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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
SOUTH.

The Memphis cotton exchange re-
ports a depreciation of "a per cent. in the
cotton crop prospect in this district since the
last report.
d. J. Richards, who fought a due1
with DR.. Gray in st. James parish, La, on the
eighteenth, and who was reported as having
died in just two minutes after being wounded,
still lives and his physician thinks that he
CRichards) viii recover.
A company has been organized, with
capital Of 100000, to cultivate the petrie
plant, avaluabIe product Of the gulf coast Of
Mexico The fiber of the plant is seven feet
and half long, is very durable, and is claimed
to be the equal of hemp for rope, bagging,
and other articles.
The North Carolina Messenger has
reports from its special correspondents in the
counties Of Wayne, Green, Lenoir DupIin
and Johnson that the rust is doing an alarm
ing damage to the growing cotton, which. less
than q week ago. was doing well, and never
looked more promising. The sudden change
in the atmosphere from cold to hot and the
extreme dry weather are assigned IS the cause
by tbs farmers.
The lower river pilots have advanced
wages by action OF the Pilots Association.
and the rates hereafter will be advanced on
boats less than GOO tons, customhouse meas
urement to $500 per trip or month; on boats
over 600 tons to $3.50; and on tow boats s4OO.
1t is believed boat owners VIII agree
to the terms. It is said the pilots at Gin
cinnati and Louisville have taken or viii take,
the same action.
The Arkansas constitutional conven-
ton have COMPLETED the exemDtjoD article
Unmarried persons have exempted $500 worth
Of personal property and heads of families
$500 worth. Heads Of families IN the coun-
try are allowed 160 acres OF land free from
sale or execution, provided the same is not
worth over $4,000, or eighty acres withcut
valuation. In cities homssteads can COM
prise half acre, il not worth over 2, 500, or
a quarter Of an acre regardless Of value
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
4 New Article of Traffic.

For some five or six years past, says
the ST. Louis Republican, small quanti-
ties of cameI's hair have been shipped
to this country to seek a market, and it
has been utilized IN various ways, but
not to such an extent as has usually
been imagined. Camel's hair consists
of several grades and qualities, from
the wool that lays close to the animals s
hide to the long shaggy hair that covers
= portion Of its body. All this hair and
wool is sheared from the animal the
same as wool from sheep, and packed in
bales for transportation. Heretofore all
this material has come from Western
Asia, Arabia, and Persia, from whence
Is was sent westward through Russia to
the Baltic ports, and there shipped
mostly to Liverpool and London, from
whence it found its way to all parts Of
the world. The fibre though long Is
coarse and strong, and makes dress
goods for winter wear of a somewhat
rough and shaggy appearance. It Is
only woven into cloth, however, with
wool body, as its texture would not ad-
nit OF its being used alone. The cOarser
hair and the wool that accompanies It
are used in the manufacture of carpets,
and are found well adapted for that pur-
pose. Though popular to a certain ex-
tent, the use of camels hair IN the
United States has been somewhat limit
ed /; but an effort is now making to i'm
port It in larger quantities, and to find
Lew uses for it. The iHpOrtations
heretofore through Russia have been ez-
pensive, but recently large quanti-
ties have been obtained from China.
Occasionally small lots have arrived
from China IN sailing vessels around
Cape Horn; but the trade in this way
has been so insignificant that no notice
was taken of If, and the chief supply
has, up to the present, been had by way
of Europe. Now, however, it IS found
that the dir ct trade with China Is the
most profitable, and every effort Will be
made to foster it. Since the first Of the
year the arrival of camel's hair from ali
sources has been much larger than ever
before, and as the thread Is thought
we'll of, some new uses viii be found
for It.
Camel's hair promises soon TO become
a valuable article of trade, and viii IN
doubtedly enter into various manufac-
tures.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
The Brunswick Onyx Vase.

A London paper contains long let
ter on the subject of the Brunswick
onyx vase. From the information con-
tanned IN the letter we make the follow
ing interesting extracts referring to its
later history Like many other fugi-
tives of note, the Mantuan onyx re-
rnained in London till 1914, when it re-
tured TO Bruins wick with the long ex-
lied princes of the duchy. For time
It seemed as if nothing more could now
threaten the peaceful rest of the wan
derer but in 1880, when the reigning
Duke Charles heard his people clamor-
ing for his downfall, and saw his palace
in flames, he bethought him of his
Mantuan treasure before he sought
safety in fight and having sent a con-
fidential friend to remove 1t from the
dUcal museum, he carried it away with
him. Thenceforth nothing was known
of it. No one ever saw 1t during the
lifetime of the eccentric Diamond
Duke: and, when the city of Geneva,
In conformity with his testamentary
wishes, claimed as his universal residu-
ary Iegatee all his works of art, a fruit
less search was made for the long
vanished onyx vase. At length, after
oft-repeated examination of the ducaI
treasures, it was noticed that a shred of
flannel protruded from the base Of a
metallic vase which appeared to be of
very little value. On a closer inspec-
ton this vase was found to be split
lengthways, and to be excessively heavy
when compared with another vase of
identical form and external appearance
with which 1t seemed to form a pair.
On separating the split surfaces the
onyx came to view perfectly intact and
uninjured, and thus the mystery Of its
supposed disappearance was at once
explained. Geneva art-lOvers were
overioyed at the discovery, but their
hopes of calling a peerless beauty their
own were shattered by the claim set up
by the reigning Duke Of Brunswick for
the Mantuan onyx as an nailenable
heirloom Of his family; and now, after
a second separation of thirty-four years,
the gem is restored to the ducal muse
um of Brunswick. Since its unexpected
resuscitation, various drawings and
have appeared of it IL
Germany, and, among these, the best Is
a water-color sketch by Professor a.
Gnauth, which gives a very correct rep
reseptation of the figures with which it
Is decorated.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04

has, said the man of the house, look
ing after him. '' Rose, look out of the
"At Mr.. Waldo ?" asked Rose, ooldly.
"No," said her husband. d" Come
here.
She came. She stood beside him. At
the gate she saw basket-phaeton and
!" Nc Nice, ai1't they ?''.said her husband.
"Yes," she ANSWERED., more coldly
Don't you guess whose they are?'
"No."
yours
He stood back to mark her astonish-
ment. Then he drew her down upon
his knee.
Even since baby's coming made you
less strong than you were, I've meant
you should have them," he said " and
so I've managed to get them. I've been
working four months at the translation
OF a scientific work and they are the re-
suit. I know I left you alone a great
deal, but I wanted you to be able to
drive out in this sweet spring weather.
You can drive, you know, and these are
very safe, and in the evenings We will
go together, eh, wife p
She was crying on his breast. But
why, he could not guess. and asked
s. You are so good" she said, 'f and
an so bad, I thought you were tired of
me. [ was angry"
AsbOnished, he looked into her face.
&c can't see how you could have got
such a notion," he said. ''Pm sure I
was nice to you, wasn't I? What on
earth"
Then the good, stupid fellow kissed
her again.
ct was want of exercise and you
were not WE'LL" he said. You took
foolish notions-wOmen always do.
"Yes, I know It was foolish now,"
she said, every foolish"
But in her heart she made worse ac-
against herself than that.
Mr.. Waldo called once more after
this, but Mrs. Winner was so distantly
polite that he called no more. He be-
lieved he had made a mistake in asking
her to kiss him-at least she had be-
come one Of those prudish women who
would not firt, and he lost interest in
her.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
Bad Effects of Forest Clearing.

No country in the world perhaps pre-
sents more striking proofs Of the evil Of
excessive orest-clearing than the kha.
nate of Bokhara. Thirty years ago the
khanats was well wooded md watered,
and regarded by Central Asians as a sort
of terrestrial paradise. About twenty
five years ago the mania OF forest clear
ing was begun, and continued until the
heavy timber had entirely disappeared.
What the improvidence and ignorance
of the rulers spared, was utterly cor
sumed by the fury of civil war. Ina
mense tracts of land once well peopled
and cultivated, deprived of fertilizing
moisture, are now barren, treeless
wastes. The water courses being dried
up, the system Of canals, which spread
like a net work over the khanate, has
been rendered useless. The moving
sands of the desert, no longer restrained
by the forest barriers, are slowly ad-
vancing, filing up canals and dried wa
fer-courses, and VIII continue their
noiseless and ceaseless inva, ion until
The whole khanate viii be converted into
a dreary waste as barren as the wilder
ness separating 1t from Khiva- It's i'm
probable that the khan possesses either
the energy or the means necessary for
averting the desolation with which his
territories are threatened.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
BASE BALL IN ENGLAND.
A London Morning Post Criticism of
Our National Game.

! CrIr National Game
The admirable part OF the play had
all through been the fielding. Nothing
/ hit up in the air escaped. The accu-
racy of the catching would have re-
! joiced the heart of old Clark, and made
many a slow bowler enYious of the
pairs of hands But the accuracy and
skill of the catching was surpassed by
the wonder of precision of throwing.
A moment to look, moment to get the
proper equilibrium, and then the ball Is
hurled, 9 sharp and low" quite straight
to the baseman's hands. No fumbliDg,
no half-voIleys, no wide throws. So
accurate was it that the exclamation OF
many a cricketre present was: With such
throwing who would not be wicket
keeper? The Philadelphians were un-
able to make up their lost ground-the
seventh inning of Boston and the ninth
and last were both skunks, but in their
last three hands the Blue Stockings had
only made two, and at the end Of the
play they were only seven, whereas their
conduerers were thirty-fOUr. Had the
game been nearer it had been better,
but il sufficed to show the nature of the
play and many of the qualifications of a
good player. The lessons which it taught
were, as we suspected, first, the immense
advantagesof cultivating fielding. Could
English cricketers throw and field as
the Americans did we should see much
less of mammoth scores, and matches
would be far more interesting. Secondly,
the advantage of losing no time. If the
outside took the field with half the alac-
rity shown by the Americans during
base ball, or when the time came for
them to resume cricket when the base
bell was done, far fewer matches would
be left drawn, and far more men would
be able to play. Lastly, the necessity
of playing for the side. A mans hits
tell In his favor when the record is kept,
but they help his colleagues as much as
himself. In the fielding, too, he con-
stautly keeps IN mind the necessity Of
enabling others to distinguish them
selves, and he knows that his unaided
efforts are useless unless he IS well
backed up. A man, for instance, who
has caught a catch when a player is on
base, hurls the ball at once to the base
man in the hopes of getting two birds,
as it were, with one stone. All the
players play for the side, and not for
themselves. Individual prOwess is
merged in united success, and every
one cares more for his fellow than for
himself. There can be no fear that
cricket viii be ousted by base ball. 1t
has more variety and many more phases.
1t is both harder work and greater idle
ness. But many men could find time for
base ball who haye no time for cricket,
and in bringing under the notice of Eng
a game which has so many good
points, and the great advantage of be-
ing playable in three hours, they have
conferred on US benefit for which our
thanks are Que.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.

Prof. Pierre Blot, the famous culinary
artist died last week at his residence in Jersey
city
The cost Of the government of New
York city for the year ending August 1 was in
round numbers $50, ,O0O, 600. The debt in the
same time was considerably increased
The secretary Of the emigration board
OF New York estimates that for the present
year the emigration viii be about 1s5. coo so
that the comparison stands as follows: For
1873, 26s. .818 +; 1874, 135, 600.
All the coal companies doing bust
ness at the Wyoming and Lackawanna valley
have stopped work on account of the market
oeing oyersteeked- Twenty thousand men
and boys are thrown out Of employment.
The commission of engineers to re-
port On the improved plan Of outlet at the
mouth Of the Mississippi, have left for Europe
and VIII visit the Po Danube and Rhine. in
order to Personally inspect those rivers. and
OBTAIN such information as may be applicable.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
WEST.

A sudden rise in the Mississippi sent
million and quarter feet Of logs over St.
Anthony falls, and did some damsge to the
dams.
The Union Pacific railroad company
has commenced suit in the United States
courts, to restrain the counties through which
the road passes from collecting the tax of
1873.
Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan has. received an
order notifying parties now reported organiz-
ing at various points on the border to visit
Black hills in search Of gold, that they viii not
be permitted to 90 unless under authority Of
the secretary Of the interior or Of congress.
Some efforts are reported as being made in
Chicago to organize an expedition for the
Blaek hill country.
In reply to the request of the gCver-
nor OF Kansas for arms and ammunition to be
used in defending the soushern border OF the
state against reported threatened invasion
Of the Usage Indians, the secretary Of war
states, in view OF the fact that the state was
furnished in May last with 500 carbines and
5O0 600 rounds of ammunition, on which ac-
count the state is still indebted to the federal
government, he does not feel authorized to
grant the request.
The News San Antonio special says
the Kiowas and Comanches attacked General
Davidson at u o'clock on the 2Sd, and en-
deavored to obtain possession Of the agency
building at the Wichita agency, forty miles
from Fort Sill. The Indians we're defeated
the first day, and renewed the attack on the
following morning, but were again repulsed.
The attacking Indians are those who have
been raiding, and are now trying to return to
the agency. Gen. McKenzie's expedition left
Fort Concha on the 23d ultimo.
A Fort Sill dispatch says +: Intelli-
gence having been received at the post that
Big Red Foot. one OF the principal hostile Co
mauehe chiefs, now absent from the reserva-
ton and on the war path, was at Wichita
agency. where he has taken refuge with fifty Of
his band, General Davidson left here with
four companies OF the tenth cavalry, number
ing sbout $50 men, to arrest the chief and his
udians. Big Red Foot and his band were
und at the agency as had been reported, and
ter some parley Gen. Davidson ordered that
-ncy should be deprived Of their arms. While
the disarming wss going on the Kiowas under
Lone Wolf and Woman's Heart turned on the
troops and fred on them. Immediately upon
the discharge Of their guns the Kiowas ran,
the troops pursued, and a lively running fight
began between the soldiers and Indians In the
skirmish three soldiers were shot and many Of
tbs indians were killed-how many is not
known During the fight the Comsnche
lodges and camp we're burned It also ap-
pears that further troubles are expected at the
agency, as more troops have gone forward
from here since the receipt OF the news. The
Indians killed four citizens near the agency.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
SPAIN.

The fomflB recognition Of Spain by
Sweden is announced.
News comes from Carlists sources
thsf Puyeeria is in flames
The var department has signed a con
tract for 10000 American breeoh- loading rifles.
T. is thought that TO, 900 men win be
add4d to the Spanish army by the conscrip-
ton.
The Carlists have extinguished the
lights on the Spanish coast between st. sebas-
tian and BiIboa.
A special dispatch from Satander an
nounces the arrival Of the German men OF
war Nautilus and Abatros At that port, and
SAYS shey were wen received.
In consequence Of the oon6scasion Of
the property Of Carlists by the Spanish gov
eminent, Prince Alfonso, brother Of Don
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
New Apparatus for Steering Balloons.

The London Times says "The in
ventor of the balloon steering apparatus
which Is awaiting trial by the war de-
partment at Woolwich is Mr. G. 4.
BowdIer, whose plan has been under
the consideration of the war Office for
two years past. 1t has been subjected
to some preliminary trials by means of
models on more than one occasion.
These trials being made within doors
and IN a still atmosphere, are said to
have demonstrated he practicability of
navigating balloons in a still atmos-
phere. The object of the forthcoming
experiments Is to ascertain whether the
same end can be attained IN the open
air under slightly adverse circum-
stances, for to sail the balloon IN oppo-
sition to q strong wind is at present IN
thought Of, 1t viii be regarded as q
great and important result If the bal
loon can be steered even a single point
from the direction of the wind, though
there be ever so slight a breeze. The
inventor, with Mr.. COXwell and Mr..
OrtOn, another well known aeronaut,
who is taking an interest and some part
IN the experiments, was again at the
Royal Arsenal, WoOlwich, yesterday,
making arrangements for the ascent
with Lieut.. Edwards, R. E, who is IN
charge of the works department, but
the wind was again unfavOrable, blow
ing with considerable velocity and
directly seaward. The steering appa-
ratus brought down in a cab, consists Of
a screw propeller like that of a ship, of
metal made as light as possible, and is
20 be fixed TO the car horizontally, and
made to turn at the rate of about four
teen revolutions per second by means Of
some simple machinery worked by a
single hand winch IN the car. a SINH
lar screw, fixed vertically, and worked
by the same gear, Is designed for TaIs-
ing and depressing the balloon without
any expenditure of gas or ballast, ard
a disk shaped rudder of canvas TO steady
the balloon completes the apparatus.
Mr.. Coxwell much prefers the small
screw propeilers, which are but three
feet IN diameter, to those proposed by
a French aerOnaut, which are to be six
teen feet high, and are therefore re-
garded as unmanageabie and dangerous
to the balloon, especially IN the descent.
The screw viii probably be made some
what larger If the trial is IN the least
degree successful, but it is considered
preferable to increase their power, If
necessary, but multiplying the speed Of
revolution by the use Of some other
motive power than manual force, either
electricity or atmospheric pressure or
even the steam eDgiue-an agent which
has hitherto been discarded on account
Of its necessary weight and the T-Ek At
tending II. Mr.. CoIweu has recently
instructed two dstzchnents Of the Ger
man army in military ballooning, but
steering balloons formed no part Of the
drill. the principal purpose of which
was 20 teach the troops the use Of cap
tive balloons for accommodating. He
was engaged by the English government
ten years ago for a similar object,
columns Of troops being marched ont
In various directions for the purpose Of
observation"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
FOREIGN.

Japan has recently been visited by
heavy rains and inundations, causing great de-
struction OF life and property.
The German government has formally
notified the powers that it viii not interfere
in the internal affairs Of Spain.
H. NJ. Stanley has set out from Eng
land on his African mission. His body guard
numbered nearly eight hundred men.
The latest estimates in regard to the
extent Of the famine in Industan, show that
5000, 600 Of the natives are still dependant on
charitable relief. Great distress is threatened
II TirhOot, where the weather has been ex-
cessively dry. Unless rain falls soon the har-
vest viii prove a failure.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
Germany's Population.

The recent German census shows that
the non-German inhabitants Of the
Empire number 3,54O, 600, or eight per
cent. They consist Of 220, 600 French
speaking people IN Alsaee-Lorraine, and
10, 600 French and WailOOns IN the
Rhine provinces, 2,45O, 600 Poles, 15O,-
600 Lithuanians, $50 600 Danes IN
North Schleswig, SS, 600 Wends IN
Brandenbug and Silesia, aud %, 600 IN
Saxony, $4,000 Moravians and Czechs
in Silesis, and $4,000 foreigners. The
Protestant clergy number 16, 900, while
the Roman Catholics have 90, coo
priests, 500 monasteries and converts
twenty bishoprics, five archbishOps,
and three Wears apostolic. OF the
wenty-One universities, Berlin heads
he list with g, 3,573 students, Leipsie
tanding next with 2, ,032, Rostock with
35, being the smallest.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-09-04
Noble Devotion.

Gay" writing from Saratoga TO the
Louisville Courier Journal, says
g Yonder is a maiden lady whose hair
Is almost snow-white. She looks very
gentle, refined, and delicate. A light
shawl covers her shoulders, and even on
this bright morning she has TO avoid
the draugbt. The gentleman, who
seems to regard her with the tenderest
care, moves her chair and otherwise
seems sOlicitOus about her health and
comfort. Some are puzzled TO under
stand the relationship that exists be
tween the two, for they do not bear the
same name, and, besides, there is a
nameless something which tells that he
Is neither husband, lover, or brother.
These relationships are common and
easily defined, but IN these days Of de-
generated honor It is rare TO find q man
devoting himself to q woman past her
youth, and who is nothing more 70 him
than a friend, but Is the sister Of the
Girl who years ago was TO have been his
wife. and would have been but that death
interposed and the bridal robe became her
yziuding-sheet. No other love has since
entered his heart, but he preserves his
LOYALTY TO her memory by a brothers
love and protection to her only sister,
and she; IN spite Of ill-health, has per-
formed her mission In life by support
ing and educating orphan nephews, so
that as she declines IN years she has
those about her who think an old
maid the dearest and best Of women. "