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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20

to the joint resolution for the military court
of inquiry in the case of Gen o. o. Howard
were taken up and concurred in. They were
merely verbal. The house then went into
committee of the whole on the army appropri-
alton bill. The amendment extending the
time for the presentation of claims to Nov.
l. 1875, together with sundry othe's, was
agreed to, and the bill passed. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 18th, James S.
Harvey, senator elect from Kansas, and H. R.
Pease. from Mississippi, were sworn in. The
senate resumed consideration of the bill to
equaIize the distribution of currency the
pending amendment being to insert s75. 000,-
600 in place of $25, 100000. Considerable dis
cussion ensued, and thesenate adjourned with
out action.
In the house, on the 18th, bill was
passed governing leaves of absence to army
officers. 1t provides that all officers on duty
at any point west of a line drawn north and
south through the city of Omaha, north of a
line drawn east and west from the southern
boundary of Arizona, shall be allowed sixty
days leave of absence if taken but once in two
years, without deduction of pay and alIowan-
ces, or three months leave once in three years,
or four months leave once in four years. The
house then went into committee of the whole
on the fortifcation bill. Items Of $40, 900
each for Forts FoOte and Washington, on the
Potomac river, were struck out; items for
Forts Moultrie, Sumter and Pulaski were re-
tanned an appropriation for Forts McHenry
and Jefferson was refused, and the bill as
amended was passed. The rest of the session
was taken up by Mr., Dawes, sin speech on the
bill to repeal the duty or tax on matches.
In the senate, on the 18th, petition
was presented, signed by 16, 638 citizens of Cal
ifornia, asking the senate to pay some atten-
ton to the treaty between the United States
and China, with view to having some modi-
fication made therein to prevent the evil of
Chinese influx to this country. Also memo
rial of the Mobile board of trade for the i'm
provemeDt OF Mobile bay. A resolution was
agreed to instructing the committee ON public
buildings and grounds to inquire into the ex-
pediency of protecting the statue of Thomas
Jefferson, in the open grounds at the
executive mansion. The bill to eQualize the
distribution of currency was then discussed,
and the senate adjourned.
In the house, on the 18th, the busi-
ness was unimportant.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SOUTH.

Jalius lowe, of South Carolina, inn
prisoned at Albany for Ku-Klux crimes, has
been pardoned.
Jefferson Davis sailed from New Or
leans few days since, for Europe. He is in
very feeble health.
At Rutledge, Ga, last week, N. NJ.
Wood poisoned three of his children and
then shot himself. His wife had deserted him
A fire at Trenton, Tenn, last week,
destroyed sixteen business houses, including
the new city hall and the News Office. Loss
S60,000i insurance about $4,000. The fire is
supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
The Judiciary committee of the house
have reported an important bill to empower
the secretary of war, with the advice and aid
Of the encouragement, to compromise and
settle, upon equitable terms, the accounts of
the United States with various southern COM
panies alleged to be indebted; and also spe-
cial bill for the obligations of the state of
Tennessee to the United States in the matter
of the Edgefield and Kentucky railroad, AMI
the Memphis, Olarksyille and Louisville rail
road. The bill give full power to the secretary
of war in the premises.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20
GENERAL.

John Henry, teller of the Toledo
City bank, has been arrested and committed
in default of bail for embezzling $500
John O. Henry, chief clerk in the
United States revenue Office at Lynchburg
Va, has absconded with largo amount of
money, said to be about 800, 0O0.
The eccentric German, J. G.. Sypher,
who few days ago attemYt ted to ride into the
executive mansion on horseback, is sausage
maker of Cincinnati in good circumstances.
TIE United States vessel Gettysburg
has been designated by the secretary of the
navy to take an expedition to inspect the
inter-oceanic canal routes across Darien and
Nicaragua.
While the woman's war on whisky is
being prosecuted with vigor in Ohio aud else
where in the west, the authorities in Boston
have been raiding some of the strougholds
notably the fremont House, the Sherman
Young's hotel, etc.
Williams, cashier of the FIRST national
bank at Connesutyille, Pa, who was found
gagged and bound, aud who reported rob
berry of the bank by masked men, has been ar
rested on the discovery that the so-callet
robbery " was put mp by himself to concea
his own overdrafts- The bank loses $50, ,O0O
Secretsry Fish is emphatic III denoune
ing as untrue the statements of the PaIi.
Patrie that sharply worded notes have re
comfy been exchanged between the govern
ments OF Germany and the United States,
nor is the German minister sware OF AM
subject Of unkindDsss between the two com
tries
The bill Of Mr.. Dawes referred Ia
postoifice eo2hmittee proposes that on mail mat
ter of the first class, including local or drov
letters and postal cards, postage shall b,
charged at the ratio of two cents for each hal
ounce or fraction thereof; provided. however
that no stamped envelopes shall be hereafte
issued.
very singular petition has beel
presented in the senate. by Mr.. Sprague an
referred to 3 committee II was signed by Z
G Curtis, Bella A. Lockwood and Hattie J
French They pray for permission TO exes
vat 10 the depth OF twenty feet, more or lest
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20
A Curious Lawsuit.

The Philadelphia Ledger gives the
follwing aecountof a suit at law recently
terminated IN that city: Two mill own
ers on the WissahickOn creek, above
Chestnut Hill, engaged in curious
lawsuit, which was decided last week
at Norristown. The mills are three
quarters of a mile apart, and the stream
between them has not much faI. IN
1909 the owner of the upper mill
brouoht suit against the owner OF the
lower mill for having backed the water
into tba rsca-cOurse of the upper mill.
TTndar n decree of the court, the sheriff
,9nt mn four permanent marks to estab-
fish the lawful surface Of the water.
At two places holes were drilled IN
fved rocks. a marble stone was set IN
the tailrace of The upper dam and prop
erlv marked, and pin was driven into
a buttonwood-tree just thIrty-one inches
above the surface at the breast OF the
dam. The mills have changed owners
since that time, but recently the race
of the upper mill has beon oveThowed
nv back-water, and the owner brought
si1it for damages. Careful surveys were
made. and the water was found to be
four inches above the marks in the fixed
rocks and on the marble slab, but ex-
actly thirty-one inches from the plug
that had been driven into the butter
wood-tree forty-eight years ego. The
question for the jury to decide was
whether the upper mill and rocks had
sunk four inches, or whether the paSe
of the bnttonwoOd-tree had been iiited
that much. Notwithstanding ingenious
arguments to show that trees only eX-
banded in size, and sent out ne"
e,roxztEs from the extremitieS OF branches,
the furv. composed os farmers, OF those
bred in the country, decided that, by
giving a verdict for the plaintiff fol
sI5O. Counsel for the defense vii
file reasons for new trial.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20
Touching AnecdOte of a Spider.

GA fine old English gentleman" Dir.
Moggridge), with abundant lelsure Ior
studies in natural history, has written
very entertaining book on insects, IN
one cbapter Of which (as critic asserts)
he "eIeyates the character OF the spl-
der" 1t is pleasant, at any rate, to
know that he has found out enough
about the creatures feelings to elevate
science in the direction Of mercy. The
story is briefly as follows Moggridge
hes been in the habit of immersing for
preservation his different specimens Of
spiders and ants in bottles Of alcohol.
He saw that they struggled for few
minutes; but he thought that sensation
was soon extinguished. and that they
were soon free from suffering. On one
occasion he wished to preserve q large
female spider and twenty-f0ur Of her
young ones that he had captured. lie
put the mother into bottle Of aleoii0i,
and saw that after few moments she
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20

on Goat Islano, iG San francisco bay, belong
ing TO the government, for the purpose OF
making meteorological and geological invcsti-
cations, and, to use the language of the me-
morialists, [" to remove IL lerefrom some min
erals supposed to be there deposited, OF which
we have description; to do this without mo-
lestaiion or outside interference, ON the condi-
tion that the earth therefrom removed ehan
all be again replaced, the island left as found,
and no damage really committed"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20
UNDER THE vIoLE1s.

Her hands are cold, her face is white,
No more her pulses come and go :
Her eyes are shut to life and light
Fold the white vestures, snow on snow,
And lay her where the vioIets grow,
But not beneath craven stone,
To plead for tears with alien eyes
a sic e3der Cross of wood alone
Shall say, tn t here maiden lies
In peace beneath the summer skies,
For her the morning choir viii sing
It's mathis from the branches high.
Aud every minstrel voice of spring
That thrills beneath the April sky,
Shall greet her with its earliest cry.
When turning round their dial track,
Eastward the heightened shadows pass,
Her little mourners clad in black,
The cricket sliding through the grass,
Shall pipe for her an evening mass.
At last the rootlets of the trees
Shall find the prison where she lies,
And bear the buried dust they seize
In leaves and blossoms to the skies:
So may the soul that warmed it rise,
If any, born of kindlier blood,
Should ask what maiden lies below,
Say only this: 81 tender bud,
That tried to blossom in the snow,
Lies withered where the violets blow.n
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20

folded her legs upon her body and was
at rest. He then put into the bottle
the young ones, who, of course, mani
tested acute pain. What was his sur
prise to see the mother arouse herself
from her lethargy, dart around 10, and
gather her young ones to her bosom,
fold her arms round them, and again
relapse into insensibility, until at length
death came to her relief, and the limbs,
no longer controlled by this maternal
Instinct, relaxed their grasp and became
dead. The effect of the exhibition upon
him is a lesson to our common human
ity. He has applied chloroform before
immersion. Judging from the above,
the spider is superior to the human
animal, in the fact that alcohol does not
destroy her natural affection.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20

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We would take grest pleasure in extend
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20

JOSH BILLINGS says - There IL but
phev things ON the face of this earth
more worthless than a poodle, aud yet
am glad there IL poodle, for Il there
was not there Il some people VINO
wouldn't have emmy object IN living, aud
have nothing to luY,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20

SolzE OF our readers who have lived
fifty years may be glad to know what
they have accomplished IN that time.
According to a French statistician the
average man has at that age slept 6,O00
days, worked 800 days, walked SOC
days, amused himself 4, 200 days. spent
/ 500 IN eating. and been sick 500 days.
He has eaten II, GOO pounds of bread,
16, 900 pounds of meat, and 4 4,0O0pounds
Of vegetables, fish, etc, and drank T.
00t gallons Of liquids
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-02-20

Ak Indianapolis beggar goes about
selling has wife's wedding ring to buy
bread for his children. He has already
sold twenty-five Of them,
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Announcing the name of person for county
once, s. state Office, $1O federal office, SIS. In
variabiy in advance.
The above terms and rates win be strictly ad-
hered to.
Religious marriage, birth and death notices So
lcited and will be willingly inserted free of charge
Obituaries, Masonic and other society notices of
deaths, ETC., viii be charged 10 cents per line.
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an subscriptions mast be paid in advance, and
II not renewed promptly at the expiration VIII be
discontinued to the addrssa
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inch, or 10 lines Of type, constitutes square.
One square, first insertion. ..... 81 O
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AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS.
R. H. EDDY, SOLICITOR OF PATENTS,
For Inventions, Trade Marks. or Designs

For Inventions, Trade Marks, or Designs, No. 76 STATE ST., OPPOSITE KnBY ST., BOSTON A FTER an extensive practice of upwards of A thirty years, continues to secure Patents in the United States; also in Great Britain, France, and other foreign countries. Caveats, Specifca- tions, Assignments and all papers for Patents, ex ecuted on reasonable terms with dispatch. Re- searches made to determine the validity and utili ty of Patents of Inventions, and legal and other advice rendered in all matters touching the same. Copies of the claims of any patent furnished by remitting one dollar. Assignments recorded in Washington.
 No Agency in the United States possesses supe- riOr facilities for obtaining Patents, or ascertain ing the patentability of inventions. All necessity of 2 journey to Washington to pro- cure patent, and the usual great delay there, are here saved inventors.
 TESTIMONIALS.
 II regard Mir Eddy as one of tho most success fu practitioners with whom have had official ln- tercOuFSe.
 CHARLES MASON, Commissioner of Patents |" 1T have no hesitation in assuring inventors that they cannot employ man more competent and trustworthy, and more capable of putting their ap and favorable consideration at the Patent Office
 EDMUND BURKE,
 Late Commissioner of Patents" ''Mr R. H. Eddy has made for me over THIRTY applications for Patents, having been successful in almost every case Such unmistakable proof of great talent and ability on his part, leads me to recommend all inventors to apply to him to pro- cure their patents, as they may be sure of having the most faithful attention bestowed on their ca- ses, and at very reasonable charges.
 Boston, Jan l, 1874. JOHN TAGGART"
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Senate Bill No. 5O.l-cuArrrn 1xv1.


 An Act iu addition to an Act for encouraging and
 regulating Fisheries.
 Ike tt enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- ;ativcs iu General Assembly convenel:
 SECTION l. Alter the year eighteen hundred and seSeaty-four, all pounds, weirs, tes nets, other hSel or Iermanent contrivances for catching fish. tnat shall be set used in of the waters within the jurisdiction of this state, between line extend lng south from the mouth of the Connecticut river and line extending sonth from the southwest cor ner of the town of Clinton, at any time, from the nrst day Of March to the fifteenth day of June in each year. shall be seized toge her with all the parts ss's s ssas s ears sba ai'ks I same shall be forfeited and disposed of as in the shall Own, lease set use, or assist in settng or using any such pound, weir, set-ne or other fxeI or as aforesaid, and within the time limited as afore. sAtd shall upon conviction thcreef pay fine of four hundred dollars to the treasury of the state
 Fec. 2. Upon information lodged with any iustice of ac peace of town within the county where any such pounds, weirs, setnets other fixed perna- neat contrvances arc set used in violation of the foregoing justice of the peace shall forth wtth issue order warrant commanding tho sher- AHs cOastahAe or any other suitable person in such warrant or order named to seize and remove or eau to be Eeized and removed, such pounds, weirs set ne or other fixed or permanent cOntrvances togeth- er zlth all nets, seines boats sails, oars tackle osr articles used herewith, to hold the same in GUS toiy subject to the order and disposal of said justice @ .ns pe.cs and tnereSpon to post notice upon the flying the articles seized, and notifying all persons i'm tsEeted theren to appear within one week after post tag sa1A aotce aud deposit written statement of his claim or interest therein with said justice of the peace .lao shall theaeupon, or upon subsequent day or sss ss ne shali direct proceed to inquire into the case sa stated and good shall be shown to the oontrArys said justice shall issue his order handing the sheriff or other officer custody of the pOy 80 seized as aforesaid to sell the same at auc- Lon - sae eghsst bidder and after paying out of the EemosAA and ealss to pay daeha Of what ren,ans to s pesson lodging the information aforesaid and to =. a Ar - 1... in tne treasury of the state.
 
 AfgNo$ed suls aa, f8s4. 91tsAa ss ag.
 tHouse BFli No. 9s.l-cHArTER Lxyu
 Act in addition to an sAct relative to Courts n, sAt4l1 s91A C lRrtbate.n
 Dc h enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
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lSsnase Hiil No: a ! CHAPTER 1xv.

Nh Act Concernlng Assessments for Highways
 e enacted by the Senate and House of Renrosen ta
 tIves in General Assembly convened:
 SECTION l. Whenever any assessment of damages CT benehs or bOth in consequence of the lay out or construction of any highway, or other public work ny any town, city ar borough in this state has been ar shall hereafter be made upon, in respect of any land or interest in land which has belonged to per son lately deceased, whose estate is in process of settlement in the court of probate, of which cs- tate no distribution has been recorded it shall he sufficient if the report schedule of such asse menf describe the property assessed land of the estate of such deceased person, describe the cs tAfe of such deceased person being assessed and any lien or claim upon said property resulting from sad assessment, otherwise legal and formal may he forcclosed or otherwise enforced against said prop erty, or the amount of said assessment collectod rum any person claiming said land under the title of sucn deceased person. -
 Sec. 2. In all cases of assessments of damares or benefits for the lay out construction of public works m this sate the superOf court or any other appellate or revising tribunal to which such cases may be removed, may, by re-asssessment or otherwise, correct any errors which may be shown to exist in the report or schedule of said assessments: provided resonaole notice be given to any person not before sad court or tribunal who may be njuriously affect ei by the correction of said errors, to appear and show cause why said correction should not be made But said court or tribunal may, without special notice, correct manifest clerical errors and nisdes crptiCns when is evident that no person interested las been misleti thereby.
 Approved July IT, 1874
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Avoid Quacks < ImpOsters.

No Charge for Advice and Consultation.
 Dr. J. B. Dyott, graduate of Jefferson Medi- cal College, Philadelphia, author of several val uable works, can be consulted on all diseases of the Sexual or Urinary Organs (which he has made an especial study) either in msle or female, no matter from what cause originating or how long standing. A practice of 30 years enables him to treat diseases with success. Cures guar anteed, Charges reasonable Those at dis tance can forward lettor describing symptoms and enclosing stamp to prepay postage.
 Send for tho Guide to Health. PrIce 10 cts. J. B. DYOTT, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, 151y 1Oi Duane Street, New York.
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Tseuzae Bm No. z.I-cakPrEn Lvr lEsss.n r..nsaco..uns...-
aB0uze Em No. 155.-cHAPTEE Lvn.

EN Azz csnoeTning tie Reservoir of the City Water
 Works af the City cd Miadletown- B. s znsosa as 4he Ssna4e and House Of EeITesenta- tfges iu General AsscEnhly c0Hvened-
 a. Nc 4saTs0E shall take any 4ish from the E@sr&sam snaiag Gs 91e water wekrs of the city Of NESadaes7, E11hout the permission in writing of af sszsa s tae szter commissioners Of the city Of A1sdd3ios1 and person slla cas- any filthy iu- srE sgsszACgS n said reservoir, bathe therein, @BsnE any IisAn1e whatever iE about said Es4r- aGf4 41Ie sfreazns tributary thereto.
 %sE & EveEy person sgh0 shah Vl01ate aay Of the TsVis8aEEk a the preceding section shall be punish ed 8g 1zH Eat ezssedns twels dollars Imprisonment 1A esnInen g@l Dot exceeding thirty days, such zEsakaaaG bask- and all offences against 1e 3rN saiuH Cd 1ils au IaEy be srasecuted in the aoseI E GlaaletoNl- in the if they had clmmmftxed 4laers5n
 AEgr0EeG- s5zilE Ia IS-s
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IIIousc Bill No. ap7I-ru.prrp,x,v

IIiovSc BlII No. 2gII-CnAPTER LXIV. An Act amending an act entitled ''An Act Ill addition to an Act for the assessment and collection of Taxee.'' ?
 De tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tivSs in General Assembly convened:
 That the twentieth and twenty first lines of chap Ger Zen oi the public acts approved June l0 lS69 be 50 amended as to read. 'and upon the market value oi stock subscribed" in place of, ''and upon the amount of stock subscribed"
 Approved July F, 1874.
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WANTED,

ITO lease for term of years house with sta | ble attached, in or near Litchfeld. 4 short
 distance from the village preferred. Address, with particulars and terms, 1stf BOX 4a, LITgHHELpP F, 2,
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N0TIlIE.

F. D. McNeil & Co. will receive Bread. Caked &c on Tuesdays and Fridays instead Wednes1 days and Saturdays as before. LitehAeld, Oct. 1st 1878. se v
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