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Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19
NUMBER 80.

" Why Your father favors me; and
all that Walter offered you-this home,
our uncle's lortune-I can give YOU"
" But love Walter. shall wait for
him years, if it must be so but | shalt
marry no one else. do not care for the
fortune, Mr.. Lenaox, but | can never be
false to Walter,r
" He is coming ! hear his voice"
" In the parlor," that voice said, with
Mr.. Lennox. An, here you are !" OPEN
ing the door. "Mrs. Fanshaw will be
here presently. She stopped at the pa
perer's. How solemn you both look
4" Halloo ~ catching sight Of the paper
in Johns hand. "You don't mean to
say you've found the will ?"
los you told me to give it to john
SOC course What else could you do
with h2 WELL" hastily swallowing a
lump in his throat, " L suppose | must
congratulate you, old fellow !" holding
out his hand with lugubrious attempt
at Il smile.
Thank you" was tho grave reply.
Walter, you were very generous to me.
You and | alone knew that the money in
hand ut our unclo's death was equally
divided, that only the house stood in your
favor, because | refused to accept half.n
" Yes. 1t did seem pity, you know,
to sell it, and-and -Gerty and | were to
have our home horc."
Walter !" Gertrude cried, as her lover
turned away his face Don't feel bad
| will be just us happy in tiny cottage.
After all, great house like this is caro-
and n bother"
81 am sorry you think So" said John,
gravoly.
Why ?"
Bccasse, not bcinga drst-class scoun-
drel, and having some conscience and
gratitude, | shall do this" and he placed
tho will upon the Goals OF the CRATE.
There was dead silence in the room
rs the parchment blazed up, blackened
and foated up the chimney. Then Wal
ter took his eyes from the fire to speak to
John and found he was gone. Only Ger
trudc, sobbing quietly, stood near him.
Only Gertrude knew Of the generous self
sacrifice that secured Molcom's fortune
to his nephew. BY Johns request they
kept secret the mornings work, and tho
world nover know of Gortrudo's discovery
or GEErRUpE's TEMrrArIoN.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19
DEATH AND SEdTP.

Among the waits floating about ON the
sea of literature, is the following beauti-
tul parable or allegory. Sue. beautiful
allegorical lessons leave their Impressions
of good upon the reader:
Hand in hand the angel s'eep and
the angel of death wandered over the
earth. 1t was evening. Tbey reclined
for rest ON a little hillock not tar from
the habitations of man. A melancholy
stiffness brooded over all .Sags; and
the vesper bells woraxcS Aqaom
some distant villag6. Sdo6.-SSl noise
less in fond embrace sat those bleA mos
sengers Of good to men, and the Night
drew on apace
Soon rose the Angel of sleep from u.
messy couch, and scattered with gent,
hand ;he invisible seeds of lumber. TN
evening wind, bore them to tho quit
habitations OF the weary pcasautry.
And sweet sleep envcloped the dweller
in these rural homes, from the gray-hair
ed man who leans upon d staff to the in
FAINT in his cradle. The sick man torgo
his pains, the mourner forgot his grief
and the destitute forgot their anxieties.-
All eyes were closed.
And now, his task completed, the ben
efcent angel of sleep again sought reposc
by the side of his stern brother. 'Whe,
the morning sun shall paint the skies,
he cried, with glad innocence, then al
men praise me rs their friend and bono
factor. O, what joy, unseen and un
known, to DO deeds of love. How bless
ed are we to be the invisible messenger
of the good spirit How grand is our 81
lent calling = So spako the joyful augo
Of sleep. In quiet sadness the death an
gel gazed at him, and u tear, such as an
gels weep, stood in his great dark eye
Alas = said he, that can never, lik
you, receive the tribute OF grateful thank,
Men count me as their enemy and tn
destroyer of their happiness
-, my brotheE' responded the angC
Of sleep, when we wakcn in the resu
rccton, will not the good recognize the,
friend and bcnolactor ? Are we Nc
brethren Hayo we not both one lt
thcr p
So he spako, ard the eyes Of the dcat
angel cleaned with joy, and the tw
brethren abode in atlectionate embrace.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19

The BURGLAR AND THE SKELETON.
" skeleton IN the closet" " is not gener-
ally considered n pleasant thing TO have.
but recent occurrence in Grcensburg,
Pa, shows that it may sometimes answer
good purpose. A burglar broke into
physicians Office in that town, and open
ing closet (whle his companion with
dark lantern was in another part of the
roon) got his hand between tho jaws of
skeleton, which being adjusted with
coil spring and kept open with n thread.
closed suddenly on the intruding hand by
the breaking Of tho thread. Startled at
being thus seized he uttered "a faint shrek
and when his companion turned the Lam
tern toward him, and he behed himself
in the grim and CHASTITY jaws Of Death
himself, no became SO oycrpOwered by
fear that hc tainted and fell insensible to
the floor, pulling the skeleton down upon
him and making SO much noise that his
companion fled Immediately. The doctor
becoming alarmed at the noise, hastened
into the office and secured the terror
stricken burglar, still held by the skeleton.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19
JOHN LORD, NJ. D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
WEAVERVILLE, CAL.

REFERENCES Prof |. Il. DANA Portland,
Me-; Prof w. w. Greene, Long Island Medi-
cal College, Brooklyn, n. y. Prof q. Y. Brack-
ett, Princeton, n. }.
OFFICE-Theater Building Main Street
Weaveryille. Residence Court Street, above
Union Hotel janl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19

A CRoWING HEN-A writer on super
stitons says: "All along the border be-
tween England and Scotland Il growing
hen is regarded as the portent Of DEATH
A few years ago an old woman in tho
parish Of East Kilbridc, heard one Of
her hens crow near the house. She men
toned the circumstance to one of her
neighbors, saying that no good would
come of it,. Not long atterward her hus-
band died, A month passed by, and she
once more heard the fatal sound, which
was followed in few days by tIdlngs OF
the death Of her son. A week later the
hen crowed again and her eldest dangh'
ter died. The old woman could stand
this no longer. In her desperation she
seized the unlueky fowl, wrung its neck,
and threw it into the fire. Wiser people
have burned men and women With less
show Of reason,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19

BmDGNd DEATH.-WAan engineer
would bridge a stream, they often carry
over at first but single cord. With
that, next, they stretch wire across
Then strand is added to strand until a
foundation is laid for planks, and now
the bold engineer has sure t1ot-way, and
walks from side to side. SO God takes
from US some golden-threaled pleasure
aud stretches IL hence to heaven. Then
lie takes IA child, and then Il friend. 49,
Thus lie bridges death, and teaches the
thoughts OF the most timid to End their
way hther and thither between the
sh0rcs.-H ". Bcecher.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19
TRINITY COUNTY.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORYi
COURT TERMS /;

District COurt-Second Monday in April,
August and December
County COurt-First Monday in anu
AIRY, March, May, July, September and No
Vember.
Probate COurt--(Same as County Court }
Board of SuPeryisOrs--First Monday
February, May, August and November
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19

Nor TO BE FRIGuTENED. An old
French shoemaker, who boast. that no.
thing could frighten him, was pat to the
test by two young men. One Of them
pretended to be dead, and thco.her, go
ing to the shoemaker, induce him to
" sit up" with the supposed corps. The
shoemaker was in a hurry with some
work he had promised to have completed
the next morning. So be to, his tools
and leather and began or&g by the
corpse, About twelve o'c.o K at night a
cup OF black coffee was brought TO keep
him from going to sleep lIe drank
it and resumed work. About one O'Clock
the coffee having exhiliutal him, forget
ting that he was in the pre- nee Of death
he began to sing a lively tune, keeping
time with his hammer. ruddenly the
corpse arose, and exclaimed in hollow
voice When a man Is in the pres
ence Of death he should not ing" The
shoemaker started, then suddenly dealt
the corpse "a blow on the head, exclaim-
ing at the same time: "N ben man is
dead he should not peak" 1t was the
last time they tried to scare the shoe
maker.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19

RECENTLY a swimming match was ar
ranged to take place at Eastboune, Eng
land, between fisherman and a mastlh
dog. But the dog, once in the water
with the man, supposed his duty there
was to save the latter's life, and persisted
in bis endeayors to keep the man adoat
by thrusting his head under his oppon-
ent's chin.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-09-19
Weckly Grinitv 9uurnal.
OUR AGENTS ::

THOS. BOYCE, Room No. so. New
Merchants Exchange Building, san Fran
CISCO is our only authorized agent in thatcity.
GEO. y. ROWELL ~ CO.. 80 Parl.
Row, are our only authorized Agents in Now
York City.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-06
A Russian Marriage Ceremony.

The bride and the bridegroom hold
lighted taper IN their hands IN front OF
small altar placed IN the center OF the
church. Rings were placed on their
fingers. and their hands being joined,
tbey were led by the pope three times
aroY1nd the altar. Two highly orna-
mented gilt crowns we're placed on their
heads and held over by the groomsmen
during Dart of the services. Tney drank
wine ont of a cup three times, and klsE-
inc one another, the ceremony was I'm
isIed The married couple then made
a tour of the church, crossing them
selves at and saluting each sanity Icon
on the way. Weddings generally take
place toward evening, SO that lmmedl-
ately after the ceremony, dinner com
mences at the house of the brides
father. At marriage feast lighted can
dies are placed In every position and
corner possible. No other VINE put
champagne should be drunk, and the
quantity consumed of this beverage Is
remarkable. The dinner is followed
lJy ball, and the feasting is usually
kept up for twenty-fouF hours. The Gus
tom of hoDeymooning does not exist IN
Russia. The married couple spend the
first few days of their welded life with
the brides father. Aft the marriage
the bride and bridegroom must can up
on every one of their relations. frlends
and ac6uaintances, and after this cere-
monv is finished they sink back to their
ordinary life
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-06
WEST

gang of twenty men engaged in
chopping wood near Fort Rice, Dakota terri
tory, were murdered by Sioux Indians early in
the week.
A dispatch from Arizona states there
has been much damage by the floods in MANY
portions of the territory. The Indians are
generally quiet and gentle. Crook keeps them
uuder military surveillance.
At Peoria, ILL.,, boiler in John
Shields boiler works which Shields was test
ing, exploded with terrific force, blowing him
distance of $50 feet against pile of lumber,
: crushing his body into an unacceptable
mass.
A letter from Cheyenne Camp, Indian
territory, dated 18th inst, mentions than a
son of Lone Wolf was recently killed while
raiding in Texas This news occasioned much
excitement among the Kiowas Lone Wof
showed his grief by cutting himself fright
fully with knife, killed his horses and burned
his wagon and lodge with all his effects Some
OF the Kiowas talk of going to Texas to avenge
tho death of Lone VOLTS son, when grass
comes. Reports have been received of their
having killed a white man between Camp
Supply and Cheyenne Agency, burning his
body to prevent detection.
Great apprehensions are expressed by
the owners of large herds whose cattle range
between the north and south Platte aud the
settlers who live north Of the Ten Packy and
on the Republican fork, of a general raid from
Red Clouds end Spotted Tails bands of Sioux
and the Cheyennes, Dakotas, Arapahoes and
others combined. The supply of beef furn.
iahed these Indians being nearly or quite ex
hausted, and there being DO money with which
to purchase more, they must depreiate on tn,
settlements or starve. These number owe
3o,G00 and they would laugh at the handful o
cavalry at Fort Fetterman and Fort Laramie
A large cattle owner and contractor is at Oma
ha and coTroborates the report as to the In
dians supplies being soon exhausted.
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WHAT FooTE HAS TO SAY.

As a portion of the community may
possibly expect from me some notice of
the insulting and grossly aspersive
letter over the signature of Jefferson
Davis, which yesterday morning made
its appearance in the columns of the
Capital, though the glaring mendacity
of all the allegations of fact contained
therein might well justify me in treat
ing the letter itself and its infamous
author with cool and passionless con-
tempt, yet, for certain reasons, not
difficult, I imagine, to be OWNED, I
have thought proper to take somewhat
different course.
shall not now go into detail of past
occurrences with q view to my own vim
dication. It is not possible for the
ruined and disgraced champion of dis
union to say aught of me, or my public
career, which could in the least degree
disturb my equanimity. He has cher
ished an undying hatred for me ever
since his own presumptuous arrogance,
on q very noted occasion, compelled me
to slap his jaws, in this city, in the win
ter of 1S47-4S. The hostility thus en-
gendered, was afterward much height
ened by my defeat of his reasonable
aspirations to the Office of governor of
Mississippi, as a secession candidate in
1851. My constant and unyielding op-
position to him, and his nefarious
schemes in Richmond, during the war
of rebellion, for three years, was not at
all calculated to assuage his ennity.
Ny free, but unanswered, and, I ven
ture to say, uuanswerable exposition,
last summer, of his indecent and sedi-
tious attempts to keep alive in the
bosoms of his countrymen, feelings of
irritation and alienation, which ought
never to have been brought into exist
ence, have doubtless much inhamed the
maIignity which was slumbering in the
recesses of a heart capable of all mis-
chief. I rejoice to know that the
blighting curse of Mr.. Davis COM
mendation it never can now be my ill
fortune to incur. But bid this mighty
man of Gath, who writes so blustrously
for publication in the newspapers, that
[ do not live in absolute cOucealment
my Whereabouts may be easily found by
him or his idolizing confederates. He
knows, as thousands of others know,
that for full twenty years l have stood
ready to accord to him such satisfaction
as he might deem necessary to his deep
ly-wounded honor and that, whatever
general views / may entertain touching
the propriety of settling such issues as
have arisen between him and myself in
the mode referred to, yet that, from
special reference to him, I shall be alto
gether induced to make his an excep-
tional case. The habitual calumniator
of honest and patriotic men has no
right to skulk behind the hypocritical
pretenses of extreme piety.
II. S. FOoTE.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-06
The Railway Growth of 1873.

A very elaborate compilation, show
ing the extension of railroads in the
United States in 1873, is published in
the Railway Monitor and Financial
Chronicle of New York. From the
footings of the several columns it APP
pears that the total mileage of railroads
in the United States is II, ,564 miles;
the total amount of single track laid,
including second track and sidings, is
85, ,O76 miles; the whole number of
locomotives is Il, ,223; the number of
cars for passenger trains, 13, ,725; cars
for freight trains, 338, ,407; capital stock
paid up, s., ,O72, PSI, ,954; funded and
floating debt, 81, 1893, TAI ,597; cost of
road and equipment, So, 728, 416, 95S /;
the total miles of road Op rated on
which the reported earnings are based,
"a, 454 miles; gross earnings on that
mileage, for the latest years obtainable,
S478, 1856, 597 net earnings over Operat-
ings expenses Cbut not over and above
interest and dividend payments), S174,
$50, ,913.
The great decrease of railroad build
ing in 1873, as compared with 1872,
which marks the end of a not 'ble era in
the United States, is shown by the fol-
lowing table of the miles of railroad
operated IN 1872 and at the close of
1873, together with the number of miles
constructed in each state during the
last wear
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-06
The Girl Next Door that Sings.

We moved lately. Before we were
many days in our new quarters we
learned, among other neighborhood
gossip, that "next door to us lives the
widow DeLany Shades of st. PatrickD =
and her daughter Maria, a beautiful
singer" I soon had an opportunity TO
judge of her abilities. Our gas was
out for the night, and I was just enter
ing dream-land, lingering in that semi
unconscious condition one enjoys SO
much before falling asleep, when a wall
so long, unearthly and agonizing broke
upon the stiffness, it seemed as if some
misused tomcat, despairing of all hap
piness In this world, had given vent to
one last heart-rending cry. DO you
hear those cats }" I exclaimed, giving
my better-half a poke in the ribs By
way of emphasis. FT'aint cats" she
snappishly answered, '' they're blowing
off steam at the elevator! But I was
not satisfied 80 getting out of bed, 1
seized one of my boots and softly raised
the window, in time to hear more
plainly one last, frightful intermingling
of a groan and yell, and some one say:
Bully for you, Marian Heavens
it was Maria singing to her sweetheart.
Crestfailen, stole back to bed, to
dream, when the small hours found me
asleep, of tomcats and steam engines
Detroit Free Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-06
Value of Forest Leaves.

Every farmer has within his control
abundance of material worth as much
as the droppings Of his cattle, which, II
gathered aud mingled with the more
easily decomposed matter, will furnish
for his crops food OF the richest de-
scription. OF these the first in import
ance is forest leaves. These rapidly
decay and contain much larger pro-
portion of the most valuable fertilizers
than wood. While the dry wood con-
tains from one-tenth of a pound to four
pounds in the hundred of potash, dry
leaves and young twigs contain from
half a pound mp TO ten pounds of pot
ash in t hundred. Almost exactly
the same relative proportion holds good
n regard to the phosPhoric acid con-
fained in these substances. A hundred
ponds Of leaves of the mixed fore st
growth common in the United states
will yield nearly two pounds Of thus
most Indispensable ferRlizeTi
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-06
The Account "Squared." "

Railroad companies claim TO have peo-
pied states, built up cities aud towns,
advanced the price of lands, developed
agriculture, manufactures and COM
merce, given employment to vast armies
of laborers, mechanics and cleFE 5, rem
dered inter-communicatiOn easy and
rapid, and in a thousand ways 70 have
Ininistered to the prosperity and COM
fort Of the whole people. They have
done all this. And it is exactly what
was expected of them. 1t was for these
things that they have been given the
right of way for their tracks for these
things that they have been allowed TO do
the carrying business of the country /;
for these things that they have been
given land grants and appropriations.
Ii is for these things that every fair man
is willing that they shall make just
an & reasonable profit on their immense
capital invested, and their skill and
talent for doing business. And this
squares the account, ard settles the
whole bill. The people do not propose
70 throw into the count the right te
abuse and extort; to Oppress and rob
to '' corner gold and upset the whole
financial equilibrium ot the country
Not III the least
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-06
GENERAL.

Mr.. Gushing wiI go to Madrid. He
is to leave Washington in February for his
new post.
The secretary of the interior has sent
a communication to the house stating that the
sum Of S115,0OO viii be required to collect and
remove the KiekapOo and other roaming tribes
OF Indians from Mexico.
The cost to the government of dis
bursements under existing laws of the thirty
millions dollars of pension moneys is about
one and half per cent. of the whole amount
disbursed. The postage upon pension vouch-
ers and checks does not fall short of one
hundred thousand dollars, about 20 per cent
of the whole cost of disbursement. The
compensation to agents is 81, 427, ,126.
The naval apportionment bill TO be
reported to senate agrees to house reduction
Of two-ffths of the civil list appropriation for
the various navy-yards. to cutting down the
force OF marines TO fifteen hundred, and all
other reductions except appropriations for
operative bureau. The Office of brigadier
general of marines to be abolished when a
vacancy occurs. The total appropriation will
be two millions less than the original esti-
mates.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-06
Orange Culture.

The culture of oranges in Florida is
beginning to attract considerable atten-
tion. A correspondent writes from
there that he has just visited one
orchard of fifteen acres for which the
owner had refused S75, 600, and another
of eighteen acres for which there is a
standing offer of $50, 900 in gold. The
latter produced last year a gross IN
come of $40, 900. There Is, however,
this to be considered it takes six years
for grove to begin to bear and eight
or ten more before it becomes prOtita-
BILE. An orange tree ten years old is ex-
pected tO produce from one to three
thousand oranges, and these are sold on
the trees from one to three cents each.
There are usually 100 trees to the acre,
and counting en- average Of LOGO
oranges 10 the tres this yield 81 j
cents each would give Sl,69 per aeF9,
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S2,143.7
RECAPITULATToS.
Grand total............67,s74.O 4.19O.9

The table Published by the Chronicle
shows that the entire railroad extension
of 1873 was only about one-sixteenth as
much as In 1872, and IN the western
states it was only about one-twentieth
as much. It is apparent that the great
game of building railroads with the
proceeds of the sale of bonds, and Gre
ating a vast amount of stock which cost
the first holders of it nothing, but still
serves to keep control of the property,
has been played ont. If Justice were
done, at least two-thirds of the stock
created In 1872 on the $1,000 miles OF
railroads built In that year should be
wiped out, and the railroads handed
over to the bond-holders and the towns,
counties and cities that have donated
money to aid in the construction. 1hese
are, in fact, the only parties who nave
put any considerable amount OF capltaI
into the roads.
The full extent, however, OF the re-
,,,,1sion in railroad building, has eyi-
dently not been experienced yet. Many
Of the railroads-and even some of those
whose stock is even yet salable in the
market-have gone on pilipg debt upon
5ebt by the issue of more and more
bonds. until If Is apparent that many OF
them must go into bankruptcy, that the
CAPITAL stock, the possession of which
pnts the property in the control OF those
who never put a dollar into the CON
struction of the roads, must be wiped
| out, and the property handed over TO
the frst-mortgage bond-holderS. When
this process begins, as it undoubtedly
will with some Of the heavily-indebted
/ roads IN the western states before next
/ spring, 10 may unsettle the whole mar
ket for railroad stocks, to greater ex'
tslt than tbs Vanio,