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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06
THE CENTENNIAL.
Message of the President The Commits
siOners' Report TO Congress.


siOners' Report to Congress.
The president has sent the following
message to congress:
To the senate and house Of representa-
tiUes:
have the honor herewith to submit
a report of the centennial commission
ers, and to add a word in the way of
recommendation. There have now been
international expositions held by three
Of the great powers of Europe. It
seems fitting that the one hundredth
anniversary of our independence should
be marked by an event that will display
TO the world the growth and progress
of the nation devoted to freedom, and
to the pursuit of fame, fortune and
honor by the lowest citizen, as well as
the highest. a failure in this enter
prize would be deplorable. Success can
be assured by arousing the public to
the Importance of the occasion. To
secure this end, in my Judgment, con-
gressiOnal legislation is necessary to
make the exposition both national and
international. The benefits to be de-
rived from a successful international
exposition are manifold. 1t will neces-
sarily be accompanied by expenses be
JOnO G1l0 lLOu b1lO CAkCStL1OH
itself, but they Will be compensated for
by commingling of people from all Sec
tions of our own country, by bringing
together people of different national
tiles, by bringing into juxtaposition for
ready examination our own and foreign
skill and progress in manufactures, agri-
culture. art, science and civil station
The selection of a site for the exposi
ton seems to me appropriate from the
fact that one hundred years before the
date fixed for the exposition, the declar-
alton of independence, which launched
us into the galaxy of nations as an in
dependent people, emanated from the
same spot. We have much in varied
climate, soil, mineral products and skill,
of which advantage can be taken by
other nationalities to their profit. In
eturn, they will bring to our shore
works of their skill and familiarize our
people with them, to the mutual advan-
tage of all parties. Let us make a COM
plete success of our centennial exposi-
tion, or suppress it in its infancy and
ackno Wedge our ine bility to give it
the international character to which our
self-esteem aspires. U. s. GRANT.
Executive Mansion, Feb. 25, 1874.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06
SMALLPOX.

Smallpox, speaking n-medically,
takes fourteen days to incubate. Its
symptoms commence with severe weak
ness and pain in the small of the back,
which the uDsuspecting victim attrib-
utes in some way to the kidneys. The
system becomes feverish and the spirits
unusually depressed. Before the dis
ease really manifests itself, and at a
point where no physician can diagnose
1.-THE symptoms being so similar to
scarlet fever, measles and other dis
eases-the sufferer complains of f. yerish
symptoms, severe headache, insupport-
able lassitude, loss of appetite-in
short, the unmistakable signs of an ap-
preaching malady which Is to shake the
system to its base, and test the powers
of vitality and strength to their utmost
tension. Then breaks out the unmis
taxable eruption which msrks the fell
destroyer, and it is then that the friends
of the patient should either have him
removed, or at least guard the sick
room that the contagion may be kept
within the closest limits. If there is no
hospital near, flag should at once be
hoisted to indicate to passeTs by that
the lintels of that door have been
brushed by the destroying angel.
Every man is liable to smallpox,
even second time-some more than
others; and it Is a well authenticated
fact that the mind has an imn ense deal
TO do not only with the liability to CON
troll infection, but with the power 70
Withstand the shock. Fear may be
called the greatest friend, next TO a GER
tain habit of body, which the smallpox
has. A man has been known 10 eaten
it by simply seeing a case upon the otner
side of a road, which had been dls-
missed from a hospital cured and he
has felt that peculiar shudder, which
veterans will selI you they remember 70
have experienced at the moment from
Which thew date the reception Of the
poison into their system.
NARoorIzED MEMORY When the ell
der Disraeli called tobacco "the tomb
of love. he may have meant that what
| deadens remembrance must necessarily
| have a similar effect upon tender senti-
ment. After all that hes been ignor.
antly preached and written against the
to oNacco habit, it appears to be generally
| conceded at last that It's excesses surely
/ impair the memory. Heavy smokers
particularly, have this experience OF i
/ very often, and men whose professions
/ duties neeessitate trust worthy recollec
i ton of facts, names, dates, etc, canno
be. too temperate-with the insidioui
pipe especially.
Census oficer-"What age, madam
shall put down ?" Madam (after ma
ture refieetion)-'' What have you pu
| down for the lady overhead ?"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06
RATEs on ApYERrrsINa :
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Announcing the name of person for 5 county
Office s. state Office SO; federal ofce, SIS. In
Varfably in advsnce.
The above terms snd rates win be strictly ad-
hered to.
Religious marriage, birth and death notices so
hcited, and win be willingly inserted free OF charge
Obituaries, Masonic and other society notices >of
deaths, etc. viii be charged 10 cents per has.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06

JOHN Doc eetitioned the Massachu-
sets Legislature TO change his name, and
they made 1t John Kerr, and he was
happy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06
The Liquor Business.

One of our correspondents sends us
detailed statement Of the amount of in
toxicating liquors used in the United
States. He says that he has obtained
the figures from official documents, and
that he has presented them in the fol-
lowing compact form, so that even the
casual reader may see how large, both
absolutely and relatively, the traffic in
Intoxicating liquors is in this country :
Statistics showing the amount of money spent
in the United States for intoxicating liquors
during the year 1870, as taken from the Of
fetal records
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06

CENSUS oficer-"W What age, madam.
shall / put dowu ?" Madam (after ma
ture refiection)-'' What have you put
down for the lady overhead p
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06

TaR Oldest fireman in Utica died the
other day, and he wanted TO be buried
with his red shirt on so as to be ready
for an alarm.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-03-06

Neao York Erenilaq pos.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
A Thirty.seyen Days, Fast.

A man named Van der Veken was dis
covered, on the 18th instant, stretched
insensible on bed in a garnet in this
city. He taken to the hospital and
then gave signs of life; but it was not
till the next day that he had strength
to speak. Then he asked what day it
was and on being informed that it was
the 18th of August, said: 81 have
been there these thirty-seven days" A
little latter he became better able to
speak, and in reply to questions, he in
formed the doctor that early in July he
had been suffering from a splitting of
blood. He was alone in his garret, but
expecting that he would be better, and
not wishing to trouble any one, he lay
down on the bed. Here, however, he
found himself becoming so weak that he
| could not rise, and though he tapped on
the wall, no one appeared to have heard
him. Near his bed was pitcher of
water, and he was able, by means of a
small can, to get some out of it from
| time to time. Little by little he lost
his remaining strength, until he found
! himself unable to move. He could not
speak and his sight became dim from
time to time, until all power of vision
| faded. Still his sense of hearing con-
tinued most acute, and he says he could
detect the smallest sound, though ut
terly powerless to articulate a syllable.
He IS now recovering, and it is expected
/ VIII, with care, be thoroughly restored.
! 1-AntGUer10 Holland PRECURSOR.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
The Revival of Trade.

The Toronto Globe, speaking in re-
cent issue of the revival of trade in the
United States, remarks that the fact
that few days since So, 900, 900 worth
of New York Central railway bonds
were sold in London at 1O5 is sufficient
proof of itself of a return of confidence
in American securities, and of the pleth-
ora of money in the European ex-
changes waiting for investment. This
IS but one straw which points to better
times. Business men in New York pre-
dict sound and healthy fall and winter
traffic. Orders from the interior null
tiply, and collections are made with ease
The export trade in grain has
been stimulated by the recent ad-
vance of wheat in the Liverpool
N market. It is known that the
last years grain crop has been pretty
exhaustively depleted by the uninter-
mitted orders for export, and the do
mestic as well as the foreign demand
for the grain of the current year must
keep accumulation down and transport
| alton active. The consequence is, that
the feeling in the great business centers
| is excellent, nor are any apprehensions
felt of a change for the worse. The re-
ports, from the Internal Revenue Office
areas we have already pointed out
of a highly favorable nature, as COM
pared with those for the same time in
| 1873. In short, the general tone of the
talk is hopeful and assured, and the
confidence in revival of trade gains
rapidly in strength as the season ad-
| VanceS.-Chic0QO Inter- OcctI7
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Failures in business.

Peter Cooper failed in making hats.
failed as cabinet maker, locomotive
builder and grocer, but as often as he
failed he " tried again. until he could
stand upon his feet alone then crowned
his victory by giving 81, ZOO, 900 to help
poor boys IN time TO come.
Horace Greeley tried three or four
lines of business before he founded the
Tribune, and made it worth 81 ZOO, 900.
Patrick Henry failed at everything he
undertook until he made himself the
ornament of his age and nation.
The founder of the New York Her.
aid kept on failing and sinking his mon
ey for ten years, and then made one of
the mostproftable newspapers on earth.
Stephen A. Douglas made dinner
tables and bedsteads and bureaus many
a long year before he made himself a
giant on the floor of Congress.
Abraham Lincoln failed to make both
ends meet by chopping wood failed to
earn his salt in the galley-slave life of a
Mississippi fat-boatman he had not
even wit enough to run a grocery, and
yet he made himself grand character
of the nineteenth century.
Gen. Grant failed at everything except
smoking cigar; he learned to tan hides,
but couldn't sell leather enough to pur-
chase pair of breeches. A dozen years
ago he g brought up" on top of a wood
pile ''teaming it'' to town for $40 a
month, andoyet he is at the head of a
great nation
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Trade PROSPECTS,.

The New York Tribune, in an edito-
rial article on the future prospects of
trade, closes as follows
So far as the progress of events and
available statistical information enable
us to make comparison with the state
of trade which prevailed in this country
for two or three years after the panics of
1887 and 1857, and in England after 1887,
1S47, 1857 and 1866, the result is re-
markably favorable to the present period
To begin with, very little commercial
rottenness has been developed in Great
Britain, our great customer and creditor
The same remark may also be made of
the state of affairs here. On the whole
our banking system has been more pru-
IDENTIFY handled than it was in the years
previous to 1887 and 1857. There have
been some great abuses, as some recent
failures show, and as indeed is appar-
ent from the official statistics, but
after all the banks bid fair to come out
of their difficulties in better shape than
they did twenty and forty years ago.
| The above observations apply with still
greater force to banking in Great
Britain. While, therefore, we do not
| shut our eyes to the features which are
common to the present depression and
| those which have preceded it on each side
! OF the Atlantic, and would earnestly
recommend the history and philosophy
of such depressions to the careful study
of our merchants, manufacturers anG
! bankers, we think the country will
| escape from the consequences of 1878
| having suffered less distress than oul
| ancestors did in atoning for their ex
! cesses. So far as panics are concerned
there is nothing new under the sun.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Russian Horses

An English writer says: A speciality
of renown in Russia are the little horses
of the Mushik. They are hardy in the
first instance, as everything is in Russia,
and they are quick and strong. Two of
these little horses, hardly large enough
to be called ponies, will draw a plow all
day with pause at noon. They are
now largely exported (under the name
of Litthauers) to Prussia, and in some
places have altogether dispossessed the
oxen of their old privileges. I worked
; with them on one of the estates of Bar
on Pfuce, where they were fed upon
chaff of any description, even of lupines,
very successfully, condimented with
some potato refuse from the distillery.
In harvest time, when the little mice
had to work like brewers horses, / ad-
ministered to them some bran, and they
grew fat even under so unfavorable cir
cumstances. We soon had some twenty
more sent down, and SO we would spare
them little, and send them into the
inclosure with the foals now and then.
Two of them were able to draw the
Champion reaper all day long, and got
two pecks of oats each as an encourage
ment. They, too, laid on flesh during
the time. N mean to say that they are
the most useful animals for easy agri
culture existing, as we used to work
| them,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
The English Wheat Market.

Two months ago, in the first of a
series of articles on the probable effects
on prices of an abundant crop of wheat
throughout the world, we gave it as our
opinion that if the English yield was
large the average English prices might
be expected to fall about 90 per cent. /,
thus bringing the original quotation
down to 50 shillings the quarter, and
perhaps still lower. AS a fall of the
English price implies an equivalent re-
duction in the American, the impor-
tance of so great change in the value
of breadstufs justifies the prominence
we give the subject. The course of
prices in both countries has been in ac-
cordance with our conjectures, which,
indeed, had no better and no worse
foundation than the anticipation that
what had happened in former years,
under similar circumstances would prob
ably happen again. The decline has
been somewhat more rapid than we ex-
pected, but judging from the quantities
sold there is little reason to expect a re-
action The following shows the
average prices, as officially ascertained
from the returns of the officers of the
excise, of the sales at $50 designated
market towns for the ten weeks from
July to Sept. 5, inclusive
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
The Danger Of Wet Coal.

People who prefer wetting the win
ter's store of coal to lay the dust on
putting it in the cellars, do not, we be-
heve, generally know that they. are lay
ing up for themselves store of sore
throats and other evils consequent upon
the practice. But SO it is said to be.
Even the fire damp which escapes from
coal mines arises from the slow decom-
position of coal at temperatures but
little above that of the atmosphere, but
under augmented pressure. By wet
ting a mass of freshly broken coal and
putting it in a warm cellar, the mass is
heated to such degree that carbureted
and sulphureted hydrogen are given off
for long periods of time AID pervade
the whole house. The liabilitY.of wet
coal to mischievous results under such
circumstances may be appreciated from
the circumstance that there are several
instances on record of spontaneous COM
| bustion of wet coal when slowed into
the bunkers or holds of vessels. And
from this cause, doubtless, many miss
ing coal vessels have persisted.
don Medical Record.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Richard Himself Again.

The irrepressible Detroit Free Press
man writes Sc It has never been def
nitely settled to the satisfaction of the
public who the Man in the Iron Mask
was, but generations to come will know
all about Dick Palmer, who got inside
of something worse than mask. His
mother sent him after brass kettle,
which one of the neighbors had bor-
rowed, and on the way home the boy
turned the kettle upside down and put
it on his head. Another boy struck it
blow, and it shut down over Dicks
face as close as a clam in his shell, one
of the ears digging into his head be-
hind, and the other pressing on his
nose. The victim jumped and shouted
and clawed at the kettle, but he couldn' t
bulge it. A man came along and lifted
at it, but Dicks nose began to come
out by the roots, and the man had to
stop. A crowd ran out of the corner
grocery, Dicks mother was sent for,
and the boys jumped up and down and
cried 'Oh golly! without ceasing.
One boy said they would have to take a
cold chisel and drill Dick out of the
kettle, and another said they'd have to
melt the kettle off, while everybody
tapped on it to see how soldly 1t was
on. Then they tried to lift it of, but
Dick roared murder until they
stopped. Some said grease his head,
some said grease the kettle, while the
boys mother sat down on the curb
stone and cried out, % Richard. why
did you do this p The crowd took 1t
coolly it wasn't their funeral, and a
boy with a brass kettle on his head isn't
to be seen every day. Tears fell from
the kettle, and hollow voice kept re-
peating, sI1 never do it again. Fl
nally they had Richard on the walk
and while one man sat on his legs ane
another on his stomach, third com
pressed the kettle between his hands
and the boy crawled out, his nose al
scratched and twisted out of shape, {
hole in his head, and bump on hi
forehead. His mother wildly embraced
him, all the boys cried Hip la ane
little Richard was led home to loa
around on the lounge and have toas
and fried eggs for a week.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
,LeR,S AIhnln-

When JEFF. Davis was confined in
Fortress Monroe Photographic album,
containing family photographs and
those of his staff and distinguished
Confederates with him, was stolen from
him. Some time in August last one D.
E. Moore, who was an Iowa soldier,
and one of the guard at the time of the
theft, mailed a letter from Waterloo,
Iowa, to.some person at Erie, Pa, of
fering the album for sale, fixing the
price at S45. The Erie man, instead
of responding to Moore, sent the letter
to Jefferson Davis. Davis wrote to ex-
Senator George W. Jones, of Iowa, at
Dubuque, sending him the letter, and
asking him to get the album, if possi-
BILE. Moore was found in Iowa county,
and the album seized from him under a
writ of replevin by an officer. The
trial as to the right of the property was
postponed to the 18th inst, in order to
give Mr.. Davis time to furnish the evi-
dence Of his right and title to it.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
Evils OF High Heels.

Heels upon boots, shoes and other
foot gear have been in use about three
hundred years. In these three centu-
ries the height of them has varied from
q single ply to nearly three inches, pen
dulating as it were from one extreme to
the other. at irregular periods of time.
High heels are open to general objec-
tions, and perhaps all heels are open to
some. In addition to the ordinary i'll
effects of medium to high heels, espe-
cially when too short-a tiptoe gait,
jammed toes, soft and hard corns, bun
ions, ingrowing nails and fat footedness
there is one mischief not usually
taken into account. That is. loss of
calf. A comparison of ancient and me-
dIeval art will show this. The loss is
both in volume and elasticity of gait
The cause is in fact that high heel re-
lieves the calf of its full tension, and
thereby deprives it of it's due exercise,
upon which muscular as well as other
development depends. In women the
effect is more marked than in men, but
not SO general, the use of high heels be-
ing less steady and less extensive among
the gentler sex than among the sterner
but, wherever high heels have long pre-
vailed, whatever be the circles of so
ciety, the slender calf registers the eff
feet, and the pad follows the high hee
as an effect does cause.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
A Lady Seventy-One Years Old Blows
Out Her Brains

One of the most lamentable suicides
that we have ever been called upon to
chronicle, took place in Jones county,
at late hour on Monday night. Mrs.
Jonathan Holmes, an old lady II years
of age, deliberately blew out her own
brains with a shotgun, producing in
stantaneous death. About midnight
the family were alarmed by the report
of a gun in her room, and upon going
thither found the old lady lying dead
upon the floor, with nearly the whole of
the upper portion of her head blown off.
She seems to have placed the muzzle of
the gun against her forehead and pulled
the trigger with her foot.
Mrs. Holmes, for the greater portion
of her life, lived in comfortable circum-
stances. She raised family of chill
dren and number of grandchildren.
She had great deal of trouble during
the latter part of her life, and there is
hardly any doubt that her troubles
preyed upon her mind, until her reason
became Impaired, and that it was in
tins mental condition that she commit
ted the awful act. In addition to her
troubles she has, for some time, been
in bad health.-Macoss (Go) Iete-
| 0TGOh,
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-10-16
an. There we found Mr.. Owl surrounded

mean. There We found Mr.. Owl surrounded
by great company of sparrows, bluebirds,
wrens, robins, all excited and noisy hying
about, sitting on the trees close by, lowering g.
over the cage. and all showing signs of rage
1t seemed as If they felt their enemy was in
their power and they would like to tear him
to pieces. They could not very well attack
him, as he was in the cage, and the small door
which was open, was scarcely large enough
to allow them to make a combined assault
Soon, when it began to get dusky, he came
out of the cage in the midst of the commotion
and started for the woods near the houee, the
small birds in full pursuit. screaming and
scolding. AS We saw more of them, we
suppose that he reached his shelter in
safety.
1 would like to know il small birds ever are
able to destroy this devourer of themselves
and their little ones. Celia Thaxter speaks
of large white owl that she sitting high
on rock, surrounded by snow-birds.
1.-The enow-birds swept in whirling crowd
About him gleefully,
And piped and whistled long and loud,
But never plume stirred he"
j. E. D.
Jack never heard of case where
small birds succeeded in killing an owl.
1t is quite common in Great Britain, I'm
told, to use owls as a kind of bird
snare. The sleepy bird is secured and
exposed in open sight during the day
time. Very soon numbers OF small
birds collect, and, thinking at last that
they have their enemy in their power,
they hover about and taunt him in
every possible way. But the owl only
blinks at them in the most tantalizing
manner. He knows, wise bird what
it all means, and that the birds are
caught in their trap; for thus congre-
gated, they fall easy victims to the
hunters, while he is left unharmed.-
From " ck-i1a the Pulpit" st. Mich
ollS for October.