. OCTOBER 10. 1878

the bed. He seemed to know his Owl
utter dissolution, and the paroxysm oi
grief was strangely stilled. Laura re-
mained with him all night and when
the first red lights of the rising sun had
bathed with deep sp1endor the silent
glaciers and the snowy peaks, the young
heart had broken beneath its burden,
and the weary spirit fed away.
Shortly afterwards, at Milan, think
it was, saw copy of the Times, and
in tho second column I saw an adver-
tisement for a man with red mark un-
der his left eye and when returned to
England I learned the whole story.
This man, who had ever borne the high
est character, had got into deep distress,
owning principally to the shameful con-
duct of friend for whom he had be-
come surety and in an evil hour he
had forged a check for considerable
amount, intending, as such unhappy
men always intend, to replace the mo-
ney. He failed in doing this, and be-
ing conscious that his fraud must inevi-
tabIy be discovered, he fed from Eng
land, taking with him his motheriess
child. Whether in a fit of despair he
had thrown himself from the cliffs, or
whether he had simply missed his foot
ing, it is impossible to say. Father and
son rest in one grave in a church-yard on
that mountain height and on every an
of that awful tragedy The
good peasants place wreaths of immor-
telIes upon the simple white cross that
marks the nameless tomb. English !
ElroboY0o
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Interesting to Political Economists

Interesting to Political Economists.
There is yet another argument against
the impious greed for riches, the riches
themselves, in strictly monetary form,
having no existence beyond insignif-
cant limits, save in the diseased imagi-
nation of creduIous minds I know a
great philosopher, in a soft black hat
and the newspaper business, who has
ably maintained for years, with irrefu-
table ingenuity of reasoning and mar
velous felicity of professional illustra-
tion, that the whole amount of ready
money in the world, not belonging to
kings and governments, the actual dem
milton hard cash, to be shown in the
hand, mind you-cannot possibly
amount to more than about seven hun
dred and fifty dollars and a quarter
(75G.25.) Of this, Mr.. William B. As
tor may have, say, $3.50; Mr. A. T.
Stewart, 5000; ;. Mr.. Vanderbilt, 800;
and the remainder divided up in $5O's
and 25's amongst other rich men, the
extra 25 cents being the property of
first one and then another member of
the press. This theory has starting
sound at first; but its profoundly able
enunciator has put it to proof, time and
again, in the society of capitalists with
unexceptional success. At their b u.s.
ter about securities" mortgages" :"
3" checks, &c notes" &c bank stock, "
&c first-class paper, and so on, he has
invariably responded, o yes, paper, and
the houses and lots, and all that, 1 adj
mt all that, but take out your pocket
et-books. mean real out and out
money w And never did he find. the
full amount of his above liberal esti-
mates amongst the whole of them
OrI1he7ES O. Kerr
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10
& BALLAD.
BY ALICE CAREY

The morn is han ging her fire-fringed vail,
Made of the mist DER the walnut bOughs,
And Barbara, with her cedar pail,
Comes to the meadow TO call the COWS.
9 The little people that live in the air
Are not for my human hands to wrong
says Barbara, and her loving prayer
Takes them up as she goes along.
Gay sings the miller, and Barbara's mouth
Purses with echoes it will not repeat,
And the rose on her cheek hath nay-tlay's
growth
In the line with the ending Glove you, sweet ,
Eonder the mill is, small and white,
Hung like vapOr among the rocks,
Coed spirits say to her, morn and night,
7" Barbara Barbara stay with your focks. "
stay for the treasures you have to keep;
Cherish tue love that you know is true
Though stars should shine in the tears you weep.
They never would come out of heaven to you.
And were you to follow the violet veins
Over the hills, to the ends of earth,
Barbara, what would you get for your pains,
More than your true-love's love is worth?
So, never thought about drawer mills;
OF prOuder lovers your dreaming cease
A world is shut in among theseFhiils,
Stay in it, Barbara, stay for your peace?
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10
News Of the Week.
EAST


New York--At the inspection Of The ouar-
antine stations last week, Dy Gcv. Dix, it was
stated by health officer YanderpooI that yellow
fever had existed at the lower quarantine sta
ton at all times from the first of June to the
first Of October. The total number of deaths
we're 10. Information of the severity of the
disease has been Withheld from the press to pre-
vent alarmists injuring the commerce of The
pert, the health officers considering that so
long as the disease is imported from foreign
ports, and kept in the lower bay. it is unwise
to needlossly alarm the public
The mint at Philadelphia. under orders
from Washington, is coming double eagles at
the rate of $4,000, 900 a month. The Cali
foTnia mint is running at full capacity on the
gold coinage and trade dollars. Bullion to the
amount of 100000 has bel added to the
fund of the assay Office at New York to pay
promptly all deposits of soverfgns.
Within the past three months custom Off
GERS have seized diamonds amounting in value
to about one hundred thousand dollars. The
precious stones were found concealed about
the persons of men who went from this coun-
try to South Africa upon learning of the late
discoveries of rich diamond fields there. and
who were attempting to bring the diamonds
into the United States without paying customs
duties
"A company has been organized at Titus
vile, Pa, composed of the most prominent
nen Of that CITY, under the name of the Titus
vile TrHnk Pipe Line company, with a capital
stock of $3.50, 600, and will proceed Immediate
ly to laying lFes for the transportation of oil
to that place from all the producing districts
including the Butler-county district.
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Fun in Danbury.

Don't be afraid of having little fun in
the family. Amerry disposition is God
send home. There's the case of a man no
Nelson street, for instance. Saturday
he went into the kitchen ahead of his
wife, and seeing two huckleberry pies
standing on the table, he hastily con-
cealed them in the ice chest, which stood
open IN the back hall Then he went
down town chuckling to himself, and
ten minutes later the ice cart drove up,
and the ice man brought in fifty-pound
cake and started for the ice chest, fol-
lowed closely by the fond wife expatia-
ting upon the ''muss. He put the
cake upon the edge of the chest and
gave it push over, and when it came
down on those two steaming pies,
huckleberry geiser followed, and the ice
man, with eyes and face full of the dis
charge, tumbled completely over the
woman, and disappeared out of the
door. The wife recovered her balance
as speedily as possible, and catching up,
a broom went after the ice man, but he
escaped her; then she came back and
looked into the ice chest. and down at
the oil-oloth, and up at the ceiling, and
around on the walls. The men at the
store who were let into the joke by the
facetious Nelson street man are anxious
ly wondering how it turned out.
THE coming orange crop in Louisiana
promises we'll. The yield viii be above
the average, and it is expected the quail
ty viii be equal to that of previous
years. The creole orange has reputa-
ton for richness Of flavor, sweetness
sud juiciness not eYeelled by those Of
any other cline.
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LOOK


The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested TO pay up at once
We would take great pleasure IN extend
ing credit TO our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay We solicit your favor
q We enter no new names on ou
books without the money IN adrlt ce-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10

BRISBANE will soon commence laying
a new pneumatic tube between the
capitol and the government printing
Office at Washington. It viii be en-
closed in an octagonal box to protect 1t
from the pressure OF the earth, which
crushed the first one he put down
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10
THE best substitute for brains

THE best substitute for brains
Money.
4 HoUsEKEEPER writes us, asking how
to dress a lobster. We don't know. We
never dressed lobster. If the lobster
is about seventeen years old maybe it
would look well in a plain waist with
-demi-trained skir G of blue silk and
medium-sized panier, and an organdy
polonaise, with pinkish mauve chile,
six buttoned gloves and a white chip
hat. We say maybe it would; but per-
haps " Housekeeper before dressing
her lobster had better subscribe for
fashionable magazine, which will toll
her all about such things.
THERE is one reason why We should
regret to have the present troubles with
domestic servants ended. 1t is because
women derive so much pleasure from
discussing the subject. Place two wo-
men together, and it makes no differ
ence whether the conversation starts
from, it will be certain to work around
to the hired girl question before many
have elapsed. we nave seen
on elderly housekeeper, with expert
ence in conducting the talk in the right
direction, break into a discussion of
Pythagoras and the doctrine of the
of souls, and switch OF
the entire debate with such expedition
that an unsophisticated listener would,
for some moments, have an indistinct
impression that the conversation refer
red to the insuficiency of Pythagoras
as a washer and ironer, and to the ten
dency of that heather philosopher to
take two Thursdays out of every week.
And when woman has an unusually
villainous hired girl who burns Hp the
coal, wastes the butter, mixes her hair
in the biscuits and stuffs her relations
with the sugar, If is interesting to OBJ
serve how she glOries IN the superiority
of her sufferings to those of her neigh
bors, and how, as she tells of them, she
gIoats over her misery and feels good
about it. a woman who has a-really
competent servant is always in condi-
ton of abject wretchedness on such Oc-
casions.-HfaE AdeJer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-10-10

The public dept statement has Just
been issued, of which the following
is recapitulation
DEBT HEAHING INTEREST coIN.
Bonds at per 81 2s5 900 300 90
Bonds at per nt...-....... .-.. 4ss,5G7 800 90
Total. ........ 81 S''o'''Oo U"
DEBT BEARIsG IsTEREsT II LAWFUL MONEY.
Lawful money debt. ....... SI4,67SQ10 0S S
hatured debt--....-.. --.-'---s- A0''Oo'i'' w
DEBT uEABISe SO INTEREST.
Tss,,l tender notez .-........... $50, ,O7g742 90
Certificates, depOsit....... @51 wv ~
Fractional currency ................ 4OZzy5JI W
Coin certihcates---- .--.-'- -'-'--- '-'''' "
Total without interest. .....-.... S447ri94 5S4 90
Total debt ..........-s ,2oI, ,49eIe4 90
Total interest o-'Oo"'1' w
CASH N THE TREAsURT.
s9P:5.s g. 2ss. .ds5 5S5 GO GO
SDeeiaI deposit held for redenp-
tion of certificates, deposit a. - 80
provided by law ----.---- L-f@'e'''' W.
Total in treasury .......... $o4,7s5.7so o.
DEBT LESS CASH IN TIE TREASURY
Dept less cash in the treasury ,l3s 1884, 1913 OO
Decrease Of debt during past 90 80 ~,
A''i'''' w
BONDS ISSUED TO PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES, IN
TKREsT PAYABLE n LAWFUL MONEY.
Bonds issued to Pacific railroad
Tnonev 'nrinciuaI oI5fatandinp. SC46235l2 %
r-.,--gt .o.5,-I1,5 ,oJ NOT vet Maid gdQ. $50 %
Interest paid by United States 1D,44t,sS7 W
Interest paid by transportation of
Balance ilitae'+' interest iai;i paid by United
States. loVS''''7 w
The monthly public debt statement
shows no greater reduction, on account
of the purchase by the government Of
the thirteen and one-half milliondol-
lars worth of five-twenty bonds though
that reduction has IN fact been made,
so far as the accounts of the treasury
now show. However, the transaction
is simply an exchange of assets for liza
bilities, but these bonds cannot again
be issued, and the interest on them
is stopped. It is only after they
have been examined and destroyed that
they will enter into the monthly state
ment as a reduction of the debt.
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A Convict Making MOOnshine.

About three months ago it was noticed
that many convicts and keepers at Sing
Sing, in the quarry gang, were moro or
less intoxicated when they went in at
night, and many were the devices to
catch the supposed smuggler of liquor.
One of the guard heard convict talk
ing in his cell and say ''Tve always
been a good friend to you; why don't
you set up straight. " The guard looked
in and saw the convict addressing a pop
bottle, which he then took from him.
It ha the odor of whisky, and the con-
vict was drunk. Questioned by the
warden, he said that he bought the
whisky from the quarry distillery at
one dollar per bottle. Under a ledge,
hidden by some boards, the warden
found John Short, a convict, at work in
his distillery. He had an iron kettle,
boarded over, which he used as boiler.
Some old barrels contained the mash,
which was the best of bread, canned tOma-
toes, apples, potatoes and carrots. The
still'was in full blast, and from half an
41lSLA E5cbo EADC3 g"ioGCNA 4AAbO u WILL IAN
a good stream of tolerably fair spirits.
John was searched, and 5000 were found
in his possession. He sold his stuff at
one dollar per pop bottle. The keep
ers, he said, were good customers, and
helped him to rig up his establishment,
and he had just completed arrange
ments to supply some neighbOring sa-
looms with his products. The still pro-
duced an average of five gallons day.
"MIxED MARRIAGES. Hon. Robert
Townsend, a Nebraska probate Judge,
has recently taken some pains to ascer-
tain, as far as possible from official
sources, the law in all the states con-
cerning the intermarriage of whites ana
blacks. The Omaha Republican, pub
fishing the results of his inquiries, says
that such intermarriages are now valid
in New York, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, Kansas, New Jersey, South Caro-
lima, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Dis
trict of Columbia. Maine, Michigan
and Illinois report that, although they |
have prohibitory statutes, yet the law
with them is a dead letter, and that /
" such marriages frequently oceur."
The gentleman replying from COnnecti- 7
cut said There is no law In the state /
that prohibits the intermarriage of
whites and blacks, unless the black OBJ /.
iects.
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ANNOUNCEAIENTs

Announcing the name Of person for a county Of
fee IS; state Office, $40; federal Office, SIS. Invar-
ably ia advance
The above terms and rates will be strictly ad-
hered TO.
Religious, marriage, birth and death notices solic
tied, and will be willingly inserted free of charge
Obituaries viii be charged advertising rates.